Jared Margulies
@jaredmargulies.bsky.social
Geographer, political ecologist, enthusiastic dilettante, plant pal. Soon to be Londoner. Author of The Cactus Hunters ('23, Minnesota). All the links: https://linktr.ee/jdmargulies
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Today on Edge Effects, we take our first dive into Botanical Imaginations with our Spring 2026 Faculty Favorites! Faculty across academic disciplines recommend plant-y books and poems they're excited to read/teach this semester 🌿 📖
Faculty Favorites: Critical Interventions in the Plant Humanities - Edge Effects
Faculty recommend their favorite books and poems at the intersection of plants and the environmental humanities
edgeeffects.net
February 5, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Today on Edge Effects, we take our first dive into Botanical Imaginations with our Spring 2026 Faculty Favorites! Faculty across academic disciplines recommend plant-y books and poems they're excited to read/teach this semester 🌿 📖
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Unreal
![NEW: @potus letter to @jonasgahrstore links @NobelPrize to Greenland, reiterates threats, and is forwarded by the NSC staff to multiple European ambassadors in Washington. I obtained the text from multiple officials:
Dear Ambassador:
President Trump has asked that the following message, shared with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, be forwarded to your [named head of government/state]
“Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a “right of ownership” anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hbpefio3f5csc44msmbgioxz/bafkreie7itpptx3xbxhpsnlaqmwk752h7pcrion5ija2apksljtax2adx4@jpeg)
January 19, 2026 at 9:49 AM
Unreal
Very horrified to learn an imprisoned UCL student is being denied critical life saving care: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Palestine Action-linked hunger strikers ‘may die without Lammy’s intervention’
Justice secretary criticised for refusing to meet lawyers who say health of their jailed clients is ‘rapidly deteriorating’
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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...
www.lifeisasacredtext.com/moral-kindli...
Moral Kindling
how the Maccabees -and we- ignite in the face of tyranny
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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...
www.lifeisasacredtext.com/moral-kindli...
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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.
December 14, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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.
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The RFK, jr effect.
December 13, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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
Since I walked away from a tenure track job 4 years ago to move to think tank work, A LOT of people have asked me how and why; I tried to consolidate some of that thinking into this interview I did with @mjhaugen.bsky.social for @cplusc.bsky.social 's substack
“How Do You Solve for Impact?”
An interview with Patrick Bigger on leaving academia, strategic research, and scholar activism
climatecommunityinstitute.substack.com
December 13, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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
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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
November 16, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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...
www.proquest.com/docview/3266...
www.proquest.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:37 PM
@georgeholmes.bsky.social wins best new article title: Who Let the Frogs out? Illicit and Unregulated Species Translocations
www.proquest.com/docview/3266...
www.proquest.com/docview/3266...
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🚨 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!
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!
November 3, 2025 at 7:32 AM
🚨 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!
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!
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“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.”
Yale lab reports mass killings in Sudan, calls for student activism
The Humanitarian Research Lab was told this week that over 10,000 people in Sudan were killed within three days.
yaledailynews.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:02 PM
“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.”
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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.
Staghorn and Elkhorn Coral Are Functionally Extinct Off Florida, Researchers Say
Elkhorn and staghorn coral are now functionally extinct around the state, researchers say, meaning they no longer play any significant role in their ecosystem.
nyti.ms
October 23, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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.
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Unexpected but delightful post--my new book arrived in the mail yesterday evening!!!
pre-order from @ugapress.bsky.social
pre-order from @ugapress.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Unexpected but delightful post--my new book arrived in the mail yesterday evening!!!
pre-order from @ugapress.bsky.social
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!
October 22, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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.
"The death penalty is supposed to be reserved for the worst offenders, but the judge sentenced Mr. Boyd to death even though the State’s own evidence showed he was not even the worst of the four co-defendants."
eji.org/news/anthony...
eji.org/news/anthony...
Alabama Plans to Execute Anthony Boyd
Anthony Boyd, 54, is scheduled to be executed on October 23.
eji.org
October 22, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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?
October 22, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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.
October 15, 2025 at 5:27 PM
diane keaton and d'angelo in one week just is too much.
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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
tinyurl.com/bd9utx7y
October 15, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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
tinyurl.com/bd9utx7y
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🎯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.
So on the one hand, the Trump admin is talking about $50 million for polar bears in Greenland. Greenland only, not Svalbard, Canada, Russia, US.
While Repubs want to gut the MMPA that protects polar bears in the US
apnews.com/article/seal...
US intelligence using conservation as an excuse
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While Repubs want to gut the MMPA that protects polar bears in the US
apnews.com/article/seal...
US intelligence using conservation as an excuse
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Trump’s new foreign aid plan eyes $50mn for Greenland’s polar bears, $25mn for Nepal's snow leopards
The Trump administration is considering whether to spend up to $50 million in foreign aid to protect polar bears in Greenland and $25 million for snow...
thepeninsulaqatar.com
October 14, 2025 at 8:49 AM
🎯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.
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It was two OUP books.
October 10, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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/...
pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026/...
October 8, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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/...
pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026/...
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nice
In a first, renewables generate more power than coal globally
In a first, renewables generate more power than coal globally
Solar and wind power aren’t just keeping up with global electricity demand anymore – they’re pulling ahead. According to a new analysis from energy think tank Ember, solar and wind combined outpaced global electricity demand growth in the first half of 2025. That shift led to a drop in both coal and gas generation compared to the same period last year. For the first time ever, renewables generated more power than coal globally.
more…
electrek.co
October 7, 2025 at 3:52 AM
nice
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Zohran Mamdani calling it a genocide on The View and getting applause.
October 1, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Zohran Mamdani calling it a genocide on The View and getting applause.
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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 don't know how to yell any louder.
September 30, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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 don't know how to yell any louder.