more essential reading from Farhana Saltana rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/SFR7BV...

Life is a Sacred Text - Truth, transformation, & collective liberation; ancient stories serve as mirrors & lights. www.lifeisasacredtext.com

For New Global Forest Pledges to Succeed, They Must Center Forest Communities www.wri.org/insights/glo...

The tribunal's message came as it released its genocide verdict following four days of public hearings in Istanbul.

The Gaza Tribunal has reached a decision. youtu.be/W31igjmtSyI?...

rights of nature f.mtr.cool/hbqlwiftfc

Knowledge Connects Our Hearts and Lands: A Qualitative Research Study on Stewarding Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledges for Community Well-Being by Danya Carroll, Desiree J. Edwards, Ramon Riley andNicole Redvers www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/22...

A student told her professor “President Trump’s laws state that there are two genders,” and that the lesson was “illegal” for contradicting that. It’s not. Executive orders are not laws. Compliance with authoritarianism will not protect universities. Either we stand up for our missions or we fall.

Another day, another dystopian headline. “Federal data shows wind turbines cause significantly fewer bird deaths than buildings, cats or oil pits. The Audubon Society says that climate change poses a bigger threat to birds than wind power.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/c...

Good episode. youtu.be/O8fzp927_wo?...

academic freedom under an authoritarian government www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/m...

Move along, nothing to see here 🤨 www.securityincontext.org/posts/hegemo...

Letter in the local paper today. Apparently we are all wrong 🤔 www.grandforksherald.com/opinion/lett...

Here is a statement by my colleague Katherine Franke about the end of her time teaching at Columbia. Please read it. drive.google.com/file/d/1i4cO...

Climate Change: It's real. It's us. It's serious - and already dangerous. But there are solutions. The science is clear: the faster we cut emissions, the less suffering we will cause, and the better off we'll all be.

temporary neighbor

neighbor napping in the morning sun after a long night of hunting

Our culture of individualism, at all costs! Interdependence is for weaklings! Is horrific for many things, incl this. We’ve lost even the most basic concept of elders as a source of wisdom, ffs. That capitalist fetish for the new! Valorizes youth & is terrified of any reminders of mortality…

So, I'm trying something here. In full transparency, if you're wondering, are there spicier texts under the cut? The answer is absolutely, entirely yes.

Just stumbled on this Anti-Slavery Constitutional Amendment Picture, ca. 1865. Thought today was a great day to share an image of white men abolishing slavery arranged in a shape Georgia O'Keefe would recognize. Happy 4th! Burn the white supremacist heteropatriarchy! npg.si.edu/object/npg_N...

“But in my nearly forty years as a faculty member, I have never seen such brazen cruelty toward students and faculty, such cowardice before what amounts to a right-wing witch hunt, and such blatant dishonesty.”

can I ❤️ this post twice!

Today's the Vernal Equinox, technically the first day of spring: but across much of the Northern Hemisphere, warm weather is arriving and plants are blooming earlier and earlier each year. This year, some US states saw spring arrive more than 2 weeks earlier than normal. Read more:

So yeah. What if we started from the theorem that everyone's humanity, safety, liberation matters, everyone who lives in the region deserves to flourish and thrive? If we started there, instead of FIGHTING OVER CAKE, where could we get to? It's the only path. Ever. Morally and practically.

(And yes, repentance and repair work, obviously. But bottom line emergency work is getting everyone SAFE and coming up with a path forward that secures everyone's LIBERATION and FUTURE.)

And instead of playing the "who was here first" "no but who was REALLY here first" game (working out great as it is) perhaps we can all acknowledge that 11 million people in a region have no other home RIGHT NOW and ALL OF THEM deserve to be safe and free and to thrive, and let's worry about THAT.

Over 900 Penn faculty warn of 'hostile takeover' by trustees, donors in response to Marc Rowan letter

Our beautiful film is now live on the @nytimes.com OpDoc website 😍🐸. Please watch and share. 🧪🌎 www.nytimes.com/2023/12/12/o...

One unexpected thing in my qualitative study w natural scientists (one-hour interviews) is how deeply, deeply sad the climate scientists are. They say things like "you have enough information from us, why won't anyone act?" -- the psychological distress these people are enduring is very great.

This is exactly what prompted me to spend most of the last ten years on figuring out why our information isn’t enough. Now I write, speak, and give talks on how we can calayze the change we need! For example www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... and

“Human rights should, can, and do apply to all humans” is not and should not be a radical statement. The amount of effort that some people go to try to obscure this basic concept is truly wild.

The US gov is fully in favor of asking the industry whose pipes have been leaking oil and gas into our water and soil for decades to build out a whole nationwide network of pipelines for compressed CO2, which can kill people if leaked. As a “climate solution”…but really it’s a fossil fuel lifeline

They want you taking extreme positions. The path to Palestinian freedom and peace for everyone requires seeing everyone’s humanity. That’s the way out. That’s the only way through.

I think you can absolutely publish results of anticolonial research in Nature. In fact, it’s what a lot of us are working towards— bringing the highest ethics & standards into the mainstream even (and especially!!) when it’s a rough fit.

great Why Trust Science talk from @naomioreskes.bsky.social at VCSU in ND tonight. I watched the livestream and assigned 3 classes to watch to. Hope to have some good feedback on it from students (Env Studies, grad seminar on science and policy, grad Research Design).

Insane flooding across NYC - streets, buses, even the LGA terminal are underwater - just one week after #ClimateWeekNYC. The science is clear: this is climate change loading the weather dice against us, making extreme rainfall more frequent and more dangerous.

Whatever our choices and options, though, it’s essential to recognize that the biggest way to cut your carbon footprint is NOT the most important thing you can do to fight climate change. We need societal change; and for that, our voice is the most powerful force we have.