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Pioneer Works builds community through the arts & sciences to create an open and curious world.

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Pioneer Works @pioneerwork.bsky.social · 8h

"These were the days that never existed for most of Europe in 1582." Since then, we've switched to the Gregorian calendar, but it's not perfect either. Read more from Joe Patterson's Big Apple Sky Calendar on Broadcast. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/bi...

Pioneer Works @pioneerwork.bsky.social · 2d

"Full Moon. This is called the Harvest Moon, as it’s the full Moon nearest the autumn equinox." 🌕 Read more insights on the skies above from intrepid astronomer Joe Patterson, now on PW Broadcast. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/bi...

Big Apple Sky Calendar: October, November, December 2025 | Broadcast

Dramatic highlights from the skies above Earth by intrepid astronomer Joe Patterson.

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Pioneer Works @pioneerwork.bsky.social · 12d

“You were stung then, and you’re stung again now. It got you in its tentacles.” In new fiction from @madeleinewatts.bsky.social, jellyfish summon heat waves and prophecy. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/te...

Tentacle Memory | Broadcast

When heat waves summon jellyfish and prophecy.

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Pioneer Works @pioneerwork.bsky.social · 12d

How was it possible to slip so quickly from paradise into a sweltering, hellscape of no exit? In Greece, where ancient history meets tourist fantasy, @laurenmarkham.bsky.social finds a harbinger for our warming world. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/ed...

Edge of Paradise | Broadcast

In Greece, where ancient history meets tourist fantasy, the climate crisis is accelerating faster than almost anywhere else in the global north.

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Pioneer Works @pioneerwork.bsky.social · 13d

Our existence is predicated on a delicate balance of hot bodies. For PW Broadcast, @jannalevinastro.bsky.social writes on the quantum equation that describes the radiation of your flesh, the Sun, and the universe itself. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/pi...

Picture This: Hot Bodies | Broadcast

To be alive is to radiate according to a universal law.

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Pioneer Works @pioneerwork.bsky.social · 13d

“We were both frustrated about how climate art mostly just grieved. We wanted to locate agency and not just give in to sorrow.” @lav.io, @tega.bsky.social, and @shannonmattern.bsky.social talk pirate solutions to climate change. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/cl...

Climate Hacks | Broadcast

Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne’s pirate solutions to climate change.

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Meera Subramanian @meerasub.bsky.social · 13d

Another achingly beautiful piece on mothering against the "apocalypse," from @emilyraboteau.bsky.social. Among The Ruins via Broadcast of @pioneerwork.bsky.social. #climateweeknyc #heat #climatecrisis #Rome #NYC #trees pioneerworks.org/broadcast/am...

Among The Ruins | Broadcast

Heat won't show up in family photos, but its quiet violence is felt beyond the frame.

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Pioneer Works @pioneerwork.bsky.social · 14d

“The warmth of the sun was a joy for most of human history, but thanks to human foolishness, this source of life has become the curse of our age.” Bill McKibben (@billmckibben.bsky.social) on shade’s fragile mercy. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/pr...

Pioneer Works @pioneerwork.bsky.social · 14d

“Air-conditioning is not just a technology of personal comfort; it is also a technology of forgetting.” Jeff Goodell (@jeffgoodell.bsky.social) on the fraught luxury of cold air. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/je...

Pioneer Works @pioneerwork.bsky.social · 14d

Heat won’t show up in family photos, but its quiet violence is felt beyond the frame. Emily Raboteau (@emilyraboteau.bsky.social) on raising kids and growing trees in the mouth of a lion. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/am...

Among The Ruins | Broadcast

Heat won't show up in family photos, but its quiet violence is felt beyond the frame.

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Pioneer Works @pioneerwork.bsky.social · 14d

Lucy Sante (@luxante.bsky.social) shares an ode to the season that scorches: “It was all those cars, all those drugs, all that red meat, all that money it sucked up and vaporized. Summer only remembers luxury and rage.” pioneerworks.org/broadcast/su...

Lucy Sante: A Thousand Julys | Broadcast

Summer only remembers luxury and rage.

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 16d

I had the pleasure of speaking with @tega.bsky.social + @lav.io about their new exhibition — which engages with surveillance, data infrastructures, and climate — at @pioneerwork.bsky.social!

Climate Hacks | Broadcast

Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne’s pirate solutions to climate change.

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Longreads @longreads.com · 15d

"How quickly a state of careless ease becomes one of mortal peril. Enter the future."

@laurenmarkham.bsky.social for @pioneerwork.bsky.social: pioneerworks.org/broadcast/ed...

Edge of Paradise | Broadcast

In Greece, where ancient history meets tourist fantasy, the climate crisis is accelerating faster than almost anywhere else in the global north.

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Pioneer Works @pioneerwork.bsky.social · 16d

Broadcast presents HEAT WEEK—a series of dispatches from a world on fire. Ft @luxante.bsky.social, @billmckibben.bsky.social, @emilyraboteau.bsky.social, @jannalevinastro.bsky.social, @laurenmarkham.bsky.social, @philipcball.bsky.social. @wellcometrust.bsky.social
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Pioneer Works @pioneerwork.bsky.social · 19d

“Huge testicles, a long upright tail, and extensive territory: these are the foundations of wren triumph.” Now on Broadcast, an intimate look into the polygynous lives of wren, from Adam Nicolson’s BIRD SCHOOL (@fsgbooks.bsky.social). pioneerworks.org/broadcast/wr...

Pioneer Works @pioneerwork.bsky.social · 19d

“The answer to death is sex.” Adam Nicolson on the lustful lives of wrens—an exclusive excerpt from BIRD SCHOOL, out now from @fsgbooks.bsky.social. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/wr...

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Sam Lavigne @lav.io · 20d

Come see "How To Get To Zero", my new collaborative exhibit with @tega.bsky.social at @pioneerwork.bsky.social. It's up until Dec 13th.

The show includes 10 pieces, covering the last decade of our solo and collective practices.

Gallery room featuring "Offset" video, a stylized earth in the background and in the foreground a scale with sugar being poured on one side of the scale and a measuring tape on the other side.

Gallery room featuring "Offset" video, a tree in the background and in the foreground a scale with an ipad on one side of the scale and a miniature globe on the other side.

An ipad with with Offset website on it.

A gallery shot featuring two fences draped with fabric.

Pioneer Works @pioneerwork.bsky.social · 22d

RIP Hermeto Pascoal, who in 2023 warned Joshua Minsoo Kim against what he called real death: “When people graduate, they sometimes think they know stuff. That’s what dying is. When you think you know, that’s when you’ve really died.” pioneerworks.org/broadcast/he...

Pioneer Works @pioneerwork.bsky.social · 22d

Farewell to Hermeto Pascoal—the Brazilian master who found music everywhere. On the day after his 2023 set at Pioneer Works, he said to Joshua Minsoo Kim that death didn’t scare him: “People think about it as an end, but for me it’s just part of the journey.” pioneerworks.org/broadcast/he...

The Eternal Life of Hermeto Pascoal | Broadcast

The late Brazilian master found music everywhere.

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National Academy of Sciences @nasonline.org · Aug 31

Einstein once said science & art coalesce at high levels of mastery. #NASmember S. James Gates, Jr. has found that fusion in “adinkras,” geometric diagrams that illuminate supersymmetry & help visualize hidden truths of nature. Read more in @pioneerwork.bsky.social:

Picture This: Adinkras | Broadcast

Sylvester James Gates on reality's hidden matrix.

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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 24d

NASA GISS folks talking about climate at @pioneerwork.bsky.social in Red Hook today 12-4pm. Come say hi!

View of pioneer works main space from 3rd floor gallery

Pioneer Works @pioneerwork.bsky.social · 26d

“I just want to know her damn name.” PW Working Artist Fellow Kameelah Janan Rasheed and Jazmine Hughes (@jazzedloon) on ancestral presence, living records, and the power of naming names. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/ka...

Pioneer Works @pioneerwork.bsky.social · 26d

“I don’t really draw and I don’t really paint, but me and words are tight.” PW Working Artist Fellow Kameelah Janan Rasheed and Jazmine Hughes on the power of archives, the practice of play, and the presence of ancestors. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/ka...

Kameelah Janan Rasheed Wants to Name Names | Broadcast

Jazmine Hughes talks to the artist for whom message is medium and process is play.

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Pioneer Works @pioneerwork.bsky.social · 27d

Working Artist Fellow Kameelah Janan Rasheed (@sprawlingtext) and Jazmine Hughes (@jazzedloon) discuss process as play, writing as high art, and why searching is the point: “Capitalism requires a certain sense of finality, and me and capitalism haven’t gotten along.”
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Kameelah Janan Rasheed Wants to Name Names | Broadcast

Jazmine Hughes talks to the artist for whom message is medium and process is play.

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Pioneer Works @pioneerwork.bsky.social · Aug 13

What kind of clam are you? In her latest memoir, Anelise Chen inhabits her inner mollusk to spin solitude into revelation. For PW Broadcast, Carolina Abbott Galvão considers CLAM DOWN (@penguinrandom) and the pleasures and perils of a life spent inward. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/an...

What Kind of Clam Are You? | Broadcast

In becoming a mollusk, Anelise Chen turns reclusion into revelation.

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