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

The supposedly “unprecedented” ethics restrictions exempt Trump’s crypto businesses and leave enforcement to his loyalists

CNN and CNBC are pushing Kalshi on viewers but not telling them the whole story.

This paper maps the geography of artificial intelligence (AI) innovation, exposure and use across European Union (EU) NUTS-2 regions using six complementary indicators. Findings reveal a spatial pa...

From climate change to geopolitics, the knowledge, skills and insights of geographers have never been more relevant, say five professors

Abstract. New digital industries like artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and cryptocurrency mining are voracious energy consumers, with complex implications for states’ climate action, economic...

Driven by big tech and corporate concentration, companies are using surveillance to warp prices and extract from consumers

Classical rational choice theory assumes preferences are complete, presupposing that an agent's evaluative considerations have a common scale. We drop completen

Drop in institutional autonomy of 50 percent since 2015 means country is now only rated as “moderate” by experts.

Digital assets company will be able to connect directly into key parts of central bank’s infrastructure

The decision means the industry is a step closer to becoming integrated into the mainstream financial system.

In James C. Scott’s last book, In Praise of Floods, he questions the limits of human hegemony and our misplaced sense that we have any control over the Earth’s depleted watershed.

Debt investors are worried that the biggest tech companies will keep borrowing until it hurts in the battle to develop the most powerful artificial intelligence.

Alphabet Inc. has received close to ten times orders for a £1 billion ($1.4 billion) sale of an ultra rare 100-year bond, a landmark transaction in the debt-fueled race for artificial intelligence sup...

Sam Bankman-Fried makes his case for a retrial and aspiring crypto banks hit roadblocks

Multiple buyouts and bankruptcies have ruined iconic brands and hollowed out skateboarding culture. It’s our financialized economy in miniature.

Jim Dickinson traces how a student loans system once sold as cost-sharing has become one where graduates fund everything – and where Labour has quietly reversed promises to make things fairer Jim Dick...

Bitcoin, the most important and well-known cryptocurrency, was born out of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) of 2008–9. In a context of institutional mistrust, cryptocurrencies emerged as part of a...

A thorough examination of the worldwide digital transformation of people’s everyday monetary and financial relations driven by the emergence of FinTech

ChatGPT answers often repeat negative stereotypes and reinforce prejudices, study shows

The British Academy is commissioning a major new research element as part of its work theme on social and cultural infrastructure. The research will investigate how social and cultural infrastructure ...

We're invitomh all geographers to the launch of the States of Precarity in UK Higher Education Geography report.

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Publishing Beyond the Market argues that the move to open access should focus less on the free accessibility of research outputs and more on who controls the publications and infrastructures for schol...

During the first decade of cryptocurrencies (2008–2017) there were few connections established between crypto and the conventional finance sector, but in the US in 2025 the integration of these two...

This month's newsletter features a Director's Note unpacking the UK government's latest White Paper on higher education. Also included: upcoming ISRF events, Fellows news and our latest blog posts.