Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91
Emily Celeste
@emilyceleste.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @UCDavis | border & migration studies | environmental humanities | c20/21 Mexican, Central American & Latinx lit. | chihuahuense + tapatía.
This time next week at Texas Tech University: both Victor Sierra Matute and Cristina Pardo Porto in the house.
Happy 40th anniversary to "Thundercats". Opening animated by Masayuki (who was only 22 years old at the time).
Flower studies, C18th, by #MadeleineFrançoiseBasseporte (French, 1701-1780), who died #otd, Sept 4. Held by Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle; source, gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b... #artherstory #hernaturalhistory #womenartists
In less than three weeks, I’ll be sharing material from my forthcoming monograph at @texastech.bsky.social. Many thanks to Prof. @pavelandrade.bsky.social for the kind invitation, and to all the sponsors at TTU! #academicsky
New book from @dukepress.bsky.social: A Wide Net of Solidarity: Antiracism and Anti-Imperialism from the Americas to the Globe by @annegarlandmahler.bsky.social www.dukeupress.edu/a-wide-net-o...
Side note: I look forward to Chicago and any other schools suspending PhD admissions and hiring also suspending publication requirements for current faculty in those fields since such reqs presuppose the existence of an adequate pool of peer reviewers
In "Indigenomicon," @arsavium.bsky.social examines the differences between settler colonial studies and Indigenous studies by bringing video game studies into conversation with Black studies, queer studies, and Indigenous feminist critique. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/RM90jF8
Víctor Sierra Matute (@sierramatute.bsky.social) opens issue 72.3 of the Romance Quarterly with “A Prince Through the Mirror: Garcilaso de la Vega and the Lyricization of Early Modern Poetry”. 🎨 Copy of Garcilaso de la Vega y Guzmán by Ojeda y Siles, Manuel (1835-1904) circa 1887
“Among college graduates ages 22 to 27, computer science and computer engineering majors are facing some of the highest unemployment rates, 6.1 percent and 7.5 percent respectively, according to a report… That is more than double the unemployment rate among recent biology and art history graduates”
Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle.
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As the #Colorado River dries up, Western states are fighting over how to share what’s left. #Arizona’s new proposal could reshape #waterrights. buff.ly/xsEzuF4 By Sarah Porter @morrisoninstitute.bsky.social
As the Colorado River slowly dries up, states angle for influence over future water rights
Long-standing water-use agreements allocate more water than the river and its basin actually contain, forcing users to cut back and face future shortages as well.
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Ghosts Behind Glass: Encountering Extinction in Museums coming your way in October 2025. Only $20 in paperback for a full color book with 80 pictures! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Honored to join this volume among stellar company. Huge kudos to the editors for their superb work!
A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
Excited to share the CFP for this fantastic volume co-edited by my colleague @pavelandrade.bsky.social. More details in the link below, and please share widely and consider submitting your work! docs.proton.me/doc?type=doc...
Two great Mexican films: In MUBI and VOD, La cocina, an immersive film on immigrant and minority labor in a NY kitchen, in Vix with English subtitles Déjame estar contigo, a romantic dramedy on a deportee and the right of Mexican Americans to claim Mexico as theirs. I strongly recommend both.
🌎🌡️ Tanto las catástrofes ambientales (especialmente las producidas por el cambio climático) como la violencia derivada de conflictos bélicos, regímenes genocidas y el crimen organizado expulsan a la gente de sus lugares de origen en busca de condiciones dignas de existencia.
Spain performed a grand act of quixotism yesterday: a national blackout. Today, my article on postapocalyptic quixotism in the graphic novel La sombra de Don Quijote went online at @spanishbulletin.bsky.social The timing could not be better—alas. Check it out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Estrategias e imaginarios barrocos en La sombra de don Quijote (2014) de Patricio Clarey y Lara Fuentes*
Published in Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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I am super proud to have in my hand Iván Eusebio Aguirre Darancou’s Consuming Citizens, born out of the dissertation for which I was the advisor, Ivan’s work on counterculture, gender and modernity is very bold and original!
Save 30% on #NewBook "Informatics of Domination," edited by Zach Blas, @melodyjue.bsky.social , & Jennifer Rhee, an experimental collection addressing formations of power that manifest through technical systems and white capitalist patriarchy in the 21st century. buff.ly/CUxiWM1
Pet owners – watch out for the sticky foxtail seed pods, which poses a major threat to your pet’s health. Symptoms to watch for: 🌱 Frequent shaking of your pet's head 🌱 Drainage or discharge from the eye 🌱 Sneezing or pawing at the nose buff.ly/kg57K8T #pets #dogs #spring #summer
Pet-owners: watch out for foxtail seed pods that can harm your dog or cat this summer
Foxtails can hook onto your pet’s skin and may cause redness, swelling and infection.
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🚶🏾 Ante la crisis humanitaria actual generada por políticas xenófobas, dedicamos este número a las migraciones, incluidas las de la vida silvestre. Consulta la nueva edición 👉🏾 b.link/e39p1pxb
Por el cumple de Paz… comparto mi capítulo sobre él y su relación con las instituciones culturales mexicanas. www.academia.edu/116956826/_O...
"Octavio Paz and the Institutions of Poetry" A History of Mexican Poetry (2024)
This chapter considers cultural institutions as major shapers of the poetry of the second half of the twentieth century. Here Octavio Paz is once again crucial, as a cultural broker, the editor of Plu...
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