🌈 Mickydee

Alaskan working in Arctic environment & policy | Duke ‘18 | Black & Finer, 1920 | she/hers | opinions my own

[🌈 Mickydee @MichaelaStith]

This was the front-row view at the @ArcticCouncil Ministerial in @HarpaReykjavik yesterday😍 @SecBlinken was among those watching me narrate a 25-minute documentary about the history of the Arctic Council: https://t.co/jEtK6IaIdb

[Jade Begay @_jadebegay]

A #StopWillow🧵: GOP Leaders and Oil and Gas are touting that the #WillowProject will bring economic security to the state of Alaska. Well, we've done some digging and data shows otherwise. Let's dispel their myths in 5 tweets:

[🌈 Mickydee @MichaelaStith]

#demilitarizationISclimatejustice

[Native Movement @Native_Mvmt]

While in El Sheikh, Egypt for #COP27 Pangaanga Laura Ikaanuq Pangawyi (St. Lawrence Island Yupik) of @IENearth spoke out about the connections between climate change, militarization, and violence against Indigenous womxn https://t.co/nXGRhoLZ7v

[🌈 Mickydee @MichaelaStith]

IYDKNYK 🤷🏽‍♀️

[yungsquat 🇭🇹 @Nissafitt]

These comments when people found out there’s black people in Alaska >> 😭😭😭

[🌈 Mickydee @MichaelaStith]

REgeneration is live! Read an excerpt from Welp about Just Transition, and enjoy artwork and writing by Alaskan activists ⬇️
https://t.co/MSr9U4Xgw3

[🌈 Mickydee @MichaelaStith]

So excited for REgeneration zine to be released tomorrow on https://t.co/OHmj0XQ8Dt !!

[🌈 Mickydee @MichaelaStith]

@ikater63 Thanks so much for your review!

[🌈 Mickydee @MichaelaStith]

11 environmental justice leaders arrested today for protesting this permitting legislation, which would fast track fossil fuel projects if passed and shut down the government if not passed

[Joshua Siegel @SiegelScribe]

NEW: Leading House progressive climate hawk @JaredHuffman tells me will vote NO on CR if it includes Manchin's permitting bill: "I am ready to say it. I have tried to show restraint in how I would vote. But it's crazy to include this in a CR & there is no way I would support it"

[🌈 Mickydee @MichaelaStith]

Prestvannet!

[Joël Plouffe @joelplouffe]

#Tromsø #Fall #Arctic #Norway 👌

[🌈 Mickydee @MichaelaStith]

@doctora_nature Michaela Stith

[🌈 Mickydee @MichaelaStith]

OSTP leads Federal efforts to develop and implement science and technology policies, working w/ private and philanthropic sectors, state, local, Tribal, and territorial governments, research and academic communities, and other nations. (This includes U.S. Arctic Council work.)

[🌈 Mickydee @MichaelaStith]

@WHOSTP45 is hiring for a paid internship! Unique opportunity for early career scientists interested in policy: https://t.co/SkwujBflih

[Ndéla Faye @NdelaFaye]

Everyday racism in Finland’s (world-class?) early childhood education, a thread:

[Polar Institute @PolarInstitute]

WATCH & READ: "Arctic Youth and the Anthropocene." Emerging leaders from @arcticfrontiers, @USArcticYouth, and @articpeoples share insights and perspectives about the Arctic region they hope to see in the next 25 years ➡️ https://t.co/BWaHWzBuKw

[🌈 Mickydee @MichaelaStith]

The end of "Arctic exceptionalism." Sad state of international affairs

[Polar Institute @PolarInstitute]

Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden & USA will temporarily pause participation in all meetings of the #ArcticCouncil and its subsidiary bodies. Read the joint statement following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, released today ⬇️

https://t.co/7Is67xMStK

[Polar Institute @PolarInstitute]

In @wilsonquarterly's #TheNewNorth issue, explore how environmental change is experienced by Arctic residents — and how by engaging Arctic youth, we can improve environmental policies. By @MichaelaStith.

https://t.co/5Vw4Zy9Fe5

[Arctic Frontiers @arcticfrontiers]

We have two intern positions available to start in Fall 2022, but the deadlines are fast approaching! 1/4

[🌈 Mickydee @MichaelaStith]

Although world governments have met more than 25 times to prevent global warming from exceeding 2 degrees Celsius, these negotiations have not translated into net emission reductions. Learn about climate solutions proposed by Arctic youth: https://t.co/MQTX0r2p6i

[António Guterres @antonioguterres]

I've seen many reports, but nothing like the new @IPCC_CH climate report, an atlas of human suffering & damning indictment of failed climate leadership.

I know people everywhere are anxious & angry. I am, too.

It's time to turn rage into #ClimateAction. https://t.co/ouBcbujyge

[The Wilson Quarterly @wilsonquarterly]

In #TheNewNorth interactive feature, @MichaelaStith and @marquee help you explore how environmental change is experienced by Arctic residents, and how by engaging Arctic youth, we can improve environmental policies. https://t.co/7YJYtNtOXy

[Polar Institute @PolarInstitute]

The new edition of @wilsonquarterly, #TheNewNorth, brings deep scholarship and policy expertise to discussions of climate change, military security, economic development, and Indigenous rights in the Arctic. Must read ⬇️

https://t.co/Jg479bksMP