Colin Jerolmack

I'll be on @wbai.org radio streaming at wbai.org THIS SUNDAY at 9am with @jackhites.bsky.social talking pigeons on his show ANIMAL MATTERS!

The Goffman Nobody Knows Click on the article title to read more.

'The Goffman Nobody Knows.' Really enjoyed this book review from @jerolmack.bsky.social. The book sounds fabulous. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Oh hey thanks!

E.P.A. Promises a Ban on Animal Testing by 2035

Wow. Didn’t see this one coming. A win for animals. E.P.A. Promises a Ban on Animal Testing by 2035 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/c...

Ha!

Anthropic settles with authors in first-of-its-kind AI copyright infringement lawsuit A U.S. district court is scheduled to consider whether to approve the settlement next week, in a case that marked the first substantive decision on how fair use applies to generative AI systems.

Thanks--it appears legitimate [news article pasted below]. As for dropping your claim in exchange for a settlement, that's typical for a class action lawsuit. And it sounds like the $ you got is the same as what this suit provides; perhaps the Guild is part of the suit.

www.npr.org/2025/09/05/n...

Attn authors! If you published a book, Anthropic likely stole it to feed its AI learning. I just got an email alerting me to a class action lawsuit. There’s a database where you can check if your published work was exploited—and get compensation: www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com?utm_medium=L...

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NOV. 6: NYU Gallatin Gallery Presents Dr. Shatima Jones's CROWNED HEIGHTS, a celebration of the Black barbershops & beauty salons of Brooklyn & her signature class, "(De)Tangling the Business of Black Women's Hair." Details: wp.nyu.edu/gallatingall...

NOV. 6: NYU Gallatin Gallery Presents Dr. Shatima Jones's CROWNED HEIGHTS, a celebration of the Black barbershops & beauty salons of Brooklyn & her signature class, "(De)Tangling the Business of Black Women's Hair." Details: wp.nyu.edu/gallatingall...

Excited to share a new paper I co-wrote w/Gary Jaworksi in History of Social Science: Erving Goffman, Thomas Sebeok & Interaction Ethology. Based on new archival material, we show Goffman's ambition to meld interactionism & animal studies. cc @socscihistory.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

For Climate Week, join IPK on September 25 for a book talk with @hannamorris.bsky.social. She will discuss her new book Apocalyptic Authoritarianism: Climate Crisis, Media, and Power with @aronczyk.bsky.social and @jerolmack.bsky.social.

ipk.nyu.edu/events/book-...

For Climate Week, join IPK on September 25 for a book talk with @hannamorris.bsky.social. She will discuss her new book Apocalyptic Authoritarianism: Climate Crisis, Media, and Power with @aronczyk.bsky.social and @jerolmack.bsky.social.

ipk.nyu.edu/events/book-...

This is a great story about the last pigeon flyers of Baltimore

“The healthiest, tastiest way to eat is also the most compassionate and least polluting,”. RIP to legendary environmental and animal defender John Robbins (Diet for a New Planet”). An heir to Baskin Robbins, he rejected the family business to advocate for a plant-based diet.

Opinion | What Environmentalists Like Me Got Wrong About Climate Change

It's a pleasant surprise to see @carlpope admit that he & other enviros downplayed methane emissions in 2010s. But a full mea culpa would mention that @sierraclub.org & other Big Greens vocally supported fracking & took petro $ for years after the Dimock catastrophe www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/o...

Opinion | What Environmentalists Like Me Got Wrong About Climate Change

🧵No words for how infuriated this mea culpa from Carl Pope (former CEO @sierraclub.org) makes me feel. We openly shared with SC data on methane leaks from fracking while SC was secretly accepting $millions from the gas industry.

Seriously fuck you. 1/7

Gift link:

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/o...

Professors Sue Trump Administration Over Arrests of Campus Protesters The lawsuit says the detention of noncitizen students and faculty members deprives U.S. citizens of their right to engage with foreign-born peers.

Glad to see the NYU chapter of the @aaup.bsky.social involved in this lawsuit: "Professors Sue Trump Administration Over Arrests of Campus Protesters" www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/n...

Opinion | Here’s How New York Police Officers Start Their Day by Breaking the Law Cracking down on officers’ abuse of placards would signal an end to the culture of impunity that has suffused the department.

"All over New York, police officers & staff start their workday by disregarding the law," @nicolegelinas.bsky.social writes. "They park their personal vehicles at bus stops, on sidewalks & in crosswalks," routinely endangering pedestrians & blocking accessible ramps. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/o...

RIP to urban legend (no pun intended) Donald Shoup aka Shoup Dogg, whose tome “The High Cost of Free Parking” turned the tide against car-centrism in urban planning and development

This is devastating. Master thinker, ethnographer, humanist, and revolutionary

RIP DAVID LYNCH. When he was an art student in Philly, my grandmom convinced her boss to rent him an apt. & helped him covertly paint EVERYTHING in interior black & recruit neighbors as cast for “the Grandmother” (1970). He sent her letters & premiere tix for years after

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Good thing we have some boots on the ground with one of your advisees, Eric!

It was

Follow the flock of pigeons and it will lead you right to me.

It’s on. Showdown at Washington Square. 12:01 am New Year’s Day. No weapons, just books. If you’re not there, I’ll know you didn’t have the guts.

Old faithful. You can always count on pigeons to be there!

Am I the only parent who considers it a miracle when their child actually recovers an article of clothing from the school lost and found?

Oh man. Tough one