Kai Bosworth @kaibosworth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026if you are at 4S in Toronto, say hi at the sessions we've organized on "Earth's Subsurface" -- running Thursday from 8am-1:30pm! My presentation is in the 10am session and concerns the work I've been doing on karst geologists and cavers. 020
Kai Bosworth @kaibosworth.bsky.social · 04/10/2026i am finding this 4S program to be extremely difficult to navigate and parse 120
Kai Bosworth @kaibosworth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026a wild/different version of this i experienced recently is that some guy uploaded a bunch of the songs from the fake indie rock band Low Shoulder in Jennifer's Body which now appear on all sorts of platforms under his name (and presumably revenue) 020
Reposted by Kai BosworthNiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Learn 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 #cdnhistniche-canada.orgNew Book - Landlocked: Water, Energy, and Planetary Politics in AlbertaAlberta uses environmental knowledge, shifting watershed boundaries, and resource deals to secure political legitimacy and shape its extractive energy future. 0127
Kai Bosworth @kaibosworth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026someone needs to put together an aag cfp for me specifically, starting to get worried! 031
Kai Bosworth @kaibosworth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026in 1861, groundwater was legally defined in an Ohio supreme court ruling as too “secret, occult and concealed” to regulate. the phrase is cited a lot but it is still cracking me up. 010
Kai Bosworth @kaibosworth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I wonder what the AAG numbers will be like this year. feels like I'm seeing fewer CFPs than ever. conference cost, travel inflation, lack of funding, climate, trump regime, etc all probably part of things...plus, the earlier date this year. 110
Kai Bosworth @kaibosworth.bsky.social · 23/09/2026low quality but if can you believe it: "Fume ventilation system installed by EPA on a home. The pipe extends into a crevice which connects to a cave under the house. The hole in the foreground, used for waste disposal, was actually the entrance to a cave extended under the house." 120
Kai Bosworth @kaibosworth.bsky.social · 22/09/2026classic comment from oil companies doing CCS, too. "it's not new technology!" 130
Kai Bosworth @kaibosworth.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I think one of the things they don't tell you about ethnographic writing is how small it feels. like I just have accumulated soooo many stories about caving by now. and I'll never write them up because they're just silly, or irrelevant, or would take too much time to tell. 120
Kai Bosworth @kaibosworth.bsky.social · 22/09/2026blue book test where one of the questions is "what is something you've learned in this course this semester? be serious" 140
Kai Bosworth @kaibosworth.bsky.social · 21/09/2026is hyperpolitics the academic way of saying "woke 1 was crazyyy"? 000
Kai Bosworth @kaibosworth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026"Indiana Jones and the Temple of Fumes." this image better meet the dpi and legibility requirements to be reprinted 021
Kai Bosworth @kaibosworth.bsky.social · 16/09/2026i asked google for a pdf of a document i need and it generated a pdf of its AI response lol 040
Reposted by Kai Bosworthali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 15/09/2026this episode is really really really interesting, and (almost uncannily) prescient timing for me right now 132
Kai Bosworth @kaibosworth.bsky.social · 13/09/2026the first caving club in the US (the DC grotto) evolved out of a hiking club associated with a local unitarian church an interesting fact that I don't quite know what to do with. 110
Kai Bosworth @kaibosworth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026any geographers out there working on "the pre-political"? 001
Reposted by Kai BosworthKai Bosworth @kaibosworth.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I went on the Turbulence Pod with Dylan Saba. We're talking about what we can learn from data center populism, my incessant attempts to periodize climate politics in the 2010s, and my favorite Lefebvre quote. turbulencepod.substack.com/p/episode-40...turbulencepod.substack.comEpisode 40: Counter-Space and the Data Center Revolt w/ Kai BosworthWith Kai Bosworth 0137
Kai Bosworth @kaibosworth.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I went on the Turbulence Pod with Dylan Saba. We're talking about what we can learn from data center populism, my incessant attempts to periodize climate politics in the 2010s, and my favorite Lefebvre quote. turbulencepod.substack.com/p/episode-40...turbulencepod.substack.comEpisode 40: Counter-Space and the Data Center Revolt w/ Kai BosworthWith Kai Bosworth 0137
Kai Bosworth @kaibosworth.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I have so many depressing fiction books that I want to read in the fall and winter. but it will keep being 80-90 degrees here for another two months 040
Reposted by Kai BosworthAsh Daibach @whimberry.bsky.social · 03/09/2026This is really interesting. @kaibosworth.bsky.social looks back over the climate struggles of the 2010s US and asks where the rebellions against data centres could lead. www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...versobooks.comWhere is the U.S. climate movement?In the United States, there is a pervasive sense that the once-ascendent climate movement is in disarray or has even disappeared. The prior decade saw the actions and ambitions of climate activism bec... 052
Reposted by Kai BosworthDr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 03/09/2026"Instead of a politics hoping & waiting for the university to “get it right,” we may have to accept that this will never be the case & that our responsibility is to build toward the world we want & need by variably working with, against, & despite official university initiatives" 1133
Reposted by Kai BosworthMollie Holmberg @octoqueenphd.bsky.social · 02/09/2026New pub with @antipodeonline.bsky.social out today! On how emerging disease science makes human and geographic difference sound natural through stories about risky wildlife contact that leave out political and economic context. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...onlinelibrary.wiley.comFixing Epidemic Risk, Fixing Epidemic Spacetime? How Emerging Disease Science Writes Wild Stories About Pandemic OriginsUsing the US Agency for International Development (USAID) PREDICT program as a case study, I argue that mainstream emerging disease science (re)produces Orientalist imaginaries of pandemic risk throu... 294
Reposted by Kai BosworthKai Bosworth @kaibosworth.bsky.social · 02/09/2026🚨New article 🚨 Jesse Goldstein, Ben Haskett, Caroline May, and I mobilize "critical university studies" to investigate how "sustainability" is used as a pseudo-activity. we argue higher ed depoliticizes and partitions environmental and climate action. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...onlinelibrary.wiley.comCritical University Sustainability Studies: Evaluating <fc>STARS</fc> Reporting as Depoliticized Environmental Pseudo‐ActivityThis article places university sustainability within broader literatures of critical and abolitionist university studies to understand how it depoliticizes environmental action and dispels more radic... 34211
Reposted by Kai BosworthDr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Cool paper 👍 We argue similar: "Even though universities have been the fora where much of the vital knowledge warning us of avoidable disaster - & the massive injustices this entails - has been produced, there is little sign as yet of the transformational changes required in the HE sector"frontiersin.orgFrontiers | “No research on a dead planet”: preserving the socio-ecological conditions for academiaEmergency declarations, most academics continue to operate according to 'businessas-usual'. However, such passivity increases the risk of climate impacts so ... 022
Reposted by Kai BosworthJoseph Henderson @josephenderson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026This is really great to see. We found something similar in our study of Canadian higher education policies: cjhe-rces.ca/index.php/cj...cjhe-rces.ca Climate Change and the Canadian Higher Education System: An Institutional Policy Analysis | Canadian Journal of Higher Education 011
Kai Bosworth @kaibosworth.bsky.social · 02/09/2026🚨New article 🚨 Jesse Goldstein, Ben Haskett, Caroline May, and I mobilize "critical university studies" to investigate how "sustainability" is used as a pseudo-activity. we argue higher ed depoliticizes and partitions environmental and climate action. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...onlinelibrary.wiley.comCritical University Sustainability Studies: Evaluating <fc>STARS</fc> Reporting as Depoliticized Environmental Pseudo‐ActivityThis article places university sustainability within broader literatures of critical and abolitionist university studies to understand how it depoliticizes environmental action and dispels more radic... 34211
Kai Bosworth @kaibosworth.bsky.social · 02/09/2026i got a jury duty summons while i am ON SABBATICAL and on a residency IN ANOTHER CITY which I applied for over a YEAR ago. if they don't let me off, I am going to blow a gasket. 140
Kai Bosworth @kaibosworth.bsky.social · 01/09/2026note to self: look at conference registration fees BEFORE submitting an abstract 0110
Kai Bosworth @kaibosworth.bsky.social · 31/08/2026reading and writing today and tomorrow about Lechuguilla cave, and I'm running out of hyperbole to describe the speleothems. everything is really astonishing and bizarre. there are some pictures up here...presents the problem of how to alt-text them. lechuguilla-cave.info/photos/lechuguilla-cave.infoLechuguilla Cave info – The PhotosPortfolio of photos from ‘Lechuguilla Cave: Discoveries in a Hidden Splendor’ with images taken by the main cave photographers of the book project. 030
Reposted by Kai BosworthRanjani Srinivasan @rrr3006.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Last year we won divestment; now we are pushing for boycott! 🚨🚨AAG members-past, present, and future! Sign our GJP letter asking the AAG Council to put the boycott of complicit Israeli academic institutions to a membership vote. www.jotform.com/form/2622151...jotform.comLetter to AAG in support of a membership vote on boycott of Israeli academic institutionsPlease click the link to complete this form. 044
Reposted by Kai Bosworthali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 23/08/2026still thinking about the bit at the end in particular, but it's super interestingversobooks.comWhere is the U.S. climate movement?In the United States, there is a pervasive sense that the once-ascendent climate movement is in disarray or has even disappeared. The prior decade saw the actions and ambitions of climate activism bec... 03410
Kai Bosworth @kaibosworth.bsky.social · 27/08/2026a whole 44 page PDF of political seed art from this year's minnesota state fair www.cropart.com/Resist.pdfcropart.com 071
Kai Bosworth @kaibosworth.bsky.social · 26/08/2026a most bizarre experience is running into a review written by someone you know IRL on goodreads (a hellish website I still use) 010
Kai Bosworth @kaibosworth.bsky.social · 25/08/2026"A rare win in Indian country: how tribes drove out a mining company in one week At the sacred prairie of Pe’ Sla in South Dakota, Indigenous and environmental groups banded together to halt drilling" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comA rare win in Indian country: how tribes drove out a mining company in one weekAt the sacred prairie of Pe’ Sla in South Dakota, Indigenous and environmental groups banded together to halt drilling 073
Reposted by Kai BosworthAlleen Brown @alleenbrown.bsky.social · 24/08/2026100+ pages of WhatsApp chats & emails reveal the details of the propaganda effort waged by Energy Transfer's security contractor TigerSwan against the Indigenous led Standing Rock movement. 10 years later and new details continue to emerge www.hcn.org/issues/58-8/... w/ @drilledmedia.bsky.socialhcn.orgInside Standing Rock’s propaganda war - High Country NewsStanding Rock increased division in North Dakota between Indigenous communities and nearby non-Indigenous communities. Propaganda made it worse. 24635
Kai Bosworth @kaibosworth.bsky.social · 24/08/2026the hummingbirds are going loco fighting over honeysuckle 040
Kai Bosworth @kaibosworth.bsky.social · 21/08/2026if I said "critique of Harvey on "militant particularism"", who comes to mind? 120
Reposted by Kai BosworthGeographers for Justice in Palestine @geogboycott.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Building on successful pressure to bring our professional organization into compliance with the Divestment demands of BDS, we are asking Council to pass a motion putting the boycott of Israeli academic institutions complicit in genocide, occupation, and apartheid to a membership vote. 053
Reposted by Kai BosworthGeographers for Justice in Palestine @geogboycott.bsky.social · 20/08/2026AAG members -- please sign our letter to AAG Council in support of a membership vote on an academic boycott! www.jotform.com/form/2622151... 195
Reposted by Kai BosworthVerso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Where is the U.S. climate movement? @kaibosworth.bsky.social on the U.S. climate movement's retreat and future prospects. www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/w...versobooks.comWhere is the U.S. climate movement?In the United States, there is a pervasive sense that the once-ascendent climate movement is in disarray or has even disappeared. The prior decade saw the actions and ambitions of climate activism bec... 0218
Reposted by Kai BosworthKai Bosworth @kaibosworth.bsky.social · 20/08/2026new from me on the Verso blog: what happened to the U.S. climate movement? what can we learn from it's dissipation? and in a time of quietude, what can be gleaned from contrasts with the data center rebellion? www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/w...versobooks.comWhere is the U.S. climate movement?In the United States, there is a pervasive sense that the once-ascendent climate movement is in disarray or has even disappeared. The prior decade saw the actions and ambitions of climate activism bec... 14519
Kai Bosworth @kaibosworth.bsky.social · 20/08/2026new from me on the Verso blog: what happened to the U.S. climate movement? what can we learn from it's dissipation? and in a time of quietude, what can be gleaned from contrasts with the data center rebellion? www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/w...versobooks.comWhere is the U.S. climate movement?In the United States, there is a pervasive sense that the once-ascendent climate movement is in disarray or has even disappeared. The prior decade saw the actions and ambitions of climate activism bec... 14519
Reposted by Kai BosworthAmy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Excited to announce we've got a new @drilledmedia.bsky.social miniseries coming in partnership with @highcountrynews.org! As the 10-year anniversary of #StandingRock hits, @alleenbrown.bsky.social brings us the inside story of Energy Transfer's propaganda: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...podcasts.apple.comWelcome to The PropagandistPodcast Episode · Drilled · S16 Trailer · 2m 03716