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Emily Yates-Doerr
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anthropology professor (sts, food justice, nuclear history). author of Mal-Nutrition: Maternal Health Science and the Reproduction of Harm, UC Press. she/her

on sabbatical 2024-2025. 🌱🌱
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Emily Yates-Doerr @eyatesd.bsky.social · Nov 13
As of today, my new book is available in the open access Luminos series of @ucpress.bsky.social. (This means you & your students can download it for free).

Mal-Nutrition: Maternal Health Science and the Reproduction of Harm.

🌱🌽

www.ucpress.edu/books/mal-nu...
Mal-Nutrition by Emily Yates-Doerr - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
www.ucpress.edu
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propcazhpm.bsky.social
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar, writer, musician

Gabriela Leandro Pereira, Prof Architecture at Federal U. of Bahia

V. Mitch McEwen, Atelier Office; Princeton School of Architecture

Laleh Khalili, Prof of Gulf Studies, U. of Exeter

Nov 18 @dukepress.bsky.social
October 17, 2025 at 1:21 PM
eyatesd.bsky.social
Stumbled upon this essay on “The War on Weeds” by Laura Martin today and just wow- every single line is so good.

www.noemamag.com/the-war-on-w...
The War On Weeds | NOEMA
Pesticides and herbicides made from fossil fuels that are freely available to unwitting consumers poison our land, our bodies and life all around.
www.noemamag.com
October 16, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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inthemeanwhile.bsky.social
If you’re in a constant state of “Bari Weiss, CBS, Joe Rogan, WTF??” We’ve got you! @maggiemertens.bsky.social and Sarah Stuteville discuss building a sane news diet (follow people, not brands), supporting community-rooted media, and turning doom into doing. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
Ep 20: Democracy Dies in Clickbait with Maggie Mertens & Sarah Stuteville
Podcast Episode · In the Meanwhile · 10/10/2025 · 1h
podcasts.apple.com
October 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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joshuajfriedman.com
HAPPENING NOW: Judge Karin Immergut hears emergency arguments as California and Oregon seek to block President Trump's deployment of federalized California National Guard troops to Portland. 🧵
joshuajfriedman.com Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · Oct 6
NEW: Judge Immergut schedules a hearing TONIGHT, in 45 min, to hear arguments on SECOND TRO to block federalized California National Guard from deploying in Portland, Oregon. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71481...
October 6, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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raulpachecovega.bsky.social
“When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day's work is all I can permit myself to contemplate.”
― John Steinbeck

#WritingSky #AcademicSky
September 29, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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nathankhensley.bsky.social
The thing regular people don’t often grasp about ‘academic freedom’ is that if you don’t allow experts to research & teach in their fields of expertise, guided by their professional judgment & decades of training, you have effectively given up on the concept of knowledge & shut down your university
bestonetx.bsky.social Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · Sep 27
Universities are moving rapidly to comply with laws that don't exist.
texasaaup.bsky.social Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · Sep 26
“I’m emotionally shellshocked right now,” said one professor in the Texas Tech system. “What does it say about academic freedom? It says we don’t have it.” The professor spoke by phone from the inside of a car to avoid being overheard by colleagues.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...
September 27, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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karl-jacoby.bsky.social
p.s. My essay on the Wounded Knee massacre can be found here (open access!):

www.jstor.org/stable/10.25...
Of Memory and Massacre: A Soldier's Firsthand Account of the “Affair on Wounded Knee” on JSTOR
Karl Jacoby, Of Memory and Massacre: A Soldier's Firsthand Account of the “Affair on Wounded Knee”, The Princeton University Library Chronicle, Vol. 64, No. 2 (Winter 2003), pp. 333-362
www.jstor.org
September 26, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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vivavivette.bsky.social
Sandra Harding’s legacy: A force of nature who built Tapuya in dialogue, reshaping STS through standpoint theory, decolonial friendship, and fierce care for Latin American voices.

🕯️doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2025.2536961

#Obituary #SandraHarding #STS #TapuyaLASTS @tapuya.org
September 25, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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measuredandslow.bsky.social
Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.
September 22, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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fredclarkson.bsky.social
ICYMT: Ms. Magazine has a timely article on anti-abortion violence coming out in the print magazine laterthis month.

It appears in four parts online:

msmagazine.com/2025/09/16/a...

msmagazine.com/2025/09/17/g...

msmagazine.com/2025/09/18/r...

msmagazine.com/2025/09/19/a...
Murder, Pardons and Impunity: How Antiabortion Violence Escalated Under Trump
Murder, Pardons, Impunity: Antiabortion Violence Under Trump in the Age of Political Assassinations of Charlie Kirk and Melissa Hortman
msmagazine.com
September 21, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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alisabokulich.bsky.social
#HPS program at the University of Copenhagen invites applications for Postdoc in History and Philosophy of Science as part of research project Human Variables in Biodiversity Assessment (PI: Joeri Witteveen): employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho...
#philsky #PhilJobs #philsci

Deadline is November 7, 2025.
Post-doc position in History and Philosophy of Science
employment.ku.dk
September 21, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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hystericalblkns.bsky.social
If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
The new TOC from academia dot edu. By creating an Account with Academia.edu, you grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent for Academia.edu to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness, city, institutional affiliations, citations, mentions, publications, and areas of interest) in any manner, including for the purpose of advertising, selling, or soliciting the use or purchase of Academia.edu's Services.
September 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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drflachsophone.bsky.social
New paper on the intersections of ethnobiology and degrowth: two ways of understanding our place in the world through action-oriented, imaginative research into socioecological relationships.

doi.org/10.1177/0278...
Ethnobiology and Degrowth: A Review of the Opportunities for Collaboration, Generative Inquiry, and Solidarity in Socio-Ecological Research - Andrew Flachs, 2025
For centuries, global political economic relations have been informed by a model of growth premised on transforming plants, animals, knowledge, labor, water, an...
doi.org
September 17, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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lromeranth.bsky.social
It is also redundant because no other place in the US but the university tolerates "difficult speakers" to the extent that universities do.
joolia.bsky.social Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · Sep 17
and the Pulitzer Prize for sophistry goes to …
NYT headline: OPINION GUEST ESSAY Barnard President: Now Is the Time for Colleges to Host Difficult Speakers Sept. 17, 2025, 5:03 a.m. ET
September 17, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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utopia-defer.red
a detail that appears with fairly regular occurrence in many personal accounts of the Nazi regime is how many individuals died from stroke, heart attacks, and similar health complications because of the stress and despondency that was inflicted on those whose lives were ruined by the regime.
jacobsoboroff.bsky.social Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · Sep 15
NEW: Recently we reported on L.A. honor student and track star Nory Sontay Ramos and her mom Estela, deported after a routine immigration check-in. Weeks after we met them in Guatemala, where they were in hiding, Estela died suddenly. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/d...
The death of Estela Ramos Baten
Nory Sontay Ramos and her mother Estela were deported after a routine check-in. Two months later, Estela was buried with Guatemalan and U.S. flags draped over her coffin.
www.msnbc.com
September 16, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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tdneale.bsky.social
In this editorial, we've taken the opportunity of being 3 years in - amidst the "flow or tide" of submissions - to ask how the field's energies are being distributed, + reflect on the concepts and theories that are so central to new STS work that they almost form a canon or infrastructure...
September 17, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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fishkin.bsky.social
I'd like to commend the lawyers who wrote this complaint on behalf of the professors and employees of the University of California against the Trump administration.

It's a sober legal document with strong claims, but also, this is a fight for public opinion, and this reads like the writers know it.
AAUP-UC-Trump Lawsuit -- Uploaded by Jaweed Kaleem of the Los Angeles Times
www.documentcloud.org
September 17, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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ursulakleguin.com
This fall brings not just one but two exhibitions about Ursula and her work.

In Portland, A Larger Reality: Ursula K. Le Guin opens October 31st at Oregon Contemporary.

In London, The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin opens October 10th at the AA Gallery.
Ursula K. Le Guin, wearing a white button-down shirt, sits amid a pile of cushions, resting her head on her fist. Image by Marion Wood Kolisch | Courtesy Portland Art Museum
September 16, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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alondra.bsky.social
Unconstitutional and worrisome news reported first by student journalists

“One campus graduate student…claimed the release targeted Muslim and Arab individuals who had previously expressed support for Palestine.”
September 14, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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currenthistory1.bsky.social
In our new issue, @maximepolleri.bsky.social‬ explains the contentious politics of Japan's ongoing recovery from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.
Fukushima and the Politics of Nuclear Disaster Recovery
The 2011 meltdown at Fukushima, triggered by an earthquake and tsunami, was the worst nuclear power plant disaster in Japan’s history, bringing back painful memories of trauma associated with the atom...
online.ucpress.edu
September 12, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Why Josephine County Library (OR) was evicted from their long-time library space over $1.

It has nothing to do with money. It has to do with far-right politics and deep hatred for the library's inclusive ethos.

bookriot.com/josephine-co...
Why Would a County Evict Its Public Library Over $1?: Behind The Push to Decimate A Josephine County (OR) Library
How a small group of far-right ideologues have tried to decimate Josephine County Library over the course of the last several years–and $1.
bookriot.com
September 13, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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sifill.bsky.social
A “response” to their Supreme Court issuing a ruling after due process. It isn’t enough that have destroyed the integrity of our Supreme Court. Now they arrogate to themselves the power to demand that the high court in other nations subvert the rule of law as well.

This is insane.
September 11, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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abigaildesmond.bsky.social
Ursula K. LeGuin on technology
January 13, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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traciecanada.bsky.social
Check out my interview with @blackagendareport.bsky.social, where I got to describe my @ucpress.bsky.social book, connect it to what’s currently happening in college sports, and pitch the idea of un-learning the “football team as family” and “student-athlete” narratives
September 11, 2025 at 1:16 PM