Thrilled to see this thoughtful and generous review of my book! Thank you so much Mohammad Zahidul Islam for this wonderful review! www.tandfonline.com/eprint/RCGXE...

Why Trump’s Calls to ‘Nationalize’ Voting Have Raised Midterm Fears www.nytimes.com/article/trum...

A Legal Tool for Holding ICE Agents to Account, Hiding in Plain Sight www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

Christ just look at it

As protests against Trump’s brutal crackdown on immigrants grow nationwide, Democrats in Congress are scrambling for a unified response to the violence brazenly displayed by ICE and Border Patrol.

Looking forward to speaking on "Open Access and the Commons: The many faces of scholar-led publishing" on Tues 27 January, 12.30-13.30 GMT HYBRID with in person at @lselibrary.bsky.social. Registration is closing soon, book your place here: bit.ly/4rbzROW #OpenResearch #OpenAccess #ScholarLed

"Fascism sees its salvation in giving these masses not their right, but instead a chance to express themselves"--Walter Benjamin. lareviewofbooks.org/article/trum...

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n... Eep! I totally missed this. Amidst so much horror, a new Winterson :)

This bill – which would let owners of large tracts of rural land get their properties rezoned for commercial development without any local public hearing or vote – will get its first hearing in the Florida Senate on Tuesday.

Must-read #Florida Legislature preview from @jasongarcia.bsky.social - "developer's dream" set of bills & a “Farm Bill” that'd make it easier for U.S. Sugar Corp. and Florida Crystals to sue critics for defamation (SB 290, HB 433). jasongarcia.substack.com/p/a-dream-fo...

U.S. Refiners to Profit as Trump Asserts Control Over Venezuelan Oil www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/b...

Adding more lanes doesn't increase emissions...oy

and so begins new york’s gotham city arc

Duffy’s transport plan (to cut funding for all but motorized traffic Infrastructures) is also fundamentally unAmerican— foreclosing freedom of choice, endangering families and children, and destroying local businesses by cutting off foot traffic. Message your representatives and stop this bullshit.

Bike advocacy is a shared effort, and we’re thankful to each one of you who keep the movement rolling forward. Get inspired by five meaningful ways you can make a difference for biking in our latest blog! bikeleague.org/giving-back-...

Climate modelling work (e.g. GeoMIP) suggests that SRM geoengineering could work as a temporary/emergency way to cool the climate. This certainly does not justify large-scale implementation at this stage. However, open research on SRM needs to be encouraged, not driven underground.

Explaining Ebikelash @misernyc.bsky.social @nyc.streetsblog.org @streetopia.bsky.social @warrenjwells.bsky.social soundcloud.com/biketalk/254...

12/12/25 is the last day people can order Bike Talk books from Bookshop with Standard Shipping to have them arrive on time to put under the tree. biketalk.org

open.substack.com/pub/thecurre... thanks @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social for another crystal clear indictment of their bullshit

As with many days in 2025, this day began in horror. May the light of the menorah bring a brighter new year 💖 (and the artist who brought you wahoo gefilte fish has created yellowtail snapper latkes 🎣🕎)

‘Train Dreams’ Review: Life, Understood in Reverse www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/m... Watched this gorgeous film last night.

Bike Rights and a queer, feminist, fantastical bicycle Halloween stories anthology just in time for Christmas @microcosm.bsky.social soundcloud.com/biketalk/254...

Revisiting Ganzeer today and reminded of the revolutionary potential of the humble bicycle.

I am endlessly grateful to my amazing colleagues for this extraordinary opportunity. I’ll be taking a sabbatical leave for the first time in my life in the fall of 2026; and I have also been awarded funding so that I might participate in the biannual Petrocultures conference in Dresden 🌈🌈🌈🌈

Thanks to @modamhist.bsky.social for publishing my conversation with @imreszeman.bsky.social, Bob Johnson, Cara Daggett, and Jennifer Wenzel on history and the energy humanities. We hope it is helpful! Check it out here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Another testament to the burden of coercive automobility!

"Leaning into bikes, transit, and safe streets signals a candidates concern for health, quality of life, financial responsibility, climate, and often joy. And, I think it's a winning strategy." Our board president, @lauragmitchell.com, sharing her thoughts on bikes during the election on Bike Talk.

Beautiful and timely memoir as I lick my wounds. ❤️

Spring course in Literature and the Environment!!! Please share with your students! This course satisfies the Category 1 requirement for the English major; and it is also one of the two core requirements for our new undergraduate minor in Environment and Society. Join me!!

Wrapping up Let This Radicalize You with my book group tonight. This book has been a wonderful guide, and I have some of the final lines taped over my desk: "How will you practice and cultivate hope today?" "You are not needed everywhere, but we are all needed somewhere."

ecozona.eu Thrilled to see my new essay on Gabriel Ojeda Sagué's exquisite poem "Losing Miami" featured in the new issue of Ecozon@! I am particularly elated to have been able to cite my dear friends @devingarofalo.bsky.social and @jdelagv.bsky.social who helped to make this crazy swamp my home ❤️

call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/11/... Forthcoming conference on the cultures of waste--check it out!

In 2019, Anthony Harkins and Meredith McCarroll published “Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy” in which dozens of authors and creative artists presented a retort to the shadow Hillbilly Elegy has cast over the region Snag a copy today at WVU's Mountaineer Week Craft Fair

my partner's reading @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social! I will read it afterwards

A new book looks at the destructive 20th-century urban development style — freeways, downtown office towers, suburban housing developments — that keeps Americans so dependent on their cars.

youtu.be/vTgr3qTk-aU I had the privilege to join this UNESCO series—offering a talk on UN Sustainability Goal #7/Energy.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWSM... "Bike lanes, you want a new way to die?" Everyone hates cyclists, because we represent a threat to fossil hegemony. But we won :)

I LOVE YOU JERZY!!!! Pretty homesick right about now 🥰