For those in Montreal!

Take a look at the new #BookReview of "The Routledge Companion to Comparative International Planning edited by Ela Babalik, Andrea Frank, Olivier Sykes". Reviewed by Maciej J. Nowak. doi.org/10.1080/1753...

Interessantes Paper der Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, nicht gerade als Hort der Planwirtschaft bekannt: Das Paper beweist, dass entgegen vorherrschender Meinung die Knappheit des Wohnungsangebots NICHT für das Wachstum von Wohnpreisen und -beständen verantwortlich ist, ganz egal,...1/4

New article! How is finance ‘raced’, and why is this the case? With what consequences for our understandings of race, finance, and capitalism? To explore this, we develop a 'raced finance' analytic, grounded in political economy and racial capitalism debates. Link 👇🏾and 🧵:

Our Economic Geography group at @lsegeography.bsky.social is hiring for an LSE fellow position. Details here: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... (deadline 31st May)

Day one of the Conference of Irish Geographers is off to an exciting and inspiring start! Nice to be able to welcome people to @ucc.ie for the week, and have already seen some excellent papers in sessions on housing and queer geographies 🤗

Hinweis der @uni-wuerzburg.de auf den Sammelband "Krisen ländlicher Räume", in diesen Tagen erschienen @transcript-verlag.bsky.social, hrsg. von Andreas Kallert und @simondudek.bsky.social. Am 6. Juli gibt es eine Vorstellung des Bandes in #Würzburg. www.uni-wuerzburg.de/aktuelles/ei...

TOMORROW

♀️ 🔎 🔦 La ménagère et la #science Entretiens avec Denise Pumain, l'une des principales introductrices de la #géographie quantitative en France, associée @geographie-cites.bsky.social et professeure émérite @sorbonneparis1.bsky.social geographie-cites.cnrs.fr/la-menagere-...

🌊New in Geo🌊 'Towards an urban political ecology of coastal land reclamation' by Jonas Hein doi.org/10.1002/geo2... #geosky

👉more info online: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/events_conf_...

“Wir sind Timmy.” @nminkmar.bsky.social

📣 New RSA blog Toxic Legacies & the Green Divide: Why Remediation Stalls in Left-Behind Europe ✍️ @gianlucabiggi.bsky.social & @martinaiori.bsky.social Explores how some regions become “ecologically trapped” without the capacity to act. Link: www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202...

Das großartige *dérive – Zeitschrift für Stadtforschung* gibt es seit 2000, nun steht etwas verspätet das 25-Jahre- und 103-Exemplare-Jubiläum an. dérive war damals und ist heute die Instanz, wenn es um die wissenschaftlich fundierte und politisch bewusste…1/3

Ein großer Held der Wendezeit! Michael Succow wird morgen 85 Jahre - ich durfte mit ihm über das Tafelsilber der Einheit sprechen www.spektrum.de/news/michael...

Event recap: Boston and the Making of a Global City, with Jim O'Connell, Loretta Lees and Michael Hoyler www.bu.edu/ioc/2026/04/...

Travel back in time with the TCPA Archive! This free to access archive is a treasure trove for anyone interested in planning, garden cities & the built environment. It includes fully digitised back issues of Town & Country Planning journal & the Bulletin of Environmental Education:

"The ships, the trucks, the loading docks: these are containers of immiserated labor, and so they are also containers of revolutionary potential," writes @charmainechua.bsky.social, for "An Unfinished Atlas." Chua's latest is a call to "jam up" and "break apart" the disappearing machine.

„Fundierte Empirie wäre […] anzuerkennen, dass der Wettbewerbsnachteil deutscher Hochschulen & Wissenschaftseinrichtungen sicher nicht in zu viel Diversitätsförderung oder ihrem gesellschaftlichen Engagement besteht, sondern in dysfunktionalen & intransparenten wissenschaftlichen Stellenstrukturen.“

Zu unserer #Wanderausstellung anlässlich 75 Jahre #Emslandplan habe ich eine lokalgeschichtliche Ergänzung für #Schüttorf entwickelt. Eröffnung ist am 14.04. um 17:30 Uhr im #KunstWerk Schüttorf. Kommt einfach vorbei!

🧵 New report just dropped 🚨 "Fractured Reality: How Democracy Can Win the Global Struggle Over the Information Space" — from the EU Joint Research Centre, led by Mario Scharfbillig and I. A landmark read for anyone working on disinformation, platforms & democracy. 👇 1/10

📣 💻 New provocation paper with Irene Hardill, @sophiemilnes.bsky.social and Rhys Dafydd Jones - 'Civil society in crisis times: new geographies of governance in an era of AI' #civilsociety #digital #AI #citizenship #devolution #adviceservices www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New paper in @proghumgeog.bsky.social. Some great colleagues' work is sampled @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social @landstuff.bsky.social @brettchristophers.bsky.social @azadehakbari.bsky.social @jamiepeck.bsky.social @reijer.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #geosky #ipesky

Auf der Tagung "Damit #Rechtsextremismus nicht normal wird: Demokratie stärken im #ländlichenRaum", 22.-24.4. @akademieloccum.bsky.social spricht Dr. Andreas Kallert zu "Unzufrieden und abgehängt? Stabilität und Akzeptanz des demokratischen Systems in ländlichen Räumen". www.loccum.de/tagungen/2618/

#Amazon is neither a company, nor a commodity.

Great insight and fantastic pics of a rather special case of Soviet urbanism in today’s #Georgia.

This week, Brexit finally killed our family business. We cleared out our warehouse, handed back the keys, paid the final bills and said goodbye to our last employee. What was once a thriving firm died a slow, sad death, all thanks to Farage, Johnson and the gullible idiots they conned. 1/18

Europe’s regional #inequality persists not because poorer places lack #investment, but because #income leaks away from them with regularity. @andrecarrascal.bsky.social & Hewings show in @spatialeconomic.bsky.social how capitals are suction pumps in #Europe’s economic system. doi.org/10.1080/1742...

This is the reality on the ground in the Amazon: chaos & destruction. Now, with the unconstitutional approval to pave the BR-319 highway, granted without environmental licensing or consultation w/Indigenous communities, the rainforest faces collapse! www.newscientist.com/article/2522...

Eine Mehrwertsteuererhöhung pünktlich zum Ölpreisschock ist genau so sinnvoll wie die Gasumlage mitten in der Energiekrise 2022. Die Regierung macht sich bereit Öl ins Feuer der Krise der Leistbarkeit des Lebens zu gießen.

I was at a #NoKings rally yesterday and rather than writing another essay about why this matters I will just say that it is pure joy to meet the people who want to stand out and the people who are doing the work. Thank you.

"Siliconization, technofascism, and their unbecomings" journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... Thanks to Kavita Dattani, Manissa Maharawal, Daniela Rosner, @nassimparvin.bsky.social, @profgillian.bsky.social and @michelelancione.bsky.social @societyandspace.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social

London, San Francisco and Beijing are among 19 global cities that have achieved ‘remarkable reductions’ in air pollution, slashing pollutant levels by more than 20% since 2010…”interventions such as cycle lanes, electric cars and restrictions on polluting vehicles helped to drive the improvements.”

Hormuz lays bare our fossil dependency on one of the most unappreciated building blocks of modern life - chemicals. All 350,000 of them. But why haven't we learn't to make chemical some other way? On the failed promise of green chemistry tinyurl.com/ysh3z52k

12 month postdoc post working on my ERC funded Data Stories project. The role is to undertake a comprehensive data audit of the data terrain of housing, property and planning in Northern Ireland & compare to Republic of Ireland. Closing date 31 March 2026. Job details: my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr...

"Erreichung der Emissionsminderungsziele erfordert Nachbesserungen am Klimaschutzprogramm 2026" zu dem Ergebnis kommt der #Expertenrat in seiner Stellungnahme zum heute beschlossenen Entwurf des Klimaschutzprogramms 2026. Die Stellungnahme ist hier verfügbar: expertenrat-klima.de Die Kernpunkte:🧵

With five UK airports seeking to expand, and the government broadly backing them, Dr Lois Pennington joined Geographical Magazine's new podcast "On the Ground" to explore what the #BristolAirportInquiry, decided three years ago, still has to tell us. Read Lois' CAST blog post exploring the topic 👇

ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowships are available in Human Geography at Aberystwyth, Cardiff, and Swansea Universities. wgsss.ac.uk/fellowships/. Interested candidates should email me as soon as possible. [email protected] Initial deadline is May 1, 2026. Please distribute widely!

Financial markets are 'post-truth' media technologies and always have been. Keynes, Hayek, Lyotard, Mirowski etc etc etc have always known this. The rarity now is that their logic has penetrated to the heart of a very powerful modern government.

CFP: Hideous, Invasive, Forgotten - Theorising Uncharismatic Species in Environmental History https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-161273 Augsburg, 03.09.2026-04.09.2026, Professur für Globale Umweltgeschichte und Environmental Humanities, Universität Augsburg; Centre for Environmental …

Rez: M. Weidner: Die Toten von Meschede https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-155098 M. Weidner: Die Toten von Meschede

Extreme Ineffizienz des fossilen Energiesystems: Bis zu 40% des globalen Schiffsverkehrs entfallen auf den Transport von Kohle, Öl und Gas. Nur um sie verbrennen zu können, müssen also beim Transport gigantische Mengen davon verbrannt werden. www.klimafakten.de/kommunikatio... #Irankrieg #Hormuz

Reminder to avoid the Thiel distraction. A point we’ve been hitting on tour is the temptation to apply intellectual history methods to a regime of accumulation (digital capitalism) is misguided. You won’t understand the Tech Right by reading books (they don’t read). Look at how they run their firms.

Why choose geography? 🌍 Professor Emma Mawdsley, Head of Department at University of Cambridge, explains why geography is like no other subject. She spoke at our school member lecture this month, sharing insights for teachers and students 🎤 Explore more events and resources at www.rgs.org/schools

I was approached today by a journalist from a news agency, asking for comments on a "new scientific study challenging key indicators used in the last IPCC report regarding ocean heat uptake and the Earth's energy imbalance". 1/...

Join us for the launch of The Story of Capital, published by @versobooks.bsky.social, at The People's Forum (320 West 37th Street NYC) on March 30th at 6:30 PM. The event will feature a discussion between myself and acclaimed historian @adamtooze.bsky.social. www.eventbrite.com/e/the-story-...

Endless wealth accumulation among (male) entrepreneurs who then go on to fund politics to ensure that race, class, and gendered hierarchies persist. It should have been obvious all along.

Was #HapeKerkeling empfiehlt, wenn die Reise in die USA nicht mehr opportun erscheint: “Ach, ein Campingplatz in 🇱🇺 kann auch herrlich sein.” #SZ von heute.