adam searle
@admsrl.bsky.social
cultural and historical geographer
interested in ecology and technology
Senior Research Fellow, University of Nottingham
Member and co-founder, @digicologies.bsky.social
interested in ecology and technology
Senior Research Fellow, University of Nottingham
Member and co-founder, @digicologies.bsky.social
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Worth bearing in mind here that we conducted the survey two years ago - much has changed and as the report acknowledges, the figure is now likely much higher.
Read more here: www.rgs.org/research/hig...
Read more here: www.rgs.org/research/hig...
November 26, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Worth bearing in mind here that we conducted the survey two years ago - much has changed and as the report acknowledges, the figure is now likely much higher.
Read more here: www.rgs.org/research/hig...
Read more here: www.rgs.org/research/hig...
When Nottingham's School of Geography is closed as part of managerial restructuring, and we find ourselves in a "School of Earth Sciences" next year, where will that leave cultural, historical, political, social, – etc. – geographers who don't fit the new model, when management ask for redundancies?
Precarity is often presented as something that only effects early career researchers or people on fixed term contracts.
Our report found that 45% of geographers on permanent contracts feel precarious.
The implications for the discipline are wide ranging. Read more 👇
www.rgs.org/research/hig...
Our report found that 45% of geographers on permanent contracts feel precarious.
The implications for the discipline are wide ranging. Read more 👇
www.rgs.org/research/hig...
November 26, 2025 at 9:49 AM
When Nottingham's School of Geography is closed as part of managerial restructuring, and we find ourselves in a "School of Earth Sciences" next year, where will that leave cultural, historical, political, social, – etc. – geographers who don't fit the new model, when management ask for redundancies?
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Author Interview — “Experimenting with Error” — @demonicgrounds.bsky.social speaks with @dancharnas.bsky.social about his book, “Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm” antipodeonline.org/2025/11/25/c...
Author Interview—“Experimenting with Error: A Conversation with Dan Charnas” - Antipode Online
Katherine McKittrick, Canada Research Chair in Black Studies, Queen’s University This conversation took place on March 28th at the 2025 AAG annual meeting in Detroit. Many thanks from everyone here at...
antipodeonline.org
November 25, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Author Interview — “Experimenting with Error” — @demonicgrounds.bsky.social speaks with @dancharnas.bsky.social about his book, “Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm” antipodeonline.org/2025/11/25/c...
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Nottinghamshire MPs have written to @uniofnottingham.bsky.social, urging the university to reconsider proposed course suspensions and potential closures, which would significantly impact staff, students, and our wider city and county.
November 24, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Nottinghamshire MPs have written to @uniofnottingham.bsky.social, urging the university to reconsider proposed course suspensions and potential closures, which would significantly impact staff, students, and our wider city and county.
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💥 New publication out on the alignment of AI & authoritarianism 💥
We argue that AI is not simply extending, but actively modulating, key dynamics of authoritarianism, and present a flexible analytical framework to account for these changes.
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We argue that AI is not simply extending, but actively modulating, key dynamics of authoritarianism, and present a flexible analytical framework to account for these changes.
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
November 24, 2025 at 9:39 AM
💥 New publication out on the alignment of AI & authoritarianism 💥
We argue that AI is not simply extending, but actively modulating, key dynamics of authoritarianism, and present a flexible analytical framework to account for these changes.
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We argue that AI is not simply extending, but actively modulating, key dynamics of authoritarianism, and present a flexible analytical framework to account for these changes.
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Première plainte, à ma connaissance, contre une IA sur ce motif.
Qu'est-ce qui a rendu un tel résultat possible ? Qui est responsable ?
En tout cas, un bon exemple pour illustrer le danger, scientifique et éthique, d'une IA non maîtrisée, à la fois par ses concepteurs et par ses utilisateurs.
Qu'est-ce qui a rendu un tel résultat possible ? Qui est responsable ?
En tout cas, un bon exemple pour illustrer le danger, scientifique et éthique, d'une IA non maîtrisée, à la fois par ses concepteurs et par ses utilisateurs.
November 19, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Première plainte, à ma connaissance, contre une IA sur ce motif.
Qu'est-ce qui a rendu un tel résultat possible ? Qui est responsable ?
En tout cas, un bon exemple pour illustrer le danger, scientifique et éthique, d'une IA non maîtrisée, à la fois par ses concepteurs et par ses utilisateurs.
Qu'est-ce qui a rendu un tel résultat possible ? Qui est responsable ?
En tout cas, un bon exemple pour illustrer le danger, scientifique et éthique, d'une IA non maîtrisée, à la fois par ses concepteurs et par ses utilisateurs.
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“Even business leaders once portrayed as liberal visionaries were swept up in the rising tide of American fascism, becoming some of its most enthusiastic public admirers. Their conversions served as powerful and useful propaganda tools for the regime.”
November 19, 2025 at 5:38 PM
“Even business leaders once portrayed as liberal visionaries were swept up in the rising tide of American fascism, becoming some of its most enthusiastic public admirers. Their conversions served as powerful and useful propaganda tools for the regime.”
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Question from @martinwhitfieldmsp.bsky.social in the Scottish Parliament on cuts and job losses at Edinburgh University as @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social take third day of strike action this week #SaveHE #StopTheCuts www.heraldscotland.com/news/2563152...
SNP minister told to intervene in Edinburgh University crisis to protect 1,800 jobs
SNP ministers have been warned they must intervene in the University of Edinburgh's dispute with staff amid fears 1,800 jobs could be lost.
www.heraldscotland.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Question from @martinwhitfieldmsp.bsky.social in the Scottish Parliament on cuts and job losses at Edinburgh University as @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social take third day of strike action this week #SaveHE #StopTheCuts www.heraldscotland.com/news/2563152...
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Have just been reading about the plans to gut geology, paleobiology and geography at Leicester - where many of the key figures who have developed the Anthropocene concept are based - Mark Williams, Jan Zalasiewicz, Colin Waters… absolute insanity. Institutional vandalism.
November 18, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Have just been reading about the plans to gut geology, paleobiology and geography at Leicester - where many of the key figures who have developed the Anthropocene concept are based - Mark Williams, Jan Zalasiewicz, Colin Waters… absolute insanity. Institutional vandalism.
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Call for papers!
We invite proposals for a special issue addressing historical animal geographies, co-edited by Karen M. Morin & Alice J. Hovorka.
Abstract deadline 15 Jan
Accepted submission deadline 15 Jun
Details here: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/327592/historical-animal-geographies
We invite proposals for a special issue addressing historical animal geographies, co-edited by Karen M. Morin & Alice J. Hovorka.
Abstract deadline 15 Jan
Accepted submission deadline 15 Jun
Details here: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/327592/historical-animal-geographies
November 19, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Call for papers!
We invite proposals for a special issue addressing historical animal geographies, co-edited by Karen M. Morin & Alice J. Hovorka.
Abstract deadline 15 Jan
Accepted submission deadline 15 Jun
Details here: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/327592/historical-animal-geographies
We invite proposals for a special issue addressing historical animal geographies, co-edited by Karen M. Morin & Alice J. Hovorka.
Abstract deadline 15 Jan
Accepted submission deadline 15 Jun
Details here: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/327592/historical-animal-geographies
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Great turn out at @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social rally at the Scottish Parliament!
November 19, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Great turn out at @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social rally at the Scottish Parliament!
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This isn’t “efficiency” it’s an ideological shift towards a Little England university system.
Nottingham is set to become the only Russell Group university with no modern languages or music degrees.
48 courses on the line. We’re fighting it.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Nottingham is set to become the only Russell Group university with no modern languages or music degrees.
48 courses on the line. We’re fighting it.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
University of Nottingham considers axing language and music degrees
Total of 48 degrees could disappear from Russell Group institution, with falling revenues and rising costs blamed
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:26 AM
This isn’t “efficiency” it’s an ideological shift towards a Little England university system.
Nottingham is set to become the only Russell Group university with no modern languages or music degrees.
48 courses on the line. We’re fighting it.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Nottingham is set to become the only Russell Group university with no modern languages or music degrees.
48 courses on the line. We’re fighting it.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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An amazing day of solidarity with staff, students, and community members saying NO to compulsory redundancies and unnecessary course closures.
November 10, 2025 at 1:28 PM
An amazing day of solidarity with staff, students, and community members saying NO to compulsory redundancies and unnecessary course closures.
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I have a new piece in @antipodeonline.bsky.social on James Baldwin, statelessness, and fugitive placemaking
November 13, 2025 at 12:51 PM
I have a new piece in @antipodeonline.bsky.social on James Baldwin, statelessness, and fugitive placemaking
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Oh this is LOVELY. Claire talking about her role in H is for Hawk. She is not only an astonishing actor but an extraordinarily accomplished natural hawk-handler, entirely in tune with the birds
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
November 16, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Oh this is LOVELY. Claire talking about her role in H is for Hawk. She is not only an astonishing actor but an extraordinarily accomplished natural hawk-handler, entirely in tune with the birds
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
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The latest threat to UK modern languages is yet another faux pas www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/late...
The latest threat to UK modern languages is yet another faux pas
Nottingham and Leicester are taking a swing at language departments. But those proposing closures have taken their eye off the ball, say four linguists
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 16, 2025 at 4:50 PM
The latest threat to UK modern languages is yet another faux pas www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/late...
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Alice Wong, a writer and activist who was born with muscular dystrophy and who fought relentlessly for equal rights and access for people with disabilities, died on Friday. She was 51. nyti.ms/4r9WqEr
November 15, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Alice Wong, a writer and activist who was born with muscular dystrophy and who fought relentlessly for equal rights and access for people with disabilities, died on Friday. She was 51. nyti.ms/4r9WqEr
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Today is the deadline to send your abstracts for the Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies conference!
🌐🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS 🚨🌐
'The Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies'
🗓️ 2-3 February 2026
📍 @oxfordgeography.bsky.social
We invite one-word titles (e.g. hallucinating, zooming, obscuring, glitching, generating)
Deadline: 14th November
Full info: digicologies.com/cfp
'The Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies'
🗓️ 2-3 February 2026
📍 @oxfordgeography.bsky.social
We invite one-word titles (e.g. hallucinating, zooming, obscuring, glitching, generating)
Deadline: 14th November
Full info: digicologies.com/cfp
November 14, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Today is the deadline to send your abstracts for the Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies conference!
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"People have to have a language to speak about what other possible futures are available to them,” Hall wrote. One task...is therefore to devise a language that expands the sense of what is possible"
NEW: Casey A. Williams reads Stuart Hall for the Climate Crisis
www.break-down.org/reading-stua...
NEW: Casey A. Williams reads Stuart Hall for the Climate Crisis
www.break-down.org/reading-stua...
Reading Stuart Hall for the Climate Crisis
Stuart Hall’s politics of culture offers the left a blueprint for confronting the climate crisis.
www.break-down.org
November 14, 2025 at 8:58 AM
"People have to have a language to speak about what other possible futures are available to them,” Hall wrote. One task...is therefore to devise a language that expands the sense of what is possible"
NEW: Casey A. Williams reads Stuart Hall for the Climate Crisis
www.break-down.org/reading-stua...
NEW: Casey A. Williams reads Stuart Hall for the Climate Crisis
www.break-down.org/reading-stua...
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Sequencing Hitler's DNA was always going to be a bad idea, with little upside and plenty of downside, but the way it has been done as part of a TV documentary is particularly bad www.newscientist.com/article/2504...
Sequencing Hitler's genome teaches us nothing useful about his crimes
To understand Adolf Hitler, we need to look at his personal life and the wider societal and historical context - analysing his DNA for a TV gimmick tells us nothing, says Michael Le Page
www.newscientist.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Sequencing Hitler's DNA was always going to be a bad idea, with little upside and plenty of downside, but the way it has been done as part of a TV documentary is particularly bad www.newscientist.com/article/2504...
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Of course, because this is precisely why they were put up and what they’re for.
NHS staff who visit patients at home say St George’s flags can mean ‘no-go zones’
NHS staff who visit patients at home say St George’s flags can mean ‘no-go zones’
Black and Asian staff left feeling ‘deliberately intimidated’, according to chief executive of one NHS trust
NHS staff who care for patients in their own homes fear some areas have become “no-go zones” for them because of the presence of St George’s flags, health leaders have said.
Black and Asian staff have been left feeling “deliberately intimidated” as a result of the flags that were put up in many parts of England during the summer, according to the chief executive of one NHS trust in England, who asked to remain anonymous. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Of course, because this is precisely why they were put up and what they’re for.
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Human Geography at Leicester is facing closure. Staff contracts are to end in June 2026; students are to be relocated to other universities, or taught out by a maximum of two (!) teaching-only staff. Other departments and subjects are facing closure, too. Please join the demo!
November 6, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Human Geography at Leicester is facing closure. Staff contracts are to end in June 2026; students are to be relocated to other universities, or taught out by a maximum of two (!) teaching-only staff. Other departments and subjects are facing closure, too. Please join the demo!
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Joe Gerlach @joegerlach.bsky.social, Spinoza's Geographical Ethics - @edinburghup.bsky.social, December 2025 (print and open access)
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-spinoza...
open access available now
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-spinoza...
open access available now
Spinoza's Geographical Ethics
Spinoza's Geographical Ethics
edinburghuniversitypress.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Joe Gerlach @joegerlach.bsky.social, Spinoza's Geographical Ethics - @edinburghup.bsky.social, December 2025 (print and open access)
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-spinoza...
open access available now
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-spinoza...
open access available now