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Engineering professor. Author of HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS (on Riverhead in the US+, on Torva in the UK+). Interested in embodiment, materiality, metacognition, and systems. All enthusiasm is 100% genuine.
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It’s finally here! For years, @roseveleth.com has been working on an epic series about elite runners who’ve been told they can no longer race as women, because of their biology. TESTED is their story, & the story of sport’s history of dubious sex testing. Ep 1 is now online! link.chtbl.com/Rose_
Testedlink.chtbl.com <p>Who gets to compete? Since the beginning of women’s sports, there has been a struggle over who qualifies for the women’s category. Tested follows the unfolding story of elite female ...
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I couldn’t resist the pretty blues of the New Zealand/Aoetearoa velvet worms, so I selected a different species than suggested for #InsertAnInvert2024. Here are my 8” x 8” linocuts drying…. #linocut #printmaking #wip #wildlifeArt #sciArt #invertebrate #velvetWorm
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You need this today. For morale.
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Shannon is a treasure, and I am excited for all the good work she'll do in this new position!
🌟 On July 1 I'll start a new job as Drctr of Creative Rsch @ the Metro NY Library Council, a state-funded non-profit that connects hundreds of libraries + archives across NYC + Westchester Co. They created the job for me! I'll still do rsch + tchg (incldg my own), but in service to the commons :)
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Bumping this piece because seriously, if nothing else, go look at Rob Cruickshank's wonderful portraits of Colletes inequalis bees.
I got to write about my very favourite bees and what we can learn from them, and why ‘fewer, better things’ elides the systemic issues and opportunities in the ways we use materials: www.untappedjournal.com/issues/issue...
We Need More Than Fewer, Better Thingswww.untappedjournal.com How might we apply the ethos of adaptive reuse to objects?
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Tonight tonight 7pm tonight! Austin friends, hope to see you there!
Austin, TX, friends, a reminder that one week today, I’ll be at BookPeople to talk about HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS with the redoubtable @austinkleon.bsky.social! More details and to RSVP: www.bookpeople.com/event/deb-ch...
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UGH. Ten years and 4 months later, I re-located this footnote to an antislavery pamphlet pointing out that it was printed on linen and not cotton paper so as to avoid the material economy of slavery.... that REALLY should have made it into my book but didn't bc I forgot. Oh well. Here it is anyway.
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The removal of four huge dams on northern CA's Klamath River has freed up thousands of acres of land that were forcibly taken from Indigenous people a century ago to create the dam reservoirs. Today, the Shasta got 2800 acres of their homeland back.
Shasta tribe will reclaim land long buried by a reservoir on the Klamath Riverwww.azcentral.com California Gov. Gavin Newsom is returning 2,800 acres of land to the Shasta Indian Nation as part of the largest-ever dam removal on the Klamath.
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Austin friends! This is Thursday night — hope to see you there! I will bring stickers and stories about TX infrastructure! [As always, if health/access issues make it challenging or inadvisable for you to attend in person, contact me and I can send you a signed bookplate and stickers.]
Austin, TX, friends, a reminder that one week today, I’ll be at BookPeople to talk about HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS with the redoubtable @austinkleon.bsky.social! More details and to RSVP: www.bookpeople.com/event/deb-ch...
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I got to write about my very favourite bees and what we can learn from them, and why ‘fewer, better things’ elides the systemic issues and opportunities in the ways we use materials: www.untappedjournal.com/issues/issue...
We Need More Than Fewer, Better Thingswww.untappedjournal.com How might we apply the ethos of adaptive reuse to objects?
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Mrs Ptarmigan is making a fashion statement today in her summer jacket and winter boots.
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I got to write about my very favourite bees and what we can learn from them, and why ‘fewer, better things’ elides the systemic issues and opportunities in the ways we use materials: www.untappedjournal.com/issues/issue...
We Need More Than Fewer, Better Thingswww.untappedjournal.com How might we apply the ethos of adaptive reuse to objects?
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For #ThingThursday, from my collection of midcentury drinking glasses commemorating obscure occasions. One from a forgotten event on an otherwise important day. I can’t know, but I imagine a little reception called off, bank staff fixed to the radio/TV, this in an unopened box to be found later on.
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Austin, TX, friends, a reminder that one week today, I’ll be at BookPeople to talk about HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS with the redoubtable @austinkleon.bsky.social! More details and to RSVP: www.bookpeople.com/event/deb-ch...
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The War Stories podcast is *BACK*! I got to interview @debcha.bsky.social, professor at Olin College of Engineering, about her new book HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS MAN was it a banger www.youtube.com/watc...@debcha.bsky.social, professor at Olin College of Engineering, about her new book HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS MAN was it a banger www.youtube.com/watc...
How Do We Meet Our Needs? - How Infrastructure Works, Deb Chachra - War Stories Podcast #devops #sre - YouTubewww.youtube.com Kevin Riggle interviews Deb Chachra, professor of engineering at Olin College and author of HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS about climate change, the housing crisis...
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@darthbluesky.bsky.social darth, I went out to a pub in York (UK) for Sunday roast supper and the menu said, “as much gravy as you like” and I told the server I like gravy quite a lot and so this is what they brought.
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me waking up slowly, still nursing yesterday's migraine: oh let me just take a big sip of water and check my phone there's an hours-old missed call and a text message from a friend back home. it says: wake up motherfucker you just won the nebula vajra.me/2024/06/09/t...
The Saint of Bright Doors wins the Nebulavajra.me THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS wins the Nebula Award!
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Please enjoy the Great Plains Skink, a reptile that evolves from a baby goth scene kid into an adult who works in finance and wears designer shoes
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Austin! Mark your calendars!
Austin friends! I’m going to be at BookPeople on Thursday, June 20th at 7pm to talk all things infrastructure, resilience, and place with the redoubtable @austinkleon.bsky.social! www.bookpeople.com/event/deb-ch... It’s free but please RSVP at the link so we know to expect you!
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Austin friends! I’m going to be at BookPeople on Thursday, June 20th at 7pm to talk all things infrastructure, resilience, and place with the redoubtable @austinkleon.bsky.social! www.bookpeople.com/event/deb-ch... It’s free but please RSVP at the link so we know to expect you!
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A LITTLE LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK
Libraries are one of the most radical social institutions we have, because they’re based on the idea that *everyone* has the right to information, for free. It’s also what makes them crucial to democracy. I will never stop yelling about this!
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I don't think there's anything important going on in the world today so I'll just go ahead and also mention that one of the galaxies I found last year was confirmed to be the current farthest galaxy humans have ever seen: blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2024/05...
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Finds Most Distant Known Galaxy - James Webb Space Telescopeblogs.nasa.gov Editor’s Note: This post highlights data from Webb science in progress, which has not yet been through the peer-review process.