Stacey Balkan
@sbalkan5.bsky.social
public university professor in Florida (views my own) | energy humanist | bike warrior | lover of pups| WVU press author | www.staceybalkan.com
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Stacey Balkan
@sbalkan5.bsky.social
· Sep 1
‘Bicycling in Paradise: On Radical Cadence and Just Futures in the End Times’ is officially under contract, and I am over the moon! (continuing to take any and all recs for bike lit 💖🚴♀️🌈) @bikesky.social
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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...
“Energy Humanities and American History” | Modern American History | Cambridge Core
“Energy Humanities and American History”
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November 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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...
Another testament to the burden of coercive automobility!
November 22, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Another testament to the burden of coercive automobility!
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"Leaning into bikes, transit, and safe streets signals a candidates concern for health, quality of life, financial responsibility, climate, and often joy. And, I think it's a winning strategy."
Our board president, @lauragmitchell.com, sharing her thoughts on bikes during the election on Bike Talk.
Our board president, @lauragmitchell.com, sharing her thoughts on bikes during the election on Bike Talk.
Bikes Win @nyc.streetsblog.org @transalt.org @bikeleague.org @ourstreetsmn.org @lauragmitchell.com @revborfo.bsky.social soundcloud.com/biketalk/254...
#2545 Bikes Win
Email: Reese, a listener, says we shouldn’t assume conservatives don’t listen to Bike Talk, like Nick said in the previous episode. We all agree: biking embodies values everybody can and should get be
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November 21, 2025 at 6:59 PM
"Leaning into bikes, transit, and safe streets signals a candidates concern for health, quality of life, financial responsibility, climate, and often joy. And, I think it's a winning strategy."
Our board president, @lauragmitchell.com, sharing her thoughts on bikes during the election on Bike Talk.
Our board president, @lauragmitchell.com, sharing her thoughts on bikes during the election on Bike Talk.
Beautiful and timely memoir as I lick my wounds. ❤️
November 22, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Beautiful and timely memoir as I lick my wounds. ❤️
Spring course in Literature and the Environment!!! Please share with your students! This course satisfies the Category 1 requirement for the English major; and it is also one of the two core requirements for our new undergraduate minor in Environment and Society. Join me!!
November 19, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Spring course in Literature and the Environment!!! Please share with your students! This course satisfies the Category 1 requirement for the English major; and it is also one of the two core requirements for our new undergraduate minor in Environment and Society. Join me!!
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Wrapping up Let This Radicalize You with my book group tonight. This book has been a wonderful guide, and I have some of the final lines taped over my desk:
"How will you practice and cultivate hope today?"
"You are not needed everywhere, but we are all needed somewhere."
"How will you practice and cultivate hope today?"
"You are not needed everywhere, but we are all needed somewhere."
November 14, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Wrapping up Let This Radicalize You with my book group tonight. This book has been a wonderful guide, and I have some of the final lines taped over my desk:
"How will you practice and cultivate hope today?"
"You are not needed everywhere, but we are all needed somewhere."
"How will you practice and cultivate hope today?"
"You are not needed everywhere, but we are all needed somewhere."
ecozona.eu
Thrilled to see my new essay on Gabriel Ojeda Sagué's exquisite poem "Losing Miami" featured in the new issue of Ecozon@! I am particularly elated to have been able to cite my dear friends @devingarofalo.bsky.social and @jdelagv.bsky.social who helped to make this crazy swamp my home ❤️
Thrilled to see my new essay on Gabriel Ojeda Sagué's exquisite poem "Losing Miami" featured in the new issue of Ecozon@! I am particularly elated to have been able to cite my dear friends @devingarofalo.bsky.social and @jdelagv.bsky.social who helped to make this crazy swamp my home ❤️
Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment
Journal of Literature, Culture and the Environment
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November 11, 2025 at 5:39 PM
ecozona.eu
Thrilled to see my new essay on Gabriel Ojeda Sagué's exquisite poem "Losing Miami" featured in the new issue of Ecozon@! I am particularly elated to have been able to cite my dear friends @devingarofalo.bsky.social and @jdelagv.bsky.social who helped to make this crazy swamp my home ❤️
Thrilled to see my new essay on Gabriel Ojeda Sagué's exquisite poem "Losing Miami" featured in the new issue of Ecozon@! I am particularly elated to have been able to cite my dear friends @devingarofalo.bsky.social and @jdelagv.bsky.social who helped to make this crazy swamp my home ❤️
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/11/...
Forthcoming conference on the cultures of waste--check it out!
Forthcoming conference on the cultures of waste--check it out!
cfp | call for papers
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November 11, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Forthcoming conference on the cultures of waste--check it out!
Forthcoming conference on the cultures of waste--check it out!
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In 2019, Anthony Harkins and Meredith McCarroll published “Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy” in which dozens of authors and creative artists presented a retort to the shadow Hillbilly Elegy has cast over the region
Snag a copy today at WVU's Mountaineer Week Craft Fair
Snag a copy today at WVU's Mountaineer Week Craft Fair
November 8, 2025 at 3:22 PM
In 2019, Anthony Harkins and Meredith McCarroll published “Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy” in which dozens of authors and creative artists presented a retort to the shadow Hillbilly Elegy has cast over the region
Snag a copy today at WVU's Mountaineer Week Craft Fair
Snag a copy today at WVU's Mountaineer Week Craft Fair
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November 8, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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A new book looks at the destructive 20th-century urban development style — freeways, downtown office towers, suburban housing developments — that keeps Americans so dependent on their cars.
Book Excerpt Special: The Incomplete Freeway Revolt - Streetsblog New York City
A new book looks at the destructive 20th-century urban development style — freeways, downtown office towers, suburban housing developments — that keeps Americans so dependent on their cars. Here's an…
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November 8, 2025 at 9:23 PM
A new book looks at the destructive 20th-century urban development style — freeways, downtown office towers, suburban housing developments — that keeps Americans so dependent on their cars.
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I had the privilege to join this UNESCO series—offering a talk on UN Sustainability Goal #7/Energy.
I had the privilege to join this UNESCO series—offering a talk on UN Sustainability Goal #7/Energy.
Stacey Balkan | 09 The Literature of Sustainability: Reading writing and the SDGs | 08 August 2025
YouTube video by UNESCO Chair- Vulnerability Studies
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November 8, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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I had the privilege to join this UNESCO series—offering a talk on UN Sustainability Goal #7/Energy.
I had the privilege to join this UNESCO series—offering a talk on UN Sustainability Goal #7/Energy.
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"Bike lanes, you want a new way to die?" Everyone hates cyclists, because we represent a threat to fossil hegemony. But we won :)
"Bike lanes, you want a new way to die?" Everyone hates cyclists, because we represent a threat to fossil hegemony. But we won :)
NYC Mayoral Debate Cold Open - SNL
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live
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November 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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"Bike lanes, you want a new way to die?" Everyone hates cyclists, because we represent a threat to fossil hegemony. But we won :)
"Bike lanes, you want a new way to die?" Everyone hates cyclists, because we represent a threat to fossil hegemony. But we won :)
I LOVE YOU JERZY!!!! Pretty homesick right about now 🥰
November 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I LOVE YOU JERZY!!!! Pretty homesick right about now 🥰
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Thanks to the @theinvadingsea.bsky.social for sharing my thoughts on local cycling infrastructure!
Thanks to the @theinvadingsea.bsky.social for sharing my thoughts on local cycling infrastructure!
Boca Raton needs to improve infrastructure for cyclists | The Invading Sea
The city promises to incentivize bike-friendly businesses, but there is just a handful of protected bicycle lanes.
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October 28, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Thanks to the @theinvadingsea.bsky.social for sharing my thoughts on local cycling infrastructure!
Thanks to the @theinvadingsea.bsky.social for sharing my thoughts on local cycling infrastructure!
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SOUTHERN REACH READERS and weirdlings in general, here's a call for lighthouse photo submissions if you want a chance to be in the forthcoming Area X: The Southern Reach Files book. Starts Nov. 1, ends Jan 21. PLEASE read thoroughly. Questions, weirdos?
www.jeffvandermeer.com/lighthouseph...
www.jeffvandermeer.com/lighthouseph...
October 26, 2025 at 8:57 PM
SOUTHERN REACH READERS and weirdlings in general, here's a call for lighthouse photo submissions if you want a chance to be in the forthcoming Area X: The Southern Reach Files book. Starts Nov. 1, ends Jan 21. PLEASE read thoroughly. Questions, weirdos?
www.jeffvandermeer.com/lighthouseph...
www.jeffvandermeer.com/lighthouseph...
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The wait is FINALLY over!
Our new book “Women Changing Cities: Global Stories of Urban Transformation” is NOW AVAILABLE worldwide through RIBA Publishing wherever fine books are sold.
From Paris to Bogota, from Manila to Montreal—when women lead, cities thrive: www.modacitylife.com/women-changi...
Our new book “Women Changing Cities: Global Stories of Urban Transformation” is NOW AVAILABLE worldwide through RIBA Publishing wherever fine books are sold.
From Paris to Bogota, from Manila to Montreal—when women lead, cities thrive: www.modacitylife.com/women-changi...
October 1, 2025 at 6:18 AM
The wait is FINALLY over!
Our new book “Women Changing Cities: Global Stories of Urban Transformation” is NOW AVAILABLE worldwide through RIBA Publishing wherever fine books are sold.
From Paris to Bogota, from Manila to Montreal—when women lead, cities thrive: www.modacitylife.com/women-changi...
Our new book “Women Changing Cities: Global Stories of Urban Transformation” is NOW AVAILABLE worldwide through RIBA Publishing wherever fine books are sold.
From Paris to Bogota, from Manila to Montreal—when women lead, cities thrive: www.modacitylife.com/women-changi...
"It is the dog’s sole responsibility to discover any and all squirrels in the vicinity. I acknowledge that this service predates our contract by 30,000 years, and I am obliged to go along with it."
Terms and Conditions for Walks with My Dog
This agreement is between me (“me”) and you (“the dog”) and is designed to govern the rules, policies, and expected behavior on our walks together....
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October 20, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Yes!
The University of Arizona has rejected the proposed compact offered to it and eight other universities by the Trump administration.
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U of A rejects Trump compact, says it will compete on merit for funding
The University of Arizona has rejected the White House education compact, with its president Suresh Garimella writing to a Trump administration official Monday:
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October 20, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Yes!