jayson m porter
@roguechieftan.bsky.social
environmental historian and writer, & asst. prof @UMaryland: Environmental justice histories, food systems, agrochemicals, & racial ecologies in Mexico & the Americas. @nacla @PlantPerspectives
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Mule Power
Unpacking empires and diaspora in Mexico and the United States.
www.sciencehistory.org
“Horses come with speed, social status, and occasionally courage. Still, their strides are too long and inconsistent to carry strenuous weight in extreme conditions. For that, empires needed mules.”
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Looking forward to it!
I’m so happy to host Beronda L. Montgomery in DC and College Park Feb 2-3!! When Trees Testify comes out in January 2026 and you can see her talk at both Howard (Feb 2) and University of Maryland, College Park (Feb 3). See you there!
December 21, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Looking forward to it!
New book alert: A Global History of the Sweet Potato by Q. Edward Wang. I’m excited to teach this book in the spring in my Plants & Diaspora seminar on Black and Indigenous Environmental Histories in the Americas. I focus on seven plants but have some time for others, too!
December 21, 2025 at 7:11 PM
New book alert: A Global History of the Sweet Potato by Q. Edward Wang. I’m excited to teach this book in the spring in my Plants & Diaspora seminar on Black and Indigenous Environmental Histories in the Americas. I focus on seven plants but have some time for others, too!
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When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy by Beronda L. Montgomery, featuring leaves, cotton plants, fruit on a black background
I’m so happy to host Beronda L. Montgomery in DC and College Park Feb 2-3!! When Trees Testify comes out in January 2026 and you can see her talk at both Howard (Feb 2) and University of Maryland, College Park (Feb 3). See you there!
December 20, 2025 at 3:27 PM
When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy by Beronda L. Montgomery, featuring leaves, cotton plants, fruit on a black background
I’m so happy to host Beronda L. Montgomery in DC and College Park Feb 2-3!! When Trees Testify comes out in January 2026 and you can see her talk at both Howard (Feb 2) and University of Maryland, College Park (Feb 3). See you there!
December 20, 2025 at 1:55 PM
I’m so happy to host Beronda L. Montgomery in DC and College Park Feb 2-3!! When Trees Testify comes out in January 2026 and you can see her talk at both Howard (Feb 2) and University of Maryland, College Park (Feb 3). See you there!
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Did you know we have a video series featuring interviews with D.C. natives?
Watch the latest — with entrepreneur Michelle "Noodles" Smith, who owns Cookie Wear on Upshur Street NW: www.instagram.com/p/DScnp-aDih_/
Watch the latest — with entrepreneur Michelle "Noodles" Smith, who owns Cookie Wear on Upshur Street NW: www.instagram.com/p/DScnp-aDih_/
December 19, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Did you know we have a video series featuring interviews with D.C. natives?
Watch the latest — with entrepreneur Michelle "Noodles" Smith, who owns Cookie Wear on Upshur Street NW: www.instagram.com/p/DScnp-aDih_/
Watch the latest — with entrepreneur Michelle "Noodles" Smith, who owns Cookie Wear on Upshur Street NW: www.instagram.com/p/DScnp-aDih_/
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My new book is now available for pre-order from UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social! Use code 01SOCIAL30 at checkout to save 30%. uncpress.org/978146969362...
Spirits of Empire
The Declaration of Independence depicted Native Americans as bloodthirsty savages, and from its founding the United States aimed to expand westward by seizin...
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December 16, 2025 at 2:22 AM
My new book is now available for pre-order from UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social! Use code 01SOCIAL30 at checkout to save 30%. uncpress.org/978146969362...
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Job opening in #histsci #philsci at Wageningen University: Asst. Prof. of Philosophy of Life Sciences, in a group led by Rachel Ankeny. Deadline Jan 12!
www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/a...
www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/a...
Assistant Professor in Philosophy of the Life Sciences
Are you seeking a challenging role in a nurturing and collegial setting that supports rigorous philosophical teaching and research as well as opportunities for productive collaborations with social an...
www.wur.nl
December 19, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Job opening in #histsci #philsci at Wageningen University: Asst. Prof. of Philosophy of Life Sciences, in a group led by Rachel Ankeny. Deadline Jan 12!
www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/a...
www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/a...
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We are exactly six weeks out from the release of my new book "When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy". I'm so excited to share this work.
If you haven't already done so, please pre-order & look out for book evens.
Link in bio or at berondamontgomery.com.
If you haven't already done so, please pre-order & look out for book evens.
Link in bio or at berondamontgomery.com.
December 9, 2025 at 7:17 PM
We are exactly six weeks out from the release of my new book "When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy". I'm so excited to share this work.
If you haven't already done so, please pre-order & look out for book evens.
Link in bio or at berondamontgomery.com.
If you haven't already done so, please pre-order & look out for book evens.
Link in bio or at berondamontgomery.com.
Now that I'm teaching full-time, I really need to designate a day without any work-related meetings. It's already hard to get in a writing or thinking rhythm on teaching days. I just need a day to think, breathe, and write.
December 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Now that I'm teaching full-time, I really need to designate a day without any work-related meetings. It's already hard to get in a writing or thinking rhythm on teaching days. I just need a day to think, breathe, and write.
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The Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at King's College London is now on Bluesky! You can follow us at @kingschostm.bsky.social
And more information is on our website here: www.kingschostm.com
And more information is on our website here: www.kingschostm.com
HIstory of Science | King's CHoSTM | United Kingdom
The Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHoSTM) at King's College London.
www.kingschostm.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:25 PM
The Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at King's College London is now on Bluesky! You can follow us at @kingschostm.bsky.social
And more information is on our website here: www.kingschostm.com
And more information is on our website here: www.kingschostm.com
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Leaders of a Catholic church in Massachusetts kept a Nativity display with an anti-ICE message in place on Monday, defying an order from the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston to remove it. The display shows Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus missing, replaced by a sign reading “ICE WAS HERE.” trib.al/adPW46y
December 9, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Leaders of a Catholic church in Massachusetts kept a Nativity display with an anti-ICE message in place on Monday, defying an order from the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston to remove it. The display shows Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus missing, replaced by a sign reading “ICE WAS HERE.” trib.al/adPW46y
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"Quilen Blackwell, owner of a Chicago nonprofit that employs at-risk youth to turn vacant lots into flower farms, has won CNN’s Hero of the Year Award."
chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/12...
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South Side flower shop owner named CNN's Hero of the Year
Quilen Blackwell says he will use the $100,000 prize to expand his nonprofit Chicago Eco House, which grows flowers on previously vacant South and West side lots, and Southside Blooms, an Englewood fl...
chicago.suntimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:10 AM
"Quilen Blackwell, owner of a Chicago nonprofit that employs at-risk youth to turn vacant lots into flower farms, has won CNN’s Hero of the Year Award."
chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/12...
chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/12...
Grateful to @bunkhistory.bsky.social for highlighting my essay "Mule Power" with @sciencehistory.org!!
www.bunkhistory.org/resources/mu...
www.bunkhistory.org/resources/mu...
Mule Power
Unpacking empires and diaspora in Mexico and the United States.
www.bunkhistory.org
December 5, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Grateful to @bunkhistory.bsky.social for highlighting my essay "Mule Power" with @sciencehistory.org!!
www.bunkhistory.org/resources/mu...
www.bunkhistory.org/resources/mu...
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Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.
December 1, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.
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Interested or know someone interested in doing a PhD on environmental histories/materialities of zoonotic or infectious animal disease as part of Transformative Humanities @durham.ac.uk Then please get in touch by Dec 8th! @pollenetwork.bsky.social @emilywebz.bsky.social @rgs-agwg.bsky.social
December 1, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Interested or know someone interested in doing a PhD on environmental histories/materialities of zoonotic or infectious animal disease as part of Transformative Humanities @durham.ac.uk Then please get in touch by Dec 8th! @pollenetwork.bsky.social @emilywebz.bsky.social @rgs-agwg.bsky.social
I can read two things in my grad students' writing: they respect themselves and they respect me, too.
December 1, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I can read two things in my grad students' writing: they respect themselves and they respect me, too.
Not me randomly seeing research on agrochemicals in Latin America on my trip to London
November 30, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Not me randomly seeing research on agrochemicals in Latin America on my trip to London
I have no black men mentors, and I’m finally not sad about it. Just angry and bummed to see how black men with influence move. I don’t want that for myself.
November 26, 2025 at 2:09 AM
I have no black men mentors, and I’m finally not sad about it. Just angry and bummed to see how black men with influence move. I don’t want that for myself.
Hey y’all! Where should I go to in Southeast London for fun and food? We’re hoping for something Black—Caribbean or West African. Tomorrow is our last full day in London.
November 24, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Hey y’all! Where should I go to in Southeast London for fun and food? We’re hoping for something Black—Caribbean or West African. Tomorrow is our last full day in London.
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Season 7 launches 🔥 by reflecting on "What Zohran Can Learn from Latin America's Pink Tide" - with some insightful analyses on the challenges for the Zohran administration , and what leftist-governed cities in Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil +Ecuador have to teach us open.spotify.com/episode/75Oo...
What Zohran can learn from Latin America's Pink Tide
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November 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Season 7 launches 🔥 by reflecting on "What Zohran Can Learn from Latin America's Pink Tide" - with some insightful analyses on the challenges for the Zohran administration , and what leftist-governed cities in Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil +Ecuador have to teach us open.spotify.com/episode/75Oo...
"...in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.” Rachel Carson
November 10, 2025 at 9:35 PM
"...in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.” Rachel Carson
If coal tar is the elemental "mother of organic chemistry," what is elemental mother of inorganic chemistry? Arsenic?
November 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
If coal tar is the elemental "mother of organic chemistry," what is elemental mother of inorganic chemistry? Arsenic?
Writing thoughts: nominalizations can become stories by asking who, what, when, where, & why? Nominalizations are verbs masquerading as nouns. Take modernization. Where & when: the word modernization was coined in rural Mexico after the Mexican Revolution. But why? Who & what was modernizing & how?
November 8, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Writing thoughts: nominalizations can become stories by asking who, what, when, where, & why? Nominalizations are verbs masquerading as nouns. Take modernization. Where & when: the word modernization was coined in rural Mexico after the Mexican Revolution. But why? Who & what was modernizing & how?
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I'm opening up a Black & Indigenous environmental art gallery
@umterps.bsky.social to help students navigate climate anxiety & other stresses that come with learning about environmental injustice & environmental racism. Please consider donating & coming to our fundraiser @framebridge.bsky.social!
@umterps.bsky.social to help students navigate climate anxiety & other stresses that come with learning about environmental injustice & environmental racism. Please consider donating & coming to our fundraiser @framebridge.bsky.social!
November 8, 2025 at 7:37 PM