jayson m porter
@RogueChieftan
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Environmental historian & writer, & Asst Professor @UofMaryland. food systems, agrochemicals, Black & Indigenous ecologies in Mexico & the Americas @NACLA
DC | Philly | Mexico City
Joined April 2009
What do sesame seeds tell us about the environmental histories of the African Diaspora? How does a historian know where to start? It’s all a question of process. Check out my new essay, "Sesame Plots: Diaspora in twenty-one openings." https://t.co/2RHSz39Ma2
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What do sesame seeds tell us about the environmental histories of the African diaspora? How does a historian know where to start?
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We are excited to announce a pre-APSA 2026 workshop for advanced graduate students and postdocs studying Latin America, hosted at Harvard University with the generous support of @HarvardDRCLAS, on September 2, 2026. Applications are due January 31. Link: https://t.co/YHYVsAKY1P
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If you’re a YouTuber, this is huge. 🔥 I’ve got 141K subs, and thumbnails used to eat my whole day. Now I literally type what I want and @thumioapp makes it for me… fast… and the CTR bump is real.
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Now that I'm teaching full-time, I really need to designate a day without any work-related meetings. It's already hard to get in a writing or thinking rhythm on teaching days. I just need a day to think, breathe, and write.
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Grateful to @bunkhistory for highlighting "Mule Power" with @SciHistoryOrg !! https://t.co/WOmgLBf0xd
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Unpacking empires and diaspora in Mexico and the United States.
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I can read two things in my grad students' writing: they respect themselves and they respect me, too.
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Not me randomly seeing research materials on agrochemicals in Latin America on my trip to London
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Hey y’all! Where should I go to in Southeast London for fun and food? We’re hoping for something Black—Caribbean or West African. Tomorrow is our last full day in London.
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Someone stop stopped me today and told me that I walk like I'm living a great life. Warmed my heart. And accurate af.
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"in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.” Rachel Carson
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If coal tar is the elemental "mother of organic chemistry," what is elemental mother of inorganic chemistry? Arsenic?
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Writing thoughts: nominalizations can become stories by asking who, what, when, where, & why? Nominalizations are verbs masquerading as nouns. Take "modernization." Where & when: It was coined in rural Mexico after the Mexican revolution. Who & what was modernizing? And why...
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I'm opening up a Black & Indigenous environmental art gallery @umterps to help students navigate climate anxiety & other stresses that come with learning about environmental injustice & environmental racism. Please consider donating & coming to our fundraiser with @framebridge!
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Pub day 👑 Queen Mother: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore is officially here! @PantheonBooks A decade-long labor of love, of unearthing an archive said to be lost, building relationships with her family, interviewing those who knew her, and
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"Does the world get poorer when a hundred-dollar bill falls down a sewer? For that matter, does the world get richer when we strike gold or cut down trees?" Richard Powers in Gain (1998)
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Dad flies from Kuwait to surprise his son on graduation day. What a beautiful reunion 👍
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Mamdani didn't just beat Cuomo -- he also defeated the NY Post, the Wall Street Journal, Elon Musk, the New York Times, Dem establishment, Republicans, Donald Trump, real estate guys, Chuck Schumer, billionaires. That's impressive.
Zohran Mamdani's victory in NYC tonight will not erase the fact that Democratic establishment has refused to hear the message from ordinary New Yorkers-- and kept Mamdani at arms distance.
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Mamdani: “I speak of bodega owners in the Bronx, Mexican abuelas holding the line, taxi drivers from Trinidad, Ethiopian aunties — yes, aunties”
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Brandon Scott was 36 when elected as Mayor of Baltimore. And the numbers just keep dropping 🔥
Y'all really think a 34 year old has the wisdom & experience to be the mayor of New York ?
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26 Billionaires Spent $22 Million to Stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming the Mayor of New York City HE STILL WON!
26 Billionaires Spent $22 Million to stop Zohran Mamdani from winning the New York City Mayoral Election He must be doing something right if they want to stop him THIS BAD
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Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."
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