New on Language-on-the-Move: everyone talks about using AI in education "critically" - that should mean NOT using it, argues Ana Bruzon www.languageonthemove.com/why-critical...

Interesting-looking article the impact of boomers entering retirement on tourism and related climate emissions doi.org/10.1080/1368...

Philly friends: I'm really excited to be discussing my new book, Apocalyptic Authoritarianism: Climate Crisis, Media, and Power (Oxford University Press, 2025) at Wooden Shoe Books on October 26 at 4:30pm. All are welcome and I hope to see you there!

Only a few more days to submit to the International Conference on Ecolinguistics in Rennes, France in July 2026! ice-8.sciencesconf.org?lang=en

"Other terms officials must ditch include “energy transition,” “sustainability/sustainable,” “‘clean’ or ‘dirty’ energy,” “Carbon/CO2 ‘Footprint’” and “Tax breaks/tax credits/subsidies.”

There's a really nice new study using phone data from Americans who relocated from one city to another to look at the effect of walkable environments on physical activity. E.g., people move TO New York and walk more, they move FROM New York and walk less www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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It’s a tough time for political satire in America. It’s also a tough time for clean energy. I’ve been thinking a lot about Samuel Jackson’s “motherf-cking windfarms” ad. So, I finally wrote about it — and the future of climate-focused comedy in our democracy👇 www.canarymedia.com/articles/cul...

p.s. My essay on the Wounded Knee massacre can be found here (open access!): www.jstor.org/stable/10.25...

Reading today!📚 A review of research into Arctic tourism. "Instead of dwelling on the question of what Arctic tourism is, the review proceeds to inquire how the Arctic comes to matter for tourism research and what we, as scholars and practitioners of tourism, can learn from a focus on the Arctic."

"The pocket forests adhere to the “Miyawaki method” named after a Japanese botanist, to plant a wide variety of local trees in large numbers and in very tight quarters, mimicking the biodiversity and competition of the natural growth...in the wild.” #MicroForests www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/27/m...

Bryce Andrews' Down from the Mountain is excellent but heartbreaking. Night of the Grizzly is also good. Heartbreaking but for different reasons.

Listening today!🎧 "In this episode, we look at how human-made sound makes it hard for other creatures to listen and communicate." #bioacoustics

Conference! The next International Conference on Ecolinguistics will be in Rennes next year (9-11 July, 2026). I'm looking forward to attending as part of the organizing committee. Consider submitting an abstract before the deadline on October 1st!

"The majority of the island’s acreage has been in private hands since 1909, when businessman William Irwin bought it for $1. The island’s next overlord, James Dole, developed Lānaʻi into the world’s most productive pineapple plantation..."

Job!📢: "The Michigan State University School of Journalism seeks an assistant professor in environmental journalism. The faculty member would work with the Knight Center for Environmental Journalism..." careers.msu.edu/jobs/assista...

Reading today!📚: "...Researchers charting pathways towards strong sustainability, including in passenger transport, need more nuanced data and methods than are currently widespread."

It's hiring season at @iast.fr! - 2y research postdoc contract - Full autonomy, you are your own PI - Awesome multidisciplinary environment - All social and behavioral sciences welcome - Seed funding for projects and workshops - Gorgeous city in the south of France www.iast.fr/research-fel...

Today is the last day to comment on proposed rescission of the Roadless Rule! The 58 million acres of forest protected by the Roadless Rule store vast amounts of carbon, provide vital habitat for fish and wildlife species, and are more resilient to wildfire (despite false claims). Comment here 👇🏼

"This commentary argues that sociophonetic perception studies and linguistic anthropological analyses of the listening subject examine the same underlying process—ideologically structured listening—though at different observational scales."

Reading today!📚 "How to build a food sovereignty lab: Bureaucracy and budget constraints couldn’t stop CalPoly Humboldt’s Native American Studies Department from founding an Indigenous foods research lab." www.hcn.org/issues/57-9/... @highcountrynews.org

What's beyond vested interests? Can we use the concept of countermovemement in more ways to understand climate obstruction? @kvowles.bsky.social and I think with a common but perhaps underused concept to understand reactionary climate politics in Sweden. @cssn.org

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.

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"Meanwhile, if everyone on Earth planted a tree— 8 billion trees— it would take us back in time by about 43 hours every year, once the trees had matured. The time-machine analogy reveals just how futile CDR currently is. We have to shift the narrative as a matter of urgency."

Ghent University invites applications for a fully funded PhD scholarship in the environmental humanities. #envhum #ecocriticism www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOS381/p...

The School of Planning, Policy, and Environmental Studies at San José State University is hiring an Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies. We welcome applicants from all fields of environmental studies who apply an environmental justice lens to their work. jobs.sjsu.edu/sj/en-us/job...

Postdoc opportunity at University College Cork Ireland 🇮🇪. Interdisciplinary approaches to urban coastlines & multispecies relations. 🚶‍♀️🐚👨‍⚕️🦀👩‍🔬🪸👤🐟 Open to EU & non-EU applicants 🌎 Deadline 3rd Oct. Interviews 9th & 10th Oct. #LivingSeawall #EcoEngineering #Sustainability my.corehr.com/pls/uccrecru...

Enjoyed visiting the University of Luxembourg campus this past week! When the steel mill there was shut down in the late 90's, it was converted into a new campus and integrated into the university's architecture. Gives a bit of a sci-fi/steampunk vibe🏭

We're hiring in wonderful Copenhagen 🇩🇰 Two or more open rank sociology professorships (tt assistant, associate with tenure, or full prof with tenure). You'll join a leading sociology department in Europe with many core fields represented! #sociology More 👇 jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

If you're an author and haven't yet signed up for the Anthropic settlement, do yourself a favor (and strike a blow against AI) by checking to see if any of your books were involved. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

🤖 New Early View! In “Technofuturist Registers for AI and the Future of Work”, Alfonso Del Percio examines technofuturist registers, showing how AI is made desirable & shapes social imaginations of the future, reconfiguring visions of labor, personhood, and modernity. 🔗 Read here: buff.ly/3Bmxbgv

I will be giving a hybrid talk at the University of Hawaii at Manoa Linguistics Department about my recent book, Workable Accents. What does academic labour sound like? Using the case of international teaching assistants, my talk attempts to answer this question!

What do rivers sound like? What creatures (or otherwise) contribute to freshwater soundscapes? Our newest research, led by Katie Turlington, provides a new method to explore these types of questions. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #bioacoustics #freshwater

Akademiet for yngre forskarar leitar etter ein ny prosjektkoordinator for Konkurransen unge forskere og Lettenprisen. Fristen er 23. september. Meir informasjon og informasjon om kontakt i stillingsannonsen. www.finn.no/job/ad/42501...

Job!📣🌿 Assistant Professor of Environmental Policy: "Ph.D. Required in Public Policy, Public Administration, Political Science, Law, Economics, Sociology, Environmental Studies, Environmental Science and Engineering, or a related field by the start of appointment."

In the latest episode of the Language-on-the-Move podcast @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social, we explore the tension between two colliding forces - rapidly progressing climate change and global economic extraction as they play out in the Cold Rush in the heating Arctic www.languageonthemove.com/cold-rush/

📊The Sociology Department at Stony Brook University invites applications for *two* tenure-track Assistant Professor positions to begin in Fall 2026. [They] seek scholars who specialize in issues of global inequality and justice, broadly construed. apply.interfolio.com/172669

Hey everyone, I'm hoping to get some sense from academics on what kind of financial support (if any) they get from their university/college employers for conference travel. Please chime in and repost if willing.

Reading today!📚🚀 "This paper uses Star Trek's “Universal Translator” (UT) as a point of departure for considering the imagined future of mediated linguistic interactions and of contact across difference." anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

One more week to get your abstracts in for EASLCE 2026 and join the orca uprising! Would love to see many of you here in Utrecht in April next year. #envhum

TWO new Assistant Professor positions in Sociology at USC! Seeking candidates with expertise in the following: 1) Institutions & Inequalities and 2) Socially Informed AI and/or Data Science (links to job ads below👇). Happy to talk about what it's like to work/live here! #sociology (1/3)

job!📢 "Haverford College invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Linguistics, with a primary specialization in Sociolinguistics..." (deadline October) www.haverford.edu/provost/news...

Conference!📣🇿🇦: Sociolinguistics Symposium 26 (SS26) Conference Theme: Sociolinguistic Consonance and Dissonance in the Pluriversal World, 13-15 July 2026. Hosted by University of Fort Hare, East London campus, Eastern Cape South Africa (abstract deadline 31 October) www.ufh.ac.za/sociolinguis...

🚨BREAKING: Apparently, we've written a paper about how dog ownership causes extreme weather 🐶🌪️ 😂 Or at least that’s what some 'news' headlines are suggesting in the US... While I appreciate the media's interest in our recent study in PNAS Nexus, in reality, we found something very different...

Exploring the mountains around Bergen a bit with a much more energetic hiking buddy

Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

"Since 1800, there’s been a sharp decline in nature-related words in English language books. It closely matches a simulation of nature–human interactions." A new piece in @grist.org by Kate Yoder, with some #ecolinguistics input from @repoole.bsky.social grist.org/language/nat...

Assistant Professor - Language Revitalization - Linguistics, UC Berkeley: research interests or skills in "..language documentation, description, and analysis; sociolinguistics; anthropological linguistics; language acquisition; language education; areal and language-family expertise" (Oct 31)

Postdoc advertisement! Hi all, I'm looking to hire a Postdoc in BIOACOUSTICS for work on Owls. Your job would be to collect & analyze bioacoustics data, and write papers. 🦉🦉🦅🐦🦜🦉🦉