Adriana Darielle Mejía Briscoe

For Hispanic Heritage Month 2026, I am sharing links to essays about my ancestors who came to California from Mexico. I was curious about why they chose to migrate, the economic forces driving them, and the challenges they faced getting their footing in the U.S. My story writing began in the 80s.

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I voted!

unionleader.comPatricia Emison: UNH library plans to discard up to 300,000 ...UNH’s library plans to discard up to 300,000 volumes, prompting art history professor Patricia Emison to warn that the move could weaken long-term scholarly res...

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A travesty.

Dr. Jessica Lepler@jlepler.bsky.social

I asked UNH's archivist to create a file of letters protesting the "weeding" of 30% of the library's books. Future researchers need to know faculty did not let the books "go gentle into that good night" (30+ books on Dylan Thomas to be culled). 🗃️ #skystorians www.unionleader.com/opinion/op-e...

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Arlyssa D. Becenti ✍️🗞️

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From me: Hopi village seeks donations to support families displaced by flooding

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Los Angeles Times

@latimes.com

Catapult Books is being sold; authors mourn a major loss to L.A.'s literary scene

latimes.comCatapult Books is being sold; authors mourn a major loss to L.A.'s literary sceneCatapult Books has sold its assets to an undisclosed buyer, leaving the future of 16 scheduled titles uncertain as its staff negotiates a severance package.

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Paul Knoepfler

@stemcells.bsky.social

As a biologist, I'm strongly against Prop 38 here in California. It makes no sense for billions to go to one unnamed research institute. Vote no.

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Jeremy Berg

@jeremymberg.bsky.social

@noamross.net on NPR this morning. www.npr.org/2026/10/09/n... "I am always enthusiastic about more investment into science, but you could think of this as someone planting a tree somewhere where THEY just burned down a forest. We've lost so much scientific investment under this administration."

npr.orgAfter his university cutbacks, Trump announces $100 million for STEM researchersThe Trump administration is funneling $100 million into educating STEM researchers who are U.S. citizens. The move comes after other changes under Trump have forced cutbacks in university research.

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Dare Obasanjo

@carnage4life.bsky.social

“This recent dump of papers on Tuesday destroyed the careers of early-career mathematicians. We've had whole research programs wiped out on Tuesday by their dump … they have all the mathematicians research programs in their training data” - Tristan Buckmaster on OpenAI solving unsolved math problems

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Korrine Crawford

@almostwriting.bsky.social

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Adriana Darielle Mejía Briscoe@adrianabriscoe.bsky.social

It's very easy to request your local library order a book. Just give them the title, BETWEEN MEMORY AND OBLIVION: A NOVEL by Peter Briscoe and the ISBN number:‎ 0963489860. That's it.

Friends who love to read, I have a small ask on behalf of my father, Peter Briscoe, who is not on social media. Dad is a retired librarian, who has devoted his life and career to the care, consideration, purchase, and curation of tens of thousands of books. He is a passionate bibliophile

It's very easy to request your local library order a book. Just give them the title, BETWEEN MEMORY AND OBLIVION: A NOVEL by Peter Briscoe and the ISBN number:‎ 0963489860. That's it.

#Booksky

theguardian.comAs monarch butterflies migrate for the fall, meet the Chicago woman trying to protect themClaudia Galeno-Sánchez has turned her garden into a sanctuary for the insects by planting native milkweed and wildflowers

“Before becoming a mom, I didn’t know much about the environment,” the 49-year-old said in Spanish. “Knowing that we are losing species and the planet is warming, I feel that while I’m alive, it’s my time to do something...” said Galeno-Sánchez. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

theguardian.comBeautiful butterflies get more attention from the public – and from scientistsResearch has shown that species considered colourful and patterned are the subject of more studies, and receive more conservation funding

Beauty bias in butterfly research. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

nytimes.comOpinion | That Daily Brain Rot Break Is Taking Us Back to the Dark AgesWelcome to the postliterate era.

The NYTimes interview with James Marriott about his new book, THE NEW DARK AGES, about the post-literate era we are in is timely and disturbing. My father's novel BETWEEN MEMORY AND OBLIVION deals with this exact subject and what is at stake when we lose the ability to read books. l1nq.com/66sz44i

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Alex Wild

@alexwild.bsky.social

10 Sept

Ultimately, this letter from NSF is an announcement that universities will be funded a lot less and politically-connected industry will be funded a lot more. Fancy words around old-fashioned corruption.

nsf.govNSF leadership in a new golden age of scienceThe U.S. National Science Foundation was established in 1950 to keep American discovery at the frontier. That mission has not changed. The science and technology ecosystem around it has...

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Max Kennerly

@maxkennerly.bsky.social

Look at just this one page from Trump's garbage 2027 budget. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202... And where's the money going instead? You guessed it: subsidizing corporate R&D that would happen without government involvement, but they prefer taxpayers cover it.

Geoff Brumfiel@gbrumfiel.bsky.social

The IceCube neutrino detector has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in physics. The Trump administration has proposed slashing its budget in half in 2027.

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Insights from the International Latino Book Award Judges:

"The character of the bibliophile who devotes his life to collecting and safeguarding books is particularly profound. His story reminds us that books are more than words on a page...they are keepers of hour histories, our culture, our collective memories, connecting the past, present, and future"

If you do decide to help with this request, please let me know by messaging me, and Dad will send you a personal note. Librarians (along with teachers) are unsung heroes (in the widest sense) whose work is vital to the well-being of our society. Some of his best insights are shared in this book.

Thank you for your consideration!

It would be a dream come true if Dad's novel could find its way into more libraries. If you have a library card, please consider asking your librarian to add his book to their collection. Librarians are happy to accommodate these requests and his book is available from booksellers everywhere.

I read Dad's novel when he was revising it, and gave my editorial input. It's a fine piece of writing, with loads of insight. If you read it, I promise you will learn something about the world of books you didn't already know.

who himself has read thousands of novels, books about Latin America and European history, natural history books, accounts of early explorers, books about philosophy, and linguistics. And during his career he was responsible for building/overseeing important collections at three institutions,

including photography and science fiction at UCR. He has written a splendid novel, BETWEEN MEMORY AND OBLIVION, about books and libraries which has just been honored with a Gold medal at the 2026 International Latino Book Awards in the category of Popular Fiction.

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Quanta Magazine

@quantamagazine.org

Today, three scientists were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their pioneering work on optogenetics, which lets researchers control and manipulate cells using light. It all started with a curious question about the biology of algae. 🧵

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Congratulations Dad/Peter Briscoe (BETWEEN MEMORY AND OBLIVION), Reyna Grande (MIGRANT HEART) and Daniel Olivas (WAITING FOR GODINEZ), Gold medal winners in Popular Fiction, Most Inspirational NonFiction, Book and Best Play, respectively, at the 2026 International Latino Book Awards!!!!

Adriana Darielle Mejía Briscoe@adrianabriscoe.bsky.social

I'm excited for my Dad. He and my Mom are heading over to the International Latino Book Awards where he will be honored along with other finalists in the category of Popular Fiction for his novel, BETWEEN MEMORY AND OBLIVION. The ceremony will be live streamed on Instagram @EmpoweringLatinoFutures

nytimes.comNational Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by CongressThe move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.

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Dan Garisto

@dangaristo.bsky.social

Good end-of-FY coverage by the Times. The amount of unspent funds has wiggled but it was pretty clear for some time now that NSF was simply not going to spend a substantial portion of its congressional appropriation this year.

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Stand Up for Science!

@standupforscience.net

Trump corrupted America's most innovative institution, the National Science Foundation, by stealing $1.4B mandated by Congress for research. 🧪 🧵

@altnih4science.bsky.social

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a few weeks old now

The New Republic@newrepublic.com

Democrats say Hegseth and the Pentagon is attempting to steal funds from the National Institute of Health to make up for the record amount of taxpayer money they’ve spent in their war on Iran. trib.al/OscF6hg

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪

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this matters

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social

Unless Congress reclaims its power, this will just become the new normal. A good first step would be to impeach Vought. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...

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Daniel A. Olivas

@danielolivas.bsky.social

18 Sept

UT Austin Axes Several Ethnic, Gender Studies Majors The University of Texas at Austin will eliminate four majors—African and African diaspora studies; Mexican American and Latina/o studies; women’s and gender studies; and race, indigeneity and migration. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

insidehighered.comUT Austin Axes Several Ethnic, Gender Studies MajorsSome faculty members consider the decision the next step in a broader effort to gut what remains of ethnic and gender studies at the university.

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The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine

@nationalacademies.org

18 Sept

The research landscape is changing rapidly, bringing new and complex ethical questions. Our updated "On Being a Scientist" guide helps early-career researchers navigate these challenges while building on longstanding principles of research ethics. 👇

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Mongabay

@mongabay.com

18 Sept

Electric fences caused 14 of 15 recent giant pangolin deaths near Kenya's Nyekweri Forest. To protect the country's last remaining 30 individuals, local landowners have modified 134 km of fencing to allow safe passage, though habitat loss continues to threaten progress. Pauline Kairu reports.

mongabay.ccElectric fences that kill and the Maasai trying to save Kenya’s last giant pangolinsNaserian, a giant ground pangolin, lived for about two years in Kenya’s last remaining stronghold for this animal, Nyekweri Forest. When researchers from The Pangolin Project began tracking her in…

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Dmitri Petrov

@petrovadmitri.bsky.social

facultypositions.stanford.eduAssistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology - Stanford University, California, United StatesThe Department of Biology at Stanford University seeks applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology. A successful candidate will conduct research that asks fundamental que...

We are searching for an Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology! Looking for colleagues asking fundamental questions relating to evolutionary processes and drivers of evolutionary patterns. If you think it is you, please do apply! And please repost. facultypositions.stanford.edu/jobs/assista...

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Nathan Ellstrand

@nellstra.bsky.social

@zinnedproject.bsky.social

New book forthcoming next week from @wwnorton.com: Racist by Design: Two Centuries of U.S. Immigration Control by Kelly Lytle Hernández wwnorton.com/books/978132...

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Zinn Education Project

zinnedproject.orgOne Hundred Years of High School Student OrganizingRethinking Schools editor Jesse Hagopian will be in conversation with historians Aaron G. Fountain Jr. and Jon N. Hale about student organizing and state repression. This class is part of the Zinn…

Why should educators teach the 100-year history of HS student activism? What can teachers today learn from students about supporting student activism without trying to control it? Find the answers to these questions & more at our TBFS class on 9/28, 100 Years of HS Student Organizing. 🧵 More ⬇️

hup.harvard.eduBanished Citizens — Harvard University PressA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the YearA moving portrait of a grim period in American immigration history, when approximately one million ethnic Mexicans—mostly women and children who were U...

For more in-depth description of this period, Marla Ramírez has written eloquently about the burden placed on women and their families forced to leave for Mexico, including with children or family members who were not born in Mexico: www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

In the end, my writing about this particular topic can be traced back decades to Carlos Cortés' Chicano History course, which is why I will always support the teaching of ethnic studies in the U.S. It helps us understand who we are, where we came from, and where we are going.

link.springer.com“Despedida”: My great great grandfather’s corrido about the Mexican repatriation - Latino StudiesLatino Studies -

The 2nd essay is based on an extraordinary discovery I made in 2021. A relative sent me an ancestor's writing which turned out to be a corrido (a ballad) about the 1930s repatriation which led to the banishment and deportation of ~500K people of Mexican descent. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

laist.comThis nearly 100-year-old ballad tells the story of mass deportations. Is history repeating itself?Indiscriminate raids. Removal of U.S. citizens. Pressure to leave the country. For UC Irvine professor and evolutionary biologist Adriana Darielle Mejía Briscoe, the answer is yes.

I am grateful to the journalist Julia Barajas who wrote about the Mexican repatriation corrido story for the LAist: laist.com/news/educati...

press.uillinois.eduDangerous Migration

around the extraction of labor from Native American and immigrant workers, as described in countless books, including this recent highlight by Eladio Bobadilla. www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...

read.dukeupress.eduLeaving Michoacán: My Family’s Migration Ahead of the Mexican RevolutionAbstract. The author reflects on her great-grandmother’s migration from a hacienda in Michoacán, Mexico, in the early 1900s to an ethnically segregated Mexican American community within the city of Co...

The first essay I wrote paints a picture of the milieu in Mexico my family was fleeing from when they decided to emigrate to Southern California in 1898. Unfortunately it is behind a paywall but I'm happy to share a pdf if you DM me. read.dukeupress.edu/meridians/ar...

en.wikipedia.orgCarlos E. Cortés - Wikipedia

When I was a senior in high school, I took Professor Carlos Cortés Intro to Chicano History course at UC Riverside. It was my first ethnic studies course. The first time I learned about Mexican American history and I ♥️ it so much that I ended up with an A+. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_...