Grace King @plantmetaphor.bsky.social · 13/08/2026More of thisorionmagazine.orgThe Lost Vocabulary of Whaling - Orion MagazineA forensic glossary 000
Reposted by Grace KingScripps Institution of Oceanography @scrippsocean.bsky.social · 21/07/2026🌊 A report led by Scripps scientists warns that oxygen loss in aquatic ecosystems could trigger changes lasting centuries. Aquatic deoxygenation is emerging as a major threat to marine life, fisheries & the natural systems regulating Earth's climate. ⤵️ bit.ly/4yxcvaLoceanographicmagazine.comOxygen "disappearing" from earth's waters at alarming rateScientists warned that low oxygen levels threaten entire food webs, and the phenomenon should be recognised formally in climate frameworks 04935
Reposted by Grace KingAparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 17/07/2026"After boarding a handful of boats — stuffed to the brim with people and pets — community members drove across the lake as their entire First Nation burned to the ground behind them. " www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...cbc.ca'It's a miracle': First Nation members escape northwestern Ontario wildfire as community burns to the ground | CBC NewsNamaygoosisagagun First Nation, also known as Collins First Nation, has been destroyed by a wildfire that spans over 350,000 hectares in northwestern Ontario. Community leaders spoke to CBC News about... 1416821046
Reposted by Grace KingHannah A. Brazeau 🇨🇦 @habrazeau.bsky.social · 16/07/2026So many photos of the hazy orange sky in Toronto being shared on social media. Reminder: "It is estimated that First Nations communities make up 42% of evacuations due to wildfires but only make up 5% of people living in Canada." www.canada.ca/en/public-he...canada.caRapid Review: An intersectional analysis of the disproportionate health impacts of wildfires on diverse populations and communities - Canada.caRapid review of the differential impact of wildfires due to social determinants of health and equity-related considerations. 16836
Reposted by Grace KingT. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Reminder that Carney has cut funding for Natural Resources Canada, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Indigenous and Northern Affairs, and Indigenous Services. And he has rolled back climate protections, abandoned emissions targets, and is building more pipelines. 20705450
Reposted by Grace Kingâpihtawikosisân @apihtawikosisan.bsky.social · 15/07/2026I did a tonne of research so you don't have to. I talk about masking, air filtration, and air quality rating systems, & I give concrete suggestions to help you keep yourself and your loved ones safe. If you don't have this information yet, it's time to get educated. Wildfires don't respect borders. 2630577
Grace King @plantmetaphor.bsky.social · 16/01/2026it was such a treat to share this conversation with Dr. Ensor for G19’s New Book Forum. _Queer Lasting_ examines the dominance of future-oriented thinking in the environmental humanities and traces an alternative ecological temporality based on lateness and recursion in queer lit of 1890s & 1980s 120
Grace King @plantmetaphor.bsky.social · 10/12/2025I’m thrilled to be part of a new special issue of Leviathan on “Melville’s Queer Afterlives,” co-edited by the wonderful Jordan Alexander Stein, Dana Seitler, and Adam Fales. I got to write about pirates! 151
Reposted by Grace KingThe Melville Society @melville-society.bsky.social · 10/12/2025Leviathan 26.3 is now online @projectmuse.bsky.social! "Melville's queer afterlives" special issue collects case studies that highlight the range of queer Melvilleana and in the process contribute to an understanding of the aesthetic shape assumed by queer creative impulses. muse.jhu.edu/issue/56015muse.jhu.eduProject MUSE - Leviathan-Volume 27, Number 3, October 2025 1169
Reposted by Grace KingKyle Chayka @chaykak.bsky.social · 25/06/2025my @newyorker.com column this week goes in depth on how using AI makes us less original, unique, and creative as writers, thinkers, and communicators. Various new studies are proving that AI is a rampant force of homogenization: www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...newyorker.comA.I. Is Homogenizing Our ThoughtsRecent studies suggest that tools such as ChatGPT make our brains less active and our writing less original. 16386139
Grace King @plantmetaphor.bsky.social · 21/06/2025the Melville Society conference in Mystic Seaport this past week was pure magic. many of us slept on an 1882 sail ship that’s docked at Mystic Seaport Museum & then we wandered around UConn Avery Point campus in the days. so many good people, so much good whale-talk…I’ll be dreaming about it forever 131
Reposted by Grace KingMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 18/06/2025Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price. 256142645465
Reposted by Grace KingDuke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 01/05/2025One of our new and exciting titles out this May is "Ice Geographies" by Jen Rose Smith @sprucehen.bsky.social . #EnvironmentalStudies #Geography buff.ly/BWX6cDK 35815
Reposted by Grace KingCoast Funds @coastfunds.bsky.social · 03/03/2025The SINAA Agreement provides $270 million for long-term, Indigenous-led conservation in the Qikiqtani region of Nunavut: nunatsiaq.com/stories/arti... SINAA is an Inuktitut word that means “the floe edge," where the land fast ice meets the open water.nunatsiaq.comQikiqtani Inuit Association to receive $270M in conservation fundingInuit-led conservation efforts in various marine ecosystems in the Qikiqtani Region received a $270-million funding commitment Thursday from the federal government and other donors. 042
Reposted by Grace KingAPTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Steve Fobister Sr. fought for the health of his community until his last breath. The former chief of Grassy Narrows First Nation in Ontario died of mercury poisoning in 2018. Now, a mercury care home being built in his community will be named after him.aptnnews.caMercury care home to be built in Grassy Narrows First NationThe Ojibwe community in northwestern Ontario held a ground-breaking ceremony for the hard-won Paapiiwaaniimaan Mercury Care Home. 05312
Reposted by Grace KingKim TallBear @kimtallbear.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Supportive academics & community members! Please sign this Google Docs letter b4 March 10. Written by Chris Andersen, Dean Faculty of Native Studies UAlberta & Rob Innes, Chair, Indigenous Studies, McMaster U. in support of #Indigenous Studies at #York U, which administrators propose cutting.docs.google.comIndigenous Studies Response to York’s Suspension of their ProgramDear Dean McMurtry, Provost Peters, and President Lenton, As two Indigenous studies administrators (Dr. Chris Andersen is the Dean of the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta and Dr.... 25952
Grace King @plantmetaphor.bsky.social · 24/02/2025#envhum hive: I'm organizing a proposed session for MLA 2026 in Toronto, Literature and Taxonomy, that will examine the oppositions & alliances between literary studies and the science of taxonomy. all time periods & subfields welcome! deadline March 23. please share widely! 0102
Reposted by Grace KingDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/02/2025Google, Microsoft, and Meta's increasing use of data centers has resulted in increased air pollution from extensive fossil fuel energy consumption and associated public health costs related to treating cancers, asthma, and other similar issues, valued at over $5.4 billion in the past five years.ft.comPollution from Big Tech’s data centre boom costs US public health $5.4bnResearch suggests the price of treating illnesses related to building of computing infrastructure in the US is on the rise 25916442
Reposted by Grace KingJohnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social · 21/02/2025If you're working with phone banks and making calls on your own, Tribal Colleges/Universities could use your support. 2 of our oldest & only federally charted universities are in crisis due to EO 14210 and the hiring freezes, impacting thousands of Native students. collegefund.org/blog/support...collegefund.orgSupport Tribal Colleges and Students. Please Call Your Elected Officials! | American Indian College FundTCUs and TCU students need your voice in Washington. Both Haskell and SIPI, the nation's oldest and only federally chartered tribal colleges, are facin ... 18072
Reposted by Grace KingJim Casey @jimccasey1.bsky.social · 21/02/2025We're hiring at the @digblk.bsky.social! Hiring a "Data Scientist" (very broadly defined) to collaborate on the @ccp-org.bsky.social, @douglassday.bsky.social & emerging work on Black archives & AI. Can be remote! Info: bit.ly/cbdr-ds We're reviewing apps this month. Help us spread the word? 28061
Grace King @plantmetaphor.bsky.social · 21/02/2025a perfectly-timed launch of a new exhibit at Penn State Special Collections that recognizes the modes of resistance in print archives of queer and trans makers and activists. my favorite: a book from the Queer Ecology Hanky Project with the cutest little gay hedgehogs and capybaras you’ll ever see 010
Reposted by Grace KingRebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 17/02/2025(1/4) Recent layoffs of federal workers has a disproportionate impact on Native Americans, but is receiving almost no media attention. In Indian Health Services, which provides healthcare to 2.8 mil NAs, 2,200 people were laid off, including 1,400 who provide direct patient care.ictnews.org‘Life or Death Consequences’: Layoffs throw Indian Country into turmoilThousands of workers are losing their jobs in health, education and other key tribal programs and agencies 7953710
Reposted by Grace KingMél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 14/02/2025“Some experts suspect the virus is moving into farms on the wind — in dust contaminated with infectious bird droppings. This infectious dust might also explain several of the 67 recent human cases with no known route of exposure.” www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...bloomberg.comBird Flu Is a Big Threat. The US Needs to Start Acting Like It.Scientists suspect a new strain is spreading via dust from bird droppings, carried by the wind. 197
Grace King @plantmetaphor.bsky.social · 13/02/2025a couple weeks ago I pushed myself to start incorporating a personal writing practice back into my life (after losing all desire to write for fun during the years of grad coursework) and it has actually completely reenergized my relationship to academic writing too 010
Reposted by Grace KingSteven Salzberg @stevensalzberg.bsky.social · 12/02/202598% of NIH grants that should have gone out this month, didn't. Despite court orders 'unfreezing' the funds, they are frozen. Biomedical research will grind to a halt. Clinical trials will end. All for no reason: the total impact on the US budget is miniscule 4935241261
Grace King @plantmetaphor.bsky.social · 12/02/2025for anyone else who has been waking up with anxious jitters every day the past few weeks and is finding it increasingly difficult to calm down: let me introduce you to the Cornell Bird Lab @cornellbirdcams.bsky.social albatross live cam 121
Reposted by Grace KingHannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 11/02/2025NEH has posted updates to the funding restrictions for some grant programs. 18125122
Grace King @plantmetaphor.bsky.social · 01/02/2025we’re doing this Bluesky thing! my name is Grace and I am from Newfoundland but I am living in Pennsylvania right now, getting my PhD in English! I like riding my bike and reading about nineteenth-century oceanography. here are pictures of my cat Poe, places I’ve biked, and me with some seaweed 0110
