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1/ ✍️ A new article that has been a little scary to put out into the world: "Volunteering while researching conflict and violence: reflections on listening, solidarity, and decoloniality in Myanmar's borderlands". Open access: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).

New Year's READ: Volunteering While Researching Conflict and Violence by @shonaloong.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Excited that this is part of our special issue on #Decolonising Research #Ethics in Asia Pacific Viewpoint (w/Anne Décobert, Sophia Htwe + @zalifung.bsky.social)

With which professors, at which (oversaturated, underfunded, understaffed) universities, for which jobs? Lots of Canadian press pointing at this without looking at the actual case in the country.

“Canada’s assertion that the United States remains a safe country for refugees under the Trump administration is a cruel irony to those fleeing persecution today.”

Be our colleague… Hiring an Assistant Prof of Urban Geography & Climate Crisis. www.sfu.ca/geography/ab...

A great read for end of year reflections "The Politics of Acknowledgements" in Myanmar/Burma studies @rosemetro.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... part of our special issue on Decolonising Research Ethics in Asia Pacific Viewpoint @zalifung.bsky.social Anne Decobert & Sophia Htwe.

Article 22 is a jewelry company that repurposes Vietnam War shrapnel and battlefield debris. A portion of their profits goes to the Mine Advisory Group, which works to remove landmines still left in Laos (they've removed more than 300k mines!). I like the company's "Shard" necklace collection.

Essential listening each week for me

Tuvalu's first climate migrants have arrived in Australia - More than a third ofTuvalu's 11,000 citizens applied for the new climate visa — a deal forged between the two countries to preserve Tuvaluan culture as the atolls disappear. www.abc.net.au/pacific/firs...

Apply now -- deadline December 20th

I wrote about food and the work to create "solidarity infrastructures" in the #Salween, particularly the work by women who provide food for the movement, with @zalifung.bsky.social www.roadsides.net/articles/8234

Another cool art project "South East Asia for Peace & Solidarity" is launching. 16 artworks from 16 artists from Thailand, Cambodia, Laos & Myanmar on the theme of: "Our art refuses war ศิลปะของเราต่อต้านสงคราม ສິນລະປະຂອງເຮົາ ຕໍ່ຕ້ານສົງຄາມ សិល្បៈយើងបដិសេធសង្គ្រាម ငါတို့သည် စစ်ကိုအနုပညာနှင့် ဆန့်ကျင်ကြသည်" 1/

I wrote about food and the work to create "solidarity infrastructures" in the #Salween, particularly the work by women who provide food for the movement, with @zalifung.bsky.social www.roadsides.net/articles/8234

New paper with @drvanessalamb.bsky.social in @roadsides.bsky.social We show how food preparation, primarily undertaken by older Karen women, is key to contesting long-proposed hydropower dams & water diversions in the Salween River Basin Thanks editors @mattrest.bsky.social & Dolly Kikon

Canada is releasing a set of stamps celebrating the nation's graphic novelists. These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.

you do have to do it in a couple of places but this tutorial makes it easy to go uncheck the boxes that otherwise lets Google's AI read all your shit. or move everything over to protonmail but moving everything over is a giant thing I know.

No poll or research based solely on an online survey can ever be trusted again (and they never should have been in the first place), pass it on

I worry a lot about the drying 'pipeline' of young people getting to study in China. So excited to see this incredible opportunity for Canada-based scholars *and* professionals. Please consider applying! www.educanada.ca/scholarships...

Heavy metals impact river livelihoods on the #Salween www.straitstimes.com/asia/murder-...

Apply now — Antipode’s 10th Institute for the Geographies of Justice, “Organizing and Solidarity in a Polycrisis”, deadline 20 December 2025 antipodeonline.org/2025/11/13/a...

Heavy metals impact river livelihoods on the #Salween www.straitstimes.com/asia/murder-...

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I just donated to World Central Kitchen's on-the-ground efforts in Jamaica. Please consider doing the same.

The lecture is free. In person and live streaming.

What a beautiful piece, definitely planning to assign this to students.

Good take on what no kings was good for.

Pls share: Applications open for Summer Institute in Economic Geography, Toronto, 5-10 July 2026 Featuring: Lars Coenen, Karen Lai, Devika Narayan and Stefan Ouma Early career economic geographers (broadly defined) are welcome to apply. Stipends available. www.econgeog.net/Toronto2026

American humour can never again be funny as nothing tops this guy.

Want a fast and easy way to make your Indigenous Peoples Day impactful for years to come? I made this list of 100+ Indigenous Voices who post daily about our lives, our truths, and our fight. Easily auto-follow all 🪶 Come honor these beautiful Native voices!

Working on fresh approaches to infrastructures? If you can imagine editing a special issue with us, send us a proposal! Deadline for proposals: 15 November 2025 Send proposals to our editors-in-chief: Agnieszka Joniak-Lüthi [email protected] Tina Harris [email protected]

We made a reading list for you.

The debt crisis is fundamentally a development crisis. Today I'll be joining Laura Carvalho and Daouda Sembene to discuss how to forge a more equitable global debt architecture. #UNGA Register (In-person & Virtual) ➡️ buff.ly/EdGw4pa Our G20 discussion paper ➡️ buff.ly/nDNM2Kt

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

PSA that there is cheap (good!) lunch on campus at the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre cafe. The woman today told me I was only the third person in for the day — it’s quiet and they need our support! Level 4 of the building with the student food court. UniMelb people please reshare 🙏🏼

This is the best explainer I’ve seen so far of the rare earth mining pollution issue in the Mekong. @bbcbreaking-bot.bsky.social @cnn.com @channelnewsasia.bsky.social it’s time for you to cover this story. This is the absolute worst thing to happen to the the Mekong. youtu.be/V1gwQ_CDRMk?...

Melbourne Uni needs to explain this bullshit. This is destroying critical cultural infrastructure. Unimelb axing Meanjin, ANU scuttling the Australian National Dictionary Centre, and then universities wonder why they can’t seem to exert any influence over the national discourse.

"The nickname is “Nousferatu,” as in the vampire, because of what critics describe as a reputation for selling a slash-and-burn template for saving bankrupt universities by making them go ruthlessly corporate; ... nationalpost.com/feature/how-...

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor - Technology, Society, and Power at the School of Information, University of Michigan, in the areas of critical study of technology and its relationship to governance, violence, control, surveillance, resistance, and war apply.interfolio.com/171466

Please join us! I am co-convening 3 Royal Geographical Society panels on Feminist and Gendered Geographies of Resistance with @zalifung.bsky.social and Rebecca Elmhirst at the University of Birmingham next week. A great lineup of presentations. bit.ly/4lgkPnk @rgsibg.bsky.social

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Our The Promise of Cultural Geography compilation now exists as a physical book, as well as OA online, thanks to all @vickiezhang.bsky.social work and gomer printing who together have created a beautiful object. We’ll be bringing a lot of them to the #rgsibg25

🧵THREAD “Care and Resistance” brings together five movements to share and exchange how they are embodying care at the core of their fights. 📸 Abahlali baseMjondolo (South Africa)

"But that one of the symbols of local resistance would be a man launching a sandwich is about as unexpected as things get. (That being said, a group of men dumping tea into a harbor did help inspire the Revolutionary War.)" @maustermuhle.bsky.social for @51st.news 51st.news/email/e53cf0...

Please join us! I am co-convening 3 Royal Geographical Society panels on Feminist and Gendered Geographies of Resistance with @zalifung.bsky.social and Rebecca Elmhirst at the University of Birmingham next week. A great lineup of presentations. bit.ly/4lgkPnk @rgsibg.bsky.social

"Air Canada has to learn not to call mommy and daddy every time they reach an impasse at the bargaining table. They have to actually sit down and get a deal done with their workers." - @stufts.bsky.social Solidarity with flight attendants! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...