Unconditional Basic Income for artists may well pay for itself as the Irish case indicates: "for every euro the government spent on supporting artists, society received €1.39 in return" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This was a very difficult decision for us as a small indie team. Please stand with us and @nogamesforgenocide.com ❤️ #indiedev #indiegames #gamedev #freepalestine

I'm on a flight that’s been five hours delayed and the flight attendant just got on the PA and said, “Please get out of the aisle and into your seats so we can get on our way as quickly and painfully as possible.” I appreciated her candor.

New article on tactics enviro/climate justice activists and academics see as enabling success: a focus on marginalised ontologies, disruptive politics, and methods to lift local knowledges. It's a rough time to post new pubs, but for something positive... journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Join us for the third and final installment of our Decolonising Death Studies Webinar series... Mapping Deathways — Environment, Digital & Repatriation Friday 20th March 2026 08:00 - 09:30 (GMT) 🔗 Book your free ticket: deathandsociety.org/decolonising...

🚨New episode alert 🚨 Listen to @imperi.bsky.social, Founder of the School of American Thanatology and writer of A Guide to Grief for teens and tweens, discuss Shadow Loss, non-clinical grief tools, thanatology, botany and much more! ⬇️ thedeathstudiespodcast.com/cole-imperi/

So pleased that my ‘Living Futures’ book is now in production and will be out with Routledge by September - details here #futures #sociology #history #anthropology #geography #CreativeMethods #divination #forecasting simplysociology.wordpress.com/2026/02/23/l...

LLM-adopters have adjusted their expectations of how quickly one can write a grant, thereby expecting their teams to write and submit more grants per year, as compared to those who are more LLM-critical. Again, those positions are not visible from the outside, but the # of submitted grants is. 4/

I want to stress that I want AI to do my dishes and house work so that I can write and think, not all the other way around.

Star Wars is characterized by a millennia-long stagnant (only innovation is in weapons) galactic political economy fraught with oppression, lawlessness (think of the crime syndicates), and inequality. A major theme is hope in spite of this time-cyclical world.

New episode ft Dr Nina Vaswani out now! @weeneens.bsky.social thedeathstudiespodcast.com/dr-nina-vasw...

I learned long ago in business, when given oral instructions you know are wrong you immediately write them back to the person confirming you understood them correctly. If they won’t put it in writing but I’m expected to do it? I’m damned straight going to get it in writing.

PAPER ALERT! 🔥How can we use theories of care to understand how games can help us care more for the future in the face of climate change? Carien Moossdorff and I investigated 287 climate-related games on they engage with care for the future. Now in FUTURES! Link below! #games #climate #futures

Our article examines tensions between speculative frontiers/sedimented practices in academic science. Published in Bulletin of Science Technology & Society, co-authored with Alex Broom, @bartlettquantum.bsky.social @katherinekenny.bsky.social available OA here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Just published! This Special Issue underscores the importance of scholarship that interrogates the current state of climate politics and opens pathways for more deeply contextualized and democratic responses to climate change. 🌱 spr.ly/63321Cf8Td #OpenAccess #ClimateChangePolicy

#CovidIsNotOver (headline 🖼️: #LongCovid symptoms) By early 2026, the average USian had accumulated > 5 lifetime SARS-CoV-2 infections, ⬆️ from 4.57 infections per person in September 2025, confirming that population-level immunity is not stabilizing but steadily ⬇️. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Our review of the #justtransitions, #sustainablewelfare & #eco-socialpolicy literatures is now out, comparing views on growth & capitalism, work & welfare and global justice. wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... with @maxkoch.bsky.social @veratrappmann.bsky.social & Gina Moran

Ten years ago, Jason Glynos and I published our first attempt at defining populist hype It came out as a working paper with Populismus, having been rejected by three journals, with split reviews every time Amazing to see the journey the concept has been on since www.populismus.gr/wp-content/u...

New fully open access special issue on Digital Death published in the Finnish Death Studies journal Thanatos 💙📚 journal.fi/thanatos

we can do hard things! it is often frustrating to do so! it sometimes doesn't feel great! and that is ok! we can also work with other people to help us when we can't do a thing on our own, that forms social networks we can lean on throughout our careers, and supports everyone's learning!

Last spring, I was asked to give carreer advice to grad students. And the one thing I told them was: our best skill is our ability to learn difficult things -- it's also the first skill you will lose unless you intentionally don't let yourselves go.

Best way to start 2026! It was a joy to be invited to The Death Studies Podcast @deathstudiespod.bsky.social 😄 The podcast, hosted by the amazing @drrenskevisser.bsky.social and the incredible Bethan Michael-Fox, is great for anyone looking to know more about death in a deeply entertaining format 🤩

5 writing tips for an ⭐️excellent⭐️ Materials & Methods section A thread. 🧵 #Academia #phd #Postdoc

In Icelandic folklore Jólakötturinn, the Yule Cat, comes to eat those who do not wear their new clothes for Christmas. In this image, you can see somebody did not put on their new Christmas sweater. Or perhaps even more unfortunately, no one got them one! More ... 👇

Really interesting research showing that while ultra-specialization in a single discipline might lead to better results early in one’s career, multi-discipline training and practice pays off big time in the long run. This applies to a range of professions from scientists to athletes and more

I have a new open access article out, co-authored with @alejopedregal.bsky.social and Nemanja Lukić, called 'For an Anti-Imperialist Ecological Modernity'. The article introduces a special issue we've edited on ecomodernism and imperialism. But it does much more than that. A thread. 1/13

We (@crossdale.bsky.social, Christina Pantazis, @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social, Tiê Franco Brotto and I) present the first academic peer-reviewed article, studying the criminalisation and repression of climate and environmental protest as a global phenomenon. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252: Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email. Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk

Today is my first day in my new job at the Uni of Manchester, and I have a new article to share! ‘Operation Hurricane’: Narrating Climate Change as Imperial Mess. This article is something a bit different, playing with format to explore why climate storytelling matters. doi.org/10.1002/geo2...

The Amazonian Common Use Territory: Pluriverse or Insurgent Universality? doi.org/10.1002/geo2...

What would degrowth look like in practice? Degrowth London have launched a new interactive web platform which brings to life a vision for the city's future 🌇 Its a great imaginative resource and really fun to explore! explore.degrowthlondon.org

🏝️New in Geo!🏝️ '"Operation Hurricane": Narrating climate change as imperial mess' by Charlotte Weatherill This paper is part of an ongoing Special Section: 'Political Ecologies of Islands: Environmental & Climate (In)Justices'. doi.org/10.1002/geo2...

Death and power: call for papers Submit your abstract to our 2026 Annual Conference! 17-19 June, online www.bath.ac.uk/announcement...

BIG NEWS! The Routledge International Handbook of Queer Death Studies, eds. Nina Lykke, Tara Mehrabi, and Marietta Radomska is finally out! 63 chapters and 73 contributors. You can order - or better, ask your local library to order - this behemoth of a book via: www.routledge.com/9781032504384

New utopian pulse is out! 𝐀𝐈 𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐫 𝐠𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠? www.uu.nl/en/opinion/a... This post is for anyone who uses AI text-to-image tools or is concerned by their use. It tells an unexpected tale, which led me back to the cornfields of Illinois to interview my dad about 1970s rural America...

The immortality projects that emerge from within (techno-)capitalism expand the frontiers of capital to new areas of life - including death and immortality 😑. I explored this topic in my article 'Exploited in immortality', published in the journal Mortality. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles. Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8

👇🎯 These people will never stop trying to get rich by telling everyone they can learn & teach w/o doing the actual hard work of learning & teaching. They peddle fake alternatives to the hard daily grind of education because they're greedy & lazy. They're charlatans, & we should treat them as such.

I am dead. I’m actually just inert matter now.

20/ @matthiasschmelzer.bsky.social returns to the need for academics to create space to help develop imaginaries that we can unite behind. We're directed to this book... mayflybooks.org/future-for-a... But Dr. Schmelzer notes that such visons need to realistically incorporate environment decline.

My number one tip for researchers that do a significant amount of non peer reviewed paper publication/outreach: Create an excel table, every time you give an interview, talk, write an oped or white paper, etc. take 5 seconds to immediately note it in the excel.

Zodiac killer murders again, challenging legal bounds

New response out! timotheeparrique.com/a-response-t...

There's only so much a movement can accomplish by movement-ing alone! Ultimately, they need to build broad-based solidarities and coalitions, a strategy that XR could invest in more . You may like the arguments we make here: www.bloomsbury.com/us/decolonizing-environmentalism-9781350335493/

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

This reminds me of the 2002 movie S1m0ne, where Al Pacino's character creates a digital actress to avoid dealing with real actors. It goes terribly wrong for him.

As European Society for Ecological Economics, we launched our Curriculum Development Platform! Designed for educators & learners, it offers 115+ resources—slides, syllabi, games, assignments & more—to support & inspire ecological economics teaching Explore & contribute: ecolecon.eu/esee-curricu...

When we talk "renewables" we need to consider recycling and degrowth principles, it's as simply as that. We can't afford the same number of e-cars, as they need a broader range of metal-based materials, whose extraction is already related to deforestation. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Why has an intelligent and articulate woman wearing a mask and speaking at the UN provoked an aggressive response from some media outlets? Because her mask and her words have profoundly perturbed people at a deeply subconscious level. The nature of that perturbation is fear.