“If there is still a Gaza, there will continue to be a Gaza Sky Geeks.” Gaza’s tech community reflects on two years of war and looks to the future: https://restofworld.org/2025/gaza-sky-geeks-bombing-rebuilding/

China’s media suppression campaign is reaching around the globe to silence environmental journalists reporting on polluting Chinese companies.

At today’s plenary of the American Anthropological Association #TheDawnOfEverything was awarded the Staley Prize for ‘outstanding scholarship’ by the School for Advanced Research🙏 It would have meant so much to David Graeber, as it does to me sarweb.org/awards/j-i-s...

Trump defended Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman over the killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, saying “things happen” and that he did not hold Mohammed responsible for the murder despite a U.S. intelligence report assessing the opposite. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

Ecuadorians vote overwhelmingly to maintain their “ecological constitution” that recognizes the rights of nature.

BC's forests are among the most diverse and carbon-rich in the world, but we’re still watching irreplaceable old-growth get cut down. Sign the petition to demand action from the BC government 👉 lnkd.in/gBu-Ef8t Sharing my work and reflections in a personal capacity — views are my own.

Academic books don't often have covers worth revealing, but this one is pretty good. Samia Ounoughi & I have been working on this for about 100 years, but we've just sent the final proofs, so here's the cover & contents. Writing on the Move, due out from Berghahn early 2026. #travelwriting studies

Shahd Shamali was given 20 minutes warning before the I.D.F. struck her building. She describes her home and the life she made there, before it was erased, and the choices she and her family made in the brief evacuation window. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/s_uZDZ

Mary Halvorson's Amaryllis is the bomb. Herein, a new podcast episode, a Jazzfest Berlin review, and some additional thoughts.

Some good recs here and in case it’s paywalled: Amitav Ghosh: Pod by Laline Paull, Maddy Thien: The Swan Book by Alexis Wright; Eric Puchner: Orbital by S. Harvey; J. Jezewska: The Vegetarian by Han Kang; M. Majumdar: Mobilty by L. Kiesling foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/07/c...

@willdalrymple.bsky.social Love your work William Dalrymple: rediscovering the ancient wonders of eastern Turkey share.google/QlsDStzZ9RJn...

“A philosopher who doesn’t think about science is not willing to engage with the knowledge we have, and that’s just silly. And a scientist who refuses to look at philosophy is trapped in ways of thinking from which there may be an escape.” Carlo Rovelli

Beyond the headlines, why did manufacturing move to East Asia, who are the workers, and what are the social costs? I'm so honored to have Anru Lee and Ya-Wen Lei on Ep.5 of 开门见山 | Gateway to Global China @madeinchinajournal.com to discuss gender, labor, and (de)industrialization in China and Taiwan:

@yangyangcheng.bsky.social has written insightful and powerful pieces on science, culture, and current events as it relates to China and the U.S. Most recently, she traced the stories and struggles that face Chinese women in science for @madeinchinajournal.com madeinchinajournal.com/2025/10/08/b...

Here, she reviews two of Fang Fang's novels, Soft Burial & The Running Flame, tr. @bairuiwen.bsky.social for @chinabooksreview.com, on how women in China have suffered abuse, silence and erasure. chinabooksreview.com/2025/10/09/f...

Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian author who won the 1986 Nobel Prize in literature, “received what he called a ‘rather curious love letter’ from the American authorities, that he read from in Lagos on Tuesday.”

For over a century, major companies liquidated forests from First Nations’ territories without consent. Now they're leaving. In their wake, First Nations are working to reshape the industry that long excluded them, but it won't be easy. My latest for @thenarwhal.ca

Scientists recently found two evolutionarily distinct mushrooms converged to produce the same psychedelic molecule—psilocybin. The “surprising” results underscore the significance of the hallucinogen but leave questions about its ultimate purpose. #Psilocybe #MagicMushrooms New at @science.org 🧪🏺

With grocery giants ripping off Canadians, it’s time for a bold alternative: public grocery stores. Food analyst Aaron Vansintjan explains how a publicly-run grocery option could solve the crisis of skyrocketing food costs. youtu.be/RPuEhQl8Cxo

It is 1.15am and I have just finished the indexing for this cursed edited collection that has been haunting me for a hundred years ahead of tomorrow's deadline. I hope someday someone actually does go looking in there for "geopoetics" on page 151, I really do...

"Countless Yingzhis live among us, while the Zitaos of China are fading away with time. The tears of Chinese women, if unleashed, could drown a nation." For @chinabooksreview.com, I write about gendered violence and illusions of liberation through two novels by Fang Fang (tr @bairuiwen.bsky.social):

For those of who have already entered the strange and wonderful zone of László Krasznahorkai’s fiction, the news that he won this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature comes as no great surprise. “It seems something straightforwardly just,” James Wood writes.

The Canadian government's revamped border-infosec-migrant bill is out and it still bars asylum-seekers from getting a refugee hearing if they file a claim more than a year after first coming to Canada. (And the gov can still "cancel, suspend or vary" your immigration dox) www.parl.ca/DocumentView...

Who becomes a scientist, what kind of work does she do, and why? Generations of women in China have explored these questions. For @madeinchinajournal.com, I trace their stories and the different answers their struggles and achievements reveal—on the purpose of science and the meaning of womanhood.

Dive into a conversation with the folks at Garrison Institute and I. Sharing pioneering research on how forests function as interdependent communities linked by the "wood wide web," where older "mother trees" sustain younger ones. Listen here: www.garrisoninstitute.org/podcast/suza...

🍄🧪🚨GLOW-IN-THE-DARK TREE SCIENCE🚨🧪🍄 Scientists have identified 125 species of bioluminescent fungi, and there are likely many more. One of the latest discoveries is a species that doesn't just glow on its own -- trees interlaced with its filaments also emit an ethereal greenish light (!!)

I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us

“There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you.” --Amiri Baraka (10/7/1934-1/9/2014) (blurry photo by me)

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

Thank you @yangyangcheng.bsky.social for another wonderful piece and a window into a world many of us might have otherwise missed.

Just want to add that reproductive rights are an economic issue and for many women a survival issue. If you can't control your body, you can't control your life.

I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this

U.S. officials describe the Darién Gap as a hotbed of human trafficking and mortal peril. That’s not inaccurate, but it fails to account for just how much of that is America’s own fault.

India's Prime Minister Modi made his first visit to Manipur in two years, since ethnic and insurgent violence erupted in the state. Tanushree Pandey recently explored how civilians are caught in the crossfire and the lines between combatants and noncombatants blur:

Apropos, my letter in this month’s LRB concerning their recent piece.

The origin of the word #Palestine - "old as literacy itself" William Dalrymple (Historian & Author) #FreePalestine Via @stayfreeworld (Telegram)

At the rate journalists are being killed in Gaza by the Israeli army, there will soon be no one left to keep you informed. We join with more than 150 other media outlets across the world to condemn these crimes. Read more: interc.pt/3HS71C2

“Ultimately, he adds, rather than looking for new ways to clean up lost nets, “it would be much better to prevent ghost nets from being in the ocean in the first place.”

Nothing says "Handmaid's Tale" like banning Handmaid's Tale

Decades after it was assumed lost, the first Chinese typewriter with a keyboard reappeared in a NY basement. For Ep.3 of 开门见山|Gateway to Global China, @yangyangcheng.bsky.social talks with historian @tsmullaney.bsky.social about the legendary MingKwai and the century-long effort to type in Chinese.

“When it comes to covering the war in Gaza, the journalists doing this job are too often becoming the story, and by enduring the violence themselves they become entangled in the very narrative they are trying to cover.”

Anas al-Sharif was Gaza’s mockingbird. He lived a life of courage, truth and love for his family. Israel killed him. We must remember who he was, and why they wanted him silenced, writes @kshaheen.bsky.social for @newlinesmag.bsky.social. newlinesmag.com/spotlight/th...

Nate Chinen and Josh Jackson, discuss the phrase “Live at The Village Vanguard.” Why it carries its own currency in jazz, and the countless albums it has appeared on. #Jazz #Music #JazzSky #JazzMusic www.wrti.org/podcast/late...

Travel writers never go to the toilet... I left this out of the first draft, but C insisted I include it - so it's going in the book! Pushing the formal limits of the genre here...

Such a beautiful tribute to such a remarkable artist. Thank you!

Another wonderful piece from @jiatolentino.bsky.social and, similarly, as a child I had never considered the darker contours of these stories, but seeing what today’s little ones are imbibing, it is clear that the same change-adverse and authoritarian impulses remain undiminished.

On the eve of the 4th of July:

"AI can replicate, but can it yearn?" Thank you to Sarah Wike of @dukelearning.bsky.social for a thoughtful conversation on AI learning and its limits. And, for not even blinking when I cited Wong Kar-Wai (rather than reams of recent academic & journalistic output on AI) as my guiding inspiration.

This was supposed to be a breakthrough year in the 44-year-long struggle against H.I.V. It's turned into something very different. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/h...