Grace King
@plantmetaphor.bsky.social
island person, bike rider, PhD student thinking about c19 books and ecologies
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Grace King
@plantmetaphor.bsky.social
· Feb 1
we’re doing this Bluesky thing! my name is Grace and I am from Newfoundland but I am living in Pennsylvania right now, getting my PhD in English! I like riding my bike and reading about nineteenth-century oceanography. here are pictures of my cat Poe, places I’ve biked, and me with some seaweed
fuming at this message on my Canvas home page that encourages me to “integrate GenAI responsibly” into my teaching. shame on @pennstateuniv.bsky.social
August 10, 2025 at 1:55 PM
fuming at this message on my Canvas home page that encourages me to “integrate GenAI responsibly” into my teaching. shame on @pennstateuniv.bsky.social
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“The campaign’s climax, for me, came with Zohran’s Whitmanic walk down the length of Manhattan on the Friday night before Election Day.” @cgvanderburg.bsky.social on Mamdani’s New York:
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
A Knock at the Door | Colin Vanderburg
I think of the people I met on canvasses. The older Polish woman in Greenpoint who took a thick stack of Zohran flyers to give out to all her friends. The hijabi Indian American mother and daughter wh...
www.nplusonemag.com
June 26, 2025 at 6:13 PM
“The campaign’s climax, for me, came with Zohran’s Whitmanic walk down the length of Manhattan on the Friday night before Election Day.” @cgvanderburg.bsky.social on Mamdani’s New York:
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
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my @newyorker.com column this week goes in depth on how using AI makes us less original, unique, and creative as writers, thinkers, and communicators. Various new studies are proving that AI is a rampant force of homogenization: www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...
A.I. Is Homogenizing Our Thoughts
Recent studies suggest that tools such as ChatGPT make our brains less active and our writing less original.
www.newyorker.com
June 25, 2025 at 3:42 PM
my @newyorker.com column this week goes in depth on how using AI makes us less original, unique, and creative as writers, thinkers, and communicators. Various new studies are proving that AI is a rampant force of homogenization: www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...
the Melville Society conference in Mystic Seaport this past week was pure magic. many of us slept on an 1882 sail ship that’s docked at Mystic Seaport Museum & then we wandered around UConn Avery Point campus in the days. so many good people, so much good whale-talk…I’ll be dreaming about it forever
June 21, 2025 at 7:53 PM
the Melville Society conference in Mystic Seaport this past week was pure magic. many of us slept on an 1882 sail ship that’s docked at Mystic Seaport Museum & then we wandered around UConn Avery Point campus in the days. so many good people, so much good whale-talk…I’ll be dreaming about it forever
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Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.
Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event
June 18, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.
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One of our new and exciting titles out this May is "Ice Geographies" by Jen Rose Smith @sprucehen.bsky.social . #EnvironmentalStudies #Geography
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May 1, 2025 at 6:30 PM
One of our new and exciting titles out this May is "Ice Geographies" by Jen Rose Smith @sprucehen.bsky.social . #EnvironmentalStudies #Geography
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The SINAA Agreement provides $270 million for long-term, Indigenous-led conservation in the Qikiqtani region of Nunavut:
nunatsiaq.com/stories/arti...
SINAA is an Inuktitut word that means “the floe edge," where the land fast ice meets the open water.
nunatsiaq.com/stories/arti...
SINAA is an Inuktitut word that means “the floe edge," where the land fast ice meets the open water.
Qikiqtani Inuit Association to receive $270M in conservation funding
Inuit-led conservation efforts in various marine ecosystems in the Qikiqtani Region received a $270-million funding commitment Thursday from the federal government and other donors.
nunatsiaq.com
March 3, 2025 at 5:42 PM
The SINAA Agreement provides $270 million for long-term, Indigenous-led conservation in the Qikiqtani region of Nunavut:
nunatsiaq.com/stories/arti...
SINAA is an Inuktitut word that means “the floe edge," where the land fast ice meets the open water.
nunatsiaq.com/stories/arti...
SINAA is an Inuktitut word that means “the floe edge," where the land fast ice meets the open water.
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Steve Fobister Sr. fought for the health of his community until his last breath.
The former chief of Grassy Narrows First Nation in Ontario died of mercury poisoning in 2018.
Now, a mercury care home being built in his community will be named after him.
The former chief of Grassy Narrows First Nation in Ontario died of mercury poisoning in 2018.
Now, a mercury care home being built in his community will be named after him.
Mercury care home to be built in Grassy Narrows First Nation
The Ojibwe community in northwestern Ontario held a ground-breaking ceremony for the hard-won Paapiiwaaniimaan Mercury Care Home.
www.aptnnews.ca
March 6, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Steve Fobister Sr. fought for the health of his community until his last breath.
The former chief of Grassy Narrows First Nation in Ontario died of mercury poisoning in 2018.
Now, a mercury care home being built in his community will be named after him.
The former chief of Grassy Narrows First Nation in Ontario died of mercury poisoning in 2018.
Now, a mercury care home being built in his community will be named after him.
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Supportive academics & community members! Please sign this Google Docs letter b4 March 10.
Written by Chris Andersen, Dean Faculty of Native Studies UAlberta & Rob Innes, Chair, Indigenous Studies, McMaster U. in support of #Indigenous Studies at #York U, which administrators propose cutting.
Written by Chris Andersen, Dean Faculty of Native Studies UAlberta & Rob Innes, Chair, Indigenous Studies, McMaster U. in support of #Indigenous Studies at #York U, which administrators propose cutting.
Indigenous Studies Response to York’s Suspension of their Program
Dear Dean McMurtry, Provost Peters, and President Lenton,
As two Indigenous studies administrators (Dr. Chris Andersen is the Dean of the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta and Dr....
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March 3, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Supportive academics & community members! Please sign this Google Docs letter b4 March 10.
Written by Chris Andersen, Dean Faculty of Native Studies UAlberta & Rob Innes, Chair, Indigenous Studies, McMaster U. in support of #Indigenous Studies at #York U, which administrators propose cutting.
Written by Chris Andersen, Dean Faculty of Native Studies UAlberta & Rob Innes, Chair, Indigenous Studies, McMaster U. in support of #Indigenous Studies at #York U, which administrators propose cutting.
boosting this again 🐿️🌲🐋🪲🌷
#envhum hive:
I'm organizing a proposed session for MLA 2026 in Toronto, Literature and Taxonomy, that will examine the oppositions & alliances between literary studies and the science of taxonomy. all time periods & subfields welcome! deadline March 23.
please share widely!
I'm organizing a proposed session for MLA 2026 in Toronto, Literature and Taxonomy, that will examine the oppositions & alliances between literary studies and the science of taxonomy. all time periods & subfields welcome! deadline March 23.
please share widely!
March 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM
boosting this again 🐿️🌲🐋🪲🌷
#envhum hive:
I'm organizing a proposed session for MLA 2026 in Toronto, Literature and Taxonomy, that will examine the oppositions & alliances between literary studies and the science of taxonomy. all time periods & subfields welcome! deadline March 23.
please share widely!
I'm organizing a proposed session for MLA 2026 in Toronto, Literature and Taxonomy, that will examine the oppositions & alliances between literary studies and the science of taxonomy. all time periods & subfields welcome! deadline March 23.
please share widely!
February 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
#envhum hive:
I'm organizing a proposed session for MLA 2026 in Toronto, Literature and Taxonomy, that will examine the oppositions & alliances between literary studies and the science of taxonomy. all time periods & subfields welcome! deadline March 23.
please share widely!
I'm organizing a proposed session for MLA 2026 in Toronto, Literature and Taxonomy, that will examine the oppositions & alliances between literary studies and the science of taxonomy. all time periods & subfields welcome! deadline March 23.
please share widely!
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Google, Microsoft, and Meta's increasing use of data centers has resulted in increased air pollution from extensive fossil fuel energy consumption and associated public health costs related to treating cancers, asthma, and other similar issues, valued at over $5.4 billion in the past five years.
Pollution from Big Tech’s data centre boom costs US public health $5.4bn
Research suggests the price of treating illnesses related to building of computing infrastructure in the US is on the rise
www.ft.com
February 23, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Google, Microsoft, and Meta's increasing use of data centers has resulted in increased air pollution from extensive fossil fuel energy consumption and associated public health costs related to treating cancers, asthma, and other similar issues, valued at over $5.4 billion in the past five years.
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If you're working with phone banks and making calls on your own, Tribal Colleges/Universities could use your support. 2 of our oldest & only federally charted universities are in crisis due to EO 14210 and the hiring freezes, impacting thousands of Native students.
collegefund.org/blog/support...
collegefund.org/blog/support...
Support Tribal Colleges and Students. Please Call Your Elected Officials! | American Indian College Fund
TCUs and TCU students need your voice in Washington. Both Haskell and SIPI, the nation's oldest and only federally chartered tribal colleges, are facin ...
collegefund.org
February 21, 2025 at 3:53 PM
If you're working with phone banks and making calls on your own, Tribal Colleges/Universities could use your support. 2 of our oldest & only federally charted universities are in crisis due to EO 14210 and the hiring freezes, impacting thousands of Native students.
collegefund.org/blog/support...
collegefund.org/blog/support...
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We're hiring at the @digblk.bsky.social!
Hiring a "Data Scientist" (very broadly defined) to collaborate on the @ccp-org.bsky.social, @douglassday.bsky.social & emerging work on Black archives & AI. Can be remote!
Info: bit.ly/cbdr-ds
We're reviewing apps this month. Help us spread the word?
Hiring a "Data Scientist" (very broadly defined) to collaborate on the @ccp-org.bsky.social, @douglassday.bsky.social & emerging work on Black archives & AI. Can be remote!
Info: bit.ly/cbdr-ds
We're reviewing apps this month. Help us spread the word?
February 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
We're hiring at the @digblk.bsky.social!
Hiring a "Data Scientist" (very broadly defined) to collaborate on the @ccp-org.bsky.social, @douglassday.bsky.social & emerging work on Black archives & AI. Can be remote!
Info: bit.ly/cbdr-ds
We're reviewing apps this month. Help us spread the word?
Hiring a "Data Scientist" (very broadly defined) to collaborate on the @ccp-org.bsky.social, @douglassday.bsky.social & emerging work on Black archives & AI. Can be remote!
Info: bit.ly/cbdr-ds
We're reviewing apps this month. Help us spread the word?
a perfectly-timed launch of a new exhibit at Penn State Special Collections that recognizes the modes of resistance in print archives of queer and trans makers and activists. my favorite: a book from the Queer Ecology Hanky Project with the cutest little gay hedgehogs and capybaras you’ll ever see
February 21, 2025 at 1:55 PM
a perfectly-timed launch of a new exhibit at Penn State Special Collections that recognizes the modes of resistance in print archives of queer and trans makers and activists. my favorite: a book from the Queer Ecology Hanky Project with the cutest little gay hedgehogs and capybaras you’ll ever see
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(1/4) Recent layoffs of federal workers has a disproportionate impact on Native Americans, but is receiving almost no media attention. In Indian Health Services, which provides healthcare to 2.8 mil NAs, 2,200 people were laid off, including 1,400 who provide direct patient care.
‘Life or Death Consequences’: Layoffs throw Indian Country into turmoil
Thousands of workers are losing their jobs in health, education and other key tribal programs and agencies
ictnews.org
February 17, 2025 at 6:54 PM
(1/4) Recent layoffs of federal workers has a disproportionate impact on Native Americans, but is receiving almost no media attention. In Indian Health Services, which provides healthcare to 2.8 mil NAs, 2,200 people were laid off, including 1,400 who provide direct patient care.
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“Some experts suspect the virus is moving into farms on the wind — in dust contaminated with infectious bird droppings. This infectious dust might also explain several of the 67 recent human cases with no known route of exposure.”
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Bird Flu Is a Big Threat. The US Needs to Start Acting Like It.
Scientists suspect a new strain is spreading via dust from bird droppings, carried by the wind.
www.bloomberg.com
February 14, 2025 at 1:41 AM
“Some experts suspect the virus is moving into farms on the wind — in dust contaminated with infectious bird droppings. This infectious dust might also explain several of the 67 recent human cases with no known route of exposure.”
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
a couple weeks ago I pushed myself to start incorporating a personal writing practice back into my life (after losing all desire to write for fun during the years of grad coursework) and it has actually completely reenergized my relationship to academic writing too
February 13, 2025 at 3:52 PM
a couple weeks ago I pushed myself to start incorporating a personal writing practice back into my life (after losing all desire to write for fun during the years of grad coursework) and it has actually completely reenergized my relationship to academic writing too
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98% of NIH grants that should have gone out this month, didn't. Despite court orders 'unfreezing' the funds, they are frozen. Biomedical research will grind to a halt. Clinical trials will end. All for no reason: the total impact on the US budget is miniscule
February 12, 2025 at 3:19 PM
98% of NIH grants that should have gone out this month, didn't. Despite court orders 'unfreezing' the funds, they are frozen. Biomedical research will grind to a halt. Clinical trials will end. All for no reason: the total impact on the US budget is miniscule
for anyone else who has been waking up with anxious jitters every day the past few weeks and is finding it increasingly difficult to calm down: let me introduce you to the Cornell Bird Lab @cornellbirdcams.bsky.social
albatross live cam
albatross live cam
February 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM
for anyone else who has been waking up with anxious jitters every day the past few weeks and is finding it increasingly difficult to calm down: let me introduce you to the Cornell Bird Lab @cornellbirdcams.bsky.social
albatross live cam
albatross live cam
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NEH has posted updates to the funding restrictions for some grant programs.
February 11, 2025 at 1:27 PM
NEH has posted updates to the funding restrictions for some grant programs.
we’re doing this Bluesky thing! my name is Grace and I am from Newfoundland but I am living in Pennsylvania right now, getting my PhD in English! I like riding my bike and reading about nineteenth-century oceanography. here are pictures of my cat Poe, places I’ve biked, and me with some seaweed
February 1, 2025 at 3:23 AM
we’re doing this Bluesky thing! my name is Grace and I am from Newfoundland but I am living in Pennsylvania right now, getting my PhD in English! I like riding my bike and reading about nineteenth-century oceanography. here are pictures of my cat Poe, places I’ve biked, and me with some seaweed