I'm heartbroken to share that Marvin (known to readers of There Is No Place for Us as Maurice) died earlier today in a workplace accident. He was 43. Natasha (Natalia in the book) asked me to share this news because she is too devastated to do so herself. We are all in shock.

This is a very important assessment of the contemporary discourse around rest and resistance. Read it. Then go follow @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/jennmjac...

Rest is not resistance: Commodification, Capitalism, and the Cult of Self-Care

We have to start using words with intention if we are to fight the battle ahead.

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Please avoid all salads, including word.

really thinking about this tweet as i’ve been struggling to breathe through nausea for the last 5 hours

Luke LeBrun@lukelebrun.ca · 3w ago

These images of First Nations community members evacuating Collins, Ontario on motorboats are absolutely surreal www.facebook.com/reel/1548244...

These images of First Nations community members evacuating Collins, Ontario on motorboats are absolutely surreal www.facebook.com/reel/1548244...

Luke LeBrun@lukelebrun.ca · 3w ago

These photos of FNs community members fleeing their homes by boat are genuinely apocalyptic (Photo via Wayne Wastaken of Collins, Ontario, who says his “hometown is gone”) www.facebook.com/share/r/1ArN...

"UWP invites book manuscripts that [are written] so that a researcher can clearly follow them. The works provide examples of how methods or frameworks are applied in the research process and their utility in empowering communities of African descent. #Blackademics #ResearchMethodology

The Universal Write Publications (UWP) Little Black Book Series | Serie McDougal III, Ph.D.

YouTube video by Universal Write Publications

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Citizen.Coping@propcazhpm.bsky.social · last mo.

The Little Black Book Series is a collection of compact, authoritative volumes that advance methodological practice and discourse in Africana Studies and social sciences. UWP invites book manuscripts that take a how-to approach to describing, explaining... the realities of African/Black people.

If you were lucky enough to finish most of your cognitive development before widespread GPS adoption ? Try to use a paper map now as often as you can so that you keep that ability. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Habitual use of GPS negatively impacts spatial memory during self-guided navigation - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Habitual use of GPS negatively impacts spatial memory during self-guided navigation

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Linda Holmes@lindaholmes.bsky.social · 4w ago

The thing is yes, paper maps, but also: You naturally learned how to get around more than people do now. I knew my way around my early neighborhoods where I drove a lot better than I have in the ones where I had GPS all the time.

Hard agree. Except during unusually busy times (like Christmas), I could be at my gate 30 minutes after leaving my house. And that included the time it took me to park.

WPRI 12@wpri12.bsky.social · 4w ago

Readers of Travel + Leisure magazine have once again voted Rhode Island T.F. Green International Airport the best airport in the United States. Do you agree? https://www.wpri.com/news/tf-green-voted-best-domestic-airport-for-2nd-straight-year/

Welcome to our backyard new baby bunny!

As someone who grew up in majority white spaces: Parents, Black children deserve better than being the only 1. They are often put in dangerous spaces with hostile people & "white friends" often don't know how/won't protect them. If you see your child being the only 1-consider what YOU need to adjust

Dr. T. Flo (Trying to get back on two feet in 2026)@tnflorvil.bsky.social · 4w ago

While all these deaths have hit me, Nolan Wells has truly made me weep. He goes out with all of his white friends, and they return without him. This is the America that has always existed, but people feel very emboldened under this trash-administration.

The Fourth of July fireworks display in the capital impacted the amount of fine particulate matter in the atmosphere.

D.C. Air Quality Reaches ‘Code Purple’ After Fireworks And Heat Wave

The Fourth of July fireworks display in the capital impacted the amount of fine particulate matter in the atmosphere.

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Can the mix really help with premenstrual woes? Theoretically, the link between histamine and hormones could explain why the trendy DIY treatment seems to help some women. n.pr/4f9j9MF

People are taking allergy and heartburn pills for PMS. Could it work?

Can the mix really help with premenstrual woes? Theoretically, the link between histamine and hormones could explain why the trendy DIY treatment seems to help some women.

n.pr

Shocked to hear about Dr. Raúl Pacheco-Vega's passing. He was such major presence online. I can't tell you how many times I've turned to his resources to learn how to manage literature, organize data, and become a better academic writer. Even never having met him, I know he will be sorely missed.

Sociedad Mexicana de Sociología@smsociologia.bsky.social · 2mo ago

La Sociedad Mexicana de Sociología lamenta profundamente el fallecimiento del Dr. Raúl Pacheco-Vega, profesor del CIDE y FLACSO. Nuestras más sinceras condolencias a sus familiares, amigos y colegas cercanos. Descanse en paz

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

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AOC: This is what drinking water in Georgia looks like after Meta began data center construction in the community.

If you are a teacher who your students don't feel comfortable asking for help, get out of education. If you are a union who thinks it's great that students do not feel they can talk to their teachers, shut down.

AFT@aft.org · 3mo ago

Maria (8th grade): “I’m not a student who likes to bother my teacher, so having Khanmigo to help without having to bug the teacher is helpful.” Maya (6th grade) agrees, adding the tool “ helps you get the answer without giving you the answer.” @rweingarten.bsky.social @aftnewjersey.bsky.social

Every time we hear about how genAI has pushed another teenager to suicide, another person into committing a mass shooting, or generated CSAM of school girls used to blackmail their schools, remember we were told that what we'd be hearing about is a cure to every cancer, and global poverty itself

Erin Fogg says Free Link@criminalerin.bsky.social · 2y ago

Really have a hard time getting over all these guyAIs looking at this world simply teeming with problems with well known solutions & deciding the best way they can help is to create whole new global problems that no human alive even remotely understands never mind knows how to actually fix

“The increase in Black infant mortality, from 9 to 21 deaths per 1,000 births, means Black infants born in Hamilton County are more at risk than those born in Iraq, Iran, Guatemala, Honduras, Libya or Vietnam, according to the World Bank.”

Asawin Suebsaeng@swin24.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The Cincinnati Enquirer really been on top of this www.yahoo.com/news/article...

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

I have watched this at least ten times today. 😂

I don't even know anymore.@sdotcarter.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This shit took me OUTTTTT

so...are grades still due?

🚨 GEORGIA!🚨 The GA primaries and GA supreme court election are happening now! 🗓️ Early voting: 4/27-5/15 🗓️ Election day: May 19 ⚠️ The GA supreme court race is an election, not a primary. Candidates from both parties will be on your ballot and will be unlabeled. Read ahead!⚠️

My dean offered to buy a welcome gift for all new PhD students starting our school this fall. #AcademicSky, what should I ask her to purchase? What do you wish you had received in year 1?

11 year-old in the car after school: "Mommy, can we listen to Democracy Now?" I think my work here is done. @democracynow.org

Come work with me! We are hiring a TT asst prof of sociology to start in August. Please share widely! employment.ric.edu/postings/10638

Y’all, this is a friend of a friend’s son. He’s been missing since Tuesday afternoon, last seen near Howard. Please amplify if you can. Thanks.

Texas Tech just instituted “one of the most extreme anti-speech policies ever imposed at a public university.” The policy bans professors from discussing LGBTQ+ topics in core & lower-level courses and eliminates entire fields of study across the five-university system. #AcademicSky

Texas Tech Establishes Draconian New Censorship Policies on LGBTQ Topics

In addition to restricting classroom instruction, the new memo extends content censorship to student research as well.

truthout.org

This that new AI math.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo ago

RFK Jr: "A Democratic senator claimed it's mathematically impossible to have a drug drop by 600%. I said, 'Well, if the drug was $100 and it raises to $600, that would be a 600% rise. If it drops from $600 to $100, that's a 600% savings.'" Trump: "Right"