Hey #geosky kindly share this CfP for this years RGS-IBG conference 🙂 @theobromin.bsky.social and myself are hosting a session on infrastructure, the politics of deception and breaking the future! Deadline for submission is February 20!

‼️Two open ECR positions in Economic Geohraphy based at @giubresearch.bsky.social @unibonn.bsky.social as part of the Collaborative Research Center ‚Future Rural Africa‘. Project C02 investigates industrial development visions in the context of renewables in 🇰🇪 crc-trr228.de/available-po...

My essay on “slow resistance” to long-proposed hydropower dams & diversions in the Salween River Basin is out with @newmandala.bsky.social ! It’s based on my PhD research & an article co-authored with @drvanessalamb.bsky.social in Antipode. www.newmandala.org/slow-resista...

‼️Two open ECR positions in Economic Geohraphy based at @giubresearch.bsky.social @unibonn.bsky.social as part of the Collaborative Research Center ‚Future Rural Africa‘. Project C02 investigates industrial development visions in the context of renewables in 🇰🇪 crc-trr228.de/available-po...

Congratulations to Dr. @arnerieber.bsky.social! Arne received the Dr. Hohmann Award 2025 by the Cologne Geographical Society @unicologne.bsky.social for his research project on "German Industrial Transformation: Geoeconomy and the Role of the State in the Chemical Industry". tinyurl.com/mr3upmvd

Our Intervention on the limitation of free speech at German Universities, based on experiences with organising pro-Palestinian events. gh.copernicus.org/articles/80/...

Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪

#mittwochsimGIUB Tomorrow, Prof. Dr. Andrew Cumbers (@uofglasgow.bsky.social | Visiting Professor @unibonn.bsky.social) will give a talk on "The Future of the Public and the Struggle for the Democratic Economy" When? Nov. 18, 5:15pm Where? Lecture Hall, Dept. of Geography #geosky #geography

As seen in the release notes of ChatGPT Atlas. Cool cool cool

‼️There's a PhD or Postdoc position open in my working group ‼️Let's be colleagues 🥹 Economic Geography in Bonn Application deadline 22 November 2025 Due to teaching obligations, fluency in German is required

Today's session on the responsible use of AI in geography for incoming Master's students showed that: a) students are using AI, and b) they would like much clearer guidelines (and guidance). Simply telling them not to use it because it's evil will not be sufficient.

Call for Abstracts - AAG 2026 | SF Deadline: October 23rd Join my Panel at next year's AAG conference on "Infrastructure Monsters and the Specter of Sabotage". We talkin' horror stories, queer geography, ghosts, Marx' specters, ruination, sabotage, and much more! @geographers.bsky.social #GeoSky

First day in my new position 🎉 Excited to join the economic geography group at @giubresearch.bsky.social as a postdoctoral researcher. Moving from political ecology to political economy, in the next years I will focus on the role of the state in the geoeconomy and industry policy.

Congrats to @arnerieber.bsky.social who completed his dissertation this summer! 🎉 Arne worked in @crctrr228.bsky.social on on future-making in large-scale hydraulic infrastructure projects in East Africa. Read more: bonndoc.ulb.uni-bonn.de/xmlui/handle... #geosky #PoliticalEcology #geography

A man on the streets of the UK is asked about the “problem of immigration” and dismantles talking points with ease.

In 2022 the High Grand Falls Dam was announced by UK and Kenyan governements, to irrigate 400,000ha and produce 1 GW. By 2025 it was cancelled again. What remained in the region was no material change, but the violence of broken promises impacting future-making and everyday actions of those affected

"The Government of Israel’s restrictions, delays, and fragmentation under its total siege have created chaos, starvation, and death."

Very happy and proud to share that today I’ve successfully defended my dissertation. So grateful to the @unibonn.bsky.social @giubresearch.bsky.social @crctrr228.bsky.social, my supervisors, reviewers and wonderful colleagues in Bonn who guided and supported me over the last three years!

📢June Issue of Area📢 This latest issue pulls together the fully #OpenAccess 'Rivers as Borders' Special Section alongside papers on topics including de-development, AI, and diary methods. Read all the papers here: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14754762... #geosky

Can sabotage be an act of care? A way to build the future? In our new @antipodeonline.bsky.social article, Eric Kioko & I introduce the Sabotage Matrix, a tool to rethink infrastructure sabotage as both destructive and constructive. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Political Ecology Network (POLLEN) Conference in Barcelona, June 2026. Help us disseminate the event and submit your articles, please! @icta-uab.bsky.social @pollenetwork.bsky.social pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026/

Hey Bonn/Cologne people. The KritGeo group at our department is hosting an event next week that speaks for itself in terms of urgency or relevance.

Over the past weeks I've had 2 major grants terminated, from EPA and NSF. Over $1 million of funding for human-enviro geography research lost. These terminations have negative impacts for myself, my graduate students, my university, community partners, and society. #withoutNSF #geosky 1/9 🧪

#OA paper in Area: 'Claim-making in hydrosocial spaces: The temporality of displacement around Kenya's Masinga Dam reservoir' by @arnerieber.bsky.social & Benson Nyaga This paper explores how historical injustices shape contemporary contestations over land & water rights. doi.org/10.1111/area...

Future Rural Africa Public Lecture: How does wealth accumulate in African cities & beyond? Who owns what, who gets what, and why? @econgeo.bsky.social unpacks these questions, linking local & global economies. 📅 7 April 2025 🕓 16:00 - 17:30 (CEST) More ➡️ crc-trr228.de/crc-trr-publ...

New Publication! @theobromin.bsky.social & Detlef Müller-Mahn explore how labor shapes future-making in East African infrastructure projects. 📰➡️https://crc-trr228.de/new-publication-how-labour-has-the-potential-to-make-marginalised-futures-visible-and-real/

Really happy to see our article in JPE! In it, we discuss the 'non-economy of anticipation', a double vision in the construction phase of infrastructure, where future promises collide with the actual realities of implementation. We show how this leads to apathy and infrastructural violence.

Politicians in Berlin, @kaiwegner.bsky.social & Ina Czyborra have pressured the FU Berlin to cancel Albanese's & Weizman's lecture. @christinebinzel.bsky.social, @michaelbarenboim.bsky.social and I condemn this in the strongest terms. Below our letters to the politicians in EN & DE, plus a 🧵 1/4

Thank you @sebhaug.bsky.social from @idos-research.bsky.social for your contributions in our public lecture series today! Stay tuned for more lectures: ➡️ crc-trr228.de/crc-lecture-...

So obvious that it feels absurd to even engage with this, but some statistics re the extreme economic position of white South Africans, in one of the most unequal countries in the world:

Die gestrige Abstimmung im Bundestag markiert eine Zäsur. „Wir sind erschüttert über das Vorgehen der CDU/CSU-Fraktion, mit Unterstützung der AfD die demokratischen Grundwerte mit Füßen zu treten.“ #NoAFD #Bundestagswahl #BTW25 #BlueLZ #BlueKita

Oh I love these! Political communication at its best. The one photo taken in the rainy season, the other taken in the dry season. I mean how could a month matter in a semi-arid area? The link in the post takes you nowhere and when we research Ecosia activities in Ethiopia we get absolutely nothing.

Claim-making in hydrosocial spaces. We have a new article in Area discussing the temporality of displacement! Using the heuristic of 'time knots', we discuss in the article how 'legal forum shopping' is being used by government institutions to make claims on dam reservoirs and adjacent lands. 1/2

Vacancy: Postdoctoral Researcher (Anthropology) (f/m/x) In the project "Medium-Scale Farmers in Rural Africa: Transformations in Belonging, Property, Kinship and Power" funded by @volkswagenstiftung.bsky.social ➡️ crc-trr228.de/vacancy-post...

Our article in Futures is finally out! It took some time, but it was a lot quicker than the dam project we researched - one that was supposed to be fast-tracked. So, why being sassy about the promise of the dam being fast-tracked? Because it matters: shorturl.at/eq5HL @theobromin.bsky.social

My New Year's resolution was to publish an article at "Territory, Politics, Governance" about infrastructure, labour, and future making - and I'm already done! @giubresearch.bsky.social #Geosky

Very happy to announce the 2025 Wageningen Political Ecology Spring school (7-11 april): Political Ecologies of the Countryside: agrarian roots, environmental transformations and capitalist conflicts Please spread the word or consider joining! www.wur.nl/en/activity/...

Online first! Our new article, part of an exciting SI on unintended consequences of infrastructures in Review of Regional Research: "Political Arenas of Infrastructure Development—the Case of a Dam Project in Kenya" together with Detlef Müller-Mahn doi.org/10.1007/s100... #geosky #crc228

I started STS scholars (broadly construed) starter pack! It's VERY incomplete! I wasn’t sure if there was an easier way to do this than just going through my followers & adding people. Probably missed lots of folks! Please let me know who I missed or if you'd like to be added. go.bsky.app/H4NcX46

I love how Seth Oliver‘s banner remained from the previous session to put some activism into background when discussing the futures of the anticipation discipline @ Anticipation 2024 in Lancaster

Übrigens haben inzwischen schon 700 Personen auch diese Stellungnahme zum Handeln des BMBF unterschrieben: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #LauteWissenschaft #Stark-Watzinger Können gerne noch mehr werden!

#POLLEN24 – (Latest) Call for papers Political Arenas around Infrastructuring Africa's Future - Negotiation and Contestation in times of new growth agendas and infrastructure-led development models Abstracts to [email protected] and [email protected] by end of next week #geosky

Important call by #msf: www.msf.org/letter-gaza-...

Die GEW sieht ihren Warnstreik als Weckruf für die Arbeitgeber. Unter anderem in Berlin und Leipzig gingen Tausende Beschäftigte aus Schulen und Kitas auf die Straße. https://www.zeit.de/arbeit/2023-11/tarifstreit-warnstreik-oeffentlicher-dienst-leipzig-berlin

Bonn! See you 10:30 at campus poppelsdorf

"[...] the same height as the iconic Euromast landmark in Rotterdam, which resonates as a scale figure with the Dutch" (Hujbens & Benediktsson 2021) not to hurt anyone's feelings, but this is the most depressing scale figure I could have imagined