A new paper, by an international team of researchers, reviews the latest evidence and says global temperatures must cool to around 1°C above pre-industrial levels in the long term. tinyurl.com/52xyujnf

I didn't think Small Prophets could get better, then the Modest Mouse tee-shirt scene.

BBC switching mid-game from hockey to luge. Things that would never happen in Canada. #Canada #Olympics

Read a review of a book where somebody takes a swipe at a junior scholar for no clear reason. So, I bought the book and plan to give it a great review (because it is a great book!).

Super excited to host @karsohini.bsky.social this Thursday as part of the Centre of Development Studies Seminar Series @campolis.bsky.social. All welcome!

Well played, London Underground.

Is it normal for butterflies to be out in January in London? There’s one dancing around our garden but it seems early in the year (but I’m really not sure!)

New, by me, on the ethical and political dimensions of global health photography, situating Sebastião Salgado's polio eradication work within debates on representation, witnessing and power in humanitarian visual culture. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🔔 We're launching our Bluesky account today! Can you help us spread the word by retweeting this post? 😀 #Theoria #diamondopenaccessjournal

It turns out that the phenomenon in this article is incredibly noticeable in the research on Great Tits. These are one of the most widely studied species, yet I haven't found a single paper that talks about the song repertoires of female birds.

Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).

📣 New Blog Post: The snowy phantom of the equator. Imagine a mountain range so elusive that for nearly two thousand years, half the world thought it was a fairy tale. This is the story of the Mountains of the Moon, and it begins with a lost Greek merchant. 🧵

This is a great analogy for jargon and why it's not terrible, but also need to consider who you are talking/writing to and why you need that word instead of another. We've all been that person who doesn't get most of the jokes. It's a horrible isolating feeling. Don't do that to people.

In what could plausibly represent a Christmas miracle* SFU Geography has two (2) new tenure track hires. One is urban/climate, which I will repost below. The other is a Landscape Ecologist. Please share ... #academicsky *actually just the good decisions of our new Dean www.sfu.ca/geography/ab...

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We were talking about this recently too (didn’t think of a graph tho!). Baffling trend.

Amazing!

Thanks to everyone who has helped make this a great year for @areajournal.bsky.social! Authors, reviewers, and our intrepid managing editor! Cc @jonnydarling.bsky.social

If you missed the four tenure track positions' deadline (today) in my department, there's another position in Geography @ucalgary.bsky.social as Assistant Professor in Climate Change and the Critical Zone. Come be my office neighbour! careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1710469... 🧪⚒️

Just on Nature's submission site and see "article types" is now "content types" and the distinction of academic from content creator seems that much blurrier by the day.

Job - please share widely! Canada Excellence Research Chair in Comparative Democratic Resilience in the Global South. Research focus - grassroots movements, Indigenous sovereignties, and racial justice campaigns contesting and transforming public institutions www.mun.ca/vpacademic/m...

Please join @justwaterfutures.bsky.social for a discussion on: Do we need the Global Commission on the Economics of Water to Value Water? November 21, 2025, 14:00-15:00 CEST. Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/do-we-need... #Water #Justice

Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same

Thanks @drbeasley.bsky.social !

"Biodiversity loss is notoriously difficult to quantify. Even in Switzerland, a country with intense monitoring of nature, systematic measurements have only existed for about two decades." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

How can we pursue nature-based solutions effectively and empirically? We are launching a new MSc in Natural Capital and Sustainability. It runs across business, env. science, geography, and is in partnership with Kew Gardens! Applications now open for 2026! www.qmul.ac.uk/postgraduate...

I’m sure there are a few emails flying around at some of these universities right now www.theguardian.com/education/20...

In case anybody teaching game theory is looking for an example of what contemporary freeriding looks like.

Just FYI, UK is now hot enough to grow rice www-bbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....

Just FYI, UK is now hot enough to grow rice www-bbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....

If you are still looking for that reading at the intersection of environment, health, extraction and disposession (with a dash of the digital)...

A highly controversial new law in Turkey allows mining in olive groves, requiring tree transplantation. My new open-access article in @politicalgeography.bsky.social explores the making of "movable nature"— salvage work that moves nature out of the way of infrastructure and extraction projects.

Some food for thought: if you're reviewing a book & it has good, useful maps, say so in the review! And name the mapmaker if you can. Often, folks writing books don't know where to go for good maps. Making mention of them in your review helps everyone. #skystorians #midievalsky #historians

'Many of the living worlds in the ice and snow are not visible to the human eye. “You don’t expect a living organism on the ice,” Bamert says. But there is a rich ice-loving biotic community and surprising biodiversity that thrives in this frozen landscape.'

Saw my first humming hawk moth today, amazing! Had been missing hummingbirds since moving to UK and was wowed by this moth!! butterfly-conservation.org/moths/hummin...

JOB: Assistant Professor of Environmental History with a Focus on Water in Human History, Texas State University (USA) jobs.hr.txstate.edu/postings/53043 #envhist

I am so furious at all the scenario modelers and CDR promoters who promised that machines could afford us "climate restoration." These people should be shunned. Techno-optimism is as dangerous to our children as outright climate denial. Denial isn't driving EU and UK policy! But CDR BS totally is.

If you want to know the details, read to open source @nature.com publication, led by @gidden.bsky.social online. /end www.nature.com/articles/s41...

‼️ EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism will be out in the UK with Icon Books on 25 September ‼️

In my quest to hold every possible academic title I’m very happy to now be Reader in Environmental Geography at QMUL!!

It’s really real! Exciting to see The Price of Gold in print. Pre-order yours today! @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social

Erasmus redux? Happy news if it happens.

It’s back to school time - what are you reading? For the next 2 days, On the Swamp and other titles are 50% off at the publisher’s new website. Use discount code 01NEWSITE50. uncpress.org/978146967832... #Indigenous #EnvironmentalJustice #OnTheSwamp @uncpress.bsky.social

'The study...found that the main driver of increased red tape was university efficiency reforms. It threw doubt on the idea that increasing automation results in real efficiency, and suggested that Australian universities...had recently shifted towards stronger central executive management.' 1/2

"Canada’s oil and gas sector is no longer the job creator or economic engine it once was, with the industry creating 43% fewer jobs per thousand barrels of production in 2023 than it did in 2012, the Pembina Institute concludes in a new analysis."

Oh, and here's a fun resource for y'all.

'The government’s proposed levy on international student fees could prove to be the difference between surplus and deficit for more than a dozen universities, according to a new analysis.' On the other hand, it might play well with angry voters who support Reform UK, some minister must think. 1/2

This is an important book. I was especially happy when my son claimed my copy (with my notes) and so I’ll need two so I can reread it

New piece with Tia Dafnos in @breachmedia.ca: The emergency RCMP unit called "CIRG" that invaded Wet'suwet'en territory is now a permanent force called CRU. Through access to information records, we learned they have a special role to play in policing resistance to Bills 14 and 15.