UP TO HEAVEN AND DOWN TO HELL: FRACKING, FREEDOM & COMMUNITY IN AN AMERICAN TOWN is now out in PAPERBACK! Cheaper, updated, and now with class/book club discussion questions.

Parade. Thursday. Manhattan.

A beacon of hope for higher ed. that will hopefully inspire other universities to follow. Far more meaningful than capping the number of As an instructor may give in a class.

The NYU Wild Animal Welfare Program is very proud to share our new report, "Wild Animal Welfare in Local Policies on Human-Wildlife Conflict"! Cities are home to countless wild animals, and the decisions cities make about waste, infrastructure, parks, and public health shape their lives—often invisibly. Yet, local policy has historically treated them as nuisances or problems to be managed away. This report argues that the welfare of those animals deserves a place in how municipalities approach human-wildlife conflict, and offers a practical roadmap for getting started. It expands the conventional definition of “human-wildlife conflict” to include harms running in both directions. It identifies cities as the right locus for action, since they hold most of the relevant levers and are where most conflict actually happens. The report offers nine guiding principles—including prevention over reaction and coexistence over control—and a menu of policy options across five mutually reinforcing domains: waste management and food access, humane population management, conflict response and rehabilitation, the built environment, and planning and governance. Drawing on examples from across North America and Europe, it shows that welfare-aligned approaches are already within reach, and that welfare-aligned approaches often align with goals cities are already pursuing—cleaner streets, healthier environments, lower disease risk, and more livable public spaces. This report is sponsored by the NYU Wild Animal Welfare Program with support from CEAP and the Yale Law, Ethics, & Animals Program. You can find a PDF of the report along with a video of a recent preview event here: enviroanimal.org/human-wildl… Please read if you have interest, and please share if others might!

Absolutely thrilled to have just finished reading Alexandre Frenette's new book on internships as the shaky fulcrum between the culture industries and higher education. This banger is rich, expansive, and for anyone who's interested in the arts higher education!

Today at the NYU Wild Animal Welfare Program, Adalene Minelli and Colin Jerolmack are discussing how cities can consider animal welfare when managing human-wildlife conflict :)

Happening TODAY

@NYU_ASI event next week! sites.google.com/nyu.edu/wil…

I'll be on @WBAI radio streaming at wbai.org THIS SUNDAY at 9am with @JackHites talking pigeons on his show ANIMAL MATTERS!

The NYU Center for Mind, Ethics, and Policy and the NYU Center for Environmental and Animal Protection are both hiring FT researchers! If you have strong research skills and an interest in animal and AI welfare (for CMEP) or food and wildlife policy (for CEAP), please apply!

The NYU Wild Animal Welfare Program is hosting an event on how cities can manage human-wildlife conflict! Join us for a preview of our upcoming report and discussion with Colin Jerolmack and Adalene Minelli. Feb 23, 4pm ET, followed by a reception. sites.google.com/nyu.edu/wil…

Wow. Didn’t see this one coming. A win for animals (even if that wasn’t the motivation of the administration). E.P.A. Promises a Ban on Animal Testing by 2035

nytimes.com/2026/01/22/clima… via @NYTimes

Any sidewalk in New York City where pedestrians have to walk single-file is a policy failure (and it's depressing how frequently the NYPD is solely to blame).

This is now the official account of Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Welcome to a new era for NYC.

Please RT. Attn authors! If you published a book, Anthropic likely stole it to feed its AI learning. I just got an email alerting me to a class action lawsuit. There’s a database where you can check if your published work was exploited—& get compensation: anthropiccopyrightsettlement…

Holy crap! This new article claims that the canonical book “When Prophecy Fails,” which launched the influential idea of “cognitive dissonance,” was fabricated!

What a class act. Ran into @Mets Sean Manea w/ his family in Manhattan & he stopped to talk w/my superfan son about who’s his favorite player (@SugarDiaz39) and take a pic—even though I was wearing a Phillies sweatshirt! Only bummer: my older son, who’s a bigger fan, missed it.

The NBA is very concerned about the multiple arrests made as a result of the FBI’s sports gambling code. Use code “MULTIPLEARRESTS” for a 30% Profit Boost on a three-leg parlay with Draft Kings, the official gambling partner of the NBA.

NOV. 6 @NYUGallatin gallery: @nyuniversity prof. @ShatimaJones presents CROWNED HEIGHTS, a celebration of the Black barbershops & beauty salons of Brooklyn & her signature class, "(De)Tangling the Business of Black Women's Hair." Details: wp.nyu.edu/gallatingalleries…