no backing down now. after a lovely happy may day weekend, important to note the fight has only just begun at the University of Nottingham; they come for one of us, they come for all of us. see you outside the Trent building at 10:30 on Wednesday

As government politicians and business lobbies (and some on the Left) look to nuclear energy as a solution to Ireland's energy problems, important to understand why it is not the silver bullet they wish it was. www.versobooks.com/products/301...

We have an *extremely* important announcement to make. From Wednesday, we will be launching our puffin live cam, coming to you from the Farne Islands. So you can watch puffins all day long. In celebration, please enjoy this clip of puffins being really busy for 39 seconds straight.

Delighted to have my author's copies of How Plague Got Rats! A big thanks to series editors @steerewilliams.bsky.social @doravargha.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social & to @wellcometrust.bsky.social for funding this project! Book publ. May 19 & OA www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

SCGRG x EGRG Early career cohost event 12.00 – 12.40 (BST) 6 May, online Thinking beyond the standard research article: publishing commentary articles as an early career researcher Dr Liam Keenan, Assistant Professor in Economic Geography, the University of Nottingham forms.office.com/r/iRVQ57Kr3U

My review of Anton Jager's Hyperpolitics appears in the next @lrb.co.uk and is online now www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Our colleague @jonnyjjt.bsky.social is quoted in this piece published yesterday by the BBC on the 40th anniversary of the Chornobyl disaster. The article looks at what the disaster has meant for wildlife living around the devastated nuclear power plant: www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

Our colleague @jonnyjjt.bsky.social is quoted in this piece published yesterday by the BBC on the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. The article looks at what the disaster has meant for wildlife living around the devastated nuclear power plant: www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

Very good paper on the links between the rise of the right, austerity and running down public services (free to access) Public services are "important anchors of people's electoral choices" Study is on Italy but I think we see this in the UK as well onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/CUDU5R...

Palantir is its own agnotology machine. Do not engage with their discourse, which throws spaghetti at the wall of media: every strand introduces a new kind of doubt. You try to consume & debate it but in the end all you are is tangled in spaghetti and covered with marinara.

paper three of our 'Terraforming Terra' Geoforum special issue is now out.. thank you Hannah for such a wonderful article!!

I have a new OA paper out in Geoforum: 🦐🌎 'What on Earth? Terraqueous Terraforming and Earth-shaping with shrimp-shells' 🌎🦐 doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...

One year after our original Guardian essay, Naomi Klein and I are excited to reveal the North American cover of our forthcoming book END TIMES FASCISM - and the Fight for the Living World. It will be on bookshelves on September 15th and is available for pre-order. More details below. bit.ly/4cbLfEr

Very exciting to have received final cover proofs for 'Power Plants' from @manchesterup.bsky.social. I'm hugely grateful to Jenn Baka, Gavin Bridge and Cara Daggett for their very kind and generous endorsements. The book is due out in June: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526192127/

📣 Fully-funded PhD position on Methane Politics on the ERC funded METHPOL project @ Leeds Uni w/Prof Jan Selby. Open to home (UK) applicants (international studentships have been filled) to start October 2026. Deadline 22 April. #ClimateChange. Full details ⬇️ phd.leeds.ac.uk/funding/427-...

Excellent new special Issue on the challenges raised by the ancient DNA of kinship Special Issue: Kinship Trouble: Traversing Interdisciplinary Boundaries between Archaeology, Archaeogenetics and Socio-cultural Anthropology www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I had a lot of fun making the website for @careproject.bsky.social 🌊 Check it out 👇 care2027.cargo.site

Roll up, roll up! Spring is here and I am looking for reviews for @urbanhistory.bsky.social. Here are some titles we're interested in. If you want a copy of anything below (in return for a review) or want to pitch something to us, drop us a line! Beginning with the incomparable Timothy Mitchell...

Peregrine update: * Ely pair have laid their 3rd egg. * Cromer female chased off a mystery third peregrine who came close to her nest * St Alban's pair laid first egg on Ash Wednesday For background & webcam links 👇

🌑 Suffering from Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)? Interested in light generally? 🌞 I'd highly recommend listening to this episode of What's Up Docs with the van Tulleken brothers & @hesterparr.bsky.social ❤️ Loving the Drs' crush on human geography ❤️ www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Henri Lefebvre wasn't a fan of previous missions to the moon - "the sacrifice of a considerable part of the earth's resources in order to gain possession of one of the ghastliest of all the piles of pebbles rattling around in space" (La Fin de l’histoire in 1970, p. 212, Key Writings, p. 182).

i have been laughing at the incredulousness of this all day it's so funny... i've always said more-than-human geography was an attempt to unsettle Alex-Karp-esian ontological binaries like nature/culture and object/subject

Geopolitics is looking for two new co-editors-in-chief. Apply here: think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...

We are looking for a 3-year postdoc to work on a self-defined research project in environmental history that places electronic or digital technologies at the center of its historical inquiry. More details in the announcement linked to below. #envhist

New piece in Progress in Human Geography, 'Crisis-thinking and critical urbanism'. What might crisis-thinking be doing to how the urban is conceived, researched, and politicised? How might it impact how we see urban possibility? Open access here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

the most urgent book we all need right now

I swear this is how Ned Beauman’s novel Venemous Lumpsucker starts???

"...a reminder not just of the fact that the future Silicon Valley is force feeding us is not inevitable, but that quite often these oligarchs quite simply cannot relate to real people, don’t know how or why people use their products, and very often have no idea what they’re doing."

I don't really feel like the press coverage of the metaverse implosion honestly captures the access tech press' role in propping up Mark Zuckerberg's fake innovation mythology if you go back and read "journalism" from this era, 97% was indistinguishable from advertorial

A few things on the end of Horizon Worlds, the metaverse that Mark Zuckerberg believed in so much that he renamed his company: 1) It’s very sad that many of the people who worked on it have been unceremoniously laid off because their leaders appear to have no idea what they’re doing 2) lol

Meta is shutting down its VR metaverse on June 15th.

I have a short Chapter out on why cultural geographers need to take the premise of abolitionism seriously, part of the wonderful new 'Handbook of Cultural Geographies' by @ajsecor.bsky.social P Merriman ans S Sumartojo. Message me for scans of the chapter. www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

This story is a good example of why it is so difficult to communicate genuine science to the public. Despite every scientist not on the company payroll decrying it as a bogus and unscientific project, the story presents it as some sort of both-sides issue. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

For the record, this is my comment to the journalist on Colossal’s dire wolf.

get your votes in @uonucu.bsky.social

Whose voices count in the modern history of distinction? @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social considers how much historians can learn by paying attention to the remarkable lives of plants.

Timothy Mitchell, The Alibi of Capital: How We Broke the Earth to Steal the Future on the Promise of a Better Tomorrow - @versobooks.bsky.social, March 2026 www.versobooks.com/products/345...

this is an amazing team and a really critical project!!!

"Diasporic culture and social media: Interpreting the cuy TikTok phenomenon" new in cultural geographies from Martin Saps and @zuhrijames.bsky.social was lucky to see a version of this presented at the @digicologies.bsky.social conference last month journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

two amazing speakers at this upcoming event at OII

It's my birthday today! If you’re feeling generous, please donate to my fundraiser to buy power generators for the 142nd mechanised brigade in memory of my friend Alisa's father who proudly served in the battalion 🇺🇦 🔱 🇬🇧 Link: www.paypal.com/pools/c/9n6n... 🇺🇦 Link: send.monobank.ua/jar/9CBuj5qP7J

The Greens are offering a different kind of politics – one that offers a sense of solidarity, camaraderie, and agency in an age of individualism. Contests like this don’t just give us hope. They make us feel we’re part of something bigger than ourselves. graceblakeley.substack.com/p/the-ground...

🌍 The new issue of #ROUTES is OUT NOW! 🌍 ✍️ It's packed with original, cutting-edge #research from high school and undergraduate #geographers 👇 Read the full issue here: routesjournal.org/current-issue/ @rgs.org @geographicalassoc.bsky.social

Really glad to publish the latest issue of Routes, with some excellent and timely contributions that show how important and relevant geographical knowledge is to the contemporary world!

Venture capital doesn’t just fund tech. In a new article, @loicriom.bsky.social and I explore venture capitalization: how ideas and technologies are made investable, and how this process fuels tech oligarchy—not just as economic power, but as a force that reshapes culture, values, and truth.

An incredible contribution by @loicriom.bsky.social and @taschn.bsky.social to our Forum on Tech Oligarchy. 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I’m quoted quite a bit here so perhaps I’m biased but I feel this is a good run down of what the Epstein files tell us about how power works in academia. with some good commentary from @jessicacalarco.com, too:

i shared this a few months ago but it is certainly worth a second read!!

"... in spite of everything, people are still speaking up, people are still making art, people are still teaching real history, people are still fighting back against the abduction of their neighbors. People still know what it means to feel joy. People still know what it means to be free."