#CFP #RC21 @aseela.bsky.social & I have a session "Epistemic friendships in/across difference: Rethinking methodologies in urban research" @rc21.bsky.social Vienna 2026 If you're interested in political & epistemological potential of friendships within urban studies/geog, do submit your abstract!

💥 New publication out on the alignment of AI & authoritarianism 💥 We argue that AI is not simply extending, but actively modulating, key dynamics of authoritarianism, and present a flexible analytical framework to account for these changes. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

This was a brutal read. An incisive rendering of the life of ECRs and (false) promise of an academic career: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

New in Area: 'Friendship in academia: A radically ordinary praxis?' by @smhall.bsky.social This piece is part of an ongoing Special Section: 'Dialogues in Radical Geography'. doi.org/10.1111/area... #geosky

🚨CfP: Lexicon for Animacy Deadline: 1 December 2025 Please find more info in the full call online: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/06/...

Israel is turning Gaza city into an apocalyptic wasteland, and the world watches on. May the cries of desperation from Palestinians in Gaza forever haunt complicit state leaders who have not only allowed this to happen, but have willingly supported this extermination campaign for the last 2 years.

German arms exports to Israel have been the subject of debate for some time. But what about Israeli arms exports to Germany? ALON SAHAR (@alonsahar.bsky.social) and ITAMAR MANN (@itamann.bsky.social) on the political and legal risks of arms imports from Israel. verfassungsblog.de/the-other-si...

Karachi is flooded. Have not been able to get in touch with my parents at home. They haven’t had electricity for many many hours now.

📢 Call for Papers! Urban Politics in the Global South Conference November 6-7, 2025 (fully virtual!) This conference showcases research on urban politics in low- and middle-income countries in different world regions. Deadline for Submissions: Sept. 5 Link: www.globalsouthurbanpolitics.com

For all of the educators trying to deal with AI, I did a deep dive in early June and these are the four articles I decided to assign to my students. 1. This is the longest of the bunch, but so wonderfully comprehensive. www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

“Feminism has in fact offered a diagnosis, steadily, for decades and centuries: that the cause is misogyny and the violence is intended to perpetrate the inequality, exploitation and subordination of women.”

250 signatures by academics in Germany/German academics abroad pledging to boycott Israeli institutions supporting and/or benefiting from military occupation, apartheid, and genocide. Join the growing movement‼️

Just stumbled upon this young, talented woman's project called - Detectly - which is like an ad blocker but for AI content, suitable for Chrome and Firefox. detectly.xyz

“Gaza is a turning point that lays bare the full range and cruel depths of the contemporary world’s contradictions ... It exposes what is fundamentally wrong today: a persistent inability to recognize every human being as equal and deserving of dignity and life.”

Glad to share that the edited volume "Amphibious Anthropologies: Living in Wet Environments" is now officially published! I have a chapter in the book about the Salton Sea. uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295... UW Press has a sale thru August 31- WARM25 for 40% off & free shipping. #Geosky #waterscience

Try to imagine any other context where a news presenter describes credible reports that soldiers have been shooting huge numbers of teenagers and children *for sport*, for fun, and a politician gives this reaction.

Disturbing footage: Berlin police violently assaulting peaceful protestors for Palestine, today (July 24, 2025.) Credit: Unpublished.de (found on Instagram)

Some actual good news: the ICJ have set out the ecological situation clearly and authoritatively, and confirmed that each country has a legal obligation to take effective climate action. Could we get on and do it, please? www-aljazeera-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.alja...

It’s worse than “Gaza is being starved and destroyed and no one cares.” It’s that hundreds of millions *do* care and are powerless to stop it. We need a world where that can never happen, where the masses actually have political power.

Visit and support Gaza Places (Amākin Ghazza: www.gazaplaces.con) —a community-led digital mapping platform and independent research-action project dedicated to supporting the post-war recovery of Gaza through critical, participatory geography. www.gazaplaces.com #urban #sociology

die @spdfraktion.de hat recht: die Bundesregierung sollte diese Erklärung unbedingt unterstützen!

Die @spdfraktion.de handelt - endlich. Werden @cducsubt.bsky.social vor Lobbyisten einknicken oder kommt die Regierungskoalition nun endlich ihren völkerrechtlichen Verpflichtungen nach?

Even the doctors in Gaza are fainting from hunger, as scores of Palestinians are slaughtered by IDF. And still the European Union facilitates the death, destruction and starvation by doing nothing. EU leaders are rapidly turning into war criminals. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Hashem Abushama's nuanced and beautifully written essay on countermapping Palestinian geographies. www.stuarthallfoundation.org/resource/a-m...

“No matter how I attempt to distract myself—by folding the same shirt again, by translating a familiar line, by stirring salt into boiling water as if that might change it—hunger resurfaces with quiet authority, like smoke seeping through invisible cracks in the floor.”

Day’s crimson end. Warm night air. A hundred whistling cicadas. Spent muscles overcome with a slow rising yawn. Sleep that tastes like watermelon to a parched tongue.

One of the best things to happen in summertime: the giddy excitement of a newly discovered favourite author. Ayşegül Savaş.

This. Felt caught in this very dilemma some days ago until I decided I’m not going to sacrifice my days off. I’m not going to give up the chance to catch my breath. It’s extremely unfair and unsustainable.

From a forthcoming essay by our beloved contributor & workshop participant & friend, Alaa Alqaisi. An incredibly gifted writer, translator, & scholar. Being starved.

Shaimaa has a scholarship to do a PhD on Palestinian literature with me at @uoe-llc.bsky.social, but she's stuck in Gaza because the foreign office won't help. Please share. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

That the incredible cognitive power of the human brain and body takes only 2000 calories a day to fuel, and occupies quite considerably less than the space of Manhattan, suggests there is something catastrophically wrong with the design of AI.

Postdoc opportunity in the University of Cape Town. Please share to anyone who might be interested

It’s now been out for a while, but this was such a fun project with Vickie! The Promise of Cultural Geography. 86 entries, all between 1-1000 words, focusing on what, for them, is the promise of cultural geography. It’s open access, so please share! research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/publicati...

Happy to celebrate five years since @antipodeonline.bsky.social released "Geographies of Racial Capitalism w/ Ruth Wilson Gilmore." If you haven't seen or considered it as a teaching or organizing tool: check it out 👇 antipodeonline.org/geographies-...

Our department is looking for a Lecturer in Human Geography. This is a permanent full-time position staring as soon as possible. Please share this great opportunity! All details in this job ad: www.uni-bonn.de/de/universit...

Israel blocked all supplies into Gaza for nearly three months, the longest blockade it has ever imposed on Gaza. But Israel is relenting amid international pressure to allow food into the territory.

‘I just want bread’ This elderly Palestinian man, Sameer, broke down in tears from extreme hunger caused by Israel’s blockade in Gaza. At least 1 in 5 Palestinians faces starvation in Gaza as Israel continues attacks.

Always fun to see how social sciences are understood in my family. Had a call with my sister (PhDing in neuroscience), my dad, and I where my dad proceeded to refer to her work as science and mine as “art” 🫠 …

14,000 babies will die in Gaza in the next 48 hours if Israel continues to prevent baby food aid from reaching Palestinians. There is no question, no nuance, no possible justification. We must do everything we possibly can to stop Israel from committing such atrocities #r4today

Save the date: Fanon Today: Contemporary Struggles and Theoretical Perspectives International Symposium Berlin, July 22-23, 2025 organized by @vethompson.bsky.social, @raulzelik.bsky.social & me

”Unhoming is the act of deliberately targeting homes, destroying shelters, making life shorter for those deemed superfluous. It is a process of excretion whose final goal is to turn unwanted humanity into waste. It is the new means of social & political selection.” www.e-flux.com/architecture...

This event will take place on 15th May. The authors will discuss their newly published book, Lahore in Motion: Infrastructure, History and Belonging in Urban Pakistan. Maryam A. Malik will chair the session. Please register to learn about various facets of Lahore's first metro rail corridor.

Intervention — “The Assetization of Research: How Publishers are Selling Our Work to the AI Industry” by Maxim Tvorun-Dunn (University of Tokyo) antipodeonline.org/2025/04/07/t...

I'm tracking international students who have had their visas revoked / legal status changed in the past month, check out this handy map to see which institutions have reported visa revocations: public.flourish.studio/visualisatio...

📢PhD Vacancy in my new ERC project ‘WELL-ASIA’ @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social on the wellness industry in Southeast Asia! The PhD will work ethnographically on transnational labour mobilities in Singapore’s wellness sector 🌏Applications due April 16! vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

great PhD opportunity - Migration, Border Securitization, and Citizenship in the Global South. at Dublin City University www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMJ996/d...

Pancakes and the sunny Dutch countryside - a perfect start to the first spring weekend