I had the tremendous pleasure of co-advising Burcu’s diss, which provided the foundation for this ✨ book. Bldg on yrs of ethnographic research, Burcu offers an important + timely cautionary tale abt technosolutionism’s inevitable disappointments + destruction, and the power of community knowledge

Today we are launching a new intitative of Stand With Minnesota—KeepMNHoused.com, a rent-relief campaign backed with a $1.5 matching fund from the Wilson Foundation. Thousands of MN families are at risk of eviction because of the ICE occupation’s lasting impacts. We can keep them housed.

In "Homesick," Nicholas Shapiro examines the US government's distribution of over 120,000 toxic trailers following Hurricane Katrina, their devastating health effects, and the need to create new forms of accountability and change. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/MiN6Otd

The second is that the NWS historically has done a very good job at that forecast contextualization (outreach to local governments, emergency managers, outdoor recreation facilities, etc.). But that's one of the first things to go away when offices are critically understaffed.

Predicting such storms is at the cutting edge of science right now, and the stakes are rising in a warming world in which they are intensifying. Yet this is precisely the kind of research that NOAA/NSF have funded in the U.S. over decades that is at imminent risk of disappearing.

I spent the week talking to UPS Teamsters from around the country about what it’s like to deliver hundreds of packages in a heatwave, in trucks that still aren’t air conditioned, in a country without federal workplace protections for heat newrepublic.com/article/1972...

IF YOU'RE IN LINE TO POST YOUR CUOMO LOSS HOT TAKE, STAY IN LINE

Video captured the moment a road buckled and sent a car flying as a heatwave impacted Missouri on Sunday.

Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event

This is a great explanation, going straight onto my syllabi

The arrest of union leader David Huerta is galvanizing a new element—solidarity: “Right now, just in the last 14 hours, labor unions are joining together from far and wide, communities are reaching out in ways I’ve never seen,” Orr told me. “Something is different.” www.latimes.com/california/s...

I taught close-reading for the first time in awhile recently and I enjoyed seeing how revelatory it felt for some students: a secret language, right under the surface! As Dan writes, "Learning to see what lies hidden before our eyes is part of the magic of close reading."

As wildfires & floods threaten LA, is managed retreat necessary for resilience? #UCLA LCI’s panel ft. @koslov.bsky.social & other experts debate this climate adaptation strategy & equitable alternatives. Watch the recording: innovation.luskin.ucla.edu/2025/04/29/u... #UCLALuskin

"Beyond the absurdity of sending a battalion of riot police to seize a screen consisting of a sheet & 2 poles, the constant & extreme police..presence on campus since last April has made [it] nearly unrecognizable as a university." www.thenation.com/article/soci...

good morning divaaaa!!

Story of my life.

Look at this video: a *huge* crowd of Vermonters swaying alongside Mohsen right after he was freed, singing "We Shall Overcome" Signs reading "Hands off our students" & "free speech" are peppered in between large Palestine flags

I'm working on a paper and I was hit with the realization that there will just be HUGE gaps in the literature (coming out of the US) in a few years. All of this defunding - just no citations from the folks who used to the work. No new work. Lines of inquiry just stopped.

NASA is canceling the lease of its New York City climate science unit that has occupied the same Columbia University-owned building since the 1960s.

If you’re a Barnes & Noble rewards member, you can preorder MAKE YOUR MANUSCRIPT WORK today for 25% off! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/make-your-...

Love to live under a government that asks "are you Jewish?" on forms.

Eliminating due process in order to imprison and deport people based on ethnic background and political views: famously good for Jews

Mahmoud Khalil asked for permission to attend the birth of his child under any conditions. His request was denied within 30 minutes. apnews.com/article/mahm...

NEW: Mahmoud Khalil's wife gave birth to their child without him after ICE denied their request to let him be present. “This was a purposeful decision by ICE to make me, Mahmoud, and our son suffer,” Dr. Abdalla said. “My son and I should not be navigating his first days on earth without Mahmoud."

My PhD student's NSF grant was terminated today. Her dissertation investigates why air pollution monitoring, metrics, and regulations don't properly capture the harms experienced by marginalized communities--esp in the most polluted Detroit neighborhoods. She and I are happy to talk with press etc.

“Deputies are stopping Hispanic drivers for minor, unprovable traffic violations like veering left of center, then handing them over to Border Patrol agents who are sometimes already at the scene.” www.syracuse.com/news/2025/04...

My NSF CS for All grant was just terminated (www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...). Nationwide, we were: • Improving the quantity + quality of K-12 CS teachers • Ensuring the sustainability of K-12 CS teacher prep programs • Ensuring all youth in the U.S. have access to great CS teachers

Can confirm that my NSF grant "How False Beliefs Form & How to Correct Them" was cancelled today because it is "not in alignment with current NSF priorities" Shocking that understanding how people are misled by false information is now a forbidden topic. Our work will continue but at a smaller scale

INBOX: over 50 NYU professors are taking their classes off-campus for the next week in a "Solidarity Picket" to protest "the University’s lack of commitment to protect international students in the face of the Trump admin’s attacks." some profs moved to in-person "sanctuary spaces," others online.

In the biggest move to weaken the power of the Endangered Species Act yet, the Trump administration is proposing a change to how the word "harm" is interpreted. Under the proposed rule, harming habitats wouldn't count as harming species. www.npr.org/2025/04/17/n...

CDNC is a genuinely irreplaceable resource - and one that costs practically nothing. Like Katie, I depended on its archive to write my dissertation, and saw it save endangered newspapers first-hand. It costs 1¢ per Californian to operate. Give your state reps a call! (And consider donating!)

I recently received an e-mail from a Canadian university I'm affiliated with containing 3 lengthy attachments advising that "Canadian university researchers are advised to be extra careful when traveling to US," discussing recommended safety precautions and advice re cancelled collaboration funding.

Teaching kids about climate change is not what causes climate anxiety. *Not doing anything about climate change* is what causes climate anxiety. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/c...

New online: Tenant organizer Chelsea Kirk on mobilizing against rent-gouging in Los Angeles after the fires. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Get this: Commerce is slashing $ to Princeton's world-renowned climate research b/c modeling changes to Earth systems is "contributing to a phenomenon known as 'climate anxiety,' which has increased significantly among America’s youth." No research, no problem! www.commerce.gov/news/press-r...

A “climate justice imaginary” offers a way forward, rooted in everyday concerns, centering solidarity and care, creating free space for an inclusive democratic process, contrasting with the populist imaginary advanced by the proponents of post-political critique. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

this is how I found out the three-year FEMA grant my tiny rural Catskills town only just got awarded to do flood resilience work isn’t paused, it’s been trashed

"Should we do something? It feels like we should do something. Hopefully, I’ll feel more like I can dedicate the brain space to that just as soon as I finish my work, which is tuning this glockenspiel."

If universities can’t protect our students what is even the point? thecrimsonwhite.com/120415/news/...

At least 25 of my pieces. At least some of which are under licenses that prohibit commercial use.