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Leslie Heywood
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I'm an interdisciplinary creative nonfiction writer and environmental humanities and sport studies scholar who is a Professor at the State University of New York at Binghamton
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📣 ERC Synergy Grant 2026 call for proposals is now open!

Application deadline 5 November 2025.

📝 Groups of 2-4 researchers
📝 Jointly addressing ambitious problems & with different skills

Application portal 👉 europa.eu/!XpwptY
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July 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Rights of Nature and World Order: Reimagining Socioecological Futures url: direct.mit.edu/glep/article...

Next on my reading list!!
Rights of Nature and World Order: Reimagining Socioecological Futures
Abstract. Rights of Nature (RoN) have emerged as a transformative strategy to address contemporary socioecological crises. Over the past two decades, RoN have gained traction as national laws and cour...
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July 10, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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open.substack.com/pub/rushkoff...

Great read for anyone despairing about AI!
Is AI the next Dumbwaiter?
The demand for AI's unbridled growth is reactionary — a way of doubling down on the same old colonizing way of doing things. It doesn't have to be.
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July 10, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Interesting developments for Body Studies:
How America’s ideal woman got jacked — Vox
A lot of people are getting jacked these days, and it’s not just who you would think.
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July 9, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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The Unrepentant Return of Christian Diet Culture www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/o...

Links between body construction and cultural roots:
Opinion | The Unrepentant Return of Christian Diet Culture
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July 9, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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More and more body-related content lately:

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Bodybuilders, Joe Rogan and the Modern MAGA Male Style — Bloomberg Businessweek
The slim-fit uniform of grindset entrepreneurs and right wing podcasters can be traced back decades.
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July 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM