My weekend reading list, in no particular order

Geographies in/of translation w. Timur Hammond, @spaceforpeace.bsky.social, @claireplacial.bsky.social, @yiminzhao.bsky.social, @henrikfinland.bsky.social, Kirsi Pauliina Kallio & James Riding Thanks to this wonderful collective & Timur's leadership! #openaccess fennia.journal.fi/article/view...

#Russia says foreign troops in #Ukraine is fundamentally unacceptable... Ummm does that mean they will leave and take the North Koreans with them? www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/...

New special issue of #Fennia - International Journal of #Geography is out: Reimagining humanitarianism. As always Fennia is free to read and publish in. fennia.journal.fi/issue/view/1...

#Disinformation is everywhere. Jones, M. O. (2025). Evidencing alethocide: Israel’s war on truth in Gaza. Third World Quarterly, 1–18. doi.org/10.1080/0143...

Can't believe I missed game 1 #nba

We are seeing multiple instances of reviewers doing manuscript reviews via use of AI/LLM. If you don't want to do a review the old-fashioned way, better to decline the request. Giving someone else's manuscript to AI is a violation of intellectual property rights/laws; the manuscript isn't yours...

#Israel s finance minister is now saying that they will #occupy #Gaza and not withdraw, not even in exchange for hostages. www.dr.dk/nyheder/sene...

Meeting in the #Bomucult network at #UEF

Busy day at University of Eastern Finland (#UEF). With at least 3 PhD defenses on Joensuu Campus Social I chose Tuulia Reponens "Moral communities in Conflict" w/ Tim Cresswell as opponent.

#Denmark have just extended the 'temporary' #border control along the 🇩🇰-🇩🇪 border. It has now been in force since the 4th of January 2016. www.dr.dk/nyheder/sene...

Help🙏 I am looking for new(er) articles that talk about the history/creation/establishment/general development of the #USA - #Mexico #border Any and all suggestions are most appreciated

🥳 New #FENNIA issue is out. 11 papers with focus on human-environment relationships, disability and #geography /rural, #mobility, Participatory Action Research etc. As always, reading & publishing in Finland's oldest geographical journal is free. Enjoy! fennia.journal.fi/issue/view/1...

Three great positions at the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute in The Hague.

Today #Israel passed a law, tightening the political grip on the courts. It passed with 67 to 1 (the opposition boycotted the vote). Its a trend we have seen in #Hungary and #Poland, if they are not careful they will end in the same legal vacuum as the #USA. politiken.dk/internationa...

Attending a showing and panel debate of the #Finnish documentary #Rajalla (at the #border) which is about local community on the Finnish side of the #Finland #Russia border. youtu.be/a4u-Zj2Lb_c?...

Eugeny Manzhurin defending his #PhD at #UEF

In #EU fewer wants to travel to the #US Boycott of American goods are rising, investors are buying European stocks. 4 in 10 Danes see the US as a threat and some politicians want to cancel the newly agreed bilateral defense agreement.

🇬🇱 election opens in a few hours. Although #Trump has had people campaigning in #Greenland since Juniors stunt, poles show that 85%of the people don't want to be part of the #USA and 5 out of 6 parties say Trump can't be trusted.

#borders are everywhere

What about a #rapbattle on #border issues & #borderwall? youtu.be/VS8SdwzlKCQ?...

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#Deepseek has made quite the splash today. Yet, have any tried to ask it what the #Tiananmensquare massacre was about? Try it

In #geopolitical turmoil #Danes are signing up to join the #military like never before. Currently there is up to 18months waiting list to serve. www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...

Few people in #SanFrancisco, #Florida, #NewYork etc know they live with the #100milezone and what that means to their rights. ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

I keep finding myself drawn to #sensuous #geography (and it's connection to #perception and #borders.) Yet most writing is fairly dated, is anyone familiar with newer articles/books on sensuous geography?

Israel has kept 75.000 Palestinians from access to food, water, & medicine for 11 weeks, living up to their promise of a complete siege. As a result former Israeli defense minister, Moshe Yaalon, accuses Israel of ethnic cleansing. (www.hrw.org/news/2023/12...) (www.dr.dk/nyheder/udla...)

2025 is knocking on the door

After more than 300 attacks in #Syria. #Israel is now seeking to double the numbers of illegal settlers in #Golan and wants to ensure their safety by occupying more land. www.euronews.com/2024/12/15/i...

Two days ago the #Netherlands started their #bordercontrol and today #Finland received 50million to upgrade their #border. valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/finland...

📢 Publication Alert 📢 “Walled: Barriers, Migration, and Resistance in the US-Mexico Borderlands” (University of Arizona Press) This collection features contributions from esteemed colleagues in borderlands studies and reflects on 30 years of life along the US-Mexico border

Very good idea @rgsibg.bsky.social to create a virtual #geography issue across journals on a specific topic. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/joint_vi... My personal favorite is of course #border #borderlands #bordering