Here is a somber truth of creative life. If it goes well at first people will begin to ask you for things. Each of those requests, no matter how kind or genuine or even beneficial to your own career and finance as well as someone else's, will pull you from your true purpose.

So #SecretsOfTheNeanderthals is out in ONE WEEK- I was a consultant for doc's producers BBC Studios, and I'll be in Cambridge Archaeology on 2nd May with Dr Emma Pomeroy (Shanidar team palaeoanthropologist)
for a live watch-along 5-7pm BST & taking Qs on here!

Okay! Part 1 & 2 of PIGEONS with Rosemary Mosco (Bird And Moon Comics) is here! It’s wall to wall Patreon questions from y’all and we cover everything from wedding pigeons to tiny pigeon outfits to the de-extinction of the passenger pigeon. I love every minute.

alieward.com/ologies/columb…

Ten years ago today was the last time that residents in Flint, Michigan, had clean water. capitalbnews.org/flint-water-cr…

I was part of a Climate Week event last night and promised to repost this free download and here it is: my endeavor to help everyone and anyone find a way to be a climate activist in ways that work for their resources, limits, and proclivities.

Kent State is well known, but more people should know about Jackson State. Why is it lesser known? Bc it was an HBCU

i wrote about student organizers calling for divestment from both israeli apartheid & fossil fuels, & how these two demands are fusing into one 'clarion call'

feat Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine Yale Endowment Justice Coalition Olivia Katbi 🌹 Phyllis Bennis Matt Leonard Noel Healy

theguardian.com/us-news/2024/a…

I condemn any potential police action on Columbia University's campus. As an educator who personally experienced the over policing of our schools, this is personal to me. We must resist right-wing demagoguery and stop suppressing peaceful protest if we are to keep students safe.

Columbia’s own website has a page about how the last time they called for a mass arrest of student protesters, they were in the wrong and fucked up their reputation for decades

I talked to the Columbia Spectator about declining the Grace Lee Boggs Lecture and about threats to academic freedom from the US to Palestine.

We need the genocide and apartheid to end now!

Attacks on academic freedom are also a serious issue.

columbiaspectator.com/news/2024/04/2…

VERY exciting news.

Our new roleplaying game about the #ClimateCrisis has just been approved by Kickstarter! More soon, but for now, follow this pre-launch link to be notified when we go live:

kickstarter.com/projects/jesse…

And read about the project here: rootedincrisis.com

What’s it like to discover an Ice Age mammal from a permafrost cave? Dr. Jacquelyn Gill talks with Molly Bentley about her research in Siberia, including the moment she laid eyes on Sparta, the lion cub. bit.ly/49LT4xu

HUGE CHANGES IN CLOTHING CONSUMPTION

FAST FASHION LANDFILLS

and WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DONATE?

We look at it all in this story.

US is #1 at exporting used clothing.

The average American bought 40 garments in the early 1990s each year, today it is closer to 70. Clothing…

It’s Earth Day! It’s also about 2 weeks from the publication date for my debut novel, Troubled Waters. That means you have just a little bit of time to go preorder it and be one of the first to receive it when it publishes on May 7. Soon, and very soon. bookshop.org/p/books/troubl…

*the AWG's Anthropocene Epoch proposal was rejected (not the concept of the Anthropocene, which I hope I made clear throughout this thread!)