We've been working hard to rethink how academia could work in more equal and just ways. One of those ways has been this protocol for collective publishing. Really proud of it and of the discussions that led to it!
For anyone seeing this, deadline was extended until 9th of March, so you still have time to apply! I am myself convening an open panel on microbial niches and a M&D session on methods for research of aquatic environments.
"Los españoles no se iban a enterar de nada", defiende el presidente.
Lee la noticia completa en la web:
www.elmundotoday.com/2026/03/pedr...
I will give a lecture on imaginaries of care in conservation and restoration of aquatic ecosystems next April in Oslo and staying around for the whole week. This is part of the Science Studies Colloquium Series at the Centre for Technology, Innovation and culture. First visit to @uio.no, excited!
FYI, Academia.edu has changed its terms of service to give an irrevocable worldwide license for anything uploaded to its site to be used for generative AI. I do not consent to this and have pulled all my papers.
Im German and mirrored, have little idea of what's going on except for seeing your name on the cover and a heart, reminding me of the organs in your thesis. Is this your dissertation? Or did you turn it into a book? In any case congrats!
Generative A.I. This class helps you to be a better writer and thinker. Generative AI (ChatGPT, Copilot, and other platforms) is neither writing nor thinking. Any use of Al in this class (whether to write, brainstorm, outline, or summarize) will be considered a violation of academic integrity. It undermines your intellectual development, for one: AI content is often inaccurate or hallucinatory and is always boring, banal, and average. This is by design, as generative Al works by predicting the most obvious or basic sequencing of words. Good writingwriting that is persuasive, powerful, lively, funny, surprising, rousing, insightful, transformative, provocative-requires human work. Human creativity is weird and variable and uneven, but it holds the capacity for growth, revelation, empathy, and brilliance. We urge you not to abandon the glorious experiential potential of human messiness and transformation for the tedium of robot sentences. One further reason to abjure generative Al, especially in a class on environmental literature: in addition to its counterproductivity to your work as a writer and thinker, Al is enormously environmentally destructive.
Yes in thunder. My syllabus statement:
No, these are very serious comments.
ChatGPT has absolutely no goddamn place in graduate education. It steals from other authors, routinely gets major facts wrong, hallucinates sources, and generally makes the prose flat and boring as hell.
And if you shill for it in my mentions, I'll block you.
wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
📣 #STS folks contemplating EASST 2026 @easst.bsky.social panels, please consider joining me and @hetatarkkala.bsky.social as we consider watery encounters. Wastewater epidemiology, water security, infrastructures, pollution, toxicity, disease, disasters… get amongst it 👇
Havumetsän lapset -elokuvan mainosjuliste
Oletko jo katsonut Havumetsän lapset -dokumenttielokuvan?
Tämä Virpi Suutarin filmi löytyy Yle Areenasta ja on nyt ajankohtainen, koska kaksi dokumentissa seurattua metsäaktivistia, Ida (kuvassa) ja Ville, ovat parhaillaan syytettynä metsänhakkuiden pysäyttämisestä Aalistunturilla.
![This session aims to bring environmental justice praxis into conversations around queer and trans liberation and subjugation. Anti-gender politics and the transnational eliminationist movements against trans and gender diverse people (Holvikivi et al. 2024) are increasingly affecting environmental policy and advocacy, and gender has become hotly contested in global environmental governance processes (Balayannis 2026). In response, this session asks: how do queer and trans liberation matter for environmental justice?
The exclusion and regulation of trans and queer bodies from and within public spaces is now routinely making headlines in the UK and well beyond (Butler 2025; Faye 2022). Meanwhile, the environmental sciences also have a long history of eco-normativity and structurally pathologising queer lives; often characterising transness, intersex bodies, and same-sex sexual behaviours, as the adverse effects of pollution exposure (Di Chiro 2010; Zabalegui 2024). Despite its focus on power and difference (Schlosberg et al. 2025), environmental justice praxis has yet to address these enduring epistemic harms and (up until recently) has lacked engagement with queer and trans politics.
Recent calls to queer environmental justice are configured as an “inclusion” issue (e.g. Goldsmith and Bell 2022), and overlook the more fundamental structural harms of dominant science (Liboiron 2021). Geographical research has tended to reinforce the boundaries between environmental politics, and queer and trans politics, suggesting that existing work in queer and trans geographies holds limited relevance for expanding on environmental justice. This session confronts this assumption and considers the potentialities of queer and trans studies, beyond making sense of gender, sexuality, and heteronormativity. [continued on next image]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kgdfqnolcmjydc3uu34kgets/bafkreia2pszeu4qoyxhjk4bt4h3tmy2jm2uhvrdbkvjcnqr3wmtile26he@jpeg)
This session aims to bring environmental justice praxis into conversations around queer and trans liberation and subjugation. Anti-gender politics and the transnational eliminationist movements against trans and gender diverse people (Holvikivi et al. 2024) are increasingly affecting environmental policy and advocacy, and gender has become hotly contested in global environmental governance processes (Balayannis 2026). In response, this session asks: how do queer and trans liberation matter for environmental justice? The exclusion and regulation of trans and queer bodies from and within public spaces is now routinely making headlines in the UK and well beyond (Butler 2025; Faye 2022). Meanwhile, the environmental sciences also have a long history of eco-normativity and structurally pathologising queer lives; often characterising transness, intersex bodies, and same-sex sexual behaviours, as the adverse effects of pollution exposure (Di Chiro 2010; Zabalegui 2024). Despite its focus on power and difference (Schlosberg et al. 2025), environmental justice praxis has yet to address these enduring epistemic harms and (up until recently) has lacked engagement with queer and trans politics. Recent calls to queer environmental justice are configured as an “inclusion” issue (e.g. Goldsmith and Bell 2022), and overlook the more fundamental structural harms of dominant science (Liboiron 2021). Geographical research has tended to reinforce the boundaries between environmental politics, and queer and trans politics, suggesting that existing work in queer and trans geographies holds limited relevance for expanding on environmental justice. This session confronts this assumption and considers the potentialities of queer and trans studies, beyond making sense of gender, sexuality, and heteronormativity. [continued on next image]
Organisers Angeliki Balayannis (Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands), Jay Todd (University of Glasgow, UK) Abstracts are limited to 300 words. If you would like to discuss your submission please email Angeliki Balayannis (angeliki.balayannis@wur.nl) and Jay Todd (jay.todd@glasgow.ac.uk) Butler, Judith. 2025. Who’s Afraid of Gender? Penguin Books. Chen, Mel Y. 2012. Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect. Duke University Press Books. Di Chiro, Giovanna. 2010. “Polluted Politics Confronting Toxic Dis-Course, Sex Panic, and Eco-Normativity.” In Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire, edited by Carolina Mortimer-Sandilands and Bruce Ericson. Indiana University Press. Faye, Shon. 2022. The Transgender Issue. Penguin Books. Goldsmith, Leo, and Michelle L. Bell. 2022. “Queering Environmental Justice: Unequal Environmental Health Burden on the LGBTQ+ Community.” American Journal of Public Health 112 (1): 79–87. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306406. Holvikivi, Aiko, Billy Holzberg, and Tomas Ojeda, eds. 2024. Transnational Anti-Gender Politics: Feminist Solidarity in Times of Global Attacks. Palgrave MacMillan. Liboiron, Max. 2021. Pollution Is Colonialism. Duke University Press. Schlosberg, David, Lauren Rickards, Rebecca Pearse, Hannah Della Bosca, and Oli Moraes. 2025. “Critical Environmental Justice in Contemporary Scholarship and Movements: Consensus and Plurality of the Discourse.” Environmental Politics 34 (3): 399–420. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2024.2362573. Shadaan, Reena, and Michelle Murphy. 2020. “EDC’s as Industrial Chemicals and Settler Colonial Structures: Towards a Decolonial Feminist Approach.” Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 6 (1): 1. https://doi.org/10.28968/cftt.v6i1.32089. Zabalegui, Maite Arraiza. 2024. “The Tale of EDCs and Trans Identities.” Diogenes 65 (1): 110–30. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0392192123000287.
🔉Call for Papers! This September Jay Todd @jaytoddgla.bsky.social & I will be organising a session on "Queering Environmental Justice" at the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference @rgsibg.bsky.social
⏰ Abstract deadline: 18 February 2026
🔗 Conference website: www.rgs.org/research/ann...
El “Make Venezuela Great Again” de Trump significa devolverla al periodo 1908-1935 cuando el dictador Juan Vicente Gómez cedió a cambio de mordidas el control del 98% del petróleo nacional a 3 compañías extranjeras. En 1976 Carlos Andrés Pérez lo nacionalizó en defensa de la soberanía económica👇
We have a conference next year and the call for panels and sessions just opened! Might be the first conference in SSH to focus exclusively on microbes (to my knowledge?) Broad and niche at the same time, fun!
Also, our keynotes are the fantastic @charlottebrives.bsky.social and Steve Hinchliffe.
A great opportunity to spend some time with a dynamic and thoughtful team. I loved my time with CSSM as a Visiting Fellow in 2023, which led to long lasting collaborations and friendships. Go for it!
A hand holds a needle and is assembling a paper cut collage
🎉 Our thematic cluster for @tapuya.org is now complete😍 with this editorial: Botero, A., & Pérez-Bustos, T. (2025). The making of methodologies/methodologies of making. When precarity matters. Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society. doi.org/10.1080/2572...
Ayer, nuestra sede de UNRWA en Jerusalén Este fue atacada por Israel: entraron por la fuerza, cortaron comunicaciones y reemplazaron la bandera de la Naciones Unidas. Otro golpe para millones de palestinos. Que esto no pase desapercibido. Apoya a UNRWA.
Do you love AI? Worry about it?
Join our critical discussion of the environmental and social costs of AI in Tiedekulma today at 5pm!
tapahtumat.helsinki.fi/fi-FI/page/6...
@helsus.bsky.social @scientistrebellion.bsky.social
“AI is here to stay” from the visionaries who brought you “NFTs are the future.”
EASST Review - the publication of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology - is looking for an editorial assistant. Duties are copy-editing and communication with authors. We have two issues every year with about 10 submissions each. Reach out if interested!
Os recuerdo que ahora más que nunca es altamente recomendable para habitar un mejor cielito azul que os suscribáis a bsky.app/profile/aimo... para poder silenciar o filtrar mejor el contenido generado con IAgen.
Ahí tenéis todos los filtros personalizables para un mejor TL.
Come and visit us in Helsinki next year! Feel free to drop a message if you have any questions about the centre and the cool people doing work here.
Situación en Twitter:
Habían sacado una pestañita en cada perfil con el origen de la cuenta (país)
Han tenido que retirar hoy la pestañita pq la gente ha descubierto que mogollón de cuentas pro republicanas, supremacistas etc tienen origen en India y otros países inesperados.
I think BlueSky is finally moving in towards what Twitter was at its peak. Interesting content & debate without forgetting the funny comments that make everything somewhat bearable. All of that without an algorithm to sink you into doomscrolling. Please @bsky.app don't force algorithmic feeds on us!
Balearic environmental activism meets migrant exclusion: A duoethnographic lens exposes how class and language barriers shape ecological knowledge, revealing positionality's power to redefine environmental justice from the margins. 🏝️
At 👉 doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2025.2484118
@tapuya.org
🔸[Cluster Article] in Tapuya Vol. 8
Read “Positionality and intersectionality in environmental debates: duoethnography as a method to know (from) the margins” 🏝️
by Jose A. Cañada & Joaquín Valdivielso
now at 👉 doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2025.2484118
🟡Just Out!
New Article “Positionality and intersectionality in environmental debates: duoethnography as a method to know (from) the margins”
By Jose A. Cañada & Joaquín Valdivielso
🆓doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2025.2484118
*a rape and war victim
