Reposted by Ian BruffJohn Stott @jpsastro.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Had a UKRI funded grant proposal rejected at the "AI triage stage". "This AI-based triage was used only to identify approximately 50% of the strongest proposals to take forward to full human review." 🧪 #academicsky 40435241
Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The first time one of my former PhD students has published a book! It's not on Lewis' PhD topic, and he was never too bothered about staying in academia, but still, I feel a proud supervisory glow :) www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...versobooks.comThe Full EnglishWhat is English food? The award-winning podcaster Lewis Bassett is a chef in search of an answer. Whether examining the recent invention of sourdough or the aristocratic assumptions informing the rewi... 050
Reposted by Ian Bruffneilgray00.bsky.social @neilgray00.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Enjoyed doing this interview about my new book with @NotesFrom_Below. Kudos to @PagliacciRossi for the appropriate title, which grasps precisely what I want to help achieve with the concept of 'spatial composition'. Link below. notesfrombelow.org/article/the-... 041
Reposted by Ian BruffDr Xianan Jin 🍉 @xiananj.bsky.social · 21/09/2026New article on feminist ethnography method 🧚♀️ I started writing this piece probably since 2017 - good that it is finally out for colleagues to read and comment. Feel free to text me about what you think 🫶🏼 062
Reposted by Ian BruffMathias Hein Jessen @mhjessen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026How do analogies between states and firms shape competing political and economic visions? I’m looking for a PhD researcher and a postdoc to help me explore this question in my new research project at Copenhagen Business School. Links below 👇 1137
Reposted by Ian BruffChris Hesketh @chrishesketh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026A short introduction to our new article ‘Totality must be defended’ written with @morton.bsky.social www.ppesydney.net/from-localit... Engaging with recent work by @mattthompson.bsky.social and @davidharvey.org among othersppesydney.netFrom Locality to Totality - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)On the tension between locality and totality that we see configuring the contours of significant debate today across economic geography in postcolonial, poststructural, decolonial, and constructivist ... 057
Reposted by Ian BruffMia Gray @mia-gray.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Please see a new call for papers for a special issue on "Artificial Intelligence: Power, Place, and Uneven Development" in the journal CJRES academic.oup.com/cjres/pages/...academic.oup.comArtificial Intelligence: Power, Place, and Uneven DevelopmentEditors: Judith Clifton, Mia Gray, Michael Kitson & Pete Tyler 034
Reposted by Ian BruffAdam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Now published in Progress in Human Geography, open access, *Totality must be defended*, co-authored with @chrishesketh.bsky.social -- brilliant to work on this together. We will blog on it next week on @ppesydney.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.... @proghumgeog.bsky.social 074
Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Full of fascinating insights, but especially this: 'She is surprised ‘that you’re still coming here’. To her store? No, to Russia. ‘Let’s hope it ends soon. These circumstances affect everyone. I’m very sorry indeed about it.’ A masterclass of impersonal grammatical phrasing' 110
Reposted by Ian BruffCSSGJ @cssgj.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Please see CSSGJ 2026 Seminar Series and Andy Higginbottom's ongoing Capital Vol. 3 talks. Join us for six seminars, a special annual lecture exploring questions of social and global justice and four Marx's Capital lecture series. www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/centre-for... @abieler.bsky.social 136
Reposted by Ian BruffSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Should have guessed that the thing that would eventually kill off the right's interest in grammar schools would be non-white kids doing too well in the 11+. 36703141
Reposted by Ian BruffTim Harford @timharford.ft.com · 13/09/2026I've been checking the source of quotes for my forthcoming book, and the performance of Gemini is extraordinary. I paste the quote into Google, and Gemini will barge in with the wrong answer over and over again. It's not an occasional thing - it's reliably wrong. Very odd. 41498161
Reposted by Ian BruffGlobal Political Economy Journal @gpejournal.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Our latest issue is out now! Read Vol 5.1 for research on resistance to ICE, the materiality of money and part 2 of our AI Policy Observatory for the World of Work Symposium bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal... #AIPOWW 123
Reposted by Ian BruffAlice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I’ve reached the point - well actually, I reached it a while ago - where I’m militantly anti-AI. Fine - use it in bioscience labs and radiology where it might help analyse data more effectively. Use it sparingly for systems engineering. Everywhere else, it can fuck off. 1553154717
Reposted by Ian Bruffneilgray00.bsky.social @neilgray00.bsky.social · 09/09/2026The first substantial interview about my book, 'Take Over the City'. Pleased to be in Issue #165 of e-flux journal @eflux.bsky.social with probing questions from Andreas Petrossiants @apetrossiants.bsky.social. www.e-flux.com/journal/165/...e-flux.comSpatial Composition - Journal #165Neil Gray interviewed by Andreas Petrossiants on Italian autonomia and urban politics. 051
Reposted by Ian BruffChris Hesketh @chrishesketh.bsky.social · 08/09/2026My new article ‘Totality must be defended’ , co-written with @morton.bsky.social is now out in Progress in Human Geography journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...journals.sagepub.comSage Journals: Discover world-class researchSubscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher. 155
Reposted by Ian BruffGuy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Golf’s purpose seems to be to spoil a good walk – & now it turns out golf clubs are stealing our water, too. As the climate crisis accelerates, the last thing we need is this wasteful, water-guzzling, land-hungry extravagance. Ace work by @emmahoward.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comOne in 12 golf clubs in England broke water extraction rules in past five yearsMore than 140 clubs breached licences, with a third caught taking water illegally, analysis shows – but no fines issued 612123
Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Almost as if two-tier policing bends the other way compared to what is normally claimed 000
Reposted by Ian BruffBJPIR @bjpir.bsky.social · 07/09/2026📖 Don't miss the runner up articles for the #BJPIR John Peterson Best Article Prize for 2025! ‘Dillon Wamsley, ‘Revisiting the theoretical foundations of depoliticisation: A Gramscian state theory approach for an era of crisis’ by @dillonwamsley.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/SZYPVeIlnkd.inSage Journals: Discover world-class researchSubscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher. 153
Reposted by Ian BruffDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 07/09/2026Yelling "stop the boats!" as I charge in to rob this NatWest at gun point so that I can later call the Home Secretary as a character witness and the BBC will spend two weeks telling all my potential future jurors how legitimate my concerns were. 242672684
Reposted by Ian BruffOliver Nachtwey @onachtwey.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Sahra Wagenknecht/BSW hatte angekündigt, eine Bollwerk gegen die AfD sein zu wollen. Auf ihrer Traverse nach rechts hat sie statt eines Bollwerks eine Vorfront geschaffen. 0537
Reposted by Ian BruffMatthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 06/09/2026Contrast the police statements about the Dover blockade yesterday with the Just Stop Oil protests in 2022 9528284
Reposted by Ian BruffLee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 05/09/2026As gangs of masked men block Dover port, I will just leave this here www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comFive Just Stop Oil activists receive record sentences for planning to block M25Campaigners receive longest ever sentences for non-violent protest after being convicted of conspiracy to cause public nuisance 3923951157
Reposted by Ian BruffAndy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Thank you @gilltav.bsky.social for reminding us all of the Police response in 2021 👇 when some 40 environmental activists of Insulate Britain blocked the Port of Dover: 39 arrests. Compare that to yesterday when 200-400 fascist paramilitaries intimidated Dover town and blocked the Port: 0 arrests.bbc.comPort of Dover: Arrests made as Insulate Britain blocks portQueues form at Europe's busiest ferry terminal as Insulate Britain shift their protest from the M25. 10370235
Reposted by Ian BruffPeter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Just a reminder, Professor James Orr, Reform UK head of policy, teaches 'ethics' to undergraduates at Cambridge University youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI 20836001429
Reposted by Ian BruffCharlotte Weatherill @ckweatherill.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I contributed to this brief report alongside an int. law researcher & a geographer to explore the problem of the 'climate refugee'. I draw on the work of A. Baldwin, Carol Farbotko and others who have shown how this conversation is racialised. @environmentalpol.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0964... 1177
Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Currently working on the proofs for an article forthcoming in Globalizations with @cbtansel.net 010
Reposted by Ian BruffGuy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Excellent use of FOI requests by @globalactionplan.bsky.social @olliehayes.bsky.social to uncover how the UK Government doesn't even know what AI datacentres are being used for... bsky.app/profile/theg... 55721
Reposted by Ian BruffCommon Wealth @cmmonwealth.bsky.social · 19/08/2026“The report urged Arconic to publicly reveal where the rest of the material had been sold, and said it should be debarred from public contracts in England until it does so.” Our new report on corporate accountability after Grenfell in @theguardian.com 👇 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...theguardian.comGrenfell cladding firm Arconic paid shareholders £23m more in compensation than to fire victimsReport’s author said findings highlighted ‘near-total failure’ to hold corporations accountable over the disaster that killed 72 people 1113
Reposted by Ian BruffJohn Duncan @johntheduncan.bsky.social · 20/08/2026NEW VIDEO!!! I have been getting more and more annoyed at Burnham's cutsey ordinary bloke cosplay so i decided to look at how his re-industrialisation strategy just makes him a merchant of death within global US hegemony. Manchesterism is a death machine! (Link below) 46723
Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 26/08/2026In Warsaw for the European Sociological Association conference, mainly for the @cpern.bsky.social sessions. My hotel is currently playing a lounge version of Lithium by Nirvana (!). First this morning, meeting with Katherine Dashper to discuss this book among other things. 030
Reposted by Ian BruffSarah Comyn @sarahcomyn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026My article on reading mining and degrowth in South African literature for a special issue of Textual Practice is now online 🎉 And I think there are a few free eprint links available: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comWhite ants and mining: reading degrowth in South AfricaSouth Africa has an abandoned mines problem. These mines pose serious risks to lives and the environment and raise questions of what degrowth may look like in parts of the Global South that are con... 045
Reposted by Ian BruffMònica Clua Losada @monicaclua.bsky.social · 22/08/2026New publication alert: "The financialisation of housing in Spain: between dispossession and resistance." In an amazing volume edited by Pascal Glanz, Johannes Jäger, Agnes Sieben, Elisabeth Springler and Stephanie Wöhl 👇 www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/b... 042
Reposted by Ian BruffCharlotte Weatherill @ckweatherill.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Loved this. Immediately placing it on every course guide I'm in control of. "Somewhere out there, hidden in the leaves of the copse or the library, you’ll find the essay that speaks to you, as a reader; and then, perhaps, the essay that only you can write." 185
Reposted by Ian BruffBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026they still want cleaners and nurses, but they want to pay them less money, cut them off from their families, give them no route to citizenship, and be able to deport them at will. 141240109
Reposted by Ian BruffBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026I think it's key to understanding their worldview that they imagine a world not *without* immigrants, but one in which immigrants' inferiority is permanently asserted and they become a subservient caste. All these people worship the Gulf States. 1014491974
Reposted by Ian BruffLisa Tilley @tilley101.bsky.social · 14/08/2026In case of interest! I have a chapter on 'Race and Racism in Political Ecology' along with some incredible co-contributors - the whole book can be downloaded here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... 0136
Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 13/08/2026The latest in a long line of excellent pieces by Jeremy 010
Reposted by Ian BruffCharlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Heartened to see that my university is ending its contract with Turnitin before the next academic year, because Turnitin is going to use student submissions to train AI models. Institutions can and should resist this stuff! 251639390
Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Looks really interesting - glad to see something being written on this freeport 010
Reposted by Ian BruffAlke Jenss @alkejenss.bsky.social · 12/08/2026A wrap for our special issue in Political Geography Journal on the "Authoritarian Politics of Energy Infrastructures". ➡️ download our intro here (as usual 1st 50 free) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.com 143
Reposted by Ian BruffKenan Malik @kenanmalik.bsky.social · 10/08/2026A case apparently not just of plagiarism but also of the catastrophic use of AI to try to disguise it. 1126
