Alice Wong, Presente. Thank you for everything.

This is pretty significant and that it’s been 11 years since they tried to build on Maunakea and Kanaka Maoli protectors have successfully impeded them is a major victory for traditional knowledge keepers and people fighting for Kanaka sovereignty. 🔭🧪 www.tmt.org/news/708

Breaking! Port of Vancouver being shut down. Join us! No more genocide. Shut it down.

New article out in Annals of the American Association of Geographers! In my latest (likely last) from my human milk markets project, I tease out the conjunctural crises that have led to human milk banking as social reproductive infrastructure in South Africa. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“Fifa is a parastate that acts like a parasite, treating World Cup hosts like its own private Vegas buffet.” 🔥🔥🔥🔥

🚨 NEW: The majority holder of the world's genetic sequence data is a bad actor who can cut off access to critics and competing services. We've tolerated this for years, and now it threatens the pandemic treaty. Time for WHO to step in. With @ctrlalttim.com: www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/to-f...

Looking for a budget summary and you aren't an oligarch or the owner of a mid-sized company? Check out what the @ccpa has put together: www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

This should be the biggest news story in the world right now

The Canadian Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research is launching a US-style attack on EDI in Tri-Council funding. As part of this attack, they are demanding disclosure of confidential demographic info + reviewer comments of all Canadian researchers who have applied b/w 2000-2025.

Can't wait to welcome surveillance scholars in Lille for #SSN2026! It will be held for the first time in 🇫🇷, hosted by @univcatholille.bsky.social with @istc.bsky.social as partner. 🌍 Planetary Surveillance 📍 Lille | 🗓️ 9–12 June 2026 📝 CfP deadline: Jan 10 🔗 lnkd.in/dacsjrgB Submit and join us!

📣 Next GCSJ Seminar 🗓️ Fri 14 Nov 2025 | 12–1PM | online 🔎Rearticulating archives: still thinking with Doreen Massey — exploring how Doreen Massey’s archive invites new questions about our troubled present. Register to join the critical and creative dialogue: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rearticula...

Tomorrow night 6-8 pm EST. Register to join us. In person and on line. Free. Masks provided. www.yorku.ca/laps/the-alc...

Against imperialist, anti-Black narratives of “civil war” and “failed state” in Sudan, a movement resource on imperialism & counter-revolutionary war in Sudan, and how we can act in engaged solidarity with people in El-Fasher, in Darfur, and across Sudan. www.weavingourworlds.ca/beyond-sloga...

The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR supportjamaica.gov.jm

👇From An Ojibwe speaker, Dominic HK Beaudry @DhkBeau In Ojibwe our word for blue jay is gwiingwiish (pronounced gweeng-gweesh). Haida art by Glen Rabena.

“Sonneborn + KKR appear to be typical of an investment strategy whereby donors, aided by university administrators + regents, circumvent faculty governance in order to treat uni’s like incubators or, worse, as click-farms to inflate the user data seemingly keeping the AI investment machine humming.”

🌍 Between the Lines of Everyday Public Spaces Join an immersive event exploring memory, displacement & belonging in urban life — from Chennai to Istanbul. 👉 Led by Dr Nian Paul, a 2025 #USFInternationalFellow. 📅 6–7 Nov 2025 📍 UCL Bartlett School of Architecture, London 🔗 ow.ly/i6lc50XgAnF

Come work with me at the wonderful Center for Critical Computational Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt! You will define your own PhD project within the field of critical data and surveillance studies, with a focus on countries of the Majority World. azadeh-akbari.com/come-work-wi...

It’s sunrise in Cape Town and, I cannot emphasize this enough, the BLUE JAYS ARE HEADED TO THE WORLD SERIES

Announcing Antipode’s 10th Institute for the Geographies of Justice (IGJ), "Organizing and Solidarity in a Polycrisis", Toronto, 1-5 June 2026 antipodeonline.org/institute-fo... -- submit your application by 20 December 2025

In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and police repression, we put together an extensive reading list about border and police abolition.

Pls share: Applications open for Summer Institute in Economic Geography, Toronto, 5-10 July 2026 Featuring: Lars Coenen, Karen Lai, Devika Narayan and Stefan Ouma Early career economic geographers (broadly defined) are welcome to apply. Stipends available. www.econgeog.net/Toronto2026

Final reminder for anyone in #Ottawa, Wednesday October 15th... We have this fabulous event on rethinking our futures with Quinn Slobodian, @ohalpern.bsky.social, @ayonadatta.bsky.social and Nick Couldry. Registration is still open and we have a few places left! www.uottawa.ca/research-inn...

Watching Jays demolish Yankees in the postseason is my current favourite pastime ⚾️ 🙌🏻 💙

Amnesty International sent a letter this morning calling on FIFA and UEFA to suspend Israel from football competitions. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

A recording of the Long Arc of Fascism panel discussion on "Fascism as Capitalist Counter-Revolution" with Brenna Bhandar, Avery Everhart, Gastón Gordillo and Alberto Toscano, chaired by Naomi Klein (April 19, 2025). www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCK1...

Excellent piece in the National Post on university consultation firms and their insidious templates for austerity in higher ed. For more from our ‘well-organized anti-austerity movement at Queen’s’ check out qcaa.ca

New piece in here on AI, infectious disease surveillance, and technofascism. It covers Palantir in the NHS, Alphabet’s mosquito sex sorting, and BlueDot’s disease forecasting, arguing for a dialectical approach to these companies’ logics. Looking forward to seeing the full issue later this year!

My department is hiring! We seek to hire an Assistant Professor in Global Black Geographies whose work engages "with the spatial dimensions of life in African and/or Black diasporic communities in the Global South". Job ad with more details: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05026

The air has been varying levels of toxic in Toronto nearly every day these past few weeks, the moon is red at night, and everyones health is being harmed by the air we breathe. The time to address the climate crisis ––with its roots in slavery, genocide, and militarism–– is now.

This was a big sabbatical project - glad to see it's finally out! Our focus is biosecurity vis-à-vis infectious disease. We draw on work in political economy and critical surveillance to untangle how racial capitalism, extraction, and racial imprinting create vulnerability. And it's open access!

Health isn’t a commodity, a market, or a privilege. It’s a collective struggle: one that capitalism distorts and weaponizes to fragment us using zero sum logics and myths like the free rider. Health Communism reclaims care as a shared, political project beyond profit & scarcity.

New episode of Sandy and Nora is out! We look at the history of campus activism for Palestine and how administrations and politicians saw the need to attack free speech to try and stop students from speaking out about Israel. sandyandnora.com/episode-333-...

The 2026 FIFA World Cup is coming to North America and Toronto scholars and organization are on it! Happy to play a minor contributor role on this recently funded SSHRC Partnership Development Grant, "Assessing the Human Rights Promises of FIFA 2026 in Toronto, Ontario" based at UofT + York

ICE has even more latitude for destroying lives in Los Angeles through the city’s designation as a “National Special Security Event” because it will host the Olympics in 2028, writes @julesboykoff.bsky.social for @theguardian.com

As the Club World Cup kicks off under the threat of immigration crackdowns, @hebagowayed.bsky.social & @nickocchiuto.bsky.social write in The Guardian about how FIFA corruption has put Trump’s authoritarian agenda front and center.

Another world is possible if we fight for it.

412 academics, diplomats, former ministers, + lawyers send 🇨🇦 PM @markcarneyforpm.bsky.social letter re: Israel’s Gaza genocide demanding Canada “do everything in its power to stop these atrocities and support efforts to bring those responsible to account,” including sanctions + end to free trade.

Palantir's model is mass surveillance & the monetization of large (massive) data. This concern is warranted.

Canadians waving their flags while cheering "we aren't Americans!" as their civil liberties die. peak 2025 vibes

Snotty Nose Rez Kids. Random Sunday afternoon concert in Kingston. Maybe the highest energy show I’ve been to. Check them out!

Must-read piece on "End Times Schooling" by @jessehagopian.bsky.social who has done so much to unleash the liberatory power of education.

There are big numbers in this budget, but let’s not miss this one In my estimation, this is the largest injection of public tax dollars into investor-owned facilities outside of Quebec The #onpoli government is privatizing core public hospital services

Register to join this timely discussion on June 2, in person or on line, with @katecrawford.bsky.social @hofrench.bsky.social @tamigraph.bsky.social and @triofrancos.bsky.social, hosted by my Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab at the Institute for Advanced Study www.ias.edu/events/raree...

Clean the air FFS.

It was a treat to speak with Bill Ayers about the politics of the Olympics. We discussed the upcoming 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles & how activists from @nolympicsla.bsky.social are ramping up dissent against the endemic downsides that come with the Games. Thank you, @underthetreepod.bsky.social

Loving listening to @syfysistas.bsky.social new episode on #Sinners, which is full of so much film history and nerd shit I didn’t know! Appreciate @dattico.bsky.social’s contributions about IMAX and 70mm, too. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

A fantastic, collegial department (w/ the highest QS ranking in the Uni) just had the majority of Professors be threatened with redundancy. Newcastle geographers will obvi fight for our colleagues & the future of higher ed (& geography!) with all we've got, but SUPPORT & SOLIDARITY VERY WELCOME!