'The nomad is environment-time. The environment is nomadic.' Today on Edge Effects, Natasha Maru takes us to Kachchh, India to look at how nomadic pastoralists navigate changing ecologies outside of mainstream time. Read more: edgeeffects.net/pastoralist-te…

Cannot believe it's officially one week until Disabled Ecologies: Lessons From a Wounded Desert is born! This is one of those projects that is life work... I always knew I would write some version of it. Took me eight years, but here it is. Almost. #DisabledEcologies countdown.

Melinda French Gates's departure from the Gates Foundation makes today a good day to hear Amy Schiller show us how we can do philanthropy better. She joined Anna Dyjach and I on the NB Economics 📚 podcast: newbooksnetwork.com/the-price-of-h…

Another essay in our Troubling Time series-- Caroline Abbott writes about multispecies time in a medieval furrow: edgeeffects.net/hedge-effects-…

Holding signs that say, “Hands off Gaza, hands off our students,” UW–Madison faculty are showing their support of the 'liberated zone' on Library Mall.

Reporter Sara Gabler spoke with several faculty yesterday.
wortfm.org/faculty-show-s…

Disappointed but not surprised by these Big Oil documents

There is no better illustration of the limits of liberalism than the fact that the author of this book has locked us all out of our campus and surrounded it with cops.

College students: Send us Contemporaries @ Post45 your protest statements, community guidelines, and institutional demands so we can amplify your collective voice tinyurl.com/44wh84t3

Groggy morning at the UW-Madison encampment. Day 4. Students who stayed overnight wash their faces with water bottles and wait in line for coffee to arrive. Organizers say Chancellor Mnookin is meeting with students this morning at Bascom Hall. Reporting for WORT News

Today on Edge Effects, Matt Hooley shares the prologue from his book from Duke University Press, on how colonialist cultural institutions misinterpret Indigenous artist George Morrison's works. Read more: edgeeffects.net/george-morriso…

New internal Big Oil documents just dropped

featuring hits like

-“We don’t yet see the world even approaching a 2°C pathway'

-'“Methane is more potent than CO2'

-“No one is committed to anything, other than to stay in the game.”

And more!

heated.world/p/new-internal…

Lots of folks are saying there's 'nothing new' in these docs. We disagree. For a start, this is the first time the government has called Big Oil's relationship with elite universities into question, and these docs reveal a LOT of previously unknown details about that relationship

We published many articles on place and placemaking. But let's talk about 'the campus' as a construct. samuel catlin writes: 'The war on Gaza is being rewritten for American audiences as a ‘campus war.’' Read more: parapraxismagazine.com/articles/the-c…

UW Madison students encampment starts: dispose, divest, we will not stop, we will not rest.

Today on Edge Effects, Madeleine Bavley writes about the irony of decorating graveyards with artificial flowers: edgeeffects.net/grave-decorati…

What resources / books/ articles have you turned to to learn how to write better alt texts? #Accessibility

i wrote about student organizers calling for divestment from both israeli apartheid & fossil fuels, & how these two demands are fusing into one 'clarion call'

feat Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine Yale Endowment Justice Coalition Olivia Katbi 🌹 Phyllis Bennis Matt Leonard Noel Healy

theguardian.com/us-news/2024/a…

🙋🏼‍♂️ Can anyone recommend good presses (university presses etc) that encourage authors to write short books? Like, < than 120 pages/30K words?

Media studies, infrastructure, tech, enviro, focused…

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