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Aseela Haque @aseela.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
A beautiful read. Mellow, moving, perfect.
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natureandspace.bsky.social @natureandspace.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
OnlineFirst - "Interstitial ecologies: Everyday cosmopolitics of pigeon-human cohabitation in the urban margins" by @aseela.bsky.social: #pigeons #more-than-humancohabitation #Karachi #precarity #urbanecologies journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Aseela Haque @aseela.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Pleased to share the 2nd article from my PhD, published in City earlier this year, and co-authored with the wonderful @saanchi.bsky.social that engages with street vending as a form of urban inhabitation. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Street vending as urban inhabitation: materialities, epistemes, and city-making in Karachi and Mumbai
This contribution approaches street vending as a form of urban inhabitation. Our focus lies in illuminating street vending as an urban episteme: a vernacular practice that showcases intimate knowle...
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Dr Anna Lawrence @annamlawrence.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Pleased to be making this change in Transactions - hopefully it will allow more space for citational generosity & care, all the more important in this world of AI & hallucinated references. Do have a read of our reasons for this move: doi.org/10.1111/tran...
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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 22/04/2026
Climate Justice Universities Union has just published a guide to moving away from big tech. Useful for both individuals and organisations. climatejusticeuniversitiesunion.org/action-guide...
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Action Guide: Moving Away from Big Tech
Preamble This document aims to serve as a conversation starter for members of the Climate Justice Universities Union to consider a progressive move to more ecologically and ethically conscious digita...
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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
📣New series alert! They explore how humans care for and interact with plants, examining both ethical responsibility and control. They highlight “response-ability” and show how human-plant relationships shape ecological, cultural, and political dynamics. Find them ⬇️ www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...
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Plant Responsability and the Politics of Vegetal Care
The concept of care has become central to work on multispecies relations. In scholarship with vegetal beings, care sometimes involves a situated ...
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ihnji @ihnji.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
my new article on temporality of “justice” — in Urban Geography www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Jana Hönke @janahoenke.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
2 #postdoc positions available at UBT: on South - South security arrangements and transnational security/aid professionals from the Global South and East. Happy to answer questions! www.uni-bayreuth.de/job-vacancy-... @postcolh.bsky.social @conf-mean-trans.bsky.social @africamultiple.bsky.social
uni-bayreuth.de
Job advertisement of the University of Bayreuth - Chair for Sociology in Africa
Two Postdoctoral Positions (m/f/d)
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Leverhulme Extinction Studies DTP @extinctionleeds.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
In episode 7 of our podcast, 'Edges of Exinction' @jdroberts.bsky.social talks to @sicilyfiennes.bsky.social about the complex and ambiguous 'wicked problem' of bird trade in Indonesia, and how to create just outcomes for humans and birds alike extinctionstudiesleeds.podbean.com/e/edges-of-e...
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Edges of Extinction Episode 7: A Wicked Problem | Extinction Studies at Leeds
Jonathan Roberts talks to Sicily Fiennes about the complex and ambiguous problems of bird trade in Indonesia, and how these can be addressed. Podcast logo by Sicily Fiennes. Incidental music by JD Rob...
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Libby Robin @libbydeq.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
geoffpark.wordpress.com/wp-content/u... Great exhibition Life with Birds @ Newstead - last chance this weekend. Recommend *Natural Newstead* for good news stories from life in place. An antidote to the Great Derangement.
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Aseela Haque @aseela.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Looking forward to be in conversation with the wonderful @snehaannavarapu.bsky.social in the Disruptive Mobilities seminar series organised by @raghavivis.bsky.social and Fariya Yesmin at SOAS – we’ll be talking about corporeality, infrastructure, and everyday mobilities. On March 26th, 12 pm CET 👇🏽
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Dr Adam Levy @climateadam.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
When activism collides with academia. My pod for @nature.com feat. @ulibeisel.bsky.social & @climatehuman.bsky.social 🧪 🎧 www.nature.com/articles/d41... (or search "Working Scientist" wherever you get podcasts)
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Campus protests and civil disobedience: does academia have a problem with activism?
Scientists who join protest movements often find themselves at the centre of a media and political firestorm, causing tensions with some employers.
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Aseela Haque @aseela.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Sudden fog/smog conditions in Karachi. Several flights diverted to Muscat due to poor visibility. Still waiting in Muscat… :(
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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
I genuinely think these schemes are worse than useless. The tiny scale, and the temporary nature of what's offered, make them look opportunistic more to hang anything. Also why specify the USA of all places where academic freedom is challenged? uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...
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Call for Applications: Early Career Rescue Fellowship – Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
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michaelbarenboim.bsky.social @michaelbarenboim.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
"Palestinians are now facing another winter without any of the things that anyone needs to survive. To reach the point we have, where Israel can weaponise starvation, you have to confront who enables that." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I’m on hunger strike in a British prison. This is why | Amu Gib
Our demands are simple – and they start with stopping the flow of arms to Israel, says activist Amu Gib
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Mikko Joronen @mikkojorge.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Khalid from our GOCEP group published a great paper about everyday scarcity, entrapment and erasure of time in Gaza: ‘Temporal ruination: Scarcity, entrapment, and the affective intensities of time in Gaza’
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Saanchi Saxena @saanchi.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
#CFP #RC21 @aseela.bsky.social & I have a session "Epistemic friendships in/across difference: Rethinking methodologies in urban research" @rc21.bsky.social Vienna 2026 If you're interested in political & epistemological potential of friendships within urban studies/geog, do submit your abstract!
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Thomas Dekeyser @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
💥 New publication out on the alignment of AI & authoritarianism 💥 We argue that AI is not simply extending, but actively modulating, key dynamics of authoritarianism, and present a flexible analytical framework to account for these changes. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Aseela Haque @aseela.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
This was a brutal read. An incisive rendering of the life of ECRs and (false) promise of an academic career: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
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Area @areajournal.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
New in Area: 'Friendship in academia: A radically ordinary praxis?' by @smhall.bsky.social This piece is part of an ongoing Special Section: 'Dialogues in Radical Geography'. doi.org/10.1111/area... #geosky
Screenshot of a paper abstract in Area by Sarah Marie Hall (2025) entitled: 'Friendship in academia: A radically ordinary praxis?' with a black banner at the top.

Friendships play a fundamental role in everyday life, offering companionship, mutuality, and care, across multiple and intersecting socio-spatial contexts. Drawing on scholarship and activism across feminist geographies, and contributing to this growing field of geographical interest, this piece brings together considerations of solidaristic friendship with/in everyday academic practice. Turning this critical lens inwards, I argue that everyday relational spaces of friendship within academia have radical potential – a radically ordinary praxis? – and yet are often overlooked or undervalued. I suggest that, in being so very ordinary, friendship has the possibility to be much more widely registered and deployed within academic spaces to engender greater and much needed solidarity in current times.
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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
🚨CfP: Lexicon for Animacy Deadline: 1 December 2025 Please find more info in the full call online: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/06/...
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cfp | call for papers
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michaelbarenboim.bsky.social @michaelbarenboim.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Israel is turning Gaza city into an apocalyptic wasteland, and the world watches on. May the cries of desperation from Palestinians in Gaza forever haunt complicit state leaders who have not only allowed this to happen, but have willingly supported this extermination campaign for the last 2 years.
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Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · 26/08/2025
German arms exports to Israel have been the subject of debate for some time. But what about Israeli arms exports to Germany? ALON SAHAR (@alonsahar.bsky.social) and ITAMAR MANN (@itamann.bsky.social) on the political and legal risks of arms imports from Israel. verfassungsblog.de/the-other-si...
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Aseela Haque @aseela.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Karachi is flooded. Have not been able to get in touch with my parents at home. They haven’t had electricity for many many hours now.
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APSA Urban and Local Politics Section @apsaurban.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
📢 Call for Papers! Urban Politics in the Global South Conference November 6-7, 2025 (fully virtual!) This conference showcases research on urban politics in low- and middle-income countries in different world regions. Deadline for Submissions: Sept. 5 Link: www.globalsouthurbanpolitics.com
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Urban Politics in the Global South is an annual virtual conference series that brings together the growing community of social scientists conducting research on urban politics in low- and middle-incom...
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Venus Bivar @vbivar.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
For all of the educators trying to deal with AI, I did a deep dive in early June and these are the four articles I decided to assign to my students. 1. This is the longest of the bunch, but so wonderfully comprehensive. www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...
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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.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza
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Aseela Haque @aseela.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
“Feminism has in fact offered a diagnosis, steadily, for decades and centuries: that the cause is misogyny and the violence is intended to perpetrate the inequality, exploitation and subordination of women.”
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Hanna Kienzler @hannakienzler.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
250 signatures by academics in Germany/German academics abroad pledging to boycott Israeli institutions supporting and/or benefiting from military occupation, apartheid, and genocide. Join the growing movement‼️
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Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Just stumbled upon this young, talented woman's project called - Detectly - which is like an ad blocker but for AI content, suitable for Chrome and Firefox. detectly.xyz
detectly.xyz
Detectly
Detectly
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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
“Gaza is a turning point that lays bare the full range and cruel depths of the contemporary world’s contradictions ... It exposes what is fundamentally wrong today: a persistent inability to recognize every human being as equal and deserving of dignity and life.”
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Alida Cantor @alidacantor.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Glad to share that the edited volume "Amphibious Anthropologies: Living in Wet Environments" is now officially published! I have a chapter in the book about the Salton Sea. uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295... UW Press has a sale thru August 31- WARM25 for 40% off & free shipping. #Geosky #waterscience
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Try to imagine any other context where a news presenter describes credible reports that soldiers have been shooting huge numbers of teenagers and children *for sport*, for fun, and a politician gives this reaction.
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Michael Sappir @m.sappir.net · 24/07/2025
Disturbing footage: Berlin police violently assaulting peaceful protestors for Palestine, today (July 24, 2025.) Credit: Unpublished.de (found on Instagram)
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Barnabas Calder @barnabascalder.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Some actual good news: the ICJ have set out the ecological situation clearly and authoritatively, and confirmed that each country has a legal obligation to take effective climate action. Could we get on and do it, please? www-aljazeera-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.alja...
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Climate change an ‘existential threat’, UN court says in landmark opinion
ICJ Judge Yuji Iwasawa says greenhouse emissions are ‘unequivocally caused by human activities’ as he delivers opinion.
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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
It’s worse than “Gaza is being starved and destroyed and no one cares.” It’s that hundreds of millions *do* care and are powerless to stop it. We need a world where that can never happen, where the masses actually have political power.
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RC21-ISA @rc21.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Visit and support Gaza Places (Amākin Ghazza: www.gazaplaces.con) —a community-led digital mapping platform and independent research-action project dedicated to supporting the post-war recovery of Gaza through critical, participatory geography. www.gazaplaces.com #urban #sociology
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Uli Beisel @ulibeisel.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
die @spdfraktion.de hat recht: die Bundesregierung sollte diese Erklärung unbedingt unterstützen!
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KriSol @krisolwissenschaft.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Die @spdfraktion.de handelt - endlich. Werden @cducsubt.bsky.social vor Lobbyisten einknicken oder kommt die Regierungskoalition nun endlich ihren völkerrechtlichen Verpflichtungen nach?
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Prof John O Brennan @jobmaynooth.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Even the doctors in Gaza are fainting from hunger, as scores of Palestinians are slaughtered by IDF. And still the European Union facilitates the death, destruction and starvation by doing nothing. EU leaders are rapidly turning into war criminals. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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Israel bombs WHO facilities in Gaza as global outcry grows
Fresh offensive comes as Israel cancels visa of UN’s local humanitarian head
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Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Hashem Abushama's nuanced and beautifully written essay on countermapping Palestinian geographies. www.stuarthallfoundation.org/resource/a-m...
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a map without guarantees: Stuart Hall and Palestinian geographies - Stuart Hall Foundation
I write a theoretical diary, informed by Stuart Hall’s writings.
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Aseela Haque @aseela.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
“No matter how I attempt to distract myself—by folding the same shirt again, by translating a familiar line, by stirring salt into boiling water as if that might change it—hunger resurfaces with quiet authority, like smoke seeping through invisible cracks in the floor.”
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Aseela Haque @aseela.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Day’s crimson end. Warm night air. A hundred whistling cicadas. Spent muscles overcome with a slow rising yawn. Sleep that tastes like watermelon to a parched tongue.
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Aseela Haque @aseela.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
One of the best things to happen in summertime: the giddy excitement of a newly discovered favourite author. Ayşegül Savaş.
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Aseela Haque @aseela.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
This. Felt caught in this very dilemma some days ago until I decided I’m not going to sacrifice my days off. I’m not going to give up the chance to catch my breath. It’s extremely unfair and unsustainable.
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ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
From a forthcoming essay by our beloved contributor & workshop participant & friend, Alaa Alqaisi. An incredibly gifted writer, translator, & scholar. Being starved.
Beneath the Howl of Hunger

By Alaa Alqaisi

Long before hunger lays claim to the body, it loosens the scaffolding of language, erasing clarity, dismantling rhythm, and leaving behind the fragile debris of thought. What begins as a coherent paragraph soon dissolves into fragments, until all that remains is the involuntary tremor of a mind too starved to hold meaning. And so, before my language deserts me entirely, I write this, less to be understood than to remain traceable, to leave behind the shape of thought before it slips into silence.
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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Shaimaa has a scholarship to do a PhD on Palestinian literature with me at @uoe-llc.bsky.social, but she's stuck in Gaza because the foreign office won't help. Please share. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
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I should be at Cambridge, but I’m trapped in Gaza
Home Office red tape strands dozens of Palestinian scholarship winners in war zone
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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 17/07/2025
That the incredible cognitive power of the human brain and body takes only 2000 calories a day to fuel, and occupies quite considerably less than the space of Manhattan, suggests there is something catastrophically wrong with the design of AI.
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Cian O’Callaghan @ciantocallaghan.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Postdoc opportunity in the University of Cape Town. Please share to anyone who might be interested
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Ben Anderson @benandersongeog.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
It’s now been out for a while, but this was such a fun project with Vickie! The Promise of Cultural Geography. 86 entries, all between 1-1000 words, focusing on what, for them, is the promise of cultural geography. It’s open access, so please share! research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/publicati...
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The promise of cultural geography
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