Paul de Morais, Ph.D.
@pdemorais.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley | Ph.D. Comparative Literature | Romantic period | Ecocriticism | Gender & critical theory | they/them
Protect Wild Forests: Say No to Trump’s Roadless Rule Repeal
Protect Wild Forests: Say No to Trump’s Roadless Rule Repeal
The Roadless Rule has protected nearly 60 million acres of forests for over two decades, keeping them free from logging, road building, and other industrial development. Now Trump is trying to take aw...
act.biologicaldiversity.org
August 29, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Protect Wild Forests: Say No to Trump’s Roadless Rule Repeal
Enjoying the campanile's Disney themed noon melodies, beginning with "Bells of Notre-Dame," followed by "Colors of the Wind" and "Tale as Old as Time." #UCBerkeley
July 1, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Enjoying the campanile's Disney themed noon melodies, beginning with "Bells of Notre-Dame," followed by "Colors of the Wind" and "Tale as Old as Time." #UCBerkeley
Revisiting Cixous
Vu et vécu en MAI 68: Hélène Cixous - Toute l'Histoire
YouTube video by Toute l'Histoire
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May 1, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Revisiting Cixous
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A quick resistance task:
1. Google Gulf of Mexico
2. “Gulf of America" is the top
3. Click on the three little dots to the right of it
4. Select "Send Feedback"
5. Click on "Gulf Of America"
6. Select "Inaccurate content"
7. Select "Incorrect" and type in "The correct name is “Gulf of Mexico"
1. Google Gulf of Mexico
2. “Gulf of America" is the top
3. Click on the three little dots to the right of it
4. Select "Send Feedback"
5. Click on "Gulf Of America"
6. Select "Inaccurate content"
7. Select "Incorrect" and type in "The correct name is “Gulf of Mexico"
February 12, 2025 at 2:31 PM
A quick resistance task:
1. Google Gulf of Mexico
2. “Gulf of America" is the top
3. Click on the three little dots to the right of it
4. Select "Send Feedback"
5. Click on "Gulf Of America"
6. Select "Inaccurate content"
7. Select "Incorrect" and type in "The correct name is “Gulf of Mexico"
1. Google Gulf of Mexico
2. “Gulf of America" is the top
3. Click on the three little dots to the right of it
4. Select "Send Feedback"
5. Click on "Gulf Of America"
6. Select "Inaccurate content"
7. Select "Incorrect" and type in "The correct name is “Gulf of Mexico"
romantic-circles.org/editions/DW/... A new free resource
Dorothy Wordsworth’s Lake District: Poems from the Commonplace Book | Romantic Circles
Table of Contents Scholarly Apparatus About this Edition Introduction to Poems from the Commonplace Book (DCMS 120)
romantic-circles.org
February 11, 2025 at 6:19 PM
romantic-circles.org/editions/DW/... A new free resource
Save Sonoma State's WGS Department! - Sign the Petition!
Save Sonoma State's WGS Department!
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
chng.it
February 10, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Save Sonoma State's WGS Department! - Sign the Petition!
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It was eleven years ago today that I got to interview Ursula Le Guin when she visited Berkeley's Townsend Center. A wonderful memory I feel lucky to have.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovZ6...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovZ6...
Ursula K. Le Guin, Avenali Chair in the Humanities
Avenali Chair in the Humanities Ursula K. Le Guin in conversation with Professor Michael Lucey (Comparative Literature and French, UC Berkeley).Ursula K. Le ...
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February 26, 2024 at 6:37 PM
It was eleven years ago today that I got to interview Ursula Le Guin when she visited Berkeley's Townsend Center. A wonderful memory I feel lucky to have.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovZ6...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovZ6...
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Here are my lists, soon to become science and nature feeds.
Want to be added? Which ones? Leave a comment here.
I know there's already an "Ecology and Conservation" feed. I don't intend to compete. I'll be encouraging people to join and contribute to both feeds.
Please share! Gracias! 😸
Want to be added? Which ones? Leave a comment here.
I know there's already an "Ecology and Conservation" feed. I don't intend to compete. I'll be encouraging people to join and contribute to both feeds.
Please share! Gracias! 😸
February 21, 2024 at 2:07 AM
Here are my lists, soon to become science and nature feeds.
Want to be added? Which ones? Leave a comment here.
I know there's already an "Ecology and Conservation" feed. I don't intend to compete. I'll be encouraging people to join and contribute to both feeds.
Please share! Gracias! 😸
Want to be added? Which ones? Leave a comment here.
I know there's already an "Ecology and Conservation" feed. I don't intend to compete. I'll be encouraging people to join and contribute to both feeds.
Please share! Gracias! 😸
Gallica's digital herbarium post for this week is l'anthémis, or chamomile--"symbole d'amour terminé." Happy Valentine's.
L'anthémis
Bien qu’étant une plante vivace et commune, l’anthémis n’a pas fini de nous surprendre : utilisée pour soigner, décorer les jardins ou encore pour teindre des tissus, cette fleur jaune ou blanche a de...
gallica.bnf.fr
February 12, 2024 at 9:06 PM
Gallica's digital herbarium post for this week is l'anthémis, or chamomile--"symbole d'amour terminé." Happy Valentine's.
“After being nearly wiped out these majestic felines continue to reestablish previously occupied territory despite border wall construction, new mines and other threats to their habitat.”
Southern Arizona Jaguar Video Confirms New Cat
TUCSON, Ariz.— A wild jaguar shown in a recent trail camera video from southern Arizona is a new jaguar not previously identified in the state. The images captured last month by a wildlife enthusias...
biologicaldiversity.org
January 8, 2024 at 6:22 PM
“After being nearly wiped out these majestic felines continue to reestablish previously occupied territory despite border wall construction, new mines and other threats to their habitat.”
As COVID cases rise and many valorize a false sense of individual freedom over mask wearing, I can't help but think of Bettine von Arnim's response to Günderode: "ich will nicht frei sein, ich will Wurzel fassen in Dir."
Here’s a rundown of the morning’s news to know:
- Another covid wave is hitting the U.S.
- Hundreds of documents in the Jeffrey Epstein case were released.
- Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court to keep him on Colorado’s primary ballot.
More: wapo.st/48lmFhg
- Another covid wave is hitting the U.S.
- Hundreds of documents in the Jeffrey Epstein case were released.
- Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court to keep him on Colorado’s primary ballot.
More: wapo.st/48lmFhg
January 4, 2024 at 5:19 PM
As COVID cases rise and many valorize a false sense of individual freedom over mask wearing, I can't help but think of Bettine von Arnim's response to Günderode: "ich will nicht frei sein, ich will Wurzel fassen in Dir."
Reposted by Paul de Morais, Ph.D.
in our latest issue, Elizabeth Freeman's study of sadomedicine offers "a way of reading with symptoms, even with one’s own, rather than through or against them" — read "Parasymptomatic Reading: Medical Kink, Care, and the Surface/Depth Debate" here: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...
December 4, 2023 at 8:18 PM
in our latest issue, Elizabeth Freeman's study of sadomedicine offers "a way of reading with symptoms, even with one’s own, rather than through or against them" — read "Parasymptomatic Reading: Medical Kink, Care, and the Surface/Depth Debate" here: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...
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"How the Earth Feels" by @danaluci.bsky.social examines how the impacts of geology on 19th-century US culture catalyzed transformative conversations about the intersections between humans & the nonhuman world. Read the introduction for free now: ow.ly/QLU250Q5vln
November 9, 2023 at 2:12 PM
"How the Earth Feels" by @danaluci.bsky.social examines how the impacts of geology on 19th-century US culture catalyzed transformative conversations about the intersections between humans & the nonhuman world. Read the introduction for free now: ow.ly/QLU250Q5vln
2 Days left to make a donation to the UC Berkeley Center for African Studies! These funds make possible travel to the African continent for undergraduate students so that they may conduct research projects there.
Thank you from CAS
Thank you for suppporting undergraduate research in Africa
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November 28, 2023 at 9:29 PM
2 Days left to make a donation to the UC Berkeley Center for African Studies! These funds make possible travel to the African continent for undergraduate students so that they may conduct research projects there.
Intersection of bird behavior and urban systemic racism
Why Warblers Flock to Wealthier Neighborhoods
In the unequal distribution of birds and other species, ecologists are tracing the impact of bigoted urban policies adopted decades ago.
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2023 at 9:02 PM
Intersection of bird behavior and urban systemic racism
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The world’s richest 1 percent generated as much carbon emissions as the poorest two-thirds in 2019, according to a new Oxfam report that examines the uber-wealthy’s lavish lifestyles and investments in heavily polluting industries.
wapo.st/49Ke8W3
wapo.st/49Ke8W3
November 20, 2023 at 6:32 PM
The world’s richest 1 percent generated as much carbon emissions as the poorest two-thirds in 2019, according to a new Oxfam report that examines the uber-wealthy’s lavish lifestyles and investments in heavily polluting industries.
wapo.st/49Ke8W3
wapo.st/49Ke8W3
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Americans can order four more free Covid tests from the government starting today —>
www.covid.gov/tests
www.covid.gov/tests
November 20, 2023 at 9:20 PM
Americans can order four more free Covid tests from the government starting today —>
www.covid.gov/tests
www.covid.gov/tests