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Roadsides @roadsides.bsky.social · 2d

Working on fresh approaches to infrastructures? If you can imagine editing a special issue with us, send us a proposal!

Deadline for proposals: 15 November 2025

Send proposals to our editors-in-chief:

Agnieszka Joniak-Lüthi
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Tina Harris
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Guide for Editors | Roadsides

Dear Editors, Thank you for considering editing a guest collection in Roadsides. The following Guide for Editors will help you understand the application and publication process. The Editorial Board t...

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 8d

We made a reading list for you.

Abolish the Border, Abolish the Police Reading List

In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and police repression, we offer an extensive reading list about border and police ab...

www.haymarketbooks.org

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Mariana Mazzucato @mazzucatom.bsky.social · 13d

The debt crisis is fundamentally a development crisis. Today I'll be joining Laura Carvalho and Daouda Sembene to discuss how to forge a more equitable global debt architecture. #UNGA

Register (In-person & Virtual) ➡️ buff.ly/EdGw4pa

Our G20 discussion paper ➡️ buff.ly/nDNM2Kt

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Prof Mike Yearworth @mikeyearworth.bsky.social · 17d

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."

www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws

In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

www.computerworld.com

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 21d

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

The new TOC from academia dot edu.

By creating an Account with Academia.edu, you grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent for Academia.edu to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness, city, institutional affiliations, citations, mentions, publications, and areas of interest) in any manner, including for the purpose of advertising, selling, or soliciting the use or purchase of Academia.edu's Services.

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Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social · Sep 8

PSA that there is cheap (good!) lunch on campus at the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre cafe. The woman today told me I was only the third person in for the day — it’s quiet and they need our support! Level 4 of the building with the student food court. UniMelb people please reshare 🙏🏼

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Brian Eyler @brianeyler.bsky.social · Sep 5

This is the best explainer I’ve seen so far of the rare earth mining pollution issue in the Mekong. @bbcbreaking-bot.bsky.social @cnn.com @channelnewsasia.bsky.social it’s time for you to cover this story. This is the absolute worst thing to happen to the the Mekong.

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Skin rashes and deformed fish: How rare earth mining is destroying vital Thai rivers

YouTube video by SBS News

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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · Sep 4

Melbourne Uni needs to explain this bullshit. This is destroying critical cultural infrastructure.

Unimelb axing Meanjin, ANU scuttling the Australian National Dictionary Centre, and then universities wonder why they can’t seem to exert any influence over the national discourse.

Literary journal Meanjin to close after 85 years of publishing

Meanjin, a mainstay of Australia's cultural landscape and the nation's second-oldest literary publication, is shuttering after Melbourne University Publishing decided to cease financial support.

www.crikey.com.au

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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · Aug 29

"The nickname is “Nousferatu,” as in the vampire, because of what critics describe as a reputation for selling a slash-and-burn template for saving bankrupt universities by making them go ruthlessly corporate; ...

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How to run a university in Canada? Outsource it to this management consulting firm

Nous Group's template for getting out of the red has been adopted by major schools. Critics call it the corporatization of higher education.

nationalpost.com

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Political Ecology of Environmental Conflict @criticalpoleco.bsky.social · Aug 26

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor - Technology, Society, and Power at the School of Information, University of Michigan, in the areas of critical study of technology and its relationship to governance, violence, control, surveillance, resistance, and war apply.interfolio.com/171466

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Vanessa Lamb @drvanessalamb.bsky.social · Aug 18

Please join us! I am co-convening 3 Royal Geographical Society panels on Feminist and Gendered Geographies of Resistance with @zalifung.bsky.social and Rebecca Elmhirst at the University of Birmingham next week. A great lineup of presentations. bit.ly/4lgkPnk @rgsibg.bsky.social

Panel description feminist and gendered geographies of resistance

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amy brown @amybrown.xyz · Aug 22

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me?
Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

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Ben Anderson @benandersongeog.bsky.social · Aug 20

Our The Promise of Cultural Geography compilation now exists as a physical book, as well as OA online, thanks to all @vickiezhang.bsky.social work and gomer printing who together have created a beautiful object. We’ll be bringing a lot of them to the #rgsibg25

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Focus on the Global South @focussouth.bsky.social · Aug 21

🧵THREAD

“Care and Resistance” brings together five movements to share and exchange how they are embodying care at the core of their fights.

📸 Abahlali baseMjondolo (South Africa)

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Aug 19

"But that one of the symbols of local resistance would be a man launching a sandwich is about as unexpected as things get. (That being said, a group of men dumping tea into a harbor did help inspire the Revolutionary War.)"

@maustermuhle.bsky.social for @51st.news

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How a thrown sandwich became a symbol of D.C.’s resistance

In an already surreal moment, Washingtonians have embraced bread puns, sandwich flags, and sub-themed street art as a form of protest.

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Vanessa Lamb @drvanessalamb.bsky.social · Aug 18

Please join us! I am co-convening 3 Royal Geographical Society panels on Feminist and Gendered Geographies of Resistance with @zalifung.bsky.social and Rebecca Elmhirst at the University of Birmingham next week. A great lineup of presentations. bit.ly/4lgkPnk @rgsibg.bsky.social

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irina cerić @irinaceric.bsky.social · Aug 17

"Air Canada has to learn not to call mommy and daddy every time they reach an impasse at the bargaining table. They have to actually sit down and get a deal done with their workers." - @stufts.bsky.social Solidarity with flight attendants! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Air Canada flight attendants to defy back-to-work order, remain on strike: union | CBC News

Air Canada flight attendants will defy the back-to-work order and remain on strike after the federal government ordered binding arbitration to end the work stoppage, the Canadian Union of Public Emplo...

www.cbc.ca

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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · Aug 14

I’m not at the RGS-IBG annual geography conference this year, but this sounds like a great initiative - free public transport in Birmingham for the duration of the conference.

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Area @areajournal.bsky.social · Aug 14

🌍Are you attending the RGS-IBG Annual Conference in Birmingham later this month?🌏

🚌You can request free bus travel around Birmingham during the week of the conference - just complete the form below by Sunday 17th August.

Geographers please share!

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Microsoft Forms

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · Aug 12

This from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social hit me over the head like a mallet of truth. This is the thing. This is what I’ve been trying to warn people about perfectly crystallized. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...