Before anyone gets too carried away: there is no one "right" emotional response, no one emotion is activating for everyone universally, and most people cycle through a whole range of emotions about the climate crisis every month ✌️

The jerseys also say "Ceci n'est pas un maillot" ("This is not a jersey") on the back. Perfect detail.

Just need everyone to know that the Belgium men's soccer team has new jerseys based on the art of Rene Magritte and this is the official photo shoot

I did make it to the nursery where I met this guy, whose hobby is starting fights with dogs

We need ~30 years of data from the AMOC to be able to finally determine if it's actually collapsing. We're at 20 years of data. Removing this now means we can't definitively determine a potential AMOC collapse that could result in substantial climate disruptions. www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

"fuck off"

🔴 URGENT - L'artiste franco-iranienne Marjane Satrapi, autrice de "Persepolis", est morte (entourage)

I’m honoured and delighted to have been selected for the EU’s new AI Act Advisory Forum ec.europa.eu/transparency...

This sheep tried its absolute best to take a good selfie until I came along and ruined everything by photobombing it.

Alors que les résultats de parcoursup tombent, et que certains vont décider d'envoyer leurs enfants faire les études de leur rêve en Belgique, rappelez leur que se moquer de l'accent des Belges dans les études où nous vous accueillons (et qu'en partie nous vous payons) est insupportable

Wonderful photo gallery here www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

A selection of Raúl’s precious advice

roberts and alito have concocted a jurisprudence in which constitutional amendments explicitly ratified to secure the right of black americans to vote now restrain congress from securing the right of black americans to vote.

In honor of Raul Pacheco-Vega passing, you should go read everything he's posted. It's full of good advice on how to be an academic and writing strategies.

"Reparative Craft" by Jason Edwards is the first book to explore Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s work as a textile artist, showing how her art related to her foundational work in queer theory and affect theory. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/UJdWr7H

After a grueling 9 months on the academic job market, I’m thrilled to announce that on July 1, I will start as an Assistant Professor of Law at Harvard Law School! I’m so excited to bring Native American law and legal history to HLS, and I cannot wait to join the incredible faculty there!

Le plus jeune pensionnaire de l'ENS Ulm livre son secret : « Mes deux parents habitent déjà là »

What are your new favourite books in environmental humanities, science and technology studies, and political ecology or any related interdisciplinary intersections?

Civilisation Il y a des années, un étudiant a demandé à l'anthropologue Margaret Mead ce qu'elle pensait être le premier signe de civilisation dans une culture. L'étudiant s'attendait à ce que Mead parle de casseroles en terre cuite ou de moulins de pierre. Mais ce n'était pas...

One of the good ones in our field bsky.app/profile/raul...

Just deeply shocked and saddened to hear about Raúl’s passing. He was an exceptionally generous community builder in the scholarly world. He will be sorely missed.

For decades, Aadam Jacobs recorded live music shows. His collection of over 10,000 shows since 1984 features Nirvana, R.E.M., The Pixies, Björk, Depeche Mode, The Cure, and so many more — and they're now available on the Internet Archive for free. [kottke.org]

An unusual request in the name of archaeological science: Would anyone happen to have a Shetland or Exmoor pony that wouldn’t mind sending some fur samples to me? We’re trying to compare a potentially preserved fur specimen but there’s (perhaps unsurprisingly) few sources on fur fibre diameters!

We used to talk about the University as an "anxiety machine", producing intolerable working conditions (slowness, for example, was a response), but it's really become a "grief machine" and I'm not sure we know what to do with the pain and loss yet.

The Effects of Cheese Making and Dairy Produce on the Status of Women in Farming in the 19th c

A university that does not understand the value of physical libraries staffed with real librarians is a university that does not understand how knowledge is kept.

RIP Sonny Rollins, a great jazz talent and the last surviving musician in one of the best photos of men in suits during the 20th century

Well holy crap. Erin Brockovich (yes, the same one the led the Hinkley, CA toxic groundwater lawsuit in ‘93) launched a website tracking AI data centers across the US and the ecological impacts to the environment and drinking water. MN is riddled with them. www.brockovichdatacenter.com

Hackathon watch: @ec.europa.eu is organising an EU Civic Tech Hackathon late June (22–23). The deadline is June 5. This announcement helpfully doesn't mention a location but I believe it's Brussels? commission.europa.eu/strategy-and...

I know it looks like the steering wheel from a 2008 Subaru, but this is actually a 5000 year old artifact found in a First Dynasty mastaba tomb attributed to a high official named Sabu. It is apparently carved from a single piece of siltstone or slate. And we don't know what it was FOR.

Come spar w/ us in French in Strasbourg, 28-29th May JOURNÉES D’ÉTUDE : CE QUE LE RACISME FAIT AUX SAVOIRS La 3e édition des rencontres "Racisme dans l’Enseignement Supérieur et la Recherche" sont accueillis à Strasbourg les 28 et 29 mai, à l’université au Patio et à la Bnu. bnu.fr/fr/nos-actua...

this! people almost always ask me, especially after my talks, to comment on "something positive about ai"... my brother in christ, everything you hear about ai is nothing but positive. no need for me to add more

We are also releasing a new research primer, "Myths about Generative AI, Productivity, and Labor Displacement", which discusses five common myths around generative AI at work. This primer will be the first of many. labor.dair-institute.org/primers

This is called biofouling. The shipping industry spends *billions* on special paints and coatings to try and reduce it. But many solutions need the ship to be moving so sea life will slide off the coatings before it can flourish. With vessels stuck, that's not happening. www.ft.com/content/28c8...

Solvitur ambulando is my favourite Latin phrase. It means "it is solved by walking". (Info in alt text.)

the fact that israel is straight up raping and torturing flotilla activists from all over the world and it’s not an international crisis it’s not putting a stop to anything, what is going ON

With the ALT @ciel.org

Plus de 9000 palestiniens sont dans les prisons et non pas de billets retour. Nous pensons à eux. Liberté pour Gaza.

On the vague chance anyone is in Oxford today & wants to hear more about my research into archaeological misinformation, deviant archaeology & the far right, I'm giving the Pitt Rivers Museum Research Seminar in Visual, Material & Museum Anthropology in the Lecture Theatre at 12. Discussion after!

Finally, my paper on public responses to Stonehenge in British news is out. "What's the Meaning of Stonehenge?" reveals that archaeological news faces challenges of scepticism & backlash in a post-Brexit, post-pandemic era. Open Access (currently with mistakes in rendering, waiting for T & F to fix)

Don't try this with an iPhone

Thanks to everyone sharing their Plan Bs from humanist celebrant to hibernation! I think we could all launch a chain of coffee/bookshops with an individual side-hustle eg animal shelter: Alt Caf?

Hey do I know anyone who is a regular Wikipedia editor? I need help removing something wildly factually inaccurate from the Black Death article and it is semi - protected.

This is happening in ~3 hours👇🏼 12pm ET/4pm GMT.

Nous n'avons pas de nouvelles de Juliette depuis lundi 18 mai à 9h37. @moirane.bsky.social

The contrast between the number of media requests I got when rich people on a cruise were facing a deadly, but contained outbreak versus now that some of the poorest people in the world are facing a deadly and devastating epidemic is just so so stark and it just really annoys the hell out of me.

I don’t know what to tell you, man. I’m a medieval historian, and, in my field, if you don’t check your sources (and your sources’ sources) you are just asking to be taken for a ride by some bored 19th C. aristocratic English antiquarian with a penchant for inventing history.