BREAKING: DOGE has cancelled promised funding for the upcoming NEH Summer Institute "Buddhist Perspectives on the Natural World in an Age of Global Climate Change." This two-week intensive program was bringing 25 educators to Berkeley in order to learn from a dozen top scholars and practitioners of eco-Buddhism, including David Loy, Dekila Chungyalpa, and Natalie Avalos.
#Buddhism #engagedbuddhism#DOGE #Environment #ecology #sustainability #buddhist#NEH
https://www.mangalamresearch.org/summer-institute-2025/

hey! I've just moved here today and i thought I'd start by introducing myself. I'm an ecologist, specialized in avian and herpetofaunal ecology. i am also very interested in the data science aspect of the discipline, and i am working on getting more familiar with the ins and outs of R programming, and hopefully moving to more conventional programming, so i can feed into my other interests.

i am also muchly into open source software, specifically Emacs and Void Linux, and in my free time, work on contributing to Void Linux packages and my Emacs config. i tend to talk about all of these things a lot.

I'm big on cats. well, basically everything about them. expect a LOT of photos.

i also play the guitar a little and I'm predominantly into loud and dark music. I do talk about the music i listen to as well, both here and on my blog articles.

i also occasionally like to indulge in woodworking, and i hope to get more active with it

i have been blogging since 2016, on and off, and recently revived my blog after a hiatus of nearly 2 years.

you can read more about me at https://peregrinator.site/

#introduction #intro #ecology #birds #cats #blog #blogging #music #linux #emacs #data

While Montpellier may be the largest city to introduce free public transport it’s far from the first place in Europe to do so.

Tallinn in Estonia paved the way back in 2013. Since then, multiple other cities & towns have set up their own schemes, while two European countries got in on the act. Luxembourg made all public transport free in 2020, and Malta followed its lead in 2022
https://www.euronews.com/2024/12/23/this-european-city-made-public-transport-free-a-year-ago-heres-what-happened-next

#Montpellier#France#ClimateChange#GlobalWarming #pollution #ecology #environment #climate