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Jennifer Jordan

@sociologyofplants.bsky.social
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Historical sociologist working on beer, food, cities, waterways, textiles. My book on hops in 19th century Wisconsin out in Fall 2026, press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/c… aka @sociologyofplants aka @historicalhops

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Jennifer Jordan @sociologyofplants.bsky.social · 12h
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 13h
“In some rural counties from Oregon to New Hampshire, older Americans shopping for private Medicare Advantage plans will find that options have vanished completely or are dwindling to just a few plans… as open enrollment begins this month, roughly five million people will be forced to switch plans”
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Private Medicare Plans Are Raising Costs And Forcing Millions To Find New Insurance
As enrollment for Medicare Advantage begins this month, older Americans are confronting fewer options because insurers are discontinuing coverage in many areas.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 16h
New report on economic cost of anti-immigration campaign projects 8.6% reduction in retirement payments by 2034
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Trump immigrant purge could cut social security for Americans by $2,000 a year
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WIRED @wired.com · 14h
More than two dozen workers at three major publishing houses—HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and Hachette—tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech. Read the full story: buff.ly/p0ymGmN
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 09/10/2026
Anthropic's new User Policy forbids you from engaging in "sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior toward our models". It does not, however, explain what the fuck this could possibly mean.
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2026 Usage Policy update
We’re publishing a new version of our Usage Policy. In this post, we summarize the changes we’ve made.
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Andrea González-Ramírez @andreagonram.bsky.social · 18h
"My assailant was found responsible for my sexual assault ... His punishment? He received a 'written reprimand,' was ordered to write a 'reflection paper,' and was placed on behavioral probation until he graduated two months later." Must-read by a Cornell grad: www.thecut.com/article/i-wa...
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I’m Not the Only Cornell Student Title IX Failed
When I was raped in 2023, my attacker, too, only had to write an essay. Now, I see I’m not alone.
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Christopher Julian @chrisajulian.bsky.social · 21h
I reanalyzed the CDC data behind the LGB “free fall” headline. It rests on a change in bisexual identification among one grade, in one wave, of one survey. Gay or lesbian identification did not change significantly. Calling it a "free fall" is sensational and just gives bad actors talking points.
Six small line charts showing the percent of U.S. high school students choosing each sexual identity response option by grade (9th to 12th), 2015 to 2025, with 95% confidence intervals. Heterosexual falls from about 85 to 90 percent before 2021 to about 73 percent in 2021 and 2023, then rises to about 78 to 80 percent in 2025. Gay or lesbian stays between about 2 and 5 percent throughout. Bisexual rises to about 12 percent in 2021 in every grade, then among 9th graders falls to about 7 percent in 2025, its 2019 level, while other grades stay near 10 percent. “Some other way,” added in 2021, falls from about 4 percent to about 2.5 percent. “Not sure” stays near 3 to 5 percent. A dotted line marks 2021, when CDC changed the response options.
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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 08/10/2026
SOURCE CALL: I'm looking to interview with folks who sold PBR (either as an employee of Pabst Brewing Co., or one of its distributors or retail accounts) in the early Aughts. If that's you or someone you know, please get in touch. Email dave@dinfontay.com or text dinfontay.11 on Signal.
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Margaret Eby @margareteby.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Hey come work with me at the Inquirer! We're hiring a food reporter. A union job!
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Wikipedia @wikipedia.org · 08/10/2026
Editing Wikipedia is as easy as hosting a party with your bffs 🎉 🎥 spencer.place on TikTok
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Andrew Janjigian @wordloaf.org · 07/10/2026
On two of my favorite food books of the season
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Vegetable diversity
On two wondrous new books by Ali Frances, Adriana Picker, Lane Selman, and Margarett Waterbury
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Jennifer Jordan @sociologyofplants.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Jacob Grier @jacobgrier.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Coincidentally, today is exactly one week from publication day for The Bartender's Library. Order it now for free shipping from @bookshop.org! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
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The Bartender's Library: A Guide to Curating Spirits and Creating Cocktails--From the Multnomah Whiskey Library
The ultimate guide to whiskey, brandy, rum, agave spirits, gin, vodka, and more--and how best to drink them. From Portland's Multnomah Whiskey Library spirits educators and authors of Raising the Bar....
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Drafting the Past @draftingthepast.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We're big fans of @bookshop.org's anti-Prime day! Free shipping today and tomorrow. Your purchase supports independent bookstores and, through our shop, independent book coverage! Find lists of books by podcast guests, new books we're anticipating, craft books, & more: bookshop.org/shop/draftin...
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Drafting the Past Bookshop
Drafting the Past is a podcast dedicated to the craft of writing history, hosted by Kate Carpenter. Shop books by our guests, their recommendations, and some of our favorite craft books and support th...
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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Screw Alito. His book comes out today, same day as mine, but my book is about the brilliance of Black women, power of community action, resistance to racism & oppression, & world-changing impact of books. Oh, and music. Which one do you think should be a bestseller? bookshop.org/p/books/free...
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Freedom's Daughters: How a Generation of Black Women Resisted Oppression Through Literacy and Education
A stirring contribution to America’s historical narrative.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)From bestselling author Celeste Headlee, an urgent and eye-opening story of the women who risked everything t...
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Jennifer Clark @jclarkcrp.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“Corporate-owned utilities charged the average household $823 a year, compared with $494 for publicly owned systems – a difference of $329, or 67%.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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US households pay 62% more for water than they did a decade ago, study finds
For-profit water corporations, federal cuts and climate crisis are ‘supercharging water rate hikes’, study co-author says
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️
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Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The IceCube neutrino detector has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in physics. The Trump administration has proposed slashing its budget in half in 2027.
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Grace Panetta @gracepanetta.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In rural western Wisconsin, campaigning is all about meeting voters and shaking hands at parades. Online, it’s getting weird. My dispatch from a weekend reporting from La Crosse & Gays Mills on the race in Wisconsin’s 3rd District 19thnews.org/2026/10/rebe...
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In rural Wisconsin, politics is still about meeting voters. Online, it’s getting weird.
Rebecca Cooke is taking her campaign directly to rural Wisconsin communities, all while an AI-fueled online fight with her Republican opponent adds a distinctly 2026 twist to the race.
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LAist @laist.com · 06/10/2026
Several voters NPR spoke with said they rely on chatbots for down-ballot races — with thinner news coverage, to make tables comparing candidates for governors' races and to verify or debunk viral claims. 🔗 Find out more: vist.ly/5m6et ✍️ Maham Javaid | NPR 📸 Getty Images
Robot with laptop assisting two people discussing.
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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 05/10/2026
ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists’ signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons buff.ly/YJ1mAiP
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ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists’ signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons
OpenAI's chatbot isn't just imitating the magazine's style. It's also falsely attributing AI-generated images to real artists.
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University of Minnesota Press @uminnpress.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Jennifer de Mooy talks Minnesota's vast peatland ecosystem and climate change on @mprnews.org 's Minnesota Now: www.mprnews.org/episode/2026...
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New book explores Minnesota's vast peatland ecosystem and climate change
Peatlands cover 10 percent of Minnesota, more than 7 million acres, making the state home to the most peatlands in the contiguous United States. Peatlands are a type of wetland that prevents plant mat...
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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 05/10/2026
This is useless data, then
He doesn’t think it should be used for rankings of programs at different schools for multiple reasons, including a number of data limitations. For example, the data set excludes earnings data from workers in several settings, including employees of certain nonprofits, independent contractors, federal employees and more. 

The data set is also limited to workers who remained in Virginia, and does not include those who moved out of state for jobs post-graduation.
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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
TODAY (Monday, Oct. 5) is the deadline for registering to vote for the midterms in: AMERICAN SAMOA ARIZONA ARKANSAS FLORIDA GEORGIA INDIANA KENTUCKY LOUISIANA — in-person, mail (10/13 online) MISSISSIPPI MONTANA — mail (11/3 in-person) OHIO SOUTH CAROLINA — mail TENNESSEE TEXAS npr.org/vote
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How to register to vote and check your registration status
For the 2026 elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory.
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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#31daysofgraves • Vehicle 🪦 GOD SPEED THE PLOUGH 🐎 📍St Bartholomew's Church • Llanover ⛪ #Wales #History
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Nicole Guenther Discenza @ndiscenza1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is Tohono O’odham ancestral land, and the tribe had been taking legal action to protect the site. They will continue to fight—as should we all!—but the damage is probably irreparable
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Dr Grace S Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I guess women are not people to Supreme Court justice Alito
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Jennifer Jordan @sociologyofplants.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Happy FANCY GOURDS season, from Cedarburg, Wisconsin. 🎃 🎩
A basket of small orange and white gourds with a handwritten label that says FANCY GOURDS 3 - $5.00.
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Jennifer Jordan @sociologyofplants.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is still a work in progress, but almost my entire book tour (for a deeply researched book that took me [redacted] years to write) is at breweries and a roadhouse. Even my childhood library is billing me as an “After Dark” event.
A poster for a book tour. There is a black and white photo of a white-haired white lady (me), and the cover of my book called Beer Ghosts: In Search of Lost Hops
And the Women Who Grew Them”, with the following dates: October 20 Milwaukee, WI:
Boswell Books
October 29 Milwaukee, WI:
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Library Archives
November 4 Madison, WI:
Culinary History Enthusiasts of Wisconsin
November 12 Guelph, Canada:
University of Guelph Rural History
Roundtable (virtual)
November 15 Chicago, IL:
Beer Ghosts: A FOBAB
Hangover Brunch, Dovetail Brewery
November 19 La Crosse, WI:
Turtle Stack Brewery
November 20 Superior, WI:
Earth Rider Brewery
December 2 Stevens Point, WI:
Point Brewery + Portage County
Historical Society
February 25
North American Guild of
Beer Writers Happy Hour (virtual)
March 19 Pacific Grove, CA:
Pacific Grove Public Library
"After Dark"
March 27 Petaluma, CA: Ernie’s Tin Bar
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Lawrence Culver @lawrencecphd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Gift link: “Both the Palisades and Altadena fires ignited in dense metropolitan communities that back up to fire-prone wilderness areas and foothills, a development pattern that has become increasingly common in California as affordable housing has become scarcer.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
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Powerful Wildfires Require a New Approach, California Report Finds (Gift Article)
A report on the fires that devastated the Los Angeles area in early 2025 recommended that local governments take a broader approach to preparedness and emergency response.
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Lawrence Culver @lawrencecphd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“The findings…confirm key reporting by The Times, particularly about how a historically Black neighborhood where the majority of fire victims died received delayed evacuation alerts, and how the LAFD neglected signs that a Jan. 1 fire in Pacific Palisades…was still smoldering.”
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The GOP has put $2 million to this campaign, and the billionaires have put $23 million in. Their contribution is 92% of the money Tiffany raised.
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Rijksmuseum @rijksmuseum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In this painting from around 1756, Jean-Etienne Liotard’s wife is pouring herself a cup. The painting on the wall offers a little glimpse of the interior of the Nieuwe Kerk in Delft and was most likely based on a work by Hendrick Cornelsz. van Vliet. ☕  👁️ id.rijksmuseum.nl/20021964
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Ben TG @ben-tg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Trump’s cuts to NOAA, which regulates fisheries, has left the agency slower to respond to the industry’s needs, fishermen said. Staff cutbacks also resulted in the agency reducing weather balloons used to gather data fishermen rely on. apnews.com/article/dona... @standupforscience.net 🧪
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Trump tried to make allies of fishermen. Some are turning on him
Some commercial fishermen have come to question whether Trump is meeting the needs of an industry he has long leaned on for support.
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Emeline Brule @emeline.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A great exhibition at the San Jose Museum of Art: Motherboards, exploring women's contributions to computing history. Lots of textiles work! sjmusart.org/exhibition/m...
Main room of the exhibition, showing video art and a standalone sculpture seemingly extended by a wall mounted pattern made of electric cables.Amor Muñoz
Born 1979, Mexico City, Mexico
Lives and works in Mexico City
Polyptych MR4 (First period), 2010/2013
Canvas, screen printing, embroidery with cotton thread, and worker documents
MR4-Maquila Region 4, 2010/2013
Video and sound
Produced by Nestor Jimenez
Courtesy of the artist
Taking the form of a mobile factory for the manufacture of electronic textile artworks, Amor Muñoz's Maquila Region 4, or MR4, project sought to make visible the individual women workers who are routinely obscured through the process of outsourced manufacturing,
Muñoz would bike her nomadic project through economically disadvantaged areas of Mexico and offer residents a chance to work for US minimum wage-$8.00 per hour at the time of the project, compared to the standard rate of $1.20 per hour in Mexico-embroider conductive thread into artisanal fabrics to create fully functioning circuit panels. The electronic textiles brought together the main exports of maquilas (factories along the US-Mexico border that offer raw materials and cheap labor for export), textiles, and electronics, while the accompanying time cards are physical reflections of the individual maquila workers who would otherwise remain anonymous.Marilou Schultz
Born 1954, Leupp, Arizona (Navajo Nation)
Lives and works in Mesa, Arizona
Replica of a Chip, 1994
Wool mounted on wood
Courtesy of the American Indian Science and Engineering Society
Silicon Valley's Fairchild Semiconductor operated an assembly plant on the Navajo Nation in Shiprock, New Mexico, from 1965 through 1975. During its operations, the Shiprock facility employed primarily Navajo women. The company's promotional materials characterized these women as particularly adept for assembly work due to their
"nimble fingers," honed through generations of intricate jewelry and textile work.
In 1980, another Silicon Valley giant, Intel, expanded its operations to New Mexico.
In honor of the relationship between Silicon Valley technology and Indigenous women weavers, Intel commissioned artist Marilou Schultz to weave a replica of one of its microchips. The commission was technically demanding, requiring substantial experimentation and skill to reproduce the chip's asymmetrical patterns and varied colors. The experience inspired Schultz to continue exploring new technologies through weaving, creating textiles of digital graphs, QR codes, and other microchips. Intel gifted Schultz's Replica of a Chip to the American Indian Science and Engineering Society during its 1994 conference, "Weaving Tradition and Technology, held in San José.Analia Saban
Born 1980, Buenos Aires, Argentina Lives and works in Los Angeles, California
Flowchart (Painting Gesture), 2025
Oil stick on encaustic paint on panel
Museum purchase with funds provided by Tad Freese and Brook Hartzell, Geraldine and Marco Magarelli, Karen Hillenberg, Yvonne and Mike Nevens, Daniela Barone and Matt Reiferson, and the Collection Committee, 2026.04.01
Analia Saban makes visible the hidden infrastructures of the digital age by rendering them through the techniques and materials of older technologies. Using a Jacquard loom, Saban weaves patterns of computer chips and cooling fans from copper wire and linen yarn for her "Copper Tapestries" series. Her "Motherboards" series comprises circuit boards coated in thick printer's ink that paradoxically brings out the boards' intricate surfaces.
Her most recent series, "Flowcharts, continues her concern with the dichotomy between the hand and the machine but expands beyond hardware to uncover the manual work behind artificial intelligence. On a panel covered with white encaustic made of beeswax, resin, and pigment, and layered with black oil stick, Saban has carved a flowchart with instructions for depicting gesture. Her graphic instructions parallel the inputs that structure machine learning-_-from the manual labeling of data fed into training algorithms, to the prompts users enter into generative artificial intelligence tools to produce text, images, and other outputs.
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Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hey historians! Check out this incredible CFP and please share!🗃️ atlanticexchanges.wm.edu/home-2/2027-...
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2027 Workshop Call for Proposals - Atlantic Exchanges Workshop
Atlantic Exchanges 2027 Slavery and the Commercial Machinery of Empires The Atlantic Exchanges Workshop invites proposals for its second edition, […]
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David @archaeomather.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I wrote about rats for @racketmn.com!
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How I Accidentally Pinpointed the Arrival of Rats in MN Through Environmental Archaeology  - Racket
Turns out ‘Steamboat Willie’ was actually a documentary.
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Aimee Loiselle @aimloiselle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
As part of her fabulous podcast conversations, Jennifer writes some book reviews. Concise and helpful! And one about my book, 'Beyond Norma Rae: How Puerto Rican and Southern White Women Fought for a Place in the American Working Class' @uncpress.bsky.social @cliodialogues.bsky.social
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Clio's Review: Beyond Norma Rae
Book review of Aimee Loiselle, Beyond Norma Rae: How Puerto Rican and Southern White Women Fought for a Place in the American Working Class (University of North Carolina Press, 2023)
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 01/10/2026
Chicago translators pore over words and themes to translate books into English, a practice they say is complex and deeply human, especially given the rise of artificial intelligence technology.
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Chicago’s book translators ‘inhabit’ languages in their work, which is more art than science
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Judith A. Miller @1789jam.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#fashionhistory If you are in #Paris, I highly recommend this terrific exhibit at the Palais Galliera (in the 16e). Superb: the items, the descriptions, the ways they were placed in historical contexts. #skystorians www.palaisgalliera.paris.fr/expositions/...
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Tisser, broder, sublimer. Les savoir-faire de la mode
En décembre 2025, le Palais Galliera inaugure une série d’expositions consacrées aux savoir-faire.
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Jennifer Jordan @sociologyofplants.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Even though I caught a glimpse of the book in real life last week, my own copy arriving on my doorstep today is a surprisingly emotional experience. So many thanks to @uchicagopress.bsky.social and the archivists and librarians who made it possible for me to tell this story. 🍺👻📚❤️
Blue and green scissors cutting into a fedex envelope A book-shaped package wrapped in University of Chicago Press wrapping paperA green and gold book (my book) titled Beer Ghosts: In Search of Lost Hops and the Women Who Grew Them sitting on a folded piece of wrapping paper.
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Nate Ela @nateela.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
✅ Book has cover (and looks v. nice) ✅ Proofs are proofed ✅ Available for pre-orders now All systems go, set to drop on March 9... press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Cover for a book titled "Cultivating the City: The Long Struggle to Put Land to Use," with an image of a community garden in the foreground, Chicago skyline in the background, and a map of Chicago traced into the blue sky above.
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Roger Protz @rogerprotz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#GoodBeerGuide2027 54th edition, amazing achievement on the part of @camraofficial.bsky.social volunteers. Comprehensive choice of #pubs serving tip-top #CaskAle & 1,500 breweries. Fine cover, foreword by Ian Rankin & editing by Emma Haines.
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NPR @npr.org · 01/10/2026
A powerful El Niño is already influencing extreme weather around the planet. During the last strong El Niño, federal agencies ramped up research in the hope of improving weather forecasts. This year, they won't be matching that effort. trib.al/dkJLZ2X
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Studying this super El Niño could save lives. NOAA is scaling back research
A powerful El Niño is already influencing extreme weather around the planet. During the last strong El Niño, federal agencies ramped up research in the hope of improving weather forecasts. This year, they won't be matching that effort.
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I’ve been a media witness to two federal executions. One was Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. The other, a week later, was a drug kingpin named Juan Raul Garza. My conclusion after watching both men die: The death penalty should not exist. Period. It fixes nothing, and it erodes our souls.
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“bars California employers from relying solely on AI systems, known as automated decision-making systems…to fire or discipline workers. It also mandates human oversight and verification when employers use ADS to assist in termination and disciplinary decisions” sd05.senate.ca.gov/news/newsom-...
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Newsom Signs McNerney’s No Robo Bosses Act of 2026 Requiring Human Oversight of AI in the Workplace
Official website of Senator Jerry McNerney, representing California Senate District Proudly Representing California Senate District 5.
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Ariel Ron @arielron.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The Clements Center's fellowship competition is now open. Details here: jobs.h-net.org/jobs/70425. Deadline is Jan 11. Feel free to contact me directly with questions.
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Clements Center for Southwest Studies – Fellowships in the Study of Southwestern America | H-Net Job Guide
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