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dylan m. harris @dylanmharris.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

i led a deep listening hike this morning, threaded through with sonic meditations from pauline oliveros. at the end, one of the participants said he heard the sound of a single pine needle hitting the ground for the very first time. maybe one of the best compliments i’ve received as an educator 🥹

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dylan m. harris @dylanmharris.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

dusting off this account to see if anyone might be willing to share their favorite methods papers on interviews and document analysis 👀

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dylan m. harris @dylanmharris.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

i am grateful to the @carsoncenter.bsky.social for hosting a workshop and inviting me and several others to retool the concept of planetary health. this piece is part of an incredible special issue. i am also grateful to @whitehorsepress.bsky.social for making this work possible and open access!

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dylan m. harris @dylanmharris.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

this article is a few things: it outlines what i mean by palliative political ecology; it's processing grief through writing (and sharing it); and it's an attempt to write in a way that ai cannot (easily) replicate. i am proud to share it! liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...

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Dialogues in Human Geography @dialogueshg.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

New Online 1st Article “Making the case for public geographies of student debt abolition” by Rae Baker, Dylan M Harris, Britain Hopkins, Esra Alkim Karaagac, Guillaume Proulx, Denise Goerisch, Galen Murton, and John McKendrick doi.org/10.1177/2043...

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dylan m. harris @dylanmharris.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

faculty and staff need to organize alongside their students, pushing universities from the inside to address the structural conditions shaping the student debt crisis. this includes, at the very least, confronting the fact that our livelihoods are inextricably linked to exploitative debt relations.

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dylan m. harris @dylanmharris.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

new! this article is the result of several conversations, tons of effort and time, and deep reflections about my-and our-relationship to the political economy of higher ed. student debt shouldn't exist, and college should be free ✊ @dialogueshg.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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dylan m. harris @dylanmharris.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

it's me, some faculty in Colorado pushing back ✊

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dylan m. harris @dylanmharris.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

happy to have a small part/quote in this hugely important conversation. ai is just the most recent shiny object the neoliberal university is using to gut higher ed’s mission as a social, public good. cutting educators and researchers is not the way 👎🏻 www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

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Faculty Push Back Against OpenAI Deals

As higher ed institutions pay tech companies millions to provide students and faculty access to custom AI-powered tools, some faculty in Colorado and California are pushing back.

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CAPE AAG @cape-aag.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

📢🚨👉 AAG Unruly Natures 2026!! Thursday 3/19, 7:30-10pm @ Standard Deviant Brewing

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dylan m. harris @dylanmharris.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

you can read the introduction here: bloomsburycp3.codemantra.com/viewer/696a7... and, if you feel compelled, there's a discount code: GLR AT8 (bloomsbury.com/9781666971811) as it goes, the hard copy is quite expensive, so i'd recommend it suggesting it to your libraries. paperbacks coming soon!

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dylan m. harris @dylanmharris.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

if you'd like a copy, let me know! happy to share! i had to interlibrary loan my own article, published yesterday, to get a PDF. what a world 🫠

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dylan m. harris @dylanmharris.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

new article! how might the emergence of the 'new' carbon economy be disrupted, shifted in favor of communities rather than serving as another round of capitalist accumulation? thanks to @landpolicy.bsky.social for supporting this work! here's a link: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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dylan m. harris @dylanmharris.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

saw the new tron, and my takeaway is that ai-death likely won’t be explosive and shiny. instead, it’ll be slow violence. enough humans will be convinced its existence is more worthwhile than planetary health (happening), and ai chat bots will convince kids to kill themselves (happening).

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dylan m. harris @dylanmharris.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

what does it mean that small landowners are being asked to lease their land, or at least the carbon inside their trees, to corporations like amazon for 20-year contracts? i am super excited to share this work and grateful to the @landpolicy.bsky.social for supporting it! ✊ tinyurl.com/mw2zx9fe

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dylan m. harris @dylanmharris.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

i am also trying to write in ways that cannot be easily replicated by AI (e.g., AI can't know what it feels like to lose a mom). i am affirming that writing about difficult topics is still possible and important. i need to know it is. i haven't quite figured out this writing yet, but working on it!

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dylan m. harris @dylanmharris.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

this is also the most personal thing i've written, and i am inspired by so many incredible writers that have been able to seamlessly blend the personal and academic through auto-theory, etc. this is the first of a few pieces that intersects palliative care and climate/energy justice work.

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dylan m. harris @dylanmharris.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

this piece puts into words much of what i've felt while processing the death of the person who loved me most in this world. it's a jumping off point for me to begin articulating what i see as 'palliative political ecology.' what are the socioecological politics of easing planetary suffering?

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dylan m. harris @dylanmharris.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

what does it meant to affirm life, to ease suffering, when there is no cure? what does grief teach about the art of life, about solidarity despite devastation? is grief a lens through which to assuage planetary harm? thanks to the @carsoncenter.bsky.social 🌱 seeingthewoods.org/2025/09/02/l...

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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Is #grief inherently political? In this deeply personal essay author @dylanmharris.bsky.social explores the connections between global #foodproduction and the health—and related grief—of the individual. This essay is a contribution to the #planetaryhealth series featured on 𝘚𝘦𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘰𝘰𝘥𝘴.

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dylan m. harris @dylanmharris.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

vvv excited to be able to keep doing this!

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dylan m. harris @dylanmharris.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

research funding cuts will impact whole universities, but, importantly, those costs are going to be passed onto our most vulnerable colleagues and our students through tuition increases. it's time to organize WITH - not against - your students to fight these cuts. ✊ @debtcollective.bsky.social

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dylan m. harris @dylanmharris.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

just gave a talk on palliative political ecology to a church that recently voted to become a ‘creation justice’ congregation, and you could feel tendrils of solidarity forming between folks. the way forward is community. 🌱✊🏻

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dylan m. harris @dylanmharris.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

i think a lot about the 'point' of my work, and, within a broader context of the neoliberalization of what i 'offer' to society, today affirmed that what i am 'good at' may just simply be holding space for my students to think and feel out loud. today, against it all, that felt truer than ever.

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dylan m. harris @dylanmharris.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

today, our discussion was set against the backdrop of a whirlwind of realtime texts and notifications - this grant is frozen, this policy will impact these students in material ways, a judge blocked this or that temporarily - and the power of 'us' and 'them' thinking was so powerfully on display.

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dylan m. harris @dylanmharris.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

my nature/society course, at its heart, is about understanding how the seemingly intractable, primordial division between humans and nature informs so much of the binary thinking that informs (and inflames) so much of society.

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dylan m. harris @dylanmharris.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

to universities - one of the last slivers of a functional civil society in the US (shout out to public libraries as well)

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dylan m. harris @dylanmharris.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

four days into the semester, i have seen universities, not just mine, 'get in line' with what is 'coming down the pipeline' rather than standing on their mission, to educate all, with integrity. this timely @aaup.bsky.social report is a critical read. ✊ www.aaup.org/report/again...

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Against Anticipatory Obedience

The statement that follows, prepared by a joint subcommittee of the Association’s Committee on College and University Governance and Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure, was approved for public...

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dylan m. harris @dylanmharris.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

while the end of the semester is always busy, it is my favorite for final projects, which, this year, have included: a personal piano concert of studio ghibli songs, a handmade bleaching coral reef made from recycled fabric, and a student writing a poem they yodeled from a mountain top on video 😀

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Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Staggering growth of US oil & gas production and record profits was sold by GOP and Dem presidents as American “energy security”. But this isn’t security for ordinary people. Dividends flow to the 1% as more households struggle with utility bills. New paper by @isabellamweber.bsky.social + coauthors

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dylan m. harris @dylanmharris.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

~ 🥹 proud advisor 🥹 ~ one of my graduate students *just* successfully defended her thesis on ozone non-attainment best practices in colorado, operationalizing concepts like agrawal's 'environmentality' and pulido's 'geographies of pollution' into actionable and clear policy guidelines 🥹

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dylan m. harris @dylanmharris.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

other than taking some time, but maybe that's because the three of us had to also coordinate across three countries' timezones, it went as well as any other process!

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dylan m. harris @dylanmharris.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

new open access article! i am proud of this one! we brought many ideas and thinkers - a hero, eve k sedgwick - into conversation with political ecology to expand it's scope, to envision/imagine how emancipatory nature-society scholarship can and should be! ✊🌱 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Progress in Environmental Geography @progenvgeog.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

🌍 New paper published in Progress in Environmental Geography 🌍 'Experimental and #speculative #political #ecologies for an age of crisis, hope, and action' by Maria Rusca, Dylan M Harris, and Dan Santos journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @mariarusca.bsky.social @dylanmharris.bsky.social

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dylan m. harris @dylanmharris.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

by centering storylines that are drawn specifically from our collective understanding of climate justice work, we hope to expand the small window of possibility afforded by metrics like SSCPs and RCPs... there is so much more to an equitable future than a line on a graph.

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dylan m. harris @dylanmharris.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

how and why 'human activity' is factored into climate models, often as a flattened variable among many other variables, is not consistent with climate justice literature that highlights the unequal contributions to and disproportionate impact from climate change. stories help make sense of this!

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dylan m. harris @dylanmharris.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

v happy to share this article on the power of storytelling to elucidate, clarify, and realize the often-abstract scenarios of climate models! thanks to @mariarusca.bsky.social specifically for bringing this dream team together! if you'd like a pdf, just me know! =) www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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dylan m. harris @dylanmharris.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

last sept, i was invited to give a talk for dartmouth's irving institute for energy & society, and it is now live on youtube! in it, i discuss what i see as the 'transit' of transition, looking to my work in western colorado to see what is working well there =) www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNm8...

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New Energy: Challenges & Lessons from the 'Transit' of Colorado's Just Transition, Dylan Harris

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josh mullenite @j-mullenite.bsky.social · 08/02/2024

More than four years after @dylanmharris.bsky.social and I started talking about ruins, editing a shared GDoc in a haphazard way, the fruits of our labor are finally in the world. Read our introduction to Ruins and Ruination in Political Ecology now out in CNS: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/RWBRI...

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dylan m. harris @dylanmharris.bsky.social · 08/02/2024

finally, we are witnessing the horrendous outcome of settler capitalist development, seeing settlers gnash their teeth at the destruction of a state, of the palestinian people, who refuse to give in. the struggle, and the possibility in it, is why capitalism will never win. ✊

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dylan m. harris @dylanmharris.bsky.social · 08/02/2024

considering climate change, and all the disaster capitalist 'opportunities' it entails (e.g., socioecological fixes), you can see how ruins are created through capitalist production, exploited as a wasteland, only to be re-circulated as a commodity. and yet, it's never complete.

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