HAPPENING NOW: Judge Karin Immergut hears emergency arguments as California and Oregon seek to block President Trump's deployment of federalized California National Guard troops to Portland. 🧵

“When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day's work is all I can permit myself to contemplate.”
― John Steinbeck

#WritingSky #AcademicSky

The thing regular people don’t often grasp about ‘academic freedom’ is that if you don’t allow experts to research & teach in their fields of expertise, guided by their professional judgment & decades of training, you have effectively given up on the concept of knowledge & shut down your university

p.s. My essay on the Wounded Knee massacre can be found here (open access!):

www.jstor.org/stable/10.25...

Sandra Harding’s legacy: A force of nature who built Tapuya in dialogue, reshaping STS through standpoint theory, decolonial friendship, and fierce care for Latin American voices.

🕯️doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2025.2536961

#Obituary #SandraHarding #STS #TapuyaLASTS @tapuya.org

Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.

ICYMT: Ms. Magazine has a timely article on anti-abortion violence coming out in the print magazine laterthis month.

It appears in four parts online:

msmagazine.com/2025/09/16/a...

msmagazine.com/2025/09/17/g...

msmagazine.com/2025/09/18/r...

msmagazine.com/2025/09/19/a...

#HPS program at the University of Copenhagen invites applications for Postdoc in History and Philosophy of Science as part of research project Human Variables in Biodiversity Assessment (PI: Joeri Witteveen): employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho...
#philsky #PhilJobs #philsci

Deadline is November 7, 2025.

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

New paper on the intersections of ethnobiology and degrowth: two ways of understanding our place in the world through action-oriented, imaginative research into socioecological relationships.

doi.org/10.1177/0278...

It is also redundant because no other place in the US but the university tolerates "difficult speakers" to the extent that universities do.

a detail that appears with fairly regular occurrence in many personal accounts of the Nazi regime is how many individuals died from stroke, heart attacks, and similar health complications because of the stress and despondency that was inflicted on those whose lives were ruined by the regime.

In this editorial, we've taken the opportunity of being 3 years in - amidst the "flow or tide" of submissions - to ask how the field's energies are being distributed, + reflect on the concepts and theories that are so central to new STS work that they almost form a canon or infrastructure...

I'd like to commend the lawyers who wrote this complaint on behalf of the professors and employees of the University of California against the Trump administration.

It's a sober legal document with strong claims, but also, this is a fight for public opinion, and this reads like the writers know it.

This fall brings not just one but two exhibitions about Ursula and her work.

In Portland, A Larger Reality: Ursula K. Le Guin opens October 31st at Oregon Contemporary.

In London, The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin opens October 10th at the AA Gallery.

Robin Nagle (NYU) has been involved in the field of Discard Studies for years. See: academic.macmillan.com/academictrad...

Max Liboiron’s Pollution is Colonialism is field-defining. www.dukeupress.edu/pollution-is...

Kim de Wolff just won the STS paper prize: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Unconstitutional and worrisome news reported first by student journalists

“One campus graduate student…claimed the release targeted Muslim and Arab individuals who had previously expressed support for Palestine.”

In our new issue, @maximepolleri.bsky.social‬ explains the contentious politics of Japan's ongoing recovery from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.

Why Josephine County Library (OR) was evicted from their long-time library space over $1.

It has nothing to do with money. It has to do with far-right politics and deep hatred for the library's inclusive ethos.

bookriot.com/josephine-co...

A “response” to their Supreme Court issuing a ruling after due process. It isn’t enough that have destroyed the integrity of our Supreme Court. Now they arrogate to themselves the power to demand that the high court in other nations subvert the rule of law as well.

This is insane.

Ursula K. LeGuin on technology

Check out my interview with @blackagendareport.bsky.social, where I got to describe my @ucpress.bsky.social book, connect it to what’s currently happening in college sports, and pitch the idea of un-learning the “football team as family” and “student-athlete” narratives

Nice!! I share @raulpachecovega.bsky.social writing resources with all my grad and undergrad writing classes, just posted links for this term myself

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