Making geography a career-defining subject… before it’s too late

“AI firms want to woo us with frictionless interfaces for everything. The antidote is sitting across the table from the people we care about, and all the friction they come with, to discuss our interesting times & everything else.” Indeed! Happy Thanksgiving all! www.fastcompany.com/91447431/tha...

I am coming to the end of this year’s #movember! I am fundraising in memory of my friend Henry Buller, former head of Geography at Exeter, who sadly passed away due to prostate cancer in 2023. If you feel inclined I am still fundraising! Please donate here: movember.com/m/15129349?m...

Earthshot Prize 2025: re.green Wins for Restoring Brazil’s Forests

Data Justice Conference 2026: Submit your abstract by 31 Dec

States of precarity in UK Higher Education Geography – report I am late to highlighting the publication of the important RGS-IBG report States of precarity in UK Higher Education geography. I encourage anyone in academia but especially those of us in geography as a discipline to read and think…

Author Interview—“Experimenting with Error: A Conversation with Dan Charnas”

Yes, this is correct. And the reason is because our capitalist classes have decided that it is not sufficiently profitable, so they're not going to do it. We must understand this reality. Capital *cannot* be relied upon to address the climate crisis.

"When I think about the jobs the data center will bring to our area, I think about the impact of introducing nuclear technology to the world and deploying it on civilians" www.404media.co/a-small-town...

The official relief fund for Jamaica is supportjamaica.gov.jm.

AI Is Pushing Climate Goals Out of Reach

Surging electricity demand driven by artificial intelligence is putting humanity’s climate goals out of reach, extending the life of fossil fuels and driving up emissions in the U.S. power sector.

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and don't forget to like and subscribe.

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and let me know if you have any questions! 🤗

BRISTOL Drop off point for Relief Aid Hurricane Melissa Mama Ps 611 Fishponds Road Bristol BS16 3AA First Shipment to Jamaica 🇯🇲 aiming for 7th Nov 2025 Please share caring people One love, One people

Data Justice Conference 2026: The Datafied State

Untitled A really interesting and insightful piece over on the Just Rural Futures Substack by Joshua Z. Merced, Northern Arizona University, about the ways ‘Southernness’ gets performed and used for various reasons in relation to craft beer: Porch Swings and Pale Ales: Performing Southerness in…

What participatory geographers can contribute to studying urban renewal over the long term

Errol Flynn lives!

Our article on the politics of AI prompts is out now @econsocjournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/n

Career Development Research Fellowships -Oxford Gillian Rose recently shared these Career Development Research Fellowships on BlueSky and I thought I would share them here too. One of the specialisms encouraged in Human Geography. Career Development Research Fellowships for full-time research…

RGS-IBG book series relaunch with LSE Press and first two titles The RGS-IBG Book Series is a publishing partnership between the Royal Geographical Society ?(with the Institute of British Geographers) and LSE Press… RGS-IBG book series relaunch with LSE Press and first two titles

Barry Stocker ed. Derrida: Ethics in Deconstruction – Routledge, September 2025 Barry Stocker ed. Derrida: Ethics in Deconstruction – Routledge, September 2025 Ethics in Deconstruction is vital reading for anyone interested in … Barry Stocker ed. Derrida: Ethics in Deconstruction – Routledge,…

@leverhulme.ac.uk Early Career Fellowship 2025–26 now open with @ucl.ac.uk Geography. Dept deadline: 23 Oct 2025 More info: tinyurl.com/ucl-lev #EarlyCareerResearchers #LeverhulmeFellowship

Call for Applications: Gender, Place and Culture New and Emerging Scholars Award for 2026 Application closing date: 31 January 2026 The editorial team of Gender, Place and Culture is pleased to announce the annual award valued at a maximum… Call for Applications: Gender, Place and Culture New and…

Essex AI Policy Observatory for the World of Work: Symposium in Global Political Economy We are pleased to announce that our Symposium for the Essex Policy Observatory for the World of Work (E-AIPOWW), is now published in Global Political… Essex AI Policy Observatory for the World of Work:…

on.ft.com/46mnJlf Banks tighten debt terms as squeezed UK universities refinance loans

Adrian J. Ivakhiv, The New Lives of Images: Digital Ecologies and Anthropocene Imaginaries in More-than-Human Worlds – Stanford University Press, … Adrian J. Ivakhiv, The New Lives of Images: Digital Ecologies and Anthropocene Imaginaries in More-than-Human Worlds – Stanford University Press, ……

“An introduction to a non-fascist geography” – review of Chris Philo, Adorno and the Anti-Fascist Geographical Imagination My review, “An introduction to a non-fascist geography“, of Chris Philo, Adorno and the Anti-Fascist Geographical Imagination (Edinburgh University … “An introduction to a…

Three Postdoctoral Research Positions  Karin Schwiter at the University of Zurich recently shared three full-time postdoc or senior researcher positions in labour geography at the University of Zurich (for 4 years). They say they are: "looking for people excited by the possibility of doing a…

📣 I'M HIRING! Please spread the word 📣 🔎 Looking for a 1-year postdoctoral research associate to support @sensory-lives-prj.bsky.social & UK-wide tour of a playhouse tent communicating neurodivergent children’s experiences of Temporary Accommodation. 🛜 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOL488/p...

New Publication “Entanglements of Dis:abilities and Technologies in Public Space and Life” in Annals of the American Association of Geographers. We critically examine the relational and contextual ways technologies shape disabled youth's lived experiences. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Bernhard Waldenfels on ‘Phenomenology of Attention’ Now for part seven of influences and presences at Social Imaginaries. Introducing, Bernhard Waldenfels: one of our Editors-at-Large, who is also … Bernhard Waldenfels on ‘Phenomenology of Attention’

Spirits of Extraction Panel (RGS-IBG 2025) I am chairing a panel for Claire Blencowe‘s book Spirits of Extraction (Manchester University Press) at the RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2025. Claire … Spirits of Extraction Panel (RGS-IBG 2025)

The 2025 Antipode RGS-IBG Lecture—“Sonic Lives: On the Radio and Anticolonial Solidarity” Mai Taha and Sara SalemDepartment of SociologyLondon School of Economics and Political Science If you’ll be attending the Royal Geographical Society … The 2025 Antipode RGS-IBG Lecture—“Sonic Lives: On the…

'Fewer graduates regret going to university than is widely assumed and the public have a more favourable view of universities than people imagine, according to new research.' 1/3

Attending RGS-IBG AC25? Before the main conference kicks off, please join us for our pre-conference workshop on Tuesday 26th August, 12pm-5pm, in the School of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences. Register here: www.rgs.org/research/ann... @rgsibg.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social

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Look at this dystopian scene I captured with my ai glasses.

Siri, how do you define "efficiency"?

Nick Srnicek, Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI – Polity, October 2025 Nick Srnicek, Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI – Polity, October 2025 Looking beyond the flurry of rapid changes in artificial … Nick Srnicek, Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI –…

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Alpacalypse Now Artist: blugg https://b3ta.com/board/11419475 From the 'Movie Pets' challenge https://b3ta.com/challenge/moviepets/popular/ #MoviePets

“this £85 billion represents a direct transfer of value from the public to private owners — a sum extracted while storm overflows proliferated, leakage targets were missed, and river health declined”

Terrible. When I got my AHRC PhD funding I applied directly to the AHRC with my own project. Now students are increasingly tied in to what universities and partner organisations want them to do, stifling research independence - plus fewer projects getting funded overall.

I am going to keep screaming this EVERY time: do you know how fucking many hoops animal behaviorists have to jump through to get research alleging that animals feel happiness or sadness published and the WALL STREET JOURNAL prints that LINES OF CODE WITH NO BRAIN STEM can SELF REFLECT

Decades of mechanistic talk about university degrees as if they were bundles of 'skills' and 'prep' are about to be proved completely wrong (obviously). Want to get a real boost? Do History or English.

✈️ New paper published in Progress in Human Geography ✈️ 'Mobilities I: Crisis' by Cristina Temenos journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... @ctemenos.bsky.social

Hello & HAPPY FRIDAY, as promised an open letter by my lovely colleagues and myself. Everybody, feel free to sign this even if you are not NL-based and ‼️ share ‼️ (anonymous signature is poss): Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia openletter.earth/open-letter-...

"In Ireland, nearly half of all units delivered since 2017 were purchased by investment funds. Across Sweden, the share of private rental apartments with institutional investors as landlords has swelled to 24%. In Berlin, €40bn of housing assets are now in institutional portfolios, 10% of the total"