Emily Yates-Doerr

The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...

Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica.

They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick.

Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History The Place of Sugar in Modern History

For those interested in why Black & Caribbean people are going off about the sugar cane from last night's halftime show: sugar is a plantation commodity that fueled slavery & colonialism

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Every time this experiment is conducted anywhere in the world it has a similar outcome.

Can we move this beyond the trial phase now?

It's finally out! 3 years after its release in French, my book on phage therapy, antibiotic infrastructure, and the possibility of pluribiotic medicine is now available! Thank you to @ColumbiaUP and to Vincent Lepinay, who has welcomed me into his collection!
#phage #AMR #capitalocene #phagetherapy

Action Network petition: Cancel ChatGPT Edu. Invest in Humans. In February 2025, the California State University system announced a $17 million contract with OpenAI to provide ChatGPT Edu to all faculty, staff, and students on its 22 CSU campuses as part of a larger “AI-Empowered University” initiative. This is the largest contract ever established between a university system and an artificial intelligence company. Despite the name, ChatGPT Edu is not educational technology. It is a general-purpose chatbot that is not designed, trained, or optimized for education. Beyond its privacy and security features, ChatGPT Edu is identical to the free online version of ChatGPT. ChatGPT Edu does not use reliable peer-reviewed sources to answer students' questions and is indifferent to whether its answers are correct. Experts argue that ChatGPT Edu is harmful to academic working conditions, diminishes the quality of teaching and learning, introduces new forms of discrimination, and is dangerous to students' mental health. Recent polling shows that CSU students share these concerns, with the majority of students expressing that they are worried about the negative impacts of generative AI on human creativity and the environment.

Cal State University’s deal with OpenAI — providing ChatGPT to all faculty, students, and staff — will expire in June 2026. Amid the prospect of layoffs in the CSU, we’re asking the chancellor not to renew this costly and demoralizing contract.

Link below and anyone can sign:

Last summer, just before he died, Dan Hirsch spoke at the NRC meeting on EO 14300. You can find that @ 46:00- www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNiq...

Later published: thebulletin.org/2025/10/pres...

“There is no threshold below which there is no measurable harm. Standards already weak.”

The Trump administration has secretly rewritten nuclear safety rules The rewrite was done to speed up the construction of a new generation of nuclear reactors. Critics warn it could compromise safety and public trust.

EXCLSUVIE: The Trump administration has secretly rewritten nuclear safety rules and shared them with the companies they're meant to regulate, without making the new rules publicly available.

We've obtained a copy of the new rules and here's what we found.

www.npr.org/2026/01/28/n...

NPR now EXCLUSIVE: The Trump administration has secretly rewritten nuclear safety rules.

Me, waking up in -8 degree weather: what fresh horrors does today hold?

@npr.org:

Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, commemorating the day in 1945 when the Red Army reached Auschwitz in occupied Poland.

Naturally, the Trump administration decided to commemorate the day by doing Holocaust historical revisionism, pretending Anne Frank's family had "legal" status.

"today we remember that freedom is not free. we have to work at it, nurture it, protect it, and even sacrifice for it."

Calling all the PhDs I know to make monumental annoyances of themselves (and honestly, who better)

Four Oglala detainees located, three still in ICE custody - ICT The four Lakota detainees were reportedly sent to a former concentration camp used during the Dakota Wars

This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars.

ictnews.org/news/north-c...

Had an intriguing editorial discussion recently: how did people in the past talk about 'minutes' when they didn't have watches or standardised times? How does that affect your thinking?

Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me.

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kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

I keep thinking of how “the present” in archaeology is dated from when carbon dating stopped working well because of pollution from atmospheric nuclear tests.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Before_...

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar, writer, musician

Gabriela Leandro Pereira, Prof Architecture at Federal U. of Bahia

V. Mitch McEwen, Atelier Office; Princeton School of Architecture

Laleh Khalili, Prof of Gulf Studies, U. of Exeter

Nov 18 @dukepress.bsky.social

The War On Weeds | NOEMA Pesticides and herbicides made from fossil fuels that are freely available to unwitting consumers poison our land, our bodies and life all around.

Stumbled upon this essay on “The War on Weeds” by Laura Martin today and just wow- every single line is so good.

www.noemamag.com/the-war-on-w...

Ep 20: Democracy Dies in Clickbait with Maggie Mertens & Sarah Stuteville Podcast Episode · In the Meanwhile · 10/10/2025 · 1h

If you’re in a constant state of “Bari Weiss, CBS, Joe Rogan, WTF??” We’ve got you! @maggiemertens.bsky.social and Sarah Stuteville discuss building a sane news diet (follow people, not brands), supporting community-rooted media, and turning doom into doing. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

HAPPENING NOW: Judge Karin Immergut hears emergency arguments as California and Oregon seek to block President Trump's deployment of federalized California National Guard troops to Portland. 🧵

“When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day's work is all I can permit myself to contemplate.”
― John Steinbeck

#WritingSky #AcademicSky

The thing regular people don’t often grasp about ‘academic freedom’ is that if you don’t allow experts to research & teach in their fields of expertise, guided by their professional judgment & decades of training, you have effectively given up on the concept of knowledge & shut down your university

p.s. My essay on the Wounded Knee massacre can be found here (open access!):

www.jstor.org/stable/10.25...

Sandra Harding’s legacy: A force of nature who built Tapuya in dialogue, reshaping STS through standpoint theory, decolonial friendship, and fierce care for Latin American voices.

🕯️doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2025.2536961

#Obituary #SandraHarding #STS #TapuyaLASTS @tapuya.org

Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.

Murder, Pardons and Impunity: How Antiabortion Violence Escalated Under Trump Murder, Pardons, Impunity: Antiabortion Violence Under Trump in the Age of Political Assassinations of Charlie Kirk and Melissa Hortman

ICYMT: Ms. Magazine has a timely article on anti-abortion violence coming out in the print magazine laterthis month.

It appears in four parts online:

msmagazine.com/2025/09/16/a...

msmagazine.com/2025/09/17/g...

msmagazine.com/2025/09/18/r...

msmagazine.com/2025/09/19/a...

Post-doc position in History and Philosophy of Science

#HPS program at the University of Copenhagen invites applications for Postdoc in History and Philosophy of Science as part of research project Human Variables in Biodiversity Assessment (PI: Joeri Witteveen): employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho...
#philsky #PhilJobs #philsci

Deadline is November 7, 2025.

Ethnobiology and Degrowth: A Review of the Opportunities for Collaboration, Generative Inquiry, and Solidarity in Socio-Ecological Research - Andrew Flachs, 2025 For centuries, global political economic relations have been informed by a model of growth premised on transforming plants, animals, knowledge, labor, water, an...

New paper on the intersections of ethnobiology and degrowth: two ways of understanding our place in the world through action-oriented, imaginative research into socioecological relationships.

doi.org/10.1177/0278...

It is also redundant because no other place in the US but the university tolerates "difficult speakers" to the extent that universities do.

a detail that appears with fairly regular occurrence in many personal accounts of the Nazi regime is how many individuals died from stroke, heart attacks, and similar health complications because of the stress and despondency that was inflicted on those whose lives were ruined by the regime.