Michelle Merrill, PhD

I took action with Blue Turn Indivisible. Will you join me? Use this link to sign up: www.mobilize.us/indivisiblea...

Active demonstration of the 4 kinds of Bluesky Users going to the polling stations in the next week.

*checks notes* #OHIO — Sen. Jon Husted (R) has accepted $19,000 from #Palantir execs Is your elected official on The Palantir Payroll? 👉 purgepalantir.com/the-palantir...

I just wrote a @stopmoneypipeline.bsky.social letter: Tell Your Commissioner: Hold Big Insurance Accountable!. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

I just signed this @movecalifornia.bsky.social &@transbaycoalition.bsky.social petition: Build the California High-Speed Rail Sooner!. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/bu...

I just wrote a @oilgasaction.bsky.social letter: Stop the Latest Dirty Deal! . Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...

POV: You're late for the big meeting because Bay Area traffic is impossible without public transit. It doesn't have to be that way. Vote #YESonRTM @connectbayarea.bsky.social

Many thanks and hats off to the terrific team @50501sanjose.bsky.social for a terrific No Kings4 event today attended by 1500 people at St. James Park, SJ. It's been a pleasure co-sponsoring all the NK events with you. @leahgreenberg.bsky.social @ezralevin.bsky.social @50501voice.bsky.social

$1 million a day. That's how much the billionaires are spending to try and defeat Prop 40. Still think they can't afford to pay their fair share to keep California hospitals open and union healthcare workers on the job? Vote YES on Prop 40 and vote NO on Prop 41 and Prop 42!

Prop 40 in plain words. Congress cut $100 billion from California's healthcare. Prop 40 asks billionaires to pay their fair share so care stays funded. Repost for someone who hasn't heard.

I'm attending a RAN event: Rainforest Radicals: The History of Rainforest Action Network, Corporate Campaigning and Transnational Organizing. Featuring Prof. David Benac and other panelists TBA. RSVP here: actionnetwork.org/events/rainf...

Building more lanes to reduce congestion is the definition of insanity: doing the same thing and expecting different results. It's time to stop the insanity.

South Bay folx - time to get organized! pages.bayresistance.org/silicon-vall...

We'll be there actionnetwork.org/events/san-j...

Join us in San Jose on October 17th at St. James Park from 12 to 2pm for our Vote Early No Kings protest & march! Flyers, links & resources can be found: linktr.ee/sanjose50501 On 10/17, we’re doing a donation drive with help from Food Not Bombs SJ. See next post for the requested items list.

I'm supporting @greenpeaceusa.bsky.social in their appeal against an unjust and mishandled lawsuit filed against them by Big Oil. You can support them too at chuffed.org/project/help...

If you're on the fence about Measure RTM, the regional transit measure, read our endorsement to find out why we think #YESonRTM is critical for Bay Area voters. If you're already voting yes, read the endorsement to pick up arguments to use with your friend. #Savethebus

From @desmog.com - Chevron gave $150K to a Bay Area group accused of using AI to fight the phaseout of gas water heaters www.desmog.com/2026/10/05/c...

Fossil fuel companies are angling to evade accountability through the Supreme Court—but the facts are simply not on their side. Even with the Trump admin's full backing of the industry, “the age of accountability for the fossil fuel industry has just begun.”

70% of commercial kitchens using gas exceeded federal limits on lung-irritating nitrogen dioxide, 68%, reached over 90 degrees. The research was published Tuesday in the journal Environmental Research Letters. NONE of the restaurants with all-electric kitchens had excessive pollutants or heat.

@anniemleonard.bsky.social 's new video on Protest dropped, and it's a great summary of why we need to be on the streets, and disrupting the places where bad decisions are made or implemented. youtu.be/6rvafufqH7g Protest is powerful and needed now! @srti.bsky.social

Ballots are in the mail and it's time to call voters for #YESonRTM. Kinda chic to get all political AND #FundtheBus. Thanks for saving Bay Area transit. luma.com/connectbayarea

Do you want a decent future for your kids, for everyone to have what they need to thrive, abundant life on our home planet? We need to change the whole system. We need to dream a new world into reality. None of this current nonsense is necessary. Never forget this. @srti.bsky.social

It's F-ing hot. Let's do something useful with that frustration. Your donation helps us get scientists out of the lab and into the streets. Give during #EarthGives through Oct. 6. It’s a nationwide campaign inviting people from coast to coast to invest in a livable future. mtyc.co/52h3fg

Good news - CA Gov Newsom signed AB 1448, which will block offshore oil producers from using pipelines to transport their product to the California shore. That will make it far more difficult to get it to market! #ActOnClimate

I just wrote a @srti.bsky.social letter: Push the EPA to obey the law and restore the Solar-For-All program!. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/sola...

We're supporting #ScientistRebellion, #TheResilientActivist, and so many other great causes for Earth Gives Day at mtyc.co/mwquaf

430,000 people could lose easy access to BART or Caltrain if the agencies hit their fiscal cliff and are forced to close stations. The good news: it's preventable. Help us pass these measures by volunteering this week! luma.com/connectbayarea

Here are some of photos of me from the Unite4Climate @xr-us.bsky.social action in #SanFrancisco by Terry Scussel of ProBono photo, and by Leon Kunstenaar (links in bio). Did you get a picture of/with me? Please share!

#BigOil knew burning fossil fuels would lead to widespread devastation. Polluters (and the politicians that subsidize them) all have names and titles. It’s time to hold them accountable. #MakePollutersPay.

Transform's ED, Zack Deutsch-Gross, speaking at the YES on #RTM rally and BART crawl this morning in Oakland. Huge thanks to everyone who turned out and to @connectbayarea.bsky.social for organizing. Let's fund transit this November!

🚨NEW: Justice Alito was warned that climate deception lawsuits against Phillips 66 & ConocoPhillips pose financial risks to his investments. Still, he won't recuse from Suncor v. Boulder, which Big Oil companies told the justices could "resolve" the lawsuits in which Alito has a financial interest.

A 53,000-acre #logging project in #Washington will target protected old-growth forests and destroy critical habitat for northern spotted owls and bull trout. We're in court challenging the U.S. Forest Service for approving this destructive project. Please support our fight ⬇️

By the way — did you know September is #TransitMonth in the Bay Area? Yeah, we're excited, too.

World set to cross 1.5 degC warming within the next few years. This hot year may be among the coolest we will ever experience. 🌡️🤒 www.unep.org/news-and-sto...

Here is the intro to the film component of The Witness Tree, narrated by Dr. Michelle Merrill, organizer with Scientist Rebellion @srti.bsky.social The film will be available for free next month on October 2nd coinciding with its premiere/2 day event through Yales Institute of Sacred Music.

Californians: I just signed @earthjustice.org's petition to Gov Newsom to sign AB40. We can't let Trump's buddies build new coal terminals in Oakland, or anywhere, without a fair and thorough environmental review. earthjustice.org/action/tell-...

BREAKING: The Line 5 oil pipeline is leaking massive amounts of natural gas liquids near Saxon, WI. The Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa warned WI & the US Army Corps not to trust Enbridge with pumping oil & gas through watersheds like the Bad River. Enbridge must be held accountable.

In another attack on public lands, the Trump administration proposed rolling back the Roadless Rule. The repeal would “jeopardize water quality, wildlife, and backcountry recreational opportunities," explains Earthjustice attorney Jenny Harbine.

Dolly did what other disaster nonprofits are too chicken shit to do — she gave the families affected by a wildfire a universal basic income. www.bpr.org/news/2018-12...

For the first time, a peer-reviewed study has "drawn a straight line from single corporate emitters like Exxon or Chevron ... to specific heatwaves and areas of extreme rainfall." The new methodological framework could make it much easier to hold Big Oil accountable for its climate lies.

🧪 NEW RESEARCH: cleaner air means less brain damage: “As prenatal exposures to air pollution declined, subsequent measures of children’s cognitive development improved.” IOW, solving the climate crisis makes kids smarter. 1/3 www.publichealth.columbia.edu/news/clean-a...

🔥 We are #XR We fight for Life 💚 Without Mother Nature we cannot exist. Every breath, every drop of water, every fruit, Earth gives us everything. So we fight for ALL animal & plant species, whose voices are often drowned out by the roar of machines, by the fossil addiction consuming our world.. 1/4

On Wed, Sep 2 at 5:30pm PT I'll giving a talk as part of the California State Library virtual program on CA weather extremes in the context of climate change & this year's very strong El Niño event. The event is free/open to public with registration!

A 350 Bay Area member's letter: "No Car, No Problem!" 350bayarea.org/letters-to-t...

I'm attending a @greenfaith.bsky.social event this Sunday: South Bay Interfaith Climate Justice Summit, representing @novasutras.bsky.social RSVP here: actionnetwork.org/events/sjcli...

I don't want to have to engage in protest. I'd rather just get on with my research, and I found it quite emotional But while my government is considering pouring more fuel on the fires, despite everything we know and everything we're experiencing, what else am I supposed to do?

Happy 19th Amendment ratification day to those who celebrate, which better be all you MFers. US women won the right to vote on OTD, August 18, 1920. Here’s incarcerated suffragette Helena Hill Weed who helped make votes for women happen, 72 yrs after the Seneca Falls Convention first demanded it.

TO DO TODAY: Protect Califiornia coasts from offshore drilling. environmentamerica.org/california/t...