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Jeremy Schmidt

@jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social

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Environmental Geographer QMUL; Co-editor of Area (areajournal.bsky.social)); Author of *Water: abundance, scarcity, and security in the age of humanity* (NYU Press); New book on Alberta’s water and energy coming 2026 with U Chicago Press. .. more

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Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · 1d

WIll do, I've been wanting to connect to learn more about Finbio as well!

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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 2d

"Biodiversity loss is notoriously difficult to quantify. Even in Switzerland, a country with intense monitoring of nature, systematic measurements have only existed for about two decades." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Century-old papers saved from the bin reveal changes in Europe’s plant life

Plant inventories dating back to 1884 and nearly thrown away enable unique time-lapse study of biodiversity in Swiss meadows

www.theguardian.com

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Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · 2d

How can we pursue nature-based solutions effectively and empirically?

We are launching a new MSc in Natural Capital and Sustainability. It runs across business, env. science, geography, and is in partnership with Kew Gardens!

Applications now open for 2026!
www.qmul.ac.uk/postgraduate...

Natural Capital and Sustainability MSc - Queen Mary University of London

www.qmul.ac.uk

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Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · 3d

I’m sure there are a few emails flying around at some of these universities right now

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show

Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests

www.theguardian.com

Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · 11d

In case anybody teaching game theory is looking for an example of what contemporary freeriding looks like.

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 12d

Exclusive: OpenAI is planning to release a new version of its Sora video generator, which creates videos featuring copyrighted material unless copyright holders opt out of having their work appear.

OpenAI’s New Sora Video Generator to Require Copyright Holders to Opt Out

Executives at the startup notified talent agencies and studios over the last week.

on.wsj.com

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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 12d

Exclusive: OpenAI is planning to release a new version of its Sora video generator, which creates videos featuring copyrighted material unless copyright holders opt out of having their work appear.

OpenAI’s New Sora Video Generator to Require Copyright Holders to Opt Out

Executives at the startup notified talent agencies and studios over the last week.

on.wsj.com

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Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · 13d

Just FYI, UK is now hot enough to grow rice

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UK's first rice crop ripe for picking after hot summer - BBC News

Paddy fields are thriving in a quiet part of east England and might help feed us in the future.

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Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · 18d

If you are still looking for that reading at the intersection of environment, health, extraction and disposession (with a dash of the digital)...

Geo: Geography and Environment @geoopenaccess.bsky.social · Jun 13

💻New in Geo!🛢️

'Minecraft's territory: Alberta's oil sands, settler knowledge infrastructure & digital geographies' by @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social

This paper traces how the data used for a Minecraft extension are tied to broader extractive networks of knowledge production.

doi.org/10.1002/geo2...

A photograph showing the 3D print of the Minecraft model of Peace River - a cross section of the geological formation of this site in different shades of grey and white to show the layers beneath the surface of the earth.

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Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · 20d

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A prudent planetary limit for geologic carbon storage - Nature

A risk-based, spatially explicit analysis of carbon storage in sedimentary basins establishes a prudent planetary limit of around 1,460 Gt of geological carbon storage, which requires making explicit ...

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Ioannis Ziogas @ziogas.bsky.social · 21d

This.

No TT/non-TT/VAP job will be offered to an int'l candidate, since it requires an H1-B until the green card is issued.

This process takes at least a couple of years.

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Reposted by Shannon Vallor, Anna O. Law, Ashish Arora , and 12 more Shannon Vallor, Anna O. Law, Ashish Arora, Elizabeth Stokoe, American Library Association, Fabián Muniesa, Aaron Sojourner, Stephen D. Murphy, Beatriz Gallardo Paúls, Mark Rice, Jeremy J. Schmidt, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Constance Bantman, Peter Jacobs

Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 21d

this exists it is called thinking

Matthew McConaughey says he wants a private LLM, fed only with his books, notes, journals, and aspirations, so he can ask it questions and get answers based solely on that information, without any outside influence.

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Ekin Kurtiç @ekinkurtic.bsky.social · 22d

A highly controversial new law in Turkey allows mining in olive groves, requiring tree transplantation.

My new open-access article in @politicalgeography.bsky.social explores the making of "movable nature"— salvage work that moves nature out of the way of infrastructure and extraction projects.

Salvage work: The making of movable nature for post-submergence life

This article critically examines environmental salvage projects undertaken in northeastern Turkey by focusing on political and technoscientific actors…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Paul Langley @paullangley.bsky.social · 22d

Fastest way to shorten the odds on a Reform government

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 22d

Keir Starmer set to unveil digital ID scheme on.ft.com/3IvzqOA

Keir Starmer set to unveil digital ID scheme

UK prime minister hoping to avoid his Labour predecessor’s failure to push through plan in the 2000s

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 24d

Some food for thought: if you're reviewing a book & it has good, useful maps, say so in the review! And name the mapmaker if you can.

Often, folks writing books don't know where to go for good maps. Making mention of them in your review helps everyone.
#skystorians #midievalsky #historians

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Jason Dittmer @realjdittmer.bsky.social · 25d

on.ft.com/46mnJlf Banks tighten debt terms as squeezed UK universities refinance loans

Banks tighten debt terms as squeezed UK universities refinance loans

Almost half of the sector’s providers run a deficit, as some institutions secure funding against campus sites

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 28d

'Many of the living worlds in the ice and snow are not visible to the human eye. “You don’t expect a living organism on the ice,” Bamert says. But there is a rich ice-loving biotic community and surprising biodiversity that thrives in this frozen landscape.'

‘Like walking through time’: as glaciers retreat, new worlds are being created in their wake

As Swiss glaciers melt at an ever-faster rate, new species move in and flourish, but entire ecosystems and an alpine culture can be lost

www.theguardian.com

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Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · Sep 9

Saw my first humming hawk moth today, amazing!

Had been missing hummingbirds since moving to UK and was wowed by this moth!!

butterfly-conservation.org/moths/hummin...

Humming-bird Hawk-moth

butterfly-conservation.org

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Sep 9

Great start for @sophiasgaler.bsky.social 's 'Universities Challenged' with its 'Tuition Impossible' episode. A primer for the uninitiated on university finance and economic impacts.

Hoping research too gets attention in the next episode, when culture wars are under view. Well worth listening to.

BBC Radio 4 - Universities Challenged, Tuition Impossible

Is a major university at risk of going bust, and what happens if it does?

www.bbc.co.uk

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · Sep 7

Have you ever wondered what goes into making a map, or though about how maps wind up in the books you love?

I draw maps for living, and every week I write about how they come into being. The posts are free and available for anyone to read. So come give them a read!

patreon.com/SurprisedEel...

Custom Maps, Artwork, and History

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Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · Sep 6

Two books for me; similarly hoping something breaks through the thieving

Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · Sep 5

Yeah i doubt it now that >50% of the internet seems to be ai content or bots chattering with each other

Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · Sep 5

Is it just reporting on other substacks?

www.thehandbasket.co/p/substack-e...

Substack’s extremist ecosystem is flourishing

The app's recent swastika push alert was just the tip of the iceberg.

www.thehandbasket.co

Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · Sep 5

I always just ask them where to send the invoice for my author/editor/editorial board fee.

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Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · Sep 5

Babe, new candidate for "most unfathomable spatial comparison" just dropped.

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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · Sep 5

Even under much-hated EU farming rules, farmers had to keep a 2-metre buffer between their fields and rivers. Post-Brexit farmers may try to increase income by ploughing up to river edge

More than 400km2 of riverside habitat may have been lost

#BrexitBenefits

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Fears for England riverbank habitats amid relaxed post-Brexit rules

Exclusive: Analysis shows farmers ploughing to the edge of waterways, destroying crucial wildlife ecosystems

www.theguardian.com

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · Sep 5

JOB: Assistant Professor of Environmental History with a Focus on Water in Human History, Texas State University (USA)
jobs.hr.txstate.edu/postings/53043
#envhist

Assistant Professor of Environmental History with a Focus on Water in Human History

The Department of History at Texas State University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of environmental history with a focus on water in human history (regional and period spe...

jobs.hr.txstate.edu

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Ben Anderson @benandersongeog.bsky.social · Sep 4

One consequence of the U.K. universities crisis I discussed with friends at the RGS-IBG conference is a kind of forced interdisciplinary in organisational form - forced mergers between departments, newly named schools etc. A post-disciplinarity far from the promise of interdisciplinarity