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Joshua Kirshner @joshkirshner.bsky.social · 1d

Lovely photo!

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Jeff Manuel @jeffmanuel.bsky.social · 3d

It's the official publication day for ETHANOL: A HEMISPHERIC HISTORY FOR THE FUTURE OF BIOFUELS. Want to know why the US turns 40 percent of the corn crop into fuel? How the US and Brazil became the world's two largest ethanol producers? Tom Rogers and I have answers.
www.oupress.com/978080619601...

Ethanol - University of Oklahoma Press

Though ethanol, a liquid fuel made from agricultural byproducts, has generated controversy in recent years—good or bad for the environment? a big-ag boon o...

www.oupress.com

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 2d

In autumn 2000, fuel protests brought Britain to a standstill - just as record floods swept the country.

David Tomory and Timothy Cooper explore what ordinary people made of oil, climate, and crisis at the dawn of the new millennium.

Of Flood Plains and Fuel Protests

How did ordinary people in 2000 make sense of oil, floods, and climate change? David Tomory and Timothy Cooper explore the link between fuel protests and flood waters.

www.historyworkshop.org.uk

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Joshua Kirshner @joshkirshner.bsky.social · 2d

Brill, that's great! And I'm interested in these as well...

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Joshua Kirshner @joshkirshner.bsky.social · 2d

Hi Charlotte, do you have weblinks for any of these CFPs? (makes it easier to share, e.g. with PhD students...) Good stuff!

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Joshua Kirshner @joshkirshner.bsky.social · 3d

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Talking About Race - Episode 7: Are Summer Riots the “New Normal”?

Podcast Episode · ROTA Podcast: Talking About Race · 05/09/2025 · 58m

podcasts.apple.com

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Environment and Climate Politics Working Group @bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social · 3d

Call for Papers for #BISA2026!

Exploring the relationship between imperialism, coloniality and environmental degradation.

This is a joint call with Colonial, Postcolonial & Decolonial WG, recognising that important work is being done at the intersection of our groups.

Deadline Friday 24 October.

Exploring the relationship between imperialism, coloniality and environmental degradation
Joint Call for Papers from the Colonial, Postcolonial, and Decolonial Working Group and Environment and Climate Politics Working Group
We are putting out this joint call in recognition that many researchers are working at the intersection of our two working groups - and during a time when the realities of this intersection between colonialism, empire, and the environment have never been more clear. This moment makes evident the interconnections between militarism and settler colonialism and genocide and ecocide, and therefore the need to situate our knowledge and approaches within anticolonial, indigenous and translocal perspectives.
Recognising the importance of scholarship that addresses these issues, we are calling for papers for BISA2026 that are related to the topics of how imperialism / colonialism / extraction / capitalism are in relationship with environmental degradation. This can be on a material level, where the functions of occupation and extraction lead to environmental destruction, or on a more discursive level, where hierarchies of life are used to justify and naturalise ongoing violence against people and places.
Whilst we are keeping this Call quite broad to encourage wide-ranging submissions, some paper topics or research areas might include:
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Genocide and its links to environmental destruction, for example in Palestine, DR Congo, and Sudan, to name a few.
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Ecological imperialism – theoretical contributions or case studies
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Reparative justice and climate change
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The construction of new ‘frontiers’ – how imperialism and extraction is moving to new areas such as the deep sea or space
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Anticolonial and anti-extractive organising and decarbonization and fossil fuel phase outs
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Indigenous approaches on relationality, connectedness and climate justice
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The role of academics in perpetuating or resisting these forms of harm
Please send your 200-250 word abstrac…

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Joshua Kirshner @joshkirshner.bsky.social · 3d

I needed an infusion of tiger's blood www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps1f...

Waxahatchee: Tiny Desk Concert

YouTube video by NPR Music

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Alexander C. Kaufman @alexckaufman.bsky.social · 4d

New feature up on @latitudemedia.bsky.social on how Poland's polarized politics are stymying potential for geothermal at a moment when the country needs all the clean, domestic power it can get.

www.latitudemedia.com/news/in-coal...

In coal-addicted Poland, partisan politics throttle geothermal’s growth

Could the fast-growing market for American LNG be a market for startups like Zanskar?

www.latitudemedia.com

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Geoff Mann @geoffmann.bsky.social · 5d

I have a new piece on the politics of discounting in the latest @nybooks.com, hopefully of interest to some.
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

The Price of Tomorrow | Geoff Mann

The current discount rate means that the government views the long-term future of humanity as not metaphorically but literally worthless.

www.nybooks.com

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austin HELL ray @austinlouisray.bsky.social · 5d

we need more politicians that post like this imho

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 5d

This is your sign to see One Battle After Another.

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Morag Rose @thelrm.bsky.social · Jul 22

So... here's why I havent posted much. Been writing a book! Thrilled to share The Feminist Art of Walking is out on Pluto October 20th www.plutobooks.com/978074535100... Thanks so much to everyone who has helped make this happen, I am excited and a bit scared for you to read it

The book cover for The Feminist Art of Walking by Morag Rose. The text is in large sans serif font and is in the middle of the page. It is in white over an image of the sky with a cloudy sunset. On the left edge, vertical, is a cityscape, on the right some gorse bushes

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Joshua Kirshner @joshkirshner.bsky.social · 8d

On the ongoing plans for Mozambique's offshore gas resources, and France's TotalEnergies www.zitamar.com/totalenergie...

TotalEnergies continuing to work on gas project despite suspension, data shows

A channel is being dredged for a pipeline to carry the gas from the offshore gas field to liquefaction plants

www.zitamar.com

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Will @sharkfinhat.bsky.social · 8d

Tom Petty is eight years gone today. Feels like if he was still here maybe some of this shit wouldn’t have happened.

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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · 11d

📚New in [LAT-STS Library]!

"Latin American Breakthroughs in STS Theory", edited by Noela Invernizzi & Leandro Rodriguez Medina showcases original contributions from the region, bridging Global North-South dialogues. A must-read for diversifying STS.

🔗 tapuya.org/category/lat-sts-library/
#STS

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Joshua Kirshner @joshkirshner.bsky.social · 9d

Interesting article on post-crisis, mystical-religious authoritarian populism and "conspiritualities," drawing on the Brazilian case

Daniel Andrade @danielpaaa.bsky.social · 29d

Saiu publicado na Economy and Society @econsocjournal.bsky.social o artigo que escrevi com Guilherme Casarões (@casaroes.bsky.social), Letícia Cesarino (@letcesar.bsky.social) e Mariana Côrtes, intitulado "Occult enemies of the market order".
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Occult enemies of the market order

Post-crisis transformations have sparked debates about a new authoritarian stage and/or post-neoliberal tendencies within neoliberal societies. Drawing on the Brazilian case, this paper analyses th...

www.tandfonline.com

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Michela Wrong @michelawrong.bsky.social · 9d

I was reflecting with a friend that Jane Goodall managed to reach the grand age of 91 with - if her public interviews were anything to go by - the engaged, questing mind of a youngster. And she wore her (deserved) fame lightly. It was never about her. theconversation.com/jane-goodall...

Jane Goodall, the gentle disrupter whose research on chimpanzees redefined what it meant to be human

Without formal scientific training, Goodall upended the study of animal behavior. She also inspired countless people to protect nature.

theconversation.com

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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · Aug 13

if you're a politician interested in understanding why our multifamily housing in the US is so poor - and yet paradoxically so expensive... why we can't build family-friendly neighborhoods, why TOD is so autocentric - please reach out!

one-pager on my book here:
www.larchlab.com/wp-content/u...

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Joshua Kirshner @joshkirshner.bsky.social · 9d

useful resource...

Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk · 19d

The Leverhulme Trust has teamed up with @britishacademy.bsky.social to produce Confessions of an Early Career Researcher, a new podcast by ECRs for ECRs. Tune in now: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/audio-video/...

Read more about this collaboration: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/news/confess...

White text on magenta background: Confessions of an Early Career Researcher. leverhulme.ac.uk/news
"We are excited to be collaborating with the British Academy on this new podcast to help early career researchers navigate every stage of their career journey."

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 10d

About a fifth of American adults say they get their news primarily from TikTok. Now Donald Trump is putting the wildly popular app in the hands of his allies. “If I could, I’d make it 100 percent MAGA-related,” he said.

Donald Trump’s TikTok Deal Looks Like Crony Capitalism

The sale demonstrates the President’s personal brand of industrial policy—transactional, opaque, and designed to politically benefit him and his allies.

www.newyorker.com

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Kierán Suckling @kieransuckling.bsky.social · Dec 13

Please re-tweet so I can quit X. I've got 45k followers there, just 500 here. When I get to 5k I can dump Musk forever

I'm the director of @centerforbiodiv.bsky.social. Follow me for real-time, insider takes on endangered species, climate, public lands, oceans, toxics. We sue Trump alot. Very alot.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 10d

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

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Roland Karthaus @rolandk.bsky.social · Aug 26

Fascinating piece on Giroscope in Hull's inventive approach to developing property for social purpose. As shared by a current PhD student I'm supervising who is studying self help models for homelessness
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

‘Why not work the system’? How punks inspired by Thatcher built a Hull housing cooperative

Set up in the 1980s, Giroscope has morphed into a social agency running neighbourhood services and creating jobs

www.theguardian.com

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Joshua Kirshner @joshkirshner.bsky.social · 10d

I'd be happy to chat with you about it sometime... Academia is pretty rough these days, as you've surely heard 😎

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Joshua Kirshner @joshkirshner.bsky.social · 10d

Funny you say that, as I love linguistics (as a side interest.) And I often don't fit within urban planning academia, something I've struggled with a bit...

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