Unreal

Very horrified to learn an imprisoned UCL student is being denied critical life saving care: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Nobody ever talks about the Midrash of Hannah in the story of Chanukkah- Brilliant drash from @theradr.bsky.social especially attuned to our very challenging times, and may the memory of all those lives unjustly taken in Sydney be a blessing. www.lifeisasacredtext.com/moral-kindli...

It's so great when universities are like 'We're going all in on AI' but they never talk about anything specific. It's all just vague language about innovation and the power and magic of tech. They might as well be making calls for going all in on alchemy.

The RFK, jr effect.

Going to share this fantastic interview between @pmbigger.bsky.social and @mjhaugen.bsky.social with so many folks- extremely valuable for students thinking about how to best make change and life outside academia

Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon

@georgeholmes.bsky.social wins best new article title: Who Let the Frogs out? Illicit and Unregulated Species Translocations www.proquest.com/docview/3266...

🚨 We are looking for 3 new colleagues to join the GreenFrontier team as Postdoctoral Researchers! Deadline for applications: 25 Nov 2025 Each of the 3 openings will involve extended ethnographic fieldwork + plenty of opportunities to consolidate research & leadership skills! Please share widely!

“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”

After a searing ocean heat wave in 2023, two of the most historically important coral species in Florida are functionally extinct from the state’s reef, scientists have found.

Unexpected but delightful post--my new book arrived in the mail yesterday evening!!! pre-order from @ugapress.bsky.social

Amidst more dire news about the destruction of US higher ed in real time, this is as good a time as any to share with folks that this is my last semester as an academic in the US - I am starting 2026 as a member of the Geography department at UCL. Fam and I moving to London in a matter of months!

Alabama under Kay Ivey has been ratcheting up executions at a terrifying rate over the last five years or so. Just horrifying.

Why Brett Stephens embarrasses Jews like me, example 589: Perhaps Brett you are frightened because you are an ignorant Islamophobe?

diane keaton and d'angelo in one week just is too much.

another example of Geopolitical Ecology of Conservation, now in the Arctic. To understand how national security interests shape conservation assistance, just like this, take a peak at this article w @jaredmargulies.bsky.social that seeks to understand that very relationship tinyurl.com/bd9utx7y

🎯from @petercorkeron.bsky.social conservation efforts have long been a Trojan horse for US strategic/military interests. Now the WH is saying it out loud.

It was two OUP books.

The #POLLEN2026 prelim program looks amazing! With that in mind, John Casellas Connors and I are going to be looking for paper submissions for our accepted session "Critical engagements in necropolitical ecologies" -check it out! pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026/...

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Zohran Mamdani calling it a genocide on The View and getting applause.

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality. I don't know how to yell any louder.

I love a donkey as much as the next person (actually, a great deal more, I dreamed as a child of going on a great journey with a donkey as my trusted comrade) but I still don't understand why people in the UK seem really obsessed with donkeys and why they always appear to be in need of saving?

"The Spanish government approves a “total” arms embargo on Israel, part of a package of measures aimed at halting what Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez called “the genocide in Gaza.”" www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

ICYMI: New online! The value of political ecology in biodiversity conservation

I love game days in the SEC. Hardware store midday Saturday is as busy as midnight on a Tuesday 😂

Any group of people more despicable than a university board of regents? Y’all… the thing that just destroyed your reputation was the country watching your university president buckle to mere hours of pressure after the complaint of a single student. Just pathetic. Solidarity to my TAMU colleagues.

I wish this could have been an interactive conversation because its a wonderful group of folks, but nevertheless I enjoyed taking some time to reflect on questions related to the value of political ecology for biodiversity conservation with @brambuscher.bsky.social and others rdcu.be/eEKqA

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

Yet another example of ruthless targeting by Israeli gvt #ecocide #genocide #FreePalestine

Your good news article of the day in a bleak mediascape- TL;DR- give the land back to the tribes. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/s...

I just learned that the UK doesn't know about or have access to Duke's Mayo and this is extremely concerning to me for... reasons.

So at this point Netanyahu is really just following the third reich’s playbook. When the Nazi Madagascar Plan fell apart, they just opted for total annihilation. Hard to imagine what Bibi is planning next when the world doesn’t get on board with Plan South Sudan. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/w...

1/ Happy to share that my article “Beyond Homecoming: The Reintroduction of Seven Przewalski’s Mares in the Gobi Desert” has been published in Environmental Humanities. It is the story of seven mares flown from Australian zoos to Mongolia’s Gobi Desert in the 1990s doi.org/10.1215/2201... #envhist

Sure this looks bad when you put it like this, but some college kids in America waved signs that frightened me so it is complicated.

1/ 📄New paper! Alison Hutchinson @georgeiorda.bsky.social Teresa Lappe-Osthege & myself have developed a new harms-based #PoliticalEcology as a way of understanding the #WildlifeTrade published in @jpoliticalecology.bsky.social ⬇️ beastlybusiness.org/2025/07/23/n...

Solar power is now California's largest source of electricity. ☀️🔌💡

GOP Budget Bill Would Make ICE "Largest Federal Law Enforcement Agency in the History of the Nation"

It’s amazing how fast they can build a concentration camp: “Alligator Alcatraz”— but they can’t manage to fix a levee, fund a hospital, or get clean water to poor communities.

Huge increases in ICE spending provides the fuel for Trump to fulfill his promise to go after cities run by Democrats, to do what he has done to LA, with less need to rely on the military. The new funding allows Trump to create a Department of Domestic Military Enforcement.

This is going to be great. Please spread the word.

Important news for the #envhist crowd: We are hiring an Associate Professor of Environmental History! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... Application deadline is August 7. Some tips for those interested from abroad in thread 👇

You can get The Cactus Hunters plus many other wonderful titles from @uminnpress.bsky.social for ten bucks a pop until July 1 if you buy 3+ titles. www.upress.umn.edu/special-sale...

MAMDANI!

Preorder now!! Ghosts Behind Glass: Encountering Extinction in Museums Coming out with @uchicagopress.bsky.social in October 2025. Only $20 in paperback for a full color book with 80 pictures of dead things. It’s beautiful! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...