Mapping ICE's un/under-reported detention sites: The official count of immigrants detained by ICE passed 73,000 in January. But in the rush to expand several thousand more are being held each night in sites not include on the agency's public reports. An analysis based on FOIA-supplied data…

"Mal-Nutrition: Maternal Health Science and the Reproduction of Harm" by @eyatesd.bsky.social is #Free2DownloadAndRead published by @ucpress.bsky.social www.luminosoa.org/books/m/10.1... Very excited to read this book, since I love Emily's work!

I read the NYT piece, and I am holding onto the words of a woman who fended off inappropriate advances from a 60-year-old Cesar Chavez at the age of 19. “It makes you rethink in history all those heroes,” Esmeralda Lopez said. “The movement — that’s the hero.”

Dolores Huerta: "I have never identified myself as a victim, but I now understand that I am a survivor — of violence, of sexual abuse, of domineering men who saw me, and other women, as property, or things to control."

We're about a month away from the official release of Mapping Medical Anthropology for the 21st Century, which was an effort made better by so many friends being involved, esp. @eraikhel.bsky.social and Junko Kitanaka, who did so much work to make this volume from @rutgersupress.bsky.social happen.

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Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica. They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick.

For those interested in why Black & Caribbean people are going off about the sugar cane from last night's halftime show: sugar is a plantation commodity that fueled slavery & colonialism bookshop.org/p/books/swee...

Every time this experiment is conducted anywhere in the world it has a similar outcome. Can we move this beyond the trial phase now?

It's finally out! 3 years after its release in French, my book on phage therapy, antibiotic infrastructure, and the possibility of pluribiotic medicine is now available! Thank you to @ColumbiaUP and to Vincent Lepinay, who has welcomed me into his collection! #phage #AMR #capitalocene #phagetherapy

Cal State University’s deal with OpenAI — providing ChatGPT to all faculty, students, and staff — will expire in June 2026. Amid the prospect of layoffs in the CSU, we’re asking the chancellor not to renew this costly and demoralizing contract. Link below and anyone can sign:

Last summer, just before he died, Dan Hirsch spoke at the NRC meeting on EO 14300. You can find that @ 46:00- www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNiq... Later published: thebulletin.org/2025/10/pres... “There is no threshold below which there is no measurable harm. Standards already weak.”

EXCLSUVIE: The Trump administration has secretly rewritten nuclear safety rules and shared them with the companies they're meant to regulate, without making the new rules publicly available. We've obtained a copy of the new rules and here's what we found. www.npr.org/2026/01/28/n...

Me, waking up in -8 degree weather: what fresh horrors does today hold? @npr.org:

Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, commemorating the day in 1945 when the Red Army reached Auschwitz in occupied Poland. Naturally, the Trump administration decided to commemorate the day by doing Holocaust historical revisionism, pretending Anne Frank's family had "legal" status.

"today we remember that freedom is not free. we have to work at it, nurture it, protect it, and even sacrifice for it."

Calling all the PhDs I know to make monumental annoyances of themselves (and honestly, who better)

This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars. ictnews.org/news/north-c...

Had an intriguing editorial discussion recently: how did people in the past talk about 'minutes' when they didn't have watches or standardised times? How does that affect your thinking? Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me. 1/

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

I keep thinking of how “the present” in archaeology is dated from when carbon dating stopped working well because of pollution from atmospheric nuclear tests. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Before_...

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.

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.

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