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Charrlotte @charrlotte.bsky.social · 6d

"in this vein"

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Bue Rübner Hansen @buerubner.bsky.social · 10d

Their ways of life don't conform to the "(Western) European Way of Life", and they are judged for it. This standard is arrogant and harmful, and sucks up the resources that peripheral, marginalized, and rural people need.

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social · 21d

Potential workaround if you're already logged in and get prompted by the ToS notification: opening this "privacy policy" link www.academia.edu/privacytakes you to a page where you can access the drop-down menu and reach "account settings." From there I was able to delete my account without agreeing.

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Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social · 24d

This looks...really good? And apparently in defiance of the cowardly retreat from 'gender' we've been seeing.

Mo Moulton @momoulton.bsky.social · 24d

Some big news: the University of Birmingham is launching a new MA in Gender & Sexuality. It's interdisciplinary, with a focus on combining theory & practice. It's going to be amazing. I'm convening it: message or email with questions. www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/postgr... @unibirmingham.bsky.social

Gender and Sexuality MA - University of Birmingham

Course information for prospective postgraduate students on our MA History taught masters degree programme at the University of Birmingham.

www.birmingham.ac.uk

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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 29d

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Charrlotte @charrlotte.bsky.social · Aug 29

Met so many, learnt so much, got gifts and even played a game 🥂🍀 #RGS-IBG2025 #creativegeographies

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Katie Kung @katiekung.bsky.social · Aug 23

Still decompressing from #ESEH2025 week but hey was it good!
@elinetabak.bsky.social @chriskla.bsky.social @charrlotte.bsky.social, Sven Seelinger plus @aberehrlich.bsky.social
(Go “invasive species”! I guess…)

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Charrlotte @charrlotte.bsky.social · Aug 20

What an excellent moderation. Lots to learn for many, there. Not only was the room really opened up to online participants (incl. me), but ECRs were given space FIRST in the discussion #downwithheirarchies #changingacademia

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Charrlotte @charrlotte.bsky.social · Aug 20

this was such an amazing experience 💚 the organisers @katiekung.bsky.social @elinetabak.bsky.social, the presenters, AND the audience were so engaging.

Eline D. Tabak @elinetabak.bsky.social · Aug 20

Chairing this fabulous #PlantStudies panel today: "Vegetal (hi)stories: more-than-human narratives of invasion and belonging" 🌿🌲🌾

Join us at 14.00-15.30 & 16.00-17.30 in room 21.011 for some planty goodness

Powerpoint slide acting as a poster. There's a transparent image of japanese knotweed as the background with dark green text:

Vegetal (hi)stories: more-than-human narratives of invasion and belonging
ESEH 2025: Thursday 20 August, 14.00-15.30 & 16.00-17.30, room 21.011
organised by Katie Kung (LMU) and Eline Tabak (Oulu)

Session 1 (14.00-15.30)
Christopher Klapperich (Rachel Carson Center, LMU Munich) – Normalizing invasion in an altered archipelago. New debates about the belonging of native and exotic trees in Philippine reforestation
Charrlotte Adelina (Freie Universität Berlin) – Phytosociological Constructs and Pragmatic Targets in Restoration Practice
Katie Kung (Rachel Carson Center, LMU Munich) – Naturalised citizens or noxious immigrants? Caring for ‘invasive’ plant species in a changing world
Session 2 (16.00-17.30)
Martin Schmitt (Paderborn University) – Sustainable foreigners to repair European natures? Experimental cultivation of foreign tree species and their use in reforestation in Spain and Prussia
Sven Seelinger (University of Augsburg) – Artificial Bramble. Barbed Wire and the Changing Human-Artefact-Biota Relationships on the Great Plains (1873–1933)
Roundtable discussion with all participants

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Charrlotte @charrlotte.bsky.social · Aug 18

some of these reactions cannot be read without the aversion to intl. labour mobility in germany (pervasive everywhere but also in academia), the economy, & the arrogance of the german society in saying 'we won't adapt to a post-migration society one bit, but need to fill our pension gaps'

Charrlotte @charrlotte.bsky.social · Aug 18

the responses on this post shared elsewhere is extremely hostile to intl postdocs. there seems to be the expectation that intl folks should master a language + research + adapt in a new society + understand the bureaucratic framework (all within the short contract timeframe)

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Charrlotte @charrlotte.bsky.social · Aug 18

“International postdocs don’t know their rights or know the [German] law.”
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Postdoc depression and anxiety rates are rising, finds survey of 872 researchers

The Max Planck Society is good at attracting international postdocs but struggles to retain them, survey finds.

www.nature.com

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Hannah D-C @hannahdcknsn.bsky.social · Aug 13

I've always been really upfront about my experiences with this. I have encountered accent-based classism (not actually a true assessment of my 'class') at every stage in my student and now academic career. It is RIFE in this country across students and also staff members. Something HAS to change.

Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · Aug 13

NGLI was going to mock this as obviously made up until I saw it was Durham 💀 www.thetimes.com/uk/education...

Mocked for using the wrong spoon: working-class life at top universities

Some students say they have been made to feel alienated on campus. What can institutions do to tackle it?

www.thetimes.com

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Charrlotte @charrlotte.bsky.social · Aug 6

I have many a bones to pick with the travel admin, who seems to think it's too much work to calculate petty pennies (INR) for field work periods. None of the forms and systems here are made for international researchers. I'm sorry for the workload, but I can't alter global currency exchange systems

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Charrlotte @charrlotte.bsky.social · Jul 31

One of the reasons I moved out of this research focus is really just the raw pain from field work with waste workers and street vendors & the guilt at interviewing the most precarious and instrumentalizing their narratives for research

Charrlotte @charrlotte.bsky.social · Jul 30

POCs are becoming increasingly tense about the emerging situation in Germany. The media and politicians have done their job exceedingly well - even seemingly mundane conversation are tinted with nefarious hints of racist incitement.

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Charrlotte @charrlotte.bsky.social · Jul 29

blessed are those who haven't heard the ELSTER hotline's music on hold

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Heather Ferguson @drheatherferg.bsky.social · Jul 29

>40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study

Petition for UK academics asking govt to facilitate a biometric visa deferral and open a route of safe passage

Sign & share ⏬️

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Open letter from UK university staff: Request for biometric deferral and safe evacuation of incoming Palestinian students and scholars from Gaza to UK Universities

More than 40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study. We, the academic community hoping to welcome these scholars, ca...

docs.google.com

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Charrlotte @charrlotte.bsky.social · Jul 24

Yay, so thrilled that my visa has been approved in time for the #RGS-IBG Annual Conference. Will be visiting the UK for the first time and would be around until September 7th. Please reach out if you are around Birmingham / recommend any spots! :)

Charrlotte @charrlotte.bsky.social · Jul 24

what a deeply cathartic read on caste and academic collaborations!

Charrlotte @charrlotte.bsky.social · Jul 24

On the flattening of brown scholars in the Western Academy, from Patel, S. & Da Costa, D. (2022). “We Cannot Write About Complicity Together”:
Limits of Cross-Caste Collaborations in Western Academy. Engaged Scholar
Journal, 8(2), 1–27. doi.org/10.15402/esj...

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Lisa Onaga @lisaonaga.bsky.social · Jul 19

Please register for the HSS meeting @NOLA & come meet Ashton Wesner 🐟Sam Muka 🪸 Rebecca Woods 🐒 Aleksandar Shopov 🐫 and + discuss their research on animal mobilities and why such histories of science matter. Thanks to Sonia Wigh, co-organizer of this roundtable with the Osiris editors! #histsci

Left hand holding a hard copy of "Animal Mobilities," volume 40 of Osiris against backdrop of messy office

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Charrlotte @charrlotte.bsky.social · Jul 11

Looking forward to the ESEH panel by @katiekung.bsky.social and @elinetabak.bsky.social to think together on "Vegetal (hi)stories: more-than-human narratives of invasion and belonging"

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Charrlotte @charrlotte.bsky.social · Jul 11

looking for literature / leads on how nativism can be far from neat, messy in its circulations, and even outward-looking, or influenced by philosophies or regimes of the Other {tying up some loose threads in the diss}

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Charrlotte @charrlotte.bsky.social · Jul 1

That was a fascinating talk last eve. Heading over to read "For a Liberatory Politics of Home": www.dukeupress.edu/for-a-libera...

michelelancione @michelelancione.bsky.social · Jun 30

Today at the Georg Simmel Centre for Urban Studies at Humboldt Uni in Berlin, I'll give a talk on my work on the constitutive violence of the Italian home.

Thanks to Ignacio Farias & colleagues for the invite!

At 6pm, Universitätsstraße 3b, Room 002

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