"Climate disinformation" is an elitist trap. Why? It centers the professional-managerial class in climate action — people who work with information — rather than people who build goods and grow stuff. jacobin.com/2024/08/climat…

Join us for the first-ever UW–Madison Sustainability Research Visioning Event! Connect with researchers across disciplines, explore RISE-EARTH, and discover free services to propel your research forward. hub.sustainability.wisc.edu/visioning-even…

This month, the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation recertified UW–Madison as a Bee Campus. UW–Madison first achieved this certification in September 2022. Early this year, it underwent the length process of submitting for renewal. Read on at sustainability.wisc.edu/uw-madison-rec…

The major investment in excellence continues. The third big hiring push is on in the area of health across the lifespan. UW–Madison is investing in the key ingredient for excellent education and first-rate research: faculty.

Everything about how hard it is to get anything useful done is captured in the insane story of the 100% useless US penny. nytimes.com/2024/09/01/mag…

A Center for Limnology report on 40+ years of research on Wisconsin lakes highlights some of the lessons scientists have learned about aquatic invasive species, including that far more ecosystems are playing host to non-native species than previously thought. news.wisc.edu/aquatic-invasi…

"By growing mycelium into the electronics of a robot, we were able to allow the biohybrid machine to sense and respond to the environment" news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/0…

A report on more than 40 years of research on Wisconsin lakes highlights lessons scientists have learned about aquatic invasive species - and our very own Alison Mikulyuk is a co-author. seagrant.wisc.edu/blog/study-off…

Climate catastrophe is the best way to raise money, it's just not the best way to convince anyone, to get out votes, to solve problems, or, really, to get up in the morning. Celinda Lake breaks it down.

We're hiring! The Climate Action Lab at UW-Madison is recruiting up to two postdocs in energy transitions and climate policy. Priority deadline October 2 and start dates flexible. More details here: climateactionlab.com/lab-news/hirin…

Weather data don't come from the ether - they come from instruments of metal and wire, vulnerable to old fashioned tampering, fraud and duplicity. A fascinating political ecology of fraud, payoffs, insurance, and the weather, worthy of the Cohen brothers: coloradosun.com/2024/09/08/pat…

Just received my copy of Andrew Nette's brand new "Revolution in 35mm". Remarkable global survey of radical cinema in the turbulent decades of 1960-1990. Excited to read. pmpress.org/index.php?l=pr…

Wild ricing season is upon us! Alex Mixtli, part of the Winnebago Wild Rice Revitalization Project, has spent his summer out on the Winnebago system in order to see what conditions help wild rice thrive and where restoration might be most fruitful. #SeaGrantFundedResearch

Wow. Our team won a huge Department of Energy - Solar Energy Technologies Office award! ♻️☀️

"Environmentalism is a Class Interest"; Matt Huber makes a powerful case for a broader base for environmental concern. youtube.com/watch?v=WHYWI2…

Thinking about using river restoration to generate carbon credits? Check out this open access piece the awesome Katherine Lininger and I just wrote: River restoration can increase carbon storage but is not yet a suitable basis for carbon credits doi.org/10.1093/biosci…

Had a wonderful day in Green County with UniverCity Alliance, Senator Howard Marklein, and many local businesses and partners with deep student and alumni connections, including Colony Brands, Green County Health Dept and Klondike Cheese. Tried a Baumgartner’s Limburger cheese sandwich too! 🧀