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Drone Warriors: The Art of Surveillance and Resistance at Standing Rock Part of the Water Protectors movement against the Dakota Access Pipeline, the Drone Warriors use drone photography as a form of protest.

"Drone Warriors" used drone photography as a form of protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline. Adrienne Keene and Gregory Hitch's exhibit highlights their work. Today on Edge Effects Translation Tuesday, Cindia Arango López translates. ✊📹

Guerreros de Drones: El Arte de la Vigilancia y la Resistencia en Standing Rock - Edge Effects Como parte del movimiento de los Protectores del Agua contra el oleoducto Dakota Access, los Guerreros de Drones utilizan la fotografía con drones como una forma de protesta.

Los "Guerreros de los Drones" utilizaron la fotografía con drones como forma de protesta contra el oleoducto Dakota Access. La exposición de Adrienne Keene y Gregory Hitch destaca su trabajo. Hoy, en la sección "Translation Tuesday" de Edge Effects, Cindia Arango López nos presenta la traducción. ✊📹

Camera Trap Poetics - Edge Effects A compilation of trail cam footage after the Woolsey Fire, Signs of Life documents the return of wildlife to the mountains—and so much more.

After the Great Woolsey Fire in the Santa Monica Mountains, researchers placed trail cameras to observe the return of wildlife. Chase A. Niesner composed and performed “Signs of Life” from the images captured. Today on Edge Effects, he reflects on this great return. 🔥🎥

The Colonial Politics of Arctic Landscapes Jen Rose Smith talks about her new book, Ice Geographies, and the racial and colonial politics of Arctic landscapes.

Today on the Edge Effects podcast, we're so excited to welcome back Jen Rose Smith (@sprucehen.bsky.social) and Hi'ielie Julia Hobart to discuss Jen's new book: Ice Geographies: The Colonial Politics of Race and Indigeneity in the Arctic. 🧊❄️

Plants By Any Other Name - Edge Effects "Nothofagus," like other scientific plant names, root botanical knowledge in colonial relationships. "Native names" contain other truths.

Today on Edge Effects, Jens Benöhr, Constanza López, and Kara Lena Virik document how scientific plant names root botanical knowledge in colonial relationships. To decolonize ecology, we must embrace the pluriverse of knowing, naming, and living with the world. 🌳🔬

Learning to Ride a Landslide The motorcycle is an unlikely methodological companion in Mohammed Labeeb's landslide research in the Western Ghats.

Today on Edge Effects, Mohammed Labeeb rides the Western Ghats on motorcycle, reading the terrain with his body. His landslide research traces the history of the landscape and probes knowledge production, methodology, and proximity in a shifting terrain. 🏍️🗻

Sticks, Stones, and Nested Agency in Wildlife Photography - Edge Effects Photos of bowerbird and pufferfish nests attest to the artistic collaboration of "wildlife" with photographers in wildlife photography.

Muse or artist? Today on Edge Effects, Rae Ferner Rose uses wildlife photography as a lens into nonhuman agency. Examining snapshots of bowerbirds and pufferfish nests, Rae presents wildlife photography as a collaborative craft between “wildlife” and photographer. 🐡 📷

Why Edge Effects? What’s in a name? Edge effects in the history of ecology, the geography of Wisconsin, and the interdisciplinary values of CHE.

In English: 12 years ago, William Cronon, our esteemed mentor, wrote our first essay. To this day, our publication is the effect of edges, where habitats, cultures, and intellectual traditions meet. Enjoy his explanation in Spanish! 🧗🔥
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¿Por qué Edge Effects?   - Edge Effects ¿Qué hay en un nombre? Los efectos de borde en la historia de la ecología, la geografía de Wisconsin y valores interdisciplinarios.

Hace 12 años, William Cronon, nuestro estimado mentor, escribió nuestro primer ensayo. Hasta el día de hoy, nuestra publicación es el resultado de esos puntos de encuentro, donde convergen hábitats, culturas y tradiciones intelectuales. ¡Disfruten de su explicación en español! 🧗🔥

Call for Submissions: "Botanical Imaginations" - Edge Effects Edge Effects invites submissions for that explore our complex relationship to plants and proliferate botanical imaginations.

Botanically curious? Imaginative? Edge Effects @edgeeffectsmag.bsky.social seeks submissions to diversify, complicate, and proliferate Botanical Imaginations at the intersection of humanities and social and natural sciences across cultures, ages, and time. For more: edgeeffects.net/botanical-im...

Precarity and Entanglement in the Wild Christmas Tree Harvest - Edge Effects Wild Christmas tree harvest requires a precarious relationship between local ecologies, skilled migrant laborers, and global economies.

Today on Edge Effects, Allen Myers photographs migrant laborers in northern California as they navigate local ecologies and global economies. In this volatile (political) climate, wild Christmas tree harvest is more precarious than ever. 🎄❄️

2025 Year In Review - Edge Effects Edge Effects editors reflect on the year 2025 and recommend their favorite articles, podcasts, and exhibits.

2025 was a year of art, multispecies relationalities, and community at Edge Effects. Thank you to the artists, scholars, and activists who have joined us in conversation, collaboration, and translation.

Here are just a few of our favorites from the year! 🌼 🍾
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Unpacking Leave No Trace and the Footprint of Outdoor Recreation The principles of Leave No Trace are ill-fitted to the global supply chains and macro environmental issues of the twenty-first century.

Today on Edge Effects, Tomasz Falkowski takes a closer look at the ethics guiding outdoor recreation and the traces we leave. By focusing on individual hikers and ignoring the impact of the outdoor recreation economy, he argues, the "Leave No Trace" principles miss the forest for the trees. 🥾 ⛺

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... 🌱🌳🌾🌴🌵🌻

American Ecofascism: A Conversation with Alexander Menrisky - Edge Effects Alexander Menrisky speaks about his new book, Everyday Ecofascism: Crisis and Consumption in American Literature.

Today on the Edge Effects podcast, Alexander Menrisky speaks with @sarahjaquetteray.bsky.social about his recent book, Everyday Ecofascism: Crisis and Consumption in American Literature. They discuss how consumption is tied to national identity and how ecofascism lurks in the everyday. 🇺🇸 🌳

Conservation Is a Long Distance Relationship Physical distance can be crucial for responsible kinship, conservation, and care. Pangolin conservation is perhaps best from a world away.

Today on Edge Effects, @trangdang.bsky.social develops an ethics of care for pangolins, despite living a world away. Her “respectful distance” is a form of companionship rooted in humility, one that acknowledges interdependence without claiming possession and embraces intimacy without proximity. 🦔 🦡

Navigating Eco-Grief with Ancestral Grieving Practices - Edge Effects Guevara Han and Rae Jing Han draw on Filipino and Chinese ancestral practices to develop rituals for navigating eco-grief.

Today on Edge Effects Translation Tuesday, Christina Guevara and Rae Jing Han draw on Filipino and Chinese ancestral practices to develop collective rituals for navigating eco-grief. These practices, they argue, are life-affirming resistance. ⬆️ 🙌

Navegando el Eco-Duelo con Prácticas Ancestrales del Duelo - Edge Effects Guevara Han y Rae Jing Han recurren a prácticas ancestrales filipinas y chinas para afrontar el duelo ecológico.

Hoy en Edge Effects Translation Tuesday, Christina Guevara y Rae Jing Han se inspiran en prácticas ancestrales filipinas y chinas para desarrollar rituales colectivos que permitan abordar el duelo ecológico. Estas prácticas, argumentan, son una resistencia que afirma la vida. 🌏 ❤️

Synthetic Totems: Art for the Anthropocene Dongbay's "Synthetic Totems" combines fragments of nature with synthetic waste to spark reflection and connection in the Anthropocene.

Today on Edge Effects, Dongbay shares his exhibit, Synthetic Totems. "Creating in this state is not about seeking escape or repair, but about consciously dwelling within our shared pollution, tracing the strange beauty that still exists in death." ♻️ 🎨

Vegetal Diaspora and the Restless Life of Plants - Edge Effects Conceptualizing plants as migrants with their own diasporas reveals their connection to imperialism and encourages an ethic of care.

Today on Edge Effects, @jensbenohr.bsky.social follows the wandering of nalca across continents in this thoughtful meditation on migration, belonging, and the porous borders between human and plant life. The world is a garden of migrants, he argues, of both plants and people. 🌿 🧳

What Can Wetlands Teach Us About Queer Relations? The Tambass wetlands showcase the queer ecology and relations that characterize wetlands, shaped as they are by precarity and impermanence.

Today on Edge Effects, Richard Watts, Maureen Ryan, and Danny Hoffman wade through the queer ecology and relations that characterize wetlands, shaped as they are by precarity and survivance. With clips from their forthcoming documentary, they take us to the Tambass wetlands of Mauritania. 🐊 🏳️‍🌈

Parrots at Play in the Arab Soundscape - Edge Effects The voices of African grey parrots on Arab social media speak to the birds' autonomy and the complex dynamics of multispecies companionship.

Today on Edge Effects, Joseph Leidy deciphers the cacophany of African grey parrot voices on Arab social media, from faithful recitations of the Quran to antagonistic banter. The parrots, he argues, speak to autonomy and play in multispecies companionships. 🗣️ 🦜

Today on Edge Effects Translation Tuesday, @katherinecheung.bsky.social ponders “plant blindness.” Performance arts, she suggests, may be just what we need to slow down enough to begin to appreciate the plant life around us. 👓 🌱

Ceguera Vegetal y 'Viendo' las Escalas Temporales de las Plantas Katherine Cheung analiza nuestra ceguera hacia las plantas, la atribución de mente vegetal y el rol de las artes performativas en la comprensión de las escalas temporales de las plantas.

Hoy en Edge Effects Translation Tuesday, @katherinecheung.bsky.social reflexiona sobre la “Ceguera Vegetal”. Cheung sugiere que las artes escénicas podrían ser justamente lo que necesitamos para desacelerar un poco y comenzar a apreciar la vida vegetal que nos rodea. 👓 🌱

Role-Playing Queer Assemblages Amidst Capitalist Ruins - Edge Effects Ecologically inspired role-playing game Assemblages is a meditation on extinction, grief, and collaborative, queer survival.

Today on Edge Effects, @natmesnard.bsky.social reflects on their new table top role-playing game Assemblages: the strange creatures players create for its imaginary multispecies universe and the meditation they elicit on extinction, grief, and collaborative, queer survival in the Anthropocene. ♟️🍄

Wind Turbine Elegy An elegiac poem from the perspective of a wind turbine at Zumwalt Acres, a regenerative farm in rural Illinois.

Today on Edge Effects, Anya Kaplan-Harnett imagines the future from the perspective of a wind turbine. From its high vantage point over rural Illinois, the turbine bears witness to centuries of ecological and social change. 🪁🕰

Squished Bugs and the Sticky Questions of Fieldwork - Edge Effects Squished bugs tell us about the ethics and praxis of producing knowledge and imagining alternative multispecies relations.

Today on Edge Effects, Anissa Bejaoui peers into the smudged lens through which many of us see the multispecies world. The insect carcasses of windshield graveyards have a lot to tell us about the politics of care, the ethics of knowledge production, and the praxis of conservation. 🪰🧡

Hoy, en el podcast Edge Effects, la exeditora jefe Bri Meyer conversa con la escritora y diseñadora @brebec.bsky.social sobre sus relatos y sus temas de género y destrucción ambiental. ¡Nuestro primer episodio bilingüe es todo lo que esperábamos y mucho más! 🔪📚

Dark Fiction, Sinister Reality: A Conversation with Brenda Becette Brenda Becette talks about the role of fiction in a our dystopic reality. Becette's short stories avenges women, children, and environment.

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! 🔪📚

Happy Translation Tuesday! Today on Edge Effects, Nicolás Felipe Rueda Rey and Tomás Pino translate
@monikaszuba.bsky.social's essay on deep time and the politics of decay. Can we grasp geologic change and plastic waste in our short lifespans?