The pope has signed on to the STS agenda.

Their ways of life don't conform to the "(Western) European Way of Life", and they are judged for it. This standard is arrogant and harmful, and sucks up the resources that peripheral, marginalized, and rural people need.

Potential workaround if you're already logged in and get prompted by the ToS notification: opening this "privacy policy" link www.academia.edu/privacytakes you to a page where you can access the drop-down menu and reach "account settings." From there I was able to delete my account without agreeing.

Met so many, learnt so much, got gifts and even played a game 🥂🍀 #RGS-IBG2025 #creativegeographies

Still decompressing from #ESEH2025 week but hey was it good! @elinetabak.bsky.social @chriskla.bsky.social @charrlotte.bsky.social, Sven Seelinger plus @aberehrlich.bsky.social (Go “invasive species”! I guess…)

this was such an amazing experience 💚 the organisers @katiekung.bsky.social @elinetabak.bsky.social, the presenters, AND the audience were so engaging.

“International postdocs don’t know their rights or know the [German] law.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I've always been really upfront about my experiences with this. I have encountered accent-based classism (not actually a true assessment of my 'class') at every stage in my student and now academic career. It is RIFE in this country across students and also staff members. Something HAS to change.

blessed are those who haven't heard the ELSTER hotline's music on hold

>40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study Petition for UK academics asking govt to facilitate a biometric visa deferral and open a route of safe passage Sign & share ⏬️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Yay, so thrilled that my visa has been approved in time for the #RGS-IBG Annual Conference. Will be visiting the UK for the first time and would be around until September 7th. Please reach out if you are around Birmingham / recommend any spots! :)

On the flattening of brown scholars in the Western Academy, from Patel, S. & Da Costa, D. (2022). “We Cannot Write About Complicity Together”: Limits of Cross-Caste Collaborations in Western Academy. Engaged Scholar Journal, 8(2), 1–27. doi.org/10.15402/esj...

Please register for the HSS meeting @NOLA & come meet Ashton Wesner 🐟Sam Muka 🪸 Rebecca Woods 🐒 Aleksandar Shopov 🐫 and + discuss their research on animal mobilities and why such histories of science matter. Thanks to Sonia Wigh, co-organizer of this roundtable with the Osiris editors! #histsci

looking for literature / leads on how nativism can be far from neat, messy in its circulations, and even outward-looking, or influenced by philosophies or regimes of the Other {tying up some loose threads in the diss}

That was a fascinating talk last eve. Heading over to read "For a Liberatory Politics of Home": www.dukeupress.edu/for-a-libera...

💟 that time of the semester when the quietest student in the seminar takes the ball out of the park with their presentation / term paper 💟

I think the comments on this (very good, if I do say so myself) article are fascinating. If the AI industry has lost the Verge commenter, who do they have on their side? www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Whenever I hear @meredithmeredith.bsky.social speak it’s like breathing good air after choking on smog for a week.

"What does it mean when we flatten ourselves for others’ consumption, or when we’ve so deeply internalized such reductive views on us, that we’ve become blind to our own complexities and differences" www.naomishefalijoshi.com/stories/sara...

I'm very excited to co-host this event by @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social and Christliche Initiative Romero e.V. on Wednesday next week in Bonn at the main @unibonn.bsky.social building. 'Green At Home, Harm Abroad: Germany's Role in Global Resource Exploitation'. It starts at 18h so come join us!

Shoutout to bsky for teaching me how to formulate my opinion regarding the inaturalist situation. It's apparently coherent enough that it's now the most liked comment in the thread. forum.inaturalist.org/t/what-is-th...

That way the Holocaust is no longer entirely rooted in European antisemitism and colonialism. It's a win-win for the German state: they get to displace their role in historical and modern antisemitism unto a population of 'foreigners' that have very little political capital in German politics.

In this paper, I talk about an embodied and marginal plant-people relation, a “ruderal involution”, that works to combine concerns of #more-than-human politics and urban informality.

OnlineFirst - "Ruderal involutions: An uneven vegetal geography of Coimbatore" by @charrlotte.bsky.social: @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social #vegetalgeography journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Really excited to see our first 'Peatscapes' journal article out today in @progenvgeog.bsky.social! Carbon futures in the mire? Knowledge controversies in European peatland restoration and remaking Open Access link: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #geography #sts #peat #restoration

Wir begrüßen ausdrücklich den Parteitagsbeschluss von @die-linke.de zur Verwendung der JDA. Diese wurde als Reaktion auf die zunehmende Kritik an der umstrittenen IHRA-Arbeitsdefinition des Antisemitismus von Wissenschaftler*innen entwickelt, um Antisemitismus zu identifizieren und konfrontieren.

Sounds about right #internationalisation universitetslararen.se/2025/05/08/i...

history and philosophy and social studies of sciences - all endangered fields and ignored for some valid and not so valid reasons of their own making - are all the more important now than never

To express how big this is: I just spoke to someone who has worked in migration services in Germany for several years, and their immediate reaction was to burst into tears of relief. Yes, this news has come late: but at least it is here. There is now no legal doubt about who and what the AfD are.

some of the work from my PhD, on the genealogy of Miyawaki forests, is published by cultural geographies: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

AI is an excellent medium for this, because it, too, enacts a kind of brutal transformation of humanity, summed up appropriately in using Ghibli art originating with an artist who called AI “an insult to life itself.”

Edgelord politics is a game of chicken with one’s own conscience. You know the wrongness of what you are doing, but you push forward, because the thing you are resisting is empathy, the thing that makes you human. The goal is to transcend you humanity, to become brutal.

Thinking through my own marginality within European/swiss acedmia, I am currently writing something on „epidermal invisibility“ a condition of racial outcasting whereby epidermal traits shade academic accomplishments. I am aware of Fanon references, but would be grateful for other leads…

The German system in its universities and research institutions has to be changed drastically! #metooscience #ichbinhanna #ichbinreyhan youtube.com/watch?v=PENg...

Very excited today to diffract 'urban greening' at #STSHub2025 @ellug.bsky.social and I managed to convene a wonderful set of speakers, with @sandrajasper.bsky.social as our discussant :) Do come!!

Any Unis that have changed open source publication guidelines as a result of AI?

dear followers, looking for PDF access for the following article. Please could you post a copy by e-mail if you have access?https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2514848619834882?journalCode=enea

so hard to bring myself to work at a project output that's come back after nearly 5 years...but it brings back so many warm memories from Thailand and researching as a team

Hello to the many people who joined this week! 👋 Here’s two starter packs of geographers 👇 & check out #geosky too go.bsky.app/SAK9wfm go.bsky.app/KkXvsnP

****Job**** Come join us. vgdh.de/stellenanzei...

Calling environmental geographers, political ecologists and STS scholars working on carbon farming, afforestation, peat restoration & related topics! Please consider our 2025 RGS-IBG session: "Carbon Creations and Creative Carbons: The Politics of Carbon in Land Management and Restoration" 🌿🌳🚜🪵🌍⬇️

Glad to be back at iihs for 'Urban ARC' 2025! Registration link to attend online: bit.ly/3PMFu5v

True academic friendship is pointing out different things in a vacancy that make us think they already have an internal candidate

For those creating syllabi on environmental/climate justice, we have a database centering Black, Indigenous, Asian, and/or Latinx authors! Also, if you have new articles to add to the database let me know! The lab is updating the syllabus this week. https://www.just-environments.org/the-syllabus

Look at these gorgeous plates created by Annada Prasad Bagchi for 'Poisonous #Snakes of India - For the Use of the Officials and Others residing in the Indian Empire', Ewart, 1878

i reviewed Elkin's 'Plant Life' as part of a special issue on the theme of 'Making Time for Plants' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

happy to finally get my hands on the gorgeous work done by the 'more-than-human freedom' zine conference; inspired by low carbon methods

Done with my presentation at the Time, Forests, and Society panel at #WCEH2024 (video is up online!) Spoke on close-range forests, vegetal temporalities, fast urbanism and more. Now I have three more days to relax and soak it all in! yay!!