on this sunday-est of sundays, syllabus-ing for a new term you're not alone against the oligarch agenda of cognitive deskilling, data capture, surveillance, and bias: we've got assignment ideas, memes, recommended readings, o' captain speeches, syllabus policies, and so much more against-a-i.com

pleased to be included in this very handsome collection. thanks to @andyoler.bsky.social

What a time to decide to learn less about the world. dailytarheel.com/article/univ...

grateful that Sarah Mesle articulated this, in this precise way. Beef & fucking prunes. (from Reasons & Feelings, 2025)

It’s Giving Tuesday. (It’s giving … Tuesday.) I really encourage you to donate to an abortion fund, which make the promise of equality real by allowing women to control their bodies and lives, pursue their dreams, and live with dignity. Find your local fund here: abortionfunds.org

Today I learned that my book, RENDERED OBSOLETE, was reviewed in AHR by @calebwellum.bsky.social. I'm grateful to Caleb for the sharp, generous review, and for all the work he's been doing in energy humanities. Link to review below, or DM me for a PDF! academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...

December 2025 in the Greenhouse! We are winding down for the year with some exciting #envhist #envhum events.

Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...

Thanks to @modamhist.bsky.social for publishing my conversation with @imreszeman.bsky.social, Bob Johnson, Cara Daggett, and Jennifer Wenzel on history and the energy humanities. We hope it is helpful! Check it out here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Today is publication day! EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism is officially out with @wwnorton.com - find it at a bookstore near you or order online💚📚 wwnorton.com/books/978132...

I am really excited to announce the call for the PhD Course in Energy Humanities! Held at the @greenhouseuis.net from 1-5 December. Applications are welcome until 24 October. #envhum #envhist #energyhistory

One month until publication for _Ethanol: A Hemispheric History for the Future of Biofuels_. Tom Rogers and I lay out the linked history of the US and Brazilian ethanol programs and explain why they matter for energy, climate, and politics. Pre-orders available now! www.oupress.com/978080619601...

Luminous, urgent issue of @thedial2024.bsky.social. Thinking this am about Stephanie Foote's challenge to us: "Now is the time for the unglamorous daily work of collective meaning-making, as difficult as that is for universities under threat." muse.jhu.edu/pub/562/arti...

“We have chosen a life of humanistic study, because we believe it will bind us more closely to you, to those who have preceded us, to those who will follow, and to the lands that we rely on.” www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Here's what I'm up to these days. SO EXCITED to write this book and talk about how the history of positive thinking in wellness impacts us all. Grateful for my agent @babedylan.bsky.social and my new editor Maria, who rocks.

Belated announcement of a collection I'm proud to be part of: Biocultural Empire: New Histories of Imperial Lifeworlds, out from Bloomsbury late last year. 1/ www.bloomsbury.com/us/biocultur...

JESUS, MARY, AND JOSEPH! This gave me old Google back! It killed the AI results dead!

For decades, the biomedical industry has relied on a compound in horseshoe crab blood to protect medical equipment from contamination, saving untold human lives. But conservationists say modern medicine’s dependence on this bloodletting is upending a globe-spanning ecosystem.

teachers! excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone. take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE against-a-i.com

Some of the crimes I've seen in Washington DC: — Beige sweater with beige chinos — Jacket sleeve tag left on — Tan shoes with navy suits — Giant Windsor knots (triple felony with the metal sports watch paired with dark suit and French cuffs)

Huge congratulations to the winners of the ASLE book awards: Christina Gerhardt & Debbie Urbanski! I'm so happy that my book, RENDERED OBSOLETE, was given an honorable mention. Especially exciting to be mentioned honorably alongside my colleague, office-neighbor, and friend, Janice Harrington!

Congratulations to our 2025 ASLE Book Award Winners: #ecocritical winner is Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean (Christina Gerhardt) and creative winner is After World (Debbie Urbanski). www.asle.org/stay-informe...

I was excited to find out that my book is available for pre-order! One for anyone interested in energy, climate, and the history of Britain. Thanks to MUP for making it pretty and affordable 🫶 manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182968/

Canvas just became one of the most powerful surveillance, IP theft, & data monetization tools in the world. OpenAI bought a user-base locked in to long-term contracts. But they can’t make us use their trashware. Boycott. Luddify. Open source. Don’t let them have your work or your students.

I have an idea: add a widget that uses AI to simulate the depletion of aquifers used to cool the data centers that run each campus’s Canvas AI! Pedagogical self-reflexivity! Infrastructural literacy!

Updating my lecture slides for American Studies as well as Literature and the Environment with the screenshot. Always taught alongside Charles Hillard’s 2021 painting of the same name iltf.org/wp-content/u...

Several states have adopted shield laws to protect providers of gender affirming care, including from out-of-state actors who want to punish them for treating ban-state residents. Some states cover repro but not GAC. Know your state’s law & advocate for your state leaders to strengthen protections

As a side note for your read, here is a review by Jamie Jones of a cool web project by Katt Kish that illustrated every page of Moby Dick. commonplace.online/article/blog...

Here it is, my 229th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Please add more below, share widely, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ americanstudier.substack.com/p/scholarsun...

@rebwright.bsky.social and @elsadevienne.bsky.social and I would love for any and all of you to join us for a chat on the place of ideas in 20th century US #envhist and more!

Check out the special section of NCFS that Cary Hollingshead-Strick and I co-edited—“Fueling the Nineteenth Century"! It was so great working with all these wonderful authors!🔥🚂⛴️🌲 www.ncfs-journal.org/current-toc

Very happy that my book, Rendered Obsolete: Energy Culture and the Afterlife of U.S. Whaling, has been named a finalist for the 2025 ASLE Book Award. And I'm VERY proud to share the slate with so many other amazing authors. uncpress.org/book/9781469...

"At its heart the Trump Administration is violently divisive, isolationist, and segregationist, and solidarity is our first duty and most profound rejection of that agenda." for this insight, Solnit has been suspended from fb www.meditationsinanemergency.com/some-notes-o...

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Limn's founding editors Christopher Kelty, Andrew Lakoff, and Stephen Collier conclude issue 11 with a reflection on the journal’s origins. Limn 11 - The Obsolescence Issue limn.press/article/is-l...

Happy pub day to @parhee.bsky.social and this SPECTACULAR BOOK, which will totally change the way you think about the history of US environmentalism. Essential reading! Get it at press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

It's my actual pub day! If you want to hear me talk about environmentalism v. environmental justice, Santa Barbara, neighborhood associations, and "Abundance," tune in to my New Books in Environmental Studies episode below! @uchicagopress.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

Some sad confirmation from @bcgl.bsky.social while I was at UW last week—the National Digital Newspaper Program—which builds Chronicling America—has been shut down Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss

Necessary reading from @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social : "The question is not, what do we suffer ...if petromodernity persists? The question is, what do we gain from shutting the pipeline down, from releasing ourselves from oil’s sticky grip?" thecurrentowdm.substack.com/p/bad-attach...

Ok y’all—buckle up for another student book project thread! Yesterday I shared projects from my graduate iSchool course Today I’m sharing from my English course "Building a Better Book"—mostly undergrad but a few grad students I don’t usually teach both courses concurrently but this term I did

thank you so much, @uchicagopress.bsky.social! 😭🙏🌿

Very excited to host this conversation tomorrow: Illinois activists, lawyers, and researchers who were involved in the fight against DAPL reflecting on their experience then, and what kinds of energy justice issues we should be paying attention to now. cas.illinois.edu/node/2943?fb...

Very excited to host this conversation tomorrow: Illinois activists, lawyers, and researchers who were involved in the fight against DAPL reflecting on their experience then, and what kinds of energy justice issues we should be paying attention to now. cas.illinois.edu/node/2943?fb...

Academic senate of the University of Illinois resolves to join the Big 10 mutual defense compact! Proud to have been a co-signer of a great resolution put forward by @gipperfish.bsky.social

"As Angelenos, we should be planning for a future where the success of the ports and the region is not measured by year-over-year growth in goods movement," I wrote in the LA Times two years ago. The volume of trade in the ports here is ecologically unsustainable, + www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Behind the scenes photo of today’s online #envhum book talk with @parhee.bsky.social! We do them from home, squeezed in between work and dinner.

Just a plastic fried egg washed up, nothing to see here. #beachcombing #Anthropocene

We just got an Environmental Humanity. Paging @natewolff.bsky.social @jamieljones.bsky.social