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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 19/08/2026

I don't think people understand the extent to which this has been a decade plus long billionaire funded campaign (obviously Thiel is involved). We've tried to ring the alarm about these eugenicists but it is too easy for them to get parroted by the mainstream media. bylinetimes.com/2026/08/18/t...

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The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday

The media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network

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Fenna Imara Hoefsloot @fennaimara.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

New paper out with @ayonadatta.bsky.social in @proghumgeog.bsky.social: we use topology (yes, the maths of doughnuts) to rethink how digital tech reshapes territory. Boundaries stop being lines and start being stretchy continuums. Presence is relational. Land stays stubborn. doi.org/10.1177/0309...

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Londoners, there is a webpage for you to see where your nearest "cool spaces" are when the extreme heat hits - places with water, air-conditioning & shade. Have a look and spread the word, especially to those who may need this but might not think to look for it: apps.london.gov.uk/cool-spaces/

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Fenna Imara Hoefsloot @fennaimara.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

New article out w/ Oksana Zaporozhetc, Annegret Haase, Valeria Lazarenko & @moritzkasper.bsky.social. We chart out how disruption has been discussed in urban, social, and political theory & propose a more hopeful theory that fosters collective action for better urban futures. doi.org/10.17645/up....

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Reclaiming Disruption: Pathways to Hopeful Urban Futures | Article | Urban Planning

Fenna Imara Hoefsloot, Oksana Zaporozhets, Annegret Haase, Valeria Lazarenko, Moritz Kasper

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Fenna Imara Hoefsloot @fennaimara.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Some exciting news! 🎉 Our paper 'Urbanizing commons lands: Ambiguous tenure regimes and the challenges of land regularization in Guadalajara Metropolitan Region, Mexico' has been published in Land Use Policy, w/ Mariana Reyes Carranza, @ayonadatta.bsky.social & Raul Agraz. doi.org/10.1016/j.la...

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ESRC Digital Good Network @digitalgoodnet.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

We are pleased to announce the 15 successful projects for the fourth and final round of the Digital Good Research Fund. Each project will produce a blueprint and a briefing document for a good digital society in a particular aspect of social life.

A blueprint for...digital governance for urban administrations in the Global South

A blueprint for...environmentally sustainable use of generative AI in schools

A blueprint for...children’s critical engagement with technology: the case for hybrid arts education in formal schooling

A blueprint for...digital spaces to support survivors of human trafficking

A blueprint for...digital death

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Fenna Imara Hoefsloot @fennaimara.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

If you have time this afternoon (or evening or morning, depending on where you are), join us for this session of the Digital Infrastructural Urbanism(s) debate series. During this talk, Sheema Fatima and I will present work on building the digitalising state at the peripheries in India and Kenya.

Flyer for the Digital Infrastructural Urbanism(s): Asia-Africa Encounters and Beyond debate series.

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Fenna Imara Hoefsloot @fennaimara.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

📢 CfP 'Researching the Digitalising State' RGSIBG 2026, London 2026. We will explore methods for researching the digitalising state and its challenges: restricted access, confidentiality barriers, outsourced governance, and rapidly changing technologies. www.regionalfutures.org/all-outputs/...

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Fenna Imara Hoefsloot @fennaimara.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Looking forward to this session next week, discussing our recently published book 'Informational Peripheries' as part of the @unibas.ch Critical Urbanisms lecture series. Give me a shout if you'd like to join, and I'll share the Zoom link!

Flyer for the lecture titled 'Informational Peripheries: Seeing from the Margins of Place, Flow, and Data' by Fenna Hoefsloot. This lecture is part of the Critical Urbanisms lecture series 2025 and will be held on Tuesday, 14 October from 4 to 6 PM CET.

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Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

📣 Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds need your help! 🏊‍♀️ 🏊🏊‍♂️ They’ve always been firmly trans-inclusive, but now this is under threat. Please respond to their consultation to show how much public support there is for trans-inclusive arrangements. hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is/en-GB/propos...

Consultation on the future access to the Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds:

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This consultation seeks your views on access arrangements at the Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds -Highgate Men’s Pond, Kenwood Ladies’ Pond and Hampstead Mixed Pond, with a particular focus on potential changes at the Highgate Men’s Pond and the Kenwood Ladies’ Pond.

Following the recent Supreme Court decision in For Women Scotland, and in line with other service providers, the City of London Corporation is reviewing its policies, including those at the Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds. Your feedback will help inform decisions about future arrangements, alongside legal obligations, equality and safeguarding duties, financial constraints, and practical considerations.

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Fenna Imara Hoefsloot @fennaimara.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

It's not only in clothing! Spotify just recommended me a Dark Academia Jazz playlist for 'in a dim, dusty library' 🥲

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Fenna Imara Hoefsloot @fennaimara.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

@jmigozzi.bsky.social @termcern.bsky.social, Catherine Gateri, Dennis Mbugua Muthama, Asher Ghertner, Josie Wittmer, Julie-Anne Boudreau, Shoshana Goldstein, Calvin King Lam Chung, Jingya Dai, Juan Demerits & Jiang Xu, many many thanks!

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Fenna Imara Hoefsloot @fennaimara.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Deep thanks to our contributors (see👇), who challenge dominant narratives and foreground the politics of information in varied and often overlooked contexts. If your work touches on critical data studies, archival theory, or infrastructures of marginality, we hope this speaks to you.

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Fenna Imara Hoefsloot @fennaimara.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Informational Peripheries is out now with @uclpress.bsky.social! It brings together critical perspectives on how information flows (or doesn’t) across the edges of systems: archives, infrastructures, digital divides, and more. Edited with @ayonadatta.bsky.social 🙌 uclpress.co.uk/book/informa...

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Informational Peripheries

Urbanisation and urban life in a digital age needs to be examined through a lens of information – encompassing both its politics and its geographies. The periphery in an information age is located sim...

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Fenna Imara Hoefsloot @fennaimara.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

... are key to achieving inclusive digital planning. The design of inclusive digital planning tools is not limited to software features but also relates to hardware functionalities and the environment in which a tool is used.

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Fenna Imara Hoefsloot @fennaimara.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

People with disabilities are experts who should contribute to the design of public spaces and digital planning tools. Taking the lessons learned from the co-design process, we argue that digital, physical, social and procedural accessibility ...

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Fenna Imara Hoefsloot @fennaimara.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

The co-design process served to identify barriers and obstacles to the accessibility of public spaces and user requirements for the inclusive design of the collaborative mapping tool. The tool was tested and evaluated with people with disabilities and municipal planners from Zwolle.

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Fenna Imara Hoefsloot @fennaimara.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Happy to share our research on developing an inclusive digital tool for urban planning in Computers, Environment and Urban Systems. With Johannes Flacke and Karin Pfeffer @utwente.bsky.social and a fantastic group of co-researchers from Toegankelijk Zwolle doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

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Fenna Imara Hoefsloot @fennaimara.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Welcome back! Let me know when you're on campus and have time for a coffee!

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

This is happening right now. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

UN warns 14,000 babies could die in Gaza in next 48 hours without aid – Israel-Gaza war live
UN’s humanitarian chief says aid lorries, which contain baby food and nutrition, are technically in Gaza but have not reached civilians

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Saskia Bonjour @saskiabonjour.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

NRC vandaag:

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Anson Mackay (they/them) @ans.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

uk #geosky - please sign this letter to the RGS, to get them to pushback on anti-trans rhetoric from the Supreme Court and EHRC

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Fenna Imara Hoefsloot @fennaimara.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Cover reveal! ✨ Our new book, 'Informational Peripheries: Rethinking the Urban in a Digital Age,' will be available this August! Get a first look here: uclpress.co.uk/book/informa... There will also be a digital open access version 🙌 @uclpress.bsky.social @ayonadatta.bsky.social

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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 22/04/2025

This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic www.crabmuseum.org/visit 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

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Fenna Imara Hoefsloot @fennaimara.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Excited that our research article with commentaries and response is out now in the inaugural issue of @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social! Honoured to be amongst so many people I look up to in the launch of this great new journal. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... @ayonadatta.bsky.social

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

This. Protect trans kids. Protect trans rights. Gender is a spectrum. Trans women are women. Trans men are men. Non-binary people exist. Inter-sex & DSD people exist. Gender-non-conforming people exist. Transphobia is anti-feminist. Laws are often wrong and unjust. We must fight for a fairer future.

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Tim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Today the Dutch senate is debating its budget cuts on higher education. Around 1 billion euros in cuts with jobs and entire programs on the line. They have a clear choice between investing in the future or going down the drain like the US is currently doing. Let’s hope they make the right choice 🟥

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Fenna Imara Hoefsloot @fennaimara.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Delighted to see my review of @jpaddie.bsky.social @mrglassphd.bsky.social & @jen-nelles.bsky.social excellent 'Infrastructural Times: Temporality and the making of global urban worlds' out. Empirically specific and theoretically expansive, this book deserves to be read! doi.org/10.1080/1356...

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Infrastructural times: Temporality and the making of global urban worlds

Published in Space and Polity (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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Fenna Imara Hoefsloot @fennaimara.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Congratulations! That's massive! 🙌

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Fenna Imara Hoefsloot @fennaimara.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

📣 We're still accepting abstracts! Reach out if you've got an interesting paper on the tensions between creativity and codeability in digital urban governance. We'd love to hear from you! @ayonadatta.bsky.social @rgsibg.bsky.social @uclgeography.bsky.social

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Fenna Imara Hoefsloot @fennaimara.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Thanks @ayonadatta.bsky.social and the rest of the Regional Futures team supporting this!

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Fenna Imara Hoefsloot @fennaimara.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

🙌 Till the 31st to submit an abstract! Please share with anyone who might be interested in joining. We look forward to seeing you in London in September!

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Urban Political Podcast @urbanpolitical.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Just before 2024 came to an end, we posted another episode of the Urban Political: 82 - Book Review Roundtable: Infrastructural Times with Jean-Paul Addie, Hanna Baumann, Himanshu Burte and Fenna Hoefsloot. Listen via Spotify or here: urbanpolitical.online/episode-82-b...

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82 – Book Review Roundtable: Infrastructural Times: Temporality and the Making of Global Urban Worlds – Urban Political Podcast

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Fenna Imara Hoefsloot @fennaimara.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

New paper w/ Neha Gupta, Dennis Mbugua Muthama, and Jesus Flores, in which we follow information flows through different devices, geographies, and people to understand the role of brokerage in the digitalising state. A comparison of Mumbai, Nairobi & Guadalajara www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Fenna Imara Hoefsloot @fennaimara.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

With incredible keynote speakers: @robkitchin.bsky.social (University of Maynooth) Nancy Odendaal (University of Basel/University of Cape Town) Ursula Rao (@maxplanck.de) Pontus Westerberg (Teaching Public Service/UN-Habitat)

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Jean-Paul Addie @jpaddie.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

"State as Auteur" is an incisive, provocative paper. I had the exciting opportunity to engage @ayonadatta.bsky.social and @fennaimara.bsky.social's argument in @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social and my commentary, "Time and the State in Digital Society", is out now: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Time and the state in digital society - Jean-Paul D. Addie, 2025

In this commentary, I argue that while the digitalizing state mobilizes the anticipatory imaginary of network time, its own temporal ontology remains anchored i...

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Fenna Imara Hoefsloot @fennaimara.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Thrilled to finally share this! For me, this chapter flipped the script—not just by shifting focus to how privilege (rather than marginality) is constructed in digital infrastructure but also by rethinking how we write with and fully honour the contributions of our interlocutors in academic work. 💛

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