need to think of a better way to respond to the question 'what's new with you' with 'I've been eating a lot of peanuts,' but for now that is the one truly novel thing in my life...

How anyone could argue this is not genocide is beyond me.

*Antarctica has entered the chat?!?* 😲

A quick reminder that Ed Yong and Donna Haraway will be in conversation next Fri 5/10 at Berkeley *and* via Zoom. They’ll be discussing their shared fascination with animals and writing.
Spots may open up; please keep an eye out to attend in person. Otherwise, join via Zoom:

'We in journalism education are not typically in the business of telling people in the profession how to do their job...This required serious consideration and deliberation, and we came to the conclusion that this is necessary.' — prof Shahan Mufti
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i put the Challengers music on it

On May 7 in NYC, I'll be reading with many of the other authors who withdrew from PEN America awards and PEN festival spots in solidarity with Palestine. We are raising funds for We Are Not Numbers, a youth-led nonprofit in Gaza that shares Palestinian stories. See you there!

The crackdown explains the protest: defector.com/the-crackdown-…

700 bodies now discovered at Nasser hospital alone (1,500 uncovered at Al Shifa), patients, some with catheters still attached, children, with hands still bound, doctors and nurses, still wearing their scrubs, many shot in the back of the head at point blank range execution-style

Premature Palestinian baby girl rescued from her dead mother’s womb dies in Gaza after 5 days in an incubator apnews.com/article/gaza-i…

Israel today assassinated the eldest daughter of our Professor Refaat Al-Areer (Refaat in Gaza 🇵🇸), Al-Shaimaa, along with her husband and newborn baby. I am out of words, tears, and ways to comprehend this endless loss, this pain, this criminal annihilation of our people.

i wrote about a beautiful coil pot i saw: defector.com/i-am-obsessed-…

there is only one keffiyeh factory left in Palestine. in Atmos's ethical fashion column, I wrote about why, about traditional keffiyeh-making techniques, and about how Palestine's past, present and future is inextricably tied to the environment. atmos.earth/inside-palesti…

On its homepage, the The New York Times website currently has four (4) prominently-displayed pieces about American college protests and zero (0) pieces about the nearly 300 bodies (some with their hands and feet bound) found in a mass grave at a hospital in southern Gaza.

Breaking: The students and workers of #MIT establish the Scientists Against Genocide Encampment on MIT’s Kresge Lawn

“MIT has received OVER $11 MILLION in research funding from the Ministry of Defense of Israel since 2015…. We will NOT REST until MIT cuts research ties with the

was a delight to talk to James Gallagher (Jay) about the utter chaos of the Hawaiian crickets duking it out to mate and avoid what might be the worst possible death
defector.com/in-hawaii-cric…

Absolutely delighted that the fantastic Sabrina Imbler saw our latest paper in Evolution Journal and decided to write about the battle for cricket supremacy that we've been studying for years! Check it out in Defector:

defector.com/in-hawaii-cric…

THE PEN LITERARY AWARDS CEREMONY HAS BEEN CANCELLED

The mass unmarked graves are so painful for what it means for surviving family. Palestinians deserve proper burials for their loved ones. They deserve being able to mourn in peace. The current violence is just one crest of pain that will tide across generations.

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