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Charrlotte @charrlotte.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

is it acceptable that an editor makes stylistic changes which then 'introduces' typos into the text?! 😏🫪

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 09/06/2026

Please see this as a general reminder that you're not alone. Many of us reject, refuse, repudiate artificial intelligence and the technology industry: Guest et al. (2026). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Digital Culture & Education doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Artificial intelligence (AI) companies and their rhetoric infringe on academia in harmful ways, mirroring past uncritical acceptance of industry logics, such as those of tobacco and petroleum. In this position piece, we tease apart and explain why phrases like 'generative AI' impede scholarly discussion because by design these expressions are used to dazzle and sidestep scrutiny. Furthermore, we contend with the AI industry's logics to enable rejecting frames such as: that we must embrace the future, that this hype cycle is unique, that anthropomorphism and circular reasoning hold water when discussing AI systems, and that students are now all cheating or all need to use AI. To these ends, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously to a) counter the AI industry's marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. For each point we raise, we include pointers to relevant work to further inform and convince our colleagues.

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Charrlotte @charrlotte.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Left very inspired by Allison Caine's "Restless Ecologies" which we read and discussed as part of the 'Affective Ecologies' reading group. Sharing an author interview here: news.climate.columbia.edu/2026/04/23/i...

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Indigenous Herders and Peru’s Melting Glaciers: A Conversation with Anthropologist Allison Caine

Caine’s new book depicts a small community in the glacier-fed Peruvian Highlands as it navigates climate change and social pressures.

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Philipp Golka @pgolka.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

As many of you know, the German academic system offers very few permanent jobs, which are mostly full professor positions, while the bulk of academic work is done by a vast number of fixed-term academic staff. Over the past decades, Germany added <1k permanent jobs but >100k (!) fixed-term.

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Charrlotte @charrlotte.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

any rough ideas / guidance on how many articles from the dissertation can be published, so as to not be turned away from book publishers?

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Geographers for Justice in Palestine @geogboycott.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

attending #AAG next week? check out Geographers for Justice in Palestine's organized sessions and events! also available at geog4pal.org/aag

a green and red title graphic: "geographers for justice in palestine's guide to AAG 2026 sessions and events"

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Charrlotte @charrlotte.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Four wonderful years of learning and unlearning came to a close last month with the successful defense of my PhD Thesis. So grateful to my supervisors, Uli Beisel and Maan Barua, for their unwavering support and the many thoughtful, caring, and critical inputs throughout this journey.

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Bue Rübner Hansen @buerubner.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Their ways of life don't conform to the "(Western) European Way of Life", and they are judged for it. This standard is arrogant and harmful, and sucks up the resources that peripheral, marginalized, and rural people need.

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 17/09/2025

Potential workaround if you're already logged in and get prompted by the ToS notification: opening this "privacy policy" link www.academia.edu/privacytakes you to a page where you can access the drop-down menu and reach "account settings." From there I was able to delete my account without agreeing.

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Charrlotte @charrlotte.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Met so many, learnt so much, got gifts and even played a game 🥂🍀 #RGS-IBG2025 #creativegeographies

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Katie Kung @katiekung.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Still decompressing from #ESEH2025 week but hey was it good! @elinetabak.bsky.social @chriskla.bsky.social @charrlotte.bsky.social, Sven Seelinger plus @aberehrlich.bsky.social (Go “invasive species”! I guess…)

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Charrlotte @charrlotte.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

this was such an amazing experience 💚 the organisers @katiekung.bsky.social @elinetabak.bsky.social, the presenters, AND the audience were so engaging.

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Hannah D-C 🦐 @hannahdcknsn.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

I've always been really upfront about my experiences with this. I have encountered accent-based classism (not actually a true assessment of my 'class') at every stage in my student and now academic career. It is RIFE in this country across students and also staff members. Something HAS to change.

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Charrlotte @charrlotte.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

blessed are those who haven't heard the ELSTER hotline's music on hold

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Charrlotte @charrlotte.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

On the flattening of brown scholars in the Western Academy, from Patel, S. & Da Costa, D. (2022). “We Cannot Write About Complicity Together”: Limits of Cross-Caste Collaborations in Western Academy. Engaged Scholar Journal, 8(2), 1–27. doi.org/10.15402/esj...

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Lisa Onaga @lisaonaga.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Please register for the HSS meeting @NOLA & come meet Ashton Wesner 🐟Sam Muka 🪸 Rebecca Woods 🐒 Aleksandar Shopov 🐫 and + discuss their research on animal mobilities and why such histories of science matter. Thanks to Sonia Wigh, co-organizer of this roundtable with the Osiris editors! #histsci

Left hand holding a hard copy of "Animal Mobilities," volume 40 of Osiris against backdrop of messy office

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Charrlotte @charrlotte.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

looking for literature / leads on how nativism can be far from neat, messy in its circulations, and even outward-looking, or influenced by philosophies or regimes of the Other {tying up some loose threads in the diss}

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Charrlotte @charrlotte.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

That was a fascinating talk last eve. Heading over to read "For a Liberatory Politics of Home": www.dukeupress.edu/for-a-libera...

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Charrlotte @charrlotte.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

💟 that time of the semester when the quietest student in the seminar takes the ball out of the park with their presentation / term paper 💟

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

I think the comments on this (very good, if I do say so myself) article are fascinating. If the AI industry has lost the Verge commenter, who do they have on their side? www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

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AI is ruining houseplant communities online

AI-generated images and chatbot misinformation plague plant collectors.

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Whenever I hear @meredithmeredith.bsky.social speak it’s like breathing good air after choking on smog for a week.

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Charrlotte @charrlotte.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

"What does it mean when we flatten ourselves for others’ consumption, or when we’ve so deeply internalized such reductive views on us, that we’ve become blind to our own complexities and differences" www.naomishefalijoshi.com/stories/sara...

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

I'm very excited to co-host this event by @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social and Christliche Initiative Romero e.V. on Wednesday next week in Bonn at the main @unibonn.bsky.social building. 'Green At Home, Harm Abroad: Germany's Role in Global Resource Exploitation'. It starts at 18h so come join us!

A poster advertising the event 'Green at Home, Harm Abroad' that will be held on Wed 18 June at the University of Bonn main building from 18-19.30.

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Shoutout to bsky for teaching me how to formulate my opinion regarding the inaturalist situation. It's apparently coherent enough that it's now the most liked comment in the thread. forum.inaturalist.org/t/what-is-th...

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This echoes the ethical concerns visual artists have regarding gen AI: credit, consent, compensation.

People are fed up by anything labeled gen AI due to the overall disregard of consent in data scraping schemes. The comments on twitter and bluesky regarding this situation have been scathing. Regardless of iNat’s intent and eventual use, there’s a big trust issue growing here, which will put people off from using the platform.

Edit: Do note that us nature folks don’t live in a science bubble. A lot of us know, or ourselves are writers, visual artists, musicians whose work have been scraped, stolen, and regurgitated by Open AI and Google AI without the three C’s above. When we say we’re boycotting Gen AI on principle, this is what we mean.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

That way the Holocaust is no longer entirely rooted in European antisemitism and colonialism. It's a win-win for the German state: they get to displace their role in historical and modern antisemitism unto a population of 'foreigners' that have very little political capital in German politics.

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Charrlotte @charrlotte.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

In this paper, I talk about an embodied and marginal plant-people relation, a “ruderal involution”, that works to combine concerns of #more-than-human politics and urban informality.

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natureandspace.bsky.social @natureandspace.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

OnlineFirst - "Ruderal involutions: An uneven vegetal geography of Coimbatore" by @charrlotte.bsky.social: @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social #vegetalgeography journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Peatscapes @peatscapes.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Really excited to see our first 'Peatscapes' journal article out today in @progenvgeog.bsky.social! Carbon futures in the mire? Knowledge controversies in European peatland restoration and remaking Open Access link: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #geography #sts #peat #restoration

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KriSol @krisolwissenschaft.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Wir begrüßen ausdrücklich den Parteitagsbeschluss von @die-linke.de zur Verwendung der JDA. Diese wurde als Reaktion auf die zunehmende Kritik an der umstrittenen IHRA-Arbeitsdefinition des Antisemitismus von Wissenschaftler*innen entwickelt, um Antisemitismus zu identifizieren und konfrontieren.

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Charrlotte @charrlotte.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Sounds about right #internationalisation universitetslararen.se/2025/05/08/i...

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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

history and philosophy and social studies of sciences - all endangered fields and ignored for some valid and not so valid reasons of their own making - are all the more important now than never

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

To express how big this is: I just spoke to someone who has worked in migration services in Germany for several years, and their immediate reaction was to burst into tears of relief. Yes, this news has come late: but at least it is here. There is now no legal doubt about who and what the AfD are.

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Charrlotte @charrlotte.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

some of the work from my PhD, on the genealogy of Miyawaki forests, is published by cultural geographies: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

AI is an excellent medium for this, because it, too, enacts a kind of brutal transformation of humanity, summed up appropriately in using Ghibli art originating with an artist who called AI “an insult to life itself.”

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Edgelord politics is a game of chicken with one’s own conscience. You know the wrongness of what you are doing, but you push forward, because the thing you are resisting is empathy, the thing that makes you human. The goal is to transcend you humanity, to become brutal.

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Nitin Bathla @nitin-bathla.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Thinking through my own marginality within European/swiss acedmia, I am currently writing something on „epidermal invisibility“ a condition of racial outcasting whereby epidermal traits shade academic accomplishments. I am aware of Fanon references, but would be grateful for other leads…

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Maria Wiegel @mariawiegel.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

The German system in its universities and research institutions has to be changed drastically! #metooscience #ichbinhanna #ichbinreyhan youtube.com/watch?v=PENg...

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German top research institution 'Max Planck Society' accused of abuse and institutional silence

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Charrlotte @charrlotte.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Very excited today to diffract 'urban greening' at #STSHub2025 @ellug.bsky.social and I managed to convene a wonderful set of speakers, with @sandrajasper.bsky.social as our discussant :) Do come!!

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Charrlotte @charrlotte.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Any Unis that have changed open source publication guidelines as a result of AI?

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Charrlotte @charrlotte.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

dear followers, looking for PDF access for the following article. Please could you post a copy by e-mail if you have access?https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2514848619834882?journalCode=enea

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Charrlotte @charrlotte.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

so hard to bring myself to work at a project output that's come back after nearly 5 years...but it brings back so many warm memories from Thailand and researching as a team

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Alex Heffron @alexheffron.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Labour giving the green light to extend a scheme that a UN Special Rapporteur on modern slavery has suggested is breaking international law

UK’s seasonal farm worker scheme to be extended for five years
Environment secretary will hope move can reset relations with farmers after inheritance tax row.

Image of person picking strawberries in a polytunnel.

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Sam Kinsley @samkinsley.uk · 19/11/2024

Hello to the many people who joined this week! 👋 Here’s two starter packs of geographers 👇 & check out #geosky too go.bsky.app/SAK9wfm go.bsky.app/KkXvsnP

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