Stacey Balkan

Helen Kapstein’s brilliant Petroforms is in the world!!! @wordbird20.bsky.social @wvupress.bsky.social 👏👏

Alzheimer’s disease signatures in the brain transcriptome of Estuarine Dolphins - Communications Biology Transcriptomic analysis of brain samples collected from dolphins found beached in the Indian River Lagoon during algal bloom seasons shows Alzheimer’s disease related molecular signatures.

Amongst the members of our panel tomorrow is Dr. David Davis, who will speak to marine toxicity and local environmental impacts:
www.nature.com/articles/s42...

YouTube video by VoLo Foundation Plot Twists for the Planet: How Pop Culture Inspires Environmental Views

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICWE...

Florida Climate Week kicks off with a great conversation about pop culture and climate fictions--thanks to @theinvadingsea.bsky.social and the @volofoundation.bsky.social for convening this wonderful webinar!

What’s Funny About Student Debt? For only the second time in our fourteen years, InterCcECT hosts an event centered on the novel’s unique faculty for theorizing capitalism. The Payback is a comic critique of contemporary lif…

something good to look forward to in chicago in a few weeks, Kashana Cauley and Jason Wozniak talk student debt and heists! interccect.com/2025/09/26/w...

Call for Submissions to ASLE Spotlight 2026: New Work in Ecocriticism and the Environmental Humanities Update: Submission Deadline Extended to October 6, 2025 In continuing to foster opportunities for our members and community to gather digitally, ASLE is continuing the Spotlight Series in 2026. The s...

Just a few hours left to submit to ASLE Spotlight at forms.gle/rZ8gAs6bpUGx...

This is 21st Century Fire:
Maine is the Nova Scotia of the US: historically, foggy, soggy
#wildfire

Academics Must Seize the Means of Knowledge Production - Public Books Trumpism has canceled the knowledge society.

"the solution is still the one that can succeed: to build a new cultural order, a new civilization. To do so, academics must embrace an unusual new role: as knowledge workers, they must seize the means of knowledge production."

www.publicbooks.org/academics-mu...

Kristi Noem Says ICE Will Be ‘All Over’ the Super Bowl

Kristi Noem Says ICE Will Be ‘All Over’ the Super Bowl www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/a...

Dwayne has his job back because we organized for it. We fight or we die. Join AAUP today www.aaup.org/join

The Costs of the Cloud | Ashley Dawson Hours after his inauguration, Donald Trump declared a “national energy emergency.” The US, he warned in an executive order, suffered from “a precariously

www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

National park proposed for Florida springs doesn’t spring from desire to fix problems • Florida Phoenix Florida has three national parks — Everglades, Biscayne, and Dry Tortugas, all in the southern end of the state. Now newbie U.S. Rep. Randy Fine of Brevard County wants to create a fourth one, this ti...

floridaphoenix.com/2025/09/18/n...

a far better choice!

Cuts to Florida rail service ignore its benefits to the common good  | The Invading Sea The Florida Department of Transportation is poised to cut Tri-Rail funding to $15 million annually from $62 million.

Wrote about trains and the fallacy of automotive freedom for @theinvadingsea.bsky.social 🚊😊

www.theinvadingsea.com/2025/09/11/f...

Judge Rules Trump Administration Illegally Canceled Harvard Funding

Judge Rules Trump Administration Illegally Canceled Harvard Funding www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

An Open Letter to President Trump in the Chicago Sun Times

"the real violence in Chicago - like across america - is not the violence of the streets but the violence of policy: underfunded schools, disappearing jobs, healthcare deserts, food apartheid, and a criminal justice system that treats poverty like a capital offense."

spiritual leadership 9-2-25

Day off over here…

Opinion | Hurricane Katrina Taught Lessons on Prep, Injustice Garcia, David and Peacock write on the ways that the majority-Black residents of New Orleans were disproportionately affected by Hurricane Katrina.

OPINION: "The disproportionate suffering in Black communities wasn’t a natural disaster but a predictable result of policies concentrating risk in marginalized neighborhoods," Garcia, David and Peacock write.

Made a beautiful meal last night, which was accompanied by a delicious bottle of wine—eating well and anricipating a day off, because of the bravery and fortitude of the United Faculty of Florida and unions everywhere. #happylaborday #unionstrong

Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale Belong in the Labor Movement Hall of Fame In the mid-1960s, the two pitchers inspired major league ballplayers to build a union and challenge the owners’ stranglehold on their lives, pay, and working conditions.

MLB players should know how powerless and poorly paid their counterparts were before the late-1960s and how dramatically the union has improved pay, pensions, and working conditions, writes Peter Dreier. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

To defend against Russian tanks, Finland and Poland consider restoring wetlands Finland and Poland are both considering rewetting dried-out peatbogs to form defence barriers against a potential Russian ground invasion. Restoring these natural carbon sinks could also bring signifi...

They should do it anyway for the environmental benefits.

Dream come true 😊

Listened to Scranton‘s interview on “Cultures of Energy” yesterday, and I am very excited about this book: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

‘Bicycling in Paradise: On Radical Cadence and Just Futures in the End Times’ is officially under contract, and I am over the moon! (continuing to take any and all recs for bike lit 💖🚴‍♀️🌈) @bikesky.social

I still do this to fall asleep—tiny victories.

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Such a clear, and compellingly local, account of interconnectedness—excited to share with my students. ❤️

Against the Environment But what if 'the environment' is actually the problem?

I wrote about why I don't like the environment.

Life After Cars — With Sarah Goodyear & Doug Gordon Thursday, October 30th, 2025 Life After Cars — With Sarah Goodyear & Doug Gordon 7:00 - $25 tickets with option for a $28 book add on - All Ages When the very first cars rolled off production lines, they were considered a technological marvel, predicted to make life easier and better for all Americans; yet a hundred years later, that dream is running on empty. Whether it’s climate change, congestion, the effects on our health, or the damage to nature, cars ruin everything. In ...

Big news! Tickets for our "Life After Cars" book event and live show on Oct 30th at the Black Cat in Washington, DC are now on sale. We're partnering with @waba.org and @solidstatebooksdc.bsky.social for this one. Special guest to be announced.

Get tickets:

www.etix.com/ticket/p/855...

one week from today!

How wonderful!