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Dominic Boyer
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energy/environment/media/climate; once made a glacier memorial; writer; occasional podcaster; improv philosopher; resisting the petrostate; 2025 Guggenheim Fellow

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Dominic Boyer is an American-born cultural anthropologist, writer, filmmaker and podcaster whose work focuses on relationships between energy and environment, media and politics. He is the son of historian John W. Boyer. .. more

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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · 16d
Final Cultures of Energy pod for 2025. A Year in Review episode featuring some serious AI slop. See you in 2026 everyone!! cenhs.libsyn.com/245-2025-yea...
Cultures of Energy: 245 - 2025 Year in Review (feat. AI ;)
Neither headcolds nor hangovers will keep your plucky co-hosts from bringing you one more episode for 2025. Since this is supposedly the year of AI, we let ChatGPT create a Year in Review episode stru...
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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · 12h
Cultures of Energy pod is w/ a terrific conversation w/ Maxime Polleri abt his new book Radioactive Governance which looks at the first 15 years of the Fukushima disaster & various efforts to downplay its significance. If you think nuclear energy is a solution listen to this: tinyurl.com/386bhpcb
Cultures of Energy: 246 - Radioactive Governance (feat. Maxime Polleri)
Happy 2026! It’s been quite a year so far and your co-hosts talk about their recent trip to Nicaragua and Shadow’s reinvention as a fly assassin. Then (17:18) we welcome to the conversation to talk a...
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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · 3d
New essay in Annals of Glaciology (with Cymene Howe) reviewing several decades of efforts to call attention to melting glaciers and the impact of glacier loss on human communities... www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
“Communication Efforts to Educate the Public about Vanishing Glaciers, 1958-2025” | Annals of Glaciology | Cambridge Core
“Communication Efforts to Educate the Public about Vanishing Glaciers, 1958-2025”
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 11d
The world’s 500 richest people have total wealth of $11.9tn.

Their wealth up by $2.2tn in 2025. 8 billionaires accounting for a 25% of the gains.

No one becomes this rich by working.

They fund right-wing parties, oppose worker/human rights, cause more pollution than normal people.
Billionaires added record $2.2tn in wealth in 2025
Just eight billionaires accounted for a quarter of the gains, led by Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Larry Ellison and Larry Page
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Lacy M. Johnson @lacymjohnson.bsky.social · Dec 8
At Rice we are hiring a Post-Doc in Public History and a Post-MFA (or PhD) in Creative Writing to work on a Sawyer Seminar, “Writing History, Righting Democracy.” Links to both positions in comments. Please share with your networks!

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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · Dec 8
New ep of Cultures of Energy! We talk to Jean-Baptiste Fressoz about whether the history of energy is about transitions or accumulations. tinyurl.com/yc2bz6cy @cymene.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social @culanth.bsky.social @harpercollins.bsky.social PS next month is our 10th anniversary. Send a note!
Cultures of Energy: 244 – Energy Transition (feat. Jean-Baptiste Fressoz)
In honor of cookie week, your co-hosts tackle an age-old question: are brownies cookies are not? Then we process the fact that next month will be the 10th anniversary of Cultures of Energy (wow!) Ther...
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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · Dec 7
And please see ggcl.rice.edu for the most recent chapter of the same project…

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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · Nov 25
New Cultures of Energy pod! We talk about the entanglement of oil, labor and intimacy in the Caribbean with Chelsea Schields. Everything you ever wanted to know about petrosexuality but were afraid to ask! tinyurl.com/4pstevda @cymene.bsky.social @culanth.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social
Cultures of Energy: 243 - Oil and Intimacy (feat. Chelsea Schields)
Cymene and Dominic recount a pleasant business trip to New Orleans including a mild bout of Satanic panic. Then (9:10) we are joined by the delightful to talk about her recent book, (U California Pr...
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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · Nov 17
For those coming to the AAA meetings in NOLA this week, come and see our monsters!

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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · Nov 13
Believe it or not Houston will soon be home to the largest 3d printed housing development in the world. It’s low income housing built to last for centuries instead of decades in one of Houston’s economically disadvantaged areas. Here’s a robot starting to make a house #ZuriGardens

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Institute for Policy Studies @ips-dc.org · Nov 12
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.

And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*

Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · Nov 10
New Cultures of Energy pod! Talking to Javiera Barandiarán about living minerals, rights of nature and the aftermath of the attempt to create a new Chilean constitution. Please listen and share! tinyurl.com/2v2r7w9m @cymene.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social @culanth.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social
Cultures of Energy: 242 – Living Minerals (feat. Javiera Barandiarán)
Dominic and Cymene begin with the war on Chicago and Kelly Hayes’s amazing essay, “” which everyone should read. Then (15:20) we welcome Javiera Barandiarán to the podcast to talk about her new book, ...
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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · Nov 6
Coming soon to New Orleans!!

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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · Oct 31
Wow I wonder who pushed this initiative
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A scoop that I’m not happy to report:

CBS News has gutted its climate change reporting team, one of the best in the business, and one of the only ones on cable news that consistently called out fossil fuels as the main source of climate pollution.

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CBS News kills its climate unit
David Ellison, the new pro-Trump chief executive of Paramount Skydance, has dismantled the best climate change reporting team in cable news.
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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · Oct 31
A scoop that I’m not happy to report:

CBS News has gutted its climate change reporting team, one of the best in the business, and one of the only ones on cable news that consistently called out fossil fuels as the main source of climate pollution.

heated.world/p/cbs-news-k...
CBS News kills its climate unit
David Ellison, the new pro-Trump chief executive of Paramount Skydance, has dismantled the best climate change reporting team in cable news.
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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · Oct 31
Honoring the dead for Halloween and Day of the Dead… yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/10/the-...
The anthropologists holding funerals for the world’s dying glaciers » Yale Climate Connections
To help people grasp what it means to lose 273 billion tons of ice a year, two researchers are treating glaciers like community members – and giving them the memorials they deserve.
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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · Oct 27
New Cultures of Energy pod on film, plastics, warfare, radiation and more. Plus did you know Rayon is made from wood? That & more marvels revealed in our chat with @alicelovejoy.bsky.social about her brilliant new book tinyurl.com/5fv6mc4f @cymene.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social @culanth.bsky.social
Cultures of Energy: 241 - Militant Chemistry (feat. Alice Lovejoy)
Dominic and Cymene talk about AI and other chowhounds to kick off this week’s podcast. Then (12:46) we welcome the wonderful to talk about her new book (U California Press, 2025). We begin with the ...
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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · Oct 24
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The Electrotech Revolution | Ember
The annual slidedeck from Kingsmill Bond and the Ember Futures team unpacks how electrotech is rewriting the economics and geopolitics of energy.
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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · Oct 24
The US govt doubling down on fossil fuels undermines even their own AI ambitions. Meanwhile EV sales in China went from ~5% of the market to nearly 50% IN JUST FIVE YEARS. "Electrotech" (as some are now calling it) is the global future. A full overview report in the first comment below...

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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · Oct 21
🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨
Many things are changing before our eyes. Others are harder to see

Like the US economy

Americans are spending more 💲 recovering from disasters and preparing for the next one. 36% of US GDP growth since 2000 is related to climate disasters.

Welcome to the Disaster Industrial Complex 🎁🔗
Disaster Recovery Is an $8 Trillion Driver of US Growth
Investors are on the hunt for companies powering the disaster industrial complex, which are fueling US growth and outpacing the S&P 500
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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · Oct 21
Dear NOLA friends and AAA folk, @metafactory.bsky.social & I have curated an exhibition, "Spectral Remix" @ Merchant House (1150 Magazine St) from Wednesday Nov 19th through to Saturday Nov 22. Please drop by & spread the word to those who might find this interesting...

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Spectral Remix
November 19-22, 2025
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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · Oct 20
Shameful and ridiculous thebarbedwire.com/2025/10/20/h...
Houston Erased Texas’ First-Ever Gay Pride Crosswalk in the Middle of the Night
Houston tore up the Montrose rainbow crosswalk last night, arresting four protestors who gathered at the intersection.
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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · Oct 18
#NoKings Houston

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · Oct 18
#NoKings Cincinnati
Rally sign reads “I am Aunt Tifa. Heard you were looking for me!”

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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · Oct 16
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FEMA buyouts vs. risky real estate: New maps reveal post-flood migration patterns across the US
In general, people are moving to safer homes after disasters, but the vast majority are selling, meaning someone else is now taking on that risk. Buyout programs can help.
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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · Oct 13
New episode of Cultures of Energy ! What if we could create a new kind of "carbon bank" to incentivize drawing down CO2 to store it safely long term? Gustav Peebles + Ben Luzzatto tell us how. tinyurl.com/2meynbme @cymene.bsky.social @culanth.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social
Cultures of Energy: 240 - Carbon Banking (feat. Ben Luzzatto & Gustav Peebles)
We begin this episode with a shoutout to our friends at the Canadian Centre for Architecture () and try to settle once and for all the Montreal vs New York bagel question. Then (13:58) we welcome to t...
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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · Oct 9
dear friends living in Georgia -- you've got a really important election coming up with a chance to take more democratic control over your power system. please listen to this podcast with all the details.. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p... thanks!! D
Pay attention to the most important political race of 2025
Podcast Episode · Volts · 10/08/2025 · 1h 4m
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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · Oct 9
Fireside chat with Mette High and Vinnie Ialenti on nuclear energy in just a few hours time! @energy-ethics.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/posts/mette-...
Governing the Unseen: U.S. Nuclear Waste Futures & the Geocultural License to Operate | Mette High
Don't miss my online 'fireside chat' with Vincent Ialenti, *today* Thursday 9 Oct at 4pm UK time. Note: We won't be recording this event, so make sure you register now and are ready to tune in: http:/...
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