Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Juliet J. Fall

@julietjfall.bsky.social

850 followers 1.3K following 440 posts

Prof (she/her) political geography, University of Geneva🇨🇭 Borders/territories/infrastructure/visual methods/comics. Books: "Bornées: une histoire illustrée de la frontière", MétisPresses 2024 & "Along the Line: Writing with Comics & Graphic Narrative" 2025

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Juliet J. Fall @julietjfall.bsky.social · Jun 6

It was such a pleasure to talk about comics, slow scholarship, borders and visual methods with Roland and Cormac!

Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · Jun 6

Here the video of our latest @visualpolitics.bsky.social event: Prof Juliet Fall @julietjfall.bsky.social discusses her amazing new book on Writing with Comics and Graphic Narrative in Geography. Big thanks Juliet for joining us. www.rolandbleiker.com/news/https/w...

1 2 8

Reposted by Juliet J. Fall

lindsey ✨ @lcgordon.bsky.social · 22h

how to win a nobel physics prize 🔭✨☄️

3 17 47

Juliet J. Fall @julietjfall.bsky.social · 7h

A lovely visual essay by @theoatmeal.bsky.social on why AI art feels so horribly soulless. Do read it all!

Reposted by Juliet J. Fall

France Culture @franceculture.fr · 9h

Représenter la Terre sur une feuille de papier ? Gerardus Mercator l’a fait en 1569.
Mais derrière chaque carte se cache un regard : qui est au centre, qui est en marge, qui domine et qui disparaît.
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/PRa

16 30

Juliet J. Fall @julietjfall.bsky.social · 8h

Avec notre merveilleuse collègue Prof Irène Hirt!

Histoire Géo Nord @histoiregeonord.bsky.social · 9h

Méridiens, planisphères : la fabrique du centre du monde.
www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

Méridiens, planisphères : la fabrique du centre du monde : épisode du podcast Les cartes, maîtresses du monde

AUDIO • Les cartes, maîtresses du monde, épisode : Méridiens, planisphères : la fabrique du centre du monde. Une série inédite proposée par France Culture. Écoutez Cultures Monde, et découvrez nos po...

www.radiofrance.fr

Reposted by Juliet J. Fall

Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 1d

Thoughtful essay

“we are in danger of forgetting the greatest untapped resource on any college campus — the professors. We are surrounded by human experts, yet we are being encouraged to take our questions to robots”

AI ate my homework: My experience with the University’s AI toolkit

I don’t understand AI enough to properly dislike it. And I’m curious as to why the University is pushing this tool so much if it inherently devalues learning. So I immersed myself in artificial intell...

www.michigandaily.com

3 11 17

Reposted by Juliet J. Fall

Juliet J. Fall @julietjfall.bsky.social · 3d

A bag made for a special colleague, now gifted, recycling two conference tote bags, assorted scraps & fabric printed with maps from the Bibliothèque de Genève map collection (Map of Geneva by Micheli du Crest, 18thC).

1 7

Reposted by Juliet J. Fall

Prof Ann Lopez @drannlopez.bsky.social · 2d

Shout out to all the teachers on #WorldTeachersDay

2 2

Reposted by Juliet J. Fall

Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 3d

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

250 8K 17K

Juliet J. Fall @julietjfall.bsky.social · 3d

1 7

Juliet J. Fall @julietjfall.bsky.social · 3d

Autumn colours, on the tail of the first big storm.

1 2

Reposted by Juliet J. Fall

Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 4d

Sick and tired of people wanting to defend “western civilisation” especially when they are also attacking arts and humanities in the universities.

18 120 680

Juliet J. Fall @julietjfall.bsky.social · 5d

There is an absolutely brilliant wiki page in French on all the achievements of "une femme" (a woman). Clever satire. fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C...

Wikipédia:Pastiches/Une femme — Wikipédia

fr.wikipedia.org

1 1 5

Reposted by Juliet J. Fall

dr. gianluca grimalda @ggrimalda.bsky.social · Sep 3

I've set off to Bougainville,PNG, for another #NoFly journey. I want to complete my research there. Travelling the ~25,000km distance from Italy by🚢,🚅,&🚌,I'll emit ~10 times less than✈️ (computations to come).Here the long read on my motivations: gianlu777.substack.c... 1/🧵

Map of my no-fly itinerary from Italy to Bougainville, PNG

6 43 130

Reposted by Juliet J. Fall

Yann Calbérac @yann-c.bsky.social · 5d

Un beau texte écrit par @julietjfall.bsky.social et ses collègues du département de géographie de l'Université de Genève qui retrace la carrière et les propositions du grand géographe qu'a été Claude Raffestin (1936-2025).

Juliet J. Fall @julietjfall.bsky.social · 5d

www.unige.ch/lejournal/tr...

Claude Raffestin, le boxeur de la doxa - - UNIGE

www.unige.ch

4 9

Juliet J. Fall @julietjfall.bsky.social · 5d

www.unige.ch/lejournal/tr...

Claude Raffestin, le boxeur de la doxa - - UNIGE

www.unige.ch

1 1 3

Reposted by Juliet J. Fall

Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 6d

This entire administration is the walking, talking version of the "men will do ___________ instead of going to therapy" joke

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Stephen Miller: "All that bullshit is done, over, it's finished. The gangbangers you deal with- they think they're ruthless? They have no idea how ruthless we are. They think they're tough? They have no idea how tough we are. They think they're hardcore? We are so much more hardcore than they are"

4 22 150

Reposted by Juliet J. Fall

Sarcophagus Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 6d

You don’t actually have to both sides this. The Jewish community in the UK is not the Israeli government. You can just condemn the murder of two British Jews killed in their place of worship and you don’t have to say a single other thing.

6 940 3.6K

Juliet J. Fall @julietjfall.bsky.social · 6d

We penned a little text in his memory, on the University website: www.unige.ch/lejournal/in...

Claude Raffestin, le boxeur de la doxa - - UNIGE

www.unige.ch

Reposted by Juliet J. Fall

Lindsay Naylor @lbnaylor.bsky.social · 6d

One more month until "All Geographers should be Feminist Geographers!" Published by @ugapress.bsky.social

Book cover with open book and quill sculpture on a college campus.

5 13

Reposted by Juliet J. Fall

Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 7d

I read this at the weekend and it is amazing!
I would say “if you only read one self-help book written in collaboration with a rabbit this year, then this should be it”
…but that underplays the fact that it’s a brilliant graphic novel as well. Well done Fluffy and @simonelia.bsky.social!

My hand holding a book.
'How to Make Life Better When it Feels Like it's Getting Worse'
by Simone Lia + Fluffy Pulcino

4 64 410

Reposted by Juliet J. Fall

Risa Brooks @risabrooks12.bsky.social · 7d

The ultimate aim here is that people will no longer expect the military to serve the public at large, but that its goal and purpose is to advance the interest of one faction or party in politics. 10/

2 72 460

Reposted by Juliet J. Fall

Risa Brooks @risabrooks12.bsky.social · 7d

It's easy to see this speech as just weirdly performative, but there's a lot more—and a lot worse—going on here.

The meeting & speeches are part of a larger project aimed at promoting the military leadership’s partisan alignment with the administration.

How? 1/

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Hegseth: "If the words I'm speaking today are making your heart sink, they you should do the honorable thing and resign."

55 510 1.3K

Juliet J. Fall @julietjfall.bsky.social · 7d

Also, @atrupar.com, thank you for your service in watching all this unending but dangerous nonsense and sharing it with us in bite-sized chunks, so that we don’t have to!

Juliet J. Fall @julietjfall.bsky.social · 7d

ChatGPT, can you write me a speech by a 7-year old lonely white boy who dreams of being a tough soldier?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."

1 1

Juliet J. Fall @julietjfall.bsky.social · 7d

Plus qu’un tout petit mois pour découvrir la fabuleuse exposition géographique sur les premiers Tours du Monde au Musée National Suisse dans le Château de Prangins! Superbe visite ce matin avec son commissaire Jean-François Staszak, prof de géo à Unige, pour nos étudiant-es de Master en géographie.

Collection de livres et traductions de Jules Verne

Carte sur un mur, dans une salle en forme de globe

Groupe devant des vitrines, y compris 2 manuscrits originaux de Verne (Tour du monde en 80 jours)