Don't miss this lecture by @cetracey.bsky.social on theology, colonialism and humanitarianism in the Southwestern U.S. — part of our On the Brinck | Places Prize collab with the School of Architecture + Planning @unm.edu. Albuquerque folks! Details below. Or join by Zoom: unm.zoom.us/j/97216782176

Amid a war on public knowledge, libraries are pushing outward, enlarging the commons through new configurations of civic and creative life. In her latest — and, yes, 34th! — article for Places, @shannonmattern.bsky.social writes about building the infrastructure we need to keep ourselves free.

Double rainbow for Catherine Connolly 🌈🌈

I took this picture in #Kachchh, #Gujarat in 2008, just when the wind turbines started dotting the landscape, some of them overlooking this pond from which women were collecting #water. Couldn't think of a better image than this to begin my talk with today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uLq...

The commodification of scientific publishing has led to an overproduction with 6 million papers being published each year. It has also enabled the publishing of fake "peer reviewed" papers through paper mills. The publish or perish model has to go! theconversation.com/fake-papers-...

The Netherlands has long passed over the threshold of normalisation, the questions are how far it will go or will there be real pushback.

The October 2025 issue of Water Alternatives is now available", www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/cu...

The tail wags the dog in energy. Biofuels are not currently a solution demanded by the climate community; they are solution to a crisis of overproduction. open.substack.com/pub/thebreak...

How are traditional #water harvesting systems in #India entangled with questions of postcolonial modernity & social injustice? I address this in my keynote at the International Congress on #Science, #Technology and #Development at the University of Taubate, 24th October. youtube.com/tvunitau

Super excited that I will be presenting at the first #STS #India network conference! Do tune in to a fascinating panel on #urban #waterscapes where I talk about "the curious case of the polluting purifier" on 17th December.

I attended my first @SammyObeid live stand up show this evening at #Amsterdam. I wanted his signature and I had only one thing in my bag that could be used for signing. A copy of David Graeber's Pirate Enlightenment. In many ways an ideal tribute to Graeber.

On Indigenous Peoples Day, we celebrate the contributions of Indigenous women scientists. Read about some of these amazing women here, and let us know who needs to be added. https://awis.org/historical-women-scientists/?_ethnicity=cc578791f732475ccfa7fcb1dff59d72 #WomenInSTEM

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

Only the Palestinian people deserve the #NobelPeacePrize. Enduring decades of brutal occupation, massacres & now a live streamed genocide, and yet holding on to their fortitude & kindness, they are the lodestar for humanity. No one deserves it more this year.

"Under the Assad regime ... we lived together [in Homs] but did not see the city through one another’s eyes. Even planners don't recognize fractures in the pluralist city. A just and inclusive reconstruction must confront the sectarian and class-based ruptures that old urban forms helped conceal."

The call for abstracts for POLLEN 2026 is open 🌟 Leigh-Rutt, Assa Doron & I have a panel on *Political Ecologies of Animal Agriculture* - details are here along with instructions for submitting abstracts. If this is in your zone, consider submitting an abstract! nomadit.co.uk/conference/p...

"The City and the City and the City" by Ayham Dalal A mapping workshop with refugees from Homs, Syria, illuminates the complexity of rebuilding after war. Read more: placesjournal.org/article/mapping-homs-syria-rebuilding-after-war/

I had a moving, heartbreaking, powerful discussion with 2 Israelis who lost family members to Hamas on Oct. 7th, 2 years ago today, on the power of 'radical forgiveness' & on standing up to the Israeli government that abandoned their family members. Full interview: zeteo.com/p/israel-gaz...

Requesting academics and scholars to amplify this. Please sign the petition.

Every signature matters. We’re at 2,775 — let’s reach 3,000 together! ✍️Sign and share now! #SaveIOB #StandWithIOB #IOBCommunity #GlobalEducation #GlobalSolidarity

This extremely alarming assertion needs verification. Alt text: "They dragged little Greta (Thunberg) by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her as a warning to others." Statement: Ersin Celik @anadoluajansicom.bsky.social

Washington Post dismantled the platform Jamal wrote on. Discarded the fellowship they created in his memory. They fired me unjustly for speaking the truth. But I’ll never stop talking about my friend, writer, and amazing human, Jamal Khashoggi. RIP, Jamal. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

Such a striking cover (Lana gave me an advance copy last night 💚) — and such glowing reviews! dorothyproject.com/book/the-aut...

What an amazing woman, at last honoured for her work. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

@delugecast.bsky.social @johnamcmahon.bsky.social @emilykcrandall.bsky.social There is an established migration flow from Bangladesh to Venice. I read that passage as a nod from Stephen Markley to @amitav.bsky.social's climate novel 'Gun island', where it features a good deal in the plot.

Photographs are often seen as transparent stand-ins for whatever they depict. A new series in Places aims to draw attention to images + other 2-D representations as visual artifacts in and of themselves. In short, visually driven essays, authors consider a single image with a strong sense of place.

I'm a historian. Sewage systems have saved more lives than any medical intervention. Vaccines are second and antibiotics third. Prior to the 1880s, the urban annual death rate was ~25%; it dropped to ~0.5% in under a generation. Support your sewage system. Dispose of bodies responsibly.

So being against racism and fascism and standing with one’s community for self-defense is now considered a crime? Shame on UNC. This is Dwayne Dixon. I know Dwayne and the students testifying to how great of a professor he is in the comments on Instagram are as shocked as I am.

Submissions to our call for proposals are due October 3, 2025! On April 6-7 2026, we will have the in-person conference and on April 8 it will be entirely online. Online attendees will have access to some in-person sessions, pending presenters' consent to being recorded. #decolonialconference

I hope there will come a day soon where it dawns on someone in Starmer’s team that their strategy of communicating “Nigel Farage is right about everything but please vote for us instead” is fuelling these disastrous figures rather than mitigating them, but today is not that day

🎙️“This government structure never really took young people, especially the Gen Z people, as serious political or non-political actors. And they were considered, stereotypically, as an unserious generation,” say climate activist Tashi Lhazom from #Nepal

SEASON 2 ARRIVING 17 SEPTEMBER: In May, Himal and #KarwaneMohabbat released the first season of Partitions of the Heart with #HarshMander, in which we looked at the Muslim experience in #India. Revisit episode 12 with Zeyad Masroor Khan now

There is a struggle today over the meaning of "the porch." For the U.S. Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, Places curated a library of nearly 800 books on the topic. In the Reading List below, we’ve selected nine that are especially useful in defining what the porch means to us.

The List “Citizen” (Claudia Rankine) “Between the World and Me” (Ta-Nehisi Coates) “Shade” (Sam Bloch) “Home Ground” (Lopez/Gwartney) “How to Do Nothing” (Jenny Odell) “The Sum of Us” (Heather McGhee) “One Place After Another” (Miwon Kwon) “House” (Tracy Kidder) “Triumph of Injustice” (Saez/Zucman)

The full chronicle of the week that transformed #Nepal, with #GenZprotests ripping down the old order and delivering an interim government under Sushila Karki. Writes @inkthink

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.

If you are in the #Netherlands, try not to miss Sundar Sarukkai"s talk on #Science and the #Decolonial Imagination on the 15th of July at 15:30 P.M. The event is, unfortunately, in-person. The registration link 👇🏿 www.un-ihe.org/events/scien...

"While the West sees #BRICS as an anti-western bloc quixotically dedollarizing, the bloc is now held together less by repulsion to an old order than by attraction to the remaking of the material basis of a new sovereignty in a new era of #globalization." www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...

"The production of a #decolonial imagination might be the first step in producing a #science that is not merely democratic & inclusive, but also conceptually & imaginatively different." Register & join us for Sundar Sarukkai's public keynote at #Delft #Netherlands www.un-ihe.org/events/scien...

Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old state lawmaker, has declared victory in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary after defeating the former New York governor in a landslide during the first round of voting. 🔗: aje.io/4ama4z

Heading to the Netherlands 🇳🇱 next month to wrap up the Young Water Diplomats programme, then join an exciting Decolonising Science PhD course at IHE Delft with @amitangshu.bsky.social and a fantastic teaching team. Any suggestions for things to do are most welcome!

New research shows the depletion of groundwater in the Colorado River Basin far exceeds losses from the river’s reservoirs. Scientists say overpumping is leading to alarmingly rapid declines at a time when climate change is putting growing strains on water supplies. www.latimes.com/environment/...

The week-long #PhD Course on #Decolonising #Science is taking place between the 14th to 18th July this year in #Delft. Join us for an intense week of peer dialogue and critical discussions on "doing science" in academic research.

Looking forward to presenting alongside a stellar group of scholars on rethinking #water in the #desert at @TUdelft. I will be talking about #Desalination and the Politics of Aridity in Kachchh in #Gujarat. www.borders-territories.space/copy-of-the-...

"Even just 20cm of sea level rise by 2050 would lead to global flood damages of at least $1tn a year for the world’s 136 largest coastal cities and huge impacts on people’s lives and livelihoods. However, the scientists emphasised that every fraction of a degree...avoided still matters..."

The world has abandoned the Palestinian people to their annihilation by Israel-US-UK-EU. Utterly shameful. May we never recover, may we never be forgiven. In abandoning the Palestinian people we have abandoned our own futures.

Hey world, remember when you thought this was awesome? (Which, by the way, it was). Yeah well she's been suspended for a week now because of it; it's coloniser rules and forms of expression allowed only, indigenous people must only be angry in white ways. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Read latest paper at WaA: "Rupture and its temporalities at Indonesia’s Jatigede Dam", by B. Wilmsen, Ardhitya Eduard Yeremia, Sarah Rogers and Suraya Abdulwahab Afiff www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/al...

BTW, the word for this is genocide, folks. How does anyone still support this? Why? www.axios.com/2025/05/05/i...

We're launching The Bee magazine today because the UK publishing and writing industries have a bit of a class problem.