For anyone interested, May Day Strong (which includes union affiliates) has been mobilizing and organizing since last year. maydaystrong.org They are inviting folks to join together for a day of economic disruption on May 1 (a week day - this seems to matter greatly to some).

It’s the Golden Mean! (Created by Empire of Dirt in Oakland.)

It’s true!

UCLA!! I love the Bruins women’s basketball team. And defeating my least favorite team. So sweet.

Claudette Colvin, the first to refuse to give up her seat and protest segregation on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955, has passed away. May she rest in power.

I loved the creativity in sign sentiment, slogan, and design at No Kings. Even if some aren’t my favorites, a good range of approaches, topics, and humor was everywhere.

Charismatic microfauna report from a cool, sunny morning includes copious american robins, the sound of a woodpecker doing their thing, and plenty of songbirds joining the chorus even if I couldn’t spot them despite still-barr branches.

No kings is today! Find your local gathering and join your community to fight for all of us.

📣 New historical data visualization! "How Fast Was the Mail?" is an interactive map showing how long information took to travel across the US between 1882-1908: cblevins.github.io/mail-time/ +

Administrators spend $17 million of CSU money on ChatGPT while shuttering departments essential to the job of a university in developing, archiving, and teaching all kinds of knowledge

I wonder if people understand that for many of us the pride flag is not just an expression of queer identity it is a REJECTION OF THE CLOSET SPECIFICALLY. That is- its display is explicitly meant to COUNTER the conditions of queer invisibly, which has been at the heart of our marginalization. 1/

My resignation letter

Tunefork Studios in Lebanon has released two music compilations to raise funds for Beit Aam’s work supporting grassroots efforts for displaced people in Beirut and southern Lebanon www.tuneforkstudios.com/forthedispla...

I know breaking news is hard but I've several articles about the crash at LGA yesterday/today and none mentioned the persistent understaffing of air traffic control, and the absolute chaos the trump administration added to the system in the past year.

A Sandhill Crane with feathers freshly painted with iron-rich mud, which will give the feathers a rusty tint. It's believed this is done to help the crane blend into the environment while sitting on a nest.

This is a great list of techniques for getting real information out of a Google search and avoiding AI slop and paid results. (One thing not included is that if you add "-ai" to a search, you block the AI summary) cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

It’s Mother’s Day in Lebanon today. Israeli strikes have killed over 100 children so far

Please add your signature! I use EM-DAT frequently. "If EM-DAT were to cease operations, the consequences would not be abstract; they would be practical, immediate and damaging. It offers a carefully assembled, globally comparable database of disasters, including their human and economic impacts."

‼️ Apparently EM-DAT was financially supported through USAID. There's an open letter you can sign to garner support CRED finding a new sustainable funding source. This is the most critical international disaster dataset we have that underlies both research & practice openletter.earth/the-worlds-c...

This is so awesome.

Every so often I think about how I had to fight to get the phrase "persistent economic inequity," in a NYT story because they wanted to use "trapped in poverty" instead, and it had to go to the standards editor because they thought persistent economic inequity might be biased

It’s amazing how quickly Black women have been targeted by these laws and doubly so how little this factors into the analysis around the sexual and gender politics of this movement.

It’s the spring equinox in the northern hemisphere! I love the growing of the light.

“Questions slow you down.” Yes! Exactly why I love them.

The problem with metaphors is that the world is on fire and we’re complaining about the price of gasoline.

Registration is now open! And all events are free for SHARP members. Depending on your employment status and location, membership is between $55 and $100USD. events.zoom.us/ev/Ap9iEZwmC...

One of our SHARPIES highlights is three keynote events, featuring emerging and established scholars who, together, embody our inclusive approach to book history in their diversity of objects, geographical and historical focus, and methods. @bethdriscoll.bsky.social

Kudos to my colleagues @readingrenae.bsky.social & @dorcasarchives.bsky.social for their efforts. Incredible gratitude for the one and only Barbara Smith, for her tireless work alongside so many Black feminists. Read more about the Barbara Smith Papers: www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/news-and-ide...

I didn’t expect to find Sauron in my coffee.

Charismatic microfauna report from a cool day includes an emphatic blue jay, a gaggle of geese chilling on frozen ice, chirping choirs from the trees, and two swan heads deep into their watery breakfast. 🪶

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/c...

“Scientists say the move to dismantle the center would weaken research that is crucial to understanding the atmosphere, space and oceans, air pollution and climate change. It would leave emergency officials and planners less prepared for extreme weather events, critics said.”

Why beware the ides of March when one is not Caesar?

The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled. A truly extraordinary moment. We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. Act like it.

An honor to talk to Dahlia Lithwick about the policy + legal history of US citizenship & migration. It is horrifying that my book drops as SCOTUS decides the constitutionality of the birthright citizenship stripping EO. What U don't know about this history can shape your support for present law. 1/

Charismatic microfauna report from a cool, sunny morning includes a myriad american robins, two pairs of mourning doves perched in the sunshine, copious unseen members of the chirping choir, & three male northern cardinals — one on a high branch, his vermillion feathers illuminated by the sun. 🪶

Perhaps we’re used to cruelty and competence more than the former on its own.

Fully funded PhD studentship: ‘Recording nature and writing the self: time, entomology and the archive in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries’. Closes 3 May. With Ruth Abbott, Staffan Müller-Wille, Ed Turner & me. @theul.bsky.social @zoologymuseum.bsky.social www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/...

Blue jays sure have loud feelings.

Hi #EarlyModern Bluesky - did you know that someone brilliant has built working printing presses using Lego and they are trying to get enough supporters so that Lego will release it as a kit? They look so cool! beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...

When I leave a ramshackle used bookshop without having acquired any books, I feel like Galadriel. I have passed the test and may now diminish into the west.

Not only did the US, per its own ‘intelligence,’ bomb this girls primary school, THEY BOMBED IT TWICE. www.reutersconnect.com/item/the-pri...

The United States switches to daylight savings time on Sunday. 🕰️ I remember calling time, a phone number that would give you the time at the sound of the beep, to make sure I set my watch and clocks as precisely as I could.

“One of the great weaknesses of our era is we get lone superhero movies that suggest that our big problems are solved by muscly guys in spandex, when actually the world mostly gets changed through collective effort, more like caregiving than it is like war.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/m...

I could get lost in these lush leaves. A bread nut, created by “artist now unknown” (a phrase I like) (1825), from the Yale Center for British Art’s East India Company exhibition

This rhinoceros is marvelous and reminds me of early mod rhino illustrations. Gangaram Chintaman Navgire Tambat, A Rhinoceros in the Peshwa's Menagerie at Poona (1790), held by the Yale Center for British Art

During a class session at the library yesterday, the professor and their students gathered around early modern music partbooks and sang! It was such a joy.

If you care about free and fair election this November, this is the most important story of the day. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...