Mitchell Pavao-Zuckerman
Urban Ecologist | University of Maryland | cities, climate resilience, green infrastructure, soils, novel ecosystem services | fun: sci-fi photos music | he/him
- Reposted by Mitchell Pavao-ZuckermanStunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
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- Reposted by Mitchell Pavao-ZuckermanTrump just said what it is all about. The sooner the world sheds its addiction to fossil fuels, the better. The alternatives are available, plentiful and cheaper.
- Reposted by Mitchell Pavao-Zuckerman"We're in the oil business" - Trump
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- Reposted by Mitchell Pavao-ZuckermanExclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
- Reposted by Mitchell Pavao-ZuckermanIt's our last episode! We're so grateful to everyone who's listened to us for the past 7 years. We're using this occasion to talk about the state of science fiction and fantasy in the 21st century — and what has shaped the stories we've loved. www.ouropinionsarecorrect.com/shownotes/20...
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- Reposted by Mitchell Pavao-ZuckermanRealtors know that, in many parts of the country, if you educate people about climate risk, the housing market will collapse. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
- Reposted by Mitchell Pavao-ZuckermanThe EPA has eliminated its research division, which for decades has provided the science behind regulations on clean air, clean water, and toxic chemicals. The US can afford to monitor, research, and regulate the impacts of industries on human and environmental health. We are just choosing not to.
- Reposted by Mitchell Pavao-ZuckermanThe evil that men do lives after them
- Reposted by Mitchell Pavao-ZuckermanI am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
- Reposted by Mitchell Pavao-ZuckermanI imagined the Chatsubo in 1984. 41 years later I opened its door. Neuromancer is in production.
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- Reposted by Mitchell Pavao-ZuckermanThe most important thing you can do about climate change has nothing to do with … what we eat what we drive what we wear or any other aspect of our personal carbon footprint. Our VOICES are the most powerful force we have to change the world. That’s why …
- Wrapping up the semester in "Science, fiction, and our environmental future" with a discussion of the hope/solar punk of Becky Chambers and some synthesis on their thoughts on the next 10-20 years.
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- Reposted by Mitchell Pavao-ZuckermanKeep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY. There was also a 71% drop in air pollution. Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople
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- Reposted by Mitchell Pavao-ZuckermanOur special issue on #Green #Infrastructure Futures is now complete in Urban Forestry & Urban Greening: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... Including our editorial: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @ianmell.bsky.social @mitchzuckerman.bsky.social @oh-the-urbanity.bsky.social & Sarah Clement
- Reposted by Mitchell Pavao-ZuckermanBreaking News: The EPA plans to eliminate its scientific research arm, firing as many as 1,155 chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists.
- Here’s a campaign to send Trunp postcards at the White House on March 15 - here comes the Ides of Trunp cc4democracy.com/2025-cards/c...
- Today is #givingday at UMD - I’ll be giving to the Tom Meixner Promise Scholarship fund - will you give too? Tom was an alum of our program and a promise scholarship is a great was to honor his legacy and memory givingday.umd.edu/campaigns/pr...
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- You can be trained to be a worker drone - but critical thought, context, complex thinking… on your own 🙄
- I just took action on "Support the Maryland Bottle Bill to Reduce Litter and Plastic Pollution, and Increase Recycling" -- will you join me? t.co/320dAc0fi8
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- Reposted by Mitchell Pavao-ZuckermanWe have been careful to avoid using the word coup, but it’s time to call it what it is—this is a coup. Trump signed an executive order granting only the attorney general or the president the authority to interpret laws executed by the executive branch.
- Ursula K. Le Guin, obvs child of academics with nuggets like, “There’ll be a bar here, Senior Faculty rooms always have a liquor cabinet.”
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- Reposted by Mitchell Pavao-ZuckermanThis is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument. (Scroll down.)
- Reposted by Mitchell Pavao-ZuckermanAcross the government, probationary employees and Schedule A workers—including individuals with severe physical, psychiatric, or intellectual disabilities, as well as veterans—are being let go.
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- Reposted by Mitchell Pavao-Zuckerman🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
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- Reposted by Mitchell Pavao-Zuckerman📣 UPDATE: OK, still working with some others to figure out the best way to present it all, but in the meantime here's the first batch of links to the most-recent archived versions of every page at the CDC prior to the Trump/Musk Purge: acasignups.net/25/02/02/whi...
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