Protect Wild Forests: Say No to Trump’s Roadless Rule Repeal

Enjoying the campanile's Disney themed noon melodies, beginning with "Bells of Notre-Dame," followed by "Colors of the Wind" and "Tale as Old as Time." #UCBerkeley

Revisiting Cixous

#weneedjoy @joyannreid.bsky.social

A quick resistance task: 1. Google Gulf of Mexico 2. “Gulf of America" is the top 3. Click on the three little dots to the right of it 4. Select "Send Feedback" 5. Click on "Gulf Of America" 6. Select "Inaccurate content" 7. Select "Incorrect" and type in "The correct name is “Gulf of Mexico"

romantic-circles.org/editions/DW/... A new free resource

Save Sonoma State's WGS Department! - Sign the Petition!

It was eleven years ago today that I got to interview Ursula Le Guin when she visited Berkeley's Townsend Center. A wonderful memory I feel lucky to have. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovZ6...

Here are my lists, soon to become science and nature feeds. Want to be added? Which ones? Leave a comment here. I know there's already an "Ecology and Conservation" feed. I don't intend to compete. I'll be encouraging people to join and contribute to both feeds. Please share! Gracias! 😸

Gallica's digital herbarium post for this week is l'anthémis, or chamomile--"symbole d'amour terminé." Happy Valentine's.

“After being nearly wiped out these majestic felines continue to reestablish previously occupied territory despite border wall construction, new mines and other threats to their habitat.”

As COVID cases rise and many valorize a false sense of individual freedom over mask wearing, I can't help but think of Bettine von Arnim's response to Günderode: "ich will nicht frei sein, ich will Wurzel fassen in Dir."

in our latest issue, Elizabeth Freeman's study of sadomedicine offers "a way of reading with symptoms, even with one’s own, rather than through or against them" — read "Parasymptomatic Reading: Medical Kink, Care, and the Surface/Depth Debate" here: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...

"How the Earth Feels" by @danaluci.bsky.social examines how the impacts of geology on 19th-century US culture catalyzed transformative conversations about the intersections between humans & the nonhuman world. Read the introduction for free now: ow.ly/QLU250Q5vln

2 Days left to make a donation to the UC Berkeley Center for African Studies! These funds make possible travel to the African continent for undergraduate students so that they may conduct research projects there.

Intersection of bird behavior and urban systemic racism

The world’s richest 1 percent generated as much carbon emissions as the poorest two-thirds in 2019, according to a new Oxfam report that examines the uber-wealthy’s lavish lifestyles and investments in heavily polluting industries. wapo.st/49Ke8W3

Americans can order four more free Covid tests from the government starting today —> www.covid.gov/tests