@nasilemak.bsky.social I’m struggling to recall our mutual squid antagonist’s handle and I’m afraid to call her out by her real name in a public forum. Please tag her! It’s been so long since we fought these beasts on the Alberta prairies.

I know there’s a lot of awful stuff going on right now but this one just hits close to home. These are some fantastic and very devoted researchers and public servants.

Me: the internet is awful and you should avoid it Also me: IT'S FAT BEAR WEEK CHECK YOUR PHONE DHAIFBSJ

Assholes. Is the report political as Trump says? Let’s not forget child hunger in the US, anywhere for that matter, is an expression of his political values.

I always thought Sonny Purdue would be the worse ever Secretary of Agriculture but Brooke Rollins is hurtling along and catching up in record time. #foodsystems

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

Joe Sacco revises Walter Benjamin www.tcj.com/the-angel-la...

This well informed editorial excoriates the American political class and its penchant for starving children both in the US and abroad.

Kyrgyzstan was the closest thing to a democracy in Central Asia. Now it is maybe the worst government there. An organized crime connected government has eviscerated rule of law, democracy and human rights. Here is the story of what happened. www.occrp.org/en/project/u...

An absolute barnburner by @gregggonsalves.bsky.social! www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Got denied a covid vaccine at my pharmacy today even though I have asthma.

This is an amazing video! The clarity is remarkable. Not many of us have this gift in academia. Conceptual frameworks from decolonial and postcolonial theorisation presented in a capsule.

111 years ago today, Martha, the last Passenger Pigeon died in her enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo. September 1st is Species Requiem Day to mourn the 869 species driven to extinction or extinction in the wild in the last 500 years by humans. Today is a day to recognize the grave danger we are in.

It is almost the most wonderful time of the year! (Fat Bear Week) explore.org/fat-bear-wee...

An excellent and timely piece.

“Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time,” writes former CDC Director William Foege. www.statnews.com/2025/08/18/r...

A massive attack on several humanities units (Arabic Studies, Judaic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, Religion, German & Scandinavian, Russian/East European/Eurasian Studies) *and* tenure now unfolding at the University of Oregon (a blue state!). Closure of units and faculty layoffs threatened.

This is a start. It's a really good start. Now aim higher. Keep going

After one too many conversations about the ways GenAI + peer review = shitshow for all involved, I dashed off this slightly polemic commentary on how I think we should talk about GenAI as an epistemic carcinogen. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Forgot the tags. 🪶 #birds

A handsome feral pigeon on the docks here in Malmö.

People attacking her for this and Jen Hamilton for reading the Bible really feels like the spectrum of how absolutely around the bend we are in normalizing cruelty and being violently defensive if anyone goes "must we tho ?"

Really striking new study from van Westen and Baatsen and a class visualisation tool to go with it. This study looks at a future where the AMOC has collapsed. Temperatures hitting -22ºC in Dublin in the winter is pretty stark. Hearing these numbers can be shocking and worrying. amocscenarios.org

A fine sentiment and a fine band!

A pleased looking Starling shows off its tasty snack. I snapped this image on the Swedish coast at Lomme Beach near Malmö. 🪶

It is Cygnet season here in Malmö. I spotted this recently hatched Cygnet perched on its parent's back in the moat right by the Malmö castle. I've been visiting daily another pair on the canal near my apartment with about six eggs but they hatched later last year than this pair. 🪶 #birds

Tribal colleges are essential and already deeply underfunded. These new cuts are an obscene betrayal.

Did this fun interview about my book, From Label to Table, with two food historians Kelly Spring and Matt Phillpott, as part of their "Hungry Historians" podcast series: open.spotify.com/episode/1QYV... It's a new #foodstudies series, but they've already lined up some great food studies speakers.

I was waiting for this. They’re in love with restrictions.

It was very clear to me at the time that Depp’s approach would be copied again and again to undermine victims, particularly women who had spent years with their abusers before finding a way to leave and thus had psychologically complex relationships with them

Animal culture is real and elder fish are necessary to keep a school alive.

every day is a good day to put NYT in its place

Salgado goes, may he travel onward in peace. An amazing photographer with a vast heart for humans and the world. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/a...

A moist jackdaw gets out of the ever present Skåne drizzle under the platform at Malmö Central. My phone's camera did something odd to this image. Can't say I like it but I adore the chagrined expression on this down and out corvid. 🪶 #birds

“I don’t think they had much food awareness back then. I can’t blame my parents, they had different priorities and meant well.” – Manuel, Lisbon Vasco Ramos on how upwardly mobile individuals narrate their changing relationships with food. #OpenAccess in the journal buff.ly/KeZlfHl

My arch nemesis taunts me. 🪶

I'd pay a premium for a gym that doesn't play music.

Mama's pissed and hissing away at some small dark long and furry thing! I glimpsed it of it out of the corner of my eye before it scurried away into the reeds. It's most likely a big rat or maybe a mink. We visit her daily to admire her and watch her mate chase boaters! On a canal in Malmö. 🪶 #birds

Cormorants have to dry their wings after every swim...🪶☀️ というわけでもうダーウィン待機（その前に夕飯の支度） #birds

anyways, here’s a how and a why explainer for alt text. the US government decided accessibility was “catering to the weak” as part of the MAHA eugenics agenda. don’t post like those fucking nazi pricks.

Our 2024 report exposed widespread human rights violations, abuse, medical neglect, and squalid living conditions in GEO Group's immigration detention centers in California. These facilities put profits over people. Read more:

Reminds me of this eternal Ted Chiang banger-

A wood pigeon lurking in the shrubbery. 🪶

Great Crested Grebe on one of the canals in Copenhagen getting ready to make another dive. 🪶 #birds

R.I.P. David Thomas of Pere Ubu . Really some of the best concerts I saw in the 70’s . Mind blowing in fact. Absolutely unique individual. Here’s one of my all time fave songs youtu.be/Leax63ullPE?...

Preventing Chronic Disease and Emerging Infectious Diseases are essential journals. This is yet another blow to the public good.

When you try to uphold white supremacy and memory hole history you recreate the middle passage

We all need otter on timeline today