My first book, Socializing Land: Plantations, Dispossession, and Resistance in Laos (University of Hawai'i Press, 2025), exists in this world! Check it out at: uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/social... 1/4

New article! 'Irrigating the periphery: Hydrology, coloniality and counter-irrigation in the Philippines', by Rhomir S. Yanquiling, Wolfram Dressler & Will Smith. Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.06.003

El pueblo de El Nido, en la isla filipina de Palawan, se ha convertido en un popular destino turístico debido a su intensa promoción en redes sociales. Sin embargo, el turismo ha causado una grave contaminación costera. Esta es la situación. es.mongabay.com/2025/07/los-...

I mean, JFC if the FT can say it, so can you @markcarneyforpm.bsky.social

Gorillas to be further endangered: the Democratic Republic of the Congo is opening crucial gorilla habitats and pristine forests to bids for oil and gas drilling, with plans to carve up more than half the country into fossil fuel blocks. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Innocuous-sounding "active clubs", including near where I grew up in Hamilton. ici.radio-canada.ca/rci/en/news/...

An open access paper I wrote on differentiated Suharto nostalgia in rural Java for a Journal of Agrarian Change special issue on land and labour in Indonesia: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🚨 Job alert: The Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto is hiring an Assistant Professor in the Sociology of Race and Ethnicity. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-... I'll be at ASA and would be happy to chat with interested candidates. Please share widely! #Socsky

Marchers gambled with potential police intervention and fines to participate in the annual Budapest Pride, which was outlawed by a law passed by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's right-wing governing party.

Earth is trapping much more heat than climate models forecast – and the rate has doubled in 20 years. Article in @theconversation.com by Thorsten Mauritsen @stockholm-uni.bsky.social Steven Sherwood UNSW Sydney & Benoit Meyssignac Université de Toulouse #Climate theconversation.com/earth-is-tra...

newbooksnetwork.com/for-the-sake... Great to talk with @dresslerwolfram.bsky.social about "For the Sake of Forests and Gods" on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social !

🚨 On behalf of the contributors, Mary Mostafanezhad and I are delighted to announce the publication of our new book, Violent Atmospheres: Livelihoods and Landscapes in Crisis in Southeast Asia, published by the University of Hawaii Press. uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/violen...

Bottom trawling is horribly destructive to coastal ocean ecosystems, and deep-sea mining will do the same to the open ocean. #OceanFilm 🌊

Canada, we’re with you! TRUMPISM IS REPUDIATED IN AUSTRALIA! #auspol

Israel murdered this beautiful soul. Remember Fatima Hassona. Watch and spread the film "Put your soul on your hand and walk". And never stop fighting the mass murdering death machine that is the Israeli state. She was 25.

How is it possible U.S. citizens are being held as illegal aliens in America even after they produce their birth certificate? This is intolerable. www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...

Chilling. They are saying that simply taking action in opposition to US foreign policy is grounds for deportation. Think of the proud lineage of protests against US-backed wars, coups, torture... BREAKING: Mahmoud Khalil Can Be Deported, Immigration Judge Rules open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...

As Duterte faces justice at the ICC in The Hague, the women activists who suffered under his misogynistic violence continue to defend the environment and human rights in the Philippines. Others couldn’t continue their struggle. #fearlessfilipinaactivists onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/DPWD9R...

A graphic video shows the moment that Israeli troops fired on aid workers in clearly marked vehicles in Gaza, killing 15 people. The footage contradicts Israel’s version of events in an episode that has drawn international scrutiny. Read witness accounts: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/w...

Jagan Chapagain, secretary-general of the IFRC, warns against the normalisation of killing humanitarian aid workers following the killing of 15 medics and aid workers by Israeli forces in Gaza last month. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/7n8dex

Priceless.

Lead by Stasja Koot, this paper explores the intensifying intimidation from powerful conservation actors against social scientists whose findings they see as troubling. Their threats have not silenced those who work for socio-ecological justice. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

This is, in large part, pandemic revenge. As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do. They can't keep spewing carbon. They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying. They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit.

There must be people who have been illegally seized by ICE we don’t know about. The question is how many?

There’s a great #documentary on this, Agents of Change, about campus #activism in 1968-69 at SF State and Cornell to create a Black studies program—a movement that paved the way for ethnic studies programs and ultimately women’s and queer studies programs. www.agentsofchangefilmnational.com/synopsis

We are deep in a war on activism and political speech www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/c...

Canadian MP Charlie Angus: I think Marco Rubio probably needs to be sent back to school.. When you arbitrarily rip up trade agreements, threaten a country, and say you’re going to break it, that’s an act of war. And Canadians have responded in kind.

Today we are striking against the planned budget cuts in higher education at the University of Amsterdam! This is part of a larger relay strike. 🟥 For more info see: www.uva.nl/en/current/b... And woinactie.blogspot.com/2025/02/aank... #doehetniet @woinactie.bsky.social

You don’t know who we just disappeared to El Salvador. Think about that.

Massive protests in Belgrade, Serbia call for the resignation of the pro-Kremlin president Vucic. #3E #EndImpunity #SerbiaProtests

This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University. www.chronicle.com/article/were...

The Australian tariff slayer is on guard for thee 🤘🇨🇦 🇦🇺

IMPORTANT: The Dutch invested €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart govts do math on investing in better mobility. Let’s be clear — it wastes public money to NOT do it. #CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.com

French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."

Damn! Canadians aren’t messing around—they’re even pulling already imported alcohol off the shelves. We’re being erased, and I don’t blame them.

Vermont understood the assignment. Take notes, America.

“The unknown was not as scary as being complicit and not speaking up.” Some federal employees, both in public and behind closed doors, are resisting Elon Musk’s orders using whatever means they have. nyti.ms/3D4V7T2

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Here's one of the warnings I gave in an article before the US election. It's devastating to see it all happening. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Thrilled about the release of Jason Cons' latest book, Delta Futures. Come join us at Alienated Majesty on Tuesday, March 4th, 2025, at 6:00 PM. Check out the details at https://buff.ly/41rDLbd.

Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.

Today is publication day! I explain how agricultural inputs - which weren't even widely traded market goods 200 years ago - have become giant industries dominated by just a handful of transnational firms today. mitpress.mit.edu/978026255170... Many thanks to those who helped me along the way!

CfP ‘Feminist and Gendered Geographies of Resistance’ - RGS 2025. We are interested in a range of gendered resistance practices, whether on the frontlines or ‘everyday,’ to the social reproductive and care practices that enable movements. Pls submit abstracts to myself & @drvanessalamb.bsky.social

Putin is popping a special bottle of Champagne from a cellar in St Petersburg.

Erasure. At the National Institute of Health, posters of women and scientists of color have been taken down. Shared by @ivancalcantara.bsky.social

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com How Americans and the world handle Donald Trump "will determine much about the next four years, and it will ask much from all of us," the New York Times editorial board writes. "We must meet the moment." Read more here: nyti.ms/4hrd4Kd