Aadita Chaudhury
@aadita.bsky.social
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PhD. Researcher on fires, arts, eco-technosocial imaginaries/futures. Co-travelling with poetry, sound, science, nature/cultures, ceremony and embodied knowledges. She/her www.aaditachaudhury.com
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I am defending my PhD in September 2025! Please send all relevant jobs my way! #envhist #envhum #sts
aadita.bsky.social
I'm on the job market! I'm seeking interesting places, projects and opportunities at the intersection of STS, political ecology, and environmental humanities. My areas of interest and research so far span these areas and as well as arts-based research and sound studies!
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elmcitytree.blacksky.app
James Baldwin to Angela Davis in 1970, discussing white Americans:
Or, to put it another way, as long as white Americans take refuge in their whiteness— for so long as they are unable to walk out of this most monstrous of traps-they will allow millions of people to be slaughtered in their name, and will be manipulated into and surrender themselves to what they will think of-and justify—as a racial war. They will never, so long as their whiteness puts so sinister a distance between themselves and their own experience and the experience of others, feel themselves sufficiently human, sufficiently worthwhile, to become responsible for themselves, their leaders, their country, their children, or their fate. They will perish (as we once put it in our black church) in their sins—that is, in their delusions. And this is happening, needless to say, already, all around us.
aadita.bsky.social
This post-phd void is like the summer between high school and university except I have no idea what I will be doing next
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erinbiba.bsky.social
Everyone needs to take a good hard look at the demographics of everyone writing think pieces and theses and breathless social media posts about how our current situation couldn’t have been predicted in full.

Because the demographics are glaring.
gothamgirlblue.com
Even a passing knowledge of Black history will make clear that not only was this level of destruction possible, it was inevitable. “Did you know they’d shut down US AID?” I mean these are the same people who closed all public schools in a county rather than desegregate. Yes. Yes I did.
chanda.blacksky.app
I don't think the people expressing surprise about things the Trump administration is doing understand how absolutely fucking crazymaking each of your posts is for Black and Indigenous folks who called *all of this* and sat through people talking about "respecting norms" for years
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thierryaaron.bsky.social
"shifting societal views & values is key. Recognizing the interconnectedness of people & nature through education, communication, & social movements can reshape norms & behaviors. Curricula that... help to educate new generations that are prepared to create & thrive in a
just & sustainable world"
Transformative change to address biodiversity loss is urgent and possible
Transformative change for a just and sustainable world often appears overwhelming. This Perspective highlights the key messages from the IPBES Transformative Change Assessment and how everyone can be ...
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aadita.bsky.social
That’s Dr. Aadita Chaudhury for you.
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shannonmattern.bsky.social
🇮🇱's "minister of interior, rightwing settler Itamar Ben Gvir, delivered a speech over the podium of Israel's Knesset. The main theme of this speech was the goat.... I reflect on the real properties of 🐐s + on the role that they have played in the political making of the natural landscape of 🇵🇸-🇮🇱" 🔒
The goat speech: Ecofascism in Palestine-Israel - Irus Braverman, 2025
One hundred and seventeen days into Israel's war on Gaza, the country's minister of interior, rightwing settler Itamar Ben Gvir, delivered a speech ov...
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oldenoughtosay.com
Can’t explain it but of course they want to take away one of the only painkillers that’s safe for pregnancy, a condition that causes weird and unusual pains. these people WANT pregnancy to be a punishment and handicap. they want to control.
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adapalmer.bsky.social
A Brazilian drug raises hopes of reversing spinal cord injury. Scientists in São Paulo have developed a treatment based on the protein laminin. In animal trials, it reactivated dormant nerve pathways, restoring movement and sensation after paralysis. buff.ly/Jcj1euy
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Groundbreaking Brazilian Drug, Considered Capable of Reversing Spinal Cord Injury, Presented in São Paulo
Patients regained movement in the experimental phase of polylaminin, capable of regenerating the spinal cord in people who suffered organ rupture
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2damntrans.bsky.social
Absolutely, but it is funny reading this in the Guardian, i.e. the paper that censored Judith Butler to appease the "gender-critical" fash.
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karenattiah.bsky.social
Well, I'm *officially* in my Rogue Radical era now!

Sept 26th,is the last day to sign up for my Race, Media and International Affairs online classes.

They don't want us to talk about race and history, but I'm going to teach it anyway.

Enroll here! www.resistancesummerschool.com/fall-2025-re...
Fall Registration for Race, Media & International Affairs with Karen Attiah — Resistance Study Series
A virtual, seven week beginner and intermediate course on the history of race, mass media, and the modern world order.
www.resistancesummerschool.com
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michaelemann.bsky.social
It is telling that on this "SUN Day" where we celebrate the promise of renewable solar energy (www.sunday.earth), the NY Times runs fossil fuel-friendly op-ed promoting a "technofix" that would actually DISRUPT solar energy (www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-h...).
(h/t @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social)
michaelemann.bsky.social
In #ScienceUnderSiege (www.barnesandnoble.com/w/science-un...), @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social and I criticize the NY Times for pushing unhelpful antiscience (like the "Lab Leak Theory" for COVID-19) or fossil fuel-friendly framing (e.g. in this case, "geoengineering" as a climate solution):
screen cap of NY Times article pushing Geoengineering
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riogranderift.bsky.social
I find it remarkable how much ink is spilled on techno fixes to the climate crisis w/o so much as a rhetorical nod to the imperative to wind down fossil fuels.

The unfortunate subtext of this op ed -- whether by design or not -- is that politicians need not confront fossil fuel political power.
Opinion | A Responsible Way to Cool the Planet
www.nytimes.com
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globalecoguy.bsky.social
A piece in the New York Times brings up a “zombie” proposal to combat climate change — basically using smoke & mirrors to cool the planet.

No matter how many times people kill the idea, it seems to come back to the headlines.

Don’t let it. It’s not a good idea.

globalecoguy.org/solar-geoeng...
Solar Geoengineering: Ineffective, Risky, and Unnecessary
Some people are proposing to counteract climate change by artificially dimming the Sun. But it’s ineffective. It’s risky. And it’s…
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aadita.bsky.social
Anyway I have thoughts about this H1B visa thing and I am very annoyed because I have been trying my hardest to decentre the US and Indian fascisms in my life
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adambonin.bsky.social
My mom called me last night about the Kimmel firing, saying "This is how Hitler got started!" I quickly responded, "By firing the late night tv hosts?"

Turns out, mom was right.
Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime

Feb. 4, 1939

February 4, 1939, Page 1

BERLIN, Feb. 3.—Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels today ended the professional careers of five "Aryan" actors and cabaret announcers by expelling them from the Reich's Chamber of Culture on the grounds that “in their public appearances they displayed a lack of any positive attitude toward National Socialism and therewith caused grave annoyance in public and especially to party comrades.” The five include perhaps the best known German stage comedians who survived previous Chamber of Culture purges and still dared to indulge in political witticisms—namely, Werner Finck, Peter Sachse and “The Three Rulands,” represented by Helmuth Buth, Wilhelm Meissner and Manfred Dlugi. Their expulsion means that they are henceforth forbidden to appear before the public in Germany.

Besides motivating this action in an official communiqué, Dr. Goebbels also publishes a long article in the Voelkischer Beobachter in which he denounces them as “brazen, impertinent, arrogant and tactless" and generally imitators and successors to Jews. Simultaneously he denounces the "society rabble that followed them with thundering applause—parasitic scum, inhabiting our luxury streets, that seems to have only the task of proving with how little brains people can get along and even acquire money and prominence."

As regards the details of the "crimes" of which the five are accused, Dr. Goebbels mentions that they made political witticisms about the colonial problem, the Four-Year Plan and Chancellor Hitler's monumental building program and one of them even raised the question of whether there was any humor left in Germany today.

What amused the public most, however, and presumably roiled the National Socialist authorities most—although Dr. Goebbels does not mention it—is that they deftly, but unmistakably, caricatured some gestures, poses and physical characteristics of Nat…
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gothamgirlblue.com
Almost inevitably, a white liberal pundit who finds a way to “hear out” or “find commonalities” with white supremacists eventually starts saying depraved shit. I need to understand why that’s not the last strike for white people that it is for Black political observers.
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manigarm.bsky.social
Wow. So much free speech I can barely handle it.....
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pittriversmuseum.bsky.social
Born in 1873 Maori scholar Mākereti Papakura is believed to be the first indigenous woman to matriculate at University of Oxford. She enrolled in 1922 to read Anthropology at Pitt Rivers Museum but tragically died just before graduating. She will be awarded a posthumous degree in Oxford next week.
Black and white photo of woman with long wavy dark hair adorned with a white-tipped feather and wearing a ceremonial feather cape and large carved pendant.
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katieholten.bsky.social
LEARNING TO BE BETTER LOVERS, published to accompany my Forest School for the Helsinki Biennial. This is the last week to catch the show, it closes September 21, 2025 🌿
Photo of a booklet called Learning to be Better Lovers, published to accompany Katie Holten’s Forest School for the 2025 Helsinki Biennial.

Published in three editions, English, Finnish, Swedish. 

There are three copies of the booklet standing upright. The cover is cream with black glyphs spelling out the title in Holten’s bespoke Forest Alphabet font. The background is also cream and dramatic shadows from the books fall to the right. 

Booklet contains forest walking, drawing and breathing exercises. 

Photo courtesy HAM Helsinki Art Museum
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ianboudreau.com
It's not super encouraging to consider that Isaac Chotiner has gained a reputation as a kind of Anton Chigurh of interviews simply by asking relevant questions, following up on them, and not trying to be the subject's best friend
gravelinfluencer.bsky.social
Yesterday Fresh Air did an interview with Robert Draper, who has covered Charlie Kirk. And this section on Draper's relationship with Kirk said a lot to me about modern access journalism, and the soft coverage we've seen in the wake of Kirk's death.
GROSS: After you profiled Kirk, and I think that was published back in February, you stayed in touch with him. And I think you were texting each other the day before he was killed.

DRAPER: That's correct. I'll tell you also, Terry, that the story, as you say, was published in February of this year. But I would say for a full year prior to that, Kirk and I had been getting to know each other, and he would often reach out to me. And I thought this was an interesting aspect to Kirk, that he would reach out to me just to run things by me. Not asking so much for my opinion - because, as a journalist, I couldn't give it - but just as a reality check, he'd say, I'm hearing from the right that this particular viewpoint is prevalent from the left. Am I just living in a bubble, or is that true?

GROSS: How would you respond to that?

DRAPER: Well, sometimes I would say, you know, I think what you're hearing you're hearing from the right-wing media ecosystem, and it's not supported by reality as I understand it. And he would take that and be grateful for it. There was also a time I reached out to him, I remember, to say, I'd like to talk to you off the record about the religious context in which so many people in the MAGA community are viewing Donald Trump. Can you explain to me how they see him as this sort of flawed vessel, like King David or something? And he was very fluent in describing that to me. And so we had that kind of back-and-forth well predating the publication of the story, and continued to since then. I had dinner with him in D.C. once, I think, a couple of months before he was killed, and I remember he brought security with him. They sat at the bar. And he seemed very casual about it, which is not to say that he was utterly unconcerned. But it was essentially the cost of doing business, that that was just the world that we were in.

I was texting with him the day before the assassination because I wanted to come to Arizona and have dinner with him and his wife to catch up on various things. But also, there's a major magazine project that I'm beginning. And I wanted Kirk's thoughts about it, but not on the phone and not in writing. It just required a face-to-face. And he wrote back saying, absolutely. We would love to have you over for dinner. Just pick a date in September. And I think I sent, a few hours later, the text, how about September 23? And obviously, I never heard back.