When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.
Sasha Crawford-Holland
@sashach.bsky.social
assistant professor of media studies at Vanderbilt current research on heat, violence, environmental justice
Wednesday April 15th post-film discussion with @vanderbilt.edu 's own @sashach.bsky.social!
In "Heat Is a Power Relation: Standards, Standpoints, and the Intimacies of Comfort," Sasha Crawford-Holland analyzes how media distribute thermal dis/comfort, arguing that heat is not only a physical relation, but a power relation. @sashach.bsky.social Read for free now: doi.org/10.1525/fmh....
Please read my interview with Métis archaeologist Dr Kisha Supernant @archaeomapper.bsky.social! We discuss the role of media technologies in documenting histories of colonial genocide at residential institutions in Canada. worldrecordsjournal.org/the-end-of-a...
The End of Archaeology as We Know It - World Records
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"Just Evidence," the World Records volume that I edited with @patrickbriansmith.bsky.social and LaCharles Ward @blurrdblue.bsky.social, launches today! It asks: What does accountability look (and sound and feel) like? Read the intro here: worldrecordsjournal.org/just-evidence/
Just Evidence - World Records
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Wrote a column thenarwhal.ca/seasonal-dep... and talked to CBC's Allie Jaynes www.cbc.ca/radio/frontb... about how wildfires, smoke, extreme heat and other effects of climate change are making summer a bummer, and why I'm trying to push past my sadness about it to tap into my anger, and love.
I have seasonal depression in the summer now | The Narwhal
Extreme heat, wildfires and pests — fuelled by climate change — threaten to make summer the worst season in Canada. It’s time to talk about it
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Our new issue of the London Review of International Law is out with articles by Tanja Aalberts, @ingovenzke.bsky.social, Gavin Sullivan, Wouter Werner, Sasha Crawford-Holland, @patrickbriansmith.bsky.social, Andrew Williams, and the Medellín Group. academic.oup.com/lril/issue/1...
Volume 13 Issue 1 | London Review of International Law | Oxford Academic
Publishes high-quality scholarship on international law from around the world. While no area of international legal interest is excluded, the journal prioritises non-doctrinal scholarship, including t...
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Excited to be presenting some work at UCSB next week! Hope to see you there
Over the course of the summer, pieces from the forthcoming issue of World Records, titled "Just Evidence," co-edited by LaCharles Ward, Sasha Crawford-Holland, and myself, will be released. The full issue with introduction will be available late summer! worldrecordsjournal.org/category/vol...
A new co-authored piece that critically examines open-source investigation’s increasing reliance on—and deference to—the law. Written with Sasha Crawford-Holland and Andrew Williams. doi.org/10.1093/lril...
Law’s capture of human rights focused open-source investigation
Abstract. With new protocols emerging to regulate the field of open-source investigation, this article critiques their widespread deference to the requirem
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Forensic techniques have become a dominant form of artist-activist media practice. Running across the festival, Just Evidence, organised with World Records Journal, features screenings & events asking how these forensic practices can be reconciled to radical ends. opencitylondon.com/2025-festiva...
Just Evidence - Open City Documentary Festival
What does accountability look like? In recent years, the answer has been overwhelmingly forensic. From the news to true crime podcasts, and from art exhibitions to film festivals, forensic modes of ...
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London pals-- hope to see you at these exciting events with @opencitydocs.bsky.social, where we ask: What does accountability look like?
Just Evidence - Open City Documentary Festival
What does accountability look like? In recent years, the answer has been overwhelmingly forensic. From the news to true crime podcasts, and from art exhibitions to film festivals, forensic modes of ...
opencitylondon.com
Looking forward to learning from these brilliant people !
Brian Jacobson@bleudeciel.bsky.social · last yr.June 5-6 at Caltech w/ James Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social Katerina Korola @katerinakorola.bsky.social Debashree Mukherjee @debashree.bsky.social Sasha Crawford-Holland @sashach.bsky.social Jennifer Fay Thomas Patrick Pringle Carolina Sá Carvalho Mehak Sawhney Anna Stielau Tinghao Zhou
The tech world is pushing AI into everything and telling us it's both the way of the future and inevitable. Meanwhile, in the tech world:
Parents in Tech Want Their Kids to Go Into the Arts Instead
Hands-on jobs that demand creativity are seen as less vulnerable to artificial intelligence.
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This is exactly what they're trying to achieve by destroying government services that benefit the public. A VC-backed startup intervenes to gather data that the National Weather Service was previously collecting, and before we know it, we will be paying them for what was once funded by our taxes.
As Staffing Cuts at NWS Lead to Suspended Weather Balloon Launches in Western Alaska, WindBorne Systems Steps Up to Fill Atmospheric Data Gaps
Following the announcement from the National Weather Service (NWS) that it is suspending its weather balloon launches in Kotzebue, Alaska indefinitely
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My latest: The mass firings at NOAA can feel abstract. Here's what was lost at one research center -- the birthplace of climate modeling. Fired staff became U.S. citizens to pursue these dream jobs, only to have their dreams upended.
NOAA firings hit the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting
Dismissed researchers were improving severe weather predictions
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even if you don't like the idea of the state on principle you will really not like what's left of it after the right hacks at it www.bostonreview.net/product/what...
What Is the State For? - Boston Review
Spring 2024 Issue: Can the nation-state serve social justice? Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò with Thea Riofrancos, Mariame Kaba, Astra Taylor, and more.
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David Moscrop@davidmoscrop.com · last yr.This a great moment to remember and highlight the fact that the state is utterly necessary, that it can do big, bold, necessary things to help people.
trees are woke
Tennessee Lookout@tennesseelookout.com · last yr.The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s termination of federal funding for a program seeking to restore urban tree canopies in low-income areas will leave one Nashville-based nonprofit and the tree farmers that supply them high and dry, the nonprofit says. From @cstephenson.bsky.social.
This cover is a great example of why we need the 'A' in #STEAM. The A is for Arts, signifying the importance of incorporating creative thinking & design skills alongside #STEM allowing for a more holistic approach to problem-solving, innovation, and critically, communication, in education.
Hannah Daly@hannahdaly.ie · last yr.I think this is my favourite report cover of all time. Any others?
@urbaninstitute.bsky.social and @rwjf.bsky.social are collaborating on the Local Data for Equitable Communities grant program to fund 30 nonprofits $50,000 each to use data to improve local conditions that help residents live their healthiest lives. Learn more! localdataforequitablecommunities.org
Equitable Communities
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As a reference, the $46B that Meta spent building this shit is about the same amount of money Spain used to built its WHOLE high speed rail network. All 2469 miles of it. Zuckerberg got that money selling shitty ads and destroying democracy, and gave the world this.
Nathie@nathievr.bsky.social · last yr.This is Meta’s brand new ad for Horizon Worlds. Not sure how I’m supposed to feel about it.
This week, looking forward to teaching Fred Turner's defense of bureaucratic institutions against Silicon Valley's ethos of moving fast and breaking things. Somehow seems relevant? 🤷 🙃 harpers.org/archive/2019...
Machine Politics, by Fred Turner
The rise of the internet and a new age of authoritarianism
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In 2018, Google introduced policies that excluded applying AI to weapons, surveillance, and technologies that “cause or are likely to cause overall harm.” Now that promise is gone. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Google drops pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance
Google changed its public AI policies to remove assertions that it would not develop AI applied to surveillance or weapons.
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As Trump scrubs federal websites of important information, remember that non-profit organizations have been archiving a lot of this information. Internet Archive federal end-of-term crawl: blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e... Environmental Data and Governance Initiative: envirodatagov.org
🪨 A snow forecast is not chiseled in stone one time delivered by an old man descending a mountain. 🌳 It’s a living, breathing document constantly ingesting new data and making amendments.
"This paper discusses the design and implications of a study that explored the potential for archives and library special collections to serve as historical environmental proxy data to support the reconstruction of the spatiotemporal spread of the American chestnut blight in Tennessee"
Archive and library special collections as proxy data: reconstructing the American chestnut blight through digitized collections - Archival Science
This paper discusses the design and implications of a study that explored the potential for archives and library special collections to serve as historical environmental proxy data to support the reco...
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Some of my favourite Indigenous films available on NFB are: - You Are On Indian Land (1969) - Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance (1993) - Qallunaat! Why White People are Funny (2006) - Ever Deadly (2022) Share yours!
Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa@benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 2y agoHey! Did you all know that you can watch tons of indigenous cinema here on the National Film Board of Canada's website? Well, you can, and I thought I'd share just a few of my favorites today for... reasons. www.nfb.ca/indigenous-c...