My collaborator/artist-extraordinaire Mizin Shin & I have curated an exhibit at UR about bird-window collisions that explores what it means to live amidst the slow violence of architectural glass. Details below + a sneak peek @ my contribution, a “weird” field guide. www.sageart.center/frontispace

My collaborator/artist-extraordinaire Mizin Shin & I have curated an exhibit at UR about bird-window collisions that explores what it means to live amidst the slow violence of architectural glass. Details below + a sneak peek @ my contribution, a “weird” field guide. www.sageart.center/frontispace

Read @chloeahmann.bsky.social & Zeynep Oguz’s intro to a collection on ecofascism: “We must tend to the mundane ways” ecofascism “organizes the everyday, normalizing the commonsense that some lives are environmental goods while others pose existential threats”. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Finishing a syllabus for a class on environmental and/or climate and/or disaster justice? Check out The Syllabus for resources! We are adding more readings and databases every day! Open and free to everyone! www.just-environments.org/the-syllabus

my first full youtube video is out now - all about critique! i hope you find it useful and i would greatly appreciate you sharing it to help me kick off my new YT channel. thank you! #art #design #critique youtu.be/Fdos0yeGs1Y

We’re so back 🤘

Yesterday, I expanded and relaunched our bird-window collision initiative as Smash the Crash ROC, beginning with a formal building monitoring study of downtown Rochester. In just 1 day, we’ve already documented 4 fatalities. To learn how you can help, go to www.smashthecrashROC.com.

In our July newsletter: From @timothyaschuler.bsky.social: Hantz Woodlands in Detroit offers an example of what we lose when private gain trumps public interest. And @slaydok.bsky.social talks w/ @pauldobraszczyk.bsky.social & Joyce Hwang about designing for and with animals. + more Places news!

“We have a responsibility to think about a future where we’re not centered; there’s an optimism in that. Human beings are irresponsible. If I think about us controlling everything in the future, that feels sad.” —Joyce Hwang IN CONVERSATION w/ @slaydok.bsky.social & @pauldobraszczyk.bsky.social:

As part of our In Conversation series, anthropologist @slaydok.bsky.social spoke with architecture writer @pauldobraszczyk.bsky.social & practitioner/researcher Joyce Hwang about their visions for a discipline that regards nonhuman animals as subjects of human design — and sometimes vice versa. 🦊

My conversation with @pauldobraszczyk.bsky.social and Joyce Hwang about animal architecture is now out in @placesjournal.bsky.social! Always a pleasure to chat with these two 🤩

I'm launching a site ft. undergrad research from my course Animal Cities. These projects tell stories of Rochester's animals, from the rare Seneca white deer, an accident of US militarism, and bird-banding to the horses that used to power the city. Please share! www.richardfadok.com/theanimalcity/

I'm launching a site ft. undergrad research from my course Animal Cities. These projects tell stories of Rochester's animals, from the rare Seneca white deer, an accident of US militarism, and bird-banding to the horses that used to power the city. Please share! www.richardfadok.com/theanimalcity/

I'm excited to share good news: I'll be starting as an assistant professor of anthropology at @rittigers.bsky.social in the fall. What a privilege to be able to think about how we design in the Anthropocene at a university dedicated to socially conscious and environmentally sustainable technology.

What an amazing event! Thank you, @laurajmartin.bsky.social, for organizing!

Happening today!

Free arts workshop tomorrow at UR from 1-4 PM in the Rettner Hall atrium! Soft sculpture and prints of birds, plus a Q&A afterwards with the artists. Message me for details. No registration or prior experience is required.

BUFFALO, NY: We are mobilizing to protest the arrest and detention of a group of UFW farm worker leaders we believe are being held at the Batavia ICE detention center. We believe targeting known union supporters in the name of immigration “enforcement” is an outrage. These workers must be released.

And that’s a wrap(tor)

Mizin Shin and I installed our exhibition on bird-safe design this week. Over the past semester, students in her class Expanded Print Media created artworks that could deter bird-window collisions if printed onto windows. Scale models are on display in the hallway gallery of Rush Rhees Library.

Happening today! Come to Braddock Bay Park to meet some raptors and learn about collisions.

When I say I have that dog in me, this is what I mean.

Holly Greenberg and Mizin Shin will be running an eco-art workshop on Monday, May 5th, from 1-4 PM at the U of R. Come make bird art and learn about window collisions and how to prevent them. It's open to everyone in the Rochester area (and beyond). After the workshop, I'll moderate a public Q&A.

U Rochester Ph.D. Student Workers Strike for an Election Without the NLRB The institution backed out of plans to host a vote and suggested graduate workers pursue the federally-controlled process instead. That’s risky in the Trump era. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4476S6y

Rochester, N.Y. — Monroe County is one step closer to potentially installing automatic license plate readers throughout the area 13wham.com/news/local/m...

🦅 Rochester friends 🦅: I'll be giving a talk on bird-window collisions at Braddock Bay Raptor Research's Birds of Prey Days event this Saturday. I'm on at 3 PM. It will be held at the Braddock Bay Park. Registration: www.bbrr.org/events/smash... Full Schedule: www.bbrr.org/bird-of-prey...

Solidarity with all colleagues in the US, defending #anthropology !!! 3-5 PM ET, May 6, 2025 Join @americananthro.bsky.social here: my.americananthro.org/NC__Event?id... #AAATownHall #JoinTheConversation #AnthropologyMatters #DefendAnthropology #AcademicFreedom #AAAEvents #HigherEdCrisis

Well, UMN has officially been hit. We just got an email from our president that an international grad student was detained yesterday. No further details provided. This. Is. Crushing.

Frankly, the Trump Whitehouse deserves a different logo. Here's one more in keeping with their ideology.

This is one of the largest attacks on labor in American history, this is a break-glass moment:

Law firms and universities will really be like "you did property damage? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, nonviolent resistence" and then not nonviolently resist

ICE has abducted an Iranian mechanical engineering doctoral student at the University of Alabama. thecrimsonwhite.com/120415/news/...

My colleague Rashid Khalidi: "We are approaching the status of Chilean universities under Pinochet, where on the orders of an authoritarian government, ideas and books were banned, students were expelled and arrested, departments were taken over & faculty fired." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I went to the Second Look show yesterday at Hartnett Gallery to see Mizin Shin’s How Things Are Consumed: a 2-piece room-sized woodcut installation & photogravure collage. Corn ties nature to society, rural to urban, plant to people, and, through cut outs that resemble seeds, one artwork to another.

Our next Corner Society (and the last one of the season!) is on April 16! Please join us (in person or online) to hear Brynne McBryde speak about her brilliant work on photographic manipulation in medical journals. Wednesday, April 16, 5:30 pm, Rochester Academy of Medicine or online.

Some squirrels afoot outside my window as I Zoomed into the AAG meeting this AM. Timur Hammond and I co-organized “Ecologies of Plural Architectures,” a play on Benham’s survey of LA, w/ papers on collisions (ofc), ailanthus in Istanbul, @zuhrijames.bsky.social on Thamesmead’s rewilding, and more!

I've seen very little coverage of this EO, likely because it was buried on a Friday night, but this is actual Police State Stuff, folks.

My good friend and creative extraordinaire Claire Webb is looking for an editor and researcher to work with her on the Future Humans project at the Berggruen Institute. More details are here:

What an embarrassment. What a betrayal to colleagues and students.

DOGE laid off 10,000 postal workers today. Farewell to the US Postal Service – more than 10,000 employees will be laid off following the agreement signed with DOGE unionrayo.com/en/usps-job-...

Letter signed by members of the Columbia History Department urging resistance to the Trump Administration's efforts to dictate university policy. "Should this control be realized, here or elsewhere, it would make any real historical scholarship, teaching, and intellectual community impossible."

So a wannabe DOGEr at Brown Univ from the conservative student paper took the univ org chart and ran it through an AI aglo to determine which jobs were "BS" in his estimation and then emailed those employees/admins asking them what tasks they do and to justify their jobs. bloat.brownspectator.com

Yesterday was the first day of the fourth and final meeting of the Multispecies Constitution Project at the Berggruen Institute. Even in better times, a constitution for the more-than-human would be more-than-aspirational, but being in this community has been emboldening, an emotional salve.

Grace Kim-Butler & Amy Johnson run a traveling Sense and Speculation workshop that explores how scientific imagination is shaped by the material culture and bodily habits of laboratory practice. Check out the prompts on their site. My favorite had participants lying under their fume hoods 🧪🔬🛏️🥱

In "Feminism in the Wild," animal behavior scientist @ambikamath.bsky.social and feminist science studies scholar Melina Packer reveal how scientists studying animal behavior have long projected human norms and values onto animals while seeking to understand them: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204963...

Our paper is out, and it is distressing. Rapid butterfly declines across the United States during the 21st century | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

When I was in Syracuse the other week, I visited George Kallander to talk about the animal studies working group we are organizing together through the Central New York Humanities Corridor. He gave me a copy of his new book on the role of animals in 14/15C Korean statecraft. I can’t wait to read it!

And here are two mockups that Mizin made to show what they’ll look like on the Sage Art Center. One group explored the notion of ecosystem scale; and the other, human impacts on the nonhuman world.

In Mizin Shin’s “Expanded Print Media” course, her students are designing bird-safe window films that will be installed across the art center building. Last night they shared some of their concept drawings. Here are 3 (of 12). The negative space will be filled with a simple dot pattern.

Attention all architects, landscape architects, and designers: W/the ACSA's embrace of Trump and its obliteration of its own flagship journal, we are calling on all colleagues to sign this letter of support, share it widely, and boycott that disgusting organization. docs.google.com/document/d/1...