it's me, some faculty in Colorado pushing back ✊

Faculty Push Back Against OpenAI Deals As higher ed institutions pay tech companies millions to provide students and faculty access to custom AI-powered tools, some faculty in Colorado and California are pushing back.

happy to have a small part/quote in this hugely important conversation. ai is just the most recent shiny object the neoliberal university is using to gut higher ed’s mission as a social, public good.

cutting educators and researchers is not the way 👎🏻

www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

📢🚨👉 AAG Unruly Natures 2026!!
Thursday 3/19, 7:30-10pm @ Standard Deviant Brewing

you can read the introduction here: bloomsburycp3.codemantra.com/viewer/696a7...

and, if you feel compelled, there's a discount code: GLR AT8 (bloomsbury.com/9781666971811)

as it goes, the hard copy is quite expensive, so i'd recommend it suggesting it to your libraries. paperbacks coming soon!

new book is out! alex and i are proud of it, and of the stories it tells. it was gift to work on this with him, and the contributions are stellar.

we offer different engagements on how the past influences the future and vice versa, and how to resist what prevents us from seeing the future.

Accumulation by transition or genuine transformation? Speculative political ecologies of Central Appalachia’s emerging forest carbon economy - Dylan M. Harris, 2025 As trust in the validity of forest carbon credits decreases, a market for high integrity forest carbon credits is emerging in Central Appalachia, a region known...

for some reason, my new article is open-access at the moment! sharing it in case that is useful to folks!

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

if you'd like a copy, let me know! happy to share! i had to interlibrary loan my own article, published yesterday, to get a PDF. what a world 🫠

new article! how might the emergence of the 'new' carbon economy be disrupted, shifted in favor of communities rather than serving as another round of capitalist accumulation?

thanks to @landpolicy.bsky.social for supporting this work!

here's a link: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

and nine inch nails still rules

saw the new tron, and my takeaway is that ai-death likely won’t be explosive and shiny. instead, it’ll be slow violence. enough humans will be convinced its existence is more worthwhile than planetary health (happening), and ai chat bots will convince kids to kill themselves (happening).

what does it mean that small landowners are being asked to lease their land, or at least the carbon inside their trees, to corporations like amazon for 20-year contracts?

i am super excited to share this work and grateful to the @landpolicy.bsky.social for supporting it! ✊

tinyurl.com/mw2zx9fe

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i am also trying to write in ways that cannot be easily replicated by AI (e.g., AI can't know what it feels like to lose a mom). i am affirming that writing about difficult topics is still possible and important. i need to know it is. i haven't quite figured out this writing yet, but working on it!

this is also the most personal thing i've written, and i am inspired by so many incredible writers that have been able to seamlessly blend the personal and academic through auto-theory, etc. this is the first of a few pieces that intersects palliative care and climate/energy justice work.

this piece puts into words much of what i've felt while processing the death of the person who loved me most in this world. it's a jumping off point for me to begin articulating what i see as 'palliative political ecology.' what are the socioecological politics of easing planetary suffering?

what does it meant to affirm life, to ease suffering, when there is no cure? what does grief teach about the art of life, about solidarity despite devastation? is grief a lens through which to assuage planetary harm?

thanks to the @carsoncenter.bsky.social 🌱

seeingthewoods.org/2025/09/02/l...

Is #grief inherently political?

In this deeply personal essay author @dylanmharris.bsky.social explores the connections between global #foodproduction and the health—and related grief—of the individual.

This essay is a contribution to the #planetaryhealth series featured on 𝘚𝘦𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘰𝘰𝘥𝘴.

vvv excited to be able to keep doing this!

research funding cuts will impact whole universities, but, importantly, those costs are going to be passed onto our most vulnerable colleagues and our students through tuition increases. it's time to organize WITH - not against - your students to fight these cuts. ✊ @debtcollective.bsky.social

just gave a talk on palliative political ecology to a church that recently voted to become a ‘creation justice’ congregation, and you could feel tendrils of solidarity forming between folks. the way forward is community. 🌱✊🏻

i think a lot about the 'point' of my work, and, within a broader context of the neoliberalization of what i 'offer' to society, today affirmed that what i am 'good at' may just simply be holding space for my students to think and feel out loud. today, against it all, that felt truer than ever.

today, our discussion was set against the backdrop of a whirlwind of realtime texts and notifications - this grant is frozen, this policy will impact these students in material ways, a judge blocked this or that temporarily - and the power of 'us' and 'them' thinking was so powerfully on display.

my nature/society course, at its heart, is about understanding how the seemingly intractable, primordial division between humans and nature informs so much of the binary thinking that informs (and inflames) so much of society.

to universities - one of the last slivers of a functional civil society in the US (shout out to public libraries as well)

four days into the semester, i have seen universities, not just mine, 'get in line' with what is 'coming down the pipeline' rather than standing on their mission, to educate all, with integrity. this timely @aaup.bsky.social report is a critical read. ✊

www.aaup.org/report/again...

while the end of the semester is always busy, it is my favorite for final projects, which, this year, have included: a personal piano concert of studio ghibli songs, a handmade bleaching coral reef made from recycled fabric, and a student writing a poem they yodeled from a mountain top on video 😀

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Staggering growth of US oil & gas production and record profits was sold by GOP and Dem presidents as American “energy security”. But this isn’t security for ordinary people. Dividends flow to the 1% as more households struggle with utility bills. New paper by @isabellamweber.bsky.social + coauthors

~ 🥹 proud advisor 🥹 ~ one of my graduate students *just* successfully defended her thesis on ozone non-attainment best practices in colorado, operationalizing concepts like agrawal's 'environmentality' and pulido's 'geographies of pollution' into actionable and clear policy guidelines 🥹