In 1957, a journalist named Frank Herbert visited coastal Oregon to report on the USDA's efforts to stabilize massive shifting sand dunes with grass. The intended article was never published. Instead, his reporting inspired one of history's most beloved science fiction novels.

Local women journalists from SEA experienced cases of unpaid labor, biased reporting, and ignorance of local practices when working with Western media. With the unbalanced power between Western male editors and SEA women journalists, these problems remain buried under the rug.

💔 Flaco Never Escaped defector.com/flaco-never-es…

Join us on Friday, March 22, for our free Science and Society speaker series event: The Troubled History of Alternative Medicine. Join us in person or online. ⬇️ rb.gy/7san40

BREAKING: Penn faculty filed a lawsuit against the University, alleging "McCarthyism" for preventing speech in opposition to Israel and seeking to stop the University from submitting documents to Congress. thedp.com/article/2024/0…

Manuscript 3799 at the Imam Essayouti library in Timbuktu is a firsthand West African Arabic account of the 1755 earthquake that devastated Lisbon and reshaped the thought of European philosophers like Voltaire and Kant w3id.org/vhmml/readingR…

love to see a whole issue dedicated to #hstm pedagogy including shireen's essay on teaching incarcerated students

"The FBI found the object in the witch’s bedroom, covered with a baseball cap, Lang says. “She had had it down on the coffee table, but the sun kept coming in and burning holes in her rug.” penntoday.upenn.edu/news/back-stor…

Lydia Polgreen asks: If our richest universities “cannot be citadels of free speech and forums for wrestling with the most difficult ideas, what hope is there for any other institution in our country?” nyti.ms/44e23WX

Faculty Statement on Imminent Police Action at Columbia University The American Association of University Professors, Columbia University Chapter For immediate release: April 30, 2024, 8:00pm At this hour, the NYPD is massing on barricaded streets outside the gates of Columbia

BREAKING: Penn and Philadelphia Police officers in riot gear arrested over a dozen individuals at the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at around 6 a.m. on Friday. thedp.com/article/2024/0…

NEW: During the process of making arrests at Penn’s encampment, police physically pushed reporters and photographers from the area to escort them away and threatened them with arrests. Legal observers were also forced to leave. Jasmine Ni reports: thedp.com/live-blog/enca…

MINESCAPES Summer School, June 1-9, 2024: With 13 PhD students from the humanities and natural sciences we explored the Harz MINESCAPE above & below ground, studied maps & rare books HAB Wolfenbüttel, we even installed our own lab for soil and water testing. #Minescapes

For my international colleagues who are wondering what the heck is going in in the Netherlands: Dutch Academia is facing the largest budget cuts since the 1980s. Programs will disappear, work load will go up, students will be penalised. It's grim 1/x

Visiting Fellowships for scholars from the Global South working on Science, Politics, and Justice, hosted by CRASSH and History and Philosophy of Science, to spend Lent Term 2026 at Cambridge. Deadline 24 February 2025.   crassh.cam.ac.uk/research/fello…

never tweeted much but remain grateful to those who are able to use it for good. now planning to lurk primarily on eclaaire.bsky.social