Keen to come to #4S in Toronto? The deadline has been extended to May 5! @kellyfritsch.bsky.social and I are organizing a track of panels on social and political resistance to contemporary #eugenics - if you're working in this area, please consider submitting #STS #antieugenics #feministSTS

Society for Social Studies of Science@4sweb.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We have extended the submission deadline for the call for abstracts for open panels. New deadline is: May 5. 1. Submissions to Open Panels 2. Closed Panels 3. Making & Doing 4. Meet-Ups 5. Roundtables Submit here: www.xcdsystem.com/4sonline/mem...

A great example of how so many progressive folks rely on #ableism, #sanism and #eugenics ( cognitive and psychological testing for all?) instead of describing the actions of T*&$p & co for what they are: violent, reckless and irresponsible actions by powerful men www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Teleportation, aliens and cancer-busting soda - it’s not just Trump going cuckoo, his officials are too | Arwa Mahdawi

As the president’s men rave about paranormal events and Diet Coke, it seems the US’s only hope is extraterrestrial intervention

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A great example of how so many progressive folks rely on #ableism, #sanism and #eugenics ( cognitive and psychological testing for all?) instead of describing the actions of T*&$p & co for what they are: violent, reckless and irresponsible actions by powerful men www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Teleportation, aliens and cancer-busting soda - it’s not just Trump going cuckoo, his officials are too | Arwa Mahdawi

As the president’s men rave about paranormal events and Diet Coke, it seems the US’s only hope is extraterrestrial intervention

theguardian.com

📣 Fully-funded PhD position on Methane Politics on the ERC funded METHPOL project @ Leeds Uni w/Prof Jan Selby. Open to home (UK) applicants (international studentships have been filled) to start October 2026. Deadline 22 April. #ClimateChange. Full details ⬇️ phd.leeds.ac.uk/funding/427-...

Fellow #professors & #educators: as an abolitionist, I'm uneasy with the punitive role we're being increasingly asked to play in addressing AI cheating by students. I'm working on a set of guidelines for addressing this issue based on #transformativejustice principles docs.google.com/document/d/1...

📰 I have a new paper out with Peter Sands @anthropocenebio.bsky.social in Society & Animals - setting out the idea of a #PoliticalEcology of reanimating to understand current trends in #rewilding through the lens of individual animal lives brill.com/view/journal...

It's grading season, so there's lots of talk of AI cheating. But to all those #students who are NOT using #AI in unethical ways on your assignments: we see you, and we hear you - connecting with your distinct voices is part of what makes university teaching meaningful (for you and for your profs).

⏰just under 2 weeks to go until the closing date, 12 April ⏰ we have added more info to the FAQs to help applicants prepare ⬇️

Rosaleen Duffy@rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 5mo ago

1/ Calling all ECRs - we have 4x3 year post docs on Multispecies Mutualisms working with us at Sheffield. Don't want to read through all the stuff to work out if its right for you? Here is a short video explainer 🎥 digitalmedia.sheffield.ac.uk/media/Multis...

Seriously: fuck Karp and all the other Tech Dicks who are using 'neurodivergence' to wash their violent global data-grabbing project - let alone Palantir's literal complicity in genocide timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/t...

Palantir CEO Alex Karp: These two groups of people should not be worried about AI taking their jobs - The Times of India

Tech News News: Palantir CEO Alex Karp has said that not everyone needs to be concerned about artificial intelligence (AI) related job losses. He pointed to two group.

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📢 Special Issue Call: Plural Waters: Engaging Multiple Knowledges, Methods, and Practices 🌊 Call for contributions exploring diverse ways of knowing, governing & relating to “waters” across contexts. 📅 Deadline: April 17, 2026 www.die-erde.org/index.php/di...

I aspire to one day receive praise like the following, gleaned from the dust jacket of a late 1960s tome: "Professor _____ has written a large book" #academic #books

Thank you, #NorwayConsumerCouncil. This made my otherwise dreary Monday #internet #enshittification [alt text: a man in overalls and white t-shirt, whose face is blurred. holds up a red hairdryer to a blue felt pen to dry out the pen] www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...

A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator

YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council

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🐦‍⬛ 🐕‍🦺🐄🐴 Our Multispecies Mutualisms post doc roles are now also on jobs.ac.uk 🐦‍⬛ 🐕‍🦺🐄🐴 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQS438/4...

Jobs | Job Search | Job Vacancies on jobs.ac.uk

Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...

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Rosaleen Duffy@rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 5mo ago

1/ Calling all ECRs - we have 4x3 year post docs on Multispecies Mutualisms working with us at Sheffield. Don't want to read through all the stuff to work out if its right for you? Here is a short video explainer 🎥 digitalmedia.sheffield.ac.uk/media/Multis...

The salt used to keep city streets in Canada (and elsewhere) open during heavy snowfall has a massive negative ecological impact, not least on #aquatic life and ecosystems #pollution #water [Alt text: a large peak of snow sits against a blue sky with clouds] www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Peak interest: Toronto’s snow mountains that refuse to melt are a toxic hazard

Reaching up to 100ft, these massive piles contain tonnes of salt that keep roads clear but pose environmental and health risks

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Coming to @4sweb.bsky.social 2026? @kellyfritsch.bsky.social and I are organizing an open panel on 'Confronting Contemporary Eugenics" (see p. 72 of the accepted panels for details). We'd love to consider your submission! #STS #antieugenics #disabilityjustice #socialmovements

Society for Social Studies of Science@4sweb.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Call for Paper Abstracts and Other Proposals is NOW OPEN: March 3–April 30, 2026 Call for Paper Abstracts, Closed Panels, Making & Doing Sessions, Roundtables, and Meetups: www.4sonline.org/call_for_sub... Accepted Open Panels: www.4sonline.org/accepted_ope...

Sharing this excellent new article by Jake Subryan Richards on #Black #Ecological #Knowledge making and human-bird relations in the #Caribbean in the 19th century #political #ecology #environmental #history www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

Important thread by @chanda.blacksky.app, including resources for trans ppl facing state-sponsored eliminative violence. The Lemkin Institute - including world-leading genocide scholars - report that a genocide of trans people is in train in the US www.lemkininstitute.com/single-post/...

Experts Warn U.S. in Early Stages of Genocide Against Trans Americans

Genocide scholars say policies targeting transgender Americans match early warning signs of mass atrocity.This piece has been updated from its original email version.Genocide scholars are sounding the...

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · 5mo ago

I know people are very sensitive about the use of the word “genocide” but the attempts to medically eliminate trans children is very clearly meets the standard because they are trying to eliminate a population and also they know some of those kids are going to kill themselves

In yet another instalment of the #militarization of #biodiversity: #rewilding as military strategy www.theguardian.com/environment/... [Alt text: two people in navy blue uniforms with weapons on their belts stride into a field surrounded by trees]

Countries can rewild borders to deter invasions, says EU environment chief

Jessika Roswall cites Poland and Finland, which have made border areas near Russia or its allies ‘more hostile’ to cross

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Incredible opportunity for *4* #postdocs, *3 years each* to work with @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social, @evahaifa.bsky.social, Alasdair Cochrane and Bob McKay on their wonderful new "#multispecies #mutualisms" project at the University of of Sheffield #EnvHumanities sheffield.ac.uk/spir/news/re...

Recruiting researchers in Animal Studies (humanities and social sciences)

Last year, ‘Multispecies Mutualisms’ was successfully awarded a Wellcome Trust grant of £1.6 million. We are now recruiting four new Post Doctoral Research Associates to join the team.

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THIS 👇

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 5mo ago

the fuck is a "fact-based feeling?"

Political Science and North American Studies @wilfridlaurieruni.bsky.social is hiring for a #TT assistant professor in #politicaltheory with a focus on areas such as #law, #settlercolonialism, #Indigenouspolitics, critical approaches. See link for details: universityaffairs.ca/jobs/job-pre...

University Affairs

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Hmm... if your posts are "indiscernible from those of white supremacists", then maybe you just ARE a white supremacist? #bleedingobvious www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Elon Musk posted about race almost every day in January

Many social media posts by Tesla CEO on his platform are indiscernible from those of white supremacists, say experts

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Ahead of ISA 2026, join us to organise for academic boycott for Palestine! Tues 3rd Feb online 🍉 #BDSatISA #FreePalestine #NoConferencingAsUsual us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

"Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group"-UN Convention Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of #Genocide, art. 2 (d). And no 'intentionality' puritans, pls - there is no denying that these outcomes were foreseen and designed. #Gaza www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Gaza war leads to 41% fall in births prompting allegations of reproductive violence

Israel’s war in Gaza has caused high numbers of maternal and neonatal deaths, say two reports

theguardian.com

This point is too often getting lost in discourses that frame Denmark as a 'protector' of Greenland in the face of US imperial threats

Kimberly Atkins Stohr@kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 7mo ago

From my column of nearly a year ago, a reminder that Trump’s Greenland gambit is an attempt to steal an indigenous nation that is working toward its own independence: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/08/o...

Surely in 2025 it is possible for journalists to do better than smearing dirt on the faces and hair of ambiguously but obviously racialized people in order to represent white fantasies of 'ancient humans' www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Humans made fire 350,000 years earlier than previously thought, discovery in Suffolk suggests

Groundbreaking find makes compelling case that humans were lighting fires much earlier than originally believed

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Some 'ceasefire'. This was the plan all along. Settler colonial genocide in action www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

‘Yellow line’ that divides Gaza under Trump plan is ‘new border’ for Israel, says military chief

Eyal Zamir said Israel would hold on to current positions, giving it control of more than half of the territory

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Hey #academicsky: friendly reminder that taking the exact ideas or sources, or the exact way someone puts together ideas or sources from someone else's work and framing them as your own is plagiarism. Ideas are what we theorists make in the lab, through long hours of work and years of honing.

Between today's destructive CDC panel and the unabashed embrace of white supremacist conspiracy theory (see article) can anyone seriously deny that this is a #eugenicist regime? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘Cultivate resistance’: policy paper lays bare Trump support for Europe’s far right

Text signed by president seems to echo ‘great replacement’ theory, saying Europe faces ‘civilisational erasure’

theguardian.com

"The beliefs RFK Jr. espouses kill people. These beliefs have already killed people" 💯

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Spoke to @melodyschreiber.com about the only story that matters re Olivia Nuzzi--her role in elevating RFK Jr, a man who is doing and will do so much harm to global health, even for decades after he leaves this position. I don't care about her hikes in the desert, her exile or her terrible prose.