Happy to announce that I am joining the the Environmental Humanities journal editorial team as an Associate Editor. read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta... #envhum #envhist

Today! Looking forward to giving the Symposium's feature paper: "Below Our Feet: The Rocky Foundations of Canadian Museums" 🪨

Deadline extended to 16 November! @asle-us.bsky.social @eseh.bsky.social @carsoncenter.bsky.social @advancesjournal.bsky.social @19birkbeck.bsky.social @bacls.bsky.social

Breaking News: Late last night Conde Nast illegally fired 4 union organizers who asked company execs to explain the downsizing of Teen Vogue and continued layoffs. We’ve filed a grievance.

We're hiring! Join our small but mighty team as Interim Latin American Program Coordinator! Read more about the position and how to apply here: miningwatch.ca/blog/2025/11...

Support the workers of DIA in their unionization efforts! actionnetwork.org/petitions/di...

This is quite the listen. Carney has commit just 900,000 to 10/day and 5 million to universal dental and a fucking billion to AI. A total fuck you to every progressive that bought the Elbows up Rhetoric. They even canned the yacht tax to appease the billionaires.

Mark Carney is billing it as an “investment budget,” but with plans to cut $60 billion in program spending and eliminate 40,000 jobs (10% of the federal public service), @dtcochrane.bsky.social says it’s more like an austerity budget Our podcast live from inside the budget media lock-up yesterday:

The Liberals' budget -- it mostly helps upper income people, it mostly helps men, it mostly helps war, oil and gas. Sandy and Nora Talk Politics -- Budget 2025 - Liberal Carnage sandyandnora.com/episode-348-...

Really great stuff here including a review of collective organizing in American art museums since the 1930s by Amanda Tobin Ripley

Canadian universities must do more to ensure their branded clothing isn’t made in sweatshops

it’s funny seeing canadian media present zohran as a “democratic socialist” like it’s some shocking thing and not just the left flank of the ndp

I want a copy of this so bad

My god this is for real one of the most incredible speeches I’ve ever seen by an elected US politician: ‘And if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is to dismantle the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power. This not only how we stop Trump, it’s how we stop the next one.’

Happy Monday! 🌵 We're glad to say that this rescheduled Reading Club session is happening this week! Join us on 6 November to discuss Appadurai's article, a fantastically rich piece to raise questions connecting museums & collections, coloniality & the global/planetary, & the age of Anthropocene ✨

Conclusion from my grading marathon: whereas pre-AI the lecturer commented on awkward phrases, these are now welcomed as evidence of original writing.

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...

From his victory speech here:

This person took this when they called the race

Call for Abstracts: Small Museums and Art Galleries in Canada (Edited Book) Abstract deadline: January 1, 2026 csn-rec.ca/conferences-...

Got a text from senior relative who lives in middle of nowhere Ontario that read: “all hail Mamdani” if you’re wondering how much people are desperate for decent leaders internationally

It’s insane that these companies can do whatever the fuck they want with no consequences www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

"Most critical minerals are not energy-transition minerals, and most energy-transition minerals are not critical minerals" The Minerals Security concept proposed by Daniel Franks (@Uqueensland) seems more relevant to me. I want to be on the sustainability boat, not in the war one...

Phenomenal report www.facetsjournal.com/doi/10.1139/...

"Immigrant women have always been the quiet architects of change in NYC. Jewish and Italian garment workers led strikes... Chinese immigrant women organized tenant associations ... Puerto Rican and Dominican mothers built tenant unions ...Caribbean women transformed the city's care economy"

Dick Cheney died, and with any luck the Dems will sweep in today’s election. I feel something moderately like hope today.

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

Three of this year’s #JAF articles focus on philanthropy’s intersection with racial capitalism, “delimiting what knowledge is produced, who produces it, and whose voices are silenced”:

Highlights include a dude saying that 'females, black, and brown researchers are less productive' (I wonder why, maybe because more work is put on our shoulders??), & that 'elevating Indigenous knowledge to the level of science is a threat to the pursuit of truth' 🫠😭.

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...

okay in full true Toronto fashion: take it to the bitter end

“It’s Game 7 of the World Series at your own stadium. What the hell else could you want?” - John Schneider

For anyone interested in how AI is making its way into the classroom, the harm is causes and the lack of support entangled in other lacks…

Join us tonight. For some sustaining sounds. Sounds to counter brutality.

The boys came out to play!

give it up one time to our patron saint before game 5 begins

There's another energy reading group starting up! Perfect for those who prefer to meet earlier in the day, earlier in the week:

🗓️Tuesday, Nov. 4 at 5-6:30 PM ET: Join the Avery Research Center for a virtual conversation with our co-founder @prisonculture.bsky.social about zines and her archival orientation to pull from the past to make a better future. The Zoom is at capacity, but you can tune in live via their YouTube:

I don't think we should talk about climate change anymore, we should talk about kitchen-table issues. Like how climate change will destroy your kitchen table and everything else you have

📖 I'm excited to convene a virtual reading group on #EnergyHeritage with @energy-ethics.bsky.social! Engaging w/ scholarship, fiction & artistic projects, we'll meet monthly from Nov-April for discussion and creative responses. Details + registration: energyethics.st-andrews.ac.uk/cee-reading-...

Sounds so interesting!!

📖 I'm excited to convene a virtual reading group on #EnergyHeritage with @energy-ethics.bsky.social! Engaging w/ scholarship, fiction & artistic projects, we'll meet monthly from Nov-April for discussion and creative responses. Details + registration: energyethics.st-andrews.ac.uk/cee-reading-...

How do you deal with rude and unprofessional behaviour by guest editors at a journal? Do you just pull your paper? Ugh

‘Bone Box’ by Haida artist Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas at the Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, BC. “Fabricated out of discarded trays that once stored archeological collections, this interactive work calls for us to engage with one another.”

If you're a renter in Ontario, you should know Doug Ford is trying to make it easier for your landlord to raise your rent or end your tenancy. #HamOnt #OnPoli acorncanada.org/news/doug-fo...

Talking Records: Pollution in the Archive is now open for registration! 🏭🌊 In person symposium at The National Archives on 4th December: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talking-re... Afternoon of online talks on 5th December: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talking-re... #envhum #envhist

Doug Ford is waging an attack on working class people on behalf of landlords, and is accelerating the homelessness crisis. Relentlessly transferring wealth from the poor to the rich. Cruel.

BREAKING: Per @howardmegdal.bsky.social and @theixbasketball.bsky.social, Sandy Brondello will be the first coach of the expansion Toronto Tempo.

Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs - Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75% - Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60% - Social Sciences by 50–70% - History by 60% - Biology by 75% - The German department will lose all PhD seats - Sociology from six PhD students to zero

If you're submitting an abstract for this, please do so by Friday. That gives us time before the BISA deadline to read through the papers and then let everyone know so that you can submit your abstract as a single paper if you'd like to.