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kylie crane
@kyliecrane.bsky.social
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works on environmental humanities, postcolonial studies, material cultures | prof at uni rostock | she/her | my book free open access: https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?docid=b-9781350380622&st=crane+concrete+plastic
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kyliecrane.bsky.social
look what i got in the mail! congrats to @nitzkesolvejg.bsky.social
book on shelf: „making kin with trees“ by solvejg nitzke. black and white image shows trees behind a large wall (are they tying to say hello? can we know what they are saying?)
November 7, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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nnwiss.bsky.social
Our statement of solidarity with our colleagues in the U.S.: Don’t take academic freedom for granted. “We commit ourselves to defend the university as a vital node of civil society.” netzwerk-nachhaltige-wissenschaft.de?p=548
Statement on Academic Freedom – Netzwerk Nachhaltige Wissenschaft
netzwerk-nachhaltige-wissenschaft.de
June 9, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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zpk-kiel.bsky.social
#SummerSchool *Deadline verlängert*
Wir haben noch Plätze für unsere Summer School frei! Schickt uns gerne bis zum 01.06.25 euer kurzes Bewerbungschreiben (ca. 200 Wörter) an [email protected] Weitere Infos hier: www.anglistik.uni-kiel.de/de/fachgebie...
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May 16, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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derklimablog.bsky.social
Gleich lange Spieße?
#Klimakatastrophe?

#CDU und #SPD wollen die Flugindustrie mit Senkungen bei Steuern und bei der Beimischung klimafreundlicher Treibstoffe "wettbewerbsfähig" machen.

Die bereits laufende Bahnsanierung hingegen soll "überprüft" und "angepasst", das D-Ticket teurer werden.
Im Hintergrund zwei Stimmungsbilder aus den Städten Berlin und Marseille. Im Vordergrund zwei Grafiken von Flug- bzw. Zugtickets. Der Flug verbraucht 591kg CO2, hat 0% MwSt. und kostet 44.- Der Zug verbraucht 53kg CO2, hat in D 7% und in F 20% MwSt - je in der billigsten Klasse. Zum Vergleich steht darunter "CO2-Zielwert Person/Jahr laut Umweltbundesamt für Netto-Null: deutlich unter 1000 kg"
April 22, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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cec-unirostock.bsky.social
Interested in environmental humantities? In literary and cultural studies? Ecocriticism, (Eco)Feminism, and more? Then "Culture, Ecology, Change" might just be the perfect fit for you (or someone you know😉)
Find out more here: www.iaa.uni-rostock.de/en/studium/s...
Culture-Ecology-Change (Ein-Fach-Master) - Institut für Anglistik/Amerikanistik - University of Rostock
Universität Rostock
www.iaa.uni-rostock.de
April 14, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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hankgreen.bsky.social
A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.

Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
April 7, 2025 at 4:13 AM
kyliecrane.bsky.social
energy transition, rural australia
photo shows windmill centre and solar panels to the left. background of dry ground (yellow-brown crop stubble), vibrant blue sky with high whispy clouds
March 27, 2025 at 7:02 AM
kyliecrane.bsky.social
in train; training to become more ranty
cover of sara ahmed’s “the feminist killjoy handbook”. signature orange penguin spine visible; most of the image rainbow. background deutsche bahn ICE table.
March 15, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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nitzkesolvejg.bsky.social
Schaut mal. Da ist ein Neuzugang in meiner Baumbuchsammlung.

Meet "Fremde Verwandtschaft . Eine Kulturpoetik der Bäume". Mein Durchgang durch die neuere und nicht ganz so neue Baumliteratur.
Nächste Woche erscheint es ganz offiziell.
www.wallstein-verlag.de/978383535872...
Mein Buch "Fremde Verwandtschaft. Eine Kulturpoetik der Bäume" in meinem Baumbuchregal. Cover zeigt einen Parkplatz mit Auto und Götterbaum. Titel steht sozusagen auf der Hauswand
March 14, 2025 at 4:09 PM
kyliecrane.bsky.social
my greenhouse @greenhouseuis.net book talk is later today (see newnatures.org/greenhouse/e... ). i forgot to include the cover in my last announcement so here it is.
cover of “Concrete and Plastic” by Kylie Crane, featuring an amazing mosaic by Julie Sperling called “We Were Here Now”
March 3, 2025 at 8:14 AM
kyliecrane.bsky.social
i know that there’s a lot happening… at the same time, i’m going to be talking about my book (concrete and plastic things) next monday with the great people at @greenhouseuis.net at 16:00 cet, in case you’re interested newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...
Online book talk: Crane, Concrete and Plastic – The Greenhouse
newnatures.org
February 24, 2025 at 8:11 PM
kyliecrane.bsky.social
finished book#3 of the year. jamie wang’s @drjamiew.bsky.social book “reimagining the more-than-human city” in advance of a trip to singapore. a very readable critique of ecomodernist interventions into practices of gardening, zoning, filtering & farming in singapore. can recommend!
cover of jamie wang’s book “reimagining the more-than-human city: stories from singapore”. cover is white with a black and white road map super-imposed with sweeping green lines stylizing the map into a human head in profile.
February 20, 2025 at 4:21 PM
kyliecrane.bsky.social
vote wisely this sunday german citizens…
nnwiss.bsky.social Netzwerk Nachhaltige Wissenschaft @nnwiss.bsky.social · Feb 20
Wir machen uns Sorgen um die Freiheit von Forschung und Lehre in Deutschland und geben den Wähler*innen vor Sonntag noch mal ein paar Fakten mit. Wählt weise, wir haben viel zu verlieren! netzwerk-nachhaltige-wissenschaft.de?p=503
NNW-Stellungnahme zur Wissenschaftsfreiheit – Netzwerk Nachhaltige Wissenschaft
netzwerk-nachhaltige-wissenschaft.de
February 20, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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publicdomainrev.bsky.social
🥁 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
January 8, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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pterry.fnordon.de.ap.brid.gy
It's only cancel culture if it originates in the Cancelle region in France. Everything else is just sparkling consequences.
January 4, 2025 at 1:31 PM
kyliecrane.bsky.social
okay just finished book#2 of 2025 (won’t be keeping up this pace, no worries). also a strong recommendation! beautiful, slow, poetic: Orbital by Samantha Harvey.
photo of a book: Orbital by Samantha Harvey. In the background, a Deutsche Bahn tabletop, as some viewers will undoubtedly recognize. The cover is mostly black, with white and yellow writing, and some stylized watercolour paint blotches. oh, and a stylized globe.
January 4, 2025 at 12:46 PM
kyliecrane.bsky.social
i have taken some time over the break to read Babel by Rebecca E Kuang @rfkuang.bsky.social wonderful worlding, challenging the status quo of colonial infrastructures and extraction, and meditations on translation, and great footnotes for bonus nerding. can recommend!
January 3, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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jenstemmen.bsky.social
Happy to share our workshop on “Planetary Archives in the Anthropocene“ @ the 2025 #DGfA conference in Siegen.

Feel free to proliferate the cfp widely. And if you want to join the roster alongside our confirmed speaker @kyliecrane.bsky.social, just apply apply apply!

dgfa.de/wp-content/u...
dgfa.de
December 12, 2024 at 9:29 PM
kyliecrane.bsky.social
one for me, one for someone else—on order since august and now finally here! congrats to @nitzkesolvejg.bsky.social
image shows solvejg nitzke’s brand new book from the naturkunden series on: ferns. there are two books, on a background of wooden planks. they look lovely!
December 6, 2024 at 11:17 AM
kyliecrane.bsky.social
The first review of my book is out… I can’t be alone in being nervous about these things. The amazing Nicole Seymour had some nice things to say and some great points of critique in her review in the current ZAA. My book is available free OA www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...
Concrete and Plastic
www.bloomsburycollections.com
December 3, 2024 at 10:37 AM
kyliecrane.bsky.social
the “exzellenz” system binds so much work and channels funding away from basic needs. fees? no thanks, this just compounds problems of access.
amreibahr.bsky.social Amrei Bahr @amreibahr.bsky.social · Nov 20
Next level neoliberales Bildungssystem: Studierende sollen zahlen für frühkindliche & Grundschulbildung. 🤯 Wie wär‘s stattdessen damit: Räumt den ganzen Exzellenz-Wahnsinn ab, der sinnlos zigtausende Arbeitsstunden verbrennt & künstlichen Wettbewerb über auskömmliche Finanzierung von Bildung stellt!
table.media Table.Briefings @table.media · Nov 20
#Studiengebühren seien laut @grimmveronika.bsky.social @svrwirtschaft.bsky.social eine Entlastung, um

➡️ mehr Geld für frühkindliche und Grundschulbildung auszugeben.

➡️ gesetzliche Mindestausgabequoten für die Bildung einzuführen.

Zur ganzen News von @thodenk.bsky.social 👉 buff.ly/3CzOI1s
November 21, 2024 at 10:25 AM
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davewalker.bsky.social
By request: 'Storage of private property in the street'. From my book 'From A to B'. Commentary below.
Black and white cartoon, with title 'Storage of private property in the street'. Picture of a row of terraced houses with five captioned items in front, with captions as follows: Some lovely patio furniture? Not really the done thing. The garden shed? Various curtains would twitch. Some boxes of odds and ends that wouldn't fit in the loft? Frowned upon. A wardrobe full of clothes? Outrage on local Facebook group. Your car? Absolutely fine. Separate panel below the main drawing. Woman on bike, with child: 'Could a cycle lane be put in so we can ride to school safely?' Man, with clipboard: 'I'm sorry - the parked cars mean there just isn't any room'.
November 13, 2024 at 8:48 AM
kyliecrane.bsky.social
reposting (lots of new people in the neighbourhood)
kyliecrane.bsky.social kylie crane @kyliecrane.bsky.social · Oct 30
job for potential phd candidates just gone live. cultural studies at uni rostock. small team with me and madeline becker. initial contract 3 years, 50% tvl-13. please spread the word, thanks jobs.uni-rostock.de/jobposting/8...
Wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in (m/w/d) Cultural Studies
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November 10, 2024 at 1:39 PM
kyliecrane.bsky.social
job for potential phd candidates just gone live. cultural studies at uni rostock. small team with me and madeline becker. initial contract 3 years, 50% tvl-13. please spread the word, thanks jobs.uni-rostock.de/jobposting/8...
Wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in (m/w/d) Cultural Studies
jobs.uni-rostock.de
October 30, 2024 at 4:36 PM
kyliecrane.bsky.social
just spent the last three days engaging with ideas developed in the “imagining planetary health, well-being, and habitability” workshop organized by an amazing lu klassen and christoph mauch @carsoncenter.bsky.social
so many ideas to sit with and a bunch of great scholars to learn from!
October 4, 2024 at 2:46 PM