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

The PolGRG Annual General Meeting (AGM) will take place online on Monday 1st September, 11am. Everyone welcome! We also have a few roles available on the committee this year. More info, and link to register for the Zoom meeting, here: polgrg.wordpress.com/2025/08/08/p...

Farewell to the brilliant Tom Lehrer. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/a...

“I’m plainly convinced that my situation in this ICE jail is direct retaliation for my coverage,” Mario Guevara told @ajc.com in an exclusive interview from the Folkston, Georgia ICE detention center where he is currently detained, despite a judge's bail order. “I haven’t committed any crimes.”

Brothers in Arms: Macron, Merz and Starmer Plan for a Post-U.S. Future www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/w...

Exciting to see the spread of geographical thinking in Diplomacy Studies newdiplomatichistory.org/thinking-in-...

The test he took at Walter Reade, which he brags about all the time - "Man, Woman, Camera" -- was not an IQ test, but a test for encroaching dementia.

Do join me at the end of the month, in conversation about the British Empire with Sathnam Sanghera at Salisbury Cathedral: www.salisburycathedral.org.uk/arrangements...

The new ‘middle’ apparently

Postdoc researching military support chains & the environmental legacies of militarism w/ my fantastic colleague Mark Griffiths. Check it out 👇

Public lecture in London on 30th June, 6pm, on mine and Anna Secor’s new book, to the title of: The Politics of Feeling in Crisis Times: Populism, Progressivism, Liberalism. Event bite link here, would be lovely to see people there!: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-politi...

“No, no. We’re not a king,” Mr. Trump said. “We’re not a king at all, thank you very much.” Is that the Royal We I am seeing? www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/u...

I have this thought all the time

You guys, I think he might invade

It’s incredible that he does this as Mike Johnson is out there accusing recipients of widespread fraud.

Interesting how much more exuberant @bbcnews story about Ukrainian strike is than @nytimes, which draws primarily from Russian reports Ukraine drones strike bombers during major attack in Russia www.bbc.com/news/article...

The effects of Trump and Musk’s cruelty www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/o...

“Once again, a far-left judge has dramatically overstepped his authority, based on a complaint from biased plaintiffs,” Ms. Biedermann said in a statement. “Biased plaintiffs”: what a hilarious concept www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/w...

Pray for me. Today was the day Alexa finally understood my toddler’s request to play Baby Shark.

ICYMI: Social Media Geopolitics: The “Unofficial Geopolitics” of Chinese Vloggers in Pakistan by Davide Giacomo Zoppolato and Karen Culcasi Read more here:

Such a warm man. Cheers star George Wendt dies at 76 www.bbc.com/news/article...

People have been discussing Habeas Corpus for literally over 100 days. If you didn’t know what it was then, how could you not now?

Social & Cultural Geography is seeking a new Editor. We hope that you might be keen to join our lovely team! 🙏 ⏰ Closing date for applications is Friday 20 June 2025 📬 Applications should be sent to the journal’s editorial office at [email protected] 📄 Full details: go.unimelb.edu.au/uy8p

So far Iceland is my number one

When we say Trump has killed American soft power, we mean he killed American soft power on.ft.com/435xNgR

European leaders knock Trump’s war on universities as ‘gigantic miscalculation’ and seek to woo American researchers with a new program called “Choose Europe for Science.”

“No one could have thought that the world’s biggest democracy, whose economic model relies so heavily on science, on innovation and on its ability . . . to have disseminated this innovation more widely than its European peers, would make such a mistake." www.ft.com/content/923d...