Nick Bingham
@nickbi.bsky.social
Geographer at The Open University, UK
thinking materialities :: with :: care
(not necessarily in that order)
thinking materialities :: with :: care
(not necessarily in that order)
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Many here followed Prof. Farhana Sultana, very outspoken on social media on issues of climate coloniality, global environmental justice, and the genocide in Gaza. She was suspended by Syracuse university in Sep over a throwaway skeet about Kirk. Consider signing this letter asking to reinstate her:
Letter of Support for Professor Farhana Sultana
As scholars within and beyond academia, we write in solidarity with academic freedom of expression with our colleague, Dr. Farhana Sultana, an internationally recognized scholar and tenured Full Profe...
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November 6, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Many here followed Prof. Farhana Sultana, very outspoken on social media on issues of climate coloniality, global environmental justice, and the genocide in Gaza. She was suspended by Syracuse university in Sep over a throwaway skeet about Kirk. Consider signing this letter asking to reinstate her:
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SAVE GEOGRAPHY at Leicester University (UK) - We call on the University of Leicester to urgently reconsider the proposal to dissolve Geography. This is direct attack on the discipline of Geography at Leicester with likely loss of Geography staff. Please sign + share
www.change.org/p/save-geogr...
www.change.org/p/save-geogr...
Sign the Petition
Save Geography at the University of Leicester
www.change.org
November 10, 2025 at 8:32 AM
SAVE GEOGRAPHY at Leicester University (UK) - We call on the University of Leicester to urgently reconsider the proposal to dissolve Geography. This is direct attack on the discipline of Geography at Leicester with likely loss of Geography staff. Please sign + share
www.change.org/p/save-geogr...
www.change.org/p/save-geogr...
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Human Geography at Leicester is facing closure. Staff contracts are to end in June 2026; students are to be relocated to other universities, or taught out by a maximum of two (!) teaching-only staff. Other departments and subjects are facing closure, too. Please join the demo!
November 6, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Human Geography at Leicester is facing closure. Staff contracts are to end in June 2026; students are to be relocated to other universities, or taught out by a maximum of two (!) teaching-only staff. Other departments and subjects are facing closure, too. Please join the demo!
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📣 Next GCSJ Seminar
🗓️ Fri 14 Nov 2025 | 12–1PM | online
🔎Rearticulating archives: still thinking with Doreen Massey — exploring how Doreen Massey’s archive invites new questions about our troubled present.
Register to join the critical and creative dialogue: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rearticula...
🗓️ Fri 14 Nov 2025 | 12–1PM | online
🔎Rearticulating archives: still thinking with Doreen Massey — exploring how Doreen Massey’s archive invites new questions about our troubled present.
Register to join the critical and creative dialogue: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rearticula...
October 30, 2025 at 8:21 AM
📣 Next GCSJ Seminar
🗓️ Fri 14 Nov 2025 | 12–1PM | online
🔎Rearticulating archives: still thinking with Doreen Massey — exploring how Doreen Massey’s archive invites new questions about our troubled present.
Register to join the critical and creative dialogue: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rearticula...
🗓️ Fri 14 Nov 2025 | 12–1PM | online
🔎Rearticulating archives: still thinking with Doreen Massey — exploring how Doreen Massey’s archive invites new questions about our troubled present.
Register to join the critical and creative dialogue: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rearticula...
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New in Area!
'Making geography move: The Royal Geographical Society and the exchange of periodical knowledge, 1830–1900' by Benjamin Newman
This paper examines how the RGS's Library and Map Committee controlled the circulation of the Society's journal in the 19th century.
doi.org/10.1111/area...
'Making geography move: The Royal Geographical Society and the exchange of periodical knowledge, 1830–1900' by Benjamin Newman
This paper examines how the RGS's Library and Map Committee controlled the circulation of the Society's journal in the 19th century.
doi.org/10.1111/area...
October 21, 2025 at 11:58 AM
New in Area!
'Making geography move: The Royal Geographical Society and the exchange of periodical knowledge, 1830–1900' by Benjamin Newman
This paper examines how the RGS's Library and Map Committee controlled the circulation of the Society's journal in the 19th century.
doi.org/10.1111/area...
'Making geography move: The Royal Geographical Society and the exchange of periodical knowledge, 1830–1900' by Benjamin Newman
This paper examines how the RGS's Library and Map Committee controlled the circulation of the Society's journal in the 19th century.
doi.org/10.1111/area...
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This is what all teaching is supposed to be, foundationally
Media literacy should be taught in every single American school, full stop. You don't need to tell kids *what* to think, but teaching them *how* to think is now a civic duty.
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 17, 2025 at 12:50 AM
This is what all teaching is supposed to be, foundationally
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Generating a 5 second video is the energy equivalent of running a microwave for an HOUR
We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.
The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.
www.technologyreview.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Generating a 5 second video is the energy equivalent of running a microwave for an HOUR
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Cardiff will be the first UK city to introduce a surcharge for oversized SUVs and trucks, "while very large vehicles – those over 3,500kg – will be excluded from residential permits entirely."
Cardiff set to tackle SUV 'carspreading' in UK first
Cardiff Council is set to become the first local authority in the UK to introduce higher parking charges for SUVs and other heavy vehicles, in a move campaigners say will make city streets safer and f...
nation.cymru
October 16, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Cardiff will be the first UK city to introduce a surcharge for oversized SUVs and trucks, "while very large vehicles – those over 3,500kg – will be excluded from residential permits entirely."
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Spinoza's Geographical Ethics - out now, open access in e-book form: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-spinoza... @edinburghup.bsky.social
Spinoza's Geographical Ethics
Spinoza's Geographical Ethics
edinburghuniversitypress.com
October 14, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Spinoza's Geographical Ethics - out now, open access in e-book form: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-spinoza... @edinburghup.bsky.social
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Education cuts in prisons ultimately endanger the public, watchdog says
Education cuts in prisons ultimately endanger the public, watchdog says
Charlie Taylor hits out at risk of real-terms spending cuts in prisons in England and Wales derailing work to break cycle of reoffending
Cuts to education in prisons are derailing offenders’ work and training and ultimately endangering the public, the prisons watchdog has warned.
Repeat offenders “cause mayhem” in their communities because of the failure of prisons to provide education, training and work that could help to break the cycle of offending, the chief inspector of prisons, Charlie Taylor, said. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 13, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Education cuts in prisons ultimately endanger the public, watchdog says
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“I’m old enough to remember when mainstream British politicians, who should know better, stirred up racial hatred as a path to power. You’re old enough to remember too because it was last Tuesday. And it was Robert Jenrick”
Cathartic anger at flag-flying racism.
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
Cathartic anger at flag-flying racism.
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
Stewart Lee: The thugs have taken my flag. So I’ve taken theirs
What do you do with a lot of cheap banners hanging from motorway bridges once you’ve torn them down?
www.thenerve.news
October 12, 2025 at 8:44 AM
“I’m old enough to remember when mainstream British politicians, who should know better, stirred up racial hatred as a path to power. You’re old enough to remember too because it was last Tuesday. And it was Robert Jenrick”
Cathartic anger at flag-flying racism.
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
Cathartic anger at flag-flying racism.
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
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‘Brummies united against racism’: poster campaign takes on the far right
‘Brummies united against racism’: poster campaign takes on the far right
A message of neighbourly solidarity is thriving in Birmingham against a backdrop of racist intimidation
When Mus unfurled the leaflet lying on her driveway, she was left shocked, angry and upset. “White Britons are already a minority in London … it is clear that if these trends continue white people will become a minority in Britain,” it read.
The leaflet, written by a far-right group, was distributed along her street three years ago in Moseley, a leafy suburb of Birmingham. It went on to blame NHS waiting lists, a shortage of social housing and even traffic on “the rising population”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 12, 2025 at 6:16 AM
‘Brummies united against racism’: poster campaign takes on the far right
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Accdg to Bratton, "the intellectuals + artists of this critique industry have seized the public's imagination with its scrutiny of AI, which permeate universities and the arts. Such questions stand in the way of progress." Glad Eryk articulated critiques *within media studies* about StackTheory™️
Is the Media Studies Cabal in the Room With Us Right Now?
I read The Stack in 2020 as a grad student in ANU's Applied Cybernetics program. I give it credit for directing my attention to the interaction between layers of digital and physical infrastructures. ...
mail.cyberneticforests.com
October 5, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Accdg to Bratton, "the intellectuals + artists of this critique industry have seized the public's imagination with its scrutiny of AI, which permeate universities and the arts. Such questions stand in the way of progress." Glad Eryk articulated critiques *within media studies* about StackTheory™️
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Fun living in a world where every new email — hell, every interaction online — is a Voight-Kampff test
October 4, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Fun living in a world where every new email — hell, every interaction online — is a Voight-Kampff test
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October 4, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨
October 3, 2025 at 3:00 PM
🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨
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Friends and colleagues,
I will be speaking at MoMA next Tuesday, Oct. 7 at 6:30pm, alongside Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and Candice Hopkins, on a panel called Imagining Indigenous Futures.The event description and registration can be found below
Hope you see you soon! www.moma.org/calendar/eve...
I will be speaking at MoMA next Tuesday, Oct. 7 at 6:30pm, alongside Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and Candice Hopkins, on a panel called Imagining Indigenous Futures.The event description and registration can be found below
Hope you see you soon! www.moma.org/calendar/eve...
Imagining Indigenous Futures | MoMA
How do we relate to the world around us? How do we dream new worlds to life? How do we resist in times of upheaval? In his new book Speculative Relations: Indigenous Worlding and Repair, Joseph M. Pie...
www.moma.org
October 1, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Friends and colleagues,
I will be speaking at MoMA next Tuesday, Oct. 7 at 6:30pm, alongside Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and Candice Hopkins, on a panel called Imagining Indigenous Futures.The event description and registration can be found below
Hope you see you soon! www.moma.org/calendar/eve...
I will be speaking at MoMA next Tuesday, Oct. 7 at 6:30pm, alongside Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and Candice Hopkins, on a panel called Imagining Indigenous Futures.The event description and registration can be found below
Hope you see you soon! www.moma.org/calendar/eve...
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Farage plays the everyman, but he’s not harmless, he’s not honest, and he’s not on your side. ❌
October 1, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Farage plays the everyman, but he’s not harmless, he’s not honest, and he’s not on your side. ❌
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“When you consider the ecocide alongside the genocide, you begin to grasp the totality of the Israeli state’s attempt to eliminate both the Palestinians & their homeland”
Hugely powerful from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
Hugely powerful from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
Israel’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here | George Monbiot
Consider the annihilation of agricultural land alongside the genocide – and grasp the chilling totality of this attempt to eliminate all life, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
September 28, 2025 at 2:53 PM
“When you consider the ecocide alongside the genocide, you begin to grasp the totality of the Israeli state’s attempt to eliminate both the Palestinians & their homeland”
Hugely powerful from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
Hugely powerful from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
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Appreciate these insights from @emollick.bsky.social.
But the "wizard problem" isn't that AI is too opaque. It's that we're designing systems that hide their processes. We could build AI that shows its work, explains, and lets us intervene. Instead we're choosing black boxes and calling it magic.
But the "wizard problem" isn't that AI is too opaque. It's that we're designing systems that hide their processes. We could build AI that shows its work, explains, and lets us intervene. Instead we're choosing black boxes and calling it magic.
Mollick argues we are drifting from co-intelligence to wizards. Strong results, opaque steps. I try to ask for receipts and name what must stay in my hands. Worth reading for #AI practice.
www.oneusefulthing.org/p/on-working... #Writing
www.oneusefulthing.org/p/on-working... #Writing
On Working with Wizards
Verifying magic on the jagged frontier
www.oneusefulthing.org
September 23, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Appreciate these insights from @emollick.bsky.social.
But the "wizard problem" isn't that AI is too opaque. It's that we're designing systems that hide their processes. We could build AI that shows its work, explains, and lets us intervene. Instead we're choosing black boxes and calling it magic.
But the "wizard problem" isn't that AI is too opaque. It's that we're designing systems that hide their processes. We could build AI that shows its work, explains, and lets us intervene. Instead we're choosing black boxes and calling it magic.
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Hey, people who work on climate especially, you should know this is happening.
September 20, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Hey, people who work on climate especially, you should know this is happening.
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Has anyone written or read something on the US right’s demonisation of ‘ANTIFA’? The demonisation and the construction of ‘ANTIFA’ as threat is now crossing over into the U.K. right (and I can’t get over the stunning dissonance of it all)
September 18, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Has anyone written or read something on the US right’s demonisation of ‘ANTIFA’? The demonisation and the construction of ‘ANTIFA’ as threat is now crossing over into the U.K. right (and I can’t get over the stunning dissonance of it all)
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This fall brings not just one but two exhibitions about Ursula and her work.
In Portland, A Larger Reality: Ursula K. Le Guin opens October 31st at Oregon Contemporary.
In London, The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin opens October 10th at the AA Gallery.
In Portland, A Larger Reality: Ursula K. Le Guin opens October 31st at Oregon Contemporary.
In London, The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin opens October 10th at the AA Gallery.
September 16, 2025 at 4:27 PM
This fall brings not just one but two exhibitions about Ursula and her work.
In Portland, A Larger Reality: Ursula K. Le Guin opens October 31st at Oregon Contemporary.
In London, The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin opens October 10th at the AA Gallery.
In Portland, A Larger Reality: Ursula K. Le Guin opens October 31st at Oregon Contemporary.
In London, The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin opens October 10th at the AA Gallery.