Join us on the BeNeLux geography conference April 8-10 2025, in Leuven, Belgium. The call for abstracts and early bird registration is now open! (closed December 8), I'm looking forward to a nice but cosy community led geography conference! www.benelux-geo.eu

“What could possibly go wrong….”

Voor collega’s die nog wat zweven op links: de PvdD stemde gisteren vóór een bezuiniging op universiteiten van bijna een half miljard. GLpvdA, Volt, SP en D66 tegen www.utoday.nl/news/76115/e...

Wat een verhaal. Zweden heeft een regering die gedoogd wordt door radicaalrechts, dus Thunberg kreeg nauwelijks steun van Zweedse ambassade.

Every academic career is built on rejection, but we don’t show it. 
CVs list publications, grants & awards, not rejected manuscripts, unfunded proposals, or failures. 
But those invisible rejections shape us more than our successes ever do. 👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette... 🧵

Everyday now there is new information detailing just how economically unviable AI is. Data centers will be the new abandoned Walmarts, but on an even larger scale. futurism.com/future-socie...

Intrigued…..

On 8-10 April 2026 the inaugural “BeNeLux Geography” conference will be held in Leuven, Belgium. 🌍 Explore the curated sessions: www.benelux-geo.eu/sessions.html 💡 Submit your own: www.benelux-geo.eu/call-for-ses... 📅 Deadline: 15 October 2025

Wat een zinnigheid en redelijkheid in dit interview. Het gemak waarmee retoriek en vooroordeel worden doorgeprikt is zowel geruststellend (@jwduyvendak weet waar hij het over heeft) als alarmerend (waarom gaan we allemaal mee in de foute frames?). www.folia.nl/actueel/168424

Chat GPT talks to itself. A cup-de-sac of nothing

Insurance is the canary in the coal mine of what the future will most likely hold….

“Labour (and hey the Conservatives too) seem to hate their own voters.”

Labour is pitching the New Towns announcement today as a return to the "transformative post-war housing boom under Clement Attlee". Actually it looks much more like housing policy under Blair, or even Thatcher and Boris Johnson (thread)

New RSA Blog 🗺️ Maps are powerful tools — but do we use their full potential? @jakobeder.bsky.social reflects on why visual literacy matters in geography & shares 5 simple tips for designing clearer, more engaging maps. 👉 www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202...

“What could possibly go wrong….”

A logic to trust the future of humanity to….

Sums up the right-wing rage against unis beautifully! 😜 “I urge you to make your places of learning return to pre-woke sanity: (…) when the music was better, when colors were more vibrant, when urinating was simpler, and when our foreheads were unburdened by the wrinkles of a life spent in anger”

TESG joined the RGS-IBG conference in Birmingham, where Dr Melanie Griffiths delivered a powerful lecture on the future of migration studies. Full lecture to appear in our 2026 issue - stay tuned!

Vandaag nieuwe cijfers en een informatieve website. Zendtijdincampagnetijd.nl

The Groyper Wars

Weer een goede aflevering van de SRV podcast! Ook een mooi moment voor wat zelfpromotie over twee onderwerpen die worden besproken. Voor wie een uur discussie tussen twee wetenschappers niet stoffig genoeg vinden: een draadje over de PvdA-PVV overstap met relevante bronnen: bsky.app/profile/jvan...

Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared

Something about the way LLMs build in the idea that to find something out, you shouldn't read an already existing text that other people have also read (ew!); you should get fresh text generated just for you. Each time, new disposable text.

"Het vorige kabinet had drie basisprincipes geformuleerd: dat je de ellende niet moeten afwentelen op je buren, op toekomstige generaties of van privaat naar publiek. Dat is het huidige kabinet dus keihard wél aan het doen." 📣 Hoogleraar Maarten Kleinhans in tijdschrift de Helling.

Updated with a few new titles: the Human Geography journal (broadly defined) starter pack: go.bsky.app/Hw9i9br

New Publication on EU Car Power Despite claims of crisis, Europe’s car industry remains highly profitable, influential, and well-resourced. The narrative of industry decline is a political strategy to justify public support, but the reality tells a different story. A 🧵 www.somo.nl/manufactured...

“Universiteitsbestuurders en overheidsinstanties bellen ons om woorden als ‘climate’ en ‘race’ niet te gebruiken. Toen ik dit aankaartte in de faculteitsraad, werd ik afgekapt omdat mijn opmerkingen ‘een verstoring van de orde’ zouden zijn.”

I got a look at the progression timeline for AI development and it said the "facilitate racism, misogyny, and fascism" phase comes right before the "cure cancer" phase which then leads to "solve climate change." It's a weird sequence but that's how tech works. The good stuff is coming any day now!

The editorial fully introducing GeoGraphica, @tesg-journal.bsky.social's new Geovisualization article type has now been published. We look forward to see your submissions! doi.org/10.1111/tesg...

"This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal." ~ Toni Morrison www.thenation.com/article/arch...

One of those quotes i’d love to have a proper reference to go with it.

So much work to do in US geography education (and I don’t get a sense that it is improving in the right direction)…

So excited about this, watch this spot for the introductory editorial, and instructions how to publish in GeoGraphica, @tesg-journal.bsky.social 's new geovizualization feature!

Rake column zoals zo vaak @sheilas.bsky.social www.volkskrant.nl/columns-van-...

Goed stuk van @merijnoudenampsen.org in de groene Er is te veel politiek kapitaal gestoken in migratie als probleem - de gevestigde orde kan het daarom niet loslaten www.groene.nl/artikel/ontl...

If you think climate change has gotten worse during your lifetime, you're right and there's a good reason. If you're Gen X like me, more than 3/4 of fossil fuel CO₂ emissions have occurred in your lifetime. Even if you're a Millennial, it's at least half. 📊: @neilrkaye.bsky.social

Natuurlijk gun ik iedereen van harte een extra toetje vanavond, om te vieren dat de eenmanspartij van Wilders niet langer aan de knoppen zit. Maar intussen liggen de bezuinigingen op het onderwijs onverminderd op tafel. 1/8

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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...

new S(ubstack)-Bahn post: in the 1960s, Paris saw major ridership drops in its Metro and buses and rising deficits. so did every major French city. the head urban planner of Paris warned of a transit "catastrophe." how did France rescue its public transit? www.substack-bahn.net/p/how-france...

Probably if you would do the same study using modest phrases acknowledging precedent like “this paper builds on”, “using X’s theory of concept Y” the graphs would be in the opposite direction…

Hoe wordt wonen weer betaalbaar? Nou, zó bijvoorbeeld. Lees mn nieuwe verhaal in @groene.nl vandaag zonder betaalmuur.

It starts with something as specialized as a peat map, but I’m afraid we’re heading for much more drastic catastrophic cartographic AI failures….

Re-upping an updated version of the "Geography Journals" starter pack, go.bsky.app/Hw9i9br , it's proving for me to be a quite efficient way to be in the loop on what's coming out.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: Stopping anthropogenic climate change is terraforming on "easy" mode. Until we can sort out global warming we have no business considering terraforming Mars.

How researchers at Bocconi guessed the Pope using network analysis ⬇️ www.unibocconi.it/en/news/netw...

V/d Leyen has not read up on standpoint theory bc she would've learnt that science needs diversity as it *does* have a passport, a gender &c. The blind spot is telling as the agenda risks forwarding masculine tech fantasies while excluding humanities, social sciences &c. ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Another shaper of 20th geography is no longer with us Peter Haggett (1933-2025) rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

People, plans and policies was a game changer for my thinking (and the strongest argument against starchitects ever written)