The electricity used to send this tweet comes from coal-fired power plant BUILT LESS THAN TEN YEARS AGO. That is CRAZY. More here on a bad bet made by small towns like mine and what Illinois can do about it.

@RepChrisWelch BREAKING: The Illinois House votes 83-33 to pass a sweeping clean energy bill providing subsidies to keep the state’s nuclear fleet afloat while phasing out dirty power sources — like coal and natural gas — with the aim of achieving 100% clean power generation by 2050. #twill

This is the face of a student who passed her dissertation proposal defense and is now ABD NIU! Congratulations future doctor Carolina Velandia Hernandez @Carolin58761473! Thanks to C Kuehl @a_d_glas and Chris Goodman for being supportive committee members.

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Golden goal for the championship. Congrats NIU Men's Soccer

#ISA2022 was surreal. The hotel, half filled panels, missing friends, and, to top it off, sharing space with a arms dealer conference.

Speaking as an IPCC Lead Author, these are some of the most important new messages from the #climate report out today: (🧵) 1. For the first time we’re seeing evidence of real, sustained decreases in greenhouse gas emissions from some countries. But take a breath because…

Jessica Green Check out Net Zero Check, which auto factchecks earth day tweets using our Net Zero Tracker data. There’s some great ones

Does anyone have a good system for annotating/writing on pdf presentations using an iPad? Could be a game-changer in my methods class, but so far my attempts have just been a distraction.

Thanks to all the NIU students, faculty, and staff, who came to our Meet and Greet event today! Special thanks to the faculty who gave talks and met with students and kudos to our Asst. Dir. Melissa Burlingame and our student staff. Go Huskies :)

My wife is doing important work that we all(maybe especially higher ed and social science?) can learn from. Check out her recent blog post: Starting the conversation: 4 equity onramps for the science classroom nwea.org/blog/2022/star…

Great panel and excellent feedback. #esg2022 has been full of engaging conversations and stellar research So great, even I had to tweet about it.

Huge congrats to my good friend and colleague Anne on the publication of his book and a successful book talk today. . . . and Ches Thurber for the cake Political Science CSEAS_NIU Oxford University Press

We're hiring a director for our Center for Community Sustainability! If qualified, wanted, the person could have tenure in the appropriate dept. The three veins of research associated with NICCS are climate adaptation, water, and food systems. Apply! RT! employment.niu.edu/postings/69163

You are an early-career scholar working on #environmental governance? Don't forget to sign up for the ESS-ISA #Mentoring Week! Deadline to sign-up is March 1st, 2024. Link to sign up for MENTEES: forms.gle/9Ge4ja46sn1RxQ…

Huge thanks to Shana Scogin for presenting today our Global Politics Seminar Series.

This must be tweeted every Halloween. I don’t make the rules

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