Wesley Dean
@wesleydean.bsky.social
Sociologist of the food system at the University of Copenhagen, interest in food poverty and food access, lapsed Fed, lapsed philosopher, lapsed baptist, lapsed Texan, Malmönian, he, him, his. My avian friends mostly keep me from going off my rocker. 🇵🇸🇱🇧
A jackdaw at the Malmö Slottsparken giving me a bit of a side eye while it rummages around in the leaves. 🪶 #birds
A mallard from behind down at the Swedish coast guard dock in Malmö. #WingsOpenNotFlying #BirdOfTheDay #Birds
A black headed gull, absent its summer breeding plumage, standing on a pylon in the Malmö harbour. 🪶 #birds
A painted bunting with house sparrows at all four corners behind my friends’ home in South Austin. #birds 🪶
Why do my alma maters do such horrid things. I expect this kind of nonsense from Texas A&M but I guess I shouldn’t be surprised by the University of Alberta’s prominent role in quashing legitimate dissent.
Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · 2mo agoNew reporting from @breachmedia.ca shows that Canadian universities operated a secret national effort to coordinate surveillance and policing of anti-genocide activism and encampments. breachmedia.ca/canadian-uni...
New reporting from @breachmedia.ca shows that Canadian universities operated a secret national effort to coordinate surveillance and policing of anti-genocide activism and encampments. breachmedia.ca/canadian-uni...
A green heron in the pond near my dad’s house in Pinehurst, TX. 🪶. % birds
I met this northern lapwing at the Löddeåns mynning Naturreservat, just outside Lomme, Sweden. 🪶 #birds
Boss pigeon. No magpie may dine at the feeding platform when this pigeon is on patrol. This is the most aggressive pigeon I’ve ever seen. #birds 🪶 #pigeonsky
Let's Streisand-effect these people. Here's the editorial that somehow merited calling the cops. Read and share.
Misguided Brushes of a Pen Continue to Dismantle and Destroy Biomedical Research in the United States: We Can No Longer Afford Complacency and Fear. We Must All Act Now!
The opinions expressed in this editorial are the personal views of the authors (S.E. Kahn, C.A.M. Anderson, J.B. Buse, and E. Selvin) and do not represent
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Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 4mo agoRemember the current NIH director going on about protecting researchers from government censorship? Today his people called the police in to forcibly remove my colleagues from their own society meeting for sharing an editorial published in their flagship journal that was critical of him. Gift link
A jackdaw poses among the tall green grass on an unusually sunny day in Malmö. Not today, which is gloomy as usual. 🪶 #birds
I keep running into this family of mute swans, but I never have a proper camera with me when I do. I snapped this on my phone on one of the canals here in Malmö. 🪶 #birds 🐣🐥
EU leaders are taking it out on cormorants, again. Sadly, this isn’t unexpected news. Until the ‘70s, cormorants were almost brought to extinction to “protect” fish stocks. Only in 1979, under the EU Birds and Habitat Directives, did it become illegal to kill or disturb them.
"Too many scientists are willing to collaborate with Trumpism in the mistaken assumption that obedience will save their own necks." www.thenation.com/article/soci...
The Rise of the Vichy Scientists
Too many scientists are willing to collaborate with Trumpism in the mistaken assumption that obedience will save their own necks.
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Everyone thinks its about oil and gas and refined products, but the global food economy is more dependent on the Gulf. tinyurl.com/PolycrisisWe... bsky.app/profile/lucy...
Wesleyan Iran Shockwaves slides
Tim Sahay Visiting scholar, College of the Environment, Wesleyan University The Polycrisis Joint project with Kate Mackenzie thepolycrisis.org Polycrisis Podcast: Electric World Order tinyurl.com/poly...
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Lucy Hamilton@lucyham.bsky.social · 6mo agoModern high yield crops on which we depend only produce that yield with several rounds of fertiliser application. A big proportion of that fertiliser can’t get out of the Middle East now. Millions of people are going to starve as a result of Bibi & Trump’s war.
The Department of Food and Resource Economics at the University of Copenhagen, which is also chock full of sociologists, philosophers, and political ecologists, is hiring for PhD fellowships. We pay a living wage, and have national health care.
PhD fellow positions at the Department of Food and Resource Economics
The Department of Food and Resource Economics (IFRO) is inviting applications for positions as PhD fellows that will start on 1 August 2026 or later. IFRO carri
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Former LA Times managing editor @sarayasin.bsky.social launches The Key, a new publication about Palestine that will be "a home for journalists who have had their stories spiked in mainstream outlets." Her opening essay is worth every second of your time: www.thekeymagazine.com/p/western-jo...
It’s Not Complicated
The mainstream media failed the public during the genocide in Gaza. The Key's editor-in-chief shares her vision for what comes next.
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Thank you to @joshuasweitz.bsky.social. The origin of the current assault on science and public health has a direct tie to COVID contrarianism. But Bhattacharya, Prasad and the rest couldn’t rise without help and patronage. 1/ joshuasweitz.substack.com/p/grievance-...
Grievance Is All You Need
Understanding attacks on NIH, CDC and FDA through the lens of COVID revisionists
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A handsome jackdaw poses on a branch with a very blurred out castle in the background for #BranchBirds #BirdoftheDay #Birds 🪶
The feelings provoked in me by seeing a former royal described as “A man in his 60s from Norfolk” could power cities