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Don't miss this lecture by @cetracey.bsky.social on theology, colonialism and humanitarianism in the Southwestern U.S. — part of our On the Brinck | Places Prize collab with the School of Architecture + Planning @unm.edu.

Albuquerque folks! Details below. Or join by Zoom: unm.zoom.us/j/97216782176

I am inspired to try this out !

This sounds super difficult!

Amid a war on public knowledge, libraries are pushing outward, enlarging the commons through new configurations of civic and creative life.

In her latest — and, yes, 34th! — article for Places, @shannonmattern.bsky.social writes about building the infrastructure we need to keep ourselves free.

Double rainbow for Catherine Connolly 🌈🌈

I took this picture in #Kachchh, #Gujarat in 2008, just when the wind turbines started dotting the landscape, some of them overlooking this pond from which women were collecting #water. Couldn't think of a better image than this to begin my talk with today.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uLq...

I think MDPI and Frontiers are a variation of the Elsevier and Springer model on cocaine, catering to the overproduction addiction.

Fake papers are contaminating the world’s scientific literature, fueling a corrupt industry and slowing legitimate lifesaving medical research ‘Paper mills’ are contaminating the world’s scholarly output with fake papers that hinder research. Lifesaving biomedical fields are especially hard hit.

The commodification of scientific publishing has led to an overproduction with 6 million papers being published each year. It has also enabled the publishing of fake "peer reviewed" papers through paper mills. The publish or perish model has to go!
theconversation.com/fake-papers-...

Beautiful!

The Netherlands has long passed over the threshold of normalisation, the questions are how far it will go or will there be real pushback.

The October 2025 issue of Water Alternatives is now available",
www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/cu...

Burning the Breadbasket China’s retreat from U.S. soy is feeding the push for more biofuels

The tail wags the dog in energy. Biofuels are not currently a solution demanded by the climate community; they are solution to a crisis of overproduction. open.substack.com/pub/thebreak...

How are traditional #water harvesting systems in #India entangled with questions of postcolonial modernity & social injustice? I address this in my keynote at the International Congress on #Science, #Technology and #Development at the University of Taubate, 24th October.
youtube.com/tvunitau

Super excited that I will be presenting at the first #STS #India network conference! Do tune in to a fascinating panel on #urban #waterscapes where I talk about "the curious case of the polluting purifier" on 17th December.

I attended my first @SammyObeid live stand up show this evening at #Amsterdam. I wanted his signature and I had only one thing in my bag that could be used for signing. A copy of David Graeber's Pirate Enlightenment. In many ways an ideal tribute to Graeber.

On Indigenous Peoples Day, we celebrate the contributions of Indigenous women scientists. Read about some of these amazing women here, and let us know who needs to be added.
https://awis.org/historical-women-scientists/?_ethnicity=cc578791f732475ccfa7fcb1dff59d72
#WomenInSTEM

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

Francesca Albanese and Great Thunberg are remarkable allies, and incredibly courageous, but no one has endured what Palestinian people have had and will continue to go through. They need to be acknowledged as a collective. This is the least that the world can do.

Only the Palestinian people deserve the #NobelPeacePrize. Enduring decades of brutal occupation, massacres & now a live streamed genocide, and yet holding on to their fortitude & kindness, they are the lodestar for humanity. No one deserves it more this year.

Memory Maps of Homs, Syria A mapping workshop with refugees from Homs, Syria, illuminates the complexity of rebuilding after war.

"Under the Assad regime ... we lived together [in Homs] but did not see the city through one another’s eyes. Even planners don't recognize fractures in the pluralist city.

A just and inclusive reconstruction must confront the sectarian and class-based ruptures that old urban forms helped conceal."

The call for abstracts for POLLEN 2026 is open 🌟 Leigh-Rutt, Assa Doron & I have a panel on *Political Ecologies of Animal Agriculture* - details are here along with instructions for submitting abstracts. If this is in your zone, consider submitting an abstract!
nomadit.co.uk/conference/p...

"The City and the City and the City"
by Ayham Dalal

A mapping workshop with refugees from Homs, Syria, illuminates the complexity of rebuilding after war.

Read more: placesjournal.org/article/mapping-homs-syria-rebuilding-after-war/

I had a moving, heartbreaking, powerful discussion with 2 Israelis who lost family members to Hamas on Oct. 7th, 2 years ago today, on the power of 'radical forgiveness' & on standing up to the Israeli government that abandoned their family members.

Full interview: zeteo.com/p/israel-gaz...

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Alt text: "They dragged little Greta (Thunberg) by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her as a warning to others." Statement: Ersin Celik @anadoluajansicom.bsky.social

Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post, and the Cost of Speaking Out As Saudi Arabia hosts comedians and courts gamers, the silenced voice of Jamal Khashoggi still echoes.

Washington Post dismantled the platform Jamal wrote on. Discarded the fellowship they created in his memory.

They fired me unjustly for speaking the truth.

But I’ll never stop talking about my friend, writer, and amazing human, Jamal Khashoggi.

RIP, Jamal.

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Book cover: top half: bright - almost fluorescent red - with the title: "The Autobiography (in script) of H. Lan Thao Lam (in sans serif); bottom half: a photo of Lan Thao standing in the doorway to the left, and Lana at her desk to the right

Such a striking cover (Lana gave me an advance copy last night 💚) — and such glowing reviews!

dorothyproject.com/book/the-aut...