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Stacey Balkan @sbalkan5.bsky.social · 1d

Helen Kapstein’s brilliant Petroforms is in the world!!! @wordbird20.bsky.social @wvupress.bsky.social 👏👏

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Stacey Balkan @sbalkan5.bsky.social · 2d

Amongst the members of our panel tomorrow is Dr. David Davis, who will speak to marine toxicity and local environmental impacts:
www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Alzheimer’s disease signatures in the brain transcriptome of Estuarine Dolphins - Communications Biology

Transcriptomic analysis of brain samples collected from dolphins found beached in the Indian River Lagoon during algal bloom seasons shows Alzheimer’s disease related molecular signatures.

www.nature.com

Stacey Balkan @sbalkan5.bsky.social · 2d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICWE...

Florida Climate Week kicks off with a great conversation about pop culture and climate fictions--thanks to @theinvadingsea.bsky.social and the @volofoundation.bsky.social for convening this wonderful webinar!

Plot Twists for the Planet: How Pop Culture Inspires Environmental Views

YouTube video by VoLo Foundation

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 3d

something good to look forward to in chicago in a few weeks, Kashana Cauley and Jason Wozniak talk student debt and heists! interccect.com/2025/09/26/w...

What’s Funny About Student Debt?

For only the second time in our fourteen years, InterCcECT hosts an event centered on the novel’s unique faculty for theorizing capitalism. The Payback is a comic critique of contemporary lif…

interccect.com

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Association for the Study of Literature and Environment @asle-us.bsky.social · 2d

Just a few hours left to submit to ASLE Spotlight at forms.gle/rZ8gAs6bpUGx...

Call for Submissions to ASLE Spotlight 2026: New Work in Ecocriticism and the Environmental Humanities

Update: Submission Deadline Extended to October 6, 2025 In continuing to foster opportunities for our members and community to gather digitally, ASLE is continuing the Spotlight Series in 2026. The s...

forms.gle

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John Vaillant @johnvaillant.bsky.social · 2d

This is 21st Century Fire:
Maine is the Nova Scotia of the US: historically, foggy, soggy
#wildfire

Cyrus Farivar @cfarivar.bsky.social · 2d

Warning Issued as Entire State of Maine Faces Wildfire Risk

www.newsweek.com/wildfire-ris...

Warning issued as entire state faces wildfire risk

National Weather Service meteorologists have issued warnings for Maine amid dry, windy weather.

www.newsweek.com

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 2d

"the solution is still the one that can succeed: to build a new cultural order, a new civilization. To do so, academics must embrace an unusual new role: as knowledge workers, they must seize the means of knowledge production."

www.publicbooks.org/academics-mu...

Academics Must Seize the Means of Knowledge Production - Public Books

Trumpism has canceled the knowledge society.

www.publicbooks.org

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Stacey Balkan @sbalkan5.bsky.social · 4d

Kristi Noem Says ICE Will Be ‘All Over’ the Super Bowl www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/a...

Kristi Noem Says ICE Will Be ‘All Over’ the Super Bowl

www.nytimes.com

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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 5d

Dwayne has his job back because we organized for it. We fight or we die. Join AAUP today www.aaup.org/join

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Stacey Balkan @sbalkan5.bsky.social · 10d

www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

The Costs of the Cloud | Ashley Dawson

Hours after his inauguration, Donald Trump declared a “national energy emergency.” The US, he warned in an executive order, suffered from “a precariously

www.nybooks.com

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Stacey Balkan @sbalkan5.bsky.social · 18d

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Stacey Balkan @sbalkan5.bsky.social · 19d

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National park proposed for Florida springs doesn’t spring from desire to fix problems • Florida Phoenix

Florida has three national parks — Everglades, Biscayne, and Dry Tortugas, all in the southern end of the state. Now newbie U.S. Rep. Randy Fine of Brevard County wants to create a fourth one, this ti...

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Stacey Balkan @sbalkan5.bsky.social · 25d

a far better choice!

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Stacey Balkan @sbalkan5.bsky.social · 27d

Wrote about trains and the fallacy of automotive freedom for @theinvadingsea.bsky.social 🚊😊

www.theinvadingsea.com/2025/09/11/f...

Cuts to Florida rail service ignore its benefits to the common good | The Invading Sea

The Florida Department of Transportation is poised to cut Tri-Rail funding to $15 million annually from $62 million.

www.theinvadingsea.com

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Stacey Balkan @sbalkan5.bsky.social · Sep 4

Judge Rules Trump Administration Illegally Canceled Harvard Funding www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

Judge Rules Trump Administration Illegally Canceled Harvard Funding

www.nytimes.com

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · Sep 3

"the real violence in Chicago - like across america - is not the violence of the streets but the violence of policy: underfunded schools, disappearing jobs, healthcare deserts, food apartheid, and a criminal justice system that treats poverty like a capital offense."

spiritual leadership 9-2-25

An Open Letter to President Trump in the Chicago Sun Times

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Stacey Balkan @sbalkan5.bsky.social · Sep 1

Day off over here…

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · Sep 1

OPINION: "The disproportionate suffering in Black communities wasn’t a natural disaster but a predictable result of policies concentrating risk in marginalized neighborhoods," Garcia, David and Peacock write.

Opinion | Hurricane Katrina Taught Lessons on Prep, Injustice

Garcia, David and Peacock write on the ways that the majority-Black residents of New Orleans were disproportionately affected by Hurricane Katrina.

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Stacey Balkan @sbalkan5.bsky.social · Sep 1

Made a beautiful meal last night, which was accompanied by a delicious bottle of wine—eating well and anricipating a day off, because of the bravery and fortitude of the United Faculty of Florida and unions everywhere. #happylaborday #unionstrong

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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · Sep 1

MLB players should know how powerless and poorly paid their counterparts were before the late-1960s and how dramatically the union has improved pay, pensions, and working conditions, writes Peter Dreier. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale Belong in the Labor Movement Hall of Fame

In the mid-1960s, the two pitchers inspired major league ballplayers to build a union and challenge the owners’ stranglehold on their lives, pay, and working conditions.

www.thenation.com

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Sep 1

They should do it anyway for the environmental benefits.

To defend against Russian tanks, Finland and Poland consider restoring wetlands

Finland and Poland are both considering rewetting dried-out peatbogs to form defence barriers against a potential Russian ground invasion. Restoring these natural carbon sinks could also bring signifi...

www.france24.com

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Stacey Balkan @sbalkan5.bsky.social · Sep 1

Dream come true 😊

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Stacey Balkan @sbalkan5.bsky.social · Sep 1

Listened to Scranton‘s interview on “Cultures of Energy” yesterday, and I am very excited about this book: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

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Stacey Balkan @sbalkan5.bsky.social · Sep 1

‘Bicycling in Paradise: On Radical Cadence and Just Futures in the End Times’ is officially under contract, and I am over the moon! (continuing to take any and all recs for bike lit 💖🚴‍♀️🌈) @bikesky.social

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Stacey Balkan @sbalkan5.bsky.social · Aug 29

I still do this to fall asleep—tiny victories.

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