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...

Ive seen LLMs pushed a lot to fellow #adhd students and scholarship to "help" them with things like detail work and structuring work. Ive also seen many punished for trusting this offer of help too. Here's what to use instead: #academicsky

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.

A new documentary film released by CFI explores what does it mean to be immortal in the age of artificial intelligence. www.lcfi.ac.uk/news-events/...

Not exaggerating when I say I owe some of my greatest professional wins to gracious editors and reviewers. Unsung heroes of the profession.

📣 Belated publication announcement – I have never really gotten round to properly introducing the @iajournal.bsky.social special section on ‘Boundary work and the (un)making of global cooperation’, co-edited with the wonderful @marenhofius.bsky.social. academic.oup.com/ia/issue/101/3

imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off

Kurokawa Onsen. Words fail to describe

This month marks our 4-year anniversary! We are working hard on a special DDD17 episode to celebrate which will be released asap! In the meantime: do enjoy our back catalogue! open.spotify.com/show/4n3l0Z7...

Some pointers to writing a series of papers from the same project patthomson.net/2025/09/21/w...

Hey, people who work on climate especially, you should know this is happening.

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

Fascinating read: AI doomers & AI utopians aren’t opposites; they’re allies. Both sell the fantasy that AI will transform humanity, serving tech billionaires who profit from "hype". The real threat isn’t superintelligence. It’s the tech oligarchs building AI today.

Fun article about “outsider” scientists and their breakthroughs. “Academia filters most funding, publishing, and hiring decisions through senior insiders, which favors ideas within existing paradigms.” worksinprogress.co/issue/why-sc...

Best review comment I ever received was "oppressive use of puns, perhaps held over from the dissertation stage." No, dear emeritus professor, they were all very intentional.

Just noticed that Professor Farhana Sultana disappeared, not only from here, but from her page at @syracuseu.bsky.social . Seems like institutional cowardice in the face of fascism is becoming the norm (again). Does any colleague from @pollenetwork.bsky.social have any news?

Oh ffs. No, I do not want to "Chat with the PDF" of this interesting looking academic journal article I just came across. I would like to read it. With my own eyeballs. And think about it. You know, with that grey matter sitting between my ears. Just make it stop. #AcademicChatter

Job of “pope” remains un-killed at this time

EVERY YEAR we extract more material (coal, gas, oil) than the material needed for the ENTIRE energy transition...at massive economic and environmental cost. The cost of the energy transition is discussed all the time. What's often missing is the cost of not doing it.

Submitted a paper this afternoon (hooray!) but oh the painful & inevitable stages involved in writing--from the euphoria (this will be the Best Paper Ever!) to the depths of despair (wow, this thing is terrible) to the resignation phase (well, I guess I'll just cut out that idea and move on). 1/

🍀New article publication🍀 Kristina Wanieck et al. (including Peggy Karpouzou and Nikoleta Zampaki). “A Call for Bio-Inspired Technologies: Promises and Challenges for Ecosystem Service Replacement.” Biomimetics 10.9 (2025): 1-7. doi: doi.org/10.3390/biom...

Review alert 🚨 What motivates collective action for the environment? 🔎🌍 We reviewed 27 publications to identify the proximal predictors of environmental collective action. Here are our key findings:

PRO TIP from someone who has peer reviewed A LOT and submitted papers A LOT lately: your review shouldn’t be so long and nit picky that it’s basically a nightmare for the authors to address your comments. Reviews should be feasible and constructive.