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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Learn about @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social's new book, Landlocked: Water, Energy, and Planetary Politics in Alberta ( @uchicagopress.bsky.social 2026). Schmidt outlines how Alberta uses geosciences and policy to legitimize extractive land use. niche-canada.org/2026/09/29/n... #envhist #cdnhist

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New Book - Landlocked: Water, Energy, and Planetary Politics in Alberta

Alberta uses environmental knowledge, shifting watershed boundaries, and resource deals to secure political legitimacy and shape its extractive energy future.

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Daniel Rück @danrueck.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

shout-out for @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social's "Landlocked"--essential reading for understanding Alberta energy politics today

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Nomination are now open for the 2027 NiCHE Prize for Best Article or Book Chapter! This prize is awarded every other year for meritorious publications that make important and innovative contributions to the field of Canadian environmental history, broadly conceived niche-canada.org/2026/09/28/2...

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2027 NiCHE Prize Call for Nominations

Nominations now open for the 2027 NICHE Prize for best journal article or book chapter!

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Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If you've been listening to the Today Programme this morning you may have just heard Sam Hammond + Dr David Megson being interviewed about the emerging PFAS pollution situation in Thornton-Cleveleys. So grateful to Radio 4 + 6 BBC + ITV News, The Times for their coverage of this important issue.

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Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Dry rivers are not necessarily dead rivers. But we need a much stronger commitment by social scientists to understand how people relate to rivers that run dry either naturally or, increasingly, owing to climate change or extraction. My latest: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #dry #rivers

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Rivers without rhythm? intermittent geographies and non-perennial rivers - Jeremy J. Schmidt, 2026

Non-perennial rivers run dry part of the year. By length, they are the most common type of river on Earth, yet they receive comparably little attention in socia...

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Rivers without rhythm? intermittent geographies and non-perennial rivers - Jeremy J. Schmidt, 2026

Non-perennial rivers run dry part of the year. By length, they are the most common type of river on Earth, yet they receive comparably little attention in socia...

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Sohini Kar @karsohini.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I've spent 15 years thinking about regulation of microfinance in India. With increased financial inclusion by a broad range of financial actors, this open-access paper is an attempt to think about the central bank at the margins. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Waivers and frauds: The politics of regulation and claims-making in Indian microfinance

As microfinance has expanded in India, so have efforts to regulate the sector. The competing regulatory authority of the state governments and the central bank have produced unexpected refusals by ...

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Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

All of a sudden "hydronym" is trending and all the water scholars have got a bit more swagger

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Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

VERY excited to announce my new book with @uchicagopress.bsky.social is now published! Landlocked tells Alberta's water and energy story together. As it does, it shows how political legitimacy is forged through how states know and relate to land. Find it here! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

A picture of the book Landlocked: water, energy, and planetary politics by Jeremy Schmidt

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Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Now we just need it for the creep-o glasses. A real faceblock

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ZoeSTodd (Dr Fish Philosopher Todd) @zoestodd.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Today’s the day! Our multimedia exhibit Undercurrents just launched - featuring Ahmed Alaqra, Brad Isaacs, Carlie Trosclair, Danielle Boudreau, James May, Manuel Axel, Matou, Pari Mokradi, & Steve Maldonado Silvestrini. freshwaterfishfutures.ca/undercurrent... Funded by @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca

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UNDERCURRENTS EXHIBIT 2026

Undercurrents is an online multimedia exhibit that explores artistic responses to water, fish, and aquatic ecologies, where materiality, memory, myth, and metaphor converge.

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Jeroen van der Sluijs @jeroenvandersluijs.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Ethics & Planetary Boundaries A multidisciplinary approach to the ethics of the planetary boundaries, ranging from international law to Indigenous knowledge and from science to art, and .. @simonmeisch.bsky.social @tankisandre.bsky.social @erleellis.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...

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Ethics and Planetary Boundaries

Cambridge Core - Ethics - Ethics and Planetary Boundaries

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Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Push back on #geoengineering, led proponents to regroup around geoengineering research, and claims we need to know its risks in order to weigh them against climate change. These claims are popular and growing. They also raises critical ethical questions. My latest: www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...

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The End of Experimentation (Chapter 25) - Ethics and Planetary Boundaries

Ethics and Planetary Boundaries - September 2026

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Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Ethics and Planetary Boundaries is now out in the world! Our Open-Access(!!), interdisciplinary book with Cambridge University Press has two chapters on each of the planetary boundaries. Read it here now: www.cambridge.org/core/books/e... #PlanetaryBoundaries #Ethics

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Ethics and Planetary Boundaries

Cambridge Core - Environmental Policy, Economics and Law - Ethics and Planetary Boundaries

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Simon Meisch @simonmeisch.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Delighted to share that our open access book, Ethics and the Planetary Boundaries, edited by Jeremy J. Schmidt (@jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social) and me, has just been published with Cambridge University Press (@universitypress.cambridge.org). @unituebingen.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social

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Ethics and Planetary Boundaries

Cambridge Core - Environmental Policy, Economics and Law - Ethics and Planetary Boundaries

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Joana Castro Pereira @joanacpereira.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Excited to share that my chapter with Carlota Houart in Ethics and Planetary Boundaries has just been published! lnkd.in/ddQNx7wB #MultispeciesJustice #Sociobioeconomy #LandSystemChange @simonmeisch.bsky.social @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org

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Erle Ellis @erleellis.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

"To the extent that you become the ecology that supports you, it becomes more and more your responsibility"

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Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Boaty McBoatface v. Attenborough Liz Truss v. Lettuce Count Binface v. Farage The good news is, everybody knows what to do and who will win.

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Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

EXCITED to see our new book on Ethics and Planetary Boundaries set for (open access!) publication in September. This book has 18 chapters (two on each boundary) from different places, disciplines, and perspectives.. Access it soon here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...

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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 07/07/2026

This is wild. 93% of the renewable electricity generation added to the Irish grid over that last decade now powers data centers, rather than reducing fossil fuel use. Data centers have pretty much annihilated the health and climate benefits those renewables could have provided.

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Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

By the amount of fireworks in east London right now I'd say our Canadian WhatsAPP group is missing more people than I thought.

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Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Bad Bunny is playing a couple miles (as the crow flies) from here in Tottenham...it sounds like an amazing time.

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Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

It is amazing to see the Met Office give such clear warnings, and to note that the UK's guidance for schools doesn't include explicit guidance on Extreme Heat events (beyond one small nod to not use a fan if it is over +35...): educationhub.blog.gov.uk/2025/06/hot-...

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Hot weather and heatwaves: guidance for schools and other education settings

There are several ways that schools can make changes to keep children safe in hot weather, especially as children are more at risk of becoming ill with heat-related issues than adults. The UK Health ...

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Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

New paper exploring the accelerating pace and kinds of water weaponisation--which require new ways of understanding how vulnerability is induced. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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KinarNicholas.bsky.social @kinarnicholas.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Hydrology Paper of the Day @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social @cameronharrington.bsky.social on understanding water weaponisation across the solid, liquid and gas states: an acceleration over the past century; spatial geographies of vulnerability and dissent; and understanding a synthesis of ideas.

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Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

It is devastating to keep reading news like the below, and we've been working to rethink water weaponisation to capture events like this and the myriad other ways conflict is violently exploiting water. Our new paper is out today: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... www.ft.com/content/155d...

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Iran says 20,000 people left without water after US hits reservoir tanks

Washington says its jets targeted air defence and radar sites after Iranian forces downed American helicopter

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Cameron Harrington @cameronharrington.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Pleased to share a new article from @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social and I, published in @politicalgeography.bsky.social. In the paper we make sense of a rise in water weaponisation by extending ideas of ambient vulnerability. Open access and available here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Just that feeling when you edit around 80 manuscripts a year, and review 25 or so on top of that, while waiting for months after submission for your own article to go into review.

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Water Alternatives @waalternatives.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Check out Jeremy Schmidt's Review of “Turning water into a commodity: digital innovation and the private sector as development agent”, by Christiane Tristl, www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/bo...

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Area @areajournal.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Find out more about our Area Prize winner @maddiejoyce.bsky.social's research here ⬇️

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

In the UK (and not just the UK) university sector, we're living, working, thinking and being made redundant (sic) with and by emergencies. Join Wendy Brown, Margot Finn, Eva von Redecker and Sasha Roseneil, convened by Paul Gilroy and John Sabapathy, for 'Learning in Emergency States'. 5 June. 1/2

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Learning in Emergency States: Flourishing, Universities, and the Future

A panel discussion with Wendy Brown (IAS, Princeton), Margot Finn (UCL), Eva von Redecker (H-U, Berlin), Sasha Roseneil (Sussex). Convened by Paul Gilroy & John Sabapathy

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Area @areajournal.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

If you have any tips or resources for best practice when writing alt text in academic publications, please share them below. We'd love to hear from you as we compile our guidelines for authors.

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Jonny Darling @jonnydarling.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Reading for the Area Prize each spring is a really lovely opportunity to engage with all the amazing early career work being produced across the discipline and that @areajournal.bsky.social is proud to publish. Well done to Maddie, Stefano, and Rosie on their excellent papers! @rgs.org

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Area @areajournal.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

& Rosie Knowles for her paper 'Narrating health and well-being with vulnerable participants: The ethics of composite fiction as a creative method in health geographies' ⬇️ doi.org/10.1111/area... @livunigeog.bsky.social

Screenshot of a highly commended paper in the 2025 Area Prize:

Rosie Knowles (University of Liverpool, UK)
“Narrating health and well-being with vulnerable participants: The ethics of composite fiction as a creative method in health geographies”
Area, 58(1), e70042
This impactful article by Rosie Knowles pushes health geographers towards a more sustained engagement with how composite fiction can be assembled ethically and rigorously. Reflecting on what it means to tell stories together and to build collective reflection into accounts of health geography, Knowles’ paper offers a creative and insightful methodological contribution.

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Area @areajournal.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

The editors also recognised two highly commended authors: Stefano Pagin for his co-authored paper with Daniel Sanfelici: 'Bringing nuance to real estate financialisation: Insights from Brazil' ⬇️ doi.org/10.1111/area... @uniofleicester.bsky.social

Screenshot of a highly commended paper in the 2025 Area Prize:

Stefano Pagin (University of Leicester, UK)
“Bringing nuance to real estate financialisation: Insights from Brazil”

In this carefully argued article, Stefano Pagin and Daniel Sanfelici examine how institutions take shape within, and most importantly give shape to, the financialisation of real estate. The piece shows both the utility of broader political economic thought and cautions against overextending its analytical reach. It convincingly argues that contextualising financialisation in particular places enables it to be seen as one of many logics shaping urban geographies, making a significant contribution to thinking from and with the Global South.

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Area @areajournal.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

🏆Area Prize Announcement!🏆 This year's Area Prize for the best paper written by an ECR has been awarded to 𝐌𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐉𝐨𝐲𝐜𝐞 for her paper 'Sensing the sky's edge: Atmospheric insights into the Korean demilitarised zone' ⬇️ doi.org/10.1111/area... @maddiejoyce.bsky.social @rhulgeography.bsky.social

Screenshot of the 2025 Area Prize-winner announcement:

Madelaine Joyce (Royal Holloway University of London, UK)
“Sensing the sky’s edge: Atmospheric insights into the Korean demilitarised zone”

With this innovative article, Madelaine Joyce pushes cultural and political geographers to attend closely and creatively to both affective and material atmospheres. Taking the anticipation of an encounter with the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) between North and South Korea as both prompt and problematic for rethinking borders across fog, radio signals, and no-go zones, Joyce’s article is a deserving Area Prize winner.

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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

New in TIBG: 'Green refrontierisation: Critical cartographies of the hydrogen rush in Africa' by William Monteith This paper provides a critical cartographic analysis of the green hydrogen maps within the reports of European states, lobby groups & investment bodies. doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geo

Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers by William Monteith (2026) entitled: 'Green Refrontierisation: Critical Cartographies of the Hydrogen Rush in Africa' with a red banner at the top.

Land is a critical requirement of low-carbon energy transitions, driving global land acquisitions on an unprecedented scale. Under pressure to diversify and decarbonise their energy mix, European states and investors have begun to map the ‘green hydrogen potential’ of territories on the African continent, producing powerful new visualisations of energy space. This article provides a critical cartographic analysis of the green hydrogen (GH2) maps present within the reports of European states, lobby groups and investment bodies to examine the role of geographical knowledge in the production of low-carbon energy frontiers. It identifies three spatio-political strategies present within these maps: spatialising hydrogen potential, territorialising hydrogen space and (re)mobilising fossil fuel infrastructure. Together, these strategies form part of a broader process that I term ‘green refrontierisation’: the assembling of low-carbon energy frontiers atop the remnants of colonial and carbon frontiers. Through a particular focus on the Namibian case, the article's findings advance debates at the intersection of energy geographies and critical cartography by demonstrating how low-carbon energy frontiers (re)spatialise land around a series of dynamic environmental processes rather than the subterranean resources that have historically guided geographical thinking.

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ZoeSTodd (Dr Fish Philosopher Todd) @zoestodd.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

(No words, just the sound of my head exploding)

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Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

What happens if you ask somebody who makes medieval-style maps to make one of Alberta, but emphsasing Treaty lands and watershed boundaries? Something like this I suppose! DM me if you want a copy.

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Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

My latest article is a look at how western irrigation experts in the US and Canada tried (and failed) to get a transboundary water agreement in southern Alberta in the decades prior to the 1909 Boundary Waters Treaty: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Before the Boundary Waters Treaty: Irrigation Experts and International Controversy

Since 1909, the International Joint Commission has administered the Boundary Waters Treaty between Canada and the United States. Successful cooperation was not guaranteed, however. This article exa...

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Before the Boundary Waters Treaty: Irrigation Experts and International Controversy

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