Nic Bennett (they/them)

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Apropos of *gestures around at everything* Today is the day that Parable of the Sower begins.

What does slowing down and listening to our bodies teach us about the climate crisis? We just published--A Green Moment to Share: A Theatrical Laboratory to Explore Climate Crisis Possibilities within Single Moments www.mdpi.com/2872526 #mdpiarts via @Arts_MDPI

A Green Moment to Share: A Theatrical Laboratory to Explore Climate Crisis Possibilities within Single Momentswww.mdpi.com Many youth experience distress around the climate crisis. However, mainstream environmental messages ignore youth concerns, blame individuals, and suggest techno-fixes rather than addressing root caus...

Another game tomorrow with @naturecheck.bsky.social!!! Something *fishy* is happening in this sleepy seaside town, but only a few of the kids seem to have noticed. Find out what the mystery is on a field trip gone sideways with these fantastic storytellers!

Playing a one-shot cast game of Wise Women for @naturecheck.bsky.social Quinnquennathon tomorrow! Social tension + magic + plants! #wisewomen #witches #plants #botany #magic #trpg #anniversaryevent #oneshot

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#SACNAS is now accepting applications to the 4th annual Postdoc Leadership Institute (PLI). ~20 slots available. PLI is a pre-conference & conference program held at the #2024NDiSTEM conference in Phoenix, AZ. Oct 31-Nov 2. Apply by July 26th! #2024PLI fyi. I'm one of the PLI facilitators.

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Call for submissions, a 🧵 I'm excited to be one of the editors working on this fine project! Workers of the Warming World Unite! A Poetry Anthology. --- Has your job, workplace, industry, or livelihood been affected by changing environmental conditions? 1/3

Pretending we don't see race in science communication maintains inequity Findings from a study of race-evasive ideology in science communication fellowship directors nicbennett.substack.com/p/pretending...

Pretending we don't see race in science communication maintains inequitynicbennett.substack.com Findings from a study of race-evasive ideology in science communication fellowship directors

Ampersand the bunny helped me publish a comic about research on art-science collaborations! Check it out on the Alan Alda Center's website The Link. aldacenter.org/commcms/alda...

Cancelling our Earth Day show in solidarity with pro-Palestine UT protesters

🍉 Bail Support for UT Austin Students 🍉 UT Students walked out of classes today to demand the university divest from Zionism and genocide in Palestine. State Troopers have been called on them and at least a dozen have been arrested. Let's show them we stand with them.

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In America, if this is what you’re facing, you know you’re on the right side of history.

A hell of a photo by Lily Kepner of the Austin American-Statesman

Pleasure Activism and Science Communication open.substack.com/pub/nicbenne...

Pleasure Activism and Science Communicationopen.substack.com Science graduate students–disenchanted with their careers–often ask me for coffee. These are usually students with one or more marginalized identities (e.g., black, brown, queer, Autistic). They are s...

yesterday, the people spoke louder than billionaires proud to have been a small part of this movement we aren't done--join us! happy to chat if you want to get involved, or sign up to learn more at www.mobilize.us/surj/event/6... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

Summer Lee wins Pennsylvania primary in victory for progressiveswww.theguardian.com The significant victory for the ‘Squad’ member comes amid concerns of pro-Israel funding targeting pro-ceasefire candidates

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Israel's genocide of Palestinians continues unabated. Israel is murdering dozens a day. Continues to displace thousands. Is authorizing the building of NEW settlements in the West Bank daily. When will this END? Palestine must be FREE. The occupation must END.

In Portland? At Science Talk? By day, I'm chatting about my art-science landscape research. By night, I'm doing my fungus burlesque act at Dante's tonight. Hope to see you there! #scienceburlesque #queerdscience #sciencetalk2024

I'm Dr. Bennett now

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turned in my dissertation to my committee

just set a date for my dissertation defense

everytime we go to Callahans General Store I have to go home and google things like "how to take care of a pot-bellied pig" or something

in science spaces, people call me an "artist" and in arts spaces I get called a "scientist." It can feel othering and like I don't belong, but it can also provide powerful fodder for my trickster energy

White people: we have work to do in 2024! Sign up for the online mass meeting with Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) to get involved in 2024 act.surj.org/a/2024-webin...

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Alright people. I need your help. Enrollment for @skypeascientist.bsky.social this semester has been -fine- but we can do better. We have so many scientists who want to speak with classrooms! Will you tell a teacher you know about our program 🥺 please? Send them to skypeascientist.com/sign-up

I wrote a poem using my dissertation data... open.substack.com/pub/nicbenne...

I'm joining SciComm Identities Project. So, I'll be moving to Michigan in the next year. Give me your suggestions! open.substack.com/pub/nicbenne...

MLK Day of Giving Event for Austin Youth River Watch! Sad I'll be out of town--please go and meet these awesome young people! www.givepulse.com/event/414125...

"have one day every week where you try not to do anything productive" (advice from Beth Pickens that I struggle with and appreciate)

bring your struggles about the climate crisis to The Vortex Theatre's Green New Theatre Symposium 2:15PM outdoor stage. enter our theatrical laboratory to discover the possibilities contained in a single moment for battling internalized voices of oppression vortexrep.org/36_green_new...

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