#UMich researcher @brandonmarcfinn.bsky.social#UMich& colleagues mapped 20 years of data at Ghana’s Agbogbloshie e-waste site and found a tight link between rapid urban growth and rising PM2.5 from open burning. The team calls for safer, more sustainable recycling pathways. myumi.ch/NrDmP #Science

Finally, a shred of courage from one of our higher education institutions

Massive encroachment by Bezos into The Washington Post’s opinion section - makes clear dissenting views will not be published I still have not felt encroachment on my journalism on the news side, but if Bezos tries interfering with the news side I will be quitting immediately and letting you know

It is way too early for so many to have given up, especially if you have big safety nets or smaller targets on your back. I know this is hard. This is be a good time to learn from long-time organizers. Because there are two ways through this: either we learn some new skills or we become complicit.

Critical Sociology compiled Michael Burawoy's articles and allowed free access. I hope other journals will do the same. journals.sagepub.com/page/crs/vir...

Exciting to see my work translated and published in French! theconversation.com/rdc-lhistoir... Based on this piece: Lubumbashi and cobalt: African city at the crossroads of global decarbonization and neocolonialism doi.org/10.1016/j.ci... @theconversation.com @africa.theconversation.com

Thanks for the coverage of our work @theconversation.com @africa.theconversation.com DRC: history is repeating itself in Lubumbashi as the world scrambles for minerals to go green #DRC #cobalt #copper #decarbonization #colonialism #neocolonialism

Happy to have coverage of our recent article, featured in @theconversation.com DRC: history is repeating itself in Lubumbashi as the world scrambles for minerals to go green theconversation.com/drc-history-...

The new steel tariffs are going to turbocharge the role of minerals into this new geopolitical era

“It maps almost too neatly to his acquisition of Twitter in 2022: Get rid of most of the workforce. Install loyalists. Rip up safeguards. Remake in your own image… This is the way of the startup.” @wired.com

So long, Twitter. Hopefully this is the place to expose and fight the totalitarian turn of the US government into academia and our everyday lives?