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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 1d

Such a nice paper on feature extraction as a project of perception - drone enclosures in digital India. “Feature extraction is an entirely speculative endeavour” rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library

Svamitva drone survey in Rajasthan. Source: Author.

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Digital Ecologies @digicologies.bsky.social · 1d

🌐🚨 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

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adam searle @admsrl.bsky.social · 2d

Can't wait for this!

Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 2d

It’s real!!
I just got my first copy of Ghosts Behind Glass and it is beautiful. You all really need to order your copies. You will not regret it. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Double page spread with a photo of diorama

Chapter 3 Cursed treasures on left, lion on right

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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 5d

Coming soon💨

How has energy shaped a nation?

Electric Wind by @DudleyMarianna.bsky.social is a cutting-edge history of wind power in Britain, from the industrial revolution to the aftermath of war, through energy crises and the changing politics of the late twentieth century💡

Pre-order now!

Promotional image for Electric wind. Book sits in centre of image. The book cover is a digital drawing of rolling blue and green hills with a purple cloudy sky in the background. Wind turbines and trees can be seen dotted along the hills. Text along bottom of image reveals the book's publication date: October 14th 2025.

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adam searle @admsrl.bsky.social · 7d

Congratulations, Thom. Very well deserved!

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Jo (unfunded hobbyist) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 7d

‘Priority courses’, give me strength.

Working class kids deserve to study classics and history and art as much as anyone else.

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 7d

'Graeme Atherton, head of the Ruskin Institute for Social Equity (Rise) at the University of West London, said the policy “is giving with one hand and taking with another” and will “exacerbate” the problems being faced by humanities and arts departments and disadvantaged students.'

Maintenance grants only for priority courses ‘deeply concerning’

Using financial incentives to influence student choice risk undermining Labour’s widening access goals, critics fear

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 9d

Pat Brodie and I have a book launch event for 'From the Bog to the Cloud' in London on October 22nd.

Please come along if you're interested in bogs, data centres, monopoly tech, postcolonial development, eco-imperialism, green capitalism, Ireland....

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/aa-book-la...

AA Book Launch: From the Bog to the Cloud

The green digital transition is underway. But what does this transition look like when dictated by the demands of monopoly tech?

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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adam searle @admsrl.bsky.social · 12d

at our @uonucu.bsky.social rally this Wednesday, where Sam had a clear message for our comrades down under

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adam searle @admsrl.bsky.social · 13d

amazing thread

Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 13d

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

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University of Nottingham UCU branch @uonucu.bsky.social · 16d

An inspiring first day of picketing to kick off our 4 weeks of strike action! Faculty, students, AND a dog or two made an appearance.

A photograph of a packed picket line on the southern edge of the University of Nottingham's campus

A photo of a picketer with a very good boy looking on with the respect that the university should be giving too

A group of picketers holding a sign that says Students Support the Strikes

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Dr. Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 15d

honestly I wish outlets like Wired would feature people who AREN'T surprised by this and DIDN'T spend years covering this ecosystem without recognizing the fundamental dynamics of power

I can tell you exactly why it was missed:

WIRED @wired.com · 16d

A snapshot of Silicon Valley in 2025 is Mark Zuckerberg, now a MAGA-friendly mixed martial arts fan who doesn’t worry much about hate speech on his platforms and complains that corporate America isn’t masculine enough.

I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong

Tech got what it wanted by electing Trump. A year later, it looks more like a suicide pact.

www.wired.com

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 15d

I love Wired, but this is some weak ass tea. It's far too late for this mealy-mouth head-scratching from editor emeritus Rip Van Winkle.

The cyberlibertarian to cyber-fascist trajectory is well understood at this point.

WIRED @wired.com · 16d

A snapshot of Silicon Valley in 2025 is Mark Zuckerberg, now a MAGA-friendly mixed martial arts fan who doesn’t worry much about hate speech on his platforms and complains that corporate America isn’t masculine enough.

I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong

Tech got what it wanted by electing Trump. A year later, it looks more like a suicide pact.

www.wired.com

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 16d

Anyone shocked that Reform plan to deport immigrants with Indefinite Leave to Remain hasn’t been paying attention.

Next it will be stripping citizenship from dual citizens, then deporting them.

Who do you think Reform are?

This.

This is who they are.

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adam searle @admsrl.bsky.social · 16d

Thank you, James!!

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adam searle @admsrl.bsky.social · 16d

love my inspiring geography colleagues!! day one of our four-week industrial action, picketing for @uonucu.bsky.social fighting for the future of our university

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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 17d

Dreadful to see this - Farhana Sultana is a stellar academic, with a commitment to social justice. She repeatedly said she was being targeted on this platform & on others. I note her account is deleted. Shame on Syracuse for not standing up for colleagues ⬇️ solidarity to her & Jenn Jackson

Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 18d

Hey, people who work on climate especially, you should know this is happening.

Congresswoman Claudia Tenney Calls on Syracuse University to Fire Professors Who Celebrated Charlie Kirk's
Murder or Face Loss of Federal Funding
September 17, 2025 | Press Release
Washington, DC - Congresswoman Claudia Tenney (NY-24)
today issued the following statement after reports surfaced o that two professors at Syracuse University mocked the brutal murder of conservative leader Charlie Kirk:
"While Americans across the country are mourning the tragic murder of Charle Kirk, two Syracuse University professors, Jenn Jackson and Farhana Sultana, used their platforms to celebrate and mock his death," said Congresswoman Tenney.
Their appalling remarks included comments such as 'rest in piss, 'give him what he valued: no empathy, referring to him as 'trash, and even thanking a so-called 'witch' for cursing his life."
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Duncan Wilson @duncanwilson78.bsky.social · 18d

I'm wiped out after the Planetary Futures conference that @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social and I organised over the past two days at the University of Manchester. Huge thanks to everyone who gave papers and attended. I think it all went well!

One of Manchester Museum's two replica dodos that featured in our public event, 'Extinction in the Museum'.

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adam searle @admsrl.bsky.social · 21d

next Monday we begin four weeks of industrial action at the University of Nottingham, inspired by the work of brave colleagues across the sector who've stood up and ruled out compulsory redundancies in many instances (Newcastle, Sheffield—many more!)

Without us, there is no university! #StopTheCuts

University of Nottingham UCU branch @uonucu.bsky.social · 23d

Strike action is ON!!!

Next week will be the first of 4 weeks of striking from our members as we continue to say NO to the compulsory redundancies forced on us by the university for their poor financial choices.

#StopTheCuts #SaveHE

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Kai Heron @kaiheron.bsky.social · 21d

The £22bn deal announced today between the British government and Microsoft to build AI data centres across the country makes it all the more imperative that we read @pbresnihan.bsky.social and Pat Brody’s new book From the Bog to the Cloud. A quick thread. 1/7

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 21d

#OtD 17 Sep 2011 inspired by events in Egypt and Spain, Occupy Wall Street began as 1000 people gathered in New York City's financial centre to protest economic inequality and austerity amid a global crisis. Occupy encampents soon spread across the US stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8948...

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 21d

In London, hate will never win.

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Hugh Warwick @hedgehoghugh.bsky.social · 22d

thanks to @jonnyjjt.bsky.social and Karolina for giving me this story - the amazing work of #hedgehog rescuers in #Ukraine open.substack.com/pub/hughwarw...

A Hedgehog on the front line (part 2)

don’t be greedy with love and caring!

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 22d

What’s up with Peter Thiel’s secret Antichrist lectures?

Let us pierce the veil.

For the @newrepublic.com I studied his past Antichrist speeches to decode his message—a chilling fusion of Nazi political theory and scripture.

Consider this an urgent warning:

newrepublic.com/article/2004...

What’s Up With Peter Thiel’s Obsession With the Antichrist?

The tech mogul is amping up his apocalyptic rhetoric—and adding a dangerous dose of extremism into the already-fraught culture war.

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 22d

What if history could be 'weightless'?

Lola Olufemi and Agnes Cameron expand on their collaboration, This is a Temporal Landscape You Will Find No Direction Here, a digital assemblage for reimagining our relationship to the radical histories before us:
www.historyworkshop.org.uk/practice-his...

YOU WILL FIND NO DIRECTION HERE

Lola Olufemi and Agnes Cameron revive resistance in the concepts of 'history' and 'technology', through digitally reassembling the archive.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 22d

How much will it take for people to accept that Israel is committing a genocide, and how many reports need to be released for our governments to stop it?

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, UN commission of inquiry says

The panel finds that four of the five genocidal acts defined under international law have been carried out against Palestinians during the war.

www.bbc.com

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