Inuit from Alaska and Canada stand with our relatives in Greenland 🇬🇱 Quyana @ayyu210.bsky.social for organizing this video

Something a little different. Some cartoonists put out a call for comics about local ICE experiences. This one happened a few months ago so it's a little older than current events, but it's a story that I never stopped thinking about. #ICEoutcomics

In this love-starved world, we dare to talk about love and author not with our names but with words for love in our native languages. Indebted to @jaredgonet.bsky.social for leading us in reflecting on love in #conservation & renewal of vows to the living Earth thenorthernreview.ca/index.php/nr...

Further datapoints for how Europeans can no longer trust American elites whether or not Trump is in power

For all those involved in drafting so-called AI guidelines, but being overwhelmed with nonsense, this is a lifesaver. Great work by Dagmar and Ariel! Resisting Enchantment and Determinism: How to critically engage with AI university guidelines. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Two protesters have been blinded by so-called “less-lethal” munitions deployed by federal officers during an anti-ICE protest last week in Santa Ana, California.

Just a regular reminder that the ENTIRE premise behind the draconian and militaristic immigration enforcement we have been witnessing the past year is based on an empirically disproven lie. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

Oglala Sioux Tribe demands release of tribal members in ICE custody www.buffalosfire.com/oglala-sioux...

Ecological approach to virus surveillance. 👏 Way overdue.

Who could have predicted that this would be the result of the federal government attacking our own institutions? This is precisely what a government would do if they WANT to pass along global hegemony to China. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...

For non-German speakers: “Dear media, I can’t stand the headline "No agreement between the US and Denmark” any longer. If an armed man storms a bank, you don't run the headline: "Robber and cashier can't reach an agreement on money transfer." Stop framing imperial aggression as normal diplomacy.”

“Improper ideology”

“To this day, grants continue to be ‘realigned’ with administration priorities, a clear form of ideological coercion.”

“Reclaiming academic publishing as a public good requires a return to not-for-profit models & sustainable open-access systems. Quality, accessibility & integrity need to be put ahead of profit. Change is needed to protect the purpose of academic research: to advance knowledge in the public interest”

This is a HUGE win…and one that happened because we ~collectively~ said “NO!” But AAAS coming in and saying on record to the NYT “Science is doing ok. Things are not bad at all…” is baffling. If things are hard for you as a scientist, please share in the comments. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/s...

Important statement from the Civil Servants Coalition: scienceandfreedomalliance.substack.com/p/statement-...

‘The Americans know so little about us, yet talk so much about us’: Greenlanders

The videos coming out of Iran are truly remarkable. Solidarity with the people of Iran. Solidarity with prisoners, victims of torture and human rights abuses, and people who just want bread to eat and clean water to drink.

A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.

We’re withdrawing from the International Law Commission??? This whole list is absolutely insane. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Great opportunity for an open science data archivist in the DC area! I was able to work with this team in 2024 through some contract work, and I highly recommend them. Please share.

“the notion that international relations should promote great-power dominance, not universal values or networks of allies, has spread from Moscow to Washington.” And it will (continue to) be met with resistance.

So clever of US, UK and European universities, with ample encouragement from their governments, to have been closing down Area Studies, History, Languages and Politics & International Relations programmes, so clearly irrelevant to the world in the second half of the 21st century.

Trump is trying to force US oil companies to rebuild Venezuelan oil fields that are too expensive to invest in at current crude prices while a full blown energy revolution is happening with cheap solar and electrification growing exponentially. This is a dying empire shit.

My statement on President Trump’s actions in Venezuela.

A very long and important THREAD - The real reason the US is invading Venezuela goes back to a deal Henry Kissinger made with Saudi Arabia in 1974. And I'm going to explain why this is actually about the SURVIVAL of the US dollar itself. Not drugs. Not terrorism. Not "democracy." 1/

Blows my mind that some of the same journalists who see Trump as a want-to-be dictator at home are earnestly discussing the "challenges" for this same man to "bring democracy" to a country it just illegal invaded. Please grow up.

Link here to the War Powers Resolution Reporting Project, at NYU. 4/4 - warpowers.lawandsecurity.org?fbclid=IwdGR...

“Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate." ― Edward W. Said

a useful starter pack: go.bsky.app/2Fq4P6e

the administration wants to frame this (bizarrely) as law enforcement. but if law enforcement conducted a raid for a suspect and killed 40 people, including an unknown number of unarmed civilians, it would be treated as a clear disaster like Waco.

We can hold compassion for the range of emotions Venezuelans may be experiencing — including positive emotions — and also be clear that regime change by a fascist superpower is dangerous, destabilizing, and sets precedents that will not stop at Venezuela. Those aren’t contradictory positions.

It seems it is once again time for everyone to familiarize themselves with this anti-imperialist classic.

Pro democracy arab intellectuals used to say that there was a difference between the US and Russia or China, because the US at least rhetorically espoused particular ideals. That space between reality and rhetoric could be leveraged, they thought. There's no such delusion today

This is a really useful and cogent discussion of many of the international law issues here (and unsurprising that if anyone can do a Chotiner interview well it's @oonahathaway.bsky.social)

The year is 2003. I’m 17 years old. I’m watching Democrats fail to appropriately oppose an illegal war for oil. The year is 2026. I’m 40 years old. I’m watching Democrats fail to appropriately oppose an illegal war for oil.

From legal, policy and international relations) perspectives, questions about both (i) the capture/extraction/trial of Maduro and (ii) the strikes on Venezuelan forces last night on a "defense of forces" theory *pale* in comparison to the profound questions raised ... [1]

"We're in the oil business" - Trump

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

Just re-upping this, given current developments:

Japanese artist Hiroshi Nagai, famous for his illustration work for City Pop album covers (by extension the “city pop” aesthetic), has had his art used without permission by the official USA Department of Homeland Security Twitter account to promote mass deportations.

As a notorious hoarder of open tabs, here I go with #TabClosed2026. First up, a short paper showing foxes don't strongly avoid human activity when selecting den sites. We drew on it for a grant preproposal (unsuccessful) on fox welfare at our militarized border. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

2025 ended with some #goodnews for #wildlife, including Italy's decision to close down #furfarming - Bravo👏 and congratulations to @humaneworldeurope.bsky.social ! #RealFashionVictims #fur ▶️ www.surgeactivism.org/articles/ita...

The "Szilard Point." When we talk about The strain and the drain on scientific publishing, it's this. Researchers working just to stay afloat, and not on what we actually want them to do: research, discover, innovate. Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820

Call for #multidisciplinary papers for a special series in #EnvironmentalConservation on 'Conservation and Restoration for Healthy Environments and People' in collaboration with the Ecological Health Network Deadline 31.7.26 Find out more in this Editorial: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 🌍 🌐

Jack Smith: “Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power" www.youtube.com/watch?v=lR-b... (8:58)

Sea cow, mouse opossum, spider, snailfish, live-birthing toad: In 2026 let's keep science discovery alive, work towards multispecies protection, and carry out good trouble always! #biology #wildlife #animals #conservation #multispecies #humananimal #HappyNewYear

A natural experiment in a national park in #Patagonia shows how the return of a large predator can reshape an #ecosystem. buff.ly/YxsQgU2 #puma #penguin

You can no longer count on a political thriller to be an escape from our own world