More slash and burn across UK Universities. 153 jobs to be lost at Exeter; 117 targeted at Humanities and Social Sciences. Exeter is not in financial crisis; this is a choice to align with narrowly conceived government strategies and priorities. Please sign. www.change.org/p/stop-redun...

Every time I see this, I think of Adorno:

"Cardiff University has admitted that it doesn’t know how much it is spending overall on external consultants or hold a central record of what work they are doing." Staff expenditure: Count every last penny or you may lose your job. Their expenditure: Meh.

iSpot is a citizen science project for identifying biodiversity in the UK (similar to the US-based iNaturalist). It was closed down yesterday with just over a week's notice because The Open University can no longer support it. Just another UK university infrastructure slowly falling apart.

'The university has adopted the position that boycotting staff are in "breach of contract", will receive no pay, and are therefore not expected to work at all, leading to what some have described as a "lockout".' 1/3

Yep, pretty much newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

URGENT - UCU St Andrews Member - Antonis Vradis is on the Qannir La Cirena boat in the Global Summid Flotilla which has been intercepted by Israel Contact your MP and MSP Contact the Principal Please share

YES.

One-nil to the Arsenal.

For further context: almost everyone in the Faculty of Arts is at risk of redundancy. Music, Modern Languages & American & Canadian Studies courses to close completely. History will not close but staff numbers will be significantly reduced. This is what 'right-sizing' looks like, apparently.

Reading AI-generated essays that offer the softest critiques of AI is a hell I am not ready for.

A brutal reading that must be circulated once and again.

📢 2026 USF International Fellowships - CALL FOR APPLICATIONS This fully-funded program offers 3-9 month sabbatical research visits for urban scholars from the Global South. Deadline: 6 July 2026 Read more & apply : https://ow.ly/ezMb50YILbw

21 April 14:30 BST Online Theorizing from Lived Experience: Feminist and Queer Theory A roundtable with: Jo Littler (Goldsmiths) @jolittler.bsky.social Billy Holzberg (KCL) Nicola Smith (Birmingham) Lois McNay (Oxford) Free and open to all. To register, follow the link tinyurl.com/4dw285x6

There is no ceasefire in Lebanon. Israel has been bombing Lebanon non-stop since last night. If anything Israel is expanding its war on Lebanon. You are being lied to

Queen's in Canada has done some of the resource-gathering about Nous: qcaa.ca/resources/no... But yes, we need a list. Because Nous itself has become *very* evasive in whom they're selling their nonsense to, no longer naming even when using 'testimonies' in casestudies: nousgroup.com/case-studies

Steak and lobster for Pentagon Nazis, black rain, death, and bunker-busters for everyone else.

Israel used white phosphorus in Lebanon: Report - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-used-white-phosphorus-lebanon-report

Unleashing utter hell, and not even having a clue why www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

I'm out of words here

War crime upon war crime upon war crime

The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer. 🧵 1/5

they double bombed an elementary school for girls

This is one of the videos the NYT has verified and links to in their reporting. NYT: "Video verified by [NYT] showed ... rescuers digging through the rubble with building cranes and shovels, and piles of bloodied, dusty backpacks." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/w...

In any other sector this would be front page news along with government funding announcements. The UK just seems to not value higher education.

Today: @pbresnihan.bsky.social will be in Edinburgh to discuss his new book, From the Bog to the Cloud: Dependency and Eco-Modernity in Ireland www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc...

Well that’s me locked out. No pay for the foreseeable future, all because I refuse to reschedule lost teaching, for which I have already lost pay as part of the strike. Please donate to support @sheffielducu.bsky.social members like me at www.gofundme.com/f/heubvb-sup...

New in TIBG: 'The life of events: Exception and everyday life in Acapulco, Mexico' by Hector Becerril, @benandersongeog.bsky.social & @alejandrodecoss.bsky.social This paper draws on Berlant to consider how certain events, such as storms, become exceptions to ordinary life. doi.org/10.1111/tran...

Because sharing is caring, below you'll find some calls for papers for this year's @rgsibg.bsky.social conference that have been circulated through the mailing lists I'm suscribed to. I'm leaving deadlines / contact info for each, in case you'd like to know more. #RGS2026

Dr Beki McElvain, Lecturer in Human Geography @lborogeog.bsky.social, has joined the Editorial Board of Urban Geography. 👏 Beki also recently published in the journal, together with @alejandrodecoss.bsky.social, on 'Rethinking the urban South?'. Read open access here: doi.org/10.1080/0272...

The Guardian doing inexplicable voluntary free public relations work for a corporation profiting from sexual abuse by headlining this as the image gen being "turned off". It isn't off: they've just monetised it. What the fuck are we doing here people, come on. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Gerardo Sámano Romero and Alma Chávez-Mejía have just published a review of scholarship on water access in Mexico City. A valuable resource for those studying this city, or interested in contemporary approaches to the urban political ecology of water: wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

The Guardian, following the bold steps of Keir Starmer, cannot even bring themselves to call the kidnapping of a sitting president illegal, instead going for the 'but what if the fascists get angry at us?' adjective "controversial".

Spray paint a plane and they'll detain you without trial and call you a terrorist. Kidnap a foreign head of state - and Keir Starmer will make it clear we've played no part in it but will wait for the scheduled press conference in a few hours before potentially condemning it

"Maduro is a brutal authoritarian dictator," I wisely intone, as the corrupt demented paedophile US President violating Constitutional Law while operating a gestapo and concentration camps illegally arrests a foreign leader on charges which read like they were written on a paper placemat in crayon.

The BBC keeps calling the imperialist actions of the US 'unprecedented'; I wonder if they know anything about the history of Latin America in the last 200 years or so.

📣Join the States of Precarity team for the launch of the States of Precarity in UK Higher Education Geography report. 📅 Wednesday 14 January 🎦 Online 👉 Sign up to attend: https://bit.ly/4rvQgP2 Check out the report before the launch: https://bit.ly/44HTUvg

🔴 NEW: The University of Edinburgh has quietly paid more than £750,000 to a controversial consulting firm amid job cuts - staff say bosses ignored "repeated" questions about its role. Read more about 'Nousferatu' 👉 www.theferret.scot/p...

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Question from @martinwhitfieldmsp.bsky.social in the Scottish Parliament on cuts and job losses at Edinburgh University as @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social take third day of strike action this week #SaveHE #StopTheCuts www.heraldscotland.com/news/2563152...

Staff is currently striking here at the University of Edinburgh. Senior management is planning widespread compulsory redundancies (without a real need for the same). You can read more here @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/rd72kte...

Today we have called a "Lobby Day". UoE's ongoing cuts could lead to up to 1800 compulsory redundancies in addition to the damage already being done. Our political representatives should be addressing this crisis. Flood MSPs' offices with calls! More here: ucuedinburgh.org.uk/lobby-your-msp

If Edinburgh Uni, with no operational deficit, gets to sack 1800 people, imagine what this will signal to more fiscally challenged Scottish universities? MSPs need to realise that this is more than a local crisis – we need urgent public scrutiny of Edinburgh’s governance.

The AI bubble may be about to bust. Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock. We all need to say this very clearly: NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH! Expropriate their asses instead. They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet. They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3

Good to see Scotland beginning to grapple with the question of land reform a mere 100 years later than Mexico.

Call for Papers 📢 Excited to announce our panel at the @pollenetwork.bsky.social Conference (Barcelona, June 29 - July 3, 2026): "Cities, Urban Metabolism and the Polycrisis." 🏙️ If you work on urban metabolism or critical studies of cities & infrastructure, we want your contribution! 🧵👇

Next Wednesday, 5 November, I will be giving a talk on my research in Mexico City at the Centre for Sustainable Development Studies, University of Amsterdam. I am really looking forward to it, and very happy to have Maria Kaika and Rutgerd Boelens as commenters.

This will be a long thread on yesterday police massacre in Rio. In nothern Rio de Janeiro city, there is a couple of hills called Complexo da Penha. It's Comando Vermelho("Red Command", a drug gang), or CV, territory. CV is the greatest gang in Rio, second in the whole Brazil. +

En 10 minutos estaré presentando el libro "Infraestructuras Abismales. Comunidades energéticas en la mantención, reparación, mejora o abandono", editado por Gloria Baigorrotegui. El evento está disponible en vivo acá: www.youtube.com/live/C9Q56TG... y acá: www.instagram.com/p/DQXmitOCc2S/