"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.

Reading the headlines, not everyone seems particularly concerned about Reform... It's not like we don't know the danger they pose or their politics behind the glitz The revolution will not be televised but the rise of fascism will...

I had the pleasure of being handling editor for Ana Laura Zavala Guillen's @tibg.bsky.social paper "Geographies of slavery in the Les Malouines/Las Malvinas/Falklands Islands" Read the Spanish version here: blog.geographydirections.com/2025/08/12/t...

What on earth is a "pause" when timescales remain the same? This is very difficult to understand as it stands.

Using the word *crackdown* about international students is a pretty strong indicator of how far gone the UK is. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Jo Cox was murdered by a man with a house full of neo-Nazi agitprop and this was then retconned into a vague narrative about social media abuse

And if you're wondering whether someone getting killed is what it will take for the media and political class to come to their senses, I would just remind you that Jo Cox was murdered in a similar moment of demagoguery and hysteria 9 years ago, and if anything things have got far worse since then.

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

‘The Tories reproached Labour for scrapping the dismal Rwanda plan; Labour pointed to the legacy left by the Tories; Reform, as ever, reaped the spoils.’ @georgien.bsky.social on the problems with the government’s ‘one in, one out’ policy, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/au...

This is the future for the UK that Farage wants.

Labour have now put out a response to the Farage speech, in the name of Ellie Reeves - it’s all about the practicalities of deportation and detention. Suggests they’re just fine with his tone/language/the very dark turn this whole debate is taking.

No10 spokesman not prepared to criticise anything about Farage speech today. Not his description of "invasion", not his prediction that the UK on brink of civil war, not plans to pay the Taliban or Iran to take back migrants, or indeed to rule out doing so themselves.