jayson m porter
@roguechieftan.bsky.social
environmental historian and writer, & asst. prof @UMaryland: Environmental justice histories, food systems, agrochemicals, & racial ecologies in Mexico & the Americas. @nacla @PlantPerspectives
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Mule Power
Unpacking empires and diaspora in Mexico and the United States.
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“Horses come with speed, social status, and occasionally courage. Still, their strides are too long and inconsistent to carry strenuous weight in extreme conditions. For that, empires needed mules.”
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Grateful to @bunkhistory.bsky.social for highlighting my essay "Mule Power" with @sciencehistory.org!!
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www.bunkhistory.org/resources/mu...
Mule Power
Unpacking empires and diaspora in Mexico and the United States.
www.bunkhistory.org
December 5, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Grateful to @bunkhistory.bsky.social for highlighting my essay "Mule Power" with @sciencehistory.org!!
www.bunkhistory.org/resources/mu...
www.bunkhistory.org/resources/mu...
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Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.
December 1, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.
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Interested or know someone interested in doing a PhD on environmental histories/materialities of zoonotic or infectious animal disease as part of Transformative Humanities @durham.ac.uk Then please get in touch by Dec 8th! @pollenetwork.bsky.social @emilywebz.bsky.social @rgs-agwg.bsky.social
December 1, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Interested or know someone interested in doing a PhD on environmental histories/materialities of zoonotic or infectious animal disease as part of Transformative Humanities @durham.ac.uk Then please get in touch by Dec 8th! @pollenetwork.bsky.social @emilywebz.bsky.social @rgs-agwg.bsky.social
I can read two things in my grad students' writing: they respect themselves and they respect me, too.
December 1, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I can read two things in my grad students' writing: they respect themselves and they respect me, too.
Not me randomly seeing research on agrochemicals in Latin America on my trip to London
November 30, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Not me randomly seeing research on agrochemicals in Latin America on my trip to London
I have no black men mentors, and I’m finally not sad about it. Just angry and bummed to see how black men with influence move. I don’t want that for myself.
November 26, 2025 at 2:09 AM
I have no black men mentors, and I’m finally not sad about it. Just angry and bummed to see how black men with influence move. I don’t want that for myself.
Hey y’all! Where should I go to in Southeast London for fun and food? We’re hoping for something Black—Caribbean or West African. Tomorrow is our last full day in London.
November 24, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Hey y’all! Where should I go to in Southeast London for fun and food? We’re hoping for something Black—Caribbean or West African. Tomorrow is our last full day in London.
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Season 7 launches 🔥 by reflecting on "What Zohran Can Learn from Latin America's Pink Tide" - with some insightful analyses on the challenges for the Zohran administration , and what leftist-governed cities in Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil +Ecuador have to teach us open.spotify.com/episode/75Oo...
What Zohran can learn from Latin America's Pink Tide
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November 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Season 7 launches 🔥 by reflecting on "What Zohran Can Learn from Latin America's Pink Tide" - with some insightful analyses on the challenges for the Zohran administration , and what leftist-governed cities in Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil +Ecuador have to teach us open.spotify.com/episode/75Oo...
"...in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.” Rachel Carson
November 10, 2025 at 9:35 PM
"...in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.” Rachel Carson
If coal tar is the elemental "mother of organic chemistry," what is elemental mother of inorganic chemistry? Arsenic?
November 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
If coal tar is the elemental "mother of organic chemistry," what is elemental mother of inorganic chemistry? Arsenic?
Writing thoughts: nominalizations can become stories by asking who, what, when, where, & why? Nominalizations are verbs masquerading as nouns. Take modernization. Where & when: the word modernization was coined in rural Mexico after the Mexican Revolution. But why? Who & what was modernizing & how?
November 8, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Writing thoughts: nominalizations can become stories by asking who, what, when, where, & why? Nominalizations are verbs masquerading as nouns. Take modernization. Where & when: the word modernization was coined in rural Mexico after the Mexican Revolution. But why? Who & what was modernizing & how?
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I'm opening up a Black & Indigenous environmental art gallery
@umterps.bsky.social to help students navigate climate anxiety & other stresses that come with learning about environmental injustice & environmental racism. Please consider donating & coming to our fundraiser @framebridge.bsky.social!
@umterps.bsky.social to help students navigate climate anxiety & other stresses that come with learning about environmental injustice & environmental racism. Please consider donating & coming to our fundraiser @framebridge.bsky.social!
November 8, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I'm opening up a Black & Indigenous environmental art gallery
@umterps.bsky.social to help students navigate climate anxiety & other stresses that come with learning about environmental injustice & environmental racism. Please consider donating & coming to our fundraiser @framebridge.bsky.social!
@umterps.bsky.social to help students navigate climate anxiety & other stresses that come with learning about environmental injustice & environmental racism. Please consider donating & coming to our fundraiser @framebridge.bsky.social!
November 8, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I'm opening up a Black & Indigenous environmental art gallery
@umterps.bsky.social to help students navigate climate anxiety & other stresses that come with learning about environmental injustice & environmental racism. Please consider donating & coming to our fundraiser @framebridge.bsky.social!
@umterps.bsky.social to help students navigate climate anxiety & other stresses that come with learning about environmental injustice & environmental racism. Please consider donating & coming to our fundraiser @framebridge.bsky.social!
"Does the world get poorer when a hundred-dollar bill falls down a sewer? For that matter, does the world get richer when we strike gold or cut down trees?"
Richard Powers in Gain (1998)
Richard Powers in Gain (1998)
November 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
"Does the world get poorer when a hundred-dollar bill falls down a sewer? For that matter, does the world get richer when we strike gold or cut down trees?"
Richard Powers in Gain (1998)
Richard Powers in Gain (1998)
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I’m grateful for Drs. Dana Cypress and Justin Hosbey Elleza Kelley, Maurice Wallace, Carlyn Ferrari, as well as Helen Ganiy for bringing this special cluster of Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. Link to the intro: doi.org/10.1093/isle...
November 4, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I’m grateful for Drs. Dana Cypress and Justin Hosbey Elleza Kelley, Maurice Wallace, Carlyn Ferrari, as well as Helen Ganiy for bringing this special cluster of Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. Link to the intro: doi.org/10.1093/isle...
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New Master in Public Environmental Humanities - @greenhouseuis.net
2-year masters program for students who want to study today’s environmental challenges as deeply rooted in culture and history
Info sessions on November 11 & 21
niche-canada.org/2025/11/01/n...
#envhum #envhist #envstudies
2-year masters program for students who want to study today’s environmental challenges as deeply rooted in culture and history
Info sessions on November 11 & 21
niche-canada.org/2025/11/01/n...
#envhum #envhist #envstudies
New Master in Public Environmental Humanities
2-year masters program for students who want to study today’s environmental challenges as deeply rooted in culture and history
niche-canada.org
November 1, 2025 at 8:01 PM
New Master in Public Environmental Humanities - @greenhouseuis.net
2-year masters program for students who want to study today’s environmental challenges as deeply rooted in culture and history
Info sessions on November 11 & 21
niche-canada.org/2025/11/01/n...
#envhum #envhist #envstudies
2-year masters program for students who want to study today’s environmental challenges as deeply rooted in culture and history
Info sessions on November 11 & 21
niche-canada.org/2025/11/01/n...
#envhum #envhist #envstudies
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When fascism rises, the labor movement decides whether democracy survives.
CTU Vice PresidentJackson Potterand UTLA’s Alex Caputo-Pearl write that unions must lead a national anti-Trump strategy, one that’s rooted in collective power, community solidarity, and the courage to disrupt.
CTU Vice PresidentJackson Potterand UTLA’s Alex Caputo-Pearl write that unions must lead a national anti-Trump strategy, one that’s rooted in collective power, community solidarity, and the courage to disrupt.
November 3, 2025 at 2:10 AM
When fascism rises, the labor movement decides whether democracy survives.
CTU Vice PresidentJackson Potterand UTLA’s Alex Caputo-Pearl write that unions must lead a national anti-Trump strategy, one that’s rooted in collective power, community solidarity, and the courage to disrupt.
CTU Vice PresidentJackson Potterand UTLA’s Alex Caputo-Pearl write that unions must lead a national anti-Trump strategy, one that’s rooted in collective power, community solidarity, and the courage to disrupt.
Thinking of Dr. Imani Perry’s work on blue, I wonder if there’s a black environmental history of the color maroon?
November 1, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Thinking of Dr. Imani Perry’s work on blue, I wonder if there’s a black environmental history of the color maroon?
I had no clue Darwin wrote a whole book on earthworms. Rachel Carson with them gems.
October 30, 2025 at 1:34 PM
I had no clue Darwin wrote a whole book on earthworms. Rachel Carson with them gems.
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Women farmers in Xochimilco and San Gregorio are restoring chinampas (high-yield island farms) using canal-mud fertiliser, biofilters and invasive-fish barriers. The program has certified 16 producers and buffers floods, cools the city and shelters the axolotl. buff.ly/0gIJjxl
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Women in Mexico step up to protect ancient Aztec farms and save a vanishing ecosystem
In Mexico, traditionally women did not inherit chinampas, island farms first built by the Aztecs thousands of years ago.
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October 27, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Women farmers in Xochimilco and San Gregorio are restoring chinampas (high-yield island farms) using canal-mud fertiliser, biofilters and invasive-fish barriers. The program has certified 16 producers and buffers floods, cools the city and shelters the axolotl. buff.ly/0gIJjxl
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
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Join me & @mmuscolino.bsky.social discussing his book Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People: The Burden of Conservation in Modern China tomorrow (Monday, 27 October 2025) at 4pm Central European / 11am Eastern / 8am Pacific
Live talk details:
newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...
#envhum #envhist
Live talk details:
newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...
#envhum #envhist
October 26, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Join me & @mmuscolino.bsky.social discussing his book Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People: The Burden of Conservation in Modern China tomorrow (Monday, 27 October 2025) at 4pm Central European / 11am Eastern / 8am Pacific
Live talk details:
newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...
#envhum #envhist
Live talk details:
newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...
#envhum #envhist
I’m excited to read Rick A. López’s new book Rooted in Place!
October 26, 2025 at 2:37 PM
I’m excited to read Rick A. López’s new book Rooted in Place!
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Talking Records: Pollution in the Archive is now open for registration! 🏭🌊
In person symposium at The National Archives on 4th December: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talking-re...
Afternoon of online talks on 5th December: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talking-re...
#envhum #envhist
In person symposium at The National Archives on 4th December: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talking-re...
Afternoon of online talks on 5th December: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talking-re...
#envhum #envhist
Talking Records: Pollution in the Archive (in person)
Explore histories of pollution, contamination, and environmental damage in the archive at this one-day symposium at The National Archives.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 23, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Talking Records: Pollution in the Archive is now open for registration! 🏭🌊
In person symposium at The National Archives on 4th December: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talking-re...
Afternoon of online talks on 5th December: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talking-re...
#envhum #envhist
In person symposium at The National Archives on 4th December: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talking-re...
Afternoon of online talks on 5th December: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talking-re...
#envhum #envhist
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In case you’re free in July and want to spend a week on the Yukon…
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RIVERS IN TIME, RIVERS IN WORDS - Freeflow Institute
An experiential deep dive into the history + evolving narrative of the Yukon
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October 24, 2025 at 7:54 PM
In case you’re free in July and want to spend a week on the Yukon…
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