Dr. Maya Weeks

magnificent!

wow, so beautiful!!

PhD Fellowship in Museum Education (288983) | University of Stavanger Job title: PhD Fellowship in Museum Education (288983), Employer: University of Stavanger, Deadline: Sunday, January 4, 2026

My colleague Marie-Theres Fojuth has advertised a fully funded 3-year PhD Fellowship in Museum Education @unistavanger.bsky.social with the «Into the Fjords: Blue Museums as Arenas of Learning about Vulnerable Ecosystems (FJORDS)» project. Perfect for Scandinavian-speaking #envhum #envhist people!

my latest: CRIT grants personhood status to #coloradoriver - 3rd in North America by Indigenous peoples. www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...

much-needed book that deals with environmental justice, indigeneity, corporations, and more!

Professor of History - Madison, Wisconsin, United States Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...

We're hiring in history of science at UW Madison! TT Assistant Professorship with a focus on water. Joint appointment between the History and Integrated Liberal Studies depts, and part of a university-wide hiring cluster on earth/sustainability science. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/profess... #STS #HSMT

🪨 A @natcomms.nature.com paper out today delivers a new warning about Trump's push for deep-sea mining.

🦐 The discharge waste from #deepseamining — if allowed to be done at commercial scale — will "likely to disrupt midwater food webs."

👇More here
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Turtle Island Journal of Indigenous Health is accepting submissions for our next issue! Please see the link below for more information, and please share this call with your networks!

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Sea otters should be full of crabs and urchins, not “forever chemicals.” 🦦
#PFAS #ラッコ

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this book looks phenomenal

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Maya Weeks: Plastic Pollution, Artistic Methods, and Accountability: A Feminist Research Practice Plastic pollution abounds on the west coast of Sweden, where currents deposit vast quantities of it. This takes place against a background of plastic production at the Borealis plant in the city of St...

i am really looking forward to presenting on some of my research on the west coast of sweden at the
@ucdavis.bsky.social feminist research institute tomorrow (on zoom)!
fri.ucdavis.edu/events/plast...

it's u elis

it's amazing what happens when people's votes aren't suppressed 😂

Ciattarelli vs. Sherrill on Energy Policy The energy policy platforms of Mikie Sherrill and Jack Ciattarelli both acknowledge the state's rising energy costs and the need for a stable power supply, but their proposed solutions and underlying ...

Governor-elect @mikiesherrill.bsky.social ran with strong pro-climate positions, focused on increasing energy affordability by getting more renewables on the grid.

You African Studies majors out there: you too can become mayor of New York City!!!

Huge deal!

Democrats—with strong climate credentials—edge toward control of Georgia’s giant energy system

Call for Applications: 2026 Freedomways Reporting Fellowship // Convocatoria de solicitudes: Beca de Periodismo Freedomways 2026 Please click the link to complete this form.

Call for Applications: Press On’s Freedomways Reporting Fellowship is accepting applications for its 8-month fellowship from March to Oct 2026, for 6 reporters and storytellers from the South. form.jotform.com/252935798928...

Currently (ha ha, river joke) out at the Tuolumne River in recently restored gravel beds upriver of La Grange. This is by far the most salmon I’ve ever seen at one time in my adulthood. Every riffle has 6-20 salmon. I think I’ve seen well over 100 today as a low end estimate.

Bad Indians Book Club: Reading at the Edge of a Thousand Worlds Anishinaabe writer Patty Krawec, author of Becoming Kin, leads us into the borderlands of history, science, memoir, fiction, and other genres to ask: What worlds do books written by marginalized peopl...

"If we are going to be changed, and then change others, we must read intentionally, but more than intentionally I want to read radically"
- @daanis.ca, bad indians book club @broadleafbooks.bsky.social
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sending this to my mom, who raised me in public libraries 🥲

What if we could work with our public libraries to create + sustain convivial infrastructures for local news, local 🎶, digital equity, and more? I wrote abt lots of communities that are doing this work, bldg networks of solidarity + resistance, modeling alternatives to extractive commercial systems.

"[T]hey confirm that states have legal obligations that include prevention, mitigation, adaptation and reparation for climate damage" 🗣️🗣️🗣️

Melissa leaves 50 dead, toll expected to rise in Jamaica, Haiti The storm has left 60 percent of Jamaica without electricity and some areas with up to 90 percent of roofs gone.

The storm has left 60 percent of Jamaica without electricity and some areas with up to 90 percent of roofs gone.

"Plutonium-239 is a highly radioactive material used to create nuclear weapons and reactors. Breathing in tiny particles is dangerous and over time can cause issues including lung cancer, cellular damage and radiation sickness."

just blending in, texture-wise

Yesterday we also had a new hire in Geography for the School approved for this job cycle. I will share that job ad when it is written and posted. #academicbluesky

sending condolences to you and your partner, marina 💔

Sowell Emerging Writers Prize Submission Guidelines - Terrain.org The 2024 Sowell Emerging Writers Prize seeks a book of poetry. Submissions are open from September 15 - November 15.

www.terrain.org/submit/sowel... @terrainorg.bsky.social & @texastech.bsky.social University Press invites book-length manuscript submissions of nonfiction (essays, memoir, etc) in English on themes about & related to the natural world by writers who have published no more than one book in any genre.