«The biggest lesson of the past two decades of Silicon Valley is that Meta, Amazon, and Google … have remade our world and have become unfathomably rich for it, all while being mostly oblivious or uninterested in the fallout. They have chased growth and scale at all costs …»

god i love a library

Excellent article here. Our students are our greatest advocates. Counter proposals will be put forward, and we are supporting colleagues in Music, Modern Languages, Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies at Nottingham with their campaigns www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Human Geography at Leicester is facing closure. Staff contracts are to end in June 2026; students are to be relocated to other universities, or taught out by a maximum of two (!) teaching-only staff. Other departments and subjects are facing closure, too. Please join the demo!

Incredibly sad news from our Geography community at Loughborough www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/geo...

as we build power, we also find our way back into community come for the defiance, stay because we are building new cultures of care together

be stoked, stay stoked, all around the country the people are back at it

Just TWO DAYS until our Issue 2 launch party in London! Tickets for readings are sold out, but there are still a handful available for the party from 8pm — See you there! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-breakd...

🚨 Fully funded PhD opportunity with me and Richard Hodgkins at @lborogeog.bsky.social. Please reach out with any questions, and do share widely!

'Donations are welcome, but this is not a matter of charity. Meaningful conversations need to be had as to how Caribbean nations came to be and what they are owed.'

To fund public infrastructure and investment, elected city officials often have to turn to the bond market. But @schooldaves.bsky.social explains how the system restricts a municipality’s ability to offer public provisions of any kind.

Walk this morning

Parents, make sure you're careful this Halloween! Inside this Snickers we've just found the 1444 map of Boarstall, one of the oldest maps of an English village and a fantastic example of late medieval cartography.

'The real dereliction is that needless austerity and turmoil has replaced the kind of sober long-term financial planning and strategy that the university needs.' Excellent writing on completely unsubstantiated redundancies from the folks at @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social ✊

🚨 Fully funded PhD opportunity with me and Richard Hodgkins at @lborogeog.bsky.social. Please reach out with any questions, and do share widely!

Oh this cheered me this dark morning~ @SASE mini conferences announced including MC20: Insurance: Financialisation, New Data and Emerging Risks sase.org/events/2026-...

📰 Our geography colleagues and doctoral students are leading a cutting-edge research project in Cumbria on how simple on-farm features like sediment ponds can help farmers manage runoff, protect valuable soil, and support vital biodiversity. Read the full story here!

The current federal administration is destabilizing the offshore wind industry with stop-work orders and slashed subsidies. We need a credible plan to meet climate targets and build capacity—enter a federal Offshore Wind Authority. climateandcommunity.org/research/off...

10 AM Update from the NHC. Winds up to 185 MPH. "Last Chance to Protect Your Life"

Investors in a catastrophe bond tied to Jamaica look set to experience a trigger event as Hurricane Melissa barrels toward the Caribbean island as a Category 5 storm.

Something new to read as Hurricane Melissa promises another 'unprecedented' and profoundly devastating storm season. With @alejandrodecoss.bsky.social for @urbangeography.bsky.social 🙏🏻

Fascinatingly critical retheorization of southern urban': "Increasingly 'unprecedented' risks compel us to retheorize the South and what it means to think the “unthinkable” as a variegated politics of improvisation and duration mediated by force and resistance located through repair practices ..."

Check out the exciting Autumn 2025 line up for our Loughborough Geography Seminar Series! We are dedicated to creating an exciting space for knowledge exchange versus webinar-style lectures, so most of these talks are in person. Please feel free to DM with any questions!

You simply cannot believe how many words I have written about Aaron Cometbus' Electric Menorah, but really about the muralization of history, no, about Telegraph Avenue and capitalism (but actually about the sixties, my mom, and about mourning mourning): www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/war-is-over-...

I fucking knew it.

I’m not crying you’re crying. Every preorder helps! thenewpress.org/books/as-pub...

To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?

Very excited to see this out!

Deeply cringe and unserious people

My department is looking for someone who studies the politics of public policy, broadly defined. We are an interdisciplinary department with international and Turkish faculty with diverse backgrounds. Feel free to reach out. stars.bilkent.edu.tr/staffapp/POL...

🌱 Peat, profit, and the myth of the “nature finance fix” Find out why private finance won’t deliver Scotland’s peatland targets, and what a fairer, faster solution could look like. Read our latest blog by @hannawheatley.bsky.social👇 www.futureeconomy.scot/posts/324-pe...

One of the most insideous things about the contemporary neoliberal acadamy* is how it compels us to view colleagues as competitors for scarce resources. This piece by @smhall.bsky.social is a necessary counterpoint/push back to that compulsion: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

“El realismo climático implica actuar en política como si realmente nos creyéramos que el fin del mundo es posible. Significa estar en política dando más importancia a ser capaces de transformar la realidad que a tener razón.” corrientecalida.com/el-realismo-...

🐏 New Absolute Units 🐏 Same-sex relationships have always been part of rural England, but they've been underrepresented in our collections. In the first of 2 episodes, @timjerrome.bsky.social shares his work tracing queer rural lives in The MERL archives. merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...

Biblically-accurate Wittgenstein

We're having another party 🎉 Join us at The Lamb on 7 Nov to celebrate ISSUE #2, with readings from contributors and special guests followed by drinks! Come join us 🎈👇 www.eventbrite.com/e/the-breakd...

Photos coming out of Western AK are devastating. Hardest hit are indigenous villages off road system, many miles by air from supplies. Most built on river deltas w/ no high ground to which to escape. Cuts to NASA/NOAA mean worse weather data. Cuts to EPA mean no grants for erosion control. Etc.

Sign up to attend the event on Zoom at the link below, and be sure to follow @transitionsec.bsky.social for more updates. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/war-climat...

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Any university AI policy that doesn't also include the range of real and documented environmental consequences from its use does a disservice to students who may not know how harmful it is. IME, many do use it differently when they're expected to make informed decisions vs just following rules.

We have truly not yet figured out how to cope with a person or institution that is "aware" of climate change, "accepts the science", but then decides to continue actively worsening it anyway We don't even have a word or a phrase for this! theconversation.com/mark-carneys...

If you're watching the situation in Chicago from afar & want to help, on the off chance you have spare $$, you can give to the Midwest Immigrant Bond Fund, which posts "bond for individuals held in the custody of ICE w ties to IL, IN, KY & WI who cannot afford to pay" www.mibfc.org/helpusgrow

in "'Just trust me, bro: The consummative mood of reactionary decarbonization' i think through the overlap between everyday tech bro masculinities and decarbonization advocacy. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

The length at which «AI» vested interests go to protect its assets from stranding reminds me of the on-going wild fight of fossil vested interests to protect its fossil assets from stranding. It does not bode well.

New research from Oxfam and Care shows how rich countries are profiting from the climate crisis 🌍 2/3 of climate finance to the Global South comes as loans 💸 For every $5 received, $7 is paid back – a 42% profit for creditors www.oxfamamerica.org/press/two-th...

X/ “Where Is the African Urbanist” is published (though still behind a paywall). I argue for the need to decenter and pluralize global urban thought www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I have so much respect for Greta Thunberg because she easily could have coasted on speaking gigs and Davos appearances for the rest of her life