Good to remeber Heritage Foundation spent a good deal of its cultural capital complaining about the way James Madison's Montpelier talks about slavery. In particular they didnt like an agreement to give the descendents of Montpelier's enslaved population more say on how the museum presented slavery.

'One senior ally of Starmer has been heard describing Larry the Cat, who has been No. 10’s “chief mouser” since 2011, as a metaphor for the British state — old, lazy, too pampered to do the job he was hired for (catching mice), yet unsackable due to a sense of fondness and tradition.' (1/5)

The US Senate deal seems a triumph for linking the GOP to the rise in health care costs (assuming there is a vote on it as promised) but colossal defeat for actually maintaining Americans’ health care

A great reflection on masculinity and the shape of the economy www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/o...

Please sign and share this petition. I care deeply about geography and want to do everything I can to save our jobs and the school, and protect our students 🌍 #Geography #SchoolClosure c.org/Z2ZK6fQVgf

Human Geography at Leicester is facing closure. Staff contracts are to end in June 2026; students are to be relocated to other universities, or taught out by a maximum of two (!) teaching-only staff. Other departments and subjects are facing closure, too. Please join the demo!

The Department of Geography invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Indigenous Geographies, preferably with a focus on Human–Environment Relationships. Read more 👉 www.uvic.ca/faculty-staf...

dawg they’re live laugh loving the white house. president homegoods

🚨New @ausis.bsky.social book alert! In "Building a Green Wall," @cgallaher.bsky.social and @au-spa.bsky.social's Kimberly Cowell-Meyers explore how the Irish-American lobby worked to defend the Good Friday Agreement and shaped US policy toward Brexit. Read more: www.american.edu/sis/research...

An exhibition at London’s Imperial War Museum offers a welcome corrective to the nostalgia for empire common among Britain’s elites.

Imagine wanting to pay him $1 trillion for this on.ft.com/47rYyOG

Interesting session for the AAG in San Francisco, if you are interested in Diaspora Diplomacy! www.linkedin.com/posts/jonath...

Trump has affirmed support for the nuclear sub deal with Australia and the UK.

📘 Book Launch: Governing the End Join us on 5 Nov, 6:30pm @ UCL Bloomsbury for the launch of Prof Lisa Vanhala’s new book on climate change loss & damage. 🎤 Panel experts: UCL, SOAS, LSE, Johns Hopkins & The Loss and Damage Collaboration. 🔗 Register: https://shorturl.at/tUwzL

This week in the European Parliamen in Strasbourg, there was a workshop in which you could paint your own garden gnome ... and it makes sense, as gnomes can actually be very political. In our Declassified humor column, we explain 👇

Furious about attacks on DEI? Exquisite timing for this awesome new collection edited by Guo Chen and LaToya Eaves @spacedemands.bsky.social with chapters on strategies across academia and community action. Thrilled to be a contributor. @geographers.bsky.social www.e-elgar.com/shop/usd/how...

Not sure how this helps productivity in other sectors, especially in the early morning

My neighbour: isn’t it a little early to have your Halloween decorations up? Me:

Where was the O-line? Embarrassing job of protecting the QB

An interesting essay that ties in to what @benandersongeog.bsky.social and @ajsecor.bsky.social have been writing about in their book The Politics of Feeling www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/o...

[T]he act “was caused by an uproar over the actions of the chief of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Spencer Clark,” who had “placed himself on a five-cent note and had a large quantity of them printed before it was noticed.” 🤣😆🤣😆 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/b...

To the fox that pooped in my window box

🎉 Congrats to Caleb Tan! @ucl.ac.uk Geography student wins the @rgsibg.bsky.social PolGRG Undergraduate Dissertation Prize for research on transnational migrants’ experiences of National Service in Singapore, exploring mobility, identity, and citizenship. 🔗 Learn more: tinyurl.com/ucl-caleb

Some problems have simple solutions. This new “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” is one. The answer is simply saying no. Simple does not mean easy. But Brown, Dartmouth, MIT, Vanderbilt, Univ of AZ, UPenn, USC, UT Austin & UVA must understand what they’ll lose if they sign on.

Faustian pact on offer. Time for collective courage, if such a thing exists any more. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

“We’re living through a golden age for losers who don’t seem to realize how much they keep telegraphing their loserdom to the rest of us.”

In Britain, a former far-right Reform party politician has been convicted of taking bribes to promote Russian viewpoints. Another scandal that should be the end of Reform but will be ignored unless we make a lot of noise about it.

Looking forward to discussing @benandersongeog.bsky.social & Anna Secor's brilliant new @goldsmithspress.bsky.social book, The Politics of Feeling, with the authors and @jemgilbert.bsky.social on 25th Nov - all welcome, register here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-politi...

My money is on Dean Cain

'Tylenol' is known in the civilised world as Paracetamol 2.4 million children born in Sweden between 1995 and 2019. Studied 186,000 children whose mothers were treated with paracetamol during pregnancy. news.ki.se/no-link-betw...

I recommend this article, which provides an excellent introduction to the history both of the term autism and the ways in which the label has been applied to a changing set of human characteristics, in line with changing scientific and diagnostic approaches. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Thrilled and honoured to have an entry published on @lseusablog.bsky.social where I reflect on politics and pop culture. Enjoy the reading!

Now that it’s the time of year when the obscurely-funded right wing Restore Trust, a private company, try once again to take over the National Trust, my annual reminder of what they want to do with our history & heritage. blogs.sussex.ac.uk/snapshotsofe...

on.ft.com/46mnJlf Banks tighten debt terms as squeezed UK universities refinance loans

@washingtonpost.com confirming yet again that so many of us made the right call when we canceled our subscriptions.

Far right supported by billionaires in a new media ecology that amplifies intensity observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Excited for this book, and the new insights it will bring! I love disciplinary history! mitpress.mit.edu/978026255159...

Highest level of support since Gallup started asking this question a quarter century ago

New $250 visa fee risks deepening US travel slump reut.rs/4oZwDxx

This story is NUTS www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...

New York Times story with profiles of researchers whose grants were terminated. [Gift Link] www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...

Come and join us geographers @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social -- job opportunity 😍 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOI951/l...

It’s as if genocide were adjudicated by private sector insurance adjusters

Christopher R. Rossi, The Arctic Großraum: Geopolitics and the High North – Bloomsbury, September 2025 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/arctic-gr...

Who would believe a US security guarantee in the future when the US won’t stand up for Ukraine now?

NEW - Along The Line. Writing With Comics and Graphic Narrative in Geography, by @julietjfall.bsky.social www.epflpress.org/produit/1555...

‘The AI debate often pits the informed but hysterical against the measured but generalist.’ on.ft.com/41IQZRB

Last night coincidentally read the chapter on Munich appeasement in ‘Churchill’s Citadel’. Coincidental to what, I will let you decide.

Despite being American citizens, three children — a 4-year-old boy with Stage 4 kidney cancer, his 7-year-old sister and a 2-year-old girl — were detained with their families by immigration authorities in Louisiana and quickly sent to Honduras, according to a lawsuit.

Excited for the forthcoming publication of James Cheshire's new book on the @uclgeography.bsky.social Map Library. He brings important attention to our secret treasure. Pre-order it now! #academicsky #geography libraryoflostmaps.com