New: Dialogues in Urban Research exploring what it means to think about crisis as urban & how locating crisis in the urban reconfigures relations between eventful & everyday crisis politics, materiality, discourse & movement. Part of a great set of interventions. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Happy to see this out in @springernature.com Society! Led by Sotiria Kyriakidou, based on her PhD research, we show the potential for community-run models to foster stronger social support, better health outcomes, & argues for social inclusion in shelter governance. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Burnham's had a lot of successes & leveraged them to win in #Makersfield. The next mayor of #GreaterManchester still has a lot of challenges on thier hands including a worsening housing crisis & ongoing health inequalities (e.g. male life expectancy is 61 healthy years vs national figure of 63).

And add to the pile: www.heraldscotland.com/news/2622404... A perfect storm is wiping out the sector.

Coming as mayor of GM where higher ed is a huge economic driver there is the hope that a Burnham gov’t will prioritise and reinvest in universities, with the caveat that decades of underinvestment won’t be solved in one year or even a four year term.

From Hulme to Clacton

… and she is right. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

From Hulme to Clacton

Remarkably short sighted decision-making here. Geography remains one of the highest employability degrees across the U.K. cutting funding along with nursing and computing completely undermines U.K. economic and industrial strategies.

"Classics?" they said. "How is that going to be useful unless you're a teacher or work in a museum?" *me 20 years later writing a column analysing Count Binface's assessment of finer points of ancient Athenian democracy* "Take THAT!"

Likewise archaeology and the heritage sector, planning, museums/tourism. Our expertise *is* the economy.

Remarkably short sighted decision-making here. Geography remains one of the highest employability degrees across the U.K. cutting funding along with nursing and computing completely undermines U.K. economic and industrial strategies.

Then they turned on the geographers. Because geopolitics and understanding of climate collapse was so very yesterday. 5/9

First they came for the languages. In the hope that no one would have the words to say what was happening. 1/9🧵

"Today, when I look at the empty teaching podium in the hall, I realize that Israel did not just kill a geography teacher, but assassinated a “compass” that was guiding us toward our homeland. He taught us how to see in geography a face of truth."

Coming as mayor of GM where higher ed is a huge economic driver there is the hope that a Burnham gov’t will prioritise and reinvest in universities, with the caveat that decades of underinvestment won’t be solved in one year or even a four year term.

Read this great piece from @prisonculture.bsky.social. Including an analysis of Mamdani’s biggest mistakes so far: immediately endorsing Hochul, keeping Tisch on as police commissioner, and, of course, breaking his promises regarding library funding. hammerandhope.org/forums/mamda...

All those hot countries with afternoon siestas clearly didn’t know what they were doing. The siesta can’t work in late capitalism.

Four PMs in five years.

153 academic jobs are proposed to be cut at Exeter. Just had the news. Process is going to be quick too. We will be told if we are part of those considered later today

New, short article out with Jinsoo Lee. We chart the embrace MAGA-scripts and anti-Chinese sentiment by the Korean far right as a type of political realignment in light of the US-China rivalry and in a context where the 'pro-North' bogeyman is not longer as effective in regimenting politics. 1/3

Four PMs in five years.

Burnham's had a lot of successes & leveraged them to win in #Makersfield. The next mayor of #GreaterManchester still has a lot of challenges on thier hands including a worsening housing crisis & ongoing health inequalities (e.g. male life expectancy is 61 healthy years vs national figure of 63).

More gentrification-by-fire...

More gentrification-by-fire...

It's absolutely infuriating that blue-state governors do not see this as a once-in-a-generation opportunity to launch their schools into the stratosphere. And I don't mean that in a greedy way. I mean that they could actively work to save US higher ed AND make their schools even better.

YES to this.

We are launching our GlobalCORRIDOR Atlas today, alongside our project website....as part of our ERC funded project This beta version features dozens of corridors, hundreds of infrastructure projects, nearly a trillion dollars of investment. globalcorridor.eu/atlas

It was so great to have you here! Looking forward to visiting in Belo Horizonte!

New in TIBG: 'Spores of displacement: Legal geographies of mould, evidence and housing precarity' by @sklosterkamp.bsky.social This paper develops a legal geography of mould, drawing on rental disputes & eviction proceedings in German courts. doi.org/10.1111/tran...

A House of Commons committee has concluded the Government should terminate NHS England's contract with Palantir, citing the company "supporting highly controversial policies & activities"

CYCLE OF HATE and then the pic is this

Does the data support Andy Burnham’s idea of Manchesterism? I’ve looked into some recent economic analysis suggesting that the new political institutions in Greater Manchester and the West Midlands are giving confidence to investors on their plans. 👇

With Tom Baker and @wardykg.bsky.social we write about some of these risks here: theconversation.com/city-deals-a...

Devolution without a a set formula for mayoral funding risks replicating or even deepening regional inequalities. It also perpetuates lack of transparency and risks breaking trust in democratic processes www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Precisamos lutar muito pra proteger o nosso modelo de universidade pública. No Reino Unido entraram na espiral descendente de instituir cobranças, que criou uma dependência de um certo mercado (de estudantes com recursos e/ou com disposição ao endividamento), e agora não conseguem sair do buraco. +

HE- and research policy needs more Collinis.

‘The REF has now morphed into a hugely expensive, attention-engrossing status marker. Few things would improve the intellectual culture of universities more quickly than the complete abolition of this flawed and coercive exercise.’ Stefan Collini on universities www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Glad everyone is reading: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... It's fine, but the managerial class, which never cuts its own jobs, must go. We need renewed self-governance. We can't simply plod on without Senates. And frankly, we need a trade union that functions not imagines itself fomenting revolution.

What is stopping UKRI having firm policies around their choice of call deadlines? This is a quality as well as an EDI issue. This is about putting massive demands on the system that is under extreme strain and pressure. This is about the Matthew effect (who is able to respond quickly) etc... etc...

to paraphrase Homer Simpson, 38% *so far*

‘The humanities will bury their undertakers.’ That was my concluding remark for this R4 show earlier this week. Contributors collectively showed why the humanities matter and how they might develop and flourish in a more digital age. Do take a listen www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

All that will be left outside of Oxbridge (which is well-insulated from the financial pressures on other universities…) will be a scattering of AI-infested hubs for the accelerated production of hyper-indebted ‘graduates’. newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Folding on life-saving measures is bad — folding on them because *Ken Sim* asked you to is worse. When will the cowardice of the BC NDP end?

16 years of rightwing rule has ebbed away at citizen rights + it happened from the beginning. Yet, it’s important to remember that many failures were manufactured, and resistance was ongoing and has worked towards overcoming a seeming no alternative consensus onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

no data center on Earth is worth the bees, water, and trees.

Happy to see this out in @springernature.com Society! Led by Sotiria Kyriakidou, based on her PhD research, we show the potential for community-run models to foster stronger social support, better health outcomes, & argues for social inclusion in shelter governance. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

It was a total pleasure to have @ctemenos.bsky.social on #UrbanRadar to talk about her work on #crisis #policymaking, public health and the city with me and @itsbethperry.bsky.social. From social infrastructures to the politics of expertise, listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/2451716/epis...

How can we see and understand complex and volatile cities? How might we use and analyse photographs and archives in urban research? Listen to latest #urbanradar podcast with @xuniamortimer.bsky.social and @felipemagallhaes.bsky.social With @itsbethperry.bsky.social @goodfellowtom.bsky.social