Angelo Villagomez
Most people know me for my work on ocean conservation, Indigenous-led stewardship, and marine protected areas. Over the past year, however, I have found myself increasingly drawn into a different but deeply connected area of research: how public lands tell America’s story, and what happens when...
Southern Fried Science
Let’s not mince words: current federal ocean conservation policy is a cocktail of chaos and disaster, with a generous sprinkle of incompetence. Following a brutal stretch of legislative and regulatory rollbacks (including the completely indefensible bureaucratic magic trick of removing habitat...
Southern Fried Science
How the Trump Administration has yet again hobbled the Endangered Species Act. The Trump administration has officially finalized a rule stripping habitat destruction from the definition of “harm” under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). In a joint announcement by the Department of the Interior and...
Southern Fried Science
Let’s not mince words: the last eighteen months have been an absolute nightmare for federal ocean and conservation policy. Landmark environmental protections have been rolled back or severely hobbled, while agency budgets were slashed more than Janet Leigh when Norman Bates was in a particularly...
Andrew Thaler
Last week, I published an OpEd at The Hill arguing that the Trump Administration has fundamentally altered the United States’ relationship to the international maritime community and the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. It’s tough to capture everything I wanted to say in a few brief...
Vitor Sousa Pereira
Em 1979, uns escassos 5 anos depois do 25 de Abril de 1974, o Alm. Pinheiro de Azevedo publicou o 25 de Novembro sem Máscara. Não obstante não ser um figura histórica particularmente conhecida, Pinheiro de Azevedo esteve envolvido em praticamente todo o período revolucionário. Aderiu ao MFA e...
Vitor Sousa Pereira
O Professor Nuno Palma, da Universidade de Manchester, escreve-nos uma versão da história económica portuguesa mais moderada, preocupada em desfazer noções e interpretações sobre o nosso passado que não são correctas. Nas palavras de João Miguel Tavares, o livro é “uma máquina de triturar mitos.”...
Vitor Sousa Pereira
This book made me think about what it really means to participate in politics. Not for the ones in power, but for the rest of us. Eitan Hersh establishes a difference between “political hobbyism” and doing real politics. Political hobbyism is what most of us do. At cafés, dinner tables and...
Vitor Sousa Pereira
It’s an unexpectedly interesting book. Many pages are spent explaining how pervasive the effects of Nazi and the Wall eras are on current day Germany. There’s still somewhat of a, mostly mended, split between Ossis and Wessis and the right wing party Alternative für Deutschland stirs some...
Groundblue
I was reading an article about cybersecurity strategy and how some principles could be brought on table for a business to hold a stable cybersecurity posture, like having global policy with all its procedures, guidelines and baselines, maintaining a disaster recovery plan for potential...
msuzen
Summary Many data scientist are trained or experienced in using tools to do statistical modelling, forecasting or machine learning solutions, this doesn't necessarily mean that they should just jump out and do an ad-hoc analysis on the available public data on the covid19 outbreak and draw policy...