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@postcolsandwich.bsky.social
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Teaching/researching sustainability & monoculture. Fake geographer, lousy sociologist. Gold medalist in mental gymnastics.

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Pepitorino @postcolsandwich.bsky.social · 17h
“I wanted to get the tears out of the way, so I can act sensibly”; “the power of grief to derange the mind has in fact been exhaustively noted.” Quoting Joan Didion in my soft-resignation email is crazy, but yet here we are.
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Pepitorino @postcolsandwich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Well
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Pepitorino @postcolsandwich.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Just heard my friend telling me something scandalous that my mind literally had to dissociate while thinking of this meme
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Pepitorino @postcolsandwich.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"If our happiness depends on turning away from violence, our happiness is violence." - Sara Ahmed.
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Pepitorino @postcolsandwich.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Ironically & unironically
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Pepitorino @postcolsandwich.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
love how beautiful this looks on print! thankful for the editors, & most importantly always thankful for Jayson — the friendship, the shared space, for nerding out over soil & plants together 🫂🤗 here’s to more Southeast Asia x Latin America collaboration 🥂
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Pepitorino @postcolsandwich.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Microdosing quitting academia by procrastinating my R&Rs.
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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
JHI Blog editors Zac Endter and Jonas Knatz introduce their forum on "The Conceptual History of Technology." Contributions will be published weekly through December. @zacendter.bsky.social @jonasknatz.bsky.social
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The Engineering of Ideas: Introducing the Forum on the Conceptual History of Technology
The editors of the forum on "The Conceptual History of Technology" introduce its goals and contributions....
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jayson m porter @roguechieftan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I’m excited to finally see this collaboration with @postcolsandwich.bsky.social in print in this Plant Humanities volume! We researched and wrote our dissertations together, and we’re sharing space with writers I admire like Sumana Roy, Judith Carney, Romita Ray, Gary Paul Nahban, and Yota Batsaki.
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Pepitorino @postcolsandwich.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
When your most respected & admired agrarian scholar not only share your birthday, but also some life challenges & milestones 🥺
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 01/09/2026
‘Part of the pleasure of the books is that they present us with a less ethereal version of Woolf than we usually encounter. More granite, less rainbow.’ @djbduncan.bsky.social on the books that Virginia Woolf made at the Hogarth Press. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Dennis Duncan · At Charleston: Hogarth Press
‘Our press you know, is to give birth to every monster in the vicinity,’ Virginia Woolf told Clive Bell. Hogarth’s...
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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
One more great thing about Dolly. She was a paid-up union member — American Federation of Musicians, Local 257, Nashville. And she had been for 58 years. www.afm.org/2026/08/afm-...
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AFM Statement on the Passing of Dolly Parton
Today, the entire community of professional musicians mourns the loss of an irreplaceable icon and a generous heart: Dolly Parton. While the world knows her as a global superstar and philanthropist…
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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of Dolly Parton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️
Dolly Parton reads to children in the Library’s Great Hall in 2018. Photo by Shawn Miller.
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Gabriel S. Jacobs @gsjphd.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
let's be real: plagiarism scandals in academia happen all the time (not because academics plagiarize a lot, but just because of how many millions of faculty there are around the world) and it is never general-public news unless the culprit is a member of a minority.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
when arday was hired, cambridge had five black professors. does that sound like an institution in thrall to DEI? does that sound like an institution that's handing out jobs to black academics?
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Pepitorino @postcolsandwich.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Stop pretending that this sector had some well-established, rigorous standards to maintain, man. It just doesn't.
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Jason Arday is dead. The UK media won’t learn a thing from this. Because they’re racist bastards. He has two children.
PROF GONE Jason Arday 'found dead after being found unresponsive at home' following Cambridge plagiarism scandal
Bruno Brown, Reporter


Published: 20:04, 14 Aug 2026 | Updated: 20:14, 14 Aug 2026

picture: Jason Arday a black man with long hair
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wb. @willbdoubtful.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Worth noting this was all started by a racist
Allegations of Arday's plagiarism were first made public in July 2026, on a Substack post by Nathan Cofnas, a philosopher at the University of Ghent and self-described "race realist".[14][6] Cofnas stated that he had run
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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
No, that is not the alternative The alternative was treating like a normal news story, and not a trial by media - one that was so clearly turbocharged by Arday’s ethnic and social background and the growing resentment in the establishment in the UK of having more black people in high places
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026
This is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet.
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Jason Arday found dead
2 hours ago — Mr Arday was found •unresponsive• at an address in Battersea. south London. on Froy
afternoon. He was uter pronounced dead at the scene. A Read rnore
Jason Arday says he was an illiterate, mute child. His .
6 hours ago — Jason Arday says he was an i&erate. mute child. Cambridge's youngest-ever black
professor in 2023. Arday attended from the age of four to 11
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A PhD is no longer a sign of brilliance — take it from Dr Arday
1 day aeo — Juon Arday resigns from the Unwersity of Cambrdge after The Telegraph reports he had
falseb• claimed to have pubåshed a book
We are all Jason Arday now
S days ago — Jason Arday resons from the University of Cambridge after The Telegraph reports he had
falsew cGimed to have published a book Aug 7.2028. Read more
Cambridge professor claimed he was on Seven Up..
2 Aug 2026 — He was not bom until 1985. Prof Arday is at the centre of a row about academk
plagiarism after The Tekgragh that he had been accused
The Jason Arday 'memoir' that now appears to be more .
7 days ago — Instead of tales of triumph over adversity. the now-fomer Cambridge professors
autob"qraphy is a case study in self-rnythobgising,
Arday failed to mention 'months-long coma' in autobiography
8 days ago — Jason Arday toz publishers he was k•ft a three-month coma fohwhg a car gash. but
never wrote about the ordeal his memoirs_
Jason Arday is living proof that you reap what you sow
6 Aug 2028 — The Cambridge professor feed plagiarism alegations and made fantastical clä'ns about
his life. so what did he expect woUz happen? Read rmre
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Arday 'accused student of Miite privilege' after she
4 days ago — Forrner Cambrdge professor alleged* htplied that Roehamptm student was racist after
cornplaint about essay SOOre.
Jason Arday is rnerely a symptom of the Leffs corruption
Aug 2026 — Lab-curs on school standards is on the same toxic assumptions that created his
academic career.
Cambridge hired Arday after 'listening to black stu…
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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The average human spends nearly 4% of their lifetime being Indonesian.
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The BREAK—DOWN @the-breakdown.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
As Ryszard Kapuściński observed in 1982: “the concept of oil expresses perfectly the eternal human dream of wealth achieved through lucky accident, through a kiss of fortune and not by sweat, anguish, hard work. In this sense oil is a fairy tale, and like every fairy tale, a bit of a lie”.
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The Price of Oil
As the Nigerian government pushes to restart oil production in Ogoniland, decades of pollution, dispossession and broken promises cast a long shadow over the future.
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Pepitorino @postcolsandwich.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Kate Wagner <3 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt15...
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McMansion Hell, Fandoms, Retinol and Modern Opera | Middlebrow Podcast
YouTube video by Middlebrow Podcast
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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Come join my Online Masterclass for @arvonfoundation.bsky.social on Writing with Grief, Fri, JULY 31, 10AM-12 BST. How to write abt grief and means of repair—capturing & honouring what has passed, &what remains—across genres, in a safe, supportive environment.🤍 www.arvon.org/writing-cour...
Image has a purple background with light vertical lines down the middle. On the left-hand side is my headshot in black and white, and the book cover of my beloved ANNAH, INFINITE below it. On the right-hand side are the Arvon logo, and ‘Online Masterclass | WRITING WITH GRIEF | Khairani Barokka | Friday 31 July, 10.00-12.00 BST’. Hope you can join 🤍
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Mónica C. Camacho @mc2x.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
The Islamic Center of San Diego has a fundraiser for the families of the three heroes who died protecting the children inside. May their courage and sacrifice be remembered. goodbricks.org/campaign/ics...
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ICSD Victim & Family Support Fund
Donate to support the victims of shooting at ICSD.
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
What a day for AI resistance resources! 1) The AI Resist List from @karenhao.bsky.social and colleagues at DAIR at airesistlist.org 2) The Luddite Lab from @alexhanna.bsky.social and colleagues at DAIR at labor.dair-institute.org
A screenshot that reads, "The AI Resist List" with the subtitle, "Actions against the empire of AI".A screenshot of the Luddite Lab homepage. The homepage has the tabs: Case Studies; Primers; Resource Library; Contact Us; About. The webpage also has the text, "The Luddite Lab Resource Hub provides resources for unions, labor organizations, and worker-organizers fighting AI and automation at work. The lab provides strategies for worker-led governance and oversight of new technology through case studies, primers, and a resource library."
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Pepitorino @postcolsandwich.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
"Compulsory Seminar: How to evaluate students' feedback with [insert GenAI]" Maybe in this meeting, I'll ask if and when GenAI would replace university administrators.
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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
We can all try to switch browsers to maintain something like standard searching, but does anyone know of an alternative to Google Scholar? It’s been getting worse for ages 🤷‍♀️
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Pepitorino @postcolsandwich.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
😮‍💨 phys.org/news/2026-05...
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Tropical rivers emerge as biggest oxygen-loss hotspots in a warming world
According to a study published in Science Advances on May 15, global rivers are undergoing widespread and sustained deoxygenation driven by climate warming, among which tropical rivers are the most vu...
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Pepitorino @postcolsandwich.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
long day work & tough gym session, and coming home to someone texting “You’re in my mind today” with Black Sabbath’s song attached. The chokehold of some UChicago men on me requires a study.
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El Brento @andbrent.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
"We are going to have to make war their problem." Insightful, timely piece from @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social. It's up to us to force those in political and financial power to realize we are actually all in this together. www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-y...
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A Year of Magical Thinking
Elite impunity has fueled the fantasy that catastrophes are for other people.
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Pepitorino @postcolsandwich.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
15 people died in a train crash on the Jakarta-Bekasi route yesterday. All victims are women because the crushed car is a women-only carriage. www.reuters.com/video/watch/...
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Indonesia train crash toll hits 15 with all survivors extracted
The death toll from a train collision near the Indonesian capital has risen to 15 with another 88 injured, a minister said Tuesday (April 28). Syakir Jasnee reports.
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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 15/04/2026
i'm only using the term "hell" lightly here, but still seriously: I don't think there are many better examples of "living hell" than "being in a place where you can't trust anyone". it's also the flip side of committing totally to low-trust behavior, and never doing the vulnerable pro-trust stuff.
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Pepitorino @postcolsandwich.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Sexually abusive messages from a group chat of male students of Universitas Indonesia's Faculty of Law were leaked. Hundreds of students attended the public trial & (not the victims) screamed at the perpetrators: "We don't need your apology." Centering victims' voices remains difficult for some.
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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 03/04/2026
Whenever you feel you're not tech-literate enough remember that Frederic Jameson used a mouse with two hands.
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Pepitorino @postcolsandwich.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Catching up with the latest Love is Blind, and there's an assistant professor who successfully got the girl of his dreams there. I'm so ready to see you folks of my age bracket and profession on Too Hot to Handle next.
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 29/03/2026
In that night of bliss and joy seen by none, in secret and quiet, with no clear vision I stepped forth with neither guide nor light save that which burned within my heart ‘Dark Night’, a poem by John of the Cross, translated by Martha Sprackland. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Martha Sprackland · Poem: ‘Dark Night’
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Benjamin H. Bradlow @bhbradlow.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
"EV sales are surging in India, Mexico and Brazil, where they now make up a higher share of the market than in Japan, according to data from Ember, a thinktank. All are buoyed up by cheap Chinese cars." www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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‘It’s stupid’: why western carmakers’ retreat from electric risks dooming them to irrelevance
Iran war should be wake-up call about costs of not going full throttle towards EVs as Chinese have done, experts say
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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
You need to read this. newlinesmag.com/argument/the...
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The Academic Justification for Male Supremacy
From Noam Chomsky to Larry Summers, elite intellectuals shared more than they want to admit with Jeffrey Epstein
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Pepitorino @postcolsandwich.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Lecturers from the Metropole are allowed to teach in their “offshore” campuses with Metropole $$$ because of #excellence but we can’t do the other way around because the execs leadership think these abroad campuses & their Brown talents put the ranking down. Got it. 😇
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Justine Chambers @drjchambers.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Super happy to share this new article where I explore the difficulties faced by displaced women on the Myanmar-Thai border and caring for borrowed lands along the Salween River serves as an act of re-existence that emplaces them against entangled forms of crisis www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Cultivating re-existence: women’s care work and political placemaking on the Myanmar-Thai river border
Across the world, conflict and capitalist dispossession inflict brutal violence on agricultural and resource-dependent populations. Drawing on ethnographic research among Indigenous Pgha k’nayaw co...
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Pepitorino @postcolsandwich.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Indonesia is (at least discursively) aiming to do the same... but particularly with palm oil (B50, in which the production is absolutely still subpar + will annoy the oil & gas & biodiesel importer oligarchs + really unpopular among smallholders [40% of Indonesia's palm oil production])
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out: www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...
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'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back
Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.
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Kirk Murphy @kirkmurphy.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Evergreen
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Pepitorino @postcolsandwich.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
disheartening to see a business-focused (like MBA on steroids with a sprinkle of social science & liberal arts) university in a mall masquerading as a state has a more intriguing curriculum for sustainability (Inequality & Sustainability!) before a campus with a history of student radicalism
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Pepitorino @postcolsandwich.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
First lecture. Eight hours. Fasting. Telling folks how cool & awesome Clyde Woods’ “Development Arrested” is. Blanking during break until a student asked me, “Mmm… are you doodling palm oil?”
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Pepitorino @postcolsandwich.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
😍😍 www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5Xx...
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Buddy Guy: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/02/2026
I cannot overstate what a massive, glaring and bright red sign of wrongdoing it is whenever a company starts doing offsetting. Whether it's for carbon, biodiversity or water, nothing marks the presence of a massive, pulsating guilty conscience blob as clearly as offsetting does.
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Frank Pasquale @frankpasquale.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
“Generative AI breaks long-standing correlations that society uses to infer things like effort, sincerity, authenticity, and credibility. Once these signals erode, we don’t automatically get something better.” jessicahullman.substack.com/p/zeynep-tuf...
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Zeynep Tufekci on having the wrong nightmares about generative AI
I was writing a blog post where I was going to reference Zeynep Tufekci’s 2025 NeurIPS keynote, and realized there isn’t a solid synopsis online.
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