Picture of the century. 😍 📷 credit: Science Tube

In Thinking AI, John MacCormick reveals a new landscape of emergent intelligence—a world in which computer programs can emulate many or all aspects of human thinking but humanity retains its meaning & purpose. Out April 21 (16 June UK pub)! Read a free preview: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

The oldest fossil octopus is actually a nautilus.

What are the perks of becoming a KC user champion, you ask?! 😃 Along with supporting us, user champions receive special perks like merch, custom domains, and priority technical support. It's a pretty cool program, if we do say so ourselves. 😇 Learn more here: about.hcommons.org/kc-champions/

Diversity is our strength. Some 10–12 million Roma in Europe, and many face isolation, poverty, and limited access to essentials like housing and education. On #InternationalRomaDay, we stand together to protect the human rights of Roma. 🟢🔴🔵Let’s end antigypsyism now.

I am delighted for my article's publication, "‘Greening’ Comparative Literature: Human and More-than-Human World in Zacharias Papantoniou The High Mountains and Roderick O’Grady’s Bigfoot Mountain" in Mabini Review Journal 16.1 (2026). publishing.pup.edu.ph/ojs/index.ph...

Invitation to attend my lecture "Econarratives of Collective Volcanicities: Magma, Intimacy and Opacity in Modern Canadian and Greek Fiction (20th-21st ce.)" Wednesday 15th of April at 13.00 (UK time) teams.microsoft.com/meet/3294758... Meeting ID: 329 475 893 164 396 Passcode: YL9Lv3c4

Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Vol. 41, No.1 (2026) academic.oup.com/dsh/issue/41/1 @adho-org.bsky.social @michaelgavin.bsky.social @michaelwitmore.bsky.social @jiemakel.bsky.social @pnilsson.bsky.social @kaarelsikk.bsky.social

This lavender plant and I are very excited that spring has finally sprung.

📣Volume 40 of Zygote Quarterly is live! zqjournal.org/editions/zq4... Check out our Looking Back to Look Forward features and learn all about #BioInspiredDesign #Biomimetics #Biomimicry

I am glad for the publication of this eco-piece "Szepczące Liście. Literatura starożytnej Grecji, literatura porównawcza i narodziny eko-mediów" in UITM’s series, Poland 🇵🇱 wsiz.edu.pl/blog-naukowy...

Blue Trauma: Environmental Justice, Extraction Economy, and Blue Humanities Sidney I. Dobrin University of Florida, U.S.A. Registration is open until 30/04/2026 forms.gle/19j8TsY6zX1S... Date: 16 May 2026 Time: 17:00 p.m. EEST (Eastern Europe Summer Time zone) Venue: Zoom

🌋March Compilation of Bulletin of Volcanology! 🌋 We’re excited to share the latest research articles published in March 2026 on the Bulletin of Volcanology! 🔥 🖇 All IAVCEI members enjoy free access to the journal! (1/15)

🍀Ecokritike 🍀has already been indexed in many platforms: journals.h-net.org/ecokritike/c... You are welcome to submit your work (articles, commentaries, book reviews, special issue proposals) on a rolling basis.

📣NEW PAPER: Biology Graduate School Pathways for Inuit Students and Lessons Learned by Southern Academics Read Bryan's story about his education and MSc at #Guelph journals.library.brocku.ca/brocked We are so grateful to the @brocku.ca journal team for editorial support #HigherEd #InclusiveEd

Today is the national day of Greece! Χρόνια Πολλά Ελλάδα! 💡Did you know that more than 1085 Greek organisations have taken part in Horizon Europe so far? Explore more insights on the Horizon Dashboard: europa.eu/!DF83FM @GreeceInEU

Special Issue "Technology-Driven Sustainability Education" in the scientific journal "Sustainability MDPI" [Impact Factor: 3.3] www.mdpi.com/journal/sust... Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2027

I have defended my postdoctoral research entitled "Digital Ecologies of Flora: the use of the digital tool Juncture in the poetry of Greek Romanticism (19th century)" at the Department of Philology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. 🍀

Join us at Duke University next month for "Fredric Jameson and the Future of Critical Theory," a 3-day symposium featuring keynotes by Michael Denning, Jane Gaines, Achille Mbembe, Toril Moi, & Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Register by 3/31. buff.ly/KCrn1re

🌋 February Compilation of Bulletin of Volcanology! 🌋 We’re excited to share the latest research articles published in February 2026 on the Bulletin of Volcanology! 🔥 🖇 All IAVCEI members enjoy free access to the journal. (1/13)

What would the future look like if technology replaced the services ecosystems provide? The climate crisis makes this question less hypothetical MSc student Hannah Hiemstra from @integrativebiology.bsky.social explored this scenario through her art www.manufacturedecosystems.com/wetland-ecos...

The pathway to a #PhDLife might include a Master's degree. But, it might not. Whichever you follow, there are costs and benefits. And your context really matters. Learn more about our study: www.sciedupress.com/journal/inde... #HigherEd #PhD #AcademicLife #AcademicChatter

@dawnbazely.bsky.social @marklipton.bsky.social @danielgillis.ca @nikzam.bsky.social @alexsmithants.bsky.social

“Despite paying among the highest tuition fees in Canada, Ontario students are learning in a system where faculty, particularly contract faculty, are being asked to do more with less.” #HighEd #Ontario ocufa.on.ca/ontarios-uni...

#CFP: 'Bodies and climate : transcorporeal affects of weathering' Workshop, 13 November 2026, France Deadline: 15 April 2026 Info: www.fabula.org/actualites/1... #envhum #envhist #ecocritcism #ecolit

Apeiron Vol. 59, No. 1 (2026) www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/... @dgb-ancientstudies.bsky.social

🌋 January Compilation of Bulletin of Volcanology! 🌋 We’re excited to share the latest research articles published in January 2026 on the Bulletin of Volcanology! 🔥 🖇 All IAVCEI members enjoy free access to the journal! (1/9)

We've launched negotiations with Canada for a Digital Trade Agreement. This will make it easier and safer to do [EU-CA] business online and across borders and provide stronger protections for consumers↓ link.europa.eu/pTTf6h

As bio-inspired design grows, questions about IP emerge, particularly about the line between nature-inspired and tech innovation Brook Kennedy & Anna Marion explore these complexities in their article As co-editor of ZQ, I’m excited to share this piece pg 100: zqjournal.org/pdfs/ZQ_issu...

🚨 Publication Alert 🚨 The latest issue of Ecokritike is hot off the presses this morning! Read on for: 🍃 a special issue "Reflections on More-than-Human Humanities." 🍃 4 additional peer reviewed articles. 🍃 2 commentaries. 🍃 6 book reviews. 🔗 journals.h-net.org/ecokritike/i...

#webinar: 'Plants and Creative Practice: Poetry' Thursday, Mar 26 from 5 pm to 6:15 pm GMT @uomcreativemcr.bsky.social Info: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/plants-and... #ecocriticism #practiceresearch #ecopoetics #envhum #planthum

🔁 EUgreenresearch Dive into the future of biodiversity at the 2026 Biodiversity Monitoring Week 🌿 Join experts across science, policy and industry! Submit an abstract for a talk, poster or booth under one of the 9 conference themes. 🗓️ Deadline 18 March 2026. More 👉 bit.ly/46nrveY

Nicholas Carr on Tim Berners-Lee’s “This Is for Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Web”: "The qualities of the web he celebrates unquestioningly are the very qualities we should be questioning." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/tim-berners-lee-unfinished-story-world-wide-web/

I am so proud to offer an online lecture on the topic of "Plant Phenomenology and Poetics in Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself" in the Universitatea din București 🇷🇴 Date: Thursday, March 12, 2026 Time: 14:00-16:00 p.m. EET Google Meet meet.google.com/ivf-ecde-zht

Special issue (2/2026): “From the volcanic to the narrative arc: spectacles of volcanoes in humanities and geosciences” in "University of Bucharest Review" ubr.rev.unibuc.ro/call-for-art...

Extended Deadline: 13 March 2026! The IAVCEI Award for Volcanic Surveillance & Crisis Management This year, the award will be presented at a regional COV event in 2026 or IUGG 2027 in Korea, based on recipient preference. 🗓 Nominate now! 🔗 Details: www.iavceivolcano.org/call-for-nom...

We are so glad that the first entries of our section in Environmental Humanities have been published. The section has been edited by Professor Peggy Karpouzou and me as part of the Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene. Pluriversal Perspectives.

#CFP: "MLA 2027: The Arctic Imaginary: Extraction and Empire" Deadline: March 15, 2026 Info: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/... #envhum #ecolit #ecocriticism #environment #mla

The Plant Initiative's free monthly e-newsletter for February 2026 is now available online at the link below, containing many events, resources, and opportunities related to the human-plant connection. Visit plantinitiative.org to subscribe. mailchi.mp/plantinitiat...

Sqmoqniejk | I’ll find you in every lifetime (2025) by Artist Amanda Amour-Lynx with #ManufacturedEcosystems Imagining a world in climate collapse Join us, asynchronously, at the virtual exhibit: www.manufacturedecosystems.com/virtual-exhi... Funded by @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca #NewFrontiers

I am glad that I am an International Visiting Researcher at the Center for Culture and the Arts of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines in Philippines 🇵🇭 working on the research project titled "Eco-Narratives of Volcanic Ecologies". 🌋

First circular for the upcoming 8th Volcano Geology International Workshop (IAVCEI), to be held in Japan in March 2027 More info: volcanogeology.iavceivolcano.org/content/uplo...

The IAVCEI Indigenous Volcanology Network is holding our first webinar on February 4th, 2026 at 1830 UTC. You can use this web tool to support time zone conversions: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/c... Please register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/43808b...

🚀 Horizon Europe’s 2026-2027 Work Programme updates some of its #GenderEquality rules, but don’t worry, we’ve got you covered! Check out our step-by-step guide: link.europa.eu/VgnHGb

Submissions are invited for a new book series - Posthumanities and Citizenship Futures, at Bloomsbury. "...there is a need to conceive new narratives for our species and planet that extend beyond anthropocentrism." www.bloomsbury.com/us/series/po...

Submissions are invited for new Routledge Open Research series, Human & Beyond: Exploring Our More-Than-Human World. This collection explores the concept of our “more-than-human world.” Submissions due Nov 1, 2026. routledgeopenresearch.org/collections/...

I am glad that I will present the topic 🍀🏺 Botanical Imaginaries in Ancient Greek and Modern Greek Lyric Poetry (20th ce.)🏺🍀 in the Symposium titled "Revisiting Antiquity in Modern European Literature and the Arts" 👇🏻

Your path to #PhDLife depends on many things Check out our NEW study on the influences of pathway and outcomes of a PhD education in #Canada TLDR: disparities lead to significant differences in labour market entry #GraduateStudent #HigherEd #PhD #MSc #MA www.sciedupress.com/journal/inde...

Ever visit an art gallery using #GigaPan technology? Missed the #ManufacturedEcosystem Exhibition? Learn about ecosystem services in the context of a failing climate: gigapan.com/galleries/13... Guide: www.manufacturedecosystems.com/virtual-exhi... Funded by @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca #NewFrontiers

Routledge Open Research Collection: Human & Beyond: Exploring Our More-Than-Human World Collection’s Advisors: Professor Peggy Karpouzou and Dr. Nikoleta Zampaki Deadline: until November 1, 2026. routledgeopenresearch.org/collections/...