"I hear the jury's still out on science"

In the midst of a brutal heat wave, NYC chooses between Andrew Cuomo, who lied about causing vulnerable seniors to die in nursing homes, and Zohran Mamdani, who’s dedicated to to making NYC affordable and green for everyone.

This is what 21st century climate elections actually look like.

A staggering 96 private jets are expected to fly in for Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez’s wedding – Supercar Blondie Almost 100 private jets are expected to touchdown in Venice, Italy, this week for the wedding of billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez

Wracked with guilt because I accidentally tossed a plastic jar in the trash and not the recycling bin 🫤

@labeler.urbanism.plus label

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Integrating these perspectives opened up a whole new perspective for me, hopefully reflected in this article, that I am continuing to develop for the larger project on the environmental history of white flight since the 1970s.

But I realized I had to go back and think about the single-family home itself, as a social and material artifact, something produced by specific historic political and economic systems, but that was also a dwelling with bedrooms, and kitchen, a yard, a garage and a driveway.

The article reflected a shift in my thinking about the environmental history of American suburbia. I had been writing about the political economy of housing and automobility in suburbia separately, and trying to connect factors such as gender, social reproduction, racial anxieties about crime.

The American Single-Family Home: Towards a Social and Environmental History | Global Environment Over the course of the twentieth-century, the primary path toward the ‘good life’ in the United States involved the purchase of a single family home in the suburbs, which promised financial security, social independence and access to a healthy ...

Excited to share my new article "The American Single Family Home: Towards a Social and Environmental History," which is part of this great special issue on the good life in the city, published open access with Global Environment.

Academia in 2025.

say it again:

4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities

ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x

demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

Such an important topic and project. I feel like the current "woke" backlash can be rooted all the way into the culture wars of the 1990s? Or at least certain actors and institutions have been waiting in the wings and stoking this for 30 years.

Same for books in humanities 👇

This is what made US a research superpower. It was not just money. And also it will not be about "poaching" as much as non-US researchers choosing EU or other countries instead of the US in the long-run.

Total EU/UK funding roughly matches US science funding (excluding DoD) but the US offered a single unified and integrated research infrastructure, with one working language career and development scheme. It's tough to bounce from France, to Spain, to Italy. Different research cultures, etc.

Great point on scientist "brain drain"

the classic burger king chicken sandwich — the long boy — is underrated in the fast food chicken sandwich game

The bond market:

I guess we have to pay attention to the bond market now, because global financial collapse (again)?

If you are in Pittsburgh for #aseh2025 join us Thursday for a discussion of "Beauty, Health and Permanence." An excellent line up! Keith Woodhouse, Sara Fingal, Elizabeth Browning, David Grinnell and Jon Klosinski, @paulsabin.bsky.social and @parhee.bsky.social yours truly. @aseh.bsky.social

Lets all say it together now kids: "deflationary spiral"

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Trump Moves to End Federal Union Protections Across Government An executive order signed by the president would cancel collective bargaining for hundreds of thousands of workers, the largest federal employees union said. The union was preparing legal action.

Waiting for the second thoughts of all the pundits who thought the Trump GOP was poised to become a worker-friendly party.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/u...

I wish people hated fascism half as much as they hate feminism

Imagine explaining this to anyone in 2004

Good to hear that there's some money available for researchers @eppobruins.bsky.social, because we just had a strike due to your government imposing budget cuts on us.

It's just that we're not coming from the US, we are already here.

More than 425 popular campsites across Pa. are closed indefinitely due to DOGE cuts Reservations made at impacted sites on Raystown Lake, Seven Points, Susquehannock, Nancy’s Boat-to-Shore Campgrounds, Tompkins Campground on Tioga-Hammond and Cowanesque Lakes will be refunded.

Here’s the write up on it by the always great Inquirer

It's never going to end unless people, esp. faculty and leadership, step the frick up.

Drifting North Past and future collide in this engaging journey through climate change, fossil capitalism and the struggle for a sustainable world. Scotlands history and future are entangled with climate change and...

Finns vad jag vet inga planer just nu för en svensk utgåva men det går att beställa boken via akademibokhandeln i Sverige

www.akademibokhandeln.se/bok/drifting...

There are days in life that shake you.

I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University
& academic career... 1/🧵