Evolutionary biologist Dr Toby Kiers, a world-renowned expert on mycorrhizal networks and member of the Soil Stars, is being awarded the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement for her transformative work www.the-microbiologist.com/news/biologi... @tobykiers.bsky.social @spun.earth
On Tear-Gassing Children
The Federal Assault on the ICE Out! Labor March in Portland
crimethinc.com/PortlandTear...
On January 31, ICE agents attacked a demonstration in Portland, blanketing a whole neighborhood in tear gas and injuring a number of small children.
An account from eyewitnesses.
3 years of field work and a lot of new thoughts. .all being synthesized through 3 days of intense hanging. What a privilege to be working with this team; collaborators and tensions!
With @shakyanepal.bsky.social and the world of anthropology of work!
Jens Seeberg and the world of microbes
Paul Salopek is more than halfway done with his journey dubbed the “Out of Eden Walk,” which began in the Great Rift Valley of Ethiopia in 2013. Now, his expedition from Africa to the tip of South America crosses into the Western Hemisphere.
PBS checks in on his adventures to date:
9 years ago we lost Mark Fisher, whose work offers perhaps the best diagnosis of the situation we find ourselves in.
In his memory, we've tasked authors with using Fisher's ideas as a jumping off point for all-new horror fictions.
📘THE MONSTER, CAPITAL (Feb 26)
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O man, just became reserve army of labour after 3 years of The Employment
Some auto sector gossip:
Wages depressed, labour codes passed, removing many kinds of social protection previously available to the working masses
I'd like to be added, thanks
BREAKING: Union in Italy has announced a general strike on October 3, as per their promise if the Gaza flotilla was attacked, as it has been now.
The Global Sumud Flotilla is currently some 150 nautical miles from Gaza.
Interesting!
Was happy to go back to alma mater JNU, New Delhi as a discussant in student led symposium on a discussion on power and feminism.
For a change, not just for the Tea shop!
The urban poor in Delhi city
Forced to 'embed' in an entanglement of land, law and jurisdictions!
2014: the cm sanctions, says, live here!
2025: court says, you can't!
Meanwhile, water and electricity came, then got taken back a month ago.
It's coming!
Our tree of life
Members of SGU- domestic workers union in Delhi, against evictions- entangled in land legal quagmire combined with xenophobic attacks as 'illegal' migrants from Bangladesh!
For housing rights
Against sludge
We push back, together under the shade of our tree
Delhi, 17 July 2025
Gaza anéantie par l’armée israélienne.
«Il n’y a pas de génocide à Gaza.» Raphaël Enthoven, 12 mai 2024.
Now announced... CfP: Twenty-Second Annual Historical Materialism London Conference, 'Resurgent Reaction: Marxist Strategies at the End of the Liberal Order'.
This year taking place 6-9 November 2025 at SOAS University, London
Good morning,
Did you know that the cloud has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry? That a single data center can consume the equivalent electricity of 50,000 homes?
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-staggeri...
Pleased to announce that the International Labour Review / @ilr-rit.bsky.social, one of the world’s leading publications on world-of-work knowledge and research, transitions to #diamondOA with the Open Library of Humanities: www.openlibhums.org/news/797/
We don't talk about this enough but the history of #PaleoAnth has "colonial overtones" - to put it lightly! Chapeau to all efforts to decolonise #HumanEvolution 👏
🏺🧪 #science
Companion through bleak times. .
Endings are evasive, and let's you stay with the 'incompleteness' of stories, lives and actions.
Zahid Rafiq's the world with its mouth open
"Here surely lies sociology's distinctively
public purpose: to represent humanity's interest in containing the unbridled tyranny of the market and
state." May others go forward in memory of Michael Burawoy. www.asanet.org/michael-bura...
A four-panel comic. In panel 1, a wood frog stands on a pink background. The text says: "Feeling unlucky in love? Did you know that male Wood Frogs have difficulty perceiving members of their species? Here are some things they’ve been documented trying to mate with." "Spotted Salamander." The wood frog looks at a large yellow-spotted salamander, with a heart over the frog's head. "Cattail." The frog looks amorously at a large cattail flower or "sausage." "Green frog." The wood frog looks at a large confused-looking green frog. "Dead fish." The wood frog stares at a large dead fish. "Live fish." The wood frog looks amorously at a large trout. "Pine cone." The wood frog looks at a large pine cone. The final text says: "Sorry, there's no moral here. I just thought you'd enjoy this fact about frogs."
While I work on this year's valentine, here's last year's.
RIP Michael Burawoy
