It’s time for the University of Maine 2024 Graduate Commencement! I’m honored to be representing the College of Earth Life and Health Sciences in the procession, and to assist Dean Rowland with hooding our Masters students. Congratulations, Black Bears! We’re so proud.

My friends at Good Energy just dropped a new study on how many of the most popular films of the past 10 years passed the Climate Reality Check.

I wrote about why it's so important:

fastcompany.com/91114928/holly…

If you have experience working with environmental DNA and next-generation sequencing and would like to work in a research support role with great benefits, UMaine is hiring a manager for our DNA Core facility (MS or PhD-level position):

umaine.hiretouch.com/job-details?jo…

Dear @Umaine students,

We, your faculty & staff, affirm your right to free speech and protest.

We denounce the police violence on other campuses.

We are here to support you.

Our statement: bit.ly/3QlIm9Y

Yesterday, University of Maine students protested peacefully in solidarity w/ Palestine & Gaza encampments.

Columbia's web page discussing its regret for calling in police to arrest students in 1968 is displaying a warning about limited access due to NYPD on campus arresting students.

May Columbia never live this down.

Horrible. This is where I went to school. I wrote about the brutality toward protesters here: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/theres-a-sni…

Medics across the U.S. have been quietly injecting sedatives to subdue people detained by police.

Dozens of deaths reveal the practice carries risks, AP finds. apnews.com/article/invest…

This is my surprised face.

It is worth watching this CNN video from the moment Emory Econ Professor Caroline Fohlin came across the violent arrest of a protester on campus and asked the police, with shock, 'What are you doing?' That's all that prompted an officer to hurl her to the ground and handcuff her.

Remember folks, if there is a violent crackdown of a peaceful protest at a state university, you can request records of potential administration communications with elected officials

Here is a somber truth of creative life. If it goes well at first people will begin to ask you for things. Each of those requests, no matter how kind or genuine or even beneficial to your own career and finance as well as someone else's, will pull you from your true purpose.

So #SecretsOfTheNeanderthals is out in ONE WEEK- I was a consultant for doc's producers BBC Studios, and I'll be in Cambridge Archaeology on 2nd May with Dr Emma Pomeroy (Shanidar team palaeoanthropologist)
for a live watch-along 5-7pm BST & taking Qs on here!

Okay! Part 1 & 2 of PIGEONS with Rosemary Mosco (Bird And Moon Comics) is here! It’s wall to wall Patreon questions from y’all and we cover everything from wedding pigeons to tiny pigeon outfits to the de-extinction of the passenger pigeon. I love every minute.

alieward.com/ologies/columb…