Schools in England have become testing sites for AI. I know it's common to say education is now an experimental lab for AI, but in England it's more methodologically true. 3 examples of escalating seriousness and an explanation coming up 🧵

The Royal Geographical Society @rgsibg.bsky.social is hosting a discussion (in person & online) on the far right and climate policy on Tues 30th Sept. Details here - www.rgs.org/events/upcom...

We are looking for a Senior Manager for our Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life @leverhulmecal.bsky.social A key person in our team & a future valued colleague. Apply here durham.taleo.net/careersectio... & feel free to DM me. Also look out for our October research fellows posts.

We’re hiring again in Geography at Durham - an Associate Prof, Grade 9. This is part of the university’s strategic ‘Heritage 360’ initiative. Follow this link for more details and to apply! durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

This is an excellent resource for those who would like to reach out to those with long Covid but don’t know how. Simple factual explanations of why social interaction can be more complex than it seems

Please sign and share this petition, calling on Newcastle University’s Executive Board to halt the threat of ill-considered and unnecessary redundances that are imperilling careers and the future of our institution. www.change.org/p/end-unnece...

Raise government awareness of the ongoing impact that long Covid is having on many of us. Share your experience here with Every Story Matters covid19.public-inquiry.uk/every-story-...

Thank you to everyone who has signed the petition which now stands at 10,000+! If you haven't added your name, #DoTheWriteThing -

The University of Manchester seeks to appoint a Lecturer in Environmental Politics. More info: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMM071/. Closing date: 8/5/2025. I am not involved in the search but would love to see more colleagues in environmental policy and governance. #PublicPolicy #Polisky #PolicyProcess

Big #RCCNews! The RCC is excited to announce our environmental writing competition "Tell the Untold!" Find out more here: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_ev... We are looking forward to your submissions! 🌱 #rccwritingcompetition #writing #envhum #creative #shortfiction

Fantastic supported Marie Curie application dual opportunity (academic couples) for post docs working on environmental policy & technology/knowledge politics. euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/hosting...

“You’re only ever one step away from disability” (Stephanie Swanson) On Long Covid Awareness Day, please hear the voices of the 2 million (and counting) who have never been able to ‘move on’ from Covid …insight here into the worlds of some of us in UK with Long Covid www.bigissue.com/news/social-...

Brilliantly apposite piece by Masud Husain "we are sleepwalking into a disaster....losing sight of the academic mission...we don’t have to accept all this. We can...direct our critical thinking inwards...push back on the calamitous corporatization of our universities." doi.org/10.1093/brai...

Can AI be used to govern climate change while maintaining democratic values? New article on an urgent question by me and the mighty @ruthmachen.bsky.social :-) wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #AcademicSky #sts #ClimateChange

Great to see this perspective piece with @warrenpearce.bsky.social finally come out. Amid the rising interest in AI we reflect on AI and the democratic governance of climate change - what lessons might be taken from wider critical digital studies? wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Silke Beck at @tum.de's STS department is looking for a postdoc (full position, five years) specialising in environmental STS. Deadline for application is 15 March 2025. Salary is somewhere in the ballpark of €2.8 k and €3.8 k after taxes (depending on your job experience and marital status).

Delighted to have contributed a chapter to this edited collection…I wrote about difficulties in algorithmically accounting for unquantifiable concerns in digital policy simulation models. Other contributors focus on relations with democratic participation, extractivism, ‘digital de-growth’ and more!

Great opportunity for ECRs working on cities and climate change in the global south…

Are you a Humanities or Social Science postdoctoral researcher within c 10 years of the PhD and in the North East or Northern Ireland? The resources of this @britishacademy.bsky.social ECR Network are designed for you (whether or not you're currently employed as a researcher or at a university). 1/2

When UK gov proposes a UK testing ground for AI this is but one political moment in a historically specific machine learning political order which “does not merely change the political technologies of governance, but is a reordering of what the political can be” www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

We can, and must, do more to protect students from Long COVID (and staff). Long COVID is a massive invisible problem in higher education theconversation.com/we-can-and-m...

Check out this RGS CCRG discussion of COP29 as an accessible multimedia teaching resource folks! Useful summaries and insights on key issues. Brilliant, thanks Laurie.