Kavita Ramakrishnan
@kavitaurbanist.bsky.social
Unruly geographer at the University of East Anglia.
Eviction, resettlement, informality and migration. Currently thinking about embodied experiences of extreme heat.
Eviction, resettlement, informality and migration. Currently thinking about embodied experiences of extreme heat.
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You all MUST READ this piece by Kaitlyn Greenidge about the power of art to “exist outside of a tech lord’s algorithm.”
www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-...
www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-...
The Artist Who Reminds Us that Another Way Is Possible
The late artist Abigail McGrath cultivated a creative life for herself filled with freedom, joy, and a commitment to beauty. In an age of authoritarianism and algorithms, it’s a kind of life worth pro...
www.harpersbazaar.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:09 PM
You all MUST READ this piece by Kaitlyn Greenidge about the power of art to “exist outside of a tech lord’s algorithm.”
www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-...
www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-...
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We don’t need to reform ICE.
We don’t need alternatives to ICE.
We don’t need to engage in dishonest debates wondering what the U.S. would do without ICE.
ICE isn’t even 23 years old. Most adults know a world without ICE. And the billions used to fund ICE can be used to meet people’s basic needs.
We don’t need alternatives to ICE.
We don’t need to engage in dishonest debates wondering what the U.S. would do without ICE.
ICE isn’t even 23 years old. Most adults know a world without ICE. And the billions used to fund ICE can be used to meet people’s basic needs.
November 18, 2025 at 11:40 PM
We don’t need to reform ICE.
We don’t need alternatives to ICE.
We don’t need to engage in dishonest debates wondering what the U.S. would do without ICE.
ICE isn’t even 23 years old. Most adults know a world without ICE. And the billions used to fund ICE can be used to meet people’s basic needs.
We don’t need alternatives to ICE.
We don’t need to engage in dishonest debates wondering what the U.S. would do without ICE.
ICE isn’t even 23 years old. Most adults know a world without ICE. And the billions used to fund ICE can be used to meet people’s basic needs.
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A man died today at the Rikers Island jail complex. He was just hours away from an expected release.
This year, 13 people have now died in the NYC jails. That is *nearly triple* the number of people who died in the NYC jails in all of 2024. www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/21/r...
This year, 13 people have now died in the NYC jails. That is *nearly triple* the number of people who died in the NYC jails in all of 2024. www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/21/r...
Hours Before Expected Release, Rikers Detainee Dies After Apparent Seizure
Edwin Ramos, 38, was slated to plead guilty and walk free Friday morning. Instead, he became the 13th person to die in city custody this year.
www.thecity.nyc
November 21, 2025 at 9:43 PM
A man died today at the Rikers Island jail complex. He was just hours away from an expected release.
This year, 13 people have now died in the NYC jails. That is *nearly triple* the number of people who died in the NYC jails in all of 2024. www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/21/r...
This year, 13 people have now died in the NYC jails. That is *nearly triple* the number of people who died in the NYC jails in all of 2024. www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/21/r...
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Every share helps reach someone who can chip in, especially while I’m offline for health 💛Six families & a displacement camp depend on this link—current priorities are:
- Emergency healthcare for THREE women
- If enough support, shelter for 3 families stuck in the cold
chuffed.org/project/hope...
- Emergency healthcare for THREE women
- If enough support, shelter for 3 families stuck in the cold
chuffed.org/project/hope...
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…
chuffed.org
November 21, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Every share helps reach someone who can chip in, especially while I’m offline for health 💛Six families & a displacement camp depend on this link—current priorities are:
- Emergency healthcare for THREE women
- If enough support, shelter for 3 families stuck in the cold
chuffed.org/project/hope...
- Emergency healthcare for THREE women
- If enough support, shelter for 3 families stuck in the cold
chuffed.org/project/hope...
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What's going on in New Mexico???
College tuition is now covered by the State of New Mexico for residents.
Fall college enrollment increases in New Mexico for fourth consecutive year
November 19, 2025 at 7:54 PM
What's going on in New Mexico???
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Charlotte didn’t flinch; it rose. Neighbors linked arms, communities defied intimidation, and ICE’s fear machine hit a wall of people power.
This is the new standard: we protect us. Read it, share it, make it impossible to ignore🔥
www.digitaldrumbeat.com/p/charlotte-...
This is the new standard: we protect us. Read it, share it, make it impossible to ignore🔥
www.digitaldrumbeat.com/p/charlotte-...
Charlotte Set a New Standard for Resisting ICE
If they thought Charlotte would break, they miscalculated. Inside: the proof, the tactics, and the shareable content to spread what really happened.
www.digitaldrumbeat.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Charlotte didn’t flinch; it rose. Neighbors linked arms, communities defied intimidation, and ICE’s fear machine hit a wall of people power.
This is the new standard: we protect us. Read it, share it, make it impossible to ignore🔥
www.digitaldrumbeat.com/p/charlotte-...
This is the new standard: we protect us. Read it, share it, make it impossible to ignore🔥
www.digitaldrumbeat.com/p/charlotte-...
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This is, of course, a stark betrayal of the New School’s storied history and animating spirit. It demonstrates something many of us know intellectually but have trouble grasping: many university leaders *do not care* about, even *actively despise*, the basic values that bring us to work every day.
The New School is now a place where students cannot major in History, Anthropology, Sociology, Global Policy & International Affairs, Global Studies, Urban Studies, or Environmental Studies. And more pauses, closures, and mergers coming down the pike this week. The future is uncertain.
November 19, 2025 at 4:31 PM
This is, of course, a stark betrayal of the New School’s storied history and animating spirit. It demonstrates something many of us know intellectually but have trouble grasping: many university leaders *do not care* about, even *actively despise*, the basic values that bring us to work every day.
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NEW: ProPublica has found multiple cases of women with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her.
Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her.
“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
www.propublica.org
November 19, 2025 at 12:00 PM
NEW: ProPublica has found multiple cases of women with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her.
Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her.
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In the first piece in the series, Priya Goswami looks at what happens when the work of India’s trusted door-to-door healthcare workers, known as ASHAs, extends into data collection. Look out for more pieces in the coming weeks and months! datasociety.net/points/from-...
November 19, 2025 at 7:28 PM
In the first piece in the series, Priya Goswami looks at what happens when the work of India’s trusted door-to-door healthcare workers, known as ASHAs, extends into data collection. Look out for more pieces in the coming weeks and months! datasociety.net/points/from-...
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There’s a petition countering proposals to close the Film Studies programme at the University of Leicester. Read more here c.org/WfcP6tX6gG
Stop the Closure of Film Studies at Uni of Leicester
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
c.org
November 17, 2025 at 7:22 PM
There’s a petition countering proposals to close the Film Studies programme at the University of Leicester. Read more here c.org/WfcP6tX6gG
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'Nottingham will be the only Russell Group university not to teach modern foreign languages degrees if it approves plans to close a swath of courses including Spanish and French as well as music and dozens of others.' 1/3
University of Nottingham considers axing language and music degrees
Total of 48 degrees could disappear from Russell Group institution, with falling revenues and rising costs blamed
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
'Nottingham will be the only Russell Group university not to teach modern foreign languages degrees if it approves plans to close a swath of courses including Spanish and French as well as music and dozens of others.' 1/3
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The New School is now a place where students cannot major in History, Anthropology, Sociology, Global Policy & International Affairs, Global Studies, Urban Studies, or Environmental Studies. And more pauses, closures, and mergers coming down the pike this week. The future is uncertain.
November 19, 2025 at 1:15 PM
The New School is now a place where students cannot major in History, Anthropology, Sociology, Global Policy & International Affairs, Global Studies, Urban Studies, or Environmental Studies. And more pauses, closures, and mergers coming down the pike this week. The future is uncertain.
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I once listed on my annual activities report the time I spent on things like
strategizing with a fellow junior prof about how to avoid her harasser at a conference while still getting to network,
etc
just to make a point
strategizing with a fellow junior prof about how to avoid her harasser at a conference while still getting to network,
etc
just to make a point
Imagine the things we could do with our time if we didn’t have to do this bsky.app/profile/chan...
I did my job. And then I did a job that never should have been my responsibility afterwards, sending emails and having meetings about how this was allowed to happen in the first place. Other women scholars had to spend their time explaining to Aspen leadership why this was not ok.
November 16, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I once listed on my annual activities report the time I spent on things like
strategizing with a fellow junior prof about how to avoid her harasser at a conference while still getting to network,
etc
just to make a point
strategizing with a fellow junior prof about how to avoid her harasser at a conference while still getting to network,
etc
just to make a point
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Covid prevents me from being on the picket line but solidarity to everyone there.
An isolated management, censured by its own academic senate, seeks to literally decimate its own staff.
Oh, and it has the third largest uni endowment in the UK.
An isolated management, censured by its own academic senate, seeks to literally decimate its own staff.
Oh, and it has the third largest uni endowment in the UK.
Pickets all over Edinburgh this morning! From Old College to King's Building, Edinburgh UCU staff are saying NO to job cuts!
November 17, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Covid prevents me from being on the picket line but solidarity to everyone there.
An isolated management, censured by its own academic senate, seeks to literally decimate its own staff.
Oh, and it has the third largest uni endowment in the UK.
An isolated management, censured by its own academic senate, seeks to literally decimate its own staff.
Oh, and it has the third largest uni endowment in the UK.
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Ten years ago, Storm Abigail became the first UK storm with a name. Since then, clear warnings have saved countless lives. Here’s how it works and some of the biggest storms we’ve seen since then.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
Ten years of naming storms and saving lives
The Met Office’s storm-naming scheme marks its tenth year, transforming how Britain prepares for extreme weather
eastangliabylines.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Ten years ago, Storm Abigail became the first UK storm with a name. Since then, clear warnings have saved countless lives. Here’s how it works and some of the biggest storms we’ve seen since then.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
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I did my bachelor's in Human Geography at Leicester. Best choice I ever made, genuinely some of the best years of my life!
We were on the picket lines with staff then, full support to them now. A lot of my favourite people have left since I graduated due to the state of academia, now more at risk.
We were on the picket lines with staff then, full support to them now. A lot of my favourite people have left since I graduated due to the state of academia, now more at risk.
Solidarity to colleagues at Leicester Uni:
"all academic staff in the film studies and modern languages departments have been placed at risk, with "large numbers of staff" in chemistry, geography, geology & the environment (GGE) and history specialisms "uncertain if they will retain their jobs"
"all academic staff in the film studies and modern languages departments have been placed at risk, with "large numbers of staff" in chemistry, geography, geology & the environment (GGE) and history specialisms "uncertain if they will retain their jobs"
University of Leicester confirms formal redundancy consultation
The University and College Union's local branch says staff are planning strike action.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 11:23 AM
I did my bachelor's in Human Geography at Leicester. Best choice I ever made, genuinely some of the best years of my life!
We were on the picket lines with staff then, full support to them now. A lot of my favourite people have left since I graduated due to the state of academia, now more at risk.
We were on the picket lines with staff then, full support to them now. A lot of my favourite people have left since I graduated due to the state of academia, now more at risk.
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Not sure what they’re going to teach at A&M—and why anyone would pay tens of thousands for a censored education.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 14, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Not sure what they’re going to teach at A&M—and why anyone would pay tens of thousands for a censored education.
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Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”
November 14, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”
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This is very good and you should read it.
"Historical analysis is fundamentally different and more complex than producing a mass of visualizations and statistics that are the lifeblood of many A.I. programmes."
Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social on the problematic use of A.I. within historical research.
Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social on the problematic use of A.I. within historical research.
Artificial Intelligence: A Warning for History
Does A.I. have the potential to simplify, and ultimately impoverish, our study of the past? Gordon McKelvie considers the recent explosion in A.I. and what it means for historians facing the current H...
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
November 12, 2025 at 8:46 PM
This is very good and you should read it.
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These posts are gold. They directly show how we already have massive documentation from REF impact case studies re: the value of disciplinary expertise in the real world. We can all dig up local examples and publicize them with political leaders & in communities.
What's lost when we lose staff, departments, programmes and faculties in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and what's that got to do with organ donation?
Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
The organ donation ‘opt-out’ has been a fatal failure | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 8:08 PM
These posts are gold. They directly show how we already have massive documentation from REF impact case studies re: the value of disciplinary expertise in the real world. We can all dig up local examples and publicize them with political leaders & in communities.
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If Britain is 'sliding "into economic crisis over £85bn sickness bill', what can UK Arts, Humanities & Social Science research tell us about alternative pathways?
Swansea University historians have some excellent answers. 1/4
@torstenbell.bsky.social @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social
Swansea University historians have some excellent answers. 1/4
@torstenbell.bsky.social @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social
Britain sliding 'into economic crisis' over £85bn sickness bill, ex-John Lewis boss warns
The number of people who are out of work for health reasons has grown by 800,000 since 2019.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 12:39 PM
If Britain is 'sliding "into economic crisis over £85bn sickness bill', what can UK Arts, Humanities & Social Science research tell us about alternative pathways?
Swansea University historians have some excellent answers. 1/4
@torstenbell.bsky.social @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social
Swansea University historians have some excellent answers. 1/4
@torstenbell.bsky.social @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social
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What's lost when we lose staff, departments, programmes and faculties in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and what's that got to do with organ donation?
Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
The organ donation ‘opt-out’ has been a fatal failure | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 10:10 AM
What's lost when we lose staff, departments, programmes and faculties in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and what's that got to do with organ donation?
Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
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A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
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Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.
June 25, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.
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Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.
November 5, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.