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Audra Mitchell @audralmitchell.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Keen to come to #4S in Toronto? The deadline has been extended to May 5! @kellyfritsch.bsky.social and I are organizing a track of panels on social and political resistance to contemporary #eugenics - if you're working in this area, please consider submitting #STS #antieugenics #feministSTS

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Audra Mitchell @audralmitchell.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

A great example of how so many progressive folks rely on #ableism, #sanism and #eugenics ( cognitive and psychological testing for all?) instead of describing the actions of T*&$p & co for what they are: violent, reckless and irresponsible actions by powerful men www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Teleportation, aliens and cancer-busting soda - it’s not just Trump going cuckoo, his officials are too | Arwa Mahdawi

As the president’s men rave about paranormal events and Diet Coke, it seems the US’s only hope is extraterrestrial intervention

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Teleportation, aliens and cancer-busting soda - it’s not just Trump going cuckoo, his officials are too | Arwa Mahdawi

As the president’s men rave about paranormal events and Diet Coke, it seems the US’s only hope is extraterrestrial intervention

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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

📣 Fully-funded PhD position on Methane Politics on the ERC funded METHPOL project @ Leeds Uni w/Prof Jan Selby. Open to home (UK) applicants (international studentships have been filled) to start October 2026. Deadline 22 April. #ClimateChange. Full details ⬇️ phd.leeds.ac.uk/funding/427-...

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Global Methane Politics

Project opportunity - Global Methane Politics at the University of Leeds

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Audra Mitchell @audralmitchell.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Fellow #professors & #educators: as an abolitionist, I'm uneasy with the punitive role we're being increasingly asked to play in addressing AI cheating by students. I'm working on a set of guidelines for addressing this issue based on #transformativejustice principles docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

📰 I have a new paper out with Peter Sands @anthropocenebio.bsky.social in Society & Animals - setting out the idea of a #PoliticalEcology of reanimating to understand current trends in #rewilding through the lens of individual animal lives brill.com/view/journal...

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Audra Mitchell @audralmitchell.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

It's grading season, so there's lots of talk of AI cheating. But to all those #students who are NOT using #AI in unethical ways on your assignments: we see you, and we hear you - connecting with your distinct voices is part of what makes university teaching meaningful (for you and for your profs).

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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

⏰just under 2 weeks to go until the closing date, 12 April ⏰ we have added more info to the FAQs to help applicants prepare ⬇️

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POLLEN - Political Ecology Network @pollenetwork.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

📢 Special Issue Call: Plural Waters: Engaging Multiple Knowledges, Methods, and Practices 🌊 Call for contributions exploring diverse ways of knowing, governing & relating to “waters” across contexts. 📅 Deadline: April 17, 2026 www.die-erde.org/index.php/di...

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Audra Mitchell @audralmitchell.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

I aspire to one day receive praise like the following, gleaned from the dust jacket of a late 1960s tome: "Professor _____ has written a large book" #academic #books

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Audra Mitchell @audralmitchell.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Thank you, #NorwayConsumerCouncil. This made my otherwise dreary Monday #internet #enshittification [alt text: a man in overalls and white t-shirt, whose face is blurred. holds up a red hairdryer to a blue felt pen to dry out the pen] www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...

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A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator

YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council

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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

🐦‍⬛ 🐕‍🦺🐄🐴 Our Multispecies Mutualisms post doc roles are now also on jobs.ac.uk 🐦‍⬛ 🐕‍🦺🐄🐴 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQS438/4...

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Jobs | Job Search | Job Vacancies on jobs.ac.uk

Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...

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Audra Mitchell @audralmitchell.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

The salt used to keep city streets in Canada (and elsewhere) open during heavy snowfall has a massive negative ecological impact, not least on #aquatic life and ecosystems #pollution #water [Alt text: a large peak of snow sits against a blue sky with clouds] www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

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Peak interest: Toronto’s snow mountains that refuse to melt are a toxic hazard

Reaching up to 100ft, these massive piles contain tonnes of salt that keep roads clear but pose environmental and health risks

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Audra Mitchell @audralmitchell.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Coming to @4sweb.bsky.social 2026? @kellyfritsch.bsky.social and I are organizing an open panel on 'Confronting Contemporary Eugenics" (see p. 72 of the accepted panels for details). We'd love to consider your submission! #STS #antieugenics #disabilityjustice #socialmovements

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Audra Mitchell @audralmitchell.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Sharing this excellent new article by Jake Subryan Richards on #Black #Ecological #Knowledge making and human-bird relations in the #Caribbean in the 19th century #political #ecology #environmental #history www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

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Audra Mitchell @audralmitchell.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Important thread by @chanda.blacksky.app, including resources for trans ppl facing state-sponsored eliminative violence. The Lemkin Institute - including world-leading genocide scholars - report that a genocide of trans people is in train in the US www.lemkininstitute.com/single-post/...

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Experts Warn U.S. in Early Stages of Genocide Against Trans Americans

Genocide scholars say policies targeting transgender Americans match early warning signs of mass atrocity.This piece has been updated from its original email version.Genocide scholars are sounding the...

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Audra Mitchell @audralmitchell.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

In yet another instalment of the #militarization of #biodiversity: #rewilding as military strategy www.theguardian.com/environment/... [Alt text: two people in navy blue uniforms with weapons on their belts stride into a field surrounded by trees]

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Countries can rewild borders to deter invasions, says EU environment chief

Jessika Roswall cites Poland and Finland, which have made border areas near Russia or its allies ‘more hostile’ to cross

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Audra Mitchell @audralmitchell.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Political Science and North American Studies @wilfridlaurieruni.bsky.social is hiring for a #TT assistant professor in #politicaltheory with a focus on areas such as #law, #settlercolonialism, #Indigenouspolitics, critical approaches. See link for details: universityaffairs.ca/jobs/job-pre...

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University Affairs

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BDS in International Studies @bdsatisa.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Ahead of ISA 2026, join us to organise for academic boycott for Palestine! Tues 3rd Feb online 🍉 #BDSatISA #FreePalestine #NoConferencingAsUsual us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Audra Mitchell @audralmitchell.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

"Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group"-UN Convention Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of #Genocide, art. 2 (d). And no 'intentionality' puritans, pls - there is no denying that these outcomes were foreseen and designed. #Gaza www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

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Gaza war leads to 41% fall in births prompting allegations of reproductive violence

Israel’s war in Gaza has caused high numbers of maternal and neonatal deaths, say two reports

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Audra Mitchell @audralmitchell.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

This point is too often getting lost in discourses that frame Denmark as a 'protector' of Greenland in the face of US imperial threats

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Audra Mitchell @audralmitchell.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Surely in 2025 it is possible for journalists to do better than smearing dirt on the faces and hair of ambiguously but obviously racialized people in order to represent white fantasies of 'ancient humans' www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

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Humans made fire 350,000 years earlier than previously thought, discovery in Suffolk suggests

Groundbreaking find makes compelling case that humans were lighting fires much earlier than originally believed

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Audra Mitchell @audralmitchell.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Hey #academicsky: friendly reminder that taking the exact ideas or sources, or the exact way someone puts together ideas or sources from someone else's work and framing them as your own is plagiarism. Ideas are what we theorists make in the lab, through long hours of work and years of honing.

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Audra Mitchell @audralmitchell.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Between today's destructive CDC panel and the unabashed embrace of white supremacist conspiracy theory (see article) can anyone seriously deny that this is a #eugenicist regime? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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‘Cultivate resistance’: policy paper lays bare Trump support for Europe’s far right

Text signed by president seems to echo ‘great replacement’ theory, saying Europe faces ‘civilisational erasure’

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Audra Mitchell @audralmitchell.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

"The beliefs RFK Jr. espouses kill people. These beliefs have already killed people" 💯

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

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Audra Mitchell @audralmitchell.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Prof. Farhana Sultana is a path-breaking scholar of political ecology who has been placed on leave by Syracuse University for a post made on her personal SMs in a context of cascading political repression. Pls sign this letter calling for her immediate reinstatement docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Letter of Support for Professor Farhana Sultana

As scholars within and beyond academia, we write in solidarity with academic freedom of expression with our colleague, Dr. Farhana Sultana, an internationally recognized scholar and tenured Full Profe...

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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Looking to do some reading this weekend? Check out our Beyond Do No Harm reading guide, which shares articles, books + more for anyone wanting to dive deeper into topics around criminalization of care or providing care for criminalized populations: www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-al...

Graphic featuring a small thumbnail of a one-page resource, and text on a background composed of a tan and a dark blue column. The text reads: "Beyond Do No Harm Abolitionist Health Care "Back to School" Reading Guide. for anyone who wants to learn more & dive into topics around criminalization of care or providing care for criminalized populations." At the bottom, the URL "bit.ly/BDNHBackToSchool." A light drawing of a stethoscope is to the left of the resource.

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Audra Mitchell @audralmitchell.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Holy shit, it's almost like they're saying Autistic people are diverse! Glad to see journos are still calling on Uta Frith and that ilk to provide highly technical terms like 'ragbag' to describe the diversity of our communities. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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Autism should not be seen as single condition with one cause, say scientists

Those diagnosed as small children typically have distinct genetic profile from those diagnosed later, study finds

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Audra Mitchell @audralmitchell.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

100% this. Autistic people (and Autistic communities and cultures) exist in ways that scramble all lines of class, race, gender and disability. Very threatening to a lot of forms of power.

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Audra Mitchell @audralmitchell.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

THERE. ARE. NO. 'CAUSES'. OF. AUTISM. (other than being born as a member of Homo sapiens, which is a huge risk factor for turning out to be Autistic).

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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Dreadful to see this - Farhana Sultana is a stellar academic, with a commitment to social justice. She repeatedly said she was being targeted on this platform & on others. I note her account is deleted. Shame on Syracuse for not standing up for colleagues ⬇️ solidarity to her & Jenn Jackson

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Audra Mitchell @audralmitchell.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

If you're interested in the crossing points between crip theory, anti-eugenics, environment, global health and global ethics, check out @octoqueenphd.bsky.social 's new podcast #UnwellToBeginWith. It was a blast to be the first guest, & a fantastic episode with @stressedbranch.bsky.social is now up

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Audra Mitchell @audralmitchell.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

If you're in the UK, come check out the Planetary Futures conference at the University of Manchester next month! There's a fantastic line-up of speakers and a limited number of bursaries available for early career researchers #extinction #climate #ecology blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0...

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Planetary Futures: Rethinking Extinction and Conservation in the Anthropocene

Conference, 18-19 September 2025, at the University of Manchester. Call for Papers

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Audra Mitchell @audralmitchell.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

We Will Not Stop Talking About Palestine: consider signing this pledge by educators and others to keep up calls to #endthegenocide #endthefamine docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... [alt text: a text with black font and hyper-linked font sits against a lavender background)

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WE WILL NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT PALESTINE.

We refuse the so-called Palestine Exception, a term referring to how public discourse and the law are manipulated to deny Palestinian human rights, and to silence anyone who advocates for them. As in...

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Audra Mitchell @audralmitchell.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

My amazing colleague (and all-round amazing human) Corin is finally getting a long-awaited surgery. If you can spare a few dollars or share this post, it will go a long way to supporting his recovery. Thanks! www.gofundme.com/f/corins-sur...

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Donate to Corin's Surgery Recovery, organized by Mara Ervin

Our beloved Corin Parsons is having bilateral above-knee amputation surgery due to complications f… Mara Ervin needs your support for Corin's Surgery Recovery

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Audra Mitchell @audralmitchell.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Oh dear. What I thought was a simple question - 'what is this WPlace?' has hurtled me back into my lifelong battle with existential dread (That said, I do have quite a few politicians to grief). #WPlace #thevoid #existentialdread

A large dark-purple irregularly-shaped blotch in roughly the shape of the Canadian province of Quebec is superimposed over map with in light green. Text above it reads 'Message regarding the Void' with a blue 'click' button beneath. Under the button is a green check next to the sentence "Griefing political party flags or portraits of politicians is allowed"

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Audra Mitchell @audralmitchell.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Francesca Albanese's point is crucial: state recognition is important, but is not a substitute for concrete actions to #endthegenocide www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a... [alt text: a range of people, including children and adults, hold empty metal containers at a food distribution site]

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Recognising Palestinian state must not distract from ending Gaza mass deaths, UN expert says

Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur for the occupied territories, calls for practical actions and warns against distracting ‘attention from where it should be: the genocide’

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Audra Mitchell @audralmitchell.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

The question we all want the answer to: why do animals keep evolving into anteaters? #evolution #animals #biodiversity www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... [alt text: a light brown anteater with a black snout and claws rests in the fork of a moss-covered tree]

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Why do animals keep evolving into anteaters? | Helen Pilcher

Even if we don’t evolve long sticky tongues and live off a diet of ants, we can still learn a lot from these remarkable creatures, says science writer Helen Pilcher

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Audra Mitchell @audralmitchell.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Don't be fooled by recent announcements - not nearly enough food is getting into Gaza to #stopthefamine or #endthegenocide www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j... [alt text: an emaciated child looks over their left shoulder at the camera against a backdrop of grey tent material]

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The mathematics of starvation: how Israel caused a famine in Gaza

Israel controls the flow of food into Gaza. It has calculated how many calories Palestinians need to stay alive. Its data shows only a fraction has been allowed in

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Audra Mitchell @audralmitchell.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

STOP KILLING STARVING, INJURED PEOPLE QUEUING FOR MEDICAL SUPPLIES AND FOOD. This is not complicated. #endthegenocideNOW www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j... [alt text: two women, one dressed in black and a second dressed in leapard print, hold a crying child in a red and blue t-shirt]

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Israeli strike kills at least 10 children queueing for medical treatment in Gaza

Children among at least 15 killed in attack that NGO says was ‘blatant violation of international humanitarian law’

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