Fun living in a world where every new email — hell, every interaction online — is a Voight-Kampff test

Great work from @janerockhouse.bsky.social www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midland...

🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨

Friends and colleagues, I will be speaking at MoMA next Tuesday, Oct. 7 at 6:30pm, alongside Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and Candice Hopkins, on a panel called Imagining Indigenous Futures.The event description and registration can be found below Hope you see you soon! www.moma.org/calendar/eve...

Farage plays the everyman, but he’s not harmless, he’s not honest, and he’s not on your side. ❌

“When you consider the ecocide alongside the genocide, you begin to grasp the totality of the Israeli state’s attempt to eliminate both the Palestinians & their homeland” Hugely powerful from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

Appreciate these insights from @emollick.bsky.social. But the "wizard problem" isn't that AI is too opaque. It's that we're designing systems that hide their processes. We could build AI that shows its work, explains, and lets us intervene. Instead we're choosing black boxes and calling it magic.

Hey, people who work on climate especially, you should know this is happening.

Has anyone written or read something on the US right’s demonisation of ‘ANTIFA’? The demonisation and the construction of ‘ANTIFA’ as threat is now crossing over into the U.K. right (and I can’t get over the stunning dissonance of it all)

This fall brings not just one but two exhibitions about Ursula and her work. In Portland, A Larger Reality: Ursula K. Le Guin opens October 31st at Oregon Contemporary. In London, The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin opens October 10th at the AA Gallery.

Call for Applications: Gender, Place and Culture New and Emerging Scholars Award for 2026 Application closing date: 31 January 2026 The editorial team of Gender, Place and Culture is pleased to announce the annual award valued at a maximum… Call for Applications: Gender, Place and Culture New and…

Educational courses in prisons have been shown, repeatedly, over the years to reduce recidivism and increase individual's chances of finding employment and building lives after leaving prison. Cutting those courses is fundamentally counterproductive. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Interested in queer and trans ecologies? Critical geographies of nature and the natural? I’m so pleased this graphic format article finally published and free to read (or better yet - download) at doi.org/10.1080/0966...

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

⚠️ The Moseley and Kings Heath LTN phase 2 consultation is now open. You can see all the detailed designs on the link below. All responses must be received by 6 October 2025. Any questions? please contact: [email protected] www.birminghambeheard.org.uk/bcc/kheath-m...

"A future where I can live" www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_vz...

"We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically." www.ru.nl/en/research/...

It CANNOT be left to only the Sikh community to fight against this. Every, Sikh, Muslim, Hindu, & other groups of brown women, men & children are at risk. Because it's not about religion, it was a racist and misogynistic attack designed to instigate fear amongst all of us.

Judith Butler: “We have a right to know the charges against us, to know who has made the charges and to review them and defend ourselves...But none of that has happened, which is why we’re in Kafka-land…It is an enormous breach of trust.” Isn't Butler working on a book on Kafka right now?

“We are proud to live in Birmingham — a city built by many cultures, stories and traditions.” 200 people have now signed the Brum Together statement. Add your name here: tinyurl.com/brumtogether... #BrumTogether #RefugeesWelcome #StopTheFarRight #StandUpToRacism #Pride #Unity #Grassroots

Insightful conversation on resurgent racism between @nesrinemalik.bsky.social and Gary Younge in @theguardian.com’s The Long Wave www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...

NOTHING will prepare you for this 45-second story arc. From "I'm just doing this because I love the flag, it's totally grassroots, and I'm not part of anything political"... to who actually gave him the flags the night before. Anyone who believes it is an innocent movement needs to see this.

I spoke to the Irish Times for this very good and rounded piece on the real-world effects of C***GPT in the humanities classroom: www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

My colleagues and I got a paper accepted! “Whose geography, whose history? Reimagining how we teach the history of geography” will be coming out in the Professional Geographer!

A couple months ago, I heard a spellbinding talk by a futurist named Tracee Worley, who's spent a lot of time thinking about sci-fi writer Octavia Butler and her stunning predictions. I talked to Worley about futurism, prediction, and collective survival: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

My department is hiring! We seek to hire an Assistant Professor in Global Black Geographies whose work engages "with the spatial dimensions of life in African and/or Black diasporic communities in the Global South". Job ad with more details: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05026

Call for papers for IMISCOE 2026 Annual Conference. Class Matters: Community engagement and middle-class migrants in migration research. Please email abstracts no longer than 250 words by 10th September to Gunjan Sondhi ([email protected]) and Markus Roos Breines ([email protected]).

Save 30% on #NewBook "Speculative Relations" by @pepepierce.bsky.social which consider draws on Cherokee thinking, queer theory, & literary & cultural studies to consider the potential of Indigenous relations to repair the damages of history and imagine new futures. buff.ly/r3uBPre

my statement on Ai from the mini-comic I'm making as syllabus for a new class I'm teaching this fall. It's simple, but I pretty much said all I have to say on it - it robs you of decisions and struggle - and the joy of being surprised. It robs you of learning...

I despise these AI bros for so many reasons — but among the top for me is that, bc of their egos + recklessness, and bc of a gullible grifter culture that expands their uptake + influence, we’re all now obligated to care abt their bullshit + minimize its harms. I’d rather be doing anything else.

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all: “If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.” Israel just killed him.

Our #dkg2023 keynote on Planetary Futures is now available in both German and English. Written in 2023, so we only touch upon the threat of Techfascism and rise of in your-face-white supremacy ENGL: compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... GER: biblioscout.net/content/10.2...

Well said, Mo Salah. Suleiman al-Obeid was shot dead by IDF forces whilst waiting for food aid in southern Gaza.

Michel Callon has died

Look at our fabulous new list of curated resources about #Menopause from my lovely colleagues here at the @oulibrary.bsky.social . Not enough is said, shared or discussed when it comes to #Menopause university.open.ac.uk/library/libr...

Motherfucking wind farms…

- 400 jobs to go at Lancaster University - 1 in 4 people will be made redundant But where's the financial evidence for this extreme action? Please read 👇 Sign the petition 👇 chng.it/7F52bThYqn

“A query that started with Joshua asking ChatGPT to fill in the marked gaps in a para…finished 103 prompts…58k words later with “Chat” not only supplying the intro & conc, & sourcing & compiling refs, but also assessing the finished essay against…marking criteria” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

When you strip away humanity

I have an idea: add a widget that uses AI to simulate the depletion of aquifers used to cool the data centers that run each campus’s Canvas AI! Pedagogical self-reflexivity! Infrastructural literacy!

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Delighted to share our new #openacess paper in Global Networks. Reversing the gaze: Gendered Experiences of Migrants in the UK IT Sector. #womenintech #migrants @parvatiraghuram.bsky.social and Clem Herman dx.doi.org/10.1111/glob...

Very excited that this has now been published (and Open Access), probably my best piece of writing - making an argument (or trying to anyway) to reread Article I of the Outer Space Treaty in light of the climate and ecological crises unfolding #spacelaw #spaceresources brill.com/edcollchap-o...

Omg, ANOHNI Tiny Desk! 🎶💜 "ANOHNI forces us to think where we stand in an ever-churning, chaotic world. Her music invites us to confront our feelings and find a way to own them — and perhaps to move through them, rendering us even more alive." "Why Am I Alive Now?" "Hopelessness" "It Must Change"

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