New commentary in TIBG: 'Subtractive, ambient and bifurcated attention at work and when working from home: Towards a geography of workplace attention' by @tylerb.bsky.social & @dcockayne.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky

New Commentary w/ @dcockayne.bsky.social in @tibg.bsky.social. Daniel and I comment further on the politics of attention at work, building from @davidjbissell.bsky.social, @lillicrovara.bsky.social, Andrew Gorman-Murray, and @lstraughan.bsky.social excellent recent article. doi.org/10.1111/tran...

Who at Routledge is responsible for changing the pagination of Gender Trouble seemingly every time it is reprinted and what form of retribution is appropriate for such a crime?

AI is useless.

Super exciting - congratulations on the quote Jessa!

Really wonderful to work on this project with @tylerb.bsky.social - this includes a little two-page work of speculative fiction about work refusal in an AI-saturated future, as well as a bit of academic commentary. We're quite happy with it - check it out!

Are we doing only 19th Century, or are To The Lighthouse and Beloved allowable?

This looks fascinating - excited to check out more of Smith's work! Her recent paper from Transactions also looks excellent: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

I've added FOUR new peer-reviewed academic articles to my round-up post, "What's wrong with the Cass Review?" Together, these highlight serious ethical issues with the Cass Review's design, recommendations, and implementations. It's important to keep this story live! ruthpearce.net/2024/04/16/w...

Edmund White, novelist and great chronicler of gay life, dies aged 85

Consumers defer payments on 'Buy Now Pay Later' purchases, suggesting an affordability crunch www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/b... In our new article @dcockayne.bsky.social & I explore how fintech affects relations to payment, wages & debt. Check it out! compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

This will be perfect for the class I'm teaching on AI economies in *checks syllabus* four weeks' time.

Please sign and share this petition, calling on Newcastle University’s Executive Board to halt the threat of ill-considered and unnecessary redundances that are imperilling careers and the future of our institution. www.change.org/p/end-unnece...

I think we need to start upping the social pressure against using AI. Professors in the quotes talking about how it’s no different than Google. Absolutely pathetic.

To the surprise of literally no one.

Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

”Miyazaki said, 'I am utterly disgusted. If you really want to make creepy stuff you can go ahead and do it. I would never wish to incorporate this technology into my work at all.' He also said, 'I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.'"

Gross. Sad to see some of these names...

If the only thing I know about music is that Britten's Festival Te Deum is a Kinsey 6, that's probably enough.

This looks incredible!

Currently @universityaffairs.bsky.social has like 20 followers, so anyway, Canadian academics (and others) should follow them.

Glad to see this work with Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social on Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) payment technolgies and consumer fintech published in the newest volume of @jcultecon.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I read this a couple of years ago and it was truly excellent - an inspiration to Ferrante that is surely worthy of her.

Martin Luther King was born on this day 96 years ago. He was murdered at age 39. When I was younger, I thought he lived far into adulthood. Now that I’m 42, I think, he was such a baby when he was pushed into the spotlight.

Interesting thread.

It's exciting to see the launch of Urban Political Ecology (the journal). I'm on the ed board along with a bunch of great folks & it's a venue that values practitioner-facing articles to develop tools and concepts that make sense of cities' future as the ecological crisis intensifies.

Happy NY all!

📚 It's time for the Fitzcarraldo Editions staff picks for Books of the Year 2024* 📚

Watching Carol and listening to Bad Gays: the perfect Christmas.

Trying to work in the last hours of the last day of the working year is proving very challenging.

Favorite books read this year, in no particular order: The Empusium - Olga Togarczuk The Long Form - Kate Briggs Annie John - Jamaica Kincaid Jazz - Toni Morrison The End of the Day - Lydia Davis Next year I'll be tackling The Books of Jacob...!

Ironically I'd say thay crypto's use as a means of payment in criminal activity is one of the only ways it legitimately functions as a form of money.

This looks excellent!

I've been meaning to check out Scaffolding. Greatly enjoyed The Empusium and Context Collapse this year. The Nickel Boys is utterly devastating.

Neat!

Nothing will ever convince me that AI will be able to meaningfully reproduce the work of artists, musicians, poets, novelists.

Hello everyone! Many of us are new to this platform, so I thought I would post some things that I wrote this year, alone and with others, as a way to introduce myself. I'm proud of this research and excited to share. This thread is a short summary of these contributions with links.

This looks incredible!

This looks fantastic - can't wait to read! Congratulations on these blurbs @reproutopia.bsky.social!

Ooooh I was trying to remember who came up with this concept. Polanyi, of course!

Sadly I feel like these measures are warranted and necessary.

This is well intentioned but not quite correct. It targeted "Jewish Science", of which the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft was seen as a form. The attacks on trans people were inextricably linked with attacks on Jews and Jewish thought (the founder of the institute was Magnus Hirschfeld, a gay Jew)

pls share: funded by EPA: Economy & Space, up to 8 travel + accommodation stipends available to enable doctoral & postdoctoral researchers to participate in the "ideational geographies" workshop at UBC, June 11-13, 2025. Application details: blogs.ubc.ca/peck/researc...

Thanks to @theguardian.com for a great discussion on the books of my life. www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...

Wow I can't believe she really wrote this!

Mourning the paper I could have written if I didn't spend all that time writing that grant that probably won't get funded...

Looking for queer and trans lit/lit crit people, if anyone has any recommendations of likely folks on here please direct me to them!

Hi all, like many of us, I'm back on this app. Looking forward to engaging, critiquing, imagining with you all over here.

Sam Bankman-Fried has been found guilty on all charges.