Collaboration is often implicitly, and sometimes explicitly, talked about as a solution/antidote/answer to conflict. It's not. I wrote a bit about it -- and the first anniversary of #HeartOfSciComm -- in my latest newsletter
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This is classic common resources politics. Good story. In deep-red corner of Arizona, threat of losing water starts to outweigh fear of regulation | CNN
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At the heart of Colorado River crisis, the 'Law of the River' looms large: "If you end up in a courtroom arguing these points and something isn’t done, the Colorado River system is going to crash."
Our latest on the rift, by & me:
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Please read my new essay in — When dignity meets evidence: thelancet.com/journals/lance
There's a kind of knowledge practice we may call 'dignity-based practice'. It respects the dignity of marginalised knowers. It's been slow to take off, unlike 'evidence-based practice'.
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California floated the idea of cutting major Southwest cities off Colorado River water before touching its agriculture supply, sources say
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My communicating science students are the besssssstttttttt! We had the most fantastic night discussing #InclusiveSciComm
h/t to @paigejarreau @kayteecanfield for the great reading assignments!
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A lot of the academics interested in #scicomm are early career — grad students and postdocs who are struggling to make ends meet and who have supervisors who are hostile to them doing that work. A lot of first gen/faculty of color are supporting extended families.
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How we frame & present climate projections can influence users' perception of their utility. Read more about our two-way iterative conversations with farmers that helped jointly identify actionable "long-term projections" !
tinyurl.com/29jz2yur
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Folks who read #HeartofSciComm might remember Kripa’s comments on how some of her farmer interviews were “a bit like a therapy” session - this is that work!
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Wowza, what an honor! Thank you, ! I'm so proud to be among an incredibly impactful group of people in the 2022 #AAASFellow class, esp , @ainissaramirez Angela Calabrese Barton, @heatherleslie & my colleague Steve D'Hondt!
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We’re proud to announce that Metcalf’s Executive Director, @SunshineMenezes has been recognized as a 2022 @aaas Fellow!
So very glad to see her leadership, scientific excellence, and commitment to inclusion and equity recognized publicly. Congrats Sunshine!
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The six-state proposal is both strategic and substantive, says. "It puts hard numbers on what the other basin states expect California to cut, which is frankly a lot of water right away." latimes.com/environment/st #ColoradoRiver
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Six of the seven U.S. states that rely on the Colorado River released a letter today outlining a consensus approach to cuts. California, with the largest share of water, did not sign on.
The letter: snwa.com/assets/pdf/sei
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Wildfires mean #California's losing staggering amounts of tree cover. This is complicating Cali's plans to fight climate change. Check out my first "On the Move" column for hcn.org/issues/55.2/fo
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'Dirty-wow-Sun' - and nine other new terms for life in the Anthropocene. I profiled the word-coining project The Bureau of Linguistical Reality
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Native Women In Agriculture & Natural Resources Symposium, March 2-4th, 2023
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Something good I wanted to share:
The Chronicle now has an in-house therapist, a big step for a newsroom. Thankful our bosses have recognized the toll of our jobs, and have taken real steps to address it.
The importance of these convos among journalists can't be overstated.
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After a historic flood destroys your home twice, “You don’t think the same. You don’t view things the same way. I don’t think I am as sharp as I was. I think people suffer from PTSD. People say, ‘It’s OK to grieve.’ I know it’s okay to grieve, but I don’t have to like grieving.”
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“Physically it's very, very hard. Financially it is devastating. Emotionally it’s crippling, and mainly it is life altering.” Nancy Herald, flood survivor kentuckylantern.com/2023/01/11/mon via @KYLantern
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As global warming worsens, the world will see more intense droughts, worse heat waves, more severe storms, rising sea levels & more of a little-discussed problem: extreme heat's dangers for workers, esp. farmworkers, construction workers & delivery drivers
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Happening TODAY❗📖CAS READS BIG welcomes , Author of "Getting to the Heart of Science Communication: A Guide to Effective Engagement"
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Folks who read #HeartofSciComm might remember Kripa’s comments on how some of her farmer interviews were “a bit like a therapy” session - this is that work!
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Are long-term climate projections useful for on-farm adaptation decisions?
Checkout our new publication @FrontiersIn Climate
doi.org/10.3389/fclim.
Led by Dr. Kripa Jagannathan @BerkeleyLab Tapan Pathak @Ag_Climate @ucanr @ucmerced and David Doll @thealmonddoctor
#OpenAccess
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“I decided to chalk up the bomb cyclone to some bored meteorologist who, like Charles Hatfield, the notorious California ‘rainmaker’ in the 1910s, needed a new way to sell a storm.” 🤌🏻🤌🏻🤌🏻
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“When we’re in the midst of drought, we have no memory of flood. When we’re in the midst of flood, we have no memory of drought. Amnesia is how we built agriculture across marsh and desert and houses in floodplains and canyons of fire,” writes @arax_mark. nyti.ms/3QYcgQE
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“Compounding disasters from extreme storms, flooding, wildfires & heat that are impacting farmworkers,” said Michael Méndez, assistant professor UC Irvine. “This is just a part of the larger history of disproportionate impacts that they are experiencing.”
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White Communities More Likely to Receive Funds to Fix Aging Water Infrastructure truthout.org/articles/white via
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A few iPhone snaps from around Mammoth Lakes after nearly 2 and a half straight weeks of snow
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I'm hiring! I am looking for a Policy Manager to support Audubon's water work in Arizona. Know someone who might be interested? $80-85k salary.
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Although the media and some officials were quick to link a series of powerful storms to climate change, researchers interviewed by The Times said they had yet to see evidence of that connection.
latimes.com/environment/st
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Announcement: Our 2023-25 Request for Proposals is out! Focus is water research by junior investigators in California higher ed institutions. Proposals due February 28, 2022 ciwr.ucanr.edu/Request_for_Pr
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#California ’s Sustainable #Groundwater Management Act (#SGMA): too little, too late and too slow? A discussion has been launched by L.Méndez-Barrientos and D.Bostic on the 'Water dissensus forum': water-alternatives.org/index.php/blog
Contribute your thoughts!
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The situation in Rio Verde Foothills is complicated. With national media picking up the story, many folks are wondering how this happened.
I'm a local reporter who has been covering this since I started . So, a 🧵, starting with today's Gaggle!
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Fire-power-water quality nexus from et al.
"Power loss was sometimes coupled with structure destruction, depressurization, and failure of backup power systems. These consequences jeopardized fire-fighting support" & contributed to VOC contamination
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Wildfires impact water infrastructure throughout the US. This paper summarizes our help in the response to the #MarshallFire and makes a call to action on policies that can mitigate this impact for future communities. doi.org/10.1002/aws2.1
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New paper: MORAL ECONOMIES FOR WATER!
One of our best ever: Proposes integrated framework to theorize norm-based water exchange & governance
1st in -led series; new papers coming with
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How can a moral economy framework be used to approach water justice and water inequality? For more, check out this open access paper on 'Moral Economies for Water' in WIREs Water, which dropped a few weeks back. @mhberesford @AWutich @dustingarrick
wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wa
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Fascinating article for science communicators….
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Much needed reflection! So much of is focused on the words and phrases used, could use some insight on affective and emotional delivery and impact. twitter.com/UCIFloodLab/st…
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Much needed reflection! So much of is focused on the words and phrases used, could use some insight on affective and emotional delivery and impact.
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Irritated by “bomb cyclone” and “polar vortex”? Timely story about hyperbole in weather descriptions and dangers for public communication.#ams #Weather
nytimes.com/2023/01/18/sci
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Research led by using Variable Infiltration Capacity model finds that projected future #ColoradoRiver streamflow declines are mostly due to warming-induced shift from snowfall to rainfall
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Interested in drought and climate change? Looking for a postdoc position where you can build skills in developing partnerships for solutions-driven research? I'm hiring with labs! Check it out!👇
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