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

Does the friend have to be brilliant?

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

I'm aware that many of you are probably doing the same, whether as individuals or as larger groups! I'd love your thoughts, suggestions and ideas. I'm doing this to inform my own practice, but it would also be great to create a resource for anyone who wants to navigate this challenge non-punitively

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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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Audra Mitchell @audralmitchell.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Yes! Same for at least some of us mid- and older millennials. Am suddenly very glad to have been taught cursive in school - no AI can decode my chicken-scrawl!

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Audra Mitchell @audralmitchell.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

[alt text: an asshole in shitty orange glasses and a black t-shirt stands against a blurred background while spouting hateful nonsense]

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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

[alt text: a red border running down the lefthand side of the screen has the 4S logo - a stylized S and the words 'society for social studies of science'. In the center a grey watermark shows an mirrored image of a tree and information about the call for papers]

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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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University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent

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

[Alt text: a string of barbed wire sits on the foreground against a blue-pink-and-white-striped trans pride flag]

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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 · 05/03/2026

PS: this is a veritable dream-team of academics to work with - world-leading in their fields, and also incredibly generous and collaborative scholars. #animalstudies #politicalecology #morethanhumanpolitics #geography #philosophy #literature

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Audra Mitchell @audralmitchell.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

[Alt text: a group of smiling people - Alasdair, Rosaleen, Bob and Eva - stand in the foreground of a cafe with Edison bulbs dangling behind them]

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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

[alt text: a neonatal baby with dark hair and eyes tightly shut lies in an incubator while a healthcare worker in blue scrubs stands behind]

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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 · 09/01/2026

Glad to hear you got out - have been worried! Hope you're doing ok.

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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

[alt text: an article from the Guardian about the use of fire by humans 350k years ago is illustrated by a photo of ambiguously racialized actors with dirt on their faces and bodies seated around a fire grilling an animal on a spit]

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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

And yes, there is a joy in knowing obscure references. But to me, the bigger issue is the work that it takes to find those references and put them together in ways that create new insight. Too many colleagues do not seem to recognize this as academic work

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

Yep, multiple times personally, and I've seen it done by colleagues to other colleagues many times as well. It's very easy to tell because usually the author in question has put things together in a way that is very unlikely to have emerged from their own research process

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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...

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