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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?! 😏🫪

Charrlotte @charrlotte.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Universal Oneness - how ridiculous!! Meanwhile, church-goers in India are signing 'consent forms' due to fear of being attacked by RSS linked vigilante groups: www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-a...

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Charrlotte @charrlotte.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

where is their opinion piece on the sublime beauty of everyday encounters in the case of Heidebad

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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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Charrlotte @charrlotte.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

i can confirm this theory based on an interaction with a former employee (who got fired after developing their AI tools)

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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

this is some great advice, Veit!! thanks for sharing. hope all's well.

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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

And some fresh beginnings!! Starting today, I work in a postdoc role at the Institute of Social & Cultural Anthropology, Uni Leipzig as part of the DFG Project "Environmental-Mental Health: Experience, Ethics and Poetics of Ecological Mourning Amidst a Wounded Environment in India (ENVIRON-MENTAL)"

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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

What an excellent moderation. Lots to learn for many, there. Not only was the room really opened up to online participants (incl. me), but ECRs were given space FIRST in the discussion #downwithheirarchies #changingacademia

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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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Charrlotte @charrlotte.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

some of these reactions cannot be read without the aversion to intl. labour mobility in germany (pervasive everywhere but also in academia), the economy, & the arrogance of the german society in saying 'we won't adapt to a post-migration society one bit, but need to fill our pension gaps'

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Charrlotte @charrlotte.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

the responses on this post shared elsewhere is extremely hostile to intl postdocs. there seems to be the expectation that intl folks should master a language + research + adapt in a new society + understand the bureaucratic framework (all within the short contract timeframe)

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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 · 06/08/2025

I have many a bones to pick with the travel admin, who seems to think it's too much work to calculate petty pennies (INR) for field work periods. None of the forms and systems here are made for international researchers. I'm sorry for the workload, but I can't alter global currency exchange systems

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Charrlotte @charrlotte.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

One of the reasons I moved out of this research focus is really just the raw pain from field work with waste workers and street vendors & the guilt at interviewing the most precarious and instrumentalizing their narratives for research

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Charrlotte @charrlotte.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

POCs are becoming increasingly tense about the emerging situation in Germany. The media and politicians have done their job exceedingly well - even seemingly mundane conversation are tinted with nefarious hints of racist incitement.

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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

what a deeply cathartic read on caste and academic collaborations!

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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 forward to the ESEH panel by @katiekung.bsky.social and @elinetabak.bsky.social to think together on "Vegetal (hi)stories: more-than-human narratives of invasion and belonging"

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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

Sinthujan Varatharajah asks of 'Desi' media but also applies to 'Desi' academia

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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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Charrlotte @charrlotte.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Congrats, look forward to reading it!

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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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