Richard Fadok
@slaydok.bsky.social
Anthropologist of design & multispecies ethnographer, thinking about biomimicry 🌱⚙️ and animal architecture 🦝🏛️. Assistant professor at RIT. For more: https://www.richardfadok.com
"Building, Dwelling, Killing" by @slaydok.bsky.social is the second post in the Dwelling in Place series edited by Nicole Miller. Modern picture windows have led to widespread, fatal bird collisions. niche-canada.org/2026/10/22/p... #envhist #animalhistory #architecture
Building, Dwelling, Killing
Mid-20th-century modern picture windows unintentionally created severe hazards for birds, turning home views into sites of fatal wildlife collisions.
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*Globalizing Wildlife* is OUT THIS MONTH (!) with @uncpress.bsky.social “An essential and timely intervention… exciting, cutting-edge vantages on crucial global histories” -Daniel Vandersommers Edited by @rafdebont.bsky.social myself, & Tom Quick #animalhist #globalhist #HistSci #envhist
What does it mean to dwell when the home has become an instrument of ordinary violence toward birds? I ask this question in my essay in NiCHE. Reading Martin Heidegger’s lecture “Building, Dwelling, Thinking” against the pane, I tell an ornithological history of glass and its avian entanglements.
Building, Dwelling, Killing
Mid-20th-century modern picture windows unintentionally created severe hazards for birds, turning home views into sites of fatal wildlife collisions.
niche-canada.org
urban/suburbn-dwelling animals expert @slaydok.bsky.social says this guy is eating an old scone can some dry pastries expert now weight in
This is blowing up on the other site, and rightly so. This is an industry end run around the Supreme Court decision on Prop 12. The court has ruled this is not a dormant commerce clause issue and yet the industry now wants to use federal legislation to overturn state-level animal welfare laws.
I’ll be giving one of the Sciame lectures at the City College of New York at the end of the month. Come say hi if you’re around!
Hey, that’s my new, now-famous, super hip colleague! @slaydok.bsky.social
beth semel@bethmsemel.bsky.social · 10mo agohey look it's @slaydok.bsky.social making good on his username
![A facebook post from the American Anthropological Association that reads "Searching for your next role in anthropology? From faculty positions and postdocs t...[see more]." There's a picture of my friend, Richard Fadok, looking very handsome at a podium mid-sentence, wearing a light blue button up with a patchwork motif and black, round, wire-framed glasses. Richard is a white man with a neatly trimmed beard and closely cropped dark brown hair.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kwp43m6vi2gw6olf6joohedj/bafkreie6urmtrgj23evurxvv5h5jyen4fydx5bhev6spy7vzwtakc362oi)
I coedited a collection titled "Reactionary Worldbuilding: From Speculative Imagination to Political Practice" with Anindita Banerjee, Sherryl Vint, and David M. Higgins. It's forthcoming from MIT Press, and you can preorder at a discount here.
Reactionary Worldbuilding: From Speculative Imagination to Political Practice|Paperback
The first in-depth study of the dark side of worldbuilding, exploring the connection between speculative imagination and political practice.Speculative imagination brings to life an array of possible ...
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"Stingless bees from the Amazon have become the first insects to be granted legal rights anywhere in the world." #insects #animallaw #animalrights #conservation #pollinators #nature
Stingless bees from the Amazon granted legal rights in world first
Planet’s oldest bee species and primary pollinators were under threat from deforestation and competition from ‘killer bees’
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Colossal named its first "de-extinct" dire wolves for the fratricidal founder of a now fallen empire and the twin he did in. These names... they've been gnawing at me! So, I wrote about lupine Romulus and Remus and snow-white mythmaking for @g-ehr.bsky.social. g-ehr.com/essay/cry-wo... #Paleosky
Cry, Wolf • Germinate
Uncover the story behind the dire wolf and Aesop's fable, a classic tale about trust and deception through history.
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If I have to see another panel at the AAAs titled “ghosts,” “spectral,” or “haunting” (mine notwithstanding 😌).
My collaborator/artist-extraordinaire Mizin Shin & I have curated an exhibit at UR about bird-window collisions that explores what it means to live amidst the slow violence of architectural glass. Details below + a sneak peek @ my contribution, a “weird” field guide. www.sageart.center/frontispace
My collaborator/artist-extraordinaire Mizin Shin & I have curated an exhibit at UR about bird-window collisions that explores what it means to live amidst the slow violence of architectural glass. Details below + a sneak peek @ my contribution, a “weird” field guide. www.sageart.center/frontispace
Read @chloeahmann.bsky.social & Zeynep Oguz’s intro to a collection on ecofascism: “We must tend to the mundane ways” ecofascism “organizes the everyday, normalizing the commonsense that some lives are environmental goods while others pose existential threats”. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Collection introduction: Everyday and emergent ecofascisms - Chloe Ahmann, Zeynep Oguz, 2025
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Finishing a syllabus for a class on environmental and/or climate and/or disaster justice? Check out The Syllabus for resources! We are adding more readings and databases every day! Open and free to everyone! www.just-environments.org/the-syllabus
The Syllabus — Just Environments Lab
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my first full youtube video is out now - all about critique! i hope you find it useful and i would greatly appreciate you sharing it to help me kick off my new YT channel. thank you! #art #design #critique youtu.be/Fdos0yeGs1Y
Let's Talk About Critique - How To Be A Design Student
YouTube video by Mitch Goldstein
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Yesterday, I expanded and relaunched our bird-window collision initiative as Smash the Crash ROC, beginning with a formal building monitoring study of downtown Rochester. In just 1 day, we’ve already documented 4 fatalities. To learn how you can help, go to www.smashthecrashROC.com.
In our July newsletter: From @timothyaschuler.bsky.social: Hantz Woodlands in Detroit offers an example of what we lose when private gain trumps public interest. And @slaydok.bsky.social talks w/ @pauldobraszczyk.bsky.social & Joyce Hwang about designing for and with animals. + more Places news!
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“We have a responsibility to think about a future where we’re not centered; there’s an optimism in that. Human beings are irresponsible. If I think about us controlling everything in the future, that feels sad.” —Joyce Hwang IN CONVERSATION w/ @slaydok.bsky.social & @pauldobraszczyk.bsky.social:
Animal Architecture: In Conversation
An animal studies scholar talks with an architect and an architecture writer about designing for, and with, nonhuman species.
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As part of our In Conversation series, anthropologist @slaydok.bsky.social spoke with architecture writer @pauldobraszczyk.bsky.social & practitioner/researcher Joyce Hwang about their visions for a discipline that regards nonhuman animals as subjects of human design — and sometimes vice versa. 🦊
Places Journal@placesjournal.bsky.social · last yr.Architects don’t just design for humans. They design, intentionally or not, for all of the nonhuman species affected by human-built structures. Western architecture has long been a driver of ecological destruction: How can we build to accommodate other species as cohabitants of a shared environment?
My conversation with @pauldobraszczyk.bsky.social and Joyce Hwang about animal architecture is now out in @placesjournal.bsky.social! Always a pleasure to chat with these two 🤩
Places Journal@placesjournal.bsky.social · last yr.In “Animal Architecture,” anthropologist @slaydok.bsky.social speaks with architecture writer @pauldobraszczyk.bsky.social and practitioner/researcher Joyce Hwang about designing for, and with, nonhuman species. What if the boundaries of architecture are actually much more porous than we think?
I'm launching a site ft. undergrad research from my course Animal Cities. These projects tell stories of Rochester's animals, from the rare Seneca white deer, an accident of US militarism, and bird-banding to the horses that used to power the city. Please share! www.richardfadok.com/theanimalcity/
I'm launching a site ft. undergrad research from my course Animal Cities. These projects tell stories of Rochester's animals, from the rare Seneca white deer, an accident of US militarism, and bird-banding to the horses that used to power the city. Please share! www.richardfadok.com/theanimalcity/
I'm excited to share good news: I'll be starting as an assistant professor of anthropology at @rittigers.bsky.social in the fall. What a privilege to be able to think about how we design in the Anthropocene at a university dedicated to socially conscious and environmentally sustainable technology.
Free arts workshop tomorrow at UR from 1-4 PM in the Rettner Hall atrium! Soft sculpture and prints of birds, plus a Q&A afterwards with the artists. Message me for details. No registration or prior experience is required.
Richard Fadok@slaydok.bsky.social · 2y agoHolly Greenberg and Mizin Shin will be running an eco-art workshop on Monday, May 5th, from 1-4 PM at the U of R. Come make bird art and learn about window collisions and how to prevent them. It's open to everyone in the Rochester area (and beyond). After the workshop, I'll moderate a public Q&A.
BUFFALO, NY: We are mobilizing to protest the arrest and detention of a group of UFW farm worker leaders we believe are being held at the Batavia ICE detention center. We believe targeting known union supporters in the name of immigration “enforcement” is an outrage. These workers must be released.
