looking forward to this one!

And 500 mL of water used (for cooling systems) for every 10-50 prompts in ChatGPT. So technological revolution must also consider water security.

Hold on to your Muesli. We have 80 upcoming faculty hires in Sustainability and Environment coming our way UW–Madison. 40 from RISE-EARTH and 40 matches, here UW-Madison Nelson Institute and all across campus. rise.wisc.edu/rise-earth/

We are happy to invite you to a webinar on looking at climate loss and damage in Indian Sundarbans through the lens of fishers, farmers, federations, NGOs, bureaucrats & academics. Link:
us06web.zoom.us/j/82757361894?…
Meeting ID: 827 5736 1894 Passcode: 264567 
Shilpi Srivastava

Bengali May Day playlist for International Workers' Day:
youtube.com/watch?v=G8ATxc…

feels more relevant than ever --
এসো মুক্ত করো মুক্ত করো,
অন্ধকারের এই দ্বার,
এসো শিল্পী, এসো বিশ্বকর্মা,
এসো স্রষ্টা, রস রূপ মন্ত্র দ্রষ্টা,
ছিন্ন করো, ছিন্ন করো,
বন্ধনের এ অন্ধকার

In a country where children go hungry, people die unhoused and libraries are only open part time, this is where our resources go

theguardian.com/us-news/2024/a…

PSA: Don't let any Google docs setting be: 'Anyone on the internet with the link can view', they're scraping these docs for AI.

Real people's lives are at risk. As always too many 'analysts' fail to grasp the stakes here.
Stop treating a potential Iran-Israel war like a game or chance to score some points on social media. #StopTheGenocideInGaza #nowarwithIran

The US will soon learn how bad its PFAS crisis is. But Maine has already begun to look—and is waking up to a nightmare. For The Atlantic I spoke to a family realizing they drank toxic water for 30 years, and what it may have cost them. Maine is a warning: theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

need to teach this Mary Oliver poem more often

My article 'Blue Humanities and the Color of Colonialism' is out now in Enviro Humanities ! 💙🌊 #envhum read.dukeupress.edu/environmental-…

Back in 18thC, when large land tracts in South 24 Parganas district was flooded during monsoon, Salti became the only source of navigation.

Besides this, Salti - a dugout made of Sal tree was used to transport grains and other objects from hinterland to Calcutta. A modified…

This workshop is a wonderful opportunity- check it out!

🚨All those teaching Intro to ANTH: A pedagogical essay about the time my TA and I asked our students what *they* thought Anthropology should do for the world in the 21st century. Thanks so much Society for Cultural Anthropology Teaching Tools for working with us! culanth.org/fieldsights/th…

From #Gaza to #Tigray & #Ukraine , water has been weaponised.
Given #WorldWaterDay 's focus on 'Water for Peace', Alan Nicol & I argue that the multilateral system needs to show moral compass & stop the wars & the weaponisation of water & food. The New Humanitarian Z.Frank Institute of Development Studies

'Citation is feminist memory' by Feminist Killjoy feministkilljoys.com/2015/12/30/fem…

#IWD2024

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/11…
Water-induced disasters are projected to increase. My colleagues and I wanted to understand how local knowledge and Indigenous knowledge are being used to respond to these disasters. We conducted a meta-review. Dr Martina A. Caretta Dr. Aditi Mukherji Calynn Dowler

My department Uppsala University in Sweden is hiring up to 3 paid PhD positions! Deadline 2nd April, start September 2024 antro.uu.se/Open+Positions…

Pankaj Mishra, 'The Shoah after Gaza' in London Review of Books.
lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…