Dr. Maya Weeks
@mayaweeks.bsky.social
Feminist political ecologist, artist, beginning grazier. I live on YTT Northern Chumash & Salinan land. Affiliated researcher at UC Davis Feminist Research Institute & lecturer at Rutgers University; views mine. mayaweeks.com
"Epstein’s method, as an extortionist and habitual 'collector of people,' was a manifestation of—rather than an aberration from—capitalism’s inner workings."
- @andrewosborne.bsky.social
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November 15, 2025 at 12:10 AM
"Epstein’s method, as an extortionist and habitual 'collector of people,' was a manifestation of—rather than an aberration from—capitalism’s inner workings."
- @andrewosborne.bsky.social
- @andrewosborne.bsky.social
A delightful thing about being a geographer is that one moment you'll be corresponding with You Are Here: the Journal of Creative Geography and the next you'll be looking at a website for Southern Great Plains drought research.
November 14, 2025 at 7:15 PM
A delightful thing about being a geographer is that one moment you'll be corresponding with You Are Here: the Journal of Creative Geography and the next you'll be looking at a website for Southern Great Plains drought research.
I read this article yesterday and can't stop thinking about how many millions of people in the United States have been disenfranchised by how reading is taught here. H/t @sarahjeong.bsky.social
www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 13, 2025 at 2:23 AM
I read this article yesterday and can't stop thinking about how many millions of people in the United States have been disenfranchised by how reading is taught here. H/t @sarahjeong.bsky.social
www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
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My colleague Marie-Theres Fojuth has advertised a fully funded 3-year PhD Fellowship in Museum Education @unistavanger.bsky.social with the «Into the Fjords: Blue Museums as Arenas of Learning about Vulnerable Ecosystems (FJORDS)» project. Perfect for Scandinavian-speaking #envhum #envhist people!
PhD Fellowship in Museum Education (288983) | University of Stavanger
Job title: PhD Fellowship in Museum Education (288983), Employer: University of Stavanger, Deadline: Sunday, January 4, 2026
www.jobbnorge.no
November 11, 2025 at 5:59 PM
My colleague Marie-Theres Fojuth has advertised a fully funded 3-year PhD Fellowship in Museum Education @unistavanger.bsky.social with the «Into the Fjords: Blue Museums as Arenas of Learning about Vulnerable Ecosystems (FJORDS)» project. Perfect for Scandinavian-speaking #envhum #envhist people!
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my latest: CRIT grants personhood status to #coloradoriver - 3rd in North America by Indigenous peoples. www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...
Colorado River wins personhood status from Arizona tribal council
Personhood status creates a powerful new mechanism for protecting the eponymous river that makes life possible in their arid homelands.
www.azcentral.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:43 PM
my latest: CRIT grants personhood status to #coloradoriver - 3rd in North America by Indigenous peoples. www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...
much-needed book that deals with environmental justice, indigeneity, corporations, and more!
🚨 Our book Environmental Sociology Now is available for preorder.
You can order through UC Press now and get 30% off the book with code UCPSAVE30. Instructors will also be able to request an exam copy of the book beginning in early January.
www.ucpress.edu/books/enviro...
You can order through UC Press now and get 30% off the book with code UCPSAVE30. Instructors will also be able to request an exam copy of the book beginning in early January.
www.ucpress.edu/books/enviro...
Environmental Sociology Now by Jordan Fox, Ian Carrillo, J. P. Sapinski, Diana Stuart - 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
November 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
much-needed book that deals with environmental justice, indigeneity, corporations, and more!
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We're hiring in history of science at UW Madison! TT Assistant Professorship with a focus on water. Joint appointment between the History and Integrated Liberal Studies depts, and part of a university-wide hiring cluster on earth/sustainability science. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/profess... #STS #HSMT
Professor of History - Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...
jobs.wisc.edu
November 6, 2025 at 7:37 PM
We're hiring in history of science at UW Madison! TT Assistant Professorship with a focus on water. Joint appointment between the History and Integrated Liberal Studies depts, and part of a university-wide hiring cluster on earth/sustainability science. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/profess... #STS #HSMT
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🪨 A @natcomms.nature.com paper out today delivers a new warning about Trump's push for deep-sea mining.
🦐 The discharge waste from #deepseamining — if allowed to be done at commercial scale — will "likely to disrupt midwater food webs."
👇More here
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🦐 The discharge waste from #deepseamining — if allowed to be done at commercial scale — will "likely to disrupt midwater food webs."
👇More here
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
🪨 A @natcomms.nature.com paper out today delivers a new warning about Trump's push for deep-sea mining.
🦐 The discharge waste from #deepseamining — if allowed to be done at commercial scale — will "likely to disrupt midwater food webs."
👇More here
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🦐 The discharge waste from #deepseamining — if allowed to be done at commercial scale — will "likely to disrupt midwater food webs."
👇More here
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The Turtle Island Journal of Indigenous Health is accepting submissions for our next issue! Please see the link below for more information, and please share this call with your networks!
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jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/ti...
Call for submissions for 5th issue!
| Turtle Island Journal of Indigenous Health
jps.library.utoronto.ca
November 6, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The Turtle Island Journal of Indigenous Health is accepting submissions for our next issue! Please see the link below for more information, and please share this call with your networks!
jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/ti...
jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/ti...
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🚨 A new study has found alarmingly high levels of “forever chemicals” (PFAS) in dead sea otters along the Pacific Coast, with concentrations more than 3 x higher near urban and shipping hubs.
phys.org/news/2025-11...
#seaotters #seaotter #otter #marinescience #marinebiology #marinemammals
phys.org/news/2025-11...
#seaotters #seaotter #otter #marinescience #marinebiology #marinemammals
Unexpectedly high concentrations of forever chemicals found in dead sea otters
A paper published in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, finds high quantities of toxic "forever" chemicals in sea otters recovered off the Pacific Ocean. The paper is titled "Concentrations of Pe...
phys.org
November 6, 2025 at 1:31 AM
this book looks phenomenal
LIVING LANGUAGE RIGHTS by Lorena Sekwan Fontaine is officially here! Pick up a copy of this groundbreaking read at the book launch next Wednesday, November 12, 7pm, at @mcnallyrobinson.com!
November 5, 2025 at 9:07 PM
this book looks phenomenal
i am really looking forward to presenting on some of my research on the west coast of sweden at the
@ucdavis.bsky.social feminist research institute tomorrow (on zoom)!
fri.ucdavis.edu/events/plast...
@ucdavis.bsky.social feminist research institute tomorrow (on zoom)!
fri.ucdavis.edu/events/plast...
Maya Weeks: Plastic Pollution, Artistic Methods, and Accountability: A Feminist Research Practice
Plastic pollution abounds on the west coast of Sweden, where currents deposit vast quantities of it. This takes place against a background of plastic production at the Borealis plant in the city of St...
fri.ucdavis.edu
November 5, 2025 at 6:29 PM
i am really looking forward to presenting on some of my research on the west coast of sweden at the
@ucdavis.bsky.social feminist research institute tomorrow (on zoom)!
fri.ucdavis.edu/events/plast...
@ucdavis.bsky.social feminist research institute tomorrow (on zoom)!
fri.ucdavis.edu/events/plast...
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Governor-elect @mikiesherrill.bsky.social ran with strong pro-climate positions, focused on increasing energy affordability by getting more renewables on the grid.
Ciattarelli vs. Sherrill on Energy Policy
The energy policy platforms of Mikie Sherrill and Jack Ciattarelli both acknowledge the state's rising energy costs and the need for a stable power supply, but their proposed solutions and underlying ...
tristateinfrastructurenews.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Governor-elect @mikiesherrill.bsky.social ran with strong pro-climate positions, focused on increasing energy affordability by getting more renewables on the grid.
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You African Studies majors out there: you too can become mayor of New York City!!!
November 5, 2025 at 3:01 AM
You African Studies majors out there: you too can become mayor of New York City!!!
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Huge deal!
Democrats—with strong climate credentials—edge toward control of Georgia’s giant energy system
Democrats—with strong climate credentials—edge toward control of Georgia’s giant energy system
OH MY GOD, DDHQ CALLS IT AND DEMS FLIP BOTH STATEWIDE ELECTIONS IN GEORGIA
November 5, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Huge deal!
Democrats—with strong climate credentials—edge toward control of Georgia’s giant energy system
Democrats—with strong climate credentials—edge toward control of Georgia’s giant energy system
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Call for Applications: Press On’s Freedomways Reporting Fellowship is accepting applications for its 8-month fellowship from March to Oct 2026, for 6 reporters and storytellers from the South. form.jotform.com/252935798928...
Call for Applications: 2026 Freedomways Reporting Fellowship // Convocatoria de solicitudes: Beca de Periodismo Freedomways 2026
Please click the link to complete this form.
form.jotform.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Call for Applications: Press On’s Freedomways Reporting Fellowship is accepting applications for its 8-month fellowship from March to Oct 2026, for 6 reporters and storytellers from the South. form.jotform.com/252935798928...
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Currently (ha ha, river joke) out at the Tuolumne River in recently restored gravel beds upriver of La Grange. This is by far the most salmon I’ve ever seen at one time in my adulthood. Every riffle has 6-20 salmon. I think I’ve seen well over 100 today as a low end estimate.
November 2, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Currently (ha ha, river joke) out at the Tuolumne River in recently restored gravel beds upriver of La Grange. This is by far the most salmon I’ve ever seen at one time in my adulthood. Every riffle has 6-20 salmon. I think I’ve seen well over 100 today as a low end estimate.
"If we are going to be changed, and then change others, we must read intentionally, but more than intentionally I want to read radically"
- @daanis.ca, bad indians book club @broadleafbooks.bsky.social
www.broadleafbooks.com/store/produc...
- @daanis.ca, bad indians book club @broadleafbooks.bsky.social
www.broadleafbooks.com/store/produc...
Bad Indians Book Club: Reading at the Edge of a Thousand Worlds
Anishinaabe writer Patty Krawec, author of Becoming Kin, leads us into the borderlands of history, science, memoir, fiction, and other genres to ask: What worlds do books written by marginalized peopl...
www.broadleafbooks.com
November 2, 2025 at 9:55 PM
"If we are going to be changed, and then change others, we must read intentionally, but more than intentionally I want to read radically"
- @daanis.ca, bad indians book club @broadleafbooks.bsky.social
www.broadleafbooks.com/store/produc...
- @daanis.ca, bad indians book club @broadleafbooks.bsky.social
www.broadleafbooks.com/store/produc...
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What if we could work with our public libraries to create + sustain convivial infrastructures for local news, local 🎶, digital equity, and more? I wrote abt lots of communities that are doing this work, bldg networks of solidarity + resistance, modeling alternatives to extractive commercial systems.
I wrote about public libraries as spaces of civic solidarity, common knowledge, and public infrastructure — all endangered by commercial and federal saboteurs
Extralibrary Loan: Making the Civic Infrastructure We Need
Amid a war on public knowledge, libraries are pushing outward, enlarging the commons through new configurations of civic and creative life.
placesjournal.org
November 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM
What if we could work with our public libraries to create + sustain convivial infrastructures for local news, local 🎶, digital equity, and more? I wrote abt lots of communities that are doing this work, bldg networks of solidarity + resistance, modeling alternatives to extractive commercial systems.
"[T]hey confirm that states have legal obligations that include prevention, mitigation, adaptation and reparation for climate damage" 🗣️🗣️🗣️
Climate justice is no longer an aspiration but a legal duty - Dialogue Earth dialogue.earth/en/justice/c...
Climate justice is no longer an aspiration but a legal duty
This year’s advisory opinions from two prominent international courts mark a turning point, write two environmental law experts
dialogue.earth
November 1, 2025 at 8:23 PM
"[T]hey confirm that states have legal obligations that include prevention, mitigation, adaptation and reparation for climate damage" 🗣️🗣️🗣️
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The storm has left 60 percent of Jamaica without electricity and some areas with up to 90 percent of roofs gone.
Melissa leaves 50 dead, toll expected to rise in Jamaica, Haiti
The storm has left 60 percent of Jamaica without electricity and some areas with up to 90 percent of roofs gone.
bit.ly
November 1, 2025 at 5:30 AM
The storm has left 60 percent of Jamaica without electricity and some areas with up to 90 percent of roofs gone.
"Plutonium-239 is a highly radioactive material used to create nuclear weapons and reactors. Breathing in tiny particles is dangerous and over time can cause issues including lung cancer, cellular damage and radiation sickness."
Navy Took 11 Months to Alert SF to Airborne Plutonium at Hunters Point Shipyard
“It’s not the 1st time that the Navy has done something that is unacceptable & demonstrates their lack of concern for Bayview residents Bayview”
@kqedscience.bsky.social @kqednews.kqed.org
www.kqed.org/science/1999...
“It’s not the 1st time that the Navy has done something that is unacceptable & demonstrates their lack of concern for Bayview residents Bayview”
@kqedscience.bsky.social @kqednews.kqed.org
www.kqed.org/science/1999...
Navy Took 11 Months to Alert SF to Airborne Plutonium at Hunters Point Shipyard Site | KQED
San Francisco officials and advocates are demanding answers after the U.S. Navy failed to alert the public to high levels of airborne radioactive material found last November.
www.kqed.org
October 31, 2025 at 10:38 PM
"Plutonium-239 is a highly radioactive material used to create nuclear weapons and reactors. Breathing in tiny particles is dangerous and over time can cause issues including lung cancer, cellular damage and radiation sickness."
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Yesterday we also had a new hire in Geography for the School approved for this job cycle. I will share that job ad when it is written and posted. #academicbluesky
The School of Planning, Policy, and Environmental Studies at San José State University is hiring an Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies. We welcome applicants from all fields of environmental studies who apply an environmental justice lens to their work. jobs.sjsu.edu/sj/en-us/job...
San José State University - Details - Assistant Professor - Environmental Studies
jobs.sjsu.edu
October 30, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Yesterday we also had a new hire in Geography for the School approved for this job cycle. I will share that job ad when it is written and posted. #academicbluesky
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www.terrain.org/submit/sowel... @terrainorg.bsky.social & @texastech.bsky.social University Press invites book-length manuscript submissions of nonfiction (essays, memoir, etc) in English on themes about & related to the natural world by writers who have published no more than one book in any genre.
Sowell Emerging Writers Prize Submission Guidelines - Terrain.org
The 2024 Sowell Emerging Writers Prize seeks a book of poetry. Submissions are open from September 15 - November 15.
www.terrain.org
October 30, 2025 at 8:54 PM
www.terrain.org/submit/sowel... @terrainorg.bsky.social & @texastech.bsky.social University Press invites book-length manuscript submissions of nonfiction (essays, memoir, etc) in English on themes about & related to the natural world by writers who have published no more than one book in any genre.
brilliant, gorgeous poems by aria aber in brilliant, gorgeous @equatormag.bsky.social
www.equator.org/articles/two...
www.equator.org/articles/two...
Two Poems • Articles • EQUATOR
www.equator.org
October 30, 2025 at 3:16 AM
brilliant, gorgeous poems by aria aber in brilliant, gorgeous @equatormag.bsky.social
www.equator.org/articles/two...
www.equator.org/articles/two...