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Kean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Our special issue on #TechOligarchy has just come out in @sciasculture.bsky.social! Our first issue has 13 articles in on lots of different topics by lots of different authors - go check it out! www.tandfonline.com/toc/csac20/3...

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Science as Culture

Tech Oligarchy Forum - Part 1. Volume 35, Issue 3 of Science as Culture

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Anne Rabe @annerabe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Liebe Leute, ich habe etwas zu verkünden. Am 6.10.18:00 Uhr wird es im Rangfoyer des Deutschen Theaters in Berlin eine Solidaritätsveranstaltung für die Zivilgesellschaft in Sachsen-Anhalt geben. Denn am 6.10. wird in Magdeburg der neue Landtag zusammen kommen und zum ersten Mal seit der Ernennung

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Humangeographie | Human Geography @ Uni Wue @humangeowue.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Die Geographische Gesellschaft #Würzburg organisiert im Wintersemester ein Vortragsprogramm @uni-wuerzburg.de, u.a. mit Sina Hardaker, Alicia von Schenk, @joschkawanner.bsky.social, Peter Bofinger und der Fachschaftsinitiative #Geographie. #GeoSky www.geographie.uni-wuerzburg.de/ggw/veransta...

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#tdih 1962, "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson published, exposed impact of pesticides on environment. Carson was vilified: called a Communist, disloyal, unscientific, and hysterical. Sound familiar? Attacks on truth tellers, with media complicity. See⬇️🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/si...

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Sept. 27, 1962: Silent Spring Published

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson was published.

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James Felton Keith @jamesfeltonkeith.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

My New Book "YOUR DATA, THEIR WEALTH: The Price of Human Input to the Al Economy", is out early, wherever you read or listen to books. This is the new Labor & Property argument that we must get right in order to have any rights in the future. jamesfeltonkeith.com/yourdata

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Soziopolis @soziopolis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Heute vor 40 Jahren erschien Ulrich Becks „Risikogesellschaft“. Veit Braun und Vicky Kluzik lesen den zeitdiagnostischen Klassiker neu: Was macht die anhaltende Aktualität des Buches aus und warum ist es nichtsdestotrotz von den Lehrplänen verschwunden? www.soziopolis.de/beck-to-the-...

Screenshot der Website hinter dem Link. Essaytitel: Beck to the Future.
40 Jahre „Risikogesellschaft“ von Ulrich Beck

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Simon Dudek @simondudek.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Herzlichen Dank an @markushesse60.bsky.social für die ausführliche und kluge Rezension unseres Bandes „Krisen ländlicher Räume“! Sehr schön, dass das Buch so aufmerksam gelesen wurde. rur.oekom.de/index.php/ru...

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Book review of: Kallert, Andreas; Dudek, Simon (Hrsg.) (2026): Krisen ländlicher Räume. Ursachen und Folgen von Austeritätspolitik in Kommunen | Raumforschung und Raumordnung | Spatial Resea...

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Brian Doucet @briandoucet.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Kitchener-Waterloo screening of 'Thinking Beyond the Market: a film about genuinely affordable housing' Tuesday 29 September 7:00pm University of Waterloo School of Pharmacy (10A Victoria St N, Kitchener) Co-hosted by @therecord.com Info & free registration here: www.eventbrite.ca/e/thinking-b...

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Thinking Beyond the Market: a film about genuinely affordable housing

Film Screening followed by Q&A with director Dr Brian Doucet and editor-in-chief of the Waterloo Region Record

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Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society @cjres.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

🔥Our upcoming issue is Cities and the Climate Crisis - edited by Meric Gertler, Betsy Donald, Amy Glasmeier and Siqi Zheng. The Editorial Introduction is open access online: academic.oup.com/cjres/advanc...

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The climate crisis: in what sense an urban problem?

In February 2026, the Trump Administration made global headlines when it reversed a scientific ruling by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) known

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Aarne Granlund @aarnegranlund.eurosky.social · 10/09/2026

The internal combustion engine vehicle (ICEV) system incurs USD 7.2 trillion in externalised costs to society every year. Combined with private costs, 9.3 trillion, equivalent to 8.3 % of global GDP. Talking about the costs of driving! #Sufficiency is e-bikes. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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The global cost of automobility

This study quantifies the private and social costs of global automobility and evaluates the potential economic benefits of a transition to shared elec…

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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

New Towns Mark One by the late Elain Harwood, ed. @alistairfair.bsky.social provides the first detailed architectural survey of the ‘mark one’ new towns. ➡️ Read the interview with Alistair about the book on the LUP blog: bit.ly/HE-NewTowns @c20society.bsky.social @geraintfranklin.bsky.social

A blue background of a blue and white tiled building fascia with a clock on a blue sky background. The text on the image reads 'Charting the architectural history of Britain's initial post-war new towns: the so-called 'mark one' new towns.

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Justin Kadi @justinkadi.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

New paper: The unlawful rent gap: How landlords close rent gaps despite rent regulation This paper challenges the dominant understanding in the literature that rent regulation inhibits the operation of the rent gap. doi.org/10.1177/0308... What the paper does... 1/n

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Markus Hesse @markushesse60.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

When exploring the city of #Porto, Portugal, it becomes evident that major parts of it/of urban life appear to be staged. At S. Bento-Station, more ppl seemingly admire the building rather than taking a train. Can one imagine that will happen to #Stuttgart31?

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Reinhold Leinfelder @leinre.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Both of our new Anthropocene Working Group papers on the importance of the Anthropocene have just been published in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 🧪 a) Importance of the Anthropocene for multidisciplinary and systemic research (see also b below) 1/2 @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social

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Tim White @timwhite100.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Our research (w/Edward Shepherd) on the political economy of land value capture won this year’s @rtpiplanners.bsky.social Patsy Healey Prize for Academic Excellence! Check it out here: housingevidence.ac.uk/project/who-...

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Who should own the value of land? Housing, power and the deep politics of land value capture - UK Collaborative Centre For Housing Evidence

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Regional Studies Association @regstud.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Newly published #openaccess 'Cities at war: donors, hubs and brokers in urban responses to the Russian invasion of Ukraine' by Natalia Matiaszczyk & Tomasz Kamiński. Find the article at doi.org/10.1080/21622671.2026.27049…

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Very exciting opportunity with brilliant and inspiring colleagues

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Markus Hesse @markushesse60.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Sitting wit my 🇺🇦colleague and family visitors from #Dnipro for breakfast, while phones are ringing, bringing news about rocket attacks on their hometown #Brovary. Relatives seem to be OK, but nobody can accommodate to air raids coming in every two hours. Distant things can become awfully close.

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Marita Rainsborough: Foucault Today: New Perspectives in Philosophy and Cultural Studies - Transcript, May 2025 www.transcript-publishing.com/978-3-8376-7...

Cover of book - blue-green background, with author, subtitle and publisher in small black letters. Title is Foucault in black and Today in white, slightly overlapping.

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LSE Press @lsepress.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Praise for Geography and a Geographer: Reimagining the Discipline after Ron Johnston, edited by Richard Harris, David Manley and Robert Mayhew. 🕊️ @rgs.org ➡️ This collection is free to read and download from the LSE Press website and third-parties including JSTOR: press.lse.ac.uk/books/e/10.3...

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Colin Lorne @colinlorne.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

OpenSpace Research Centre: Doreen Massey Annual Event 2026 // Thursday 3rd September 6pm onwards Public exhibition & roundtable discussion (with Dave Featherstone) RGS/IBG fringe event Metroland Studios Kilburn, London, NW6 6PS Food & drink provided This event is free & open to everyone

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

We have two very exciting professorships open for applications at the @dependencybonn.de! And unusually, they are Tenure Track - which means you can go from W2 to W3 (this is not very common in Germany). See thread for 2nd link. www.uni-bonn.de/en/universit...

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W2 Professorship in Cultural Heritage with a focus on German Colonialism with Tenure Track W3

W2 Professorship

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Geologists and evolutionary biologists do not have to debate creationists. Astronomers do not have to debate pre-Copernican theories of the heavens. Doctors do not have to debate anti-vax nuts. Climate scientists do not have to debate industry-funded deniers. All that goes for racists times ten.

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Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg @stabihh.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Künstler-Safari durch die „hässlichste Stadt der Welt“: Wo Lucky Luke, Gaston und das Marsupilami erdacht wurden „Manche sehen in der belgischen Stadt Charleroi, die eine wichtige Wiege des frankobelgischen Comics ist, eine Stadt der Verlierer. Doch Künstler machen aus der Not eine Tugend.“

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Künstler-Safari durch die „hässlichste Stadt der Welt“: Wo Lucky Luke, Gaston und das Marsupilami erdacht wurden

Manche sehen in der belgischen Stadt Charleroi, die eine wichtige Wiege des frankobelgischen Comics ist, eine Stadt der Verlierer. Doch Künstler machen aus der Not eine Tugend.

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Brett Christophers @brettchristophers.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Penguin has a page up for my new book, coming Feb 2027, HOUSE SOCIETY The epigraph is from Kenneth T. Jackson's famous "Crabgrass Frontier": "... no society can be fully understood apart from the residences of its members" The book is an exploration and affirmation of that thesis!

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House Society

The world is in the midst of a deep and worsening housing crisis. It has caused rents to soar in Britain, millions to protest in Spain, and a government to collapse in Sweden. Under a global ideology ...

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Mia Gray @mia-gray.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

A call for papers for a special issue in CJRES on the changing economic geographies of the defence industry. The defence industry has a complex relationship to industrial and regional policy. What are the spatial & regional implications of the new arms race? academic.oup.com/cjres/pages/...

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Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society | Oxford Academic

A journal of the Cambridge Political Economy Society. The journal publishes multi-disciplinary research on the spatial dimensions of contemporary socio-economic-political change, and examines the effe...

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Beth Kitson @drbethkitson.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

'Adopting a historical perspective... challenges us to measure the value generated from the interactions between institutions and infrastructure, recognising that it is often their complementarity rather than their individual strength that shapes long-term economic outcomes.'

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The Cambridge Phenomenon: what can we learn about the role of institutions and infrastructure? - Bennett School of Public Policy

Cambridge’s emergence as a global innovation powerhouse was not the result of a single policy or institution, but decades of interaction between government intervention, infrastructure, institutions a...

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Markus Hesse @markushesse60.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Excellent piece that puts the tragic individual case in institutional context. Learning about “window dressing”, “overworked ppl” and the fragmentation of Campus & University that all contribute to the ‘Cambridge Illusion’.

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Joe @westmecklenburg-gegen-rechts.de · 16/08/2026

SZ: Wo sind denn die Klimaaktivisten, es ist viel zu warm. Tut doch endlich was... Luisa Neubauer dazu:

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LISER - Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research @liser.lu · 14/08/2026

📢 Job opportunity at LISER. We are actively recruiting a: 🔹PhD Candidate in #housing provision as enjoyment 🔗https://jobs.liser.lu/job/Esch-sur-Alzette-PhD-Candidate-in-Housing-provision-as-enjoyment-%28fm%29-Ref-26-27-L-4366/1363258955/ @douccap.bsky.social @liser-udm.bsky.social

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Mark Crinson, Aviationland: Heathrow and the Making of an Airport Landscape - Paul Mellon Centre, June 2026 and New Books discussion yalebooks.co.uk/book/9781913... @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social discussion with Miranda Melcher newbooksnetwork.com/aviationland

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Aviationland - Yale University Press London

How the UK’s largest international airport remade a local landscape Aviationland is the first critical study to examine how a major international...

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Max Nathan @maxnathan.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

A major loss. Michael was tireless, intellectually curious, full of energy, with a huge drive to educate. He was generous with time and ideas; always full of questions. He was especially kind to junior colleagues, and unfailingly supportive of other people’s projects. May his memory be a blessing.

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Richard Harris, David Manley and Robert Mayhew eds. Geography and a Geographer: Reimagining the Discipline after Ron Johnston - LSE Press/RGS-IBG series, August 2026 - print and open access press.lse.ac.uk/books/e/10.3... Piece about the book on the LSE Press blog. blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsepress/202...

Cover of book, with black and white photograph of Ron Johnston in an office. Pile of papers in the foreground, Johnston looking to the right in the middle ground and bookshelves behind. Title and other information in boxes.

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Bruce Stiftel @brucestiftel.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Congratulations to Genie Birch of @upenn.edu, recipient of the Sir Peter Hall Award for Lifetime Achievement in Planning History, presented yesterday at the International Planning History Society conference in Atlanta.

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Gerard Toal @critgeopolitics.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

So the new and outgoing Presidents of Ireland met yesterday and a certain book was visible on the table... Thanks @president.ie Michael D. Higgins for your great service to Ireland down the years (and for this little personal surprise). Here's to the success of President elect Catherine Connolly.

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Brilliant Maps @brilliantmaps.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Can you beat my Impossible Countries Of The World With No Borders Minefield Game? Give it a try here: brilliantmaps.com/world-min... (Note only countries bigger than Luxembourg are included)

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Claudia Keller @clia.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Ich habe eine Postdoc-Stelle (3 Jahre, 80%) in meiner Gruppe im Environmental Sciences and Humanities Institute an der Uni Fribourg zu vergeben! Es geht um die Erforschung von negativen Werten von Feuchtgebieten aus literatur- und kulturwissenschaftlicher Perspektive: www.unifr.ch/env/de/about...

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Markus Hesse @markushesse60.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Nothing better in the heat (31 degrees) than enjoying the shadow in the forest of Eastern 🇱🇺

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Mark Tewdwr-Jones @marktewdwr-jones.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I was happy to provide a perspective on the prospects for place-based devolution and engagement for a ‘devolution panel’ for The Conversation this week, in the run up to Andy Burnham becoming Prime Minister @casaucl.bsky.social @thebartlettucl.bsky.social

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Geography at Durham @geogdurham.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Registration is now open for the UK Antarctic Science meeting which will be hosted by Durham Geography in September. The deadline for registration and abstract submissions is Monday 27th July. Link for both processes are below. Conference link: lnkd.in/etW9fmMM

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

If you are a university, don’t do this. You are losing your credibility, and more.

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