What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it

New CEFC report into data centres in Aus - shows that the worst-case scenario seem to be about 10x to 15x worse than the potential best-case scenario Also frames DCs as "critical infrastructure". Is AI (84% of new DC growth) as 'critical' as a hospital or transport? www.cefc.com.au/insights/mar...

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Another egregious example of uni wage theft. As claimant says: "our university encourages students to pursue Master's programs in Psychology and Social Work, and then undervalues those same qualifications in their own staff." Go @nteuvictoria.bsky.social newshub.medianet.com.au/2025/11/unio...

"clawing shared governance back can help ensure that universities aren’t converted into profit centers for private equity firms. It seems plausible, even likely, that faculty unions will have some success building power off of the growing resentment of ubiquitous AI and its slop products."

Incredible personal reflections on organising from @alybatt.bsky.social Spadework www.nplusonemag.com/issue-34/pol...

So much ill shit going on across the world ... but am also feeling devastated waking up to learn that D'Angelo has passed. Voodoo one of those records for me, if the not *the* record. RIP. youtu.be/_RLP0xAjdJU?...

australian street style, 1973

New article! Acts of energy citizenship in community solar gardens by Judita Hudson, @kurtiveson.bsky.social & Sophie Webber. doi.org/10.1080/0964...

AI is changing the way we work, and reshaping higher education. It must be introduced fairly, ethically & with real consultation so staff aren’t left behind. How is AI being used in your workplace? Share your story: nteu.info/aistory

Call for sessions for the RC21 conference in Vienna, 20-22 July, 2026. Deadline for submissions: 6th of October 2025. rc21-vienna2026.org/call-for-ses... #urban #sociology

50 Years of Political Economy. Some fantastic articles, but only one has brought me to tears. @kurtiveson.bsky.social's generous contribution takes time to dwell on the PhD theses of @natashaheenan.bsky.social, Anna Sturman, and myself. @ppesydney.bsky.social 1/ www.ppesydney.net/jape-issues/...

It is massive. Thanks to Peter Deppeler on Twitter for the footage. #GazaGenocide #MarchForHumanity

Re-posting in the wake of this week's news that YIMBY Melbourne has secured a $760,000 grant from US-based Open Philanthropy to progress their housing agenda locally... arena.org.au/yimby-or-nim...

Job Alert! 3-year Post-Doc to work with me and Marilu Melo Zurita on our "Wiring Australian Cities" project. It's an ARC-funded infrastructure geographies project 'following the infrastructure' of urban telecommunications across time and space. Details👇 usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNA...

If you haven't already, please sign this petition in support of awesome sociologists at Macquarie Uni whose discipline is about to be decimated: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/sa...

Job Alert! 3-year Post-Doc to work with me and Marilu Melo Zurita on our "Wiring Australian Cities" project. It's an ARC-funded infrastructure geographies project 'following the infrastructure' of urban telecommunications across time and space. Details👇 usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNA...

Why are minerals so central to geopolitics? How green are electric cars? Why is anti-mining protest increasing? Can the inequalities of the global economy be transformed? I tackle these topics in my book EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism 👀 September 2025 @wwnorton.bsky.social

Empty for over four years during a housing crisis ... nice job Sydney Uni. www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

A timely reminder by @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social of the necessary ingredients to build the powerful and sustained movements we need today: the power to withhold and the power to promise.

Looking fwd to this podcast about the Green Bans. Something I learned reading @kurtiveson.bsky.social and Meredith Burgmann (who is on this podcast) and others was that it wasn’t all about stopping development, but often pausing it (thru strikes) to make time for the community to take part

Open letter signed by 60+ researchers on prioritising household clean energy over nuclear energy in current Australian election: www.ppesydney.net/open-letter-...

New article! Prefiguring multispecies justice, by Anna Sturman, @danycelermajer.bsky.social, @freyagrace.bsky.social and @blancheverlie.bsky.social. This article considers the ways critical feminist thought and multispecies justice intersect. doi.org/10.1080/0964...

Perfect placement of 3 items on Sydney Uni's staff page today: one celebrating Mardi Gras (which started with a militant 1978 protest), one celebrating the Freedom Ride of 1965, one on new Campus Access Policy which curtails protest on campus. Protest is great as long as it's in the past, I guess?

We spoke to @australia.theguardian.com about the dangers of the new antisemitism definition and its chilling on academic speech about Palestine. By labelling Palestinian political expressions as antisemitic, it will institutionalise anti-Palestinian racism. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

New paper from me and Marilu Melo Zurita about the urban geopolitics of telecommunications infrastructure in Sydney. As @shannonmattern.bsky.social says, there's "multiple ways to wire the wired city": we tell the story of how this went down (literally!) in Sydney. doi.org/10.1080/0004...

This kind of nepotism and cronyism in higher education has got to stop. Gobsmackingly dumb move from the new VC whose university is plagued with historical governance issues. University managers have got to stop ruining higher education. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

My PhD on geoengineering, Producing the Climate, is now available to read via USyd library! Huge thanks to my wonderful supervisors @garethbryant.bsky.social and @kurtiveson.bsky.social as well as my generous examiners @geoffmann.bsky.social and Chantel Carr. ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/...

This book is going to be 🌟🌈🤖📡🏆. I've been eagerly anticipating it for YEARS! Let's please buy out Lori's entire press run when pre-orders open next week. (And I'm keeping my 🤞 that another para-academic experimental publisher takes up the project + gives it the distribution it deserves!!)

"This is really a key dynamic of the next few years: being told we should be very worried about what the authoritarian Chinese are doing by Silicon Valley authoritarians we should also be extremely worried about." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The fact that, following the DeepSeek ascendancy, uranium stocks fell 11% (on the 'fears' that the vast expansion of data centres may be unnecessary, rendering nuclear power less attractive), reveals how deeply in the void of madness crazy the stock market had fallen...

Great article, this quoted sentence below really hit home ... if the meetings about AI I'm sitting in are any indication, the emergent approach at my university is absolutely working both to prepare students for AI's inevitability, and to deflect any critical reasoning directed towards AI itself.

Fascinating look into the history of concerns about sun, shade and thermal comfort in Australian housing design: "Nothing new under the sun: Australia’s long history of missed chances to build sustainable homes" theconversation.com/nothing-new-...

The irresistible case for eco-populism, beautifully made by @aldasky.bsky.social and @triofrancos.bsky.social in the NYT! www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/o...

Yet another starter pack... For all those interested in critical urban geography, broadly defined! go.bsky.app/RgsNWsi

Love this from @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social about knitting together political projects through doing, and the limits of ideology as the basis for effective collective action. www.teenvogue.com/story/trump-....

Deeply honored that work from my team on the climate dimensions of genocide in Palestine was discussed at length at the Intl Court of Justice yesterday. War & militarism are insufficiently accounted for in climate policy; hopefully a strong advisory ruling can start to change that. Starts ~1:41:00

As Black Friday purchases begin to arrive at your door, consider their packaging — more than likely in cardboard boxes. These "abject objects," @shannonmattern.bsky.social writes, are touchpoints to a global apparatus of commerce, consumption & waste. They bring the logistics chain to our doorsteps.

Our article about Korea's short lived coup today is now up at Jacobin (attaching to this thread for continuity). jacobin.com/2024/12/yoon...

Been wondering about the details behind the worker's strike action impacting Woolworths supply chain? Read more here from labour expert Lauren Kate Kelly on The Conversation theconversation.com/why-woolwort...

Had a great time talking about wires on the wireless with @richardglover1.bsky.social! Got into great story of how telco wires ended up under Sydney's footpaths, and 120+ years of beef between councils, telco providers and unions about wiring work. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Watch Sydney Uni VC Mark Scott and Provost Annamarie Jagose struggle to answer questions from Senator Shoebridge this morning about how the proposed "civility rule" at USyd will work, and what "contested words and phrases" actually means: www.youtube.com/live/6NAY9yA...

Sydney's newly-zoned accelerated precincts fall short of affordable housing options, housing advocates say www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11... Keyworker (Affordable) Housing is crucial to solving our housing crisis. Noting London has 30% of its housing stock with some form of rent assistance. #nswpol

The recommendations of the Hodgkinson report at the Uni of Sydney are full of draconian and silly stuff, but this one in particular is really going to stretch out lecture time

Suing Kendrick for having a superior diss track is something Kendrick would say Drake does in a diss track

Public forum at Sydney Uni on Strategies for a Just and Democratic Climate Economy with @katemac.bsky.social, @adriennebuller.bsky.social, Dan Sherrell (ACTU), Holly Creenaune (Sunrise Project) and @kurtiveson.bsky.social, presented by @seisydney.bsky.social www.ppesydney.net/forum-strate...