1) Yes (Eastern Bluebird) 2) Yes, in the right habitats (especially fields near the edges of woods)

Rude Rude or impolite, including crude language and disrespectful comments, without constructive purpose. Highlighted Off, darkened Warn, and darkened Hide buttons.

If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.

Banned books staircase created by Gary M. Herd / Kraken Studios.
Newport Public Library.

Anthropic has settled a $1.5B class-action lawsuit brought by authors for copyright infringement. The settlement relates to 500,000 titles. Affected authors are each entitled to $3K in payout.

My book's on there. Here's where to check if yours is too.

www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

Cat looking out from its perch in a small tree

I’m too excited about this.

So let me be very clear: there was a massive rash of bomb threats at universities nationwide this week.

ELEVEN of them specifically called out the university or college libraries.

A page from a book, printed in a red-brown ink. The top left contains a stylised papercut picture of a slightly scrawny, scraggly-looking fox. Beneath it is the text of the poem, “Fox’, by Ian Hamilton Finlay, published in GLASGOW BEASTS, AN A BURD, HAW, AN INSEKS, AN, AW, A FUSH, with papercuts by John Picking & Pete McGinn (The Wild Flounder Press, 1961): see me wan time ah wis a fox an wis ah sleekit! ah gaed slinkin heh an snappin yeh the blokes aa sayed ah wis a GREAT fox aw nae kiddin ah wis pretty good had a whole damn wood in them days hen

A #poem for #NationalFoxDay! 🦊
#fox #poetry

Ian Hamilton Finlay
FOX

see me
wan time
ah wis a fox
an wis ah sleekit! ah
gaed slinkin
heh
an snappin
yeh
the blokes
aa sayed ah wis a GREAT fox
aw nae kiddin
ah wis pretty good
had a whole damn wood
in them days
hen

I tried digging a bit because I like puzzles and geographies of exposure (or risk or susceptibility) came up in some EnvHum articles

Sarah Endor’s book, Queer Lasting, which will become a foundational work of eco criticism.

Can’t heap enough praise on this book, which feels like will become a touchstone of the environmental humanities, the kind of book that bleeds over into serious nonfiction, enviro/nature writing, eco criticism, etc. Just a stunning, brilliant work.

Say more. I’m trying to figure out how to squeeze it in even though the semester is beginning.

Well damn; i would take all of them if i were a student. Would love to see syllabi, texts/media studied or anything you’re willing to share!

I’m excited for this crucial book, University Keywords. @andyhines.bsky.social convened an awesome crew of writers for it. I co-wrote entries on “Alternative Institutions” (with Andy) and on “Sustainability” (with Andy, Jesse Goldstein, and @kaibosworth.bsky.social).

But it’s original (again) as soon as it goes through the Mosco filter so you’re safe!😂

That’s even more awesome; amazing what mockingbirds can do! Thanks.

Green Frogs in the heat 🌿

Dusk song of the Carolina Wren🪶🌿

An Eastern Garter Snake resting on honeysuckle berries five feet off the ground.

🌿🐍

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Twenty seconds into this 32 second video, you’ll get to see the Gray Catbird’s beak too!🪶#birding

😂

Two young chipmunks facing in opposite directions and sitting close

Here are two young siblings recently emerged from their below-ground burrow in my lawn. I love how they skillfully sit looking in opposite directions, probably scanning for predators.

Celebrating every win! #booksky #libsky #edusky

Western NY last night

What is Close Reading? By transforming quotations into evidence, close reading served as way to transform postwar criticism into a specialized knowledge. But what if we treated it more as an art form?

I wrote about close reading. What it is, why it matters, and what John Guillory gets right and wrong in his recent On Close Reading. Offers a sneak peek of a little of what @johannawinant.bsky.social and I are up to in our forthcoming Close Reading for the 21C
www.thenation.com/article/soci...

You just made me look at the 45 I have in my “library” and that was a whole bunch of surprises.

Trying this tonight

In the Rochester, NY area? Do not miss this.

I am super grateful to Marco Abel and Luis Othoniel Rosa for the invitation to Humanities on the Edge, to present on my possible future book that I am now calling “post-apocalyptic humanities”. I was very happy to see friends old and new and talk to the community

Seduction of the Innocent (1954), Fredric Wertham directly, or about it