A nurse. A researcher. A helper.

‘Green desert’: the farmers winning a battle with Brazil’s wood-pulp giant Eucalyptus production is dominated by large multinationals that convert farmland and forest into monoculture plantations

From today's @theguardian.com An article about the fight in #Brazil to get land back from timber giants and their "green desert" eucalyptus plantations - and the victories people are having! @biofuelwatch.bsky.social @gfc-forest.bsky.social @gmwatch.bsky.social @grain.org @annegjep.bsky.social

An ad for a PhD position to start fall 2026 working with me at ETSU. For more info, please email at LeeBR1@etsu.edu.

A close-up picture of dimpled trout lilies active in early spring, still largely surrounded by the previous year's senesced tree leaves.

A beautiful vista of the Blue Ridge Mountains from on top of Carver's Gap on the border between North Carolina and Tennessee.

🚨 Please repost widely!🚨

I am recruiting a PhD student to join my lab next fall to work on forest and climate change ecology projects in southern Appalachia! Come join me in one of the most beautiful, biodiverse, and understudied parts of North America. Details below and happy to answer questions

POLITICO Pro: Energy Dept. adds ‘climate change’ and ‘emissions’ to banned words list It is the latest in a series of Trump administration efforts to dispute, silence or downplay climate change.

Now on the Energy Dept’s banned words list: “Climate change,” “green” and “emissions.”

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There's a lawsuit about AI stealing your work. It's the same lawyers taking on Elsevier et al in a separate case.

Academics:
1. Check if your work is in LibGen at www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

2. If so, let the lawyers know at www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

Someone finally wrote the data-center/electricity inflation story.

@nytimes.com #CPI
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/b...

“Our Genocide”: Israeli Rights Groups Accuse Israel of Destroying Palestinian Society in Gaza For the first time, two leading Israeli human rights groups — B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights Israel — have accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza. B’Tselem’s report, “Our...

"Our Genocide": Israeli Human Rights Groups Accuse Israel of Destroying Palestinian Society in Gaza

Ouch.

“If we plan restoration targets to match future climatic conditions and consider state transitions of currently natural ecosystems due to climate change, the potential for natural climate solutions related to ecosystem restoration is close to zero.”

Forest Protectors Launch Tree Sit and Lawsuits to Stop Ecocidal Logging in WA Forest protectors are defending mature forests from logging after dam removal and restoration on the Elwha River.

Forest protectors are defending mature forests from logging after dam removal and restoration on the Elwha River.

“I am sick to my stomach as I write this because I've spent 20 years developing a pedagogy that's about wrestling with big ideas through writing and discussion, and that whole project has been evaporated by for-profit corporations who built their systems on stolen work. It's demoralizing.” Yep.

For the record the correct response to the state is “the school is prepared to back you legally if the government tries to kidnap you”

If you are an academic who supposedly opposes the Trump regime, especially one with the privilege of tenure, and you are not loudly and publicly advocating for the release of Mahmoud Khalil right now, why? What are you waiting for? What are you afraid of?

I am new to the Bluesky world and trying my best to hear from critical academics and field organizers in my neck of the woods, so please don’t mind the silent follow!