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#TotalSolarEclipse

The eclipse truly felt like being on another planet. No—it felt like suddenly realizing that I AM on a planet. It’s one thing to know that, but to also feel like I’m standing on a giant orb moving through the vastness space?

It felt like deep time feels.

Here's the official announcement, with the full list of promoted faculty:

umaine.edu/news/blog/2024…

I'm excited to announce I've been promoted to full professor!

Congratulations to my University of Maine colleagues who were awarded tenure or promoted to full today. It's an honor to work with so many incredible colleagues.

Read this important thread about how 1) government promises are not aligning with government action on climate, so 2) protest and demonstration are powerful tools for the people to hold governments accountable, but 3) protest is being increasingly criminalized by our governments.

It's very likely that, over humanity's entire history, most people have understood rivers as vital, animate entities, rather than the liquid flows of western scientific understanding.
Here's one fast-rolling, many-voiced character I met yesterday in the Cairngorms

Somehow knowing it is one thing, but seeing the data is still a gut punch (and that pull quote definitely resonates).

Remember the first time you used Google search? It was like magic. After years of progressively worsening search quality from Altavista and Yahoo, Google was literally stunning, a gateway to the very best things on the internet.

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A year ago we released our climate anthology Not Too Late; on New Year's Day we added this practical 'what can I do' short guidebook that's a free download (and is added to the digital book). Thanks to everyone supporting climate action and Not Too Late's fantastic contributors.

I had the honor of meeting Estella Leopold when I was a graduate student. She was an absolute powerhouse, and a true trailblazer in paleoecology. What in incredibly rich legacy of research and stewardship she has left us:
nature.com/articles/d4158…

I'm loving Brain Freeze, a new University of Maine video series series where professors and students are asked about their field while eating ice cream. Episode 1 features the Climate Change Institute, the center I work in!

(Of course there's lobster ice cream!)

youtube.com/watch?v=dDnSVL…

Don’t minimize the pandemic. Don’t let it be minimized. Witness.