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Nasima Selim নাসিমা সেলিম @nasimaselim.bsky.social · Aug 5

It's official! Joining the University of Bremen @unibremen.bsky.social as Professor of Public Anthropology from October 2025

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craigborowiak.bsky.social @craigborowiak.bsky.social · Jul 2

Our book SOLIDARITY CITIES made the long list for the 2025 Pattis Family Foundation Global Cities Book Award.

It's exciting to be selected alongside these other cool books!

#solidaritycities @uminnpress.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social @stephenhealy87.bsky.social @mpavlovskaya.bsky.social

10 Books for Urban Thinkers This Summer | Metropolis

The 2025 Pattis Family Foundation Global Cities Book Award Long List Books have the power to transform how cities are understood, governed, and experienced. The Pattis Family Foundation Global Cities...

www.metropolis.org

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Anand Pandian @anandian.bsky.social · Jul 2

Folks in DC, please join me on Thursday 7/10 at Creative Grounds café for a book event sponsored by worker-owned bookstore cooperative Bol. We'll be talking about my new book, Something Between Us: The Everyday Walls of American Life, and How to Take Them Down.

@stanfordpress.bsky.social

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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · May 21

📣 Just published! This primer by @lanalanalana.bsky.social, @alicetiara.bsky.social and Kate Larson maps what we know about generative AI’s role in scams, the communities most at risk, and the broader economic and cultural shifts at play. 1/4 datasociety.net/library/scam...

The title of the primer “ScamGPT: GenAI and the Automation of Fraud,” by Lana Swartz, Alice E. Marwick and Kate Larson, surrounded by line drawings of a dreamy-looking woman, a man holding a phone, fish hooks ensnaring various technological objects, and a hand holding a phone displaying an AI program alongside some cash.

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Lana Swartz @lanalanalana.bsky.social · May 21

AI is a force multiplier for scams, and there is SO much we' urgentlyneed to learn in order to know what to do about it

Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · May 21

📣 Just published! This primer by @lanalanalana.bsky.social, @alicetiara.bsky.social and Kate Larson maps what we know about generative AI’s role in scams, the communities most at risk, and the broader economic and cultural shifts at play. 1/4 datasociety.net/library/scam...

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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · Apr 25

Our weekend recommendation: Write, write, write! ✍️

The RCC writing competition "Tell the Untold!" is still ongoing and we are excited to read your submissions!

www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_ev...

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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · Oct 31

🥳We are excited to present issue six of our #openaccess online publication 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴!🥳

Read it here: springs-rcc.org

More about the content in the following thread.

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UoBris Centre for Environmental Humanities @uobrisceh.bsky.social · Feb 26

📣 🍃 CFP - Poetic Ecosystems: Voice, Identity and Performance, 6 May 2025. Abstract Deadline: 21st March.

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UoBris Centre for Environmental Humanities @uobrisceh.bsky.social · Apr 8

Join us in Bristol this summer for the Environmental Humanities Summer School! You will be taught be leading experts at the University's world-renowned Centre for Environmental Humanities (1/3)

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An Van Raemdonck @anvanraemdonck.bsky.social · Mar 12

📢 Next IED lecture: "Breathing Hearts in Suffocating Times. Sufi healing practices and anti-Muslim racism in Germany", by @nasimaselim.bsky.social

🕛 Monday, March 31st, 3.00 - 4.30 CET
💻 Join online: lnkd.in/dxhesSMi
🔔 Or subscribe to IED's maillist: lnkd.in/dh7e69sD

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Edge Effects @edgeeffectsmag.bsky.social · Jan 27

PLEASE SHARE — Edge Effects is delighted to announce the theme for our 2025 special series: Companion Species! Anyone is welcome to submit to this series, due February 20, 2025. Read more & apply: edgeeffects.net/companion-sp...

blue jellyfish with text call for submissions companion species

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Carlos Ariza @carlosariza.bsky.social · Feb 7

Normalize a a future where this is what cities look like #solarpunk

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Edge Effects @edgeeffectsmag.bsky.social · Jan 30

Today on Edge Effects, Laleh Ahmad argues that the solarpunk genre offers imaginable, realistic green futures based on renewable energy and communal self-reliance, rooted in justice and care. 🏢🪴 edgeeffects.net/solarpunk/

Solarpunk Narrates Futures Beyond Climate Despair - Edge Effects

Laleh Ahmad shows how the solarpunk genre imagines realistic green futures based on renewable energy & communal self-reliance rooted in care.

edgeeffects.net

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Edge Effects @edgeeffectsmag.bsky.social · Feb 6

Today on Edge Effects, scholars share recommended works on environmental activism in art & fiction—exploring aesthetic opposition to precarity or cultural traditions uplifting alternative ecological narratives & knowledge. We hope you enjoy them! edgeeffects.net/faculty-reco...

Faculty Recommendations: Creative Environmental Activism - Edge Effects

Edge Effects shares faculty recommendations on creative works that resist environmental injustice and celebrate storytelling.

edgeeffects.net

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Sotirios Papathanasiou @seetheair.bsky.social · Dec 6

A New Children’s Book Empowers Young Readers to Breathe Clean Indoor Air

Nicholas isn’t your average kid. He has a unique superpower: he can see invisible air pollution. When Nicholas notices these harmful particles making his classmates sick, he knows he must take action. But how can you fight…

A New Children’s Book Empowers Young Readers to Breathe Clean Indoor Air

Nicholas isn’t your average kid. He has a unique superpower: he can see invisible air pollution. When Nicholas notices these harmful particles making his classmates sick, he knows he must take action. But how can you fight something you can’t see? In this captivating new children’s book, Nicholas Tackles Indoor Air Quality, young readers join Nicholas on an exciting adventure to improve indoor air quality.

seetheair.org

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Tory Stephens @torystephens.bsky.social · Jan 8

✨Our 4th Imagine 2200 climate fiction collection is finally here & free to read!

Featuring 12 stories from around the globe, this collection offers visions of a hopeful future. 🌎

Supported by
@nrdc.org & Earth Rising Fdn.

Read them here:
grist.org/imagine2200-...

#Fiction #CliFi #SolarPunk

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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · Jan 22

In tomorrow’s Lunchtime Colloquium, we will host, for the fifth and last time, the interdisciplinary lecture with guest speakers Julia Ludewig (Allegheny College) and Sabina Magagnoli (IUSS and University of Ferrara) who will present on “Climate Communication in Education Beyond Academia.”

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Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network @eehnetwork.bsky.social · Jan 22

Our next event is a reading group on Sarah Jacquette Ray and Jennifer Atkinson’s The Existential Toolkit for Climate Justice Educators. Wed 29 Jan, co-hosted with CRITIQUE: blogs.ed.ac.uk/environmenta...

EEHN-CRITIQUE reading group: The Existential Toolkit for Climate Justice Educators, 29 January – EEHN

blogs.ed.ac.uk

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Nasima Selim নাসিমা সেলিম @nasimaselim.bsky.social · Jan 20

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Resources

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Nasima Selim নাসিমা সেলিম @nasimaselim.bsky.social · Jan 3

how are we to breathe the whirling of the universe, the sema, when no air is left on planet earth, to recite, to remember all the beautiful names of the heart beating, the nafs (ego) yearning for the nefes (breath)? #konya #smog #breathing #mevlana #rumi #poem #green #nafs #ego #nefes #breath

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Nasima Selim নাসিমা সেলিম @nasimaselim.bsky.social · Jan 3

where the "soul" breathes, yet lungs have troubles; where the green dome invites thirsty seekers longing to turn round and round,
yet no green lines on the horizon
grey dust bites on frosty, cold floors.where have all the trees gone, mevlana? #konya #smog #breathing #mevlana #rumi #poem #green

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Nasima Selim নাসিমা সেলিম @nasimaselim.bsky.social · Dec 31

Gelin tanış olalım,
Let us come to know each other,
İşi kolay kılalım,
Make things easier,
Sevelim sevilelim,
Let us love and be loved,
Dünya kimseye kalmaz.
The world belongs to no one forever.
#yunusemre #karaman #graffiti #poem #sufism

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Nasima Selim নাসিমা সেলিম @nasimaselim.bsky.social · Dec 31

Gelin tanış olalım,
Let us come to know each other,
İşi kolay kılalım,
Make things easier,
Sevelim sevilelim,
Let us love and be loved,
Dünya kimseye kalmaz.
The world belongs to no one forever.
#yunusemre #karaman #graffiti #poem #sufism

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Nasima Selim নাসিমা সেলিম @nasimaselim.bsky.social · Dec 16

#2024 #BreathingHearts #OpenAccess For Hard Copy use code BERGHAHN30 for 30% off, available in all formats until December 31st, 2024.
www.berghahnbooks.com/title/SelimB...

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Grouchy Marx @grouchymarx57.bsky.social · Dec 15

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”

James Baldwin

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