My love for lit started withJane Austen and I’m super gay so heck yeah I want this 💜🌈

Using the last of my brain available for this year to go through the proofs of a chapter I wrote... many moons ago. Am doubting myself now: have there always been this many mistakes in this particular chapter or were they introduced by many rounds of editing and whatnot?

CfP! 🎉 germanic.osu.edu/umwelt/junio... The Umwelt Center invites submissions for its 2026 Junior Scholars Workshop, open to untenured professors, advanced graduate students, post-doctoral scholars, and independent scholars working in the fields of Germanic Studies and Environmental Humanities. 1/3

New Special Section in Area: 'Gender and Rewilding' guest edited by Nadia Bartolini Featuring contributions from @kimjward.bsky.social, @sherilynmacgregor.bsky.social, @sarahmay1.bsky.social & others Read the full #OpenAccess collection here ⬇️ rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

Framing GenAI as a battle between teachers and students is a red herring. Students and educators are on the same side. The real opposition are the data extraction firms and brokerages and their allies among the managerial class.

There's a HE strike in the Netherlands today. I'm not in Holland so can't join the demo, but I will be spending my afternoon in Munich meeting friends and taking a last walk before I'm off to Erlangen. #WOinActie woinactie.blogspot.com/2025/12/prog...

SAVE THE DATE: You're invited to an evening of trees and people 🌳 @catherinpersing.bsky.social and I will talk about "Making Kin with Trees. A Cultural Poetics of Interspecies Care". Join us online on 22 January, 2026 - 7pm-8pm Register here: eveeno.com/116407009 and share widely 💚

We have a cover! 🪶

The Greenhouse Christmas tree is now 120% better thanks to this new ornament. You can make your own! www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/dam/jcr:a46f...

What a great headline

Where’s the authentic wonder? Jokes aside this is terrifying. The death of creativity and thinking. (Alt text in my other repost.)

Skinner’s Rat in new, far more terrifying, form.

Why is biodiversity collapsing globally, but thriving on Indigenous lands? 🌱🧪 Botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer points to a striking pattern in global biodiversity reports: Indigenous territories are defying the widespread ecological decline.

Please share widely - new editor opportunity at The GJ ⬇️

The November 2025 issue of Environmental Humanities is out now! Check it out for all the lastest #envhum scholarship read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta... Cover image: A Marshall Islands navigation chart collected by Thomas William Smillie in 1899. Smithsonian Institution Archives.

Universities: - Stop offering workshops on how to use ChatGPT to write papers - stop using DeepL to translate your websites or make it sound useful for our research - stop pretending AI usage is inevitable. I don‘t want to work for institutions who can‘t employ critical thinking to new tech.

I'm thrilled to share that "Poetry in the Digital Age: An Interdisciplinary Handbook" is out! It brings together a range of perspectives on poetry parameters, formats, practices, debates & more – and is available in open access via the link below: @poetryda.bsky.social @degruyterbrill.bsky.social

Excited to share my first PhD paper which was based on my fieldwork at @thebotanics.bsky.social and just published on @geoopenaccess.bsky.social yesterday! 🌺

AI/LLM haters unite!

Bending the curve at the ‘Towards Impactful Biodiversity Research’ symposium, organised by the the Life & Planet research community

Academia not doing well in Holland

The Greenhouse @unistavanger.bsky.social is launching an international Masters Program in Public Environmental Humanities from fall 2026! Taught in English. Please share with all your students, #envhist #envhum colleagues! Learn more about the program here: www.uis.no/en/studies/t...

Makes me happy mine was only an A4 😂

💯👇 I tell students this all the time. We. Need. All. The. Things. Write what you want about climate change and mass extinction. Whatever moves you. Climate art should be varied and serve many roles. We do not need to gatekeep it.

New from 404 Media: AI generated history videos are flooding YouTube, and drowning out real history. "It’s worrying to me just for humanity. It’s not good for the state of knowledge in the world. It makes me worry for the future." www.404media.co/ai-generated...

Ondanks dat ik nu in Nederland ben heb ik vorige week al gestemd als geregistreerd kiezer in het buitenland. Op de @pvdd-eerstekamer.bsky.social - voor natuur- én mensenrechten. 🌿🌈

Nieuw Onderzoek | De PVV doet niet alleen weinig bij debatten en draagt nauwelijks bij aan nieuwe wetgeving, maar laat van alle grote fracties ook het vaakst verstek gaan bij ‘Kamertaken’: corvee-werkzaamheden, die de Tweede Kamer draaiende houden: www.platform-investico.nl/onderzoeken/...

A portion of every dollar spent on Harry Potter merchandise goes to anti-transgender campaigns.

Prime Minister Dick Schoof called fresh elections following the first collapse of his government, which would go on to fall a second time within a few months.

This year’s Food Justice Film Festival has an incredible lineup of award-winning films: - Farming While Black - Tea Creek - LA Foodways - Feeding Change ⭐️ Watch free Oct 23-26🌎 Sign up: foodjusticefilmfestival.com And don’t forget the Food X newsletter: www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/pop...

“Partij voor de Dieren (PvdD), GroenLinks-PvdA en Volt zijn de enige partijen die nergens rood scoren en dus geen enkel voorstel doen dat in strijd met de rechtsstaat beoordeeld wordt.” ✅ www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

Call for panels now open until 31 Oct 2025. We invite you to join us for EASST’s Biennial Conference, to be held in Krakow, Poland easst.net/conference/e...

Chat GPT

Dank en veel succes aan iedereen die vandaag De Rode Lijn trekt in Amsterdam! (Dit oude reuma lijf kan helaas niet meelopen.)

Ongeveer 11.000 statushouders krijgen jaarlijks voorrang op een huurwoning en ongeveer 100.000 tot 200.000 expats krijgen voorrang op een huurwoning dankzij de expatregeling, die het leven in de grote steden volstrekt onbetaalbaar heeft gemaakt, maar daar hoor je onze Volendamse nepregent niet over.

Another update: I’m a guest researcher at Utrecht University’s faculty of geosciences/copernicus institute for the autumn and winter period. Very grateful to my host for having me and a gorgeous botanic garden right next to my new office 🌳 (plenty of time for coffees, too, if people are around)

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/unsettlin... No cover yet, but there's a web page. Incredibly pleased to be part of this important - and affordable! - volume on extinction studies. Pre-order now because I promise it will be good

The latest issue is out: Tree Cultures and the Arboreal Humanities, guest edited by @rbgkew.bsky.social's Caroline Cornish & Christina Hourigan Featuring research articles on arboreal biographies, poetics of place, resistance & more; poetry, and book reviews 🌲🌳 🔗: www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/

Hello #academicsky! I'm sharing a cfp for an edited collection on "Naming & Classifying," pulled together by me, Kristin Girten, & @aaronrhanlon.com . We'd love to see your work! Please also circulate to anyone you think might be interested. Deadline 10/31. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

The journal is co-presenting an online event with Oak Spring Garden Foundation on 8th October – 'Plants, Memory belonging' Join us for some wonderful research on plants by writers, artists, and academics Register here: www.osgf.org/programs-and... #envhist #envhum #PlantStudies

Are you following our Early-Career-Scholar network, ESEH NextGate? They organize events and support young scholars. Follow here: @esehnextgate.bsky.social #envhist #envhum

Any narratives/rhetorics on invasive species management/eradication/marketing folks want to share their projects? (and thanks Hal Herzog for the title😁)

The @easlce.bsky.social deadline for Utrecht is fast approaching and @katiekung.bsky.social and I are still looking for one paper for a panel on care & invasive species tentatively titled: “Some we love, some we hate, some we kill: why it’s so hard to care for invasive species” #ecocriticism #envhum

Are any pals planning to be in the Dutch Nationaal Archief any time soon? I have two things I'd love to see (no more than a page of manuscript to photograph in each) if anyone's there and has the bandwidth!

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

"If we could all walk or swim or wild ourselves better, one in five of us would not be disabled. After all, Thoreau, the godfather of walking literature in the US, still died of TB."

You know what never gets old? People in inflatable t-rex suits visiting t-rex skeletons in museums