‘Priority courses’, give me strength. Working class kids deserve to study classics and history and art as much as anyone else.

Pat Brodie and I have a book launch event for 'From the Bog to the Cloud' in London on October 22nd. Please come along if you're interested in bogs, data centres, monopoly tech, postcolonial development, eco-imperialism, green capitalism, Ireland.... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/aa-book-la...

at our @uonucu.bsky.social rally this Wednesday, where Sam had a clear message for our comrades down under

amazing thread

An inspiring first day of picketing to kick off our 4 weeks of strike action! Faculty, students, AND a dog or two made an appearance.

honestly I wish outlets like Wired would feature people who AREN'T surprised by this and DIDN'T spend years covering this ecosystem without recognizing the fundamental dynamics of power I can tell you exactly why it was missed:

I love Wired, but this is some weak ass tea. It's far too late for this mealy-mouth head-scratching from editor emeritus Rip Van Winkle. The cyberlibertarian to cyber-fascist trajectory is well understood at this point.

Anyone shocked that Reform plan to deport immigrants with Indefinite Leave to Remain hasn’t been paying attention. Next it will be stripping citizenship from dual citizens, then deporting them. Who do you think Reform are? This. This is who they are.

love my inspiring geography colleagues!! day one of our four-week industrial action, picketing for @uonucu.bsky.social fighting for the future of our university

Dreadful to see this - Farhana Sultana is a stellar academic, with a commitment to social justice. She repeatedly said she was being targeted on this platform & on others. I note her account is deleted. Shame on Syracuse for not standing up for colleagues ⬇️ solidarity to her & Jenn Jackson

I'm wiped out after the Planetary Futures conference that @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social and I organised over the past two days at the University of Manchester. Huge thanks to everyone who gave papers and attended. I think it all went well!

next Monday we begin four weeks of industrial action at the University of Nottingham, inspired by the work of brave colleagues across the sector who've stood up and ruled out compulsory redundancies in many instances (Newcastle, Sheffield—many more!) Without us, there is no university! #StopTheCuts

The £22bn deal announced today between the British government and Microsoft to build AI data centres across the country makes it all the more imperative that we read @pbresnihan.bsky.social and Pat Brody’s new book From the Bog to the Cloud. A quick thread. 1/7

#OtD 17 Sep 2011 inspired by events in Egypt and Spain, Occupy Wall Street began as 1000 people gathered in New York City's financial centre to protest economic inequality and austerity amid a global crisis. Occupy encampents soon spread across the US stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8948...

In London, hate will never win.

thanks to @jonnyjjt.bsky.social and Karolina for giving me this story - the amazing work of #hedgehog rescuers in #Ukraine open.substack.com/pub/hughwarw...

What’s up with Peter Thiel’s secret Antichrist lectures? Let us pierce the veil. For the @newrepublic.com I studied his past Antichrist speeches to decode his message—a chilling fusion of Nazi political theory and scripture. Consider this an urgent warning: newrepublic.com/article/2004...

What if history could be 'weightless'? Lola Olufemi and Agnes Cameron expand on their collaboration, This is a Temporal Landscape You Will Find No Direction Here, a digital assemblage for reimagining our relationship to the radical histories before us: www.historyworkshop.org.uk/practice-his...

How much will it take for people to accept that Israel is committing a genocide, and how many reports need to be released for our governments to stop it?

Genocide that is made possible by 'unwavering' US financial, military and political support. The US is also committing genocide. www.rte.ie/news/middle-...

I've got a new open access article out in BMJ Medical Humanities, co-written with my friend Georgia Walton. It's about the species politics of animal testing, human reproduction and horror cinema. Basically: what if we see animal testing for the horror that it is? doi.org/10.1136/medh... #medhums

Realizing Better Futures Now: @jennahanchey.bsky.social reviews Joseph M. Pierce's SPECULATIVE RELATIONS: INDIGENOUS WORLDBUILDING AND REPAIR (@dukepress.bsky.social)

🧵 The summer of 2025 has been AI's "cruel summer"—wrongful deaths, dangerous therapy chatbots, medical misinformation, facial recognition failures. These aren't isolated glitches but predictable harms from systems deployed without adequate oversight. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Announcing my book, Techno-Negative! It will be out in Spring 2026, published with @uminnpress.bsky.social.

Absolutely astounded that the UCU and Unison branches at Kent and Greenwich were not consulted, and that staff only found out about the merger this morning via BBC news and Kent Online. Solidarity to all colleagues.

Really pleased to share my new paper—"Making sense of nuclear natures"—which is available open access in Progress in Environmental Geography! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @progenvgeog.bsky.social @technatures.bsky.social #NuclearNatures

Today's @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social rally to defend jobs and oppose cuts at Edinburgh university #SaveHE #NoCompulsoryRedundancies #StopTheCuts

So grateful to write for @dissentmag.bsky.social's Fall 2025 issue "Authoritarianism and Resistance." I drafted the piece in June with the new school year in mind, as an immigrant scholar severed from her homeland: What can we teach the young about how to exist and persist at this historic juncture?

A final call for a creative workshop in Oxford on commoning and spatial justice. I am especially excited for the sound walks that have been created for the workshop. Come join us! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sounds-of-...

Since this is apparently a resigning matter, I’ll just leave this here… www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The latest issue of Theory, Culture & Society is now available online with articles on psychological distress and the ‘asset economy’, examining dog-assisted therapy sessions in triadic terms, player freedom in videogames, and more. journals.sagepub.com/toc/TCS/curr...

I didn't notice that the RGS journals are making space to host translated versions of articles (which are importantly open access). This is a wonderful initiative!!

A chance to see the photographs of Easington 1987-1991 from @geogdurham.bsky.social photographer Michele Allan at the Easington Social Welfare Centre, September 8th-12th, 6pm-9pm.

Save 30% on #NewBook "Living On After Failure," by Irving Goh, which considers new ways of living beyond the failure/success binary. #LGBTQBooks #AffectTheory buff.ly/5okPMh3

Yet another example of ruthless targeting by Israeli gvt #ecocide #genocide #FreePalestine

this looks incredible!

Adrian J. Ivakhiv, The New Lives of Images: Digital Ecologies and Anthropocene Imaginaries in More-than-Human Worlds - @stanfordpress.bsky.social, September 2025 www.sup.org/books/media-...

Today is the 5th anniversary of David Graber's death. And with everything happening in the world, his work is now more relevant than ever before.

Never one to shy away from piggy-backing on a viral trend, Starmer in 'siding with the racists' SHOCK

Book Launch for Listening to Landscape, King's College 21 Nov 1900. Hauntology/psychogeography/music: free event with music from The Hardy Tree @claypipemusic.bsky.social & Stonecirclesampler with @oldweirdalbion.bsky.social plus Jim Jupp & Oliver Cherer. Grab tickets from Eventbrite, going fast!

#OpenAccess in Area: 'Sensing the sky's edge: Atmospheric insights into the Korean demilitarised zone' by Madelaine A. Joyce This paper is part of an ongoing Special Section on 'Atmospheric Borders'. doi.org/10.1111/area...

#OpenAccess in TIBG: 'Infrastructure as archive: Examining the colonial geographies of rivers' by @austinread.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky #geo

happy customer!! be sure to pick up a copy from @vickiezhang.bsky.social and @benandersongeog.bsky.social near the lecture theatre in the Teaching and Learning building if you’re at the RGS-IBG this year. Hear us talk more about it tomorrow at the @dialogueshg.bsky.social plenary, 16:50-18:30!

If you are going to the RGS-IBG conference we’re selling copies of The Promise of Cultural Geography at the registration desk. £10 for a beautiful object, that covers costs and will allow us to develop future projects …

Today is officially the publication day of Speculative Relations: Indigenous Worlding and Repair. The book is out, ya'll!!!! Get it where you get your books, but preferably with @dukepress.bsky.social // Save 30% with coupon code SAVE30

#OtD 24 Aug 1943 French philosopher and anti-fascist Simone Weil died. She opposed French colonialism, took part in factory occupations and joined the Durruti Column to fight Franco, besides working as an agricultural laborer and WWII resistance member stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9629...

Joshua Comaroff, Spectropolis: The Enchantment of Capital in Singapore - @uminnpress.bsky.social, November 2025 www.upress.umn.edu/978151791934...

I have a new article out today. It's about an environmental turn in Palestinian arts and activism, and how environmental framings of Palestine and the Palestinian struggle enable different forms of identification and solidarity: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

#OtD 29 Jul 1962 fascist Oswald Mosley tried to march with the Union Movement in Manchester, UK. However, he was attacked by anti-fascists and had to be rescued by police. A Mosley speech later was drowned out by a crowd of anti-fascists. More info: www.patreon.com/posts/e37b-6...