🚨 We're excited to announce a one-day online conference for postgraduate and early career researchers on Just Energy Transitions - 10/07/25📆. For further information see below 👇 Apply: forms.gle/1dHmPM2kbnYw.... Deadline 10/06! @ignitenetplus.bsky.social @ukerc.bsky.social @edrc-uk.bsky.social

12 days to the deadline to participate in the Activism Award in #energygeographies #energyresearch. We know there is no shortage of excellent candidates out there who have made great impact over the last year (and beyond). Please self-nominate or nominate people who have made a difference! 🤩🤩🤩

12 days to the deadline to participate in the PGRs Paper Prize in #energygeographies #energyresearch. Please encourage your students to submit! Winners will see their work disseminated through our online channels and promoted across and beyond the RGS-IBG network... and they get a few £££ to boot! 😉

Announcing our new Activism Award 🏆 Celebrating individuals & organisations driving energy justice in the UK – through research, teaching, activism, or community action. 🌍⚡ Nominate now! Deadline 5pm GMT, Friday, 30 May 2025👇 www.energygeographies.org/activisim-aw...

📢 PGRs in energy research - this one's for you!🏆 Enter our PGR Paper Prize for a chance to win £75! We will work with the winners to promote their work. Categories - conceptual, impact & methods. 🗓 Deadline: 5PM GMT 30 May More info 👉 www.energygeographies.org/pgr-paper-co... @rgsibg.bsky.social

Congrats @fdrubio1977.bsky.social ! This looks fantastic!

Are you a PGR student (Masters or PhD) working on #energygeography? Consider applying to one of our PGR paper prizes! Check out the application in the link below 👇

To all the #energyjustice peeps out there: have you considered submitting and application to our Activism Award yet? Know someone who should be considered? #energy #geography #justice #envhum #climatepolitics #climate

The Open University has published a framework for learning and teaching Critical AI Literacy Skills. Although the framework is intended for Open University staff and students, it is relevant for any organisation looking to develop inclusive training in AI literacy. about.open.ac.uk/sites/about....

We’re looking for nominations for the #energy #justice Activism Award 2025! You can nominate yourself or others, individuals or organisations. Deadline is 30 May!

Last week, we caught up with @mcbrisbois.bsky.social from @sussexnrggroup.bsky.social for #IWD! 🚨 We talked motivation, her impactful work with @edrc-uk.bsky.social, and the two must-read papers topping her list right now.📚 www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS8R...

Announcing our third webinar - 19/03, 9-10AM GMT. @yolandestreng.bsky.social will give a talk on "Digital Energy Futures: anticipating new worlds with design ethnography and scenario planning". Please register here 👇 www.energygeographies.org/event-detail...

Announcing our second webinar - 05/03 2-3PM GMT. @olamichalec.bsky.social will give a talk on "Developing digital twins in the energy industry – lessons for innovators, policy makers and infrastructure operators". Please register here 👇 www.energygeographies.org/event-detail...

🔎 Our National Map of community energy projects has been viewed over 110,000 times! 📍 With updated MP constituencies, it's a powerful tool to show the impact of #CommunityEnergy 🌍 Help keep the map accurate—submit your data to #SOTS2025 by 17 March! communityenergyengland.org/pages/state-...

This is a great line up of speakers! Joint organization of RGS #energy and #digital #geography research groups

Our Webinar Series 2025 starts next week!! Title: Intersecting Energy and Digital Geographies. Speakers include Ralista Hiteva @olamichalec.bsky.social @yolandestreng.bsky.social @isoutar.bsky.social. First webinar 26/02! www.energygeographies.org/post/announc...

Ralitsa does great work at the intersection of #energy and #digital #geography. Come join us for the 1st EnGRG webinar of 2025

Our webinar series begins next week! Dr Ralitsa Hiteva presents "Digital and energy landscapes in independent living: the case of digital technologies for health and wellbeing in England" 2-3PM GMT 26/02. Register here👇 www.energygeographies.org/event-detail...

Climate change adaptation is happening but so is resistance to these efforts. In our open-access article, @mmikulewicz.bsky.social and I look at 20 cases to understand why resistance is happening and highlight alternative visions for adaptation. We learned 9 key things. 🧵. doi.org/10.1002/wcc....

Shortcut to some energy starter packs: UK/Europe 1: go.bsky.app/BAxXdHc UK/Europe 2: go.bsky.app/DTY2xx3 Women in energy 1: go.bsky.app/AGCURBf Women in energy 2: go.bsky.app/KtMdVag Community energy: go.bsky.app/LpqEmbM

Watch this great documentary report and understand what “AI” looks like from the ground, in Logan Australia. Actually, it is not just looks, but also sharp commentary, including on the retail model, and magical twins to boot!

2 postdoctoral researchers in urban anthropology of Africa, based at the University of Helsinki. Deadline to apply: 23.1.2025. jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki... #urbanism #sociology

The post university journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Today, feeling close to cosmopolitans or feminists separates voters of the left from right voters who identify with people who are down to earth and hard working. Yet, these identities do have structural roots, just like class identities did. Our short CUP book on cleavage formation is out in OA.

Our team still studies “collective sensemaking” during breaking news events. What we see with MH17 and Jan6 are attacks on the sensemaking process itself… not just a distortion (like those described in this article) but a denial of service attack on sensemaking. www.cip.uw.edu/2023/12/06/r...

'Constitutions of Value: Law, Governance, and Political Ecology' -- edited by Isabel Feichtner & Geoff Gordon (2023) doi.org/10.4324/9781...

We’ve reached 5000 followers! As it’s #followfriday, check out these green building/retrofit-specific starter packs: Designers go.bsky.app/LzGqBtA Embodied carbon experts go.bsky.app/Fm4LYgf Media go.bsky.app/R9AkUPM Associations go.bsky.app/Piztk1y Heat pumps go.bsky.app/KCLxmj9

Gary Gerstle and I are pleased to announce an upcoming international gathering of scholars, thinkers & policymakers to envision a political economy of a post-neoliberal world: beyond-neoliberalism.org Further details coming in January. Thanks to the Hewlett Foundation for its support!

ICYMI: On Monday we hosted a webinar featuring @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social @triofrancos.bsky.social @jbozuwa.bsky.social @batul.bsky.social asking 'What's next for the climate left?' in light of the struggles we're going to be facing over the coming years. You can watch any time here:

Interested in global political economy of the energy transition? Brilliant conversation between @brettchristophers.bsky.social and Adam Tooze, moderated by @katearonoff.bsky.social in NY Our @thepolycrisis.bsky.social Dispatch buttondown.com/polycrisisdi... Youtube: youtube.com/watch?app=de...

Deliciousness! 'Power Shift: Keywords for a New Politics of Energy', with 101 succinct chapters convened by @imreszeman.bsky.social and Jennifer Wenzel and a foreword by David Nye is now finally up on @wvupress.bsky.social and officially published in April 2025: wvupressonline.com/Power-Shift - yay!

Hence the requirement for a new kind of cognitive science medium.com/institute-fo...

Recently, I was surprised that one of the journal special issues I co-edited, “The urbanising dynamics of global China” from Urban Geography (www.tandfonline.com/toc/rurb20/4...), was chosen by T&F for its republication as a book as part of their republication program. 2b released early 2025. ToC 👇

An essay made with only first sentences, all collected from anthropology monographs and articles. Truly hypnotic. I love it. A feast for the feet(notes). anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

EE Handbook on Gender and Cities edited by Linda Peake, Anindita Datta and Grace Adenyi-Ogunyakin My hope is for this handbook to become a foundational text for all of us that approach the City from a feminist perspective.

I often have people telling me that if we just change the name that will get people on board. Newsflash: it won't. Better news: here's what will-helping people connect what they know (their heads) to why they care (their hearts) to what they can do (their hands)! ewn.erdc.dren.mil/podcasts/epi...

- 'Have a conversation' - 'Ask questions' - 'Tell the truth' Students share their tips for people with Oxford undergraduate interviews coming up ⬇️ #ApplyingToOxford

Policy peeps/ wonks and Oxford academics, interested in learning more from each others working lives? Our Peer Mentoring Scheme deadline is 16 Dec. Start 2025 with a new opportunity to share your work with others interested in better informed public-policy. More at www.ox.ac.uk/research/usi...

Two permanent Assistant Professorships in Human Geography at Durham! With expertise in geographies of nature, climate change, & just and sustainable futures... durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

Thanks to all of our 1,000 new followers on BlueSky! 🦋 If you think that your network is interested in urban studies funding opportunities and scholarship, will you re-share this post and help us grow further? You can follow us at our verified BlueSky account here: @urbanstudiesfoundation.org 🌇

We are now accepting applications for the next round of USF Seminar Series Awards funding! 🏙️ The deadline is 17th February 2025, and you can read more about the call on our website. 📢 Please share 📢 www.urbanstudiesfoundation.org/funding/semi...

The work of @valentimvicente.bsky.social on the normalization of the radical right is of relevance not just to political scientists, but to #climate #urban #geosky #anthrosky concerned with the phenomenon

Tip for writers, especially academics . . .

I've collected a few more sources on #literaturereviews, to add to the ones in the post/replies below: (1) a favorite source seems to be Chris Hart's "Doing a Literature Review: Releasing the Research Imagination." I especially liked Ch. 1 & 2. New edition out in 2025. #academicsky

For new people, this is a great way to find environmental social scientists: go.bsky.app/GNpJZBo

Our CESET project has come to an end. Read the policy recommendations for inclusive and just community energy 👇 w/ PI @vanesilla.bsky.social and colleagues in Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique and the UK #sustainable #energytransitions #africa

Useful resource for #urbansky #geosky folks

🎉We have a contract! @uchicagopress.bsky.social will publish the Patchwork Ethnography textbook. If you're an Early Career scholar, please consider applying to our workshop. We're looking for contributors who can help advance our theorization. Deadline 6 Dec: patchworkethnography.com/events.

Lovely obituary for Celeste Caeiro, a restaurant worker whose gesture named the 1974 Portuguese Carnation Revolution: “The whole thing seemed almost accidental. She had offered a soldier a flower. He had stuck it into his gun. This had turned into a statement that grew stronger and stronger.”