Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar, writer, musician Gabriela Leandro Pereira, Prof Architecture at Federal U. of Bahia V. Mitch McEwen, Atelier Office; Princeton School of Architecture Laleh Khalili, Prof of Gulf Studies, U. of Exeter Nov 18 @dukepress.bsky.social

Stumbled upon this essay on “The War on Weeds” by Laura Martin today and just wow- every single line is so good. www.noemamag.com/the-war-on-w...

If you’re in a constant state of “Bari Weiss, CBS, Joe Rogan, WTF??” We’ve got you! @maggiemertens.bsky.social and Sarah Stuteville discuss building a sane news diet (follow people, not brands), supporting community-rooted media, and turning doom into doing. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

HAPPENING NOW: Judge Karin Immergut hears emergency arguments as California and Oregon seek to block President Trump's deployment of federalized California National Guard troops to Portland. 🧵

“When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day's work is all I can permit myself to contemplate.” ― John Steinbeck #WritingSky #AcademicSky

The thing regular people don’t often grasp about ‘academic freedom’ is that if you don’t allow experts to research & teach in their fields of expertise, guided by their professional judgment & decades of training, you have effectively given up on the concept of knowledge & shut down your university

p.s. My essay on the Wounded Knee massacre can be found here (open access!): www.jstor.org/stable/10.25...

Sandra Harding’s legacy: A force of nature who built Tapuya in dialogue, reshaping STS through standpoint theory, decolonial friendship, and fierce care for Latin American voices. 🕯️doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2025.2536961 #Obituary #SandraHarding #STS #TapuyaLASTS @tapuya.org

Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.

ICYMT: Ms. Magazine has a timely article on anti-abortion violence coming out in the print magazine laterthis month. It appears in four parts online: msmagazine.com/2025/09/16/a... msmagazine.com/2025/09/17/g... msmagazine.com/2025/09/18/r... msmagazine.com/2025/09/19/a...

#HPS program at the University of Copenhagen invites applications for Postdoc in History and Philosophy of Science as part of research project Human Variables in Biodiversity Assessment (PI: Joeri Witteveen): employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho... #philsky #PhilJobs #philsci Deadline is November 7, 2025.

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

New paper on the intersections of ethnobiology and degrowth: two ways of understanding our place in the world through action-oriented, imaginative research into socioecological relationships. doi.org/10.1177/0278...

It is also redundant because no other place in the US but the university tolerates "difficult speakers" to the extent that universities do.

a detail that appears with fairly regular occurrence in many personal accounts of the Nazi regime is how many individuals died from stroke, heart attacks, and similar health complications because of the stress and despondency that was inflicted on those whose lives were ruined by the regime.

In this editorial, we've taken the opportunity of being 3 years in - amidst the "flow or tide" of submissions - to ask how the field's energies are being distributed, + reflect on the concepts and theories that are so central to new STS work that they almost form a canon or infrastructure...

I'd like to commend the lawyers who wrote this complaint on behalf of the professors and employees of the University of California against the Trump administration. It's a sober legal document with strong claims, but also, this is a fight for public opinion, and this reads like the writers know it.

This fall brings not just one but two exhibitions about Ursula and her work. In Portland, A Larger Reality: Ursula K. Le Guin opens October 31st at Oregon Contemporary. In London, The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin opens October 10th at the AA Gallery.

Unconstitutional and worrisome news reported first by student journalists “One campus graduate student…claimed the release targeted Muslim and Arab individuals who had previously expressed support for Palestine.”

In our new issue, @maximepolleri.bsky.social‬ explains the contentious politics of Japan's ongoing recovery from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.

Why Josephine County Library (OR) was evicted from their long-time library space over $1. It has nothing to do with money. It has to do with far-right politics and deep hatred for the library's inclusive ethos. bookriot.com/josephine-co...

A “response” to their Supreme Court issuing a ruling after due process. It isn’t enough that have destroyed the integrity of our Supreme Court. Now they arrogate to themselves the power to demand that the high court in other nations subvert the rule of law as well. This is insane.

Ursula K. LeGuin on technology

Check out my interview with @blackagendareport.bsky.social, where I got to describe my @ucpress.bsky.social book, connect it to what’s currently happening in college sports, and pitch the idea of un-learning the “football team as family” and “student-athlete” narratives

Nice!! I share @raulpachecovega.bsky.social writing resources with all my grad and undergrad writing classes, just posted links for this term myself

We're enjoying selling books and meeting authors at #4S2025. Here's @vivvychoi.bsky.social with her new book "Disaster Nationalism." Come by and see us!

In Seattle for @4sweb.bsky.social? Come celebrate our books with us at The Pine Box (1600 Melrose Ave). Thursday, September 4th, 7 to 11 PM. Find us in the Bruce Lee Beer Garden! 📖 🎉 🍰 #4S2025 #AnthroSky #STSSky @carceralecologies.bsky.social @vivvychoi.bsky.social

In Seattle for @4sweb.bsky.social? Come celebrate our books with us at The Pine Box (1600 Melrose Ave). Thursday, September 4th, 7 to 11 PM. Find us in the Bruce Lee Beer Garden! 📖 🎉 🍰 #4S2025 #AnthroSky #STSSky @carceralecologies.bsky.social @vivvychoi.bsky.social

I wrote about surviving school shootings for @sapiens.org back in 2019 and although some changes in the Dickey Amendment followed, the point about the broad effects of gun violence is the same. www.sapiens.org/biology/gun-...

In Portland, Trump’s ICE lobbed so many toxic chemicals at demonstrators, a nearby school was forced to decamp to another neighborhood. “There were chemicals being used on a regular basis and munitions being found on our playground,” the school's executive director said. trib.al/GjaK4ut

Those of us who are in a position to write against the times we are in are grateful to the outlets willing to publish our work. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The big question: where does the contamination come from? The answer really fucking matters

A massive attack on several humanities units (Arabic Studies, Judaic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, Religion, German & Scandinavian, Russian/East European/Eurasian Studies) *and* tenure now unfolding at the University of Oregon (a blue state!). Closure of units and faculty layoffs threatened.

Promoting the idea that higher education is antiquated & failing is a win for corporations bc (1) it gives them a product to sell-ed tech-that will supposedly fix our broken teaching and (2) it deflects attention away from the real problem which is systemic assaults by corporate America on workers.

“I would be particularly glad to be in on any kind of group talking about Kiddilit (Invite Alan Garner!!)… Indeed I will talk with almost anybody about almost anything, except, please, do not have a panel called "Women in SF"? I will be on one called "Men in SF" if you like…”

Ugh, this is a terrible argument (university classroom speech = govt speech) but states regularly argue it, mostly w/o success in prior cases. For background (and my own views on why the argument is wrong), check out my essay, The Govt Speech Doctrine Goes to School: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

The assumption here is that this ag produces food and spares land, but in a food regime intent on growing capital, these factory-inspired farms expand monocultures while not providing more food for hungry human consumption

“The order to assassinate Anas Al Sharif, one of Gaza’s bravest journalists, and his colleagues, is a desperate attempt to silence the voices exposing the impending seizure and occupation of Gaza.” They killed the ENTIRE Al Jazeera team. On purpose. No collateral damage in genocide

"WHAT PEOPLE NEED IS RESOURCES TO DO THE WORK THAT THEY ALREADY DO" Yes I'm shouting because this is exactly it

RIP French sociologist and STS Big Name, Michel Callon. A collaborator of Bruno Latour on Actor-Network Theory, and among other things, theorist of science+democracy, including technical democracy & hybrid forums in « Agir dans un monde incertain » (Acting in an Uncertain World).

🔴 NEW: Loch Long on the Clyde has been contaminated by radioactive waste from the UK’s nuclear bomb store where old water pipes have repeatedly burst and caused floods, files released after a six-year secrecy battle reveal. Our investigation: theferret.scot/radio...

Fun announcement: I'll be running a Possible Futures workshop in-person in Seattle in a month! Details are in the event link. Space is VERY limited so go snag a seat now (they're free)! I would love to meet y'all and make art with you :) www.eventbrite.com/e/dair-prese...

#4S in Seattle is only a few weeks away and I will be joining a brilliant group of people for one of the threaded keynotes. Ours is on Political Water 💧🧊🌊🚰🐠 There will be opportunities for online conversation, hope some of you can join! @4sweb.bsky.social www.4sonline.org/plenary_keyn...

This is incredible

Recent research, co-led by Black women researchers and conducted specifically with Black women residents, found that 80% of Black women in this neighborhood live in high-risk soil contamination zones, with 80% of those residents reporting chronic health conditions. capitalbnews.org/houston-blac...

The Disability Research Interest Group of SMA is pleased to announce this year’s Disability Anthropology Essay Prize competition. Submissions are due September 1! More info here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Predictable, but no less shocking or reprehensible: Trump just signed an executive order urging states to forcibly institutionalize homeless people, defund Housing First, criminalize encampments, and cut aid to cities that don't comply.