I cannot stress this enough and still face pushback from senior colleagues about it. Also, you’re not doing your PhD students any favours encouraging them to write a 900-page dissertation (intra-institutional subtweet)

Keep filling up those inboxes The University of Chicago folks!

Paul Alivisatos, President: [email protected]

Katherine Baicker, Provost: [email protected]

If there’s any doubt about who is disrupting UChicago’a campus here it is

Just had a great conference at the UChicago Delhi Center, with colleagues saying thank god my university hadn't viciously overreacted like UCLA + Columbia. Appalled that the admin has now threatened imminent use of force vs protesters. The University of Chicago, the eyes of the world are on you.

Very good to be back in Delhi - with some apt reading material on just how friction-filled globalization really is (especially if you fly Air India)

Please do take a look at this job posting from Sustainable Futures Collaborative for a Fellow/Associate Fellow working on adaptation and resilience. SFC is a dynamic new organisation in the Indian policy research space.

Eagerly awaiting Ryan Cecil Jobson's book on the oil 'masquerade of permanence': a century+ of commercial oil production in T&T 'instructs us to regard the petro-state less as a permanent form than a fragile relation between fossil fuels and sovereign authority'

And WHAT a cover

All the kerfuffle around Dev Patel's film has got me thinking about the 2001 Delhi monkeyman panic, when a hairy figure with glowing red eyes reportedly attacked almost 400 people. The energy connection: virtually all the attacks occurred during blackouts archive.sarai.net/files/original…

Tomorrow in Chicago: this exciting symposium on American Empire, Extraction and Environment, with a keynote from Porkopolis’s own Alex Blanchette! It’s the brainchild of whip-smart PhD researchers andrew Leila K. Blackbird 🪶⚜️ and Nahomi Linda Esquivel. Register at docs.google.com/forms/u/0/d/e/…

This is great—a very early example of the phrase 'fuel riot.' Wm Cavert finds evidence of a moral economy of coal even earlier in C17th London (if not actual riots). The politics of fuelwood takes us all the way back to the 'other Magna Carta,' Charter of the Forest (1217)