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Matt Barlow

@materialbarlow.bsky.social
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Postdoc at the Technical University of Munich. Undisciplined anthropologist interested in the intersection of art / ecology / politics. He/him. mattbarlow.me

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Matt Barlow @materialbarlow.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
On my way to Krakow for EASST. Presenting a paper on ambivalent relations to water on Thursday with my colleague Anna-Maria Walter. Anyone around?
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
'New research coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC has found that AI assistants – already a daily information gateway for millions of people – routinely misrepresent news content no matter which language, territory, or AI platform is tested.' 1/2
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Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC
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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
The journal Environmental Humanities is still looking for midcareer/senior #envhum scholars interested in becoming a co-editor-in-chief from January 2026. You can apply as an individual and we'll find an appropriate co-editor match for you. See environmentalhumanities.org
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Environmental Humanities – A journal published by Duke University Press
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Whoa. Chicago mayor calls for a general strike; now we're talking www.huffpost.com/entry/chicag...
huffpost.com
Chicago Mayor Issues Defiant Call For A General Strike
It was an audacious proposal, given that the U.S. has never held a true, nationwide general strike.
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Matt Barlow @materialbarlow.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
I have spent the last few days installing this wonderful exhibition Ecologies of the Machine, curated by Tania Tovar and researched by Kim Förster. Reminded of how exhausting install labour is, and how rewarding it is. Exhib is up for the next few days at Pavillon 333, Munich.
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Matt Barlow @materialbarlow.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Excited to be part of the team to help realise this exhibition in Munich next week, our first public event/exhibition as part of the new Chair of Sustainable Urban Environments here at TUM
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Matt Barlow @materialbarlow.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Inspired by David Bond's provocation that the future of toxicity is replacing the history of empire as a vehicle for addressing the blind spots of liberalism, highlighting that theories of toxicity have paid such little attention to the political economy of petrochemical industries. #DGSKA2025
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Matt Barlow @materialbarlow.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Really enjoyed my last couple of days at the @infranortherc.bsky.social conference 'Beyond Infrastructure: Un-built environments of the anthropocene' in Vienna. My first time presenting research from my PhD in Europe 💫
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Matt Barlow @materialbarlow.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Wrapping up my time at Penn in preparation for my move to Munich... Reflecting on the books that have kept me company (and been staring at me!) over the last 10 months...
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New York Transit Museum @nytransitmuseum.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
#WomensHistoryMonth: The City of Women Map is a fascinating visualization of women’s history and urban transportation. Created by Molly Roy, Rebecca Solnit, and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, the map renames subway stops after notable women with links to that area, offering an entirely new way to view #NYC.
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WIRED @wired.com · 28/03/2025
BREAKING: DOGE is starting to put together a team to migrate the SSA's computer systems entirely off one of its oldest programming languages in a matter of months, potentially putting the integrity of the system—and the benefits on which tens of millions of Americans rely—at risk.
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DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase In Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse
Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months.
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The Boston Globe @bostonglobe.com · 26/03/2025
The Tufts graduate student detained by federal authorities in Somerville has been sent to a Louisiana detention facility, despite a federal judge’s order telling US Immigration and Customs Enforcement not to remove her from Massachusetts without notice.
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Tufts graduate student detained by federal authorities sent to Louisiana - The Boston Globe
Masked plainclothes officers arrested Rumeysa Ozturk outside a Somerville home Tuesday evening.
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Ajantha Subramanian @ajanthasubramanian.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Harvard AAUP's Vincent Brown on the lawsuit filed yesterday against the Trump administration's ideological-deportation policy.
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natureandspace.bsky.social @natureandspace.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
OnlineFirst - "‘Mine the volume’: Excess and the voluminous ecological politics of capitalist frontiers" by @yolandaariadne.bsky.social, @theoreevesevison.bsky.social, @materialbarlow.bsky.social, and @lydcole.bsky.social: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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‘Mine the volume’: Excess and the voluminous ecological politics of capitalist frontiers - Yolanda Ariadne Collins, Theo Reeves-Evison, Matt Barlow, Lydia E.S. Cole, 2025
Mining frontiers are moving ever further beyond Earth's surface, as new subterranean realms, the seafloor, the atmosphere and outer space increasingly come...
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Matt Barlow @materialbarlow.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Excited to see this out in the world! This article is a result from my year of working alongside Ari, Theo, and Lydia. Here we attempted to grapple with the ways that capitalist frontiers have always been voluminous, and are increasingly moving more explicitly into "non-terrestrial realms".
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Eric Klinenberg @ericklinenberg.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Chilling report from Brown University. Administration advises all foreign students, staff, and faculty to postpone or reconsider (ie cancel) international travel, due to federal government's crackdown on universities. Brown also warns against *domestic travel* -since it's unclear what ICE will do.
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Brown University advises all international community members to postpone, reconsider travel
One week before spring break, Brown advised international community members, including green card holders and permanent residents, to postpone international travel in a campus-wide email sent on Sunda...
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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 03/02/2025
Thousands of protesters rallied in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday against President Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration and his aggressive deportation policies.
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Thousands of protesters rally in downtown Los Angeles against Trump's immigration policies
Draped in Mexican and Salvadoran and flags, roughly 1,000 demonstrators gathered near City Hall shortly before noon, blocking traffic at Spring and Temple streets
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
This is a concentration camp.
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Brittney McNamara @brittneymac15.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Ok, here's what you need to know about Trump's anti-trans executive order targeting trans youth. Teamed up with @leximcmenamin.bsky.social to explain what it means for trans youth right now, with legal input from @aclu.org attorney @harperseldin.bsky.social www.teenvogue.com/story/trumps...
teenvogue.com
Everything We Know About Trump's Executive Order on Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Youth
From what it says to what it means for you.
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
BREAKING: Acting @EPA Administrator James Payne has fired the agency's science advisors. They will be replaced in order to, he says, "ensure that the agency receives scientific advice consistent with its legal obligations to advance our core mission," whatever that means.
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EPA fires science advisers
01/28/2025 07:24 PM EST Acting EPA Administrator James Payne has ousted all members of two of the agency's most influential science advisory panels, giving President Donald Trump's
administration the opportunity to reshape them with its own appointees. In an obliquely worded email sent late Tuesday afternoon, Payne said a decision had been made to "reset" the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee and Science Advisory Board "to ensure that the agency receives scientific advice consistent with its legal
obligations to advance our core mission." EPA will seek nominations in the coming weeks, Payne added, with all members
encouraged to reapply.
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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Durham University has become the latest Russell Group institution to announce plans to cut jobs, stating it needs to reduce staff costs by £20 million over the next two academic years #highered #EduSky
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Durham expects 200 jobs to go as it seeks to save £20 million
University becomes latest to announce staff cuts, saying it cannot rule out compulsory redundancies
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Max Liboiron @maxliboiron.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Really looking forward to working with someone on Indigenizing quantitative methods! The position is very flexible (FT or part time, remote or in person, can be made a postdoc) anticipating a range of researchers. #IndigeousSTEM civiclaboratory.nl/2025/01/18/p...
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Position: Research Associate in Indigenous approaches to quantitative research
We are looking for two experienced researchers who are fluent in Indigenous approaches to quantitative methods. Experience can come from community research, graduate degrees, and/or research positi…
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
You can track the unfolding disaster at Cardiff University here LIVE, as one of the UK's constituent nations actually chooses to gut parts of its flagship HEI: www.walesonline.co.uk/news/educati...
walesonline.co.uk
Cardiff University job cuts as 400 roles go and courses axed – live
Staff say they are in shock as nursing, modern languages, and music are among degrees being axed with 400 jobs academic jobs at risk
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Timothy Neale @tdneale.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Hello, so, I'm an anthropologist who has studied wildfires for over a decade and, just recently, handed in a book manuscript for peer review on the pathologies of wildfire management in Australia and, to a lesser extent, Canada and the US. It's called "How to Control Fire" (TBC).
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Antonio Roman-Alcalá @antidogmatist.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
The uneven extraction of wealth and resources from South to North never ended, and the funds the South now demands for climate are a mere token of the kind of reparations that would actually be just (not to mention effective towards creating an actually-sustainable global society)
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
I'm keen to encourage more reflection & discussion about universities role in responding to the #ClimateCrisis. So, I've started another starter pack of key voices on this topic. Would love to add more people to it. Suggestions are very welcome 🙂 go.bsky.app/R51quRA
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Matt Barlow @materialbarlow.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Interesting to see some collaborative river engagement/pedagogy happening at Cobbs Creek in West Philly, including a scavenger hunt to find human influences on the creek. penntoday.upenn.edu/news/penn-ne...
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Rivers in a changing world | Penn Today
A new Academically Based Community Service class brings Penn and William L. Sayre High School students together to learn environmental science and engineering.
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Another day, another university in crisis. This time it's Canterbury Christ Church, to lose say 400 jobs and over a quarter of posts. The reality of what is happening in UK Higher Education - and even worse, what is about to happen - is crushing. I'm so sorry. www.kentonline.co.uk/canterbury/n...
kentonline.co.uk
Uni staff told in video call 400 jobs could go to save £20m
More than a quarter of jobs at a university could be slashed in a bid to save £20 million, KentOnline can reveal.
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Matt Barlow @materialbarlow.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
"Real impact on our economy will come from areas such as physics, chemistry, maths, engineering, and biomedical sciences"
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Mary Annaïse Heglar @maryannaise.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
People who think “the markets” will save us from climate change do not understand that capitalism created climate change.
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Dr. Allison Wiltz @allyfromnola.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
“I never realized how easily people could be trained to accept slavery”— Octavia E. Butler
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Dr. Lorgia García Peña @laprofelgp.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Do people say free Palestine on here? Let’s start a chant please. Free Palestine. 🇵🇸
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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 19/11/2024
Boston U Suspends Admissions to Humanities and Social Science Ph.D. Programs www.insidehighered.com/news/admissi...
insidehighered.com
BU suspends admissions to humanities, other Ph.D. programs
The university didn’t announce its decision in a news release and hasn’t fully explained it, but two deans blamed a new grad workers’ union contract for the cutbacks to a dozen programs including Engl...
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Matt Barlow @materialbarlow.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Seeing Kali Malone play organ live has been a dream of mine for a few years ✨
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Matt Barlow @materialbarlow.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Wild that Penn museum/anthropology is still finding remains from the MOVE massacre (when the Philadelphia police department dropped two bombs on a residential home in 1985). www.inquirer.com/news/philade...
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Penn says it has found more human remains from the MOVE bombing at its museum
The remains matched records for Delisha Africa, who was 12 when she was killed with 10 other members of the Black liberation and activist group MOVE, the museum said.
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Matt Barlow @materialbarlow.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Hello many new followers! I am a researcher interested in the connections between waste infrastructures and climate action. I am a recent transplant to the USA (Philly) from Australia via Edinburgh where I was a postdoc at St Andrews. I also play basketball and listen to a lot of music.
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 09/11/2024
For the next two weeks, we’re offering ten free ebooks for getting free Another world is possible if we fight for it www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/517-te...
Ten book covers: How We Get Free, Hope in the Dark, Freedom is a Constant Struggle, Palestine in a World on Fire, Let This Radicalize you, Socialism... Seriously, The Black Antifascist Tradition, Elite Capture, Class Struggle Unionism, and Unbuild Walls. More details at the included link.
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Matt Barlow @materialbarlow.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Six albums that have helped me through 2024: tinangelrecords.bandcamp.com/album/sentir...
tinangelrecords.bandcamp.com
Sentir que no sabes, by Mabe Fratti
13 track album
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Matt Barlow @materialbarlow.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Woke up in Philly yesterday to the smell of smoke from wildfires in New Jersey... In November. Philly had our first rainfall in over a month yesterday, and temps have been pushing 80 (25c) throughout fall. #climateactionnow
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Guelph On Two Wheels @guelphontwowheels.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Massive turnout at Toronto protest to save bike lanes. "You take our lane, we'll take yours!!" Source: reddit.com/comments/1gn... #SafeStreetsSaveLives #Toronto #TOPolo #ONPoli #DougFord #CycleTO
Street densely filled with people on bicycles.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
a timely reminder for folks entering/returning to organizing. a major strength of the left is that its values encourage accomodating all sorts of people and behavior. a major weakness of the left is that its values encourage accomodating all sorts of people and behavior.
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Chloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
Lots of bad going around BUT ALSO a few of us are hosting a book party at the #AAA2024Tampa at earth & bone studio. Friday from 8–late. We'll have food, drinks, music, and catharsis. Good vibes only. Come hang! 📚🥂💃🎉
Poster with six rectangles on top of a bone-colored background. Text on the bottom reads in black: "DRINKS / FOOD / BOOKS / MUSIC / VIBES." Give of the rectangles are book covers, with titles, "Futures after Progress," "Excited Delirium," "Petro-state Masquerade," "Voice and Nation in Plurinational Bolivia," and "A Burdensome Experiment." The sixth rectangle reads: "Join us for a book party. Friday, November 22, eight til late. Earth & Bone. 108 N 11th St."
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Matt Barlow @materialbarlow.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
Everyday is Cocteau Twins day.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 13/08/2024
Ignore the headline, because they didn’t know how to capture the profundity of Omar Bartov seeing the reality of Gaza. What a piece to read on Tisha B’Av. www.theguardian.com/world/articl...
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As a former IDF soldier and historian of genocide, I was deeply disturbed by my recent visit to Israel
The long read: This summer, one of my lectures was protested by far-right students. Their rhetoric brought to mind some of the darkest moments of 20th-century history – and overlapped with mainstream ...
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 13/08/2024
"The STS Teachbook Editorial Collective are calling for contributors to develop learning activity “recipes” (<1000 words each) for An STS Teachbook, a handbook for STS-infused critical pedagogy practices. Interested scholars should send proposals for recipes by filling out the form before Sept 9"
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Call for Proposals - Submissions Due September 9, 2024
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Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 22/04/2024
Tufts STS is hiring a PT lecturer for next year. Teaching load is two reading+discussion-only "reading labs," plus one intro lecture on a topic of candidate's choice; it's benefits-eligible. Please share; I can answer questions about it: apply.interfolio.com/144771
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