As I watch in horror from NC, my heart goes out to my students, colleagues, and friends at Dartmouth and the unconscionable force from riot police last night. Annelise Orleck is a legend. She was out there in the vanguard, protecting her students.

"The youth are no longer asking. They are demanding. They are putting their own bodies on the line; they are walking into the water." A gorgeous & forceful exploration of Exodus & the campus protests from Hannah Gold my former student & forever teacher thebaffler.com/latest/parting…

We’re wishing Zoë Schlanger and her book ‘The Light Eaters’ a very happy pub day today! She and Jessica J. Lee sat down and had a conversation in celebration of their plantcentric books. buff.ly/4bj33eO

One of the most underreported stories of campus crackdowns is a severe deterioration of freedom of press. I teach here, & I’m a journalist. ⁦FIRE⁩ and 16 press freedom orgs write Dartmouth 🌲’s ⁦President Sian Beilock⁩. CC ⁦The Dartmouth⁩ ⁦Yuliya Komska 🇺🇦⁩

Alright, did y'all plant those solar storms? Fascinating article and impeccable timing! Isis Journal journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.10…

Honored that CURIOUS SPECIES has been shortlisted for the Kenshur Prize. Congrats to all the other finalists!

Whitney Barlow Robles Yale University Press The committee truly believes that both Murphy and Robles's projects, in which they utilize an American Studies training alongside that of biology or engineering, blow the current field wide open. They serve as great models of the possibilities of interdisciplinary work!

Thrilled to hear CURIOUS SPECIES was named honorable mention for this award. And huge congrats to Brian Michael Murphy for WE THE DEAD!

“. . . this thought-provoking and page-turning book opens up our understanding of how natural science was done in the eighteenth century and how it is done now.”—Environmental History on Whitney Barlow Robles's (Whitney Barlow Robles) Curious Species. i.mtr.cool/ujwmqrgrsw

With Marcy Norton too!

Boy, Justice Sotomayor's dissent is so "this is fucking batshit" coded.

I can tell you're all googling assassination attempt since I'm just here trying to google assassin bugs.

You know you found your soulmate when you're out for an anniversary dinner, learn the desserts feature TWO three-layer cakes, and all you can each silently think about is how layer cakes almost took Alexander out of the running in the first season of Masterchef Junior.

Apparently it's World Emoji Day, and all I can think about is that time Apple made a coral emoji and placed it among...the plants.

Re the Biden/King Lear thing: one of the benefits of a humanities education is that it reveals that the events and crises that you may be tempted to treat as singular modern phenomena are in fact timeworn human problems, like aging gracefully, that admit of no permanent solution.

Prouder than punch to launch the public-facing explorations of substances-with-bodily effect in the past on DALME. Explore the new Historical Pharmacopeias collection, and read about the global medical marketplace in this month's featured mini-essay. dalme.org/features/apoth…

You thought this book was about early modern information overload when really it's about keeping track of all of daycare's spirit days

Yeah this destroyed me

Trump played every trick from the misogynist's playbook last night. Suggesting each word from Harris was written by someone else. Conflating her with her "boss." Seldom looking at Harris, which would dignify her as a worthy opponent. But her looks at him said it all.

I dare you to convince me that this fennec fox, printed in the 1777 Kungliga Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar (say that five times fast), is not the cutest wittle baby you have ever seen. BHL