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Eos @eos.org · 08/10/2026

Where are children in the United States most likely to face lead exposure? A new #AGUPubs study maps risk nationwide and checks it against blood tests in 11 states. eos.org/research-spo...

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Mapping Childhood Lead Exposure Risk in the United States, Neighborhood by Neighborhood - Eos

A researcher uses housing and poverty data to identify locations where children are more likely to be exposed to lead.

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Leila Tufekci @leilaleila.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This has to be one of the most depressing wordsearches in history. Printed in the EPA's 1999 'Gamma Goat' comic book, distributed to children in the Navajo Nation living near uranium mines. archive.epa.gov/region9/supe...

Wordsearch in the EPA's 1999 'Gamma Goat' comic book distributed to children in the Navajo Nation living near uranium mines.

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Before CPR there was... blowing tobacco smoke up the bum. One of the recommended procedures for resuscitating "persons apparently dead from drowning", from a 1787 booklet by the Humane Society. More here: buff.ly/3FSaQjs

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London Mining Network @ldnminingnetwork.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“We must defend our water sources. Without water, we will die of thirst.” Solidarity with the Jericó 11 facing criminal charges for opposing AngloGold Ashanti's Quebradona copper mine to protect nature and their livelihoods. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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‘Water yes, mining no!’: the 87-year-old farmer who became a nature hero in Colombia

Porfirio Garcés is one of the ‘Jerico 11’, who face kidnapping charges after opposing a copper mine. Now, with a far-right president prioritising extraction, their fight has become more urgent

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Nate Holdren @nhold.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I wrote a review of Lorenzo Feltrin's very good book. I'd appreciate if you'd read the review and I hope it makes you want to read the book. prometheus-mag.com/2026/09/17/a...

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A Review of "Workers and the World" - Prometheus Magazine

Nate Holdren reviews Lorenzo Feltrin's "Workers and the World: Fighting Ecological Crisis from Within", praising it for countering climate despair.

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The Buffalo News @buffalonews.com · 17/09/2026

A report found that 70% of Erie County school buildings tested above state limits for lead in school drinking water. That makes it the seventh-highest county in the state, behind Jefferson, St. Lawrence, Chautauqua, Lewis, Tompkins and Orleans

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New test results show 70% of Erie County schools had water outlets with unsafe lead amounts

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 10/09/2026

In Iberia, lead metallurgy was thought to have been introduced by the Phoenicians at the beginning of the first millennium BC. Now, evidence for lead smelting in the early third millennium BC shows indigenous innovation much earlier #ThrowbackThursday 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Map of north-east Iberia highlighting the locations of sites and mining districts discussed in the text. An insert shows three nodules of lead-smelting slag.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

the things that Brighton university management has decided it simply… no longer recognises? it also no longer recognises UCU or Unison? again: how is this legal!!!!

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Leila Tufekci @leilaleila.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"The [Cheerios] scent yanks you, at least for a moment, out of your routine, and reminds you that pleasure exists." End times vibes in Buffalo.

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Leila Tufekci @leilaleila.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Came for your history of Shipham video, stayed for your critique of Vibrant Matter. I flip between loving and hating this book depending on my mood that day.

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Leila Tufekci @leilaleila.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Oh boy my son just got this in the post today 💔

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Leila Tufekci @leilaleila.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The bottling plant is in Rochester but the HQ used to be in Buffalo. We do have this beauty in Buffalo.

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Leila Tufekci @leilaleila.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

So gutted not to see this live but damn this is incredible.

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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 08/09/2026

Bert the unwaged apprentice mixing toxic lead to make paint in The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists. France banned its use in 1909 (for the health of the painters). The UK banned it in 1992.

A series of 8 panels from The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists graphic novel.
1. A barrel of white lead
2. Bert opens it and the powder escapes
3. He scoops the powers out by hand
4. He’s bent right over inside the barrel to get the last bit out
5. He’s bent tips the powder into a big vat
6. He returns the empty barrel to the dray
7. He adds other ingredients to the paint and stirs
8. He’s bent double, saying “it’s just one of my belly aches”
Poor Bert will surely go mad with lead poisoning, and then be just the right age to serve in WWI 😢

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Tred @tredlocity.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The Simpsons predicted that we would have Yard Work Simulators, but they didn't predict that we would go Beyond Yard Work Simulators.

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Leila Tufekci @leilaleila.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

A Mining Project in a Protected Wetland - Grassroots Resistance to Extractivism at the Tala Hamza–Amizour mine in Algeria www.tni.org/en/article/a...

Painting depicting protestors holding a banner stating "NON A L'EXPLOITATION DE LA MINE DANS NOS VILLAGES. DANGER SANTÉ PUBLIQUE."

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Leila Tufekci @leilaleila.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Grateful for journalists such as @laurahughesft.bsky.social for reviving excellent journalism on this topic in the UK.

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Leila Tufekci @leilaleila.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Essential viewing for anyone interested in the legacies of metal mining. Featuring classic themes such as industry meddling, stunted vegetables and journalists doing the work of government.

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Leila Tufekci @leilaleila.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Tonight's bedtime story. Thank you for the music and the books Dolly.

Cover of the children's book "Coat of Many Colors" by Dolly Parton.

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Leila Tufekci @leilaleila.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Heartbreaking! My kids still receive books in the post from her Imagination Library every month. She is so damn loved.

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Leila Tufekci @leilaleila.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

That actually sounds so good. I'm going to try it and will report back!

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Leila Tufekci @leilaleila.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

My favorite souvenir from my recent trip to the Peak District: T'Owd Man t-shirt! Thought to be the first depiction of a lead miner.

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Leila Tufekci @leilaleila.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I was diagnosed with dyspraxia the same year I started Sussex and she was the first prof I had there. Imagine reading this shit now as a first year.

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Nathan Nelson @nathannelson.co.uk · 16/08/2026

"On the face of this countryside a poor farm shows up like a wart. No place here for sentimental hedgerows, no grassy glades for picnic parties from the towns. The beauty of Lincolnshire is measured in tonnes per hectare."

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Leila Tufekci @leilaleila.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

With the Lindsay Clancy trial and Jason Arday news, this has been a shitty week to be back (procrastinating) at work.

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oneoneoneone @oneoneoneone.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Wild times on the UK MOTHS Facebook group.

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Leila Tufekci @leilaleila.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Similar scenes with my then-3 year old who would regularly request Derek Jarman's Modern Nature. Would have to skip past the darker bits though.

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Environmental Data & Governance Initiative @envirodgi.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

EDGI found “communities of color disproportionately live w/in 1 mile of EPA-regulated data centers & are exposed to levels of nitrogen dioxide & particulate matter above the national median. Those findings suggest that data centers are deepening broader patterns of inequality.” tinyurl.com/48eds4an

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Building at the Speed of AI: Data Centers, Expedited Permitting, and Who Bears the Burden Harvard Law Review

“xAI is scaling at an immeasurable pace—we are building our third massive data center in the greater Memphis area…. This is insane execution speed by...

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Leila Tufekci @leilaleila.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Finally, a sentiment the whole sociology community can rally behind.

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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

This Day in Labor History: August 7, 1978. President Jimmy Carter declared a federal emergency at Love Canal, New York, in response to the discovery of massive amounts of toxins underneath a school and near a housing development for the working class who lived in the city of Niagara Falls!

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Leila Tufekci @leilaleila.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Reading this important report as I get ready for my job sampling yards in Buffalo for lead. Interesting points here about different sampling protocols and how to engage residents.

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Lisa Wade @lisawade.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Sociology is amazing. Our biggest problem is bad-faith actors who maliciously spurn the field because we teach people how societies work and they'd rather we all stay in the dark. Not today, Satan!

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Leila Tufekci @leilaleila.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Also did door-to-door community lead testing, seized a mobile x-ray unit and held a sit-in at the Dept of Health to demand testing kits. Badass

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The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 26/06/2026

Today is Nonidi the 9th of Messidor in the year 234. Messidor is the month of harvest. Today we celebrate wormwood. #JacobinDay See today's page

An old time-y illustration of a Wormwood.

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David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Repair is the dream of the broken thing

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

The decline of lead mining in the Yorkshire Dales also pushed skilled mining families into the collieries. Entire households frequently relocated together, with men, women and children contributing to pit work until reforms in 1842 restricted female and child labour underground. These diverse

Children hauling coal through underground mine workings, depicted in the 1843 government report The Physical and Moral Conditions of the Children and Young Persons Employed in Mines and Manufactures. Credit: Wellcome Collection (CC BY).

The names of Ann Ambler and William Dyson, (below) hurriers at Messrs Ditchforth and Clays colliery at Elland, live on some 180 years after the publication of the Children's Employment Commission (Mines) 1842 report. I find that both amazing and humbling.

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