📢New Issue of The GJ!📢 𝐺𝑒𝑜𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑝ℎ𝑦 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑃𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑐 𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡 September's Issue features the 'Legacies of Austerity' Special Section alongside 9 papers, 3 commentaries, and records of the 2025 RGS-IBG Medals and Awards ceremony. Take a look here ⬇️ rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14754959...

"Some TBI staff – including a number who left in recent years because of Ellison’s influence – say the cash injection has produced a culture that is dominated by a form of AI boosterism, and which, as they see it, amounts to lobbying for Oracle."

WATCH THIS: The most amazing thing about this remarkable 2002 car commercial is that it didn’t seem to realize at the time, or perhaps didn’t care, how effectively it made the point that cars and car infrastructure are a HUGE waste of space in cities. Award-winning 2002 ad for Saturn car company.

lol this is wild

Excellent approach to podcasting and politics. I think the oil lobby doesn't support queer rights because it illustrates collective action and recognition of their identity by the state, a model that will set a precedent for consumer-led democracy.

Spain has fully implemented an arms embargo on Israel through a royal decree law. All weapons sales, military tech trade, port access for fuel shipments, airspace use for arms transport and settlement goods imports have been banned.

🌍📢 Call for Papers!! Urban Studies seeks submissions for a special issue on Climate Urbanism, Resilience & Justice — exploring how cities confront the climate crisis, risk, & inequality. @urbanstudiesjournal.com @acuto.bsky.social  www.urbanstudiesjournal.com/callforpaper...

Watch this. I strive to be this clear and effective. Best line — “A temper tantrum disguised as an ideology.”

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Un exposé de position contre l'adoption de l'IA dans l'educ. sup qui ne mâche pas ses mots "Teaching about AI technologies should be just like how we teach ‘no smoking’ or the causal links between lung cancer and cigarette smoke; yet, we do not teach students how to roll cigarettes and smoke them."

Ta-Nehisi Coates on Charlie Kirk and the pundits and politicians sanitizing his legacy.

@zdnet.bsky.social thanks for writing this! > The authors urge educational leaders to act "to help us collectively turn back the tide of garbage software, which fuels harmful tropes and false frames to obtain market penetration and increase technological dependency." www.zdnet.com/article/stud...

This is lovely and should have come from the prime minster of the United Kingdom.

When this onesie was created — maybe for the Euros this year — I bet it felt super cute. But Sainsbury’s probably need to have a word with the media agency that pushed it on their socials this week…

The point is that many can live quite normally under the thumb of authoritarianism. Yes: many suffer and suffer now but large swaths of the American public chooses to be clueless and it’s not difficult. This is how the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper. www.vox.com/the-big-idea...

✨ I’m excited to share our new open-access article in @geoopenaccess.bsky.social, led by Juliana Gonçalves and with wonderful arts-based research by Namrata Narendra. The editorial process has been amazing - so thankful to the team for offering both very meaningful feedback and being fair to us.

Ireland's President Michael D. Higgins suggests Israel and states supplying it with weapons be excluded from the United Nations, in light of the genocide conclusions in the UN CoI report. @president.ie #Spéirghorm www.rte.ie/news/2025/09...

UK public has paid £200bn to shareholders of key industries since privatisation – study

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN inquiry

How do we fix this mess?

People have been warning for years that the secretive Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) system is a looming obstacle for climate action. A new round of claims filed by Exxon and Shell shows why (from @rishpardikar.bsky.social @drilledmedia.bsky.social drilled.media/news/groningen)

ICYMI. Good news from Ireland. “More than a quarter of a million children will become eligible for free public transport…”

Mosquitoes are the messengers that bring the news of climate change to your door via their infectious diseases.

This technology is so clearly designed to profit off cheating and struggling students--its insidious. And yet universities keep announcing how they're allowing this company into its midst, to exploit and incapacitate our students even more

"If you've had enough of politicians, if you don't trust Westminster, join us." What a revolting, cynical statement for a man who was an MP of the party that ruled for 14 years until five minutes ago - and David Cameron's speech writer before that. What contempt for voters. ~AA

LSE's Department of Methodogy is searching for an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science. Applicants from across the social sciences are very welcome! Please reach out if you would like any more details.

"We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically." www.ru.nl/en/research/...

🚨 BREAKING: GANTRY CLIMBERS NOT GUILTY A jury found Sam, Isobel and Rachel not guilty of public nuisance at Guilford Crown Court today, after they climbed gantries above the M25 in 2022. The jury decided they had a reasonable excuse for taking action.

Oxford's Congestion Charge approved at Cabinet today! I think this is the first UK one for 20 years - London and Durham being the other two cities with them. Looking forward to faster buses and more bus routes, fewer private cars and therefore being able to re-do crossings to favour pedestrians!

The last 48 hours have been surreal here in Kathmandu! Nepal’s youth recently started a viral online campaign exposing and targeting corrupt politicians & their children’s lavish lifestyles while the rest were struggling! Rattled, they tried banning social media altogether and all hell broke loose!

A timely paper in which we argue that most of our computational models that study inequality and segregation also think like most US adults in this poll. Inequality is not an individual choice. arxiv.org/abs/2505.01830

✨ I’m pleased to share that I’ve been appointed Professor of Just Urban Futures in the Dept. of Geography and Environment at @lborouniversity.bsky.social I’m also excited to work with the Climate Compatible Growth #CCG team, who are pretty radical in their impact. It's been a warm first week :)

Universities that allow AI to be embedded in this way have reached the pinnacle of enshittification of education, and pretty much all of our social and economic interactions.

Powerful new Banksy mural on the Royal Courts of Justice building shows a judge hitting a protester lying on the ground with his gavel, with blood splattering the placard.

NEW: Anthropic has reached a preliminary settlement in a class action lawsuit brought by a group of prominent authors, marking a major turn in of the most significant ongoing AI copyright lawsuits in history.

Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results: 1) Does UBI work? (yes) 2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)

Some weapons makers are going to extreme lengths to court a new generation of workers, while others are offering yoga classes or converting restaurant cooks into welders building battleships. Read more: https://bloom.bg/4ngkhQ4 📷: Jean-Francois Monier/AFP/Getty Images

We are hiring! Two new Lecturer (AP) positions at the University of Edinburgh School of Economics: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... #EconSky

Google's claim that each AI prompt uses the energy of 9 seconds of television is like throwing dispersant over an oil slick. The only way to get a number that low is with massive scale, which you should definitely worry about. medium.com/@dnafus/why-...

The hotels are seeking compensation because they were not allowed to offer cheaper overnight stays on their own websites than on the booking platform.

AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.

Watching a Waymo stuck in the middle of a block party, creating a surreal traffic jam because it can’t figure out how to briefly cross the yellow line to get past the crowd. Now the cops are here. They don’t understand the problem and are yelling at everyone but the car. The future is so stupid

More than 200,000 UK workers switch to four-day week since 2019

Big tech’s selective disclosure masks AI’s real climate impact 'Regions with high data centre concentration are seeing accelerated growth in power demand that incentivises fossil fuels, either slowing down climate progress or reversing it entirely.’

UK-based colleagues: here’s an opportunity to pay it forward and gain a lot of insight into how funding decisions are made - by making them

We’re excited to present the Swedish Municipal Council Database! This open-access resource contains our hand-coded data for all local politicians in Sweden’s democratic local elections over 100 years! With 🤩 @josefinemagnusson.bsky.social, @johannarickne.bsky.social, and Moa Frödin Gruneau.

Median salary earners pay 36.3% of income in property rent, 41.6% in London. Profiteering inflicts poverty. Essential workers can't live near work. What chance of raising a family, saving for decent home, education, pension? Must control rents. Need social housing.

Most of Lake Windermere polluted with sewage bacteria. Only 14% of England’s rivers/lakes meet good ecological standards. Water companies major culprits; over 1,135 criminal convictions, United Utilities have 205. No exec prosecuted, no licence to operate cancelled.

Sociology at Nuffield College invites applications for academic visitors during the 2026-27 academic year www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/our-research...

Returning to the UK after spending time in other European countries is always quite depressing. This year we cycled through five countries that have all made varying degrees of effort to make public space something you’d want to spend time in - not just drive through or park in.