jon l pitt
@jonlpitt.bsky.social
Assistant Prof of Japanese Environmental Humanities at UC Irvine. Plants, music, lit/film. Download my book for free: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501780950/botanical-imagination/
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Commence second conference within two weeks!
June 23, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Commence second conference within two weeks!
Seeing the Milky Way from southern Tasmania helps put things in perspective.
June 22, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Seeing the Milky Way from southern Tasmania helps put things in perspective.
Lovely day at the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary.
June 18, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Lovely day at the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary.
It was a fun challenge making a poster!
June 16, 2025 at 12:38 AM
It was a fun challenge making a poster!
Let’s see what a conservation biology conference is like! How long before I’m outed as a humanities professor?
June 15, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Let’s see what a conservation biology conference is like! How long before I’m outed as a humanities professor?
Beautiful art up around the Brisbane Convention Center
June 15, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Beautiful art up around the Brisbane Convention Center
Excited to read this!
June 15, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Excited to read this!
Austrian news coverage of the No Kings Day protests has been quite positive from what I’ve seen. It’s heartening.
June 15, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Austrian news coverage of the No Kings Day protests has been quite positive from what I’ve seen. It’s heartening.
Beautiful view flying into Brisbane.
June 14, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Beautiful view flying into Brisbane.
I saw Brian Wilson in 2017 and at one point he asked the audience if we were there for bad vibrations. Everyone booed. He then asked if we were there for good vibrations and everyone lost their minds. RIP.
June 11, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I saw Brian Wilson in 2017 and at one point he asked the audience if we were there for bad vibrations. Everyone booed. He then asked if we were there for good vibrations and everyone lost their minds. RIP.
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The Fulbright Scholarship board resigned due to political interference from the Trump administration. The State Department, led by Marco Rubio, is canceling scholarships for nearly 200 American professors and researchers based on their research topics, which include climate change, gender, and race.
Fulbright Board Quits, Accusing Trump Administration of Political Interference (Gift Article)
The board of the prestigious program told the State Department it had no right to cancel scholarships for nearly 200 American professors and researchers.
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June 11, 2025 at 3:25 PM
The Fulbright Scholarship board resigned due to political interference from the Trump administration. The State Department, led by Marco Rubio, is canceling scholarships for nearly 200 American professors and researchers based on their research topics, which include climate change, gender, and race.
I ❤️ LA, now and forever.
June 11, 2025 at 1:15 AM
I ❤️ LA, now and forever.
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My dad, who has lived under a dictatorship, knows one when he sees one. His first text this morning is that we are now officially in a dictatorship. It is all pretty grim.
June 8, 2025 at 5:10 PM
My dad, who has lived under a dictatorship, knows one when he sees one. His first text this morning is that we are now officially in a dictatorship. It is all pretty grim.
Listen to me talk about my new book (which is open access via @cornellupress.bsky.social) on the wonderful @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
May 31, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Listen to me talk about my new book (which is open access via @cornellupress.bsky.social) on the wonderful @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
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#CFP: "Post/Apocalyptic Narratives in Contemporary Indo-Japanese Environmental Literature." Hybrid conference. Kobe, Japan, 16–18 February 2026.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 September 2025.
Publishing partner: Routledge.
Full call here: sggu.ac.in/icssr.php
#envhum #ecolit #ecocriticism
Deadline for abstracts: 30 September 2025.
Publishing partner: Routledge.
Full call here: sggu.ac.in/icssr.php
#envhum #ecolit #ecocriticism
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May 29, 2025 at 8:16 AM
#CFP: "Post/Apocalyptic Narratives in Contemporary Indo-Japanese Environmental Literature." Hybrid conference. Kobe, Japan, 16–18 February 2026.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 September 2025.
Publishing partner: Routledge.
Full call here: sggu.ac.in/icssr.php
#envhum #ecolit #ecocriticism
Deadline for abstracts: 30 September 2025.
Publishing partner: Routledge.
Full call here: sggu.ac.in/icssr.php
#envhum #ecolit #ecocriticism
Stunning and vital talk by McKenzie Wark yesterday.
May 22, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Stunning and vital talk by McKenzie Wark yesterday.
Wonderful keynote talk by @rgrusin.bsky.social at the Network Ecologies Reimagined conference today at UCI.
May 17, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Wonderful keynote talk by @rgrusin.bsky.social at the Network Ecologies Reimagined conference today at UCI.
Enjoying this three cassette volume work of plant generated music by Nico Georis, released via @leavingrecords.bsky.social
May 13, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Enjoying this three cassette volume work of plant generated music by Nico Georis, released via @leavingrecords.bsky.social
Jenny Hval is brilliant. Love this flexidisc with its rumination on streaming music, surveillance, and militarism in tech.
May 6, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Jenny Hval is brilliant. Love this flexidisc with its rumination on streaming music, surveillance, and militarism in tech.
Desert trumpet (Eriogonum inflatum)
May 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Desert trumpet (Eriogonum inflatum)
Love this book design on Kyōdō Ken’s 1992 book on magic mushrooms. Credited to Araki Yōko.
May 2, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Love this book design on Kyōdō Ken’s 1992 book on magic mushrooms. Credited to Araki Yōko.
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Live jazz options in NYC, May 1965
May 2, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Live jazz options in NYC, May 1965