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Joan Meiners 🐝🚴‍♀️

2 months

NEW: Arizona wants you to think it's the hub of the #cleanenergy transition. But in rural Mohave County, leaders voted to ban solar, then to allow a gas-fired peaker plant near retiree homes. Buckle up for my #longread about the residents fighting back:

A solar ban, a gas power plant and the rural retirees firing back at dirty energy

In one of the sunniest expanses of Arizona desert, a power company wants to build a gas-fired peaker plant near homes. Residents are ready to fight.

www.azcentral.com

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Joan Meiners 🐝🚴‍♀️

@beecycles

5 years

I just got an email from my 8th grade biology teacher congratulating me on my PhD. She helped me do a science fair project on the antioxidant content of honey that made me believe I could be a scientist when I grew up. Mentorship, and representation, really does matter. 🥰 🐝

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@beecycles

6 years

People who do #science in a 2nd language are just so, so amazing. I feel like we don’t say that enough. #STEM #diversity

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@beecycles

4 years

Hi. I’ve been offline. I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to offend. I’ve seen a lot of bee tattoos gone wrong, but didn’t know the context behind this one. I’m glad to know now. It was a mistake, and I apologize.

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@beecycles

5 years

I’m sorry if this is unpatriotic, but fireworks are idiotic. —they pollute —they (re)traumatize soldiers/pets —they start wildfires —every year someone blows a limb off —more reasons???

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@beecycles

6 years

I had 3 doctors suggest I rethink my plans to do PhD after I suffered a #traumatic brain injury in 2015. I’ve since publ. 3 sci papers, 25 articles, won 2 fellowships & will graduate in the spring. It’s been excruciating, but I never would have forgiven myself if I had given up.

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@beecycles

2 years

I'm walking out on my job with a @Gannett newspaper for 24 hours because I shouldn't have to dog sit for extra cash with a skilled FT job that I love and crush. The importance of our work in #localnews cannot be overstated. We should be paid and treated better. #Gannettwalkout

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@beecycles

2 years

Today is my first day as the new #Climate Reporter for The Arizona Republic/ @azcentral / @azcenvironment ! Tell me: Who should I know? What should I read? Who should I talk to? What AZ climate-related topics do you want explained or looked into? 👉🏻 Joan.meiners @arizonarepublic .com

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@beecycles

1 year

Last night in Arizona. Just…ridiculous.

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@beecycles

4 years

#THREAD The Tale of the #Manchester bee, as told to me by angry Mancunians.🐝💜 TL;DR- I made a mistake & grabbed the wrong image for what I thought was just a science joke. It upset folks in Manchester, UK. Many called me names but many others educated me. Here are their words:

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@beecycles

2 years

Get out of my head

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@beecycles

4 years

Today it’s been 10 years since #DeepwaterHorizon spilled 130 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico over 87 long days, killing marine mammals, sea turtles birds & other #wildlife . Have these species recovered? Find out in my story for @NatGeo .

Ten years later, BP oil spill continues to harm wildlife—especially dolphins

Some species, such as brown pelicans, have rebounded, while long-lived species have been hindered for generations. Still, data is scarce.

www.nationalgeographic.com

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@beecycles

4 years

When Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana in 2005, it unleashed more than misery. 540 oil leaks were sprung, and 14 years later, no one has been held accountable for the environmental damage they did. My latest for @propublica & @NOLAnews . #oilandgas #pollution

How Oil Companies Avoided Environmental Accountability After 10.8 Million Gallons Spilled

Louisiana still hasn’t finished investigating 540 oil spills after Hurricane Katrina. The state is likely leaving millions of dollars in remediation fines on the table — money that environmental...

www.propublica.org

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@beecycles

4 years

🚨 Some Personal News: 🚨 I’m GOING, GOING back to UTAH, UTAH! Hey everyone! I’m excited to announce that I’ve been selected as @report4america corps member & will be reporting on water 💧 issues & growth in southern Utah this next year for @SpectrumNews .

Joan Meiners - Report for America

Joan Meiners reports for The Spectrum in St. George, Utah, and focuses on the consequences of growth in Cedar City. Meiners has a Ph.D. in Ecology from the University of Florida, where she published...

www.reportforamerica.org

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@beecycles

9 months

It’s really so heartbreaking to be a climate reporter. You pour your whole self into trying to write something beautiful and compelling about something terribly sad in hopes it might make people care, only to read the comments and feel they never will, no matter how bad it gets.

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@beecycles

7 months

It’s Nov. 12 and we’ve got water shortages and heat deaths on the @azcentral front page. And I’m still getting emails telling me everything is fine and kids these days just need to suck it up. My story on using energy data to locate indoor heat risk here:

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@beecycles

2 years

When I first learned of a spray for dust that might be killing trees & raising western #wildfire risk, I had no idea it would lead to 14 mo. of delicate reporting in a tiny Utah town or that my story would become part of @wpmagazine 's issue on news deserts

This Utah town wanted to suppress dust on its roads. Some residents weren’t sure if the methods...

The question of how to manage dirt roads turned into a community debate over drought, tourism, public safety and climate change.

www.washingtonpost.com

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@beecycles

4 years

I literally just got out of the wilderness and found out about all of this. If I could take it back I would.

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@beecycles

5 years

“How do you eat an elephant? 🐘 One bite at a time.” PhD eaten! Apparently I’m a Dr. now. 🐝💫💥👯‍♂️🌈☀️🌟🐝🥳🍾🍻🍯 @UFSNRE @UF #phdlife #sotired

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@beecycles

1 year

New research has calculated that a heat wave + blackout would send 50% of Phoenix to the ER and 1% to the grave. (Didn’t get the advance tip on this but still turned it in a day and this story actually has the right numbers. *Support #localjournalism .*)

Phoenix is not prepared for a simultaneous heat wave and blackout, new research shows

Phoenix would likely suffer more than other big cities, because extreme heat here is more extreme and because more people rely on air conditioning.

www.azcentral.com

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@beecycles

4 years

In my first for @NatGeo , I wrote about the ongoing harm to wildlife in the Gulf of Mexico ten years after the #DeepwaterHorizon #oil spill. The #anniversary of the 130-million-gallon spill is Monday.

Ten years later, BP oil spill continues to harm wildlife—especially dolphins

Some species, such as brown pelicans, have rebounded, while long-lived species have been hindered for generations. Still, data is scarce.

www.nationalgeographic.com

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@beecycles

2 years

The @azcentral store at the Phoenix airport doesn’t have paper copies of Arizona’s largest state newspaper, produced by @azcentral .

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@beecycles

1 year

I just met Jane Goodall!! My life is now complete. I asked her why so many older people are so resistant to the idea that change is possible when they’re the ones who have seen the most of it (good and bad). She said to just keep telling the stories of positive progress. 🥰

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@beecycles

3 years

Today: - Wake up - Read about Kabul - Write about dying trees - Editor asks if I want to cover health advisory cause wildfire smoke - Listen to radio story on gun violence while making lunch at home cause pandemic - Press conf on Colo River cuts cause drought - Beer, cause w.t.f.

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@beecycles

5 years

Last night we said goodbye to The Times-Picayune. On Monday we turn in our equipment. I will always love this paper & its people for believing in me as I made the transition into journalism. That newsroom was packed beyond capacity with big hearts & fearless leaders. ❤️📰

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@beecycles

3 years

First day as (adjunct) Professor Joan! I’m going for a college-appropriate Mrs. Frizzle-type vibe with my shark tooth earrings and bird shirt. Decided to save the fungi dress for finals week.

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@beecycles

4 years

Front page of Times-Picayune | New Orleans Advocate today! @NOLAnews @theadvocateno With photo by @TedJacksonPhoto ! I am grateful for help from 2 fantastic editors @charlesornstein & @GordonRussell1 & best colleague anyone could ask for, @MSchleifstein .

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@beecycles

5 years

While I intend to (somehow) finish 2019 w/ ProPublica LRN, it seems the newsroom I nested in just vaporized. So, I’m looking to broaden my #journalism contacts. I write on science & environment & I got mad #data skillz 👈 Avail 1/2020. DMs open to ideas.

“We’re drinking now”: The oldest newspaper in New Orleans just fired its entire staff

New Orleans is officially a one-newspaper town, sort of.

www.vice.com

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@beecycles

2 months

🚨 Enviro journos w/ project ideas! Apply for @MIT 's Enviro Solutions Fellowship ( @mit_esi , @ClimateMIT ). My experience last year was great. You get $10k cause you're awesome + $5k for your project + support from smart people for needed work. Due Apr 28:

Call for ESI Journalism Fellowship Applications | Environmental Solutions Initiative

MIT Environmental Solutions Journalism Fellowships Call for Applications 2024 Download as a PDF. The MIT Environmental Solutions Journalism Fellowship 2024 supports freelance and staff journalists...

environmentalsolutions.mit.edu

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@beecycles

6 years

Headed to #ESA2018 ? Check out my 'Guide to New Orleans for Ecologists' to make sure you have the full #NOLA experience while attending the conference. Please RT & see you all next week! @NOLAnews @AAASMassMedia @aaas @ESA_org @esa_students @ESAEcology

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@beecycles

5 years

Hello I’m an #environmental investigative reporter and today my office was cloudier than normal. ✈️ #TFW your job is the coolest. @NOLAnews @ProPublica

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@beecycles

4 years

I just realized that today is the 5th anniversary of the bike crash that gave me a traumatic brain injury and changed a lot in my life. I like to celebrate this day to recognize how much worse it could have been. I’m grateful to still be able to move and work. Be safe out there!

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@beecycles

1 year

Very excited to announce that I’ve been selected as a 2023 fellow with @mit_esi and am looking forward to working with them on a project I believe will help secure a more sustainable and equitable future for Arizona. That’s all I can share at the moment, but stay tuned for more!!

MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative

@mit_esi

1 year

We are pleased to announce our 2023 ESI Journalism Fellows! We look forward to supporting these 5 outstanding reporters as they produce long-form #climatejournalism for local newsrooms from New England to the Southwest.

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@beecycles

5 years

My first article for @SmithsonianMag just went live! Featuring penguins, Antarctica & the awe-inspiring #science of @drmichellelarue , @IlesDT & more. @MOOAntarctica @AntarcticReport @WHOI The Complicated Calculus of Counting Emperor Penguins @jaywbennett

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@beecycles

5 years

When you go through your childhood room at your parent’s house and remember the moment you became a scientist.

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@beecycles

10 months

Notes from a #Phoenix #climate reporter: Yes, it has "always been hot in Phoenix." But not this hot, or for this long. That's the data. Reality on the ground is that it is truly terrible to see vulnerable people near death on the streets because of our ongoing climate inaction.

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@beecycles

5 years

Today I get to see my 8th grade biology teacher, who made me think I could be a scientist, for first time in almost 20 years! Life is crazy. Also crazy — my parents still had my science fair board. Middle-school me wrote that my conclusions made sense because “think about it.” 😆

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@beecycles

4 years

I literally have been in the wilderness. I didn’t like any tweets. I just found out about all this.

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@beecycles

2 years

I left academia for journalism bc I believe in the power and importance of #localnews . If only @Gannett believed in us enough to extend us the dignity of secure jobs & a living wage. I stand in solidarity w/ colleagues @azrepublicguild & beyond. #LocalNewsLunchOut #FairPayGannett

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@beecycles

5 years

My big news: I’m headed back to @NOLAnews as part of @ProPublica ’s 2019 Local Reporting Network! I have many truly wonderful people to thank for this opportunity: @cynthiabarnett @MSchleifstein @1manueltorres @MarkLorando @carolynpfox @AAASMassMedia @SaraSneath @tristanbaurick

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@charlesornstein

5 years

We just announced our new Local Reporting Network partners for next year. Thrilled to be working with @MsOtwell @JMitchellNews @beecycles @wendi_c_thomas @ConnorASheets @kylehopkinsAK @LynnArditi in 2019!!

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@beecycles

2 years

I finished my PhD 2.5 years ago but, due to how incredibly toxic my last year & exit from #academia was, I never even bothered to order copies of my dissertation. I wanted nothing to do with any of it anymore. Well. I’ve recovered. And my masterpiece just arrived in the mail.

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@beecycles

3 years

I just found out I won the Southwest Science Writers Assoc.’s award for best long form #sciencewriting of 2020! I was in the wilderness pondering the #environment when they announced it at the online awards ceremony, of course. (Sorry!) But I’m very honored & excited. #scicomm

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@beecycles

2 years

Today I’m at the top of A1 (and yesterday I was on A2) in the biggest newspaper in the 5th biggest city in America, which also happens to be the place I was born but haven’t lived in for decades. Never expected to be here. It’s very strange & kinda cool how life works sometimes.

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@beecycles

2 years

Betcha didn’t know Arizona could do THIS 🪄

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@beecycles

6 years

I'm incredibly excited to announce that I will be working w/ the Pulitzer-winning Coastal Reporting Team at | The Times-Picayune this summer as a @AAASMassMedia Fellow. RT & Follow for story links! @NOLAnews @UF @UFSNRE @UFWildlife

UF Student Receives Prestigious Mass Media Fellowship for Science Communication

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – From Himalayan peaks through the red-rock trails of Utah to the murky mysteries of Florida waterways, University of Florida student Joan Meiners’ constant companion on these...

blogs.ifas.ufl.edu

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@beecycles

9 months

The enviro reporting team @azcentral is truly, as our editor @shaunmckinnon writes, “one of the largest commitments to #environmentaljournalism you'll find in a (local) newsroom.” We’re honored to do this work and we now have a newsletter where you can keep up with it! Sign up!👇🏼

Jake Frederico

@JakeFrederico

9 months

Our new AZclimate newsletter is finally here! You can sign up to get weekly updates on all the amazing work that this team does. @brandonloomis @beecycles @Debkrol @ClaraMigoya via @azcentral

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@beecycles

2 years

I was born in #Phoenix . And now I return to write a weekly story about how #climatechange has altered what it means to live here. Here's our first in this series. I hope you like it & I look forward to telling your stories too. @azcentral @azcenvironment

Phoenix isn't what it once was because of climate change. But it's not too late to save it

Phoenix is hotter and drier than it was a generation ago, but the changing climate doesn't mean we can't still turn things around.

www.azcentral.com

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@beecycles

10 months

With worsening heat + a growing housing deficit, #Arizona faces a dual #HousingCrisis & #ClimateCrisis . I dug into the data, people and solutions at the intersection of these problems, w/ support from @mit_esi & @JuliaArinCooper . Read the series & 🧵:

As Arizona builds to solve a housing crisis, will its homes withstand future heat extremes?

Arizona sits on the frontlines of both a housing and a climate crisis. Is it building to prepare for a hotter, drier, more populous future?

www.azcentral.com

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@beecycles

10 months

All over the Sunday front page of The Arizona Republic | @azcentral — My deep dive into the ways Arizona’s housing and climate crises are colliding to produce lethal, unsustainable and inequitable impacts. Thanks again to @mit_esi for supporting this work.

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@beecycles

1 year

I’m on strike today & tomorrow, along with many other journalists with the @USATODAY network across the country, because @Gannett won’t give us what we need to sustainably do this job for our communities. If you’d like to pitch in to the GoFundMe to offset lost wages, see below:

Arizona Republic Guild 🌵

@azrepublicguild

1 year

THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC GUILD IS WALKING OFF THE JOB 🧵 It's very simple, what @Gannett is offering us would leave some members with LESS money in their paychecks each week, and that is unacceptable. We've started a GoFundMe to help support our journalists

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@beecycles

1 year

I do my best to bring joy to this city

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@beecycles

2 years

Omg a 7th grader just emailed me that she "would like to use some of your data" (mentioned in one of my stories) and "would it be possible to get those references?" That, my friends, is hope for the future.

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@beecycles

5 months

This is really ✨EXCITING!✨And a really BIG DEAL!! I’m proud of our @azrepublicguild union 💪 and grateful to my former & current colleagues who were in this fight over the long haul (FOUR YEARS)!! Hopefully this progress will ripple far & wide across the journalism world. 💜

Arizona Republic Guild 🌵

@azrepublicguild

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After four long years, we have a tentative agreement. Despite cuts across @Gannett newsrooms, our @azrepublicguild won a contract that raises wages for everybody and preserves medical and retirement benefits.

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@beecycles

5 years

I’ve had my heart broken before. By a boy, By a grad adviser, By the electoral college. But this time it just feels like the whole world is broken. What will we do when there is no more local news? Who will watch over the people and the places where we live?

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@beecycles

5 years

why I’m struggling to pick myself up right now: 2015: best bike race season til crash =traumatic brain injury 2016: still in recovery, finish M.S. 2017: breakup 2018: PhD adviser makes my life miserable 2019: finish PhD, get dream job, dream job vanishes So, I need a minute, k?

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@beecycles

4 years

Thank you for sharing your story, Manchester. Again, I'm sorry to have caused you more pain.

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@beecycles

2 years

Another day in the life of a (female) climate reporter!

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@beecycles

5 years

I DID IT! I don’t even know where any of my other diplomas are, but today I finally put my PhD diploma in its frame. @UF @UFSNRE #phdchat ... now what ... ?

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@beecycles

4 years

Just in case you were wondering, “The Swamp,” in real life, is actually an incredibly beautiful thing.

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@beecycles

3 months

Pleased to be among the grantees. Thank you to @sejorg and @rewiringamerica for supporting local coverage of the clean energy transition!

Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ)

@sejorg

3 months

We are thrilled to announce that SEJ’s #FundforEnvironmentalJournalism has awarded $47,605 for 11 story projects on the U.S. Clean Energy Transition. Learn more and see the grantees: .

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@beecycles

4 years

Such an honor to accept Pulliam Prize for Outstanding Environmental Reporting from @sejorg today. Special thanks to @1manueltorres & @MSchleifstein for believing in me as I left science for journalism & to @charlesornstein for giving our talented team opportunity to do this work.

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@beecycles

1 year

In a big departure from my regular climate reporting, I wrote a personal essay about running the Boston Marathon 40 years after my dad ran it and then named me after its winner. I’d love for you to give it a read.

Born to run Boston: How finishing the marathon closed a circle 40 years in the making

A Phoenix-born writer trains to run the Boston Marathon for her father and her namesake, limps through the event, and reflects on what it all means.

www.azcentral.com

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@beecycles

5 years

Please read & share! This has been my focus all year w/ @ProPublica 's Local Reporting Network at @NOLAnews . I'm SO EXCITED today is day we finally share it with world! 🙏 collabs/mentors @tristanbaurick @lyllayounes @charlesornstein @1manueltorres @GordonRussell1 @MSchleifstein

Charles Ornstein

@charlesornstein

5 years

Our MASSIVE data deep dive on air quality in Louisiana with @NOLAnews @theadvocateno : Welcome to “Cancer Alley,” Where Toxic Air Is About to Get Worse

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@beecycles

4 years

@CityBee22 You’re right and I’m sorry.

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@beecycles

4 years

It’s been a really hard year for me, full of personal loss and sadness. If you are feeling down or hopeless, I see you. Keep going. I promise you can.

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@beecycles

4 years

VERY excited to finally share that a piece I wrote over the course of TWO YEARS is now in print as a beautiful 8-page spread in @DiscoverMag ! Thanks to my editor @DrAnnaFunk for all her help & patience. Pick up a copy of the Sept/Oct issue & read all about “Life After Death!”

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@beecycles

5 years

Find someone who talks with you like these two talk to each other. Creators of This Podcast Will Kill You @tpwky (& epidemiology PhDs) @epidemicerin & @theedubs share their podcast origin story & production process @Better_Scicomm #AmpTheSignal . #scicomm =more fun w/ friends! 👯‍♀️

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@beecycles

4 years

I just spent a week canoeing down a river through a remote canyon with friends. Re-entry into the current shitty reality has been harsh. If you need me, I’ll just be burying my head in this picture for a little while longer. You are welcome to join me there if you need a minute

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@beecycles

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So, hi, yeah, this is the ad is running at the top of my climate story pages today. It might be time to decide what it is we're doing here, @Gannett @USATODAY @azcentral .

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@beecycles

5 years

Louisiana is lush and beautiful. @NOLAnews #NOLA

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@beecycles

4 years

In my first for @chronicle , I wrote about flaws of the postdoc system and ways we can improve it to #diversify #academia . #AcademicTwitter #DiversityandInclusion #diversityinSTEM

Why and How You Should Let Your Postdocs Work Remotely

Instead of forcing Ph.D.s to relocate for a new postdoc, consider allowing them to work from their chosen hometown.

www.chronicle.com

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@beecycles

1 year

UPDATE: Excited to share that I've reaffiliated myself with academia & my alma mater, @UF / @UFSNRE , and am now ✨Adjunct Faculty✨ with @UFJSchool . I'll be (virtually) teaching data & statistical methods to enviro journalism students working on investigative projects. #GoGators !

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@beecycles

4 years

My mom just texted me this picture of my dad reading my latest piece, for @Orion_Magazine . Mom: “Page 12. You are sharing periodical space with E.O. Wilson!! And a bunch of other big names!” Me (has owned every E.O. Wilson book since I was a kid): 😍 Swoon.

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@beecycles

4 years

Reporter presents! Thanks to @Report4America & @GroundTruth . Basically all I’ve ever wanted was to be part of something meaningful, helpful & larger than myself. So yay. ❤️

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@beecycles

4 years

If you’ve ever appreciated an article you read and thought about emailing the journalist to tell them so—DO IT. It can make all the difference in this difficult job.

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@beecycles

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the Sonoran is G-O-R-G-E-O-U-S rn

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@beecycles

5 years

Everyone in southern Louisiana go buy a newspaper today!! @NOLAnews @theadvocateno @theadvocatebr @propublica #TimesPicayune #PollutersParadise #pollution #environmentaljustice #NewOrleans #oilandgas #Journalism

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@beecycles

2 years

I only fell in three times and two were on purpose. Stay tuned for more words from the river, including some regarding a surprise black helicopter landing.

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@beecycles

9 months

I just hiked 9 miles for this view

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@beecycles

5 years

My first solo byline for @propublica , just published today. Please read!

ProPublica

@propublica

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Industrial development usually targets poor communities, but Ascension Parish is one of the richest, and most toxic, places in Louisiana. Some residents say the financial benefits of living there outweigh the risks.

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@beecycles

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Those warm fuzzies you get when a resident of a rural community where you’ve been reporting on an #environmentaljustice issue prints out a copy of your article and hands it to county commissioners as a resource at the planning & zoning committee meeting you’re watching online. ☺️

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@beecycles

2 months

UPDATES: My sources are at a Mohave County meeting to speak against the zoning process that allowed for gas turbines near their homes. And I got my hands on a letter the utility company sent out inviting ratepayers *but NOT neighbors near the project* to a secret meeting Friday:

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@beecycles

2 years

To mark 6 months of my weekly #climate series at @azcentral , today we published a love letter (of sorts) to my hate emailers. 🙏to fellow hate-mail-recipients @danielrothberg , @Debkrol , @_thehalparker & @janetwilson66 for their thoughts. #AZClimate

The climate crisis stresses me out, too. But I'll read the hate mail and call it hope

At The Republic, we're hitting you with weekly installments about the realities of climate change. Some of you are hitting back with hate mail.

www.azcentral.com

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@beecycles

4 years

I think she likes our new home. A little more hiking than in our last one. Job starts on Monday!! @report4america #report4america @GroundTruth #groundtruthproject #environmentaljournalism

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@beecycles

7 months

My hate mail is the unwanted gift that keeps on giving, apparently. Thank you, Arizona Newspaper Association for recognizing my efforts to turn doom & gloom into…idk, something that’s also doom & gloom but more readable. (Story for @azcentral here: )

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@beecycles

5 years

I am pleased to announce that I will be able to continue my work with @propublica in New Orleans at @theadvocateno . I start on Tuesday. Send me your #environment tips at jmeiners @theadvocate .com.

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@beecycles

5 years

Omg. @ewarren shared our article.

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@beecycles

3 years

Published a story last Friday for which I was certain I'd get hate mail. Got this instead.❤️😭☺️ #journalism #thanksforreading @Report4America @GroundTruth

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@beecycles

5 years

@amandadeibert I had 3 doctors suggest I rethink staying in my PhD program after I suffered a traumatic brain injury from bike crash. I’m thinking about mailing them copies of my completed dissertation now. Who tells someone to give up on their dreams right after they experience a trauma?!

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@beecycles

4 years

I just had a big national radio interview about my latest journalism story get cancelled. But I would love for you all to still learn of the piece. This is work I’m proud of.

How Oil Companies Avoided Environmental Accountability After 10.8 Million Gallons Spilled

Louisiana still hasn’t finished investigating 540 oil spills after Hurricane Katrina. The state is likely leaving millions of dollars in remediation fines on the table — money that environmental...

www.propublica.org

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@beecycles

1 year

Asking to pass dudes in their 20s on the trail and then watching them struggle to match my pace and then to comprehend they can’t never gets old.

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@beecycles

2 years

T - 84 river miles, at last. Bout to float/ on a boat/ through a remote/ desert canyon for the next 7 days, thru one of the most remote regions in the continental U.S. I can’t fully convey how overdue this vacation is. I’ll report back for climate change duty next week. Maybe.

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@beecycles

3 years

My work is being recognized today (1pm EST) at the 2021 #SEJAwards Ceremony! My piece for @DiscoverMag on sustainable burial won 3rd place from @sejorg for best feature stories of 2020. If you like, you can register (free) to attend the presentation 👇!❤️📖

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@beecycles

1 year

Not really the point of this story, but I'm encouraged by the @washingtonpost calling out the @nytimes for failing to acknowledge the original, critical reporting by #localjournalists that builds the foundation for national news. We need more like this.

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@beecycles

1 year

I used to get migraines that would keep me in bed all day, sometimes more than a day. This gal would stay by my side the whole time, never making any fuss even when I’d forget meal times. I miss her immeasurably.

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@beecycles

5 years

If I channel my FURY over how awful my PhD experience was & terrible way #academics (even “the good ones”) often treat ppl with diff. ideas/brains/priorities/complications/backgrounds, into making A TOTALLY KICKASS DEFENSE PRESENTATION, does that mean I win? #phdlife #phdchat

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@beecycles

5 years

This week I conclude my PhD. I’m realizing HOW much stress I’ve had for SUCH a long time. #Phdlife constantly tells you you’re not enough. For too many, it’s a toxic relationship (& pyramid scheme). I want to say thank you to everyone who supported me past those who didn’t.❤️🌎

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@beecycles

1 year

If you're over 60 and not one of my climate-denier hate-emailers, this story is for you. @billmckibben is bringing his "Third Act" climate action group for seniors to Arizona on May 18. Learn more and how to get involved here: via @azcentral #AZClimate

Bill McKibben's Third Act calls on 'graying' Arizonans to join the environmental movement

Americans over the age of 60 control about 70% of the nation's wealth and much of its power. Bill McKinnon says it's time for them to act on climate.

www.azcentral.com

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@beecycles

6 months

🔎 SCOOP: Have you heard of Biden‘s American #Climate Corps? But do you know much about it? It’s been 2.5 months since POTUS launched this program in Arizona. I asked everyone I thought might know something….they all told me to ask someone else. Story 👇🏼

Nobody in Arizona seems to know what's happening with Joe Biden's Climate Corps

The Arizona Governor's Office said to ask AmeriCorps, which said to ask the White House, which said to ask the Governor's Office.

www.azcentral.com

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@beecycles

3 years

It’s scary how many people are retweeting this. Could it be that we’re starting to recognize & reject academia’s abuse and demand that our intellectual leaders be treated like & represent the diversity of humans? Radical thinking, I know. But isn’t that what you trained us to do?

Dr Zoë Ayres

@ZJAyres

3 years

Why did I leave academia? It's complex. It's 100% related to the culture of academia that I felt I couldn't stay. So here's a thread on why, particularly as a woman, with depression, I had to leave, despite having a good track record and designs on being a prof one day. 1/

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