Looking forward to 2026, I wrote about the war we refuse to see and the enemy we hide #WarAndPeace #HumanExceptionalism #BoundedPolitics #Scapegoat @anthonyburke.bsky.social @flusterbird.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/pulse/2026-t...

doi.org/10.1177/2043... New article for Microbial Childhood projects @isilova.bsky.social @riikkahohti.bsky.social @flusterbird.bsky.social @gronroos.bsky.social @criticalchildhood.bsky.social @cssmicrobes.bsky.social @clpn.bsky.social @microbesinfo.bsky.social

Received funding to continue our project - koneensaatio.fi/en/grants-an... Thank you @koneensaatio.fi @journalces.bsky.social @isilova.bsky.social @flusterbird.bsky.social @cssmicrobes.bsky.social @hostmicrobelit.bsky.social @microbesinfo.bsky.social @clpn.bsky.social

Don't use AI. The gift that keeps on giving.

Part 96 of historically interesting things “Death blowing bubbles,” one of the several depictions of death created by Johann Georg Leinberger between 1729 and 1731 for the ceiling of the Holy Grave Chapel in Michaelsberg Abbey in Bamberg, Germany. The bubbles are symbols of the fragility of life

Today's Low Quality Ad is for this Isopod Appreciation Society pin. Please repost this if you appreciate isopods. These little crustaceans deserve our support. If you do not repost, the rest of us will assume you are an isopod hater, and you will immediately be blocked. collabs.shop/uzcpvr

As the Trump Administration slides further and further into authoritarianism, it becomes increasingly clear Australia needs to escape the disastrous AUKUS deal. Two-thirds of Australians support a Parliamentary Inquiry into AUKUS. Add your name to the call. ✍️⤵️ #auspol

Let's let AUKUS die and invest in public health. apple.news/AzCalAuzuQOu...

My new report is out - Adani sold coal at mates rates to India, avoiding $400m in royalty payments to Queensland ...and Qld's LNP gov doesn't seem to care. Thread below on how they did it. Write up in @australia.theguardian.com @australiainstitute.org.au www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I looked at the potential financial implications for colleges if they sign Trump’s compact.

@phoebegilpin.bsky.social @childhoodjourn.bsky.social @criticalchildhood.bsky.social @journalces.bsky.social @clpn.bsky.social @suomenkuvalehti.fi @tampereurban.bsky.social @naturebased.bsky.social @poisedrg.bsky.social @naturebased.bsky.social @flusterbird.bsky.social @isilova.bsky.social

banksy knows. abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

This is an excellent program and MIT Press are delightful to work with! mitpress.mit.edu/mit-press-ex...

@microbesinfo.bsky.social @cssmicrobes.bsky.social @tampereupress.bsky.social @tampereurban.bsky.social @flusterbird.bsky.social @phoebegilpin.bsky.social @childhoodjourn.bsky.social @journalces.bsky.social @clpn.bsky.social @criticalchildhood.bsky.social @poisedrg.bsky.social

It’s the very least they can do www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

Ozzy Osbourne meets Paul McCartney for the first time, 2001.

Dear academics: please just create some more slides in your presentation. Yes, you. There's no rule for the maximum slide amount. Go nuts. It's okay. #conference #slides #academicbluesky

It was a pleasure to host @anthonyburke.bsky.social from UNSW Canberra for a book talk of his latest book, The Ecology Politic (MIT Press), co-authored with @flusterbird.bsky.social, presenting bold reimagining of political life on a damaged planet. Open access here: direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...

University policy has been broken for 40 years. ‘Our policymakers must be brave enough to argue that education is unequivocally and intrinsically a public good, vital to the interests of the nation, and therefore worth funding properly.’ www.afr.com/policy/healt...

Thousands of people are homeless and 91 millionaires paid *nothing* in tax in Australia. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

Planetary Politics RT at #BISA2025 is packed, in teeny weenie room. Problematising of concepts of ownership, epistemology, 'dehumanisation' and so much more. This discussion is proving a smasher! With @flusterbird @anthonyburke‬ @ckweatherill @cameronharrington ‬ @hannahhughes @bisa-ecpwg

Late stage capitalism is the worst. You are complicit and miserable at the same time.

El Eternauta has acquired near-mythic status in Argentina since it was first published in 1957.

Breaking News: A federal judge ordered President Trump to relinquish control of the California National Guard, saying he improperly deployed troops to protests. Follow live updates. https://trib.al/93rjnZV

Ideology is expensive.

Yikes. Yikes. There’s a Kierkegaard quote about a clown announcing the end of the world and the audience applauds and thinks it’s a joke.

Here a short blog sumarising a chapter that Emma Hutchison and I wrote and that has now come out: “Humanitarian Photography” in Allbeson (ed) Picturing Peace (Bloomsbury 2024). This has been in the making since 2018 but we hope it remains relevant. www.rolandbleiker.com/blog/humanit...

Prochlorococcus, a marine bacterium that is only 0.5–0.7 micrometers wide, produces more oxygen than all tropical rainforests combined. Every tiny organism plays a key role in our planet's health. On #WorldOceanDay, see how UNEP works to #SaveOurOcean: bit.ly/3Qk34aI

Octopuses are smart, sentient creatures that have no business cooped up on commercial farms. I’m glad to reintroduce the OCTOPUS Act with Senator Lisa Murkowski, a bipartisan bill to ban this practice and keep octopus wild in our oceans 🐙

DOPAMINE, a bold, all-volunteer project led by @michelletea.bsky.social‬, is putting unabashedly queer writing in print. In a time of rising erasure, DOPAMINE seeks to give these voices space to unfurl with brutal honesty, touching tenderness, and comedy: mitpress.mit.edu/pride-2025-w...

There are many interesting things in Sun Ra's reading list from his 1971 course at Berkeley; one I'd like to read is 'Black fire: an anthology of African-Americans writing' (1968).

"...the Qld government is no longer in line with scientific research." Drum lines & beach nets are cruel, proven ineffective, & kill many marine species; research shows they do not improve human safety. #Science #MarineScience #research

The Ecology Politic is available to download thanks to MIT Press’ Direct to Open Initiative. Thanks, @mitpress.bsky.social, for all your support. 📚💙💚 Link below ⬇️

Our book „Ecologies of Disease Control“ is out! With contributions from @hannahlandecker.bsky.social, @engelmal.bsky.social, @ulibeisel.bsky.social, Ann Kelly, Clare Herrick, Susan Jones, Henning Füller and many more. upittpress.org/books/978082...

The least of our worries, alas.

Here it is, finally. The truth. In a landmark #greenwashing legal case brought by @parentsforclimate.bsky.social, #EnergyAustralia has publicly acknowledged that offsets do not undo the harms of burning fossil fuels & apologised to more than 400,000 customers of its carbon #offsetting product

Thanks for the shout out!

Those deaths are on Trump, Musk, and DOGE.

Pedro Pascal at #Cannes: "I want people to be safe and protected". Be more Pedro and less Donaldy... #ImmigrantsMakeCountriesGreat #RefugeesWelcome.

typical corrupt science

Wes Craven's analysis of America from this interview he did in 1988 feels like it could have been from yesterday

RIP, Ed, you steely-eyed missile man real heroes use duct tape

My latest on “The New Artificial Intelligentsia,” part of the Legacies of Eugenics series in the Los Angeles Review of Books. Thanks to all who read + share! lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

This is a great (paid) opportunity for First Nations writers and emerging critics (in Australia) who're interested in writing & publishing art/book reviews. I was a mentor last year, and look forward to mentoring someone this year. #mobsky www.indailysa.com.au/inreview/men...

‘Fossil fuel companies and their shareholders and owners of superyachts and private jets should have to pay into a fund for flood defences and home insulation’ www.theguardian.com/politics/202...