On two of my favorite food books of the season
Vegetable diversity
On two wondrous new books by Ali Frances, Adriana Picker, Lane Selman, and Margarett Waterbury
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Eline D. Tabak
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Biodiversity, culture & the environment | previously: postdoc @ Oulu, Fi & #envhum PhD @ Bristol & BSU, UK | exploring biodiversity (loss) through seed saving & insect decline | story(tell)ing & care 🌱🐝 🏳️🌈 (she/her)
We’ve published issue 3.2 of ‘Plant Perspectives’, a special issue on ‘Global More-than-Human Histories of Palms’ (guest edited by Sophie Chao, Pilar Egüez Guevara and Jayson Maurice Porter); #openaccess here: www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/issue/vie... #plantstudies #envhum #palms
Every once in a while I have to do remind myself that my years in academia did result in something and I grab a paper copy of a publication 📖📚 it’s nice
The Peace of Wild Things By Wendell Berry I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
Wendell Berry, influential Kentucky writer and activist, has died
Wendell Berry, a Kentucky native and man of letters and the land, who helped inspire the new American food movement, has died. He was 92.
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MPIWG-NTU Centre for Biocultural Worlding advertises a Singapore-based fellowship in Curatorial Research and Practice! This 2-yr renewable position in a high-energy team is on epistemic, biological & cultural diversity. bioculturalworlding.org/postdoctoral... CBCW@ntu.edu.sg ✍️ ??? 🪲🐓🌳🏗️🛶🐢🪸🌴🌏🇸🇬
Call for postdocs at the Mahindra Humanities Center (Harvard) in Environmental Humanities (e.g. humanistic approaches to climate change, biodiversity, social justice, env justice, food justice, landscape, and animal studies) Due date Nov. 20, 2026 #EnvHist #EnvHum networks.h-net.org/jobs/70205/h...
Harvard University - 2027-28 Mahindra Humanities Center Postdoctoral Fellowships | H-Net
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My genuinely non controversial take is that if you're signing an open letter of support for Cofnas you're either a racist or want to be admired in racist spaces.
This entire disgusting situation with Arday has shown the horrible priorities of a society built for the ruling class. Our press isn't free, and it is used solely and exclusively to pursue the interests of the ruling class which owns it.
Cambridge University should have known better, Fleet Street should have known better, the people hungrily absorbing every bit of news about it, making newsrooms feel like they had to keep going with it as a story, should have known better, horrible horrible horrible
Oil giants made $93bn in profits in just 3 months while wildfires tear through Greece, Spain and France. Polluters profit, people pay. Destroyed homes, livelihoods, and an €822bn climate inaction bill across the EU since 1980. We need to move beyond fossil fuels. www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...
Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis
Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage
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Na de verschrikkelijke branden elders in Europa, nu ook hier in Nederland. Afschuwelijk voor dier, mens en natuur De klimaatcrisis is nu. We hebben méér klimaatdrammers nodig: kabinet-Jetten moet snel klimaatactie nemen En dank aan alle hulpverleners die deze brand in Limburg bestrijden
‘Zeer grote natuurbrand’ in Limburg, defensie zet blushelikopter in
In natuurgebied De Rosmolen woedt een zeer grote brand, aldus de veiligheidsregio Limburg-Noord. De brandweer bestrijdt de brand met ‘zeer veel mensen en voertuigen’. Een blushelikopter van defensie i...
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The costs of net zero are a lot lower than the costs of current policy
Chris Wallace@chriswallace.bsky.social · 3mo ago‘Bordeaux…is considering a total evacuation of the city of 270,000 people, with fires just 30 miles away. ‘France has already launched its largest peacetime evacuation.’ www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/c6ffeee...
Worked on this wildfire investigation for the last number of months with colleagues across the EU. To publish today is, sadly, very timely. While Ireland doesn’t experience the ‘mega fires’ we see in Spain etc, the damage caused to protected sites here is actually far greater than most of Europe.
The Journal Investigates@investigates.thejournal.ie · 3mo agoNEW INVESTIGATION: Despite escaping the 'mega fires' seen in countries such as Spain and Greece, Ireland actually has one of Europe’s highest rates of wildfire overlap with protected nature sites, we can reveal
Work on water? This call is for you👇
Marianna Dudley@dudleymarianna.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe Oxford Intersection on Environmental Change and Human Experience is seeking submissions across its different sections. I am editing 'Water' and would love to see more articles on -Rivers/freshwater More-than-human perspectives Militaries & water Trade & transport academic.oup.com/oxford-inter...
I now fervently believe this. Relatedly, I think celebrating good news and embracing joy are equally radical. You have to remember what you’re fighting for. We cannot sustainably organize around sorrow.
Saeed Jones@theferocity.bsky.social · 5mo agoI’m coming to understand that maintaining hope is radical.
🎉 It's publication day for the (very affordable) paperback of Unsettling Extinction, edited by the inimitable Roman Bartosch, Ursula Heise & Kate Rigby 🎊 The book brings together some fabulous thinkers in the field of extinction studies (and me) Order a copy here www.bloomsbury.com/uk/unsettlin...
Here's what I have to say about Elon Musk becoming a trillionaire: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Is it bad that Elon Musk has a trillion dollars? Yes, and here’s why | Ingrid Robeyns
Just as the ‘poverty line’ determines what’s required for basic living, we need a ‘wealth line’ to show when extreme wealth becomes harmful, says economist and philosopher Ingrid Robeyns
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Today marks the start of my last month as a postdoc in Finland. As much as I would like to say I managed to secure myself another position, the (academic) job market is rough right now. I’m officially #OpenTowork. It’s not all bleak as I'm moving back to NL - and my partner and our cats (1/5)
A whine I need to get out before it chokes me: I'm on the job market (aren't we all) in NL where academia is falling apart (isn't it everywhere). Since defending TT positions have disappeared. At first there were a few teaching only jobs, but those are now mostly "junior" lectureships for grads
Our early-career network is organizing a workshop on 16 June! #envhist
ESEH NEXTGATe@esehnextgate.bsky.social · 4mo agoNew academic zine workshop! Are you tired of the traditional forms of publication? Learn about how to (and why you should) make your own publications in our free workshop. Register here: www.eventbrite.ie/e/how-to-mak... #envhist #envhum
What a crushing loss. She was so brilliant. As many others are saying here, if you haven't read Persepolis, do it as soon as you are able. Her generous, witty, humanist, nuanced vision is more relevant now than ever. www.france24.com/en/culture/2...
French-Iranian author Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis', dies of 'sadness' at 56
French-Iranian author and illustrator Marjane Satrapi, best known for the book and film “Persopolis”, has died of "sadness", members of her entourage said Thursday. She was 56.
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The pots I made during my art-research residency at De Proef have all been fired and will be part of an exhibition at Frederiksoord this month 🍐 Unfortunately I'll miss it, but if anybody happens to be around do have a look! Ga eem kiekn
Happy Pride Month to all of my queer homies! Whether you’re out or closeted, we’re here 💜
Very cool (PT/FT) job with the the Millennium Seed Bank Partnership team at Wakehurst 🫘 careers.kew.org/vacancy/seed...
Seed Science Conference Co-ordinator - Careers | Kew Gardens
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Millennium Seed Bank Partnership team at Wakehurst. The post will support the delivery of the Weston Global Tree Seed Bank – Unlocked, the fourth phase of K...
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Incredible operation to save invaluable heritage materials. It really says something about the nature of Israel's war against the Palestinians that an organisation founded to support refugee welfare also has to undertake such efforts to preserve the records of their existence.
Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 5mo agoAmazing the personal risks people will take to preserve archival material www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...