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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Wonderful to see that Helen De Cruz has won the International Society for Science & Religion's General Readership Book Prize for her work, Wonderstruck! This illuminating book reveals how wonder and awe are catalysts that can help us reclaim what makes life worth living. Learn more: buff.ly/IYNfe0Q
Wonderstruck: How Wonder and Awe Shape the Way We Think by Helen De CruzHelen De Cruz
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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Think of the combined CENTURIES of expertise lost here, the creativity, the knowledge, the depth and breadth of cultural learning and understanding, the generations of minds enriched and enlightened, the sheer weight of history that led to the establishment of these programmes. Purged. Destroyed.
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The FCC can't meddle in "'extraterritorial activities' with effects located entirely outside of the jurisdiction of the US.” The Clean Water Act applies only to bodies of water that "flow every day except [in] droughts < 30 days." The most restrictive delineations to tie their own hands.
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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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Timo Zandstra @timozandstra.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
mediaenv.ehc-amsterdam.nl
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media/environment 2026: Screens and Streams in the Age of Climate Crisis
This international symposium (26+27 August, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) confronts the question of how media both represent and materially transform the natural environment in a warming world.
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Timo Zandstra @timozandstra.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
"The class atmosphere became tense as more students pushed back against this required use of generative AI. They wanted to know what their classmates thought rather than what a large language model produced in response to prompting; they wanted to wrestle with difficult readings and complex ideas"
insidehighered.com
Students as Conscientious Objectors to Gen AI (opinion)
We should listen to them—and treat their objections with respect.
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Lorenzo Piccoli @lorenzopiccoli.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
What a sad and surreal piece of theatre.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Good news, it is also #WorldTigerDay ! Here is a fierce bad tiger. And very big! By Morris Hirshfield, 1940.
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Marielza @marielza.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Lumpy mess... That explains it.
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daniela russ @ueberdruss.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Wrote a review essay of four new-ish books on Soviet energy and resource history for @kritikajournal.bsky.social. They're different in terms of scope, archival depth, and the extent to which they take the materiality of resources into account – but I enjoyed them all! muse.jhu.edu/pub/28/artic...
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Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Shakira looking great for, just going on appearances, I'm guessing is 28
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Rachel Griffin @rachelgriffin.eurosky.social · 15/07/2026
fascinating takedown of EU data centre deregulation/'sovereignty' agenda - plans assume capacity shortage compared to demand (while also trying to boost demand...?) but capacity atm underutilised - European operators largely serve US big tech & owned by US asset managers www.somo.nl/eus-data-cen...
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EU's data centre expansion will fast-track profits and power for US Big Tech and investors - SOMO
The global competition to ‘win’ the AI-race is driving an unparalleled expansion of large-scale data centres across the world. Cloaked in a narrative of pursuing European tech sovereignty and adopting...
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Timo Zandstra @timozandstra.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
while Russia's actions in Ukraine are in no way deserving of a platform for state propaganda, this is very troubling move
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Men in Blazers Media Network @meninblazers.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Cape Verde’s World Cup heroes have landed back home, greeted by saluting airport staff and hundreds of fans 🇨🇻 Today is also the 51st anniversary of the country’s independence. Have a day, Cape Verde 💙
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 30/06/2026
lol Europe is getting humbled in this World Cup and I AM LOVING IT.
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New Girl: Winston Says 'Straight Up Delicious'
Alt: New Girl: Winston Says 'Straight Up Delicious'
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Remembering Philip Guston on his birthday 🎂 📷 Fred W. McDarrah, New York, 1961 "Painting is a kind of war between the moment and the pull of memory."
Guston sits in his studio smoking a cigarette
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Timo Zandstra @timozandstra.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
first time back on bsky in a long while, thought i'd share some of the most interesting things i've read this past month:
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CUNY Graduate Center @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Join Prof. Theodore Gordon on Feb. 4 for an evening of conversation and performance around his recent book, "The Composer's Black Box," featuring Marcia Bassett, Keith Fullerton Whitman, and Luke Stewart at Roulette in Brooklyn
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MIXOLOGY: Ted Gordon's "The Composer's Black Box: Making Music in Cybernetic America"
Panel and concert about Ted Gordon's new book exploring the relationship between human musicians and their electronic musical instruments.
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Timo Zandstra @timozandstra.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
criticallegalthinking.com/2026/01/19/g...
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Greenland between a Rock and a Hard Place
Amid US President Trump’s looming take-over of Greenland and attempted coercion of Western allies to agree to this, Western liberal international lawyers
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Timo Zandstra @timozandstra.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
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The Planetary Experiment: A History and Theory of Science at Scale | Critical Inquiry: Vol 52, No 2
Abstract The article introduces and discusses the concept of planetary experimentation, its history, and its implications for understanding the relationship between humans and the environment, highlig...
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Rosamunde Van Brakel @rosamundevb.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Still time to submit your abstracts till 10th of January for #SSN2026! Join us in Lille! All info: ssn2026.sciencesconf.org #surveillance #surveillancestudies
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Planetary Intelligence and Surveillance - The 11th Biennial Surveillance Studies Network / Surveillance & Society Conference - Sciencesconf.org
Planetary surveillance : 11th Biennal Conference Surveillance Studies Network
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Timo Zandstra @timozandstra.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
mappingfossilties.org/report/
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Mapping Fossil Ties Interactive Report
This is the interactive report of the Mapping Fossil Ties coalition.
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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
2025 in museums review 5: The Soil Beneath Our Feet, Somerset House, London, UK, visited in March. ArtScience exhibition exploring the soil as lively habitat. (A gallery rather than museum, but still GLAM sector)
Closeup of soil microorganism Video of under soil Crop circles overlaid on traditional agriculture plotsUnlearn the plantation banner
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Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk · 25/11/2025
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Angelos Theocharis’s project @hassfacultyncl.bsky.social @newcastleuni.bsky.social examines the impact of the climate crisis on Indigenous cultural heritage through short 🎬 created by vulnerable communities in Asia. Watch now: media.leverhulme.ac.uk/video/indige...
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Indigenous Visualities of Climate Crisis
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Angelos Theocharis’s project examines the impact of the climate crisis on Indigenous cultural heritage through short films created by vulnerable communities in South an...
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Politics Theory Other @poltheoryother.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
📢☀️NEW EPISODE📢☀️ Sofia Menemenlis joins PTO to talk about her recent article on the threat of solar geoengineering in the @the-breakdown.bsky.social:
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The Sunlight Managers w/ Sofia Menemenlis
Podcast Episode · Politics Theory Other · 11/05/2025 · 46m
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Digital Ecologies @digicologies.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
🌐🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS 🚨🌐 'The Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies' 🗓️ 2-3 February 2026 📍 @oxfordgeography.bsky.social We invite one-word titles (e.g. hallucinating, zooming, obscuring, glitching, generating) Deadline: 14th November Full info: digicologies.com/cfp
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5). An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸 (🎥 Ahmed Zantac)
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Timo Zandstra @timozandstra.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Pressing piece by my friend Adi Mansour. Do read! voelkerrechtsblog.org/epistemic-ap...
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Epistemic Apartheid
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Bernard E. Harcourt @bernardharcourt.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Coming this year: Hegel 13/13 a multi-year project that explores the historical confrontations with G.W.F. Hegel’s thought, from 19th century to the present, with the aim of developing new critical perspectives and practices for today’s times of crisis. I am building the website now, stay tuned...
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Timo Zandstra @timozandstra.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opin...
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Opinie: Nu de politiek faalt, is het aan de rechter om genocide in Gaza te voorkomen
Rode lijnen, wekelijkse sit-ins van ambtenaren, studentenprotesten en talloze opiniepeilingen ten spijt, komt de staat niet tot inkeer. Maar gelukkig is Nederland een rechtsstaat en kan de rechter maa...
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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
As always, important insights by Adam Shatz. Equally important to be aware of the initiatives organizing against repression and anticipatory obedience, including @krisolwissenschaft.bsky.social krisol-wissenschaft.org/en/ pja-verein.de @spore-initiative.bsky.social spore-initiative.org/en/
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[:de]Allianz für Kritische und Solidarische Wissenschaft[:en]Alliance for Critical Scholarship in Solidarity[:]
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Timo Zandstra @timozandstra.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
downtoearthmagazine.nl/interview-ro...
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Roxane van Iperen: “De klimaatcrisis vraagt om systeemverandering”
Groene keuzes zijn niet genoeg. Volgens Roxane van Iperen is systeemverandering de enige weg uit de klimaatcrisis.
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Timo Zandstra @timozandstra.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Wonderful paper by Evan Boyle: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
"In the last 30yrs,... more [Carrara] marble has been removed from the ⛰️ than during the previous 2000... The finest white variety has been entirely depleted; the rest of the quarries could be emptied within 50yrs." In Carrara, marble "has come to be seen as a curse."
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The Curse of Carrara Marble — The Dial
The luxury stone is being mined at the expense of the region and its people.
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daniel loick @danielloick.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
“Some don’t speak,” she told me. “They stare, sometimes scream. Most cry for hours, unblinkingly.” Children have asked Jarada if they could go back to school, as if normal were still hiding somewhere nearby. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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Treating Gaza’s Collective Trauma
In Gaza, where displaced children play a game called “air strike” and act out death, the lack of mental-health resources has become another emergency.
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LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
The richest 1% emit 100x the greenhouse gas emissions of those in the world’s bottom 50%, notes @profkepickett.bsky.social. “Inequalities of income, wealth and political power sit at the heart of the environmental crisis” @equalitytrust.bsky.social #LSEInequalitiesBlog 🔗
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Uneven Ground: Inequality and Planetary Health
Can we afford the consumption patterns of the super-rich? Or does human and planetary wellbeing require us to drastically reduce inequality?
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Timo Zandstra @timozandstra.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...
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Extractivist Enterprise and International Organizations, 1919-1989
This small workshop invites proposals for short papers (4,000-5,000 words with notes) on extractive industries and international organizations over the long twentieth century for publication in a foru...
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
…Featuring a couple explainers about transoceanic communication cables!
Laying a Cable Deep on the Sea-bed

A spread depicting a series of oceanic “sections” with cable laying ships

Tar protection
Layers of jute and yarn
If an under-sea cable is laid where there are sharp, rocky slopes, it will soon wear through and break. Before laying begins, ships go out to test the sea-bed and measure the depth of water along the route.
The cable-laying ship is too big to sail in the shallow water hear the coast, so the first length is laid by a small boat anchored just off shore. One end of the cable. held up by empty barrels, is floated towards the beach, hauled ashore and connected up to the cable-house. The boat then goes alongside the big cable-layer where the other end is taken aboard.
The cable-layer carries many miles of cable coiled in huge circular tanks. As it steams along, mile after mile of cable is paid out, sometimes over the bows, sometimes over the stern, and drops to the bed of the sea.
The diagrams below show how the cable is made. Through the center run the copper wires which carry the current. Round them are layers of many different materials to strengthen and protect them, and to prevent the current leaking.
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Copper wiresA spread featuring section diagrams that show what happens when a cable breaks
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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Tonight!
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Kiran Basava @incertaesedis.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Happy to share our new paper introducing the Animal Culture Database in Scientific Data: We’re putting together a resource consolidating primary research on cultural behaviors in wild animal populations and how they’re affected by human activity (1/5) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Mapping nonhuman cultures with the Animal Culture Database - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - Mapping nonhuman cultures with the Animal Culture Database
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Orit Halpern @ohalpern.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
New podcast with me on AI, history, science, and the imagination on.soundcloud.com/WlEH1X8r3hhE...
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Preview | Orit Halpern on Agentic Imaginaries (NM88) 2025
This is a preview — for the full episode, subscribe: https://newmodels.io https://patreon.com/newmodels https://newmodels.substack.com Our guest is Orit Halpern: co-author of The Smartness Mandate (M
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Lys Kulamadayil @lyskulamadayil.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
It's out and available open access! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/pathology...
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Timo Zandstra @timozandstra.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Where in the world is Europe? Next week Tuesday 10 June, around 15:00, I will present my essay on how Chapter 6 of Ben Judah’s book 'This Is Europe' challenges the conventional answers EU law provides to that question. Do join us! www.eui.eu/events?id=57...
eui.eu
Is this Europe?
This event, co-organised by Professor Loïc Azoulai (EUI Law Department) and Jack Meaking (University of Leeds), offers a space for shared reflection and exchange on Europe as an evolving idea, an inst...
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Andreas Folkers @afolkers.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Very excited to announce the first drop of a Special Issue Alain Pottage ‪@sciencespo.bsky.social‬ and I edit for ‪@theoryculturesociety.org‬ on “Planetary Property". Together with our brilliant contributors we seek to advance ecological critiques of property. journals.sagepub.com/toc/TCS/0/0
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Timo Zandstra @timozandstra.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
great piece by Jed Purdy: publicseminar.org/2025/05/ecol...
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Ecology and Democracy in a World on Fire - Public Seminar
Blackwork Design for Goldsmithwork with Monkey, Birds, and Insects (ca. 1582–1616) | Mathais Beitler / Public Domain The following text...Read More
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Justin Gerdes @justingerdes.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Worrisome for all of us who rely on EIA data: "More than 100 of the EIA’s 350 staff have left as a result of firings or resignations, in the wake of 'Fork in the Road' buyout offers from Elon Musk’s DOGE." www.propublica.org/article/the-... by @peterelkind.bsky.social 🔌💡
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The Latest Trump and DOGE Casualty: Energy Data
The Energy Information Administration has long provided reliable data on everything from oil and gas to alternative energy. Now one of its signature reports has been slashed and a second one canceled ...
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Lea Ypi @leaypi.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Happy May Day!! 😍🌹 youtu.be/15Nht-_smm8?...
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Toscanini dirige l'Internazionale
YouTube video by robisc01
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