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wrote OIL BEACH | LOW POWER TO THE PEOPLE | HACKING DIVERSITY
glooming in the (mostly SoCal) gloaming | muttering/writing re. envirotech, media, infrastructure, dross | ✊🏻 #AAUP | personal acct. typos. posts ≠ endorsements | pfp/banner: oil extraction
glooming in the (mostly SoCal) gloaming | muttering/writing re. envirotech, media, infrastructure, dross | ✊🏻 #AAUP | personal acct. typos. posts ≠ endorsements | pfp/banner: oil extraction
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I’m holding a new book proposal workshop on January 9th!
I’m donating 50% of all registration fees today to @trevorproject.bsky.social
There’s also a 25% discount for unfunded scholars
Save your spot today & write an outstanding book proposal in 2026!
courses.manuscriptworks.com/courses/outs...
I’m donating 50% of all registration fees today to @trevorproject.bsky.social
There’s also a 25% discount for unfunded scholars
Save your spot today & write an outstanding book proposal in 2026!
courses.manuscriptworks.com/courses/outs...
Workshop: Write an Outstanding Book Proposal
Join Laura Portwood-Stacer of Manuscript Works to learn her time-tested method for writing a book proposal that will grab the interest of scholarly publishers. Show up with a book project, leave with ...
courses.manuscriptworks.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I’m holding a new book proposal workshop on January 9th!
I’m donating 50% of all registration fees today to @trevorproject.bsky.social
There’s also a 25% discount for unfunded scholars
Save your spot today & write an outstanding book proposal in 2026!
courses.manuscriptworks.com/courses/outs...
I’m donating 50% of all registration fees today to @trevorproject.bsky.social
There’s also a 25% discount for unfunded scholars
Save your spot today & write an outstanding book proposal in 2026!
courses.manuscriptworks.com/courses/outs...
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I was very glad when the Big 10 Academic Alliance put this ad out; but it misses the opportunity to bring it home and say "AND THIS IS ALL UNDER THREAT", which ... sucks
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWmc...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWmc...
We Are Here | Driving Health, Opportunity & Stronger Communities
YouTube video by Big Ten Conference
www.youtube.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I was very glad when the Big 10 Academic Alliance put this ad out; but it misses the opportunity to bring it home and say "AND THIS IS ALL UNDER THREAT", which ... sucks
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWmc...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWmc...
a lot of university leaders are not helping here; they need to get loud about explaining what we do that has social value/contributes to the public good, but instead they're having timid backroom meetings & crossing fingers behind their backs
My impression after two days of conferencing abroad is that the extent to which things are Really Bad in US academia and public research is not fully registering. Folks are not realizing that this admin is salting the earth and the geopolitical era of US scientific leadership might be over for good.
November 27, 2025 at 8:42 PM
a lot of university leaders are not helping here; they need to get loud about explaining what we do that has social value/contributes to the public good, but instead they're having timid backroom meetings & crossing fingers behind their backs
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this reminds me of that Frida Khalo painting "Self-Portrait on the Borderline Between Mexico and the United States"
November 27, 2025 at 8:08 PM
this reminds me of that Frida Khalo painting "Self-Portrait on the Borderline Between Mexico and the United States"
my first and second books wouldn't exist without NSF funding social science research. which is, ofc, the point
NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research.
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Today's biggest science news: Doomed comet explodes | Comet 3I/ATLAS course alteration | Dark matter detected?
Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025: Your daily feed of the biggest discoveries and breakthroughs making headlines.
www.livescience.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:15 PM
my first and second books wouldn't exist without NSF funding social science research. which is, ofc, the point
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There is talk going around that DHS is now arresting people who fly *domestically* if they have final orders of removal.
Undocumented youth should consider consulting a lawyer to find out what their record is -- especially those whose parents had prior interactions with immigration.
Undocumented youth should consider consulting a lawyer to find out what their record is -- especially those whose parents had prior interactions with immigration.
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:55 PM
There is talk going around that DHS is now arresting people who fly *domestically* if they have final orders of removal.
Undocumented youth should consider consulting a lawyer to find out what their record is -- especially those whose parents had prior interactions with immigration.
Undocumented youth should consider consulting a lawyer to find out what their record is -- especially those whose parents had prior interactions with immigration.
uhh happy thanksgiving
Btw I teach that John Gast painting in history/social studies of technology context. I also include this rejoinder close of that lesson, Reversing Manifest Destiny by Charles Hilliard
November 27, 2025 at 6:02 PM
uhh happy thanksgiving
thankful, today, for people doing this kind of thing
New resource⚡️ Block it! Don’t Build It. Don’t Fill It. Don’t Fuel It.
A mini-toolkit to take action to slow down and disrupt the government’s kidnapping, detention, and deportation machine.
Info on strategies/tactics, ways to take action, and more:
www.interruptingcriminalization.com/block-it
A mini-toolkit to take action to slow down and disrupt the government’s kidnapping, detention, and deportation machine.
Info on strategies/tactics, ways to take action, and more:
www.interruptingcriminalization.com/block-it
November 27, 2025 at 5:36 PM
thankful, today, for people doing this kind of thing
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This one is now 20 years old, but is still available and still not bad.
(And its spiritual sequel is in the works…)
www.routledge.com/Rerun-Nation...
(And its spiritual sequel is in the works…)
www.routledge.com/Rerun-Nation...
November 26, 2025 at 11:25 PM
This one is now 20 years old, but is still available and still not bad.
(And its spiritual sequel is in the works…)
www.routledge.com/Rerun-Nation...
(And its spiritual sequel is in the works…)
www.routledge.com/Rerun-Nation...
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Promoting my last book!
Interested in video games, cinema, history and/or racism in Hollywood? My last book SLAVE REVOLT ON SCREEN: THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION IN FILM & VIDEO GAMES is a great gift for yourself or someone on your gift list!🗃️📽️
www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/S/Slav...
Interested in video games, cinema, history and/or racism in Hollywood? My last book SLAVE REVOLT ON SCREEN: THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION IN FILM & VIDEO GAMES is a great gift for yourself or someone on your gift list!🗃️📽️
www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/S/Slav...
November 26, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Promoting my last book!
Interested in video games, cinema, history and/or racism in Hollywood? My last book SLAVE REVOLT ON SCREEN: THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION IN FILM & VIDEO GAMES is a great gift for yourself or someone on your gift list!🗃️📽️
www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/S/Slav...
Interested in video games, cinema, history and/or racism in Hollywood? My last book SLAVE REVOLT ON SCREEN: THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION IN FILM & VIDEO GAMES is a great gift for yourself or someone on your gift list!🗃️📽️
www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/S/Slav...
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I loved this episode of @thedigradio.bsky.social with @triofrancos.bsky.social so much! Incredibly insightful and intellectually courageous discussion of the geopolitics of the green transition and the tough trade-offs it involves - and an excellent reminder that technology *is* material.
Extraction w/ Thea Riofrancos
Featuring Thea Riofrancos on Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism. The green energy transition requires a vast array of inputs: copper, cobalt, rare earth elements, and the focus of this disc...
thedigradio.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I loved this episode of @thedigradio.bsky.social with @triofrancos.bsky.social so much! Incredibly insightful and intellectually courageous discussion of the geopolitics of the green transition and the tough trade-offs it involves - and an excellent reminder that technology *is* material.
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My first essay collection is brand new, & I’m proud of how it’s been received thus far! I’d love for it to reach more readers interested in climate, relationship to place, & interrogating common environmental narratives.
Order here, or your favorite indy bookstore: porphyry.press/ghosts-of-di...
Order here, or your favorite indy bookstore: porphyry.press/ghosts-of-di...
November 26, 2025 at 10:25 PM
My first essay collection is brand new, & I’m proud of how it’s been received thus far! I’d love for it to reach more readers interested in climate, relationship to place, & interrogating common environmental narratives.
Order here, or your favorite indy bookstore: porphyry.press/ghosts-of-di...
Order here, or your favorite indy bookstore: porphyry.press/ghosts-of-di...
also relevant in colleges and universities
Mystery why so many kids are struggling with mental health when we're doing the "let it rip" strategy for Covid transmission in schools
#COVID patients have higher rates of #depression, #anxiety, #headache, and #fatigue before diagnosis, study suggests
The association may be explained by shared biological pathways, such as chronic inflammation and neuroinflammation.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...
The association may be explained by shared biological pathways, such as chronic inflammation and neuroinflammation.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...
November 26, 2025 at 10:07 PM
also relevant in colleges and universities
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Mystery why so many kids are struggling with mental health when we're doing the "let it rip" strategy for Covid transmission in schools
#COVID patients have higher rates of #depression, #anxiety, #headache, and #fatigue before diagnosis, study suggests
The association may be explained by shared biological pathways, such as chronic inflammation and neuroinflammation.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...
The association may be explained by shared biological pathways, such as chronic inflammation and neuroinflammation.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...
November 26, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Mystery why so many kids are struggling with mental health when we're doing the "let it rip" strategy for Covid transmission in schools
I published OIL BEACH in 2023. I was happy to put my weird little musings about this very big coastline in it
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
I wasn't able to promote it as much as I'd hoped because I got pretty sick when it came out 😩, but I hope it is still finding its readers 🐬🛢️
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
I wasn't able to promote it as much as I'd hoped because I got pretty sick when it came out 😩, but I hope it is still finding its readers 🐬🛢️
November 26, 2025 at 10:06 PM
I published OIL BEACH in 2023. I was happy to put my weird little musings about this very big coastline in it
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
I wasn't able to promote it as much as I'd hoped because I got pretty sick when it came out 😩, but I hope it is still finding its readers 🐬🛢️
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
I wasn't able to promote it as much as I'd hoped because I got pretty sick when it came out 😩, but I hope it is still finding its readers 🐬🛢️
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PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS!
gonna be reposting your books because hoo you made a book!
www.versobooks.com/products/303...
gonna be reposting your books because hoo you made a book!
www.versobooks.com/products/303...
November 26, 2025 at 9:49 PM
PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS!
gonna be reposting your books because hoo you made a book!
www.versobooks.com/products/303...
gonna be reposting your books because hoo you made a book!
www.versobooks.com/products/303...
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seriality
November 26, 2025 at 5:17 AM
seriality
so now the person who (in my view) provoked everyone to dunk on them (and everyone took the bait) is complaining that this place is not enjoyable? i guess i largely agree but for different reasons
uncanny booby-trapped megaphones
November 26, 2025 at 8:30 PM
so now the person who (in my view) provoked everyone to dunk on them (and everyone took the bait) is complaining that this place is not enjoyable? i guess i largely agree but for different reasons
i idly wonder if this move would open up the facility for ICE to use it; they've been using federal land on Terminal Island to stage operations
The Federal BOP is "suspending operations" at FCI Terminal Island due to major infrastructure issues - crumbling underground tunnels, with falling concrete that could hit steam lines.
They're acting now because "we are not going to wait for a crisis," the director wrote in an email to staff.
They're acting now because "we are not going to wait for a crisis," the director wrote in an email to staff.
November 25, 2025 at 7:57 PM
i idly wonder if this move would open up the facility for ICE to use it; they've been using federal land on Terminal Island to stage operations
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Must-read by @gustavoarellano.bsky.social about the important and critical work of Memo Torres
“Daily Memo” has become the diary L.A. never asked for but which is now indispensable, documenting in real time one of the most terrifying chapters in the region’s history.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
“Daily Memo” has become the diary L.A. never asked for but which is now indispensable, documenting in real time one of the most terrifying chapters in the region’s history.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Commentary: The ex-landscaper behind the deportation diary L.A. never wanted
“Daily Memo” has become the diary Los Angeles never asked for but which is now indispensable, documenting in real time one of the most terrifying chapters in the region's history.
www.latimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Must-read by @gustavoarellano.bsky.social about the important and critical work of Memo Torres
“Daily Memo” has become the diary L.A. never asked for but which is now indispensable, documenting in real time one of the most terrifying chapters in the region’s history.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
“Daily Memo” has become the diary L.A. never asked for but which is now indispensable, documenting in real time one of the most terrifying chapters in the region’s history.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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NATIONAL CALL: Learn to Replicate the "Scrape ICE Out of Home Depot" Action - www.mobilize.us/ndlon/event/... - tomorrow 11/25 at 5pm/PT 8pm ET
NATIONAL CALL: Learn to Replicate the "Scrape ICE Out of Home Depot" Action · National Day Laborer Organizing Network
Join a national call to debrief this past weekend’s viral ICE Scraper action, strengthen our nonviolent strategy, and coordinate safe, visible actions nationwide.
Learn how communities are organizing ...
www.mobilize.us
November 25, 2025 at 2:17 AM
NATIONAL CALL: Learn to Replicate the "Scrape ICE Out of Home Depot" Action - www.mobilize.us/ndlon/event/... - tomorrow 11/25 at 5pm/PT 8pm ET
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The professor was detained on his way to an academic conference in Washington, D.C., according to the colleague.
ICE Detains University of Oklahoma Professor With H-1B Visa, Colleague Says
www.newsweek.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:49 AM
The professor was detained on his way to an academic conference in Washington, D.C., according to the colleague.
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This is spot-on.
The UVA "deal" might be the worst/most dangerous (so far). With the help of UVA's leadership, Trump coerced a leading U.S. university to foreswear all efforts (including 100% lawful measures) to achieve diversity.
A betrayal of our values.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The UVA "deal" might be the worst/most dangerous (so far). With the help of UVA's leadership, Trump coerced a leading U.S. university to foreswear all efforts (including 100% lawful measures) to achieve diversity.
A betrayal of our values.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The University of Virginia and Cornell deals with Trump set a dangerous precedent | Serena Mayeri and Amanda Shanor
The bespoke agreements are full of peril for the universities, allowing the federal government to quietly exert control
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:20 AM
This is spot-on.
The UVA "deal" might be the worst/most dangerous (so far). With the help of UVA's leadership, Trump coerced a leading U.S. university to foreswear all efforts (including 100% lawful measures) to achieve diversity.
A betrayal of our values.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The UVA "deal" might be the worst/most dangerous (so far). With the help of UVA's leadership, Trump coerced a leading U.S. university to foreswear all efforts (including 100% lawful measures) to achieve diversity.
A betrayal of our values.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Dr. Vahid Abedini, an Iranian Studies professor boarding a flight to attend an academic conference in DC, was detained by ICE & jailed: “This guy is illegally detained. He's following all the laws. He's been impeccable about doing everything,” said his Univ of Oklahoma colleague Joshua Landis.
November 24, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Dr. Vahid Abedini, an Iranian Studies professor boarding a flight to attend an academic conference in DC, was detained by ICE & jailed: “This guy is illegally detained. He's following all the laws. He's been impeccable about doing everything,” said his Univ of Oklahoma colleague Joshua Landis.
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looking up a hillside
November 24, 2025 at 2:40 AM
looking up a hillside