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Madison, WI
Joined February 2017
Reminder that our Companion Species series has begun! Have you joined us on Bluesky yet to hear all about it? bsky.app/profile/edgeeffects…
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Reminder that we're transitioning over to Bluesky with publication notices! Join us! bsky.app/profile/edgeeffects…
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Special thanks to multispecies historian Harriet Ritvo for writing our keynote: edgeeffects.net/companions-a…
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We are still posting on Bluesky, but wanted to announce that our Companion Species series has officially begun! edgeeffects.net/equine-compa…
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Reminder that we're transitioning over to Bluesky with publication notices! Join us! bsky.app/profile/edgeeffects…
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Today on the Edge Effects Podcast, Prerna Rana speaks with Sarah Robert & Jennifer Gaddis about their new book, discussing school food programs’ catalytic potential in the betterment of global health, agriculture, and care.🍎 edgeeffects.net/robert-gaddi…
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Today on Edge Effects, Jac Common & Katy Lewis Hood trace marine aggregates dredging in UK coastal waters, arguing that this extractive industry should be situated in capitalist, colonial ocean histories & presents. 🐚🌊 edgeeffects.net/unruly-sedim…
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LAST CHANCE to submit to our special series! FULL DRAFT and pitch is due by Feb. 20. We'd love to hear from you!
PLEASE SHARE — Edge Effects is delighted to announce the theme for our 2025 special series: Companion Species! Anyone is welcome to submit to this series, due February 20, 2025. Read more & apply: edgeeffects.net/companion-sp…
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Today on the Edge Effects Podcast, Will Brockliss sits down with documentarian Jeff Spitz to reflect on uranium cleanup in Monument Valley, partnering with the Navajo Nation, and ethical environmental filmmaking. 🏜️ edgeeffects.net/jeff-spitz/
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Today on Edge Effects, scholars share recommended works on environmental activism in art & fiction—exploring aesthetic opposition to precarity or cultural traditions uplifting alternative ecological narratives & knowledge. We hope you enjoy them! edgeeffects.net/faculty-reco…
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Today on Edge Effects, Laleh Ahmad argues that the solarpunk genre offers imaginable, realistic green futures based on renewable energy and communal self-reliance, rooted in justice and care. 🏢🪴 edgeeffects.net/solarpunk/
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Greetings to our Twitter family! Thank you for your dedication these past eight years. We've now migrated to the other app, so will only be posting here for a short while longer. See you on the other side 🦋
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Today on Edge Effects Fieldnotes, a trip to the bathroom sends Henry Hughes on a journey to discover what tiny critters are living in the urinals and what we might learn from them in this era of environmental precarity. 🪰 edgeeffects.net/drain-flies/
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Don't forget that Edge Effects has an Instagram account! We've been building it up over the past six months to share excerpts and additional images from each week's piece. We'd love to have you there! instagram.com/edgeeffectsmag…
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Today on Edge Effects, Alexis Schmidt examines the historical transition of Change of Air travel from a legitimate medical prescription into a commodified and efficient vacation on the coast—an attitude that persists in vacation narratives to this day. 🏖️edgeeffects.net/change-of-ai…
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🚨🚨🚨We just updated our creative reviews page! If you see a book you'd like to review, message us to get a copy or ARC. Full instructions on how to submit a short pitch to us: edgeeffects.net/reviews/
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PLEASE SHARE — Edge Effects is delighted to announce the theme for our 2025 special series: Companion Species! Anyone is welcome to submit to this series, due February 20, 2025. Read more & apply: edgeeffects.net/companion-sp…
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This exhibit was supposed to open at the Fowler. These events are a stark reminder to return fire & land keeping to Indigenous Peoples. FireBack. LandBack. -from an Indigenous fire scholar🔥
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🥁Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁 We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse pdimagearchive.org/ @pdimagearchive
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