I’m thrilled to be part of a new special issue of Leviathan on “Melville’s Queer Afterlives,” co-edited by the wonderful Jordan Alexander Stein, Dana Seitler, and Adam Fales. I got to write about pirates!

Leviathan 26.3 is now online @projectmuse.bsky.social! "Melville's queer afterlives" special issue collects case studies that highlight the range of queer Melvilleana and in the process contribute to an understanding of the aesthetic shape assumed by queer creative impulses. muse.jhu.edu/issue/56015

my @newyorker.com column this week goes in depth on how using AI makes us less original, unique, and creative as writers, thinkers, and communicators. Various new studies are proving that AI is a rampant force of homogenization: www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...

the Melville Society conference in Mystic Seaport this past week was pure magic. many of us slept on an 1882 sail ship that’s docked at Mystic Seaport Museum & then we wandered around UConn Avery Point campus in the days. so many good people, so much good whale-talk…I’ll be dreaming about it forever

Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

One of our new and exciting titles out this May is "Ice Geographies" by Jen Rose Smith @sprucehen.bsky.social . #EnvironmentalStudies #Geography buff.ly/BWX6cDK

The SINAA Agreement provides $270 million for long-term, Indigenous-led conservation in the Qikiqtani region of Nunavut: nunatsiaq.com/stories/arti... SINAA is an Inuktitut word that means “the floe edge," where the land fast ice meets the open water.

Steve Fobister Sr. fought for the health of his community until his last breath. The former chief of Grassy Narrows First Nation in Ontario died of mercury poisoning in 2018. Now, a mercury care home being built in his community will be named after him.

Supportive academics & community members! Please sign this Google Docs letter b4 March 10. Written by Chris Andersen, Dean Faculty of Native Studies UAlberta & Rob Innes, Chair, Indigenous Studies, McMaster U. in support of #Indigenous Studies at #York U, which administrators propose cutting.

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#envhum hive: I'm organizing a proposed session for MLA 2026 in Toronto, Literature and Taxonomy, that will examine the oppositions & alliances between literary studies and the science of taxonomy. all time periods & subfields welcome! deadline March 23. please share widely!

Google, Microsoft, and Meta's increasing use of data centers has resulted in increased air pollution from extensive fossil fuel energy consumption and associated public health costs related to treating cancers, asthma, and other similar issues, valued at over $5.4 billion in the past five years.

If you're working with phone banks and making calls on your own, Tribal Colleges/Universities could use your support. 2 of our oldest & only federally charted universities are in crisis due to EO 14210 and the hiring freezes, impacting thousands of Native students. collegefund.org/blog/support...

We're hiring at the @digblk.bsky.social! Hiring a "Data Scientist" (very broadly defined) to collaborate on the @ccp-org.bsky.social, @douglassday.bsky.social & emerging work on Black archives & AI. Can be remote! Info: bit.ly/cbdr-ds We're reviewing apps this month. Help us spread the word?

a perfectly-timed launch of a new exhibit at Penn State Special Collections that recognizes the modes of resistance in print archives of queer and trans makers and activists. my favorite: a book from the Queer Ecology Hanky Project with the cutest little gay hedgehogs and capybaras you’ll ever see

(1/4) Recent layoffs of federal workers has a disproportionate impact on Native Americans, but is receiving almost no media attention. In Indian Health Services, which provides healthcare to 2.8 mil NAs, 2,200 people were laid off, including 1,400 who provide direct patient care.

“Some experts suspect the virus is moving into farms on the wind — in dust contaminated with infectious bird droppings. This infectious dust might also explain several of the 67 recent human cases with no known route of exposure.” www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

a couple weeks ago I pushed myself to start incorporating a personal writing practice back into my life (after losing all desire to write for fun during the years of grad coursework) and it has actually completely reenergized my relationship to academic writing too

98% of NIH grants that should have gone out this month, didn't. Despite court orders 'unfreezing' the funds, they are frozen. Biomedical research will grind to a halt. Clinical trials will end. All for no reason: the total impact on the US budget is miniscule

for anyone else who has been waking up with anxious jitters every day the past few weeks and is finding it increasingly difficult to calm down: let me introduce you to the Cornell Bird Lab @cornellbirdcams.bsky.social albatross live cam

NEH has posted updates to the funding restrictions for some grant programs.

we’re doing this Bluesky thing! my name is Grace and I am from Newfoundland but I am living in Pennsylvania right now, getting my PhD in English! I like riding my bike and reading about nineteenth-century oceanography. here are pictures of my cat Poe, places I’ve biked, and me with some seaweed