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/

This is a deeply shocking attack on a leading political ecology scholar. Please sign in support of Farhana Sultana below

Just in case anyone is listening, please note that UK universities cannot operate successfully on the basis of continuous reduction of academic staff and academic staff pay. No amount of staff wellness sessions will change this.

One of the biggest layoffs in Amazon’s history—14,000 jobs gone. They’re blaming “AI efficiency,” calling it the most transformative tech since the internet. Translation: the machines are here, and they’re coming for middle-class jobs next. Maybe now people will start paying attention.

Amid the many pressures of modern academia, it is rare to have time to think creatively and critically. That makes particularly happy to share this intervention that aims to rethink the Urban South, co-written with and led by with the brilliant @beki.bsky.social: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A must-read ftom economist Servaas Storm... www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...

So many Australian colleagues put through a year of worries and uncertainty. All because Nous Consultancy only thrives on a scarcity narrative? Bit if a reminder that those cuts can never be justified in pedagogical or academic term, whatever the spin.

just because you have a freedom "doesn't mean you have to use it at every moment of every day" Just roll that sentence around your mental palate and taste the underlying logic

Men in balaclavas set fire to a mosque in East Sussex last night. It's only appearing on the BBC's local coverage, rather than its main national headlines, despite coming just a week after the (also under-reported) firebombing of an asylum hotel in London last week www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“Cumulative disruption” A new word for those who want to create compliant genocide applauders and arrest genocide protesters This won’t be used on roundabout painters as roundabout painters are some how doing things in a “British” way. Whatever that is Who needs Reform when we already have Labour

Absolutely heinous.

@zackpolanski.bsky.social is asked about the Home Secretarys comments that yesterdays protests about Israels actions were dishonourable (she also said they were unBritish). Zack is spot on.

The "party of division" wants to deport me; the "party of decency" wants to make it unbearable for me to stay here. Two sides of the same coin.

Mandatory unpaid work to be done by The Other, is it?

This is appalling as expected from a strategically, politically and ethically bankrupt Labour leadership All Starmer offers is a slightly less extreme version of the far right which only ends up normalising its discourse, allowing it to set the agenda

Update from the flotilla

Explosions and drones targeting Gaza aid flotilla boats, activists say

Went to Kent today for a nice day out, had lunch in a tea room and a nice beer in a pleasant pub, saw quite a lot of flags. Then got home and read this piece about the town where we’d spent the day. Grim grim grim.

With the phrase “unfunded hobbyist research” the new Universities UK President continues a much longer history of contempt that UUK has shown towards the labour of all those who work in universities

More extraordinary still is the sanitising of Kirk's politics. Kirk was - and this is just a straightforwardly factual statement - a far right activist. And here's a former British Prime Minister not merely mourning his death or condemning his murder but actively *praising* his politics.