The impact of food miles (transportation, shown in red in the figure) is negligible: ourworldindata.org/food-choice-...

The AAUP is proud to support the Sanders/AOC AI Data Center Moratorium Act because the future of technology must be governed democratically, sustainably, & in service of working people—not corporate profit. ➡️https://www.aaup.org/news/aaup-backs-data-center-moratorium

today's victory over technology: figuring out how to get rid of these error codes that pop up sometimes when I convert a Word doc to PDF

For all you Bloomsbury nerds, my favorite place on the planet has an incredibly opportunity on offer:

pretty neat that in the past 10 days Defector's books coverage (reviews, excerpts, book club pick) has included books from PRH, Viking, Kent State UP, NYRB, MIT Press, and Duke UP. might be a new goal of mine to have a book featured there

yesterday the bf described someone as "the type of person who would probably cry when looking at a painting of Mac Miller" which probably only makes sense in Pittsburgh but makes a LOT of sense in Pittsburgh

today I made myself a little worksheet that I think will help

Thanks to @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social for this terrific interview with Peter Sopplesa about his new book, Paris After Haussmann: Living with Infrastructure in the City of Light, 1870-1924! newbooksnetwork.com/paris-after-...

Is there anything (essays, books) on how the American landscape is being turned into fields of warehouses? AI data centers and ICE detention facilities being the more environmentally and humanly genocidal turn recently, but preceded by Amazon distribution centers and Walmart and other big box stores

this book copy I've been trying to write for hours is now worse than when I started, great job at work for me today 🫠

From the @fesshole.bsky.social book: 'I have been training my children to interrupt tedious Zoom meetings with colleagues to allow me to get on with some actual work. They get £1 a go, and will interrupt upon receiving a WhatsApp.'

This is so fucked up. Years of scholarship stolen and resold on Amazon, without a word of the archaeologists and historians who did the labour, the interpretations…the actual work. Dystopian stuff. theamericanscholar.org/who-is-blake...

one reason i keep repeating my “we need more social media sites not fewer” mantra is i am just hoping the people who are terminally miserable here can find a new place to post

aha! finally thought to put the VBA Editor command for converting automatic numbering to manual into my text expander so I don't have to copy and paste it every single time

me, buying a book written by someone who I've never met but we sometimes like each other's posts on Bluesky: my friend wrote this

final form! turned out great recipe: cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1020...

imagine the kind of person you have to be to position yourself as an expert in a field that you yourself do not actively work in as a professional

@upittpress.bsky.social currently has a discount of 40% on their books, including my Nature's Diplomats. The discount code is 29INT40, and the landing page is here: upittpress.org/intersection....

The discourse around "This is a tell for AI writing" really only serves the AI bros, because (they believe) it will tell them how to change the AI to make it indistinguishable from a human. We need to keep our em dashes. Our rules of three. The tell for AI is: is it hollow, does it say nothing.

bummer milestone: first time hearing from an author targeted by an AI scam email impersonating a real freelance publicist offering to promote their book

approx. 1/4 of this sweet potato has now been turned into gnocchi, which I have never made before. I'm not a good cook, but I like that cooking is something that lets you try new things all the time, if you want to

physical therapists always want you to do planks. PT is in the pocket of Big Plank

i asked for nonfic book recs last week assuming i would get my usual handful of replies and instead my notifications broke from several hundred people clamoring to tell me their favorite nonfiction

TWO people in the past WEEK have texted me to say that they irl met someone that they know from book club and that is just so cool, I hope it happens to me someday

what are your favorite recipe sites for weeknight cooking? I've relied a lot on Minimalist Baker and Budget Bytes but would love some other options

In writing, change isn’t bad. It’s inevitable. If we believe that “writing is thinking,” then we have to accept that our ideas will shift as we put them on the page. As I explain in today’s TEA Delivered, this evolution “doesn’t mean you failed, it means you wrote.” open.substack.com/pub/theedito...

gotta be honest as a lifelong non-driver: i have no idea how much gas is supposed to cost so i just nod whenever someone posts a photo of gas prices

The Intersections book series at @upittpress.bsky.social is on sale in May - 40% off! upittpress.org/intersection... This includes Sharing Spaces: Technology, Mediation, and Human-Animal Relationships, which I co-edited with @finnarne.me #envhist #books

got an absolute unit of a sweet potato in my farm share box this week (can of La Croix for scale)

The spring 2026 issue of #Academe is out today! Contributors examine AI’s rapid integration into campus life, discuss how faculty are organizing around technology, and consider the value of human intellectual labor in an age of automation. Check out the full issue at www.aaup.org/issue/spring...

“If technology could be instructed to simply switch off its own capacity for failure, the world would be a profoundly different place.”

📚 40% OFF for the @upittpress.bsky.social INTERSECTIONS series! "Beyond the Lab and the Field: Infrastructures as Places of Knowledge Production Since the Late Nineteenth Century (2022, ed. with E.C. Heine)" is included. Use code 29INT40 at checkout. Explore the series + grab your copy here! 👇

"Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do." —Jean-Paul Sartre, "Nausea"

ChatGPT: you’re right you’re so much smarter than him. He’s so schlubby and you’re so suave. Columbo will never catch you.

The book that I edited 'Cosmic Fragments: Dislocation and Discontent in the Global Space Age' (2025) is on sale (a 40% discount!) by the University of Pittsburgh Press @upittpress.bsky.social. The discount code is 29INT40, and the landing page is here: upittpress.org/intersection....

Join @dairinstitute.bsky.social and workers on the front line of resisting AI as we release the Luddite Lab Resource Hub, a new resource for fighting AI at work. 9 AM PT / Noon ET / 4 PM GMT on Wednesday, May 20 www.eventbrite.com/e/launching-...

It’s wild when the caffeine hits and I suddenly go from feeling like everything is impossible to feeling like one (1) thing might be possible.

Saturday reading

i am trying to edit something today

“A survey of Pittsburgh’s literary landscape shows that us the city’s publication efforts have always been inclined towards poetry.” Read Jake Grefenstette's piece on poetry publishing in Pittsburgh. #nationalpoetrymonth pghrev.com/pittsburgh-a...

Paperback delivery day! @upittpress.bsky.social #Detroit #urbangardens

The book covers understandings of extinct and extant mammals across the world in the nineteenth century, and how that connected with colonialism, views of nature, and questions of who does scientific work It is also a fetching hardback, and compares favourably in size to a large domestic cat

Hey, my book is 40% off! Who doesn't need some light spring time reading??? upittpress.org/intersection...

university press editor, indie press editor, big five editor

impossible to choose favorites, but here are 5 nonfic books that made a mark on me when I read them: • The Ghost Map, Steven Johnson • A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf • Evicted, Matthew Desmond • Entangled Life, Merlin Sheldrake • Paris to the Moon, Adam Gopnik

We’re growing our team! ✨ Ideas on Fire is hiring freelance academic book indexers for interdisciplinary humanities and social science books. We’re looking for experienced indexers who build argument-driven indexes and value a collaborative process. Apply: ideasonfire.net/book-indexer...

folks, it's rough

I don't want to think about how much electricity I waste putting things in the microwave and then immediately walking away and completely forgetting about it

reminder that our book club meeting for this book is tomorrow! you don't have to have read it to be a part of the conversation, so feel free to join us if this is a topic you'd like to chat about with other book-working folks

The U.S. Department of Agriculture plans to move about two-thirds of its food safety workers out of Washington, D.C., raising alarms about further expertise losses in the agency.