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available for pre-order: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/cultural-heritage-resilience-of-the-great-dismal-swamp-9780761892021/ ✍🏽 on my academic book titled, "Pest Control: Birds, Black Folk, and the History of Environmental Consciousness in the US South"

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Professor Hyman @profhyman.bsky.social · Jul 18

Blurbs are in! I am eternally grateful to Dr. J. Drew Lanham, Dr. Andrea Roberts, and Dr. Ed Baptist!!
My book is out on October 2, 2025 from Bloomsbury Academic.
#newauthors #writers

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Professor Hyman @profhyman.bsky.social · 1h

Thank you Friend!

Professor Hyman @profhyman.bsky.social · 10h

Times are really terrible right now/ I hate that they are.

However I was notified today that my manuscript in progress will be published by Louisiana State University Press.
big thx to Rand Dotson!
"Pest Control: Birds, Black Folk, and the History of Environmental Consciousness in the U.S. South"

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19h

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Professor Hyman @profhyman.bsky.social · 20h

Thank you!!

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 21h

The administration offer is a tempting one though: Big financial gains for any university willing to convert itself from a factory of ideas to a slaughterhouse of democracy.

Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 22h

"It wanted to signal strength. Instead, it’s revealing its weakness. The administration’s need to break the academy is forcing it to make a desperately risky gamble." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.

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Museums Association @museumsassociation.org · 1d

Almost time for our keynote to open day two of sessions, Solidarity in action.

Join us for a panel on responding to the rise of the far right and populist politics, drawing on observations from the United States and looking at how museums and museum workers are strategising.

#Museums2025

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

Never forget that Dolly Parton gave a million bucks for covid research at the *very start* of the pandemic—including money that helped fund the development of the Moderna vaccine.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 3d

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

CFP: A Time of Monsters

The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

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Ryan H. @ryan.blacksky.app · 2d

New post on creating.care - staying informed without staying inflamed creating.care/p/staying-in...

staying informed without staying inflamed

some of the independent news sources I keep in rotation, a newish poster and some new book recommendations

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Justin Zimmerman @jztidecat.bsky.social · 2d

Good. In-group pressure and shame works.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 4d

A Chicago citizen confronts the hypocrisy of a fellow Hispanic man working for ICE, shaming him and making a powerful point by asking how his family ended up in the United States.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d

Trump’s hatred for renewables means the US is falling behind the rest of the world

As well as embracing ‘beautiful coal’, the president has set about obliterating clean energy projects

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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 3d

Trump’s treatment of immigrants is cruel, inhumane and unacceptable. And as they pump money into ICE and for-profit detention centers it will only get worse.

www.thebulwark.com/p/the-moral-...

The “Moral Monsters” Among Us

Immigrants are dying now. Will people of good conscience speak up?

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 3d

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 4d

Just talking about this recently given our state’s current shenanigans. I sincerely believe that this happened because of the business influencer consulting industry. Whole guide books out there about getting appointed to a university board to build your brand.

Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 4d

What I want to see a deeper dive on is how they decided that they should have more of a say in governance outside of insider trading/endowment shit.

Also a lot of talk about how admin has become more business-focused, but some thicker ev would be good

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Professor Hyman @profhyman.bsky.social · 4d

Sending renewal. I am so sorry.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 8d

When they say "enemy within" that's fascism.

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karlee @karleesyr.bsky.social · 10d

Majority Report: Trump Launches a $10 B Spying Operation Targeting American Liberals, Classifying Some As Pre-Terrorist

The directive follows a year long effort to build an unprecedented national surveillance operation

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Majority Report: Trump Launches a $10 B Spying Operation Targeting American Liberals, Classifying Some As Pre-Terrorist

The directive follows a year long effort to build an unprecedented national surveillance operation that integrates 4000 personnel in state and and federal operations

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Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 10d

"Presenting music from 1687 through the 1860s in modern treble clef and banjo tablature, along with the rich stories behind each song, Gaddy and Giddens take readers on a journey from the Caribbean across the Americas."

This book looks absolutely wonderful for musicians and historians alike.

Rhiannon Giddens @rhiannongiddens.bsky.social · 10d

Learn more: uncpress.org/978146969057...

Go Back and Fetch It

For the first time, this groundbreaking songbook collaboration by music writer Kristina R. Gaddy and Grammy Award winner Rhiannon Giddens makes nineteen exam...

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Eric Kelderman @erickelderman.bsky.social · 9d

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George Mason Is Under Fire for Its Faculty-Diversity Efforts. But They Produced Limited Gains.

The federal government has opened investigations into the university’s hiring practices for allegedly discriminating against white and Asian candidates. Yet those groups were the vast majority of facu...

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Professor Hyman @profhyman.bsky.social · 11d

Hope you feel better, Noreen. I am sorry you are ill.

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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 12d

What autocracy does to the ordinary: it makes leaders’ mere words carry the force of law (or force) and makes law carry the force of mere words. The result is an ipse dixet world of cartoon signatures and shadow docket declarations. Language has indeed gone on holiday.

Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 12d

The Autocratic Ordinary

Natalie Brender @nataliebrender.bsky.social · 12d

How to Do War Crimes with Words

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 12d

Preorder SMOKE DRIFTS this #TranslationMonth!

In this @worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social collection—translated by Diana Arterian and Marina Omar—Nadia Anjuman draws on “the lineage of Persian and Sufi writing and her life under Taliban rule.”
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Nadia Anjuman - Smoke Drifts — WORLD POETRY

NADIA ANJUMAN SMOKE DRIFTS: SELECTED POEMS Translated from Persian by DIANA ARTERIAN and MARINA OMAR

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 12d

Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age."

She was 78.

Assata Shakur, political activist and ex-Black Liberation Army member, has died

Assata Shakur “died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age,” according to Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 13d

Proud of my colleagues! 🗃
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Citizen historians document Smithsonian exhibits under White House scrutiny

The Smithsonian Institution is the world’s largest museum, education and research complex. It's a public-private trust that has long operated at arm's length from the White House, but now finds itself...

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 14d

My latest column for the Chronicle of Higher Ed is now live. It's an argument for including AI-critical voices in campus conversations and policymaking workgroups, and I'm proud to get this dissenting piece into the mainstream genAI/higher ed discourse. Please read and share if you're so inclined 🙂

Advice | Sometimes We Resist AI for Good Reasons

Why higher ed needs to listen to the contrarians in setting policies on using tools like ChatGPT in faculty work.

www.chronicle.com

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