I have an entire lecture on that "cancelled panel on biological sex." It wasn't cancelled because of declining standards. It was cancelled because it involved bad science, bad methods, and ideological bias that skewed the results. You know. Standards.🏺🧪

The jerseys also say "Ceci n'est pas un maillot" ("This is not a jersey") on the back. Perfect detail.

Just need everyone to know that the Belgium men's soccer team has new jerseys based on the art of Rene Magritte and this is the official photo shoot

NEW: In an interview with The Xylom, climate journalist @meerasub.bsky.social reflects on a new graphic nonfiction book she co-authored, A Better World Is Possible: Global Youth Confront the Climate Crisis, and what gives her hope in the face of a warming world. www.thexylom.com/post/global-...

Bari Weiss was exactly like this on a smaller stage, as my editor when I wrote book reviews for the WSJ over a decade ago, constantly trying trying to inject her politics into my pieces, even post copy editing.

Rewatching Twin Peaks and mentally assessing each cabin for how much a five night stay might cost on Airbnb.

Yes.

Did not take long for a particular brand of woke therapy speak to reinvent misogyny.

new William Gibson book opening line dropped

I am all for tactically leveraging the existing financial systems to forge social and climate solutions, and despite willing to being proved wrong, I have not found venture capital to be the place where our emancipatory potentials lie. I am still willing to be proven wrong.

Interesting way to avoid saying that an Israeli occupation soldier shot a 7 month old baby

Weirdest lightning optics that I've ever seen. Not sure what's going on here #wywx

Administration attempting to further dismantle the Forest Service, and Forest Service research. This is happening to environmental researchers elsewhere, right? USGS, NOAA, EPA? Not to mention cancelled grants to universities. 🌍 www.npr.org/2026/06/06/n...

So many people love our parks - the Rockies in particular see MILLIONS of visitors each summer. Where is that money going? Why doesn't the govt see the value in investing in parks? And the closing of the library is just...

Obama doing a history podcast on US Reconstruction with a British-Canadian non-historian airport book guy really does capture his whole post-presidential vibe huh

"Gaza is one of the oldest urban centres on Earth, and in this series we are exploring its long history. It was first referred to by Pharaoh Thutmose III in the 15th century BC when it was known as Ghazzati." www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgcA...

Beluga whales can recognize themselves in a mirror, scientists confirm. After realizing the whale in the reflection was them, they did barrel rolls, pec shimmies, blew bubbles, and looked inside their own mouths.

I just want to go to an in-person event where we are talking about global north-south cooperation on climate and it’s not full of people carrying water for Chicago school of economics. Can’t a girl have some fun?

Ah but you see strangers on the internet told me no landlord would do this gothamist.com/news/57000-r...

I can’t.

Again, folks thought getting rid of those pesky Black scholars, students, theory, would stop and ever reverse this.

It’s not that we are in an imagination crisis, it’s that those who hold power are often actually very boring and regressive and those who hold imaginal prowess have a terrible relationship holding power in themselves.

For the love of all that is holy, I need to find people who do not see the models of cursory progressivism in North America as the height of what is possible and desirable.

This is a pretty wild disclaimer to read at the top of a document called "Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences." In other words, if this would not pass peer-review, why has it been released?

It’s been a year since my mother passed and one of the things I am very grateful to her for is teaching me how to be alone and enjoy silence.

I had to raise this point in the final discussion and other than a select few - it seemed to worry nobody that India’s climate futures might get written by the voices of a few dominant caste neoliberal men. But is anyone actually surprised?

I just went to a Toronto Climate Week event for the inaugural meeting of the Canada-India Climate Circle. Was it mostly Hindu upper-caste men? Yes. There were 6 women in a crowd of maybe 50 people. Nobody that was Muslim, Adivasi, Dalit or from the frontier regions of extraction.

Something something about I didn’t think the lion would eat my face

"We've tripled our Muslim population..." In the past he rightfully called out Ben Shapiro as being one of the main social media accounts the Quebec Mosque shooter frequented and now he speaks at conferences with him using the same rhetoric.

“He yells,” said one MP...“He punches down at caucus all the time.” This fits Carney's decades-long pattern. There's a pattern of behavior with underlings at multiple organizations over decades. These are ingrained personality traits. #GiftLink 🎁 #CdnPoli www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...

I am going to have my PhD convocation ceremony in less than two weeks and I am bewildered by all the ways I am quite oblivious and stupid. I don’t say this to self-deprecate. It’s a source of wonderment and it’s incredible. There’s so much to learn, mostly beyond school.

What flavours of public environmental humanities do you enjoy? (I realize this is an extremely niche question)

Corporations spend more than $1.5 billion a year on union-busting. That’s $1.5 billion they could have spent on higher wages, better benefits, and improving workplace safety. Remember: if they weren’t so scared of worker power, they wouldn’t fight so hard against unions.

What are your new favourite books in environmental humanities, science and technology studies, and political ecology or any related interdisciplinary intersections?

“In London cyclists now outnumber cars in the City by 2 to 1. Paris, where they now outnumber motorists across the whole city, is catching up with Europe’s traditional bike capitals, Amsterdam & Copenhagen…In Copenhagen, bikes account for almost half of commuter trips to work/school.” @economist.com

"Children of those on care worker visas, who came legally before rule change, told to leave even if parents can stay" abolish the home office

Israel killed a Lebanese environmental activist, Mohammad Skaff

Pedestrian Sunday in Kensington Market.

It is truly insane to me that my elected representatives march with an enthusiastic genocidaire and still think they are owed my support

US Democrat Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer marched alongside far-right Israeli Finance Minister and Criminal Bezalel Smotrich.

With the news about the proposed plans to expand Billy Bishop Airport in Toronto well into the Toronto Islands ecosystem, something deeper in me felt a pang of hurt.

“Du Bois insists that technologies absent political safeguards are not emancipatory but instead reinforced hierarchies of race, class, and empire.” Important new read from @alondra.bsky.social on AI

This is going to be, at best, really weird, with the most opportunistic of those in research dictating the terms and a very narrow view of knowledge production for decades to come.

France finally abolishes the law rendering Black people property. In 2026. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Finally.

European alternative to Google Docs and Microsoft Office launches on 9 June: free, open source and online, using existing building blocks. An important step in freeing ourselves from US control. www.zdnet.com/article/euro...

'Every fraction of a degree matters.' @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social's Associate Professor Noam Vogt-Vincent argues that it may not be too late to save our coral reefs, but it is imperative that we reach net zero as soon as possible ⬇️ https://bit.ly/43x6M6v

On protecting “connective labor” in the age of artificial intelligence. Or: what do conservation, journalism, and hairdressing have in common? conservationworks.substack.com/p/ecological...

An Iranian couple, musicians and art teachers, raised loans and donations to build a music school. It employed 22 teachers. More than 250 music learners received private instruction on the craft of Persian music and its different instruments. Half the students were children aged 4 or 5.