Here for all soil-related metaphors describing my work 🏍️

All the times you've driven past Panoche on I-5, I bet you didn't guess that it was the site of the most controversial dirt biking spot in California baynature.org/2023/09/28/how…

It turns out that student-athlete work was labor long before NIL.

'Their rights as citizens and students were subsumed by their status as representatives of the university.' Read @jsizek's interview with Cameron Black of City College of NY (2023 UC Berkeley History PhD) about protests by Black student-athletes in the 1960s and 70s. matrix.berkeley.edu/research-artic…

The checkerboard won't go away unless we work harder to get rid of it. My piece for Zócalo Public Square was picked up by the San Francisco Chronicle sfchronicle.com/opinion/openfo…

Fittingly this piece came out when I was camping on public lands after crossing through a checkerboard of private property/USFS signs

the #yorkfire is a reminder of how invasive grasses came to the Mojave and just how much the fire regime has changed during colonization edgeeffects.net/east-mojave/

A joy to interview a friend about her research!

Found while looking for articles about dirt biking newspapers.com/article/kitsap…

What will California do without Colorado River water? (The answer is always use more groundwater)
Read my short piece on the subject!

when you read an excruciating metaphor that calls graduate students the 'lifeblood' of the university

Worth a read if you want to better understand the Land Grab University!

Check out Julia Sizek is elsewhere's excellent coverage of a subject that has been thoroughly neglected in the land grab literature. Julia underlines the entangled nature of land and water speculation, and how the state of California has helped create a market for water—and land—speculation

Today the #SCOTUS upheld the Indian Child Welfare Act in an opinion authored by Justice Barrett. Much of the fight has been left for another day--in that #SCOTUS declined to reach some of the thorniest issues. But ICWA survives. So much to learn here. supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf…

reading a report on leisure time from the early 1960s, that writes in the assumption that food preparation and housework are 'entirely female activities' ugh

Spoiler alert: it's the Salton Sea nytimes.com/2023/06/07/us/…

Truly a sign that (among non-residential CEQA legislation) that water is highly financialized

davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/d… found while looking for maps of the desert