In NLR 159: Rentier Regimes Jack Copley (@jackcopley.bsky.social) assessesTimothy Mitchell’s conceptualization of capital as capture of the future. newleftreview.org/issues/ii159...

The @britishacademy.bsky.social resource also shows significant and v. concerning trends in recruitment of academic historians. The period 2018/19 to 2024/25 has seen a 25% fall (435 FPE) of staff with the contract type 'early career'. This compares to a 4% rise for senior staff #Skystorians 3/3

www.csds.in/researching_... Summer school alert ⚠️ Doctoral students are welcome to apply to the 1 month long summer school at CSDS, Environmental Entanglements. Last date of application 5 July 2026

Iron Moon introduced me to poetry by 21st century workers in China, writing from internet cafes and their mobile phones. So heartening to read continuing traditions of writings and translations

The Makers of Modern China • EQUATOR

For many years, Zheng Xiaoqiong has collected the stories of the workers whose migration to Guangdong powered China’s manufacturing revolution

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Evolutionary biologist Dr Toby Kiers, a world-renowned expert on mycorrhizal networks and member of the Soil Stars, is being awarded the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement for her transformative work www.the-microbiologist.com/news/biologi... @tobykiers.bsky.social @spun.earth

Biologist Dr. Toby Kiers wins Tyler Prize, calls fungi key to restoring degraded land and an untapped ally for the earth

Evolutionary biologist Dr. Toby Kiers, a world-renowned expert on mycorrhizal networks, is being awarded the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement for her "transformative" work, the Tyler Prize Executive Committee announced today.

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On Tear-Gassing Children The Federal Assault on the ICE Out! Labor March in Portland crimethinc.com/PortlandTear... On January 31, ICE agents attacked a demonstration in Portland, blanketing a whole neighborhood in tear gas and injuring a number of small children. An account from eyewitnesses.

On Tear-Gassing Children

On January 31, ICE agents attacked a demonstration in Portland, injuring a number of small children. An account from eyewitnesses.

crimethinc.com

3 years of field work and a lot of new thoughts. .all being synthesized through 3 days of intense hanging. What a privilege to be working with this team; collaborators and tensions! With @shakyanepal.bsky.social and the world of anthropology of work! Jens Seeberg and the world of microbes

Paul Salopek is more than halfway done with his journey dubbed the “Out of Eden Walk,” which began in the Great Rift Valley of Ethiopia in 2013. Now, his expedition from Africa to the tip of South America crosses into the Western Hemisphere. PBS checks in on his adventures to date:

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek on his trek around the globe on foot

In the last two years, National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek traversed the Chinese countryside, marched along the Korean Demilitarized Zone and fended off grizzly bears in Alaska. Now, his…

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9 years ago we lost Mark Fisher, whose work offers perhaps the best diagnosis of the situation we find ourselves in. In his memory, we've tasked authors with using Fisher's ideas as a jumping off point for all-new horror fictions. 📘THE MONSTER, CAPITAL (Feb 26) commapress.co.uk/books/monste...

O man, just became reserve army of labour after 3 years of The Employment

Some auto sector gossip:

Wages depressed, labour codes passed, removing many kinds of social protection previously available to the working masses

BREAKING: Union in Italy has announced a general strike on October 3, as per their promise if the Gaza flotilla was attacked, as it has been now.

The Global Sumud Flotilla is currently some 150 nautical miles from Gaza.

“Break the Blockade and End the Siege”: Nelson Mandela’s Grandson Speaks from Gaza Aid Flotilla

As the Israeli blockade of Gaza continues, a nearly 50-boat flotilla carrying humanitarian aid is currently some 150 nautical miles from Gaza. The grandson of Nelson Mandela, Nkosi Zwelivelile “Mandla...

democracynow.org

Interesting!

The India Forum@theindiaforum.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Before antibiotics were widely available, the Soviet Union continued using phage therapy for a longer time than most countries. By the time the world began facing the crisis of antibiotic resistance, this weapon in our arsenal had largely been forgotten.

Was happy to go back to alma mater JNU, New Delhi as a discussant in student led symposium on a discussion on power and feminism. For a change, not just for the Tea shop!

The urban poor in Delhi city Forced to 'embed' in an entanglement of land, law and jurisdictions! 2014: the cm sanctions, says, live here! 2025: court says, you can't! Meanwhile, water and electricity came, then got taken back a month ago.

It's coming!

Our tree of life Members of SGU- domestic workers union in Delhi, against evictions- entangled in land legal quagmire combined with xenophobic attacks as 'illegal' migrants from Bangladesh! For housing rights Against sludge We push back, together under the shade of our tree Delhi, 17 July 2025

«Il n’y a pas de génocide à Gaza.» Raphaël Enthoven, 12 mai 2024.

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Glacier gets Himalayan funeral as thousands of bodies of ice ‘die’

Scientists warn of a rapid acceleration in the loss of land glaciers, compounding climate change

ft.com

Revisiting cybersyn in times of techno- despotic regimes. Sigh.

Project Cybersyn: Chile's Radical Experiment in Cybernetic Socialism

Fifty years ago, a military coup violently ended Chile’s political experiment with socialism, and with it the nation’s technological experiment with cybernetic management.

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Now announced... CfP: Twenty-Second Annual Historical Materialism London Conference, 'Resurgent Reaction: Marxist Strategies at the End of the Liberal Order'. This year taking place 6-9 November 2025 at SOAS University, London

Twenty-Second Annual Conference - Historical Materialism

Resurgent Reaction: Marxist Strategies at the End of the Liberal Order 6-9 November 2025, SOAS, Russell Square, Central London Deadline for abstracts: Friday 16 May 2025

historicalmaterialism.org

Good morning, Did you know that the cloud has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry? That a single data center can consume the equivalent electricity of 50,000 homes? thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-staggeri...

The Staggering Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud

Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate draws on five years of research and ethnographic fieldwork in server farms to illustrate some of the diverse environmental impacts of data storage.

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Pleased to announce that the International Labour Review / @ilr-rit.bsky.social, one of the world’s leading publications on world-of-work knowledge and research, transitions to #diamondOA with the Open Library of Humanities: www.openlibhums.org/news/797/

International Labour Review transitions to open access

The International Labour Review, one of the world’s leading publications on world-of-work knowledge and research, transitions to open access with the Open Library of Humanities. GENEVA (ILO News) – Th...

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We don't talk about this enough but the history of #PaleoAnth has "colonial overtones" - to put it lightly! Chapeau to all efforts to decolonise #HumanEvolution 👏 🏺🧪 #science

Nature@nature.com · last yr.

Yohannes Haile-Selassie wants to shift the trajectory of palaeoanthropology in fossil-rich Ethiopia away from its long colonial heritage https://go.nature.com/4iEQTkE

Companion through bleak times. . Endings are evasive, and let's you stay with the 'incompleteness' of stories, lives and actions. Zahid Rafiq's the world with its mouth open