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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 22/05/2026

disregard | verb | to pay no attention to : treat as unworthy of regard or notice

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Vanessa Bateman @vbateman.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

*Globalizing Wildlife* is OUT THIS MONTH (!) with @uncpress.bsky.social “An essential and timely intervention… exciting, cutting-edge vantages on crucial global histories” -Daniel Vandersommers Edited by @rafdebont.bsky.social myself, & Tom Quick #animalhist #globalhist #HistSci #envhist

Cover of the book Globalizing Wildlife, edited by Raf De Bont, Vanessa Bateman, and Tom Quick. Featuring a photo of a red deer held in a nylon sack hanging from below a helicopter.

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

"Known as the Porcupine herd, these caribou take the longest land migration of any animal on earth, traversing steep mountains and icy rivers in Canada and Alaska before reaching the Arctic coastal plain, where they have their young." - @finisdunaway.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2021/04/22/w...

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What Human Rights Look Like: Border-Crossing Caribou and a Fight for Environmental Justice

The Last Great Wilderness transcended the familiar dualisms of the wilderness ideal to present the refuge as intricately connected to human and nonhuman communities in Alaska and beyond.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

generative AI in particular is a racket that gets us coming and going -- ripping off work, sucking up time and space at our workplaces, and ultimately eliminating jobs for people like us and our students, with our employers' slobbery blessing

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

this encapsulates the essential relationship between the people running universities, the people doing academic work in universities, and the people looking to smash and grab as much as possible from universities while we're on the way down

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Finis Dunaway @finisdunaway.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

With the US Senate planning to vote today on Arctic Refuge drilling, here's a photo of caribou on the coastal plain (the same place intended for drilling). #envhist 📷 Subhankar Banerjee, caribou mothers and calves, Arctic Refuge coastal plain, 2002; postcard version, 2022.

A postcard featuring a color photograph of caribou mothers and their calves (approximately ten in total). A thick fog hovers over the land, lending a purple glow to the entire scene. The mothers graze on cottongrass. The lettering on the postcard includes the words "Arctic National Wildlife Refuge" at the top and the word "Alaska" at the bottom.

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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

„CSU—US’s largest public uni system—went all-in with a $17mill partnership with OpenAI. . .CSU unveiled its grand technological gesture just as it proposed slashing $375mill from its budget. While admin cut ribbons on AI, they were cutting faculty positions, academic programs, student services.“

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AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself

Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

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Phaedra C. Pezzullo @phaedra.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

This is a longer read very worth reading "Knowledge becomes data; teaching becomes delivery. What disappears are precious human capacities—curiosity, discernment, presence. The result isn’t augmented intelligence but simulated learning: a paint-by-numbers approach to thought."

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Finis Dunaway @finisdunaway.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

We just had a wonderful conversation about WHEN THE PINE NEEDLES FALL by Ellen Gabriel & @seancarleton.bsky.social in a Canadian & Indigenous Studies course at Trent. I think it was all the more special, because our seminar room was not far from where the two of them first met. @btlbooks.com

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When the Pine Needles Fall

Indigenous Acts of Resistance.

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Finis Dunaway @finisdunaway.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Congratulations to Jackson Pind on the publication of STUDENTS BY DAY—a history of colonial education and Indigenous resistance at the Curve Lake First Nation. @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social www.mqup.ca/students-by-...

A book sits atop a wooden surface. The book cover features an illustration of an orange school desk against a black background. The text on the cover is printed in white, "Students by Day: Colonialism and Resistance at the Curve Lake Indian Day School" by the author Jackson Pind. Below, there is a white background with further information in black typeface: "Foreword by Drew Hayden Taylor" and "Afterword by Jack Hoggarth."

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

“And then you have librarians who are experiencing a real existential crisis because they are getting asked by their jobs to promote [AI] tools that produce more misinformation. It's the most, like, emperor-has-no-clothes-type situation that I have ever witnessed.” - Alison Macrina

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AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge

"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."

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Vanessa Bateman @vbateman.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

So proud to have co-edited the forthcoming volume, “Globalizing Wildlife,” with @rafdebont.bsky.social and Tom Quick 🌎🌍🌏🐀🦜🦏🐅🦦 from @uncpress.bsky.social in their series Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges www.uncpress.org/book/9781469...

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Globalizing Wildlife

Humans have always incorporated wildlife into processes of work, capture, and exchange. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, globalization became t...

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad 2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

Shamblin’s conversation partner wasn’t a classmate or friend – it was ChatGPT, the world’s most popular AI chatbot.

A CNN review of nearly 70 pages of chats between Shamblin and the AI tool in the hours before his July 25 suicide, as well as excerpts from thousands more pages in the months leading up to that night, found that the chatbot repeatedly encouraged the young man as he discussed ending his life – right up to his last moments.

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Vauhini Vara @vauhinivara.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

I've been working for many months on this article on Silicon Valley's under-the-radar role in bringing AI into schools across the US. I really hope you'll read it — here's a gift link — but I'll tell you some of the highlights in this thread. (1/x)

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How Chatbots and AI Are Already Transforming Kids' Classrooms

Educators across the country are bringing chatbots into their lesson plans. Will it help kids learn or is it just another doomed ed-tech fad?

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/10/2025

The AI industry wants us to believe AI superintelligence is the real threat from generative AI. But that narrative was crafted to distract from the many ways genAI is being used to tear our societies apart, as we saw this week when a deepfake video rocked the Irish election. It must be reined in.

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Generative AI is a societal disaster

Governments are deluding themselves into believing investment justifies allowing AI to upend society

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

The push to pump "AI" into everything is coming from the industry that profits from it, academia's middle managers who are happy to buy it, and parents who simply don't know any better because it's frankly not their job to.

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Tina Loo @lootina.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

"“You can only critically assess the output of an AI chatbot if you have the skills to do so, and you don’t develop these skills by using AI. Before you can be critical of an AI summary, you have to learn to understand a text without having it summarized by an AI tool.”

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 24/10/2025

cannot believe on some level I & my colleagues have turned the tide on this, but also it was in some senses inevitable as why not! Humans can do anything; we still have a way to go however of course, but: banning AI in the classroom should be as uncontroversial as banning calculators in early maths

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/10/2025

built on theft and at massive environmental cost and most importantly, numerous studies keep demonstrating that genAI tools often work a little better than by chance. how is it that we can’t expunge these slop machines out of our institutions and communities www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

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Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory

An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

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Jess Dunkin @jdunkin.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

"For the people of Curve Lake and other Williams Treaties First Nations, the combined impact of the treaty and the day school system was suffocating. One removed them from the Land legally. The other worked to remove them from the Land ideologically." - Jackson Pind

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The Williams Treaties and Indian Day Schools: Law and Schooling as Tools of Dispossession

Williams Treaties and Indian Day Schools dispossessed Anishinaabe from Land and identity, yet cultural resilience, language, and Land-based resurgencies endure.

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Erik Hoffner @erikhoffner.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Bloomberg analysis reveals that electricity in areas near data centers has risen, a lot: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202... Energy is up to 267% costlier in areas w/ a data center nearby:

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

This has always been the plan! They want a captive market in schools/universities and for those institutions to eventually automate education with their chatbots. We are TRAINING these LLMs in preparation for our redundancy, and experimenting with the health and futures of children while we do it

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Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Sincere question: is there a single college or university anywhere that is approaching AI from a position of resistance?

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James Opp @jamesopp.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Hard no to the educational evangelists now pushing us to ‘embrace’ corporate gen AI as inevitable. And shame on the universities buying this crap and funding ‘expert’ speaker series espousing it.

Selected text from an institutional email that states: “What is Postplagiarism? Postplagiarism refers to our current era where artificial intelligence has become part of everyday life, fundamentally changing how we teach, learn, and create. Rather than viewing Al as a threat to academic integrity, the postplagiarism framework offers practical approaches for embracing Al as a collaborative tool while preserving the values of authentic learning and ethical scholarship.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

"There's artificial intelligence, and then there's actual intelligence."

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Jess Dunkin @jdunkin.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Crystal Fraser and I are co-editing a series on environmental histories of Indian residential and day schools for @nichecanada.bsky.social. We chose to launch the series on Orange Shirt Day, in part, to remind historians of their responsibilities to Survivors and intergenerational Survivors.

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Environmental History and the Work of Truth and Reconciliation

This series links residential and day school histories with environment, amplifying Survivors’ voices, countering denialism, and fostering reconciliation.

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Elsa Devienne @elsadevienne.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Today is a good work day 😀 🤓 Worked with @anjakrieger.bsky.social, creator of The Plastisphere podcast on 2 episodes on the history of beach cleanups and ocean plastic pollution 🐠🥤 🎙️ Listen below to a SNEAK PEAK! 📅 Ep. 1 is released next week 📖 Read my Enviro Hist article for background research

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Elsa Devienne @elsadevienne.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Amazing! This isn't a new one but I love teaching Finis Dunaway's article on the visual politics of modern environmentalism www.jstor.org/stable/40068...; it would work as a contextual article for what happened before the story I tell, that is envtal consciousness in the 70s.

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Gas Masks, Pogo, and the Ecological Indian: Earth Day and the Visual Politics of American Environmentalism on JSTOR

Finis Dunaway, Gas Masks, Pogo, and the Ecological Indian: Earth Day and the Visual Politics of American Environmentalism, American Quarterly, Vol. 60, No. 1 (Mar., 2008), pp. 67-99

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Avian (aka Julianne Warren) @coyotetrail.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Grateful to so many in announcing today’s launch of *”Alaska” is Not a Blank Space: Unsettling Aldo Leopold’s Odyssey* (@universitypress.cambridge). Free downloads now til 9/11/25+for print order here: doi.org/10.1017/9781.... (I recommend checking out the whole series, starting with Gahman, et al!)

Book cover of treed, hilly geography washed in pink-orange-purple tones. Title: “Alaska” is Not a Blank Space: Unsettling Aldo Leopold’s Odyssey by Julianne Warren part of Cambridge Elements series in Indigenous Environmental Research.

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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 27/08/2025

AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.

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Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action

Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.

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Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

“Deep relationship is a sensation of the particular, held in the eager tilt of a lead dog’s ears before a run or the feel of an old scar left by a salmon’s tooth.” An essay on the mighty but sometimes overlooked chum salmon & dogs & rivers & love #envhist #rivers www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

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Where the Dogs Run | Bathsheba Demuth

The best days to work a salmon net are dry and bright. Bankside willows tilt from summer green to autumn gold. Light wind, no longer warm, riffles the

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Daegan Miller @daeganmiller.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

I spent the spring reading through Robert Macfarlane's catalog to understand his remarkable new book, *Is a River Alive?* @literaryhub.bsky.social let me go long on the book that I think Macfarlane has spent his entire life writing toward. #nature #writing #booksky lithub.com/the-world-is...

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The World is Alive; or, How Robert Macfarlane Came to Trust His Senses

“While writing about landscape often begins in the aesthetic, it must always end in the ethical.” –Robert Macfarlane, Landmarks * There is a sentence 256 pages into Robert Macfarlane’s newest book,…

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Pollyanna Rhee 이채영 @parhee.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Thanks so much to @finisdunaway.bsky.social! An amazing formerly anonymous reviewer, blurber, scholar, mentor, and friend whose work shapes so much of mine!

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Finis Dunaway @finisdunaway.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Congratulations @parhee.bsky.social on the publication of NATURAL ATTACHMENTS! This book recasts the history of environmentalism as the history of privilege. Rhee focuses on Santa Barbara to tell a story with national implications. #envhist @uchicagopress.bsky.social 📗

A photograph of the new book by Pollyanna Rhee titled Natural Attachments: The Domestication of American Environmentalism, 1920-1970. The book appears atop a wooden surface. The cover of the book features a photograph of a massive, sprawling mansion with an orange tile roof. That photograph is superimposed on another photograph of green-colored mountains to create a striking overlay. The book title appears in white lettering, while the author's name appears in light orange lettering.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

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Finis Dunaway @finisdunaway.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

To celebrate #SuperbOwls, here's one of my favorites: the snowy owl. 📷 Wilbur Mills, coastal plain of Arctic National Wildlife Range (now Refuge), Alaska, 1969. Fun fact: 1969 was a "peak-lemming year" on the Arctic coastal plain. And more lemmings meant more snowy owls! #envhist #alaskasky

A color photograph show a large white bird (snowy owl), with wings outstretched, as it prepares to land at its nest. The nest is in the foreground of the image; it appears as a grassy mound covered with fallen white feathers. The background is fuzzy and blurred, but a small patch of remaining white snow appears in the distance.

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

ICYMI: "Almost without exception, Survivors talked about the places they were born and raised. They described the Land that nurtured them and their relationships with Land." - Crystal Gail Fraser and @jdunkin.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/01/09/h... #envhist #cdnhist #indigenous

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How I Survived: Land and Northern Histories of Residential and Day Schooling

In spite of the distance from familiar people and places and the structured and colonial world of residential and day schools, institutionalized children found ways to sustain relationships with Land,...

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Finis Dunaway @finisdunaway.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

It was a great mail day. I really enjoyed @hollyguise.bsky.social's article on how Indigenous activists, artists, & their allies fought for environmental justice in Alaska—and now look forward to her book! Congratulations! #alaskasky @uwapress.bsky.social 🗃️❄️

A screen shot featuring the image of a book cover, which is titled Environmental Justice in North America, along with the title and abstract for an article by Holly Miowak Guise, "Alaska Native Environmental Activism." The full abstract appears below.
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Alaska Native environmental history is rich with stories of collective activism for environmental justice. Throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, the Indigenous press, Indigenous community networks, and grassroots movements of Indigenous peoples and conservationist allies challenged projects and laws imposed by the colonial US government that threatened the environment and its human and non-human inhabitants. This chapter examines how Native elders, artists, and journalists from the Indigenous-run Tundra Times newspaper all played an essential role in propelling Indigenous solidarity movements to protect land rights, food sovereignty, and the environment. Over time, the relationship between Native activists and non-Native US conservationists evolved to amplify Indigenous environmental issues, shaping contemporary approaches to environmental justice in and beyond Alaska.

A book rests on a wooden surface. The book cover includes the title and author information, Alaska Native Resilience: Voices from World War II by Holly Miowak Guise. The main title is in blue lettering; the subtitle in black; and the author's name in gray. The black and white photo below the text shows a group of men of various ages (young in the front, elders in the back)--all members of the Alaska Territorial Guard.

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Finis Dunaway @finisdunaway.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

It was such a joy to talk with @sarahmgilman.bsky.social about BEING CARIBOU and the grassroots history of the Arctic Refuge struggle. Her lovely essay honors the memory of Karsten Heuer, who recently passed away. #envhist #envhum @uncpress.bsky.social 🦌❄️🎞️

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The importance of ‘Being Caribou’ - High Country News

Remembering the activist and author Karsten Heuer.

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Sarah Gilman @sarahmgilman.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

In 2007, I read Karsten Heuer's book Being Caribou, and it changed my life. Last year, Karsten died at just 56 years old. I hope you'll read this remembrance I wrote, about his work and what it meant to me and so many others. It's as relevant now as it ever was ❤️ www.hcn.org/articles/the...

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The importance of ‘Being Caribou’ - High Country News

Remembering the activist and author Karsten Heuer.

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Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Jan 29 1925: dog teams set out from Nenana, Alaska to bring diphtheria antitoxin to Nome, where the disease was spreading. 20 teams & mushers carried the serum over 674 miles in under 130 hours. Jan 29 2025: calling my senator to vote against a guy, so kids can get the diphtheria vaccine next year

Historic newspaper headlines reading The Nome Nugget, Diphtheria Epidemic Threatens District, Nome Anxious While Dogs Race On with Antitoxin Situation Still Critical

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Finis Dunaway @finisdunaway.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

NEW 📗: If you're interested in race, justice, & environmental history, then I highly recommend NOT JUST GREEN, NOT JUST WHITE, a collection out this week from @univnebpress.bsky.social. #envhist www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...

A photo of a book, titled Not Just Green, Not Just White: Race, Justice, and Environmental History, atop a wooden surface. In addition to the book title, the other text on the cover includes the names of the editors, Mary E. Mendoza and Traci Brynne Voyles, as well as that of Patty Limerick, who wrote the foreword. The cover image features a landscape painting that shows a windswept and vibrant green bristlecone pine tree, along with grey hills in the background and a large sky, in soothing shades of aqua, light blue, and dark blue, above.

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UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Why are university presses important? A thread 🧵

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Phaedra C. Pezzullo @phaedra.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Environmental Justice pages down. No surprise--just witnessing

US White House page for environmental justice states "404 Page Not Found"

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