Dan Scott

Dear listeners and especially educators! Excited to share that we've built a robust new high school curriculum tool for our Season 7 series, CAPITALISM. Please check it out and spread the word? @emcg.bsky.social @zinnedproject.bsky.social @prx.org sceneonradio.org/capitalism-e...

Always worth listening to Ellen Wohl, especially about rivers. blog.oup.com/2018/10/50th...

“The notion of a neutral and moderate middle is a prejudice of people for whom the system is working, against those for whom it’s not” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This winter's snow drought in the western US will likely become the new normal. All the more motivation to stop burning fossil fuels. Organize, demand change! www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

Vol. 2, no. 4 of the CO2 Newsletter, April-May 1981 is now downloadable. Founded by American geologist William Barbat, each was 8 pages of excerpts from recent reports, editorials and deeply researched articles. All 18 issues are heart-breakers. 1/9 allouryesterdays.info/2026/07/08/c...

If we wanted a news media system that would actually serve people, communities and democracy, what might that look like? Thoughts and concrete ideas in the conclusion of our 8th season, The News. With @chenjerai.bsky.social, @victorpickard.bsky.social, Les High podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

New publication alert! Scott (@geomorphdan.bsky.social rphdan.bsky.social) and Wohl present their conceptual framework for assessing the wood regime here journals.psu.edu/geomorphica/...

Reminder to submit a comment AND contact your reps.

Anyone else get annoyed when sci-hub doesn't have an article, and you have to actually sign in to your University library system to access it?

Fairly complete description of the drastic and potentially fatal changes to American science 🧪. Some highlights: -Peer review likely to be less influential in grant decisions, with political appointees sticking their noses in it. -publication costs not allowable -cont'd

Please comment on the new OMB rule that would severely cripple the scientific funding process (even more). Excellent guide here: elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-we-ne.... Also see this for a section-by-section breakdown: elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

I heard today from someone that she encountered this piece of mine in a class! I had hoped it would circulate around, but I don't think I'd heard actual confirmation until now. somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.com/2021/02/02/c...

Good news y’all 😉 Scene in Radio is back!

This #MeetMeMonday, we welcome Rosa Colacicco, one of our new Associate Editors at Geomorphica

BREAKING: We filed another emergency lawsuit — this time in federal court — against Louisiana officials for suspending the state's primary election after voting has already begun. Louisiana is disenfranchising voters who have already cast ballots, all in the service of stifling Black voting power.

Everyone gets so obsessed with LARGE wood to form wood jams. Remember, y'all, it takes poorly sorted wood to form a jam that can actually do something. That means SMALL wood, too! It takes diversity (alternatively, poorly sorted/well graded size distribution)!

Support businesses that are directly owned by the people who work in them. Worker co-ops empower workers with ownership and democratic control, and the profits go to them. #MayDay #LabourDay #InternationalWorkersDay

No work, no school, no shopping. Get outside. Meet neighbors. Organize. Happy May Day!

happy may day. unionize.

"Do you have any maps of the colonial period?" "Yes sir, they all are. We're still in the colonial period."

Wood racking on a river channel split (bifurcation) can dramatically alter channel shape and how that split evolves (avulses). Here's a particularly extreme example from the Skykomish River, WA, USA. (flow bottom to top)

There are many ways you can participate in the massive day of economic disruption on Friday, from refusing to shop, to walking out of work, to attending a demonstration: survey.alchemer.com/s3/8705046/i...

NEW UNRULY SUBJECTS! How can we defeat authoritarianism? I talked with Mikyung Ryu of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions about South Korea’s fight against martial law, the role of labor, and what movements in the U.S. can learn from it. tinyurl.com/7rfaefd9 youtube.com/shorts/OUU7s...

I just need to post some geomorphology for a second. Preferential erosion along a joint set formed a mini canyon-within-a-canyon. First picture shows the mini canyon, second looks back upstream at it. This is the kind of thing that got me into geomorphology.

Love this - "[solidarity is] the only thing that can save us and stop us from this cycle of barbarism...It's the only way that we can get to a decent world."

For more than a week, Amazon has managed to keep a death at its Troutdale, Oregon, facility out of public view. Workers I spoke to are pissed.

A longer version of this argument with more historical detail is on my substack under the title “The Next Coup Attempt.” (17/17) snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-c...

Given Trump’s Easter threats to carry out new war crimes in Iran, we should think one or two steps ahead about a coup attempt connected to the war. And then deter it. (1/17)

IT'S TIIIIIIMMMMMMEEEEEEEE!! Drastic times call for drastic measures. If you can stay home, AWESOME. If you can't, please consider NOT BUYING anything that day. The POINT is the pressure of OUR POWER. #MAYDay #May1st #GeneralStrike #NOBusinessAsUSUAL www.commondreams.org/news/no-king...

This is extremely important. Big protests are great ways to recruit for local orgs who oppose the regime.

If you think No Kings is too vague or insufficiently radical, I sincerely encourage you to go to your local No Kings rally tomorrow and hand out flyers/zines to recruit folks to your org/cause. It's a perfect recruitment event! Thousands of people eager to DO STUFF! Get out there!

Yay!

On strike, shut it down! New York is a union town! The solidarity is massive on the Contract Faculty United picket at NYU! @uawregion9a.bsky.social

The latest cool thing David Montgomery's doing is DAS (fiber-optic seismography) and ambient-noise seismology used to monitor soil moisture and tillage effects: agroseismology.

For years, Palestinian trade unions have been calling on global counterparts to stand in solidarity. Now, activists are asking Canada’s largest labour body to do just that. pressprogress.ca/labour-for-p...

Yes! Scientists, rise up and seize the means of production!

We need to change how we publish science! New article with @camthomas.bsky.social : “Diamond is the new Green: why Green OA is not sustainable long-term.” About 15 min, perfect for a weekend reading with a coffee: @sedimentologika.bsky.social 💎 doi.org/10.57035/jou...

This bike shop reopened as a worker-owned cooperative in Brooklyn, New York City. Now its workers own the store and have direct control over their schedule, compensation, and working conditions. This kind of freedom is possible for every working person. It's called economic democracy, and it works.

New Flavor in your ears! @rowhomeproductions.bsky.social @fedworkersunited.bsky.social

It really is fascinating how overt it now is that there are certain - really not controversial - ideas that you aren’t allowed to say on television.

Live now! www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIeU...

So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.

You can listen to me talk about this story with @chenjerai.bsky.social here: www.patreon.com/posts/shackl...