Why is everything so strange (lauditory)

ominous brain cloud

P.s. Our Weather, Climate and Health research theme co-led by @hepach.org, me, Jed Stevenson (Geog, Soci, Anthro) has a webpage and our event line-up can be found here: mhep.github.io/wch/#events Inc. webinars+ in-person workshops + hybrid roundtables #medhums #envhums #sociology #climate

If you can substitute "hungry ghost trapped in a jar" for "AI" in a sentence it's probably a valid use case for LLMs. Take "I have a bunch of hungry ghosts in jars, they mainly write SQL queries for me". Sure. Reasonable use case. "My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged.

A short commentary I wrote for @dialogueshg.bsky.social on (involuntary) memory, forgetting, and haunting in digital tools and technologies: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Excited to announce @leverhulmecal.bsky.social posts - we are looking for 7 interdisciplinary fellows to join our Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life, closing date 30 January 2026 (1/3) durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started

Such a good experience presenting ‘Living with SAD’ and ‘Wintering Well to community link workers via @vhscotland.bsky.social with @slipshodspeller.bsky.social. A November tonic ☀️

💥New: In defence of boredom – Why the social sciences need time to “waste” ✍️ Madiha Tariq #AcademicSky #SocialScience #SlowScholarship

CfP: Romantic Elements: Rocks, and Stones, and Soil, 1750–1850, Symposium at The University of Manchester, 25–26 June 2026. Deadline 30th January 2026. www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6185

The special issue of Eighteenth Century Studies on Coasts is now out - glad to be part of it with some thoughts about coasts and gardens in c18 Ireland #BlueHumanities #CoastalHistory #CoastalStudies 🌊 muse.jhu.edu/issue/55889

New Cultures of Energy pod on film, plastics, warfare, radiation and more. Plus did you know Rayon is made from wood? That & more marvels revealed in our chat with @alicelovejoy.bsky.social about her brilliant new book tinyurl.com/5fv6mc4f @cymene.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social @culanth.bsky.social

New Book! "All Geographers Should be Feminist Geographers: Creating Care-full Academic Spaces" now available from UGA Press. Excited to talk about the book with folks, so please consider if this topic and ideas are well-suited to department seminars, class visits, or other conversational spaces.

SAVE GEOGRAPHY at Leicester University (UK) - We call on the University of Leicester to urgently reconsider the proposal to dissolve Geography. This is direct attack on the discipline of Geography at Leicester with likely loss of Geography staff. Please sign + share www.change.org/p/save-geogr...

New article, long in the making. On Alexander von Humboldt’s critique of natural-historical concepts of race and his diagnosis of a politics of racialised difference leveraged in the colonies. I try to say: there are good reasons to look beyond Kant! doi.org/10.1177/0191...

If any journalists would like a copy of Electric Wind: An Energy History of Modern Britain to review, please get in touch w me /MUP. It's a rigorous history of wind energy written for a wide audience, with plenty to say about today's energy challenges. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182968/

Stack of Jacquard loom cards, about two meters in length at Queen’s Street Mill, near Burnley By my calculation about 120kb of data

I'm not lazy, I'm just convenience maxxing.

Haven't done this in a while, but I have a new paper available online in @geopoliticsjournal.bsky.social offering a new way to think about a radio geopolitics assemblage - www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Join us for another series of online and in-person events on the digital environmental humanities: www.digital-humanities.manchester.ac.uk/connect/even... Next up on November 12: @ehameeteman.bsky.social on desalination #envhist #envhum #skystorians #DH @kmcdono.bsky.social

My new article on the atmosphere in spatial history is out!

feel like aristotle probably said something wacky about this

PhD Studentships in Transformative Humanities @ Durham www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

A gift to post-structuralists everywhere

Last month, my father passed away from cancer. The journey to that point showed me how many lives are affected by cancer, either directly or through friends and family. I am collecting donations in memory of my father for @cancerresearchuk.org: fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/maximil...

Launch event: WIND AS MODEL, MEDIA, AND EXPERIENCE June 11th, 04:00pm (London/Online) Join us for the launch of the Stream “Wind as Model, Media, and Experience” with Media+Environment. Editorial: mediaenviron.org/article/1274... Zoom link: sfu.zoom.us/j/8429412299...

Just in time for @scmstudies.bsky.social #SCMS2025 👉Introducing Wind Humanities: A Q&A with Media+Environment’s Wind as Model, Media, and Experience Guest Editors www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/i...

“In an oral culture, cliché and stereotype are valued, as accumulations of wisdom, and analysis is frowned upon, for putting those accumulations at risk.” Two print metaphors for oral culture. ♾️ https://tinyurl.com/bdd737vp

PhD studentship: The history and heritage of the discovery of environmental change and the interpretation of place in the East of England (Cambridge, UK) Deadline: 16 May 2025 https://www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/cc-ee/studentships/cambridge-university-library-and-university-of-cambridge/

this article is published in a special issue of Media + Environment which I contributed to editing as part of an AHRC & DFG funded project called Weather Reports: Wind as Model, Media, and Experience. with many thanks to @hepach.org for the editorial heavy lifting mediaenviron.org/article/1274...

beyond thrilled to announce the publication of “An Island of Sound: A Libretto” — an article co-authored with @julesrawlinson.bsky.social written into the libretto devised for the live performance of An Island of Sound, a browser-based work about phantom islands mediaenviron.org/article/1295...

As part of "Weather Reports", we've just published the first part of a Stream (Special Issue) on wind as media, model, and experience with Media+Environment. In our introduction, we ask what shape the Wind Humanities might take: mediaenviron.org/article/1274...

The Polyphony (coming to Bluesky in 2025 ☺️) is one of the world's leading medical humanities platforms. We are recruiting 2 new part-time editors to join our dynamic ECR-led team, working closely with Editor-in-Chief @evasurawy.bsky.social Apply by Jan 20! thepolyphony.org/2024/12/17/w...

Durham home & international PhD studentships for work on climate action, open to all Departments: www.durham.ac.uk/business/pro...

12 funded PhD positions available at the Augsburg-Munich International Doctoral Program "Rethinking Environment: The Environmental Humanities and the Ecological Transformation of Society" -> Deadline: January 31, 2025 #envhum #ecocriticism www.uni-augsburg.de/en/forschung...

Anyone else feel seen?

Delighted to see that my review of David N. Livingstone's The Empire of Climate is now out in @whitehorsepress.bsky.social's exciting new journal Climates and Cultures in History: doi.org/10.3197/whpc...

Final flight into the eye of a storm for the late Peter Dodge, who spent his life studying hurricanes.

Sheep physics is a thing. A rather wonderful thing. Here is my new article about it for Physics World. physicsworld.com/a/field-work...

I'm excited to announce the publication of my latest chapter on Feminist Methodologies in the Encyclopedia of Human Geography by Springer. 📚 Here, I explore how feminist research methodologies challenge traditional approaches to knowledge production #geosky ⤵️ link.springer.com/referencewor...

CFP #AAG2025 - Media Matter(s) in Geography: On Theory, Genealogy, and Analysis of Media Spatiality. Addresses the diverse materialities of media, digital and otherwise, bringing into dialogue geographic scholarship on media. Deadline 18 Oct buff.ly/3TEDBKr

Some personal news.. I will be joining Durham Geography as Assistant Professor (Research) this November! My 5-year Wellcome Trust project "Under Pressure" will explore the historical and cultural geographies of meteorosensitivity (the physiological and psychological impact of weather on health).

As global temperatures rise, the world's workers are feeling the heat You could be a part of the solution Our growing Oppressive Heat team is hiring a PDRA for 2+ years To join us at the cutting edge of heat stress research, see link below👇...or get in touch with questions! t.co/XW1ko8qQPT

On confusion-bait: “Racking up a lot of views is crucial for achieving greater visibility, as well as moneymaking opportunities—and confusing people is a pretty innovative way to do it.”

I contributed a short piece about the cultural history of sandpaper to the "sand" issue of Material Intelligence! [the editors asked me to share these :)] www.materialintelligencemag.org

Our introduction to a special issue of @journalphp.bsky.social devoted to our Wellcome project, Renewing Phenomenological Psychopathology, edited and co-authored by Lucienne Spencer, Giovanni Stanghellini and myself www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The problem with this and most reporting of #StudentFinance is that it perpetuates the myth that 'students pay £9,250 a year in fees'. THEY DON'T. 🧵 1/11 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

TIL of #weatherwave ... https://buff.ly/3XvQ5Fi "Kana is one of a number of artists who have taken transmissions from the weather reports of yesteryear and merged them with the lo-fi electronic music genre known as vaporwave." https://buff.ly/4goq2s5

book writing milestone! printed, edited, and sent to friends for feedback!