Sarah Mansfield MP has made a little book about The Very Hungry Data Centre

Educators: registration closes tomorrow (July 8) for the Earth Systems: A Great Lakes Perspective workshop at Indiana Dunes. Two days of hands-on Project WET activities focused on water and the Great Lakes. Great for PD hours. Register today: www.simpletix.com/e/earth-syst...

A Green Heron goes into maximum neck mode to grab a tadpole and then resets into minimum neck mode after the snack was acquired.

I’ve been promoting the role of early Black Americans paving the the road to birthright citizenship for more than 20 years; today it mattered more than most. It’s been an honor to support the teams at the ACLU and the LDF Fund along with their clients in this work. hub.jhu.edu/2026/06/30/s...

This is incredible and one of those things that reminds me a better world is possible. But I also need you to know that the dek reads, “The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.”

Robin D.G. Kelley recommends three books every radical should read

Proposed changes to its building code could take Duluth, MN, from "hard to get anything done" to "all kinds of homes, in all the places." 👍

Good thread on some of the challenges to any form of AI critique or resistance. And yes, Bender and Hanna's "The AI Con" is really good.

Our first day in Northumberland started with a visit to Long Nanny. Overwhelmed by the carpet and kaleidoscope of colourful wild flowers and awesome views of the American Black Tern & Arctic & Little Terns. It will be interesting to see how the AB Tern chick fares.

🙋🗳️ Where do Ann Arbor's mayoral candidates stand on housing (and transportation, zoning, neighborhood businesses, tenant protections, and downtown development)? Read Christopher Taylor and Yousef Rabhi's full, unedited responses here: www.moreneighborsa2.org/2026-electio... #a2council

Oh look, confirmation of what we've all noticed by now.

Today is the birthday of African American science fiction author #OctaviaEButler. The winner of numerous Hugo and Nebula Awards, she was the first science fiction author to receive a MacArthur Fellowship. #💙📚 #Booksky Have you read her work? www.librarything.com/author/butle...

REMINDER: The Pedalup Riderz Fireworks ride from Eastern Market Shed 5 to Belle Isle is tonight Monday June 22nd. Meetup at 6:30pm, roll out at 7pm. Free food too.

Our local June *record* temperature is 33.3C. We are currently forecast to hit 36 on Tuesday, 38 on Wednesday, and 39 on Thursday. Perfectly normal. No doubt no doubt. Carry on.

The rise of larger vehicles like SUVs and pickup trucks, with their taller hoods and larger blind zones, has contributed to a 75% increase in pedestrian and cyclist deaths since 2009. Until we design better streets and ban these vehicles, people outside these vehicles will keep dying.

I just passed an old gas station that had been converted to a private home and had billowing roses and dahlias growing where the pumps had been pulled out. Adding this to my mental vision board for a decarbonized future.

The AI Con, an excellent book by @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social is costing 1.99 dollars on Amazon US today amzn.to/4uJmdE1

It is a great, great novel!

“when someone is pitching an ai product, don't ask them what it's supposed to do. ask yourself what it's supposed to justify” too true.

I ❤️ my Marxist Professors.

Minnesotans were, are and will continue to be the #BraveOfUs showing up with and for their neighbors, facing down armed agents of the state with nothing more than their bodies.

Rode a bike in a place that didn't allow cars and now I'm convinced we need this everywhere

Some STS colleagues and I have put together a list of talking points to help folks submit public comments on the proposed OMB rule jeopardizing federal research grant funding. (We also explain why submitting the comments are so important.) Please circulate widely and submit comments *by July 13*!

Nice morning for a swim at Pickerel Lake!

I've seen over 100 bird species within 20 steps of this front yard. Wildlife aren't some distant things restricted to living in parks only. They're our neighbors, an important part of our communities, and everyone is healthier when we recognize them as such.

#A2Council Why I'm supporting Christopher Taylor for mayor sstrudeau.com/posts/taylor...

They should build loads of data centers all over the place that contain huge quantities of books that people can borrow for free if they fill out a form to get a data center card and promise to return the books on time and don’t make too much noise in the data center.

@jessicacalarco.com hit the nail on the head in her @pnas.org editorial about why the trend towards data transparency can be complicated for qualitative research--a dilemma that came to head in our recent PNAS paper on violence. I recommend giving it a read. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

every time I say this, someone didn't know: you can get the NYRB, the New Yorker, the LRB, Paris Review, The Spectator (weirdly not New Statesman), The Week, both French & Italian Vogue & New Scientist among many many other magazines FREE via the Libby app from your local library?

Kitt Peak National Observatory image of Arp 104, also known as NGC 5216 and NGC 5218, or Keenan’s System. A bridge of stars and gas about 7,000 light years wide and 150,000 light years long connects the two galaxies. Credit: NOIRLab, NSF, AURA, T.A. Rector, H. Schweiker Source

I feel sure this species will outlast us…

Just four days until the launch of the 2026 @aadl.org Summer Game. One more incredible community service from our treasured public library!

This is a beautiful short piece on how language, literature, and landscape create community.

From the current WJO issue: Differences in the diets of red and gray Eastern Screech-Owls (Megascops asio). #ornithology doi.org/10.1080/1559...

UMD fired 84 people today, largely staff. In addition to the (many more) vacancies that are being closed. Guys with 25+ years of service. Moms who gave birth last week. The amazing woman who puts in 18 hour days to make our college commencement happen. In the richest state in the union, per capita.

The conferences didn't start until 1978, vols weren't all published until two decades later. When we look back at the semiquincentennial it won't be just about what happened up to and on July 4, 2026. It will also be about what was inspired in its wake. Let's go, is what I'm saying.

At last, some good news!

Of all the harm this administration has done to US science, today's proposed changes to the way federal grants are awarded and administered is the most damaging yet. The text of the federal register document is impenetrably tedious by design, so here's an excellent summary of what it says.

Uplands Cheese's Pleasant Ridge Reserve. So good...

Happy birthday to marine biologist & conservationist Rachel Carson (1907-1964)! 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬 #histsci After publishing the sea trilogy in the 40s & 50s, when she published Silent Spring in 1962 she captured the world’s attention to the risks to health & environment posed by pesticides & DDT in particular. 🧵

Not a lot of people know that Sonny Rollins wrote the music for the 1966 Michael Caine hit "Alfie"... youtu.be/sW2aDwXO7Dg

“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas and city center in 2021.”

A Country Diary today from Poland’s Biebrza Marshes… a taste of the wetscapes we lost but could have again… www.theguardian.com/environment/...

LibraryThing is a great 20 year old way to organize your books and reading, not (yet at least) subject to all of the usual decay of more commercial systems. You can see the last 662 books I've read here: www.librarything.com/catalog/tamc...

The May edition of our State of the Thing newsletter has gone out to more than 1 million subscribers! See the 🧵 below for more details, and be sure to catch up on old issues online. #LibraryThing #StateoftheThing #💙📚 #Booksky

The technologies are new. The questions--about power, meaning, knowledge, work, who gets counted, and who is at the table--are not. Social science has been asking them all along. The essay is an argument for showing up fully to a reckoning we're already in. www.amacad.org/publication/...