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Paul de Morais @pdemorais.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Apparently a favorite novel of Gen Z is The Count of Monte Cristo (heard it through social media).

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

In "Captive Ecologies," Jennifer C. James @femmenoire.bsky.social makes a case for the ecological significance of slavery’s afterlife, examining Black literature and art to trace the entanglements between racial capitalism and Black ecological freedom. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/I5cfkh8

Cover of Captive Ecologies: The Environmental Afterlives of Slavery by Jennifer C. James. The upper quarter features the title on the left against a solid blue background. The subtitle and author name are adjacent on a black background. All text is in white serif font. The rest of the cover is a photograph of a solitary figure in dark clothing walking across a glacier with distant, snowy mountains.

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Wollstonecraft on forest fires & climate grief, from 1796: "The devastation must, indeed, be terrible, when this, literally speaking, wild fire, runs along the forest, flying from top to top, & crackling amongst the branches. . . the country, despoiled of beauty & riches, is left to mourn for ages."

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AlinaHagen 🌊🎨📸 🥾 @alinagrafik.eurosky.social · 20/05/2026

#WorldBeeDay My lone photo of a bee to honor World Bee Day today, August 20th. 🐝 #EastCoastKin #ECK #Macro #Bee #Bloomscrolling

Close up image of a large, fuzzy bee sitting in the center of a bright yellow flower that has tinges of pink/orange on the ends of the petals. The center is a dark maroon with bright orange stamens. Dark purple/blue leaves are in the background as well as a few bright green leaves.

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Paul de Morais @pdemorais.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Si demain le village de Sainte-Sévère allait la trouver en masse et lui dire : « Demoiselle, c’est assez vivre dans la richesse ; donnez-nous ce que vous avez, et travaillez à votre tour. –C’est juste, mes bons enfants », dirait-elle. Et gaiement elle irait mener les troupeaux aux champs !

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Paul de Morais @pdemorais.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Enjoying the campanile's Disney themed noon melodies, beginning with "Bells of Notre-Dame," followed by "Colors of the Wind" and "Tale as Old as Time." #UCBerkeley

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Marti Hagerty @martihagerty.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

A quick resistance task: 1. Google Gulf of Mexico 2. “Gulf of America" is the top 3. Click on the three little dots to the right of it 4. Select "Send Feedback" 5. Click on "Gulf Of America" 6. Select "Inaccurate content" 7. Select "Incorrect" and type in "The correct name is “Gulf of Mexico"

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Paul de Morais @pdemorais.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

1. Google Gulf of Mexico 2. “Gulf of America" is the top 3. Click on the three little dots to the right of it 4. Select "Send Feedback" 5. Click on "Gulf Of America" 6. Select "Inaccurate content" 7. Select "Incorrect" and type in "The correct name is “Gulf of Mexico"

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Michael Lucey @michaellucey.bsky.social · 26/02/2024

It was eleven years ago today that I got to interview Ursula Le Guin when she visited Berkeley's Townsend Center. A wonderful memory I feel lucky to have. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovZ6...

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Ursula K. Le Guin, Avenali Chair in the Humanities

Avenali Chair in the Humanities Ursula K. Le Guin in conversation with Professor Michael Lucey (Comparative Literature and French, UC Berkeley).Ursula K. Le ...

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Coyote / J. Stryker 🇨🇦 | Memento Vivere 🍃 @easterncoyote.bsky.social · 21/02/2024

Here are my lists, soon to become science and nature feeds. Want to be added? Which ones? Leave a comment here. I know there's already an "Ecology and Conservation" feed. I don't intend to compete. I'll be encouraging people to join and contribute to both feeds. Please share! Gracias! 😸

Screenshot of my lists:

Forestry & Forest Ecosystems
Canids
Plant Science, Botany
Nature and Animal Art
Nature and Wildlife Photography
Corvids
Ecology
Fungi & Mycology

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Paul de Morais @pdemorais.bsky.social · 21/02/2024

forestry, plant science, ecology, and fungi please 🍄

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Paul de Morais @pdemorais.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

As COVID cases rise and many valorize a false sense of individual freedom over mask wearing, I can't help but think of Bettine von Arnim's response to Günderode: "ich will nicht frei sein, ich will Wurzel fassen in Dir."

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Paul de Morais @pdemorais.bsky.social · 12/12/2023

Now tempted to drop everything and just slow read a bunch of Barthes.

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differences @differences.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

in our latest issue, Elizabeth Freeman's study of sadomedicine offers "a way of reading with symptoms, even with one’s own, rather than through or against them" — read "Parasymptomatic Reading: Medical Kink, Care, and the Surface/Depth Debate" here: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...

An excerpt from the linked article, which reads: "Parasymptomatic is a play on parasympathetic, which names the slow, quiet, 'rest and digest' aspects of the nervous system, the opposite of paranoia’s fearful, fight-or-flight response: both, it might be noted, are deep rather than surface structures. But the parasympathetic nervous system is involved in sexual arousal, salivation, tears, urination, digestion, and defecation, and so parasymptomatic reading might name an interpretive method or stance that allows for more surface-level bodily responses to a text—arousal, laughter, drowsiness, goosebumps—as part of its meaning, as well as countering Emily Apter and Elaine Freedgood’s vision of Marxism and deconstruction as 'hypersymptomatic reading.' 'Para,' a prefix that interested Sedgwick, too, signals an analogical/parallel relationship that foils surface and depth (as in parataxis, the placing of words side-by-side without coordinating or subordinating elements)."

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

"How the Earth Feels" by @danaluci.bsky.social examines how the impacts of geology on 19th-century US culture catalyzed transformative conversations about the intersections between humans & the nonhuman world. Read the introduction for free now: ow.ly/QLU250Q5vln

Cover of How the Earth Feels: Geological Fantasy in the Nineteenth-Century United States by Dana Luciano. Cover is a landscape painting. An individual and an alpaca walk in the foreground of the painting underneath tall, green trees. A river runs through the landscape before flowing into a waterfall over a rugged cliff. Black smoke plumes into a large, orange-hued cloud as a volcano erupts in the background.

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Paul de Morais @pdemorais.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

2 Days left to make a donation to the UC Berkeley Center for African Studies! These funds make possible travel to the African continent for undergraduate students so that they may conduct research projects there.

crowdfund.berkeley.edu

Thank you from CAS

Thank you for suppporting undergraduate research in Africa

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 20/11/2023

The world’s richest 1 percent generated as much carbon emissions as the poorest two-thirds in 2019, according to a new Oxfam report that examines the uber-wealthy’s lavish lifestyles and investments in heavily polluting industries. wapo.st/49Ke8W3

Children stand in front of tents. Headline reads, “The world’s richest 1% pollute more than the poorest two-thirds.”

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 20/11/2023

Americans can order four more free Covid tests from the government starting today —> www.covid.gov/tests

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