Can't wait to host @nathankhensley.bsky.social here at UIUC next week! Come through Champaign-Urbana-ites: next Wednesday 9/23 4pm in Levis 210!

Nathan K. Hensley@nathankhensley.bsky.social · 2w ago

I am so psyched for this! 🌿 Also thrilled to be an opening act for the excellent @sorourke25.bsky.social—and I think @thomassdavis.bsky.social is also coming to UIUC later in the term?!! 🤩🤟

More than 20,000 seafarers are stranded on commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz. "The seafarers, men and women, have not provoked this war, are not a part of it, and cannot stop it," says Mohamed Arrachedi of the International Transport Workers' Federation.

on this sunday-est of sundays, syllabus-ing for a new term you're not alone against the oligarch agenda of cognitive deskilling, data capture, surveillance, and bias: we've got assignment ideas, memes, recommended readings, o' captain speeches, syllabus policies, and so much more against-a-i.com

pleased to be included in this very handsome collection. thanks to @andyoler.bsky.social

What a time to decide to learn less about the world. dailytarheel.com/article/univ...

UNC cuts all six area studies research centers, effective 2026

As part of the University's plan to make $70 million in budget cuts across the institution, Vice Chancellor for Finance and Operations Nate Knuffman projected that cutting 14 centers and institutes in...

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grateful that Sarah Mesle articulated this, in this precise way. Beef & fucking prunes. (from Reasons & Feelings, 2025)

It’s Giving Tuesday. (It’s giving … Tuesday.) I really encourage you to donate to an abortion fund, which make the promise of equality real by allowing women to control their bodies and lives, pursue their dreams, and live with dignity. Find your local fund here: abortionfunds.org

Homepage - National Network of Abortion Funds

Our network of nearly 100 abortion funds builds power for abortion access. Find a fund, get support, donate, and join campaigns with NNAF.

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Today I learned that my book, RENDERED OBSOLETE, was reviewed in AHR by @calebwellum.bsky.social. I'm grateful to Caleb for the sharp, generous review, and for all the work he's been doing in energy humanities. Link to review below, or DM me for a PDF! academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...

December 2025 in the Greenhouse! We are winding down for the year with some exciting #envhist #envhum events.

Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...

Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians

Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...

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Thanks to @modamhist.bsky.social for publishing my conversation with @imreszeman.bsky.social, Bob Johnson, Cara Daggett, and Jennifer Wenzel on history and the energy humanities. We hope it is helpful! Check it out here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Today is publication day! EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism is officially out with @wwnorton.com - find it at a bookstore near you or order online💚📚 wwnorton.com/books/978132...

I am really excited to announce the call for the PhD Course in Energy Humanities! Held at the @greenhouseuis.net from 1-5 December. Applications are welcome until 24 October. #envhum #envhist #energyhistory

One month until publication for _Ethanol: A Hemispheric History for the Future of Biofuels_. Tom Rogers and I lay out the linked history of the US and Brazilian ethanol programs and explain why they matter for energy, climate, and politics. Pre-orders available now! www.oupress.com/978080619601...

Ethanol - University of Oklahoma Press

Though ethanol, a liquid fuel made from agricultural byproducts, has generated controversy in recent years—good or bad for the environment? a big-ag boon o...

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Luminous, urgent issue of @thedial2024.bsky.social. Thinking this am about Stephanie Foote's challenge to us: "Now is the time for the unglamorous daily work of collective meaning-making, as difficult as that is for universities under threat." muse.jhu.edu/pub/562/arti...

“We have chosen a life of humanistic study, because we believe it will bind us more closely to you, to those who have preceded us, to those who will follow, and to the lands that we rely on.” www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Here's what I'm up to these days. SO EXCITED to write this book and talk about how the history of positive thinking in wellness impacts us all. Grateful for my agent @babedylan.bsky.social and my new editor Maria, who rocks.

Belated announcement of a collection I'm proud to be part of: Biocultural Empire: New Histories of Imperial Lifeworlds, out from Bloomsbury late last year. 1/ www.bloomsbury.com/us/biocultur...

Biocultural Empire

Human species supremacy is one of the most persistent fictions at work in the field of modern British imperial history today. This open access collection challe…

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JESUS, MARY, AND JOSEPH! This gave me old Google back! It killed the AI results dead!

Irish@nakedirish.com · last yr.

This, actually works. For me at least.

For decades, the biomedical industry has relied on a compound in horseshoe crab blood to protect medical equipment from contamination, saving untold human lives. But conservationists say modern medicine’s dependence on this bloodletting is upending a globe-spanning ecosystem.

These crabs probably saved your life. Can we save theirs?

The medical world relies on horseshoe crab blood in the production of vaccines and equipment. A synthetic is available, but companies have been slow to adopt it.

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teachers! excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone. take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE against-a-i.com

AGAINST AI

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Some of the crimes I've seen in Washington DC: — Beige sweater with beige chinos — Jacket sleeve tag left on — Tan shoes with navy suits — Giant Windsor knots (triple felony with the metal sports watch paired with dark suit and French cuffs)

Huge congratulations to the winners of the ASLE book awards: Christina Gerhardt & Debbie Urbanski! I'm so happy that my book, RENDERED OBSOLETE, was given an honorable mention. Especially exciting to be mentioned honorably alongside my colleague, office-neighbor, and friend, Janice Harrington!

Association for the Study of Literature and Environment@asle-us.bsky.social · last yr.

Congratulations to our 2025 ASLE Book Award Winners: #ecocritical winner is Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean (Christina Gerhardt) and creative winner is After World (Debbie Urbanski). www.asle.org/stay-informe...

Congratulations to our 2025 ASLE Book Award Winners: #ecocritical winner is Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean (Christina Gerhardt) and creative winner is After World (Debbie Urbanski). www.asle.org/stay-informe...

I was excited to find out that my book is available for pre-order! One for anyone interested in energy, climate, and the history of Britain. Thanks to MUP for making it pretty and affordable 🫶 manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182968/

Manchester University Press - Electric wind

Electric wind - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Electric wind by Marianna Dudley

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Canvas just became one of the most powerful surveillance, IP theft, & data monetization tools in the world. OpenAI bought a user-base locked in to long-term contracts. But they can’t make us use their trashware. Boycott. Luddify. Open source. Don’t let them have your work or your students.

I have an idea: add a widget that uses AI to simulate the depletion of aquifers used to cool the data centers that run each campus’s Canvas AI! Pedagogical self-reflexivity! Infrastructural literacy!

Updating my lecture slides for American Studies as well as Literature and the Environment with the screenshot. Always taught alongside Charles Hillard’s 2021 painting of the same name iltf.org/wp-content/u...