#OpenAccess in TIBG 'Infra-culture and infrastructures: Relational placemaking at the coast' by Julian Clark This paper explores the concept of 'infra-culture', illustrating how cultural practices & material interactions influence the development of physical infrastructures doi.org/10.1111/tran...

📢 Online lecture | 16 Jan 2026, 11:30 (GMT) Professor Beth Perry explores urban epistemics and the “epistemic tangles” shaping how cities are known, governed, and contested Part of the #USFSeminarSeriesAwards "Epistemes of Non-Dominant Inhabitation." 👉 ow.ly/YbGj50XVfiC

A belated Happy New Year to all. Sharing this moment from Longhua Temple, Shanghai🐱

amazing line-up of speakers here, including Yu-Shan Tseng, @uitermark.bsky.social @robkitchin.bsky.social @myriageorgiou.bsky.social urbanpolitical.online/96-digital-c...

📢 CFP | AAG 2026, San Francisco Crisis between the Ordinary and Eventful: Housing, Material Conditions, and Everyday Urbanism In many cities, crisis isn’t rupture—it’s everyday life. Evictions, debt, precarity, housing struggles. But also repair, care, solidarity. @geographers.bsky.social #geosky

Put it in my reading list ☑️

Don’t miss out: Through September 30, 2025, AAG and Taylor & Francis are providing free access to journal articles on Black Geographies and racial justice, available for download at the links listed here:

📣 I'M HIRING! Please spread the word 📣 🔎 Looking for a 1-year postdoctoral research associate to support @sensory-lives-prj.bsky.social & UK-wide tour of a playhouse tent communicating neurodivergent children’s experiences of Temporary Accommodation. 🛜 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOL488/p...

Pls share: Killam Postdoctoral Research Fellowship competition now open at UBC. Department of Geography deadline is October 9, 2025. Details: geog.ubc.ca/job-opportun...

A fascinating read from The Diplomat today about Nepal and the BRI! thediplomat.com/2025/06/why-...

How does inequality affect our lot in life? Aini Gauhar of @equalitytrust.bsky.social looks at how household wealth shapes children’s health, education and future work prospects. But which countries offer clues to a more equitable way forward? #LSEInequalitiesBlog

Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.

It should go without saying, but apparently it needs to be said: if you are peer reviewing a ms for a scholarly press, DO NOT feed that ms into an AI machine to write your reader report for you. DO NOT.

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

📣 USF International Fellowships 2025 - apply now! This fully-funded program offers 3-9 month sabbatical research visits for urban scholars from the Global South. Read more & apply here: urbanstudiesfoundation.org/funding/inte... Deadline 16th July 2025

If now we can post photos with filters and multiple edits to create a polished image of the urban (even could be misleading and fake), does that mean there is a new urban aestheticisation process happening in the digital age? @ijurresearch.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

This International Women’s Day, we’re incredibly proud to reveal the cover of our third book, “Women Changing Cities: Global Stories of Urban Transformation”. Photo essays from 11 cities around the world, including Paris, Bogotá, Barcelona and Montréal. To be released by RIBA Publishing in October.

Update: in dialogue with the journal editors now. Thanks to those who stepped up as allies and friends to also raise their concerns. While I'm disappointed in the research quality, I'm more cut up by the class discrimination. I wouldn't wish "a taste for deprivation" on anyone else.

For those that remain, our jobs are changing rapidly. Many are being ‘restructured’ into new roles, or being merged into new ‘units’. For academics many of us are loosing our disciplinary identity as we get merged into mega-schools of Social Science

The crisis in British higher education is acute + painful right now. If you are in it you already know this, but for those who are not I want to share what is going on. As strikes start at Newcastle Uni + others will doubtless follow, now is a time for solidarity + resistance

Two Weeks In The Death Spiral Of Cardiff University, by an anonymous academic. This is truly shocking read. The Cardiff executive board should hang their heads in shame. voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...

Context: today Cardiff University announce proposals for 400 redundancies, including 15 in School of Geography, which will also be merged with school of social sciences...

First post at Bluesky 🤩 : CFP RGS-IBG 2025 Birmingham: Please see this menu me and @vickiezhang.bsky.social will organise a session with topics about cultural economy, affects and consumption, please circulate and join us if you are interested and we promise it will a lot of fun 😊