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...

Food-sharing apps that connect customers to discounted leftovers are a great way to reduce food waste, but this week on Possibly we're zooming out and looking at the data. When customers use these apps, how much do they end up helping the environment? thepublicsradio.org/possibly-pod...

In the distant future: I think I want to do another Fulbright in Mexico City, but at a culinary school instead of a university. I want to take classes but also teach chefs-in-training various histories of food, agriculture, and the African Diaspora in Mexico.

I've always liked this shade of brown. It's like a high quality brand of dark chocolate.

Excellent explainer from @maustermuhle.bsky.social and @51st.news about what the National Guard is doing in DC right now and the legal and political issues surrounding it. #freedc

I'm happy to share the open-access book "Non-Western Approaches in Environmental Humanities", which includes my article. Big thanks to Gabriela Jarzębowska-Lipińska, Krzysztof Skonieczny, and Paweł Piszczatowski. shorturl.at/8TzCi

Seen around DC.

Sandwich guy’s “moment of culinary resistance – he wouldn't be subservient, one could say – has become a symbol of the [DC]’s refusal to accept the situation quietly.” @maustermuhle.bsky.social @51st.news

Hey, y'all, check out this Donors Choose opportunity to support my partner's dance classes in Southeast DC. Thank you for clicking on and sharing this link! www.donorschoose.org/project/gear...

Preorder the newly reissued ENEMY OF THE SUN: POETRY OF PALESTINIAN RESISTANCE (Seven Stories Press) from us. All proceeds to Sameer. It was originally published by Drum & Spear, the publishing arm of SNCC and is finally being reissued! open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/w4g...

"Without the work of curators and curatorial assistants like myself, the unknown will remain hidden for decades more, quietly disintegrating in the lonely darkness...even dead for centuries, the information they offer can help save their living descendants." contingentmagazine.org/2025/07/28/t...

I'm proofreading the intro, conclusion, and seven chapters of my first book manuscript. It's almost done 😭

Our governments are forcing us to watch Palestinians starve to death A bipartisan endeavor We kept saying genocide and it has been and also that can make it hard to appreciate this is a new level to it Mass, irreversible starvation

Second stop (seems I can never go to just one museum/exhibition in a day…) was the Natural History Museum to see their new Fixing our broken planet exhibit.

In an interview with Gabriel Rosenberg, @brdemuth.bsky.social asks: Are species timeless? Or do they change over time, as humans do? “If you take seriously the idea that animals have culture,” Demuth argues, “then you have to assume that it was also changing.”

An estimated 47.4 million Americans suffered from hunger last year. 13.8 million were children. Now this country is set to strip SNAP benefits from *two million* more people—while allocating over $100 billion to "help squads of men in masks" terrorize immigrants. A searing essay by Tracy Kidder:

Every single story you are hearing from the Everglades Concentration Camp has been and is already taking place in hundreds of prisons and jails in the U.S. That's what PIC abolitionists have been trying to get the public to understand for decades.

This country won't get serious about climate change until we're honest about flood and fire risk and insurance to match. Imagine if Camp Mystic had been required to carry liability insurance in the event that its campers were flood victims. Those cabins would have been moved years ago.

250 people detained in the Florida Everglades have no criminal convictions or pending charges.

Ex-farm worker here. We need to talk about this whole "But a living wage for farm workers would spike the cost of food!" thing. Not true AT ALL. Y'all don't understand how fast experienced farm workers are. The average tomato picker pulls 650lbs per hour. At $20/hr, that's $0.03/lb for labor.

Our first farm day was cute af.

Climate tipping points: "As a rule, the more we learn, the closer we think the tipping points are" www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I have literally never seen a graph like this once in all my years of being an election sicko 18-24 always lags, always, it’s just a natural law of politics and this is the guy they want to throw out of the party?!

Important news for the #envhist crowd: We are hiring an Associate Professor of Environmental History! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... Application deadline is August 7. Some tips for those interested from abroad in thread 👇

Our @ctulocal1.bsky.social Environmental Justice Freedom School students were featured in the Chicago Sun Times for giving speeches at a CPS Board meeting to demand they support the Green Schools Resolution. It passed unanimously! chicago.suntimes.com/education/20...

Forthcoming November 2025! Congratulations to @roguechieftan.bsky.social and all of the authors!! www.cambridge.org/us/universit...

I just sat down with Noel Didla of the Mississippi Food Policy Council, and I'm not sure I've been this inspired by one person's work in a while. What a humble and generous rockstar. Honored by her time, care, and example.

In Winona, MS for a Fannie Lou Hamer and Emmett Till Tour. This is the old train depot where Till got off in 1955. He got round trip tickets from Chicago to Winona but, as to know, he never got back on. Never got home.

What a time to be a black environmental writer! I love to see so much great environmental work focused on us. You can check out my latest "Sesame Plots" here. Coming soon: a black environmental history of mules and arrieros (muleteers) in the US & Mexico. www.sciencehistory.org/stories/maga...

My entire strategy for dealing with These Times is ripping up sod and planting wildflowers, and the Sinners soundtrack. And dogs.

🎉 Little Caribbean Last Lap Tuesday, August 26 Celebrate Brooklyn's West Indian community with a fête at the Garden featuring a live DJ. Free with Garden admission.

Mark your calendar! 🗓️ Summer evenings at BBG are filled with fun. Here’s some of the special happenings at the Garden in the coming months. 🧵👇

Just had our piece come out in Science! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...