The words "CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:" and "BOTANICAL IMAGINATIONS" are visible on top of an image of a tree from below. Branches extend in a radial pattern away from a trunk in the center of the image.
PLEASE SHARE: Edge Effects is delighted to announce the theme for our 2026 special series: Botanical Imaginations! Drafts are due February 15, 2026. Everyone is welcome to submit! Read more & apply: edgeeffects.net/botanical-im... 🌱🌳🌾🌴🌵🌻
10.12.2025 16:08 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Today on the Edge Effects podcast, former managing editor Bri Meyer talks with writer and designer @brebec.bsky.social about her short stories and their themes of gender and environmental destruction. Our first ever bilingual episode is everything we hoped it would be and more! 🔪📚
09.10.2025 15:47 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
¡Feliz martes de traducción! Hoy en Edge Effects, Nicolás Felipe Rueda Rey y Tomás Pino traducen el ensayo de
@monikaszuba.bsky.social sobre el tiempo profundo y las políticas de la descomposición. ¿Podemos comprender el cambio geológico y los residuos plásticos en nuestra corta vida? 🦴⏳
Today on Edge Effects, former managing editor Bri Meyer explores the multispecies assemblages that built U.S. cities: how horses were mechanized to perform "cyborg" labor, how these multispecies relationships changed in the automobile era, and the lasting equine footprints in Madison, WI. 🐴🤖
02.10.2025 16:30 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0"As divisiveness intensifies in the U.S. and around the world, may this project bear witness to the beauty and power of artistic collaboration." Thank you to the huge team of people who made this exhibit possible!
25.09.2025 18:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"How do you document the memories of the earth? What does the Anthropocene look like? How does one represent a change in the air, the wind? These photographers explore how to represent the unrepresentable: the absence of water, the presence of air, and the feeling of home." 👇💙
18.09.2025 16:29 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Today on Edge Effects, scholars from a range of disciplines share books/films they are most excited to teach this year on environmental futures and futurity. Their gift for our present, these recommendations span from science fiction to documentary, speculative poetry to historical exhibit. 📚💭
11.09.2025 16:05 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
"People knew about the iconic trinity of Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, and Aldo Leopold... But here were Indian thinkers who are saying interesting, unusual, prescient things about human attitudes and relationships to nature."
What a privilege to welcome Dr. Guha to the podcast!
"Imagine how much more hopeless the industrial food system must appear to these cattle, and yet they still choose to be interested in their own lives! Perhaps all I can wish is to stay engaged with this world, even when change feels impossible, even when the choices before me are laughable." 🫶
29.07.2025 19:02 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“Their humanity erased by the conditions of their life and death, these small artifacts are a powerful reminder: they parented, sang, and prayed, like anyone.”
What a powerful, timely exhibit!
"We ought to take these libertarians seriously when they express the desire to create new societies, especially as they gain the political clout to reshape ours." 🙌 you're amazing @poisoniv3y.bsky.social
22.07.2025 18:09 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0