Going back to my old notes from university (yes, really) from lectures and tutorials with Jim Duncan on culture and landscape. Some things really got ingrained in me 🤣😂

My colleagues found this yesterday following a settlement about AI, scraping and authorship, and some of us are eligible. We are wondering if it is for real/what the consequences of claiming might be. Any ideas anyone? www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

Portugal is taking online disinformation and fake news seriously. As part of a broader attempt to encourage media literacy, it’s offering 15-18 year olds a free digital subscription to a range of respected newspapers and magazines as well as online upstarts that don’t spread lies. (Monocle)

Always nice to see geography in the wild…..

Always nice to see geography in the wild…..

Every piece of early Pikachu art is a blessing on this imperfect world

#OpenAccess in Area 'No more NVivo! Dealing with coding frustrations in a study of contemporary Cambodian dance' by @amandahoperogers.bsky.social This piece is part of an ongoing Thinking With Methods collection, 'Digging into Data'. doi.org/10.1111/area... #geosky

This was a brilliant read Amanda, and such open and honest reflections. Its making me think about how we use Nvivo in a public health, local authority context. Something which we’re having continuous conversations about! 👏

Intriguing report of the thinking of the Universities Minister www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05...

The Rise of the Platform Music Industries is now freely available as an Open Access ebook on the publisher’s web site. The paperback version is published next month. www.agendapub.com/resources/pd...

With Starmer's talk of 'strangers' in his diatribe this morning (invoking Enoch Powell), it's worth remembering Sara Ahmed's amazing work on how 'strangeness' isn't about a lack of recognition, but how we actually recognise strangeness via the identities and bodies we've been told to fear.

Well. This government is as hell bent on ruining our sector as the last one. What have we come to?

ChatGPT “encourages] users to rely less and less on inner resources and personal capacity at a time when most of us are already losing the equipment—our will, our instincts, our sense of purchase—with which we handle the task of being alive,” Jia Tolentino writes. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Oh well. I applied for promotion to professor and the internal panel (scientist after scientist after scientist after medic) decided that it wasn’t even worth sending it out to review as I don’t meet the criteria. Apparently. I’m looking forward to the feedback on this one.

The geopolitical implications of this for South East Asia are huge - and by extension all of us. The US just dramatically shifted a global power axis.

I decided to start a #thread 🧵 of stories about legal residents and tourists being (illegally) arrested, detained and/or deported by the Trump regime. I'll only post stories from serious sources, as rumors and conspiracies are really not needed in this authoritarian moment.

I have a new piece out in Area about my frustrations with using NVivo. Yeah. I said it. You all think it when you’re using it, I bet! But it’s more than a rant don’t worry! 😉 Thanks to the late Russell Hitchings for this one….. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

So that Kendrick Super Bowl performance is going into everyone’s lectures then yeah?!

Which idiot thought exam marking would be a good assessment? Ah yes. That would be me. I forgot what it’s like to wade through this many. 10/80 done. 😩

The convention here is to say you are delighted to share a paper you’ve written. I'm not quite sure I can say that, but I will be pleased if this paper can further understandings of patient and social science perspectives around #pain and #FND. Look away now if health updates are not your thing 1/n

First draft for me. It’s much too long, it’s really scrappy in parts, but I have finally written it all out. Now to get it into publisher first draft shape before Easter so it can go out to review. Sabbatical here we go…..

This, X, Apple News — plus the general Trump/Musk situation. Jeez. World is burning. This is especially serious in countries where FB is the main news source. Academics and good journalists both so expendable and so necessary rn. Rant over. I could really go on but won’t.

I wrote about the Hanieh book (it's good) spectrejournal.com/review-of-cr...

So, here’s my birthday question: 40+ year women, how do you remain visible to YOU when navigating public spaces? No wrong answers & no pic required. I’ll be contemplating this question today.

Hi - I’ve been off social media a while because term has been so busy and I’m trying to finish my book. Chris informs me that everyone is now here and I went online and everyone seemed to have disappeared. So build again I guess!!!