Jamie L. Jones

Huge congratulations to the winners of the ASLE book awards: Christina Gerhardt & Debbie Urbanski! I'm so happy that my book, RENDERED OBSOLETE, was given an honorable mention. Especially exciting to be mentioned honorably alongside my colleague, office-neighbor, and friend, Janice Harrington!

Congratulations to our 2025 ASLE Book Award Winners: #ecocritical winner is Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean (Christina Gerhardt) and creative winner is After World (Debbie Urbanski). www.asle.org/stay-informe...

Manchester University Press - Electric wind Electric wind - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Electric wind by Marianna Dudley

I was excited to find out that my book is available for pre-order! One for anyone interested in energy, climate, and the history of Britain. Thanks to MUP for making it pretty and affordable 🫶 manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182968/

Amy Sherald Cancels Her Smithsonian Show, Citing Censorship

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/a...

Canvas just became one of the most powerful surveillance, IP theft, & data monetization tools in the world.

OpenAI bought a user-base locked in to long-term contracts.

But they can’t make us use their trashware.

Boycott. Luddify. Open source.

Don’t let them have your work or your students.

I have an idea: add a widget that uses AI to simulate the depletion of aquifers used to cool the data centers that run each campus’s Canvas AI! Pedagogical self-reflexivity! Infrastructural literacy!

Updating my lecture slides for American Studies as well as Literature and the Environment with the screenshot. Always taught alongside Charles Hillard’s 2021 painting of the same name iltf.org/wp-content/u...

Shield Laws for Reproductive and Gender-Affirming Health Care: A State Law Guide | UCLA Law UCLA Law's Center on Reproductive Health, Law, and Policy has produced the comprehensive "Shield Laws for Reproductive and Gender-Affirming Health Care: A State Law Guide."

Several states have adopted shield laws to protect providers of gender affirming care, including from out-of-state actors who want to punish them for treating ban-state residents. Some states cover repro but not GAC. Know your state’s law & advocate for your state leaders to strengthen protections

Blogging Moby-Dick: An artist illustrates every page of The Whale - Commonplace The set of 552 images is impossible to describe as a single body of work, but the illustrations cohere.

As a side note for your read, here is a review by Jamie Jones of a cool web project by Katt Kish that illustrated every page of Moby Dick.

commonplace.online/article/blog...

#ScholarSunday Thread 229 Published on June 15, 2025

Here it is, my 229th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Please add more below, share widely, & enjoy, all! 🗃️

americanstudier.substack.com/p/scholarsun...

@rebwright.bsky.social and @elsadevienne.bsky.social and I would love for any and all of you to join us for a chat on the place of ideas in 20th century US #envhist and more!

Thank you VERY much! Vanishing America was extremely useful to me as I wrote!

Thanks, Dolly!! Hope you're doing well!!

Check out the special section of NCFS that Cary Hollingshead-Strick and I co-edited—“Fueling the Nineteenth Century"! It was so great working with all these wonderful authors!🔥🚂⛴️🌲

www.ncfs-journal.org/current-toc

Yes, this looks incredible!!

Very happy that my book, Rendered Obsolete: Energy Culture and the Afterlife of U.S. Whaling, has been named a finalist for the 2025 ASLE Book Award. And I'm VERY proud to share the slate with so many other amazing authors. uncpress.org/book/9781469...

Some Notes on the City of Angels and the Nature of Violence I think maybe it's begun, the bigger fiercer backlash against the Trump Administration which is itself a violent backlash against every good thing that's happened over the past several decades – the a...

"At its heart the Trump Administration is violently divisive, isolationist, and segregationist, and solidarity is our first duty and most profound rejection of that agenda."

for this insight, Solnit has been suspended from fb

www.meditationsinanemergency.com/some-notes-o...

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No.

What.

Limn's founding editors Christopher Kelty, Andrew Lakoff, and Stephen Collier conclude issue 11 with a reflection on the journal’s origins.

Limn 11 - The Obsolescence Issue

limn.press/article/is-l...

Book cover for Natural Attachments: The Domestication of American Environmentalism, 1920-1970 by Pollyanna Rhee

Happy pub day to @parhee.bsky.social and this SPECTACULAR BOOK, which will totally change the way you think about the history of US environmentalism. Essential reading! Get it at press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Pollyanna Rhee, Podcast Episode · New Books in Environmental Studies · 05/13/2025 · 45m

It's my actual pub day! If you want to hear me talk about environmentalism v. environmental justice, Santa Barbara, neighborhood associations, and "Abundance," tune in to my New Books in Environmental Studies episode below!

@uchicagopress.bsky.social

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

About this Collection | Chronicling America | Digital Collections | Library of Congress Search America's Historic Newspaper Pages through 1963 Please Note: The Library of Congress has transitioned the longstanding Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers website to this new digi...

Some sad confirmation from @bcgl.bsky.social while I was at UW last week—the National Digital Newspaper Program—which builds Chronicling America—has been shut down

Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss

Bad Attachments What if our biggest obstacle to shutting down Line 5 isn’t the pipeline, but the story we’ve been telling ourselves about modern life?

Necessary reading from @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social :
"The question is not, what do we suffer ...if petromodernity persists? The question is, what do we gain from shutting the pipeline down, from releasing ourselves from oil’s sticky grip?"

thecurrentowdm.substack.com/p/bad-attach...

Ok y’all—buckle up for another student book project thread!

Yesterday I shared projects from my graduate iSchool course

Today I’m sharing from my English course "Building a Better Book"—mostly undergrad but a few grad students

I don’t usually teach both courses concurrently but this term I did

Wrapped book!

Unwrapped book! (Action without Hope)

thank you so much, @uchicagopress.bsky.social!

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Gorgeous!!

Very excited to host this conversation tomorrow: Illinois activists, lawyers, and researchers who were involved in the fight against DAPL reflecting on their experience then, and what kinds of energy justice issues we should be paying attention to now.

cas.illinois.edu/node/2943?fb...

Very excited to host this conversation tomorrow: Illinois activists, lawyers, and researchers who were involved in the fight against DAPL reflecting on their experience then, and what kinds of energy justice issues we should be paying attention to now.

cas.illinois.edu/node/2943?fb...