Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

Proofs of "The Spatial Display of Poetry in the Recibimiento al obispo Pimentel (1629)", by Víctor Sierra Matute, Baruch College, The City University of New York.

Proofs, proofs, proofs!! 🧾

This time next week at Texas Tech University: both Victor Sierra Matute and Cristina Pardo Porto in the house.

Happy 40th anniversary to "Thundercats".
Opening animated by Masayuki (who was only 22 years old at the time).

Folk holding two copies of an academic edited volume titled Soundscapes of the Early Modern Hispanophone and Lusophone Worlds", edited by Víctor Sierra Matute.

Here we go: copies of my edited volume!

A study in watercolor on vellum of a stalk each of 3 different flowers - at left, a plant with small white flowers; in the center, three blossoms of a larger, bluish-lavender flower on a stalk with spiny leaves; and at right, two blossoms of a pink flower with oval-shaped leaves just under the flowers and also lower on the stalk.

Flower studies, C18th, by #MadeleineFrançoiseBasseporte (French, 1701-1780), who died #otd, Sept 4. Held by Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle; source, gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b... #artherstory #hernaturalhistory #womenartists

Poster for the talk "Disonancias imperiales: Ruido y verdad en México-Tenochtitlan (1519-1692)". Víctor Sierra Matute, Baruch College, September 29, 4-5pm. Featuring the mural La gran Tenochtitlan by Diego Rivera.

In less than three weeks, I’ll be sharing material from my forthcoming monograph at @texastech.bsky.social. Many thanks to Prof. @pavelandrade.bsky.social for the kind invitation, and to all the sponsors at TTU! #academicsky

New book from @dukepress.bsky.social:

A Wide Net of Solidarity: Antiracism and Anti-Imperialism from the Americas to the Globe by @annegarlandmahler.bsky.social

www.dukeupress.edu/a-wide-net-o...

Side note: I look forward to Chicago and any other schools suspending PhD admissions and hiring also suspending publication requirements for current faculty in those fields since such reqs presuppose the existence of an adequate pool of peer reviewers

Cover of Indigenomicon: American Indians, Video Games, and the Structures of Dispossession by Jodi Byrd. The cover art features a stylized, pixelated landscape that transitions into a painted forest scene. A river runs along the bottom, where a figure sits in a canoe. In the background, a wooden palisade, tall trees, and two stork-like birds in flight are depicted.

In "Indigenomicon," @arsavium.bsky.social examines the differences between settler colonial studies and Indigenous studies by bringing video game studies into conversation with Black studies, queer studies, and Indigenous feminist critique. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/RM90jF8

Víctor Sierra Matute (@sierramatute.bsky.social) opens issue 72.3 of the Romance Quarterly with “A Prince Through the Mirror: Garcilaso de la Vega and the Lyricization of Early Modern Poetry”.

🎨 Copy of Garcilaso de la Vega y Guzmán by Ojeda y Siles, Manuel (1835-1904) circa 1887

Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle.

“Among college graduates ages 22 to 27, computer science and computer engineering majors are facing some of the highest unemployment rates, 6.1 percent and 7.5 percent respectively, according to a report… That is more than double the unemployment rate among recent biology and art history graduates”

As the Colorado River slowly dries up, states angle for influence over future water rights Long-standing water-use agreements allocate more water than the river and its basin actually contain, forcing users to cut back and face future shortages as well.

As the #Colorado River dries up, Western states are fighting over how to share what’s left.

#Arizona’s new proposal could reshape #waterrights. buff.ly/xsEzuF4 By Sarah Porter @morrisoninstitute.bsky.social

The greatest gift

Cover of Ghosts behind glass book with a Carolina parakeet specimen under a bell jar

Ghosts Behind Glass: Encountering Extinction in Museums coming your way in October 2025.

Only $20 in paperback for a full color book with 80 pictures!
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Honored to join this volume among stellar company. Huge kudos to the editors for their superb work!

¡Felicidades Carolyn! Amo esta noticia 💕🎈🍾

Mi vuelo va retrasado 😭

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

CFP Inter-Revolutionary Latin America: Radical Literature and Internationalism from 1910 to 1959.

Excited to share the CFP for this fantastic volume co-edited by my colleague @pavelandrade.bsky.social. More details in the link below, and please share widely and consider submitting your work!

docs.proton.me/doc?type=doc...

One week left to see the exhibition I had the pleasure of curating at @suartmuseum.bsky.social!

Big thanks to Lu Han for the fantastic review 🔥

Two great Mexican films: In MUBI and VOD, La cocina, an immersive film on immigrant and minority labor in a NY kitchen, in Vix with English subtitles Déjame estar contigo, a romantic dramedy on a deportee and the right of Mexican Americans to claim Mexico as theirs. I strongly recommend both.

🌎🌡️ Tanto las catástrofes ambientales (especialmente las producidas por el cambio climático) como la violencia derivada de conflictos bélicos, regímenes genocidas y el crimen organizado expulsan a la gente de sus lugares de origen en busca de condiciones dignas de existencia.

Estrategias e imaginarios barrocos en La sombra de don Quijote (2014) de Patricio Clarey y Lara Fuentes* Published in Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Spain performed a grand act of quixotism yesterday: a national blackout.

Today, my article on postapocalyptic quixotism in the graphic novel La sombra de Don Quijote went online at @spanishbulletin.bsky.social

The timing could not be better—alas. Check it out:

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I am super proud to have in my hand Iván Eusebio Aguirre Darancou’s Consuming Citizens, born out of the dissertation for which I was the advisor, Ivan’s work on counterculture, gender and modernity is very bold and original!

Cover of Informatics of Domination, edited by Zack Blas, Melody Jue, and Jennifer Rhee. The cover features and bright white title text against a stark black background, with information about the contributors in a light gray text. The text is located at the top of the cover, above a series of intersecting parallel and perpindicular lines that are rendered in a black, gray and white gradient.

Save 30% on #NewBook "Informatics of Domination," edited by Zach Blas,
@melodyjue.bsky.social , & Jennifer Rhee, an experimental collection addressing formations of power that manifest through technical systems and white capitalist patriarchy in the 21st century.
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Headline that says mushrooms may talk to one another with up to 50 words

so they're mycoblogging

Taken aboard Apollo 8 by Bill Anders, this iconic picture shows Earth peeking out from beyond the lunar surface as the first crewed spacecraft circumnavigated the Moon, with astronauts Anders, Frank Borman, and Jim Lovell aboard. Image Credit: NASA

About 250M years ago, 90% of species on Earth died during the Permian extinction. All of that loss created a lot of vacant niches to fill.

Not long after, the first mammals, our ancestors, appeared.

Life on this pale blue dot will be resilient - whether we’re part of it or not. #science #history

Pet-owners: watch out for foxtail seed pods that can harm your dog or cat this summer Foxtails can hook onto your pet’s skin and may cause redness, swelling and infection.

Pet owners – watch out for the sticky foxtail seed pods, which poses a major threat to your pet’s health.

Symptoms to watch for:
🌱 Frequent shaking of your pet's head
🌱 Drainage or discharge from the eye
🌱 Sneezing or pawing at the nose

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#pets #dogs #spring #summer