"...in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.” Rachel Carson

If coal tar is the elemental "mother of organic chemistry," what is elemental mother of inorganic chemistry? Arsenic?

Writing thoughts: nominalizations can become stories by asking who, what, when, where, & why? Nominalizations are verbs masquerading as nouns. Take modernization. Where & when: the word modernization was coined in rural Mexico after the Mexican Revolution. But why? Who & what was modernizing & how?

#art #indigenous #blacksky #climateaction

I'm opening up a Black & Indigenous environmental art gallery @umterps.bsky.social to help students navigate climate anxiety & other stresses that come with learning about environmental injustice & environmental racism. Please consider donating & coming to our fundraiser @framebridge.bsky.social!

"Does the world get poorer when a hundred-dollar bill falls down a sewer? For that matter, does the world get richer when we strike gold or cut down trees?" Richard Powers in Gain (1998)

I’m grateful for Drs. Dana Cypress and Justin Hosbey Elleza Kelley, Maurice Wallace, Carlyn Ferrari, as well as Helen Ganiy for bringing this special cluster of Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. Link to the intro: doi.org/10.1093/isle...

New Master in Public Environmental Humanities - @greenhouseuis.net 2-year masters program for students who want to study today’s environmental challenges as deeply rooted in culture and history Info sessions on November 11 & 21 niche-canada.org/2025/11/01/n... #envhum #envhist #envstudies

When fascism rises, the labor movement decides whether democracy survives. CTU Vice PresidentJackson Potterand UTLA’s Alex Caputo-Pearl write that unions must lead a national anti-Trump strategy, one that’s rooted in collective power, community solidarity, and the courage to disrupt.

Thinking of Dr. Imani Perry’s work on blue, I wonder if there’s a black environmental history of the color maroon?

I had no clue Darwin wrote a whole book on earthworms. Rachel Carson with them gems.

Women farmers in Xochimilco and San Gregorio are restoring chinampas (high-yield island farms) using canal-mud fertiliser, biofilters and invasive-fish barriers. The program has certified 16 producers and buffers floods, cools the city and shelters the axolotl. buff.ly/0gIJjxl #ShareGoodNewsToo

Join me & @mmuscolino.bsky.social discussing his book Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People: The Burden of Conservation in Modern China tomorrow (Monday, 27 October 2025) at 4pm Central European / 11am Eastern / 8am Pacific Live talk details: newnatures.org/greenhouse/e... #envhum #envhist

I’m excited to read Rick A. López’s new book Rooted in Place!

Talking Records: Pollution in the Archive is now open for registration! 🏭🌊 In person symposium at The National Archives on 4th December: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talking-re... Afternoon of online talks on 5th December: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talking-re... #envhum #envhist

In case you’re free in July and want to spend a week on the Yukon… freeflowinstitute.com/product/rive...

It's starting to occur to state lawmakers that utility customers aren't super keen on paying for all these data centers that are straining the grid, via @briaovers.bsky.social @thebaltimorebanner.com www.thebanner.com/economy/pjm-...

A report by an environmental group says millions of tons of discarded U.S. electronics are being shipped overseas each month — much of it to Southeast Asian countries not prepared to safely handle hazardous waste.

'Another unoccupied house collapsed into the ocean along North Carolina's Outer Banks on Saturday night. It's the 11th house to collapse since mid-September. In total, 22 homes have collapsed into the ocean in the area since 2020.' via AccuWeather [X] #ClimateCrisis #SeaLevel

Friends in D.C. area. Join us tomorrow eve to hear from @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social about his timely @haymarketbooks.org book on reparations & climate justice. Order dinner & drinks from menu while learning in good company at @busboysandpoets.bsky.social. www.teachingforchange.org/reconsiderin...

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

“Horses come with speed, social status, and occasionally courage. Still, their strides are too long and inconsistent to carry strenuous weight in extreme conditions. For that, empires needed mules.” www.sciencehistory.org/stories/maga...

Congratulations to IBES and @brownanthro.bsky.social Assistant Prof Myles Lennon, who has been named the Fall 2025 Urban Sustainability & Justice Faculty Fellow at @umich.edu's School for Environment and Sustainability Detroit Sustainability Clinic!

It's finally here! 100+ scholars, global scope, practical insights. “Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment” shows how organized interests stall policy—and how governance can respond. Open access available now! Or order for paperback and hardcover. cssn.org/wp-content/u...

I'm joining other speakers from around the world tomorrow to talk about the impacts of the climate crisis and how the solutions lie in international solidarity. Info below:

“what happens if we also reconnect with the mule? What can mules teach us about the black history of land and violence in the United States?” A terrific piece of #envhist on mules, labor, and how “empire doesn’t always win” from @roguechieftan.bsky.social www.sciencehistory.org/stories/maga...

“The river serving as a conduit for extraction but also for the militarisation of its hinterlands.” www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Check out my new environmental history of diaspora and empire through mules with @sciencehistory.org www.sciencehistory.org/stories/maga...

"[they] live in this plumbous atmosphere, breathe it, swallow it...without danger, if one believes American documents." From French scientist Armand Gautier on US farmworkers using lead arsenate in the 1910s. France banned agricultural arsenic in 1916. We still use it today.

My latest is the story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. "This is not a story about a moment of victory, but a moment of being reminded of our power."

Apply for this free PhD course on Energy Humanities in Stavanger, Norway! Please pass the opportunity on to students you know. Students from anywhere are welcome. #envhum #envhist

Unfortunately, this wasn’t my first toxic tour, and it likely won’t be my last. But it was an affirming tour for me with the People’s Port Authority and environmental justice leader, Monica Huertas, and civil rights leader, Ashanti Alston. I’m grateful for their time and courage and example.

One week away! Hear from IBES/Brown Anthropology Asst Prof Myles Lennon, author of "Subjects of the Sun: Solar Energy in the Shadows of Racial Capitalism," in-person or online on Saturday, Oct 18. https://events.brown.edu/ibes/event/319066-ibes-book-talk-professor-myles-lennon-on-subjects-of-

Must-read piece in @theguardian.com (h/t @dpcarrington.bsky.social). In #ScienceUnderSiege, we describe how petrostates Saudi Arabia & Russia leveraged Musk's buyout of twitter so they could weaponize it for climate denial propaganda & attacks on renewables. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

an important update re: convo on the convergence of interest between fossil capital as such and state managers (especially but not exclusively of petrostates) that @bostonreview.bsky.social hosted. if we can't break that then that might be the ballgame www.bostonreview.net/forum/climat...

In Providence for Environmental Justice work. Rereading @brdemuth.bsky.social's Floating Coast for my grad course on Environmental and Historical Methods in Writing.

Do not assume that everything they set out to do is inevitable. They have been successfully fought on multiple fronts, from courtroom wins that have actually stuck to city and state governments that haven't backed down, to activists in the streets organizing against their violence.

teaching histories of science and technology can feel so defeating. Even from the decolonial perspectives that highlight black and indigenous perspectives, science and technology history privileges European histories and European epistemologies in so many ways. It's tiring and kind of boring.

Sometimes I feel like I learn more teaching than researching. I've read so many articles today to write next week's articles.

Some traffic stops in D.C. are turning into a deportation pipeline. This video investigation, published in partnership with @evidentmedia.org and @bellingcat.com shows just how MPD is collaborating with ICE:

Next week is going to be a big one from Trump's takeover of D.C.: 🚔 The 30-days of his commandeering of MPD is up. That means Congress needs to extend it, or control comes back to D.C. 📄 The GOP is teeing up bills that could take a huge bite out of D.C.'s home rule. 51st.news/dc-takeover-...

‼️ Join my team ‼️ @cplusc.bsky.social is hiring a Housing Policy Manager to help advance progressive housing and climate solutions alongside some of the best tenant unions, labor unions, policymakers, and researchers in the field. Apply here by Oct 5! climateandcommunity.org/careers/

I would like to make another pitch that you support @hammerandhope.bsky.social by donating and becoming a member. They provide ESSENTIAL analysis to help us better understand the moment we are in. I am a donor/member: hammerandhope.org/membership

My @orionmagazine.bsky.social workshop on environmental book proposals is currently open for applications! If you'd like to write your book proposal with a like-minded group of writers while gaining some industry insights, do take a look. orionmagazine.org/event-worksh...

DC communities are joyful, powerful— and we're under attack. "But, what can I do?" Glad you asked! Check this out or check out tons of opportunities on the full calendar here ⬇️

It's official, I'm faculty. I have new "Assistant Professor" webpage at the University of Maryland. history.umd.edu/directory/ja...