Notices by Ben Lockwood, PhD (benlockwood@ecoevo.social), page 2

Snacks incoming #Monsterdon

Let the ultimate test of not eating the entire bowl of popcorn before the movie starts commence #Monsterdon

I'm watching on tubi so i'll get behind due to ads, but i like following along anyway because it makes these old horror films seem even less coherent #Monsterdon

Nobody tell this pilot about what happens to national parks in 2025 #Monsterdon

Overly long intro sequences are a lost art. Let's bring those back #Monsterdon

Call me crazy but I don’t think you send your national military forces to take over peaceful cities if you’re planning to hold free and fair elections in the future

We’re facing ecological and climatological collapse on a planetary scale. The solution requires revolutionary cooperation the likes of which humanity has never attempted. Capitalism is wholly inadequate to this task.

The fact that I can click on a scientific article link and hit a paywall in 2025–when the scientists were paid with public money, the research conducted in public institutions, and the cost of publication subsidized by public funds–is an abject failure of society.

Having to force people to use the product they don’t want is surely the litmus test for knowing you’ve created something of value

Give the people what they want

I took a few shots of my partner’s dogs over the weekend. She said “You made it look like my dogs just got engaged” lol

#dogsofmastodon

The Problem: You want independent science journalism and communication on ecological issues, with a political awareness.

The Solution: My newsletter, Brief Ecology, which also features my original photography and mediocre prose

https://benlockwood.substack.com/

#ecology #journalism #scicomm #environment #writing

Joining a union is one of the sickest things you can do. It immediately levels up your cool factor. 10x your street cred overnight

Fellow comrades in #academia - there’s a very cool project launching called Science Homecoming, that allows you to find local papers from your hometown and encourages you to pitch them an opinion piece about the current attacks on #science and #highered.

I pitched a piece to my hometown paper and they got back to me in about 10 minutes saying they definitely wanted to see it. So think this is a simple thing to do with high impact potential

More info here 👇
https://sciencehomecoming.com/

The perfect flow chart doesn’t ex-

I'm a firm believer that addressing #ClimateChange and #biodiversity loss will require structural changes over individual ones, but there are two things that individuals can do that I think have the potential to transform society:

1) eat less meat
2) buy an e-bike

#sustainability #plantbased #cycling #BikeTooter

It’s time for an actual socialist movement in the US. I don’t think there’s any other option.

Okay so where is everyone moving their bots now that botsin.space is shutting down? #Mastodon

Graduate workers at #PennState announced their union drive today. They put in a tremendous amount of work to get to this point. There’s a buzz in the air, and I think there’s going to be a lot of energy for organizing. ✊

#academia #AcademicChatter #union #uaw