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Nick Bingham

@nickbi.bsky.social
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Geographer at The Open University, UK thinking materialities :: with :: care (not necessarily in that order)

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Registration is now open. www.yorku.ca/laps/the-alc...
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The Alchemy Lecture
The Alchemy Lecture is a multi-vocal model that brings together a constellation of three to four thinkers and practitioners from different disciplines and geographies annually to think together and in...
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Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In case it wasn't clear, academia is crumbling under the enormous flood of AI-generated content. The latest victim is the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) flagship EU postdoctoral fellowships. The number of submissions has more than doubled in the past 3 years.
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Gunjan Sondhi @gunjans.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
📢 What happens when we study the UK through the experiences of Indian migrant women in the IT sector? Our new paper argues for provincialising patriarchy as a methodological intervention, challenging assumptions about where patriarchy "belongs" and how it operates. doi.org/10.1111/tran...
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Stefan Ouma @econgeo.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Coming soon... With @landstuff.bsky.social @andremagnan.bsky.social @benbraun.eurosky.social @emilyreisman.bsky.social @desireefields.bsky.social @sarahrotz.bsky.social @jsizek.bsky.social @gtups.bsky.social and many others #ipesky @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social
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James Kneale @jameskneale.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I've just heard that the BA/BSc Geography programme is to close at the University of Exeter’s Centre for Geography and Environmental Science (CGES) in Cornwall. This programme was made up of excellent modules with original and content, taught brilliantly—often with real innovation—by extremely 1/9
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Annatomix @annatomix.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
FYI, I've got a wee offer on throughout August to help keep the lights on and the cub fed. www.annatomix.com
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Luísa Reis Castro @anthrobite.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I am deeply saddened to share the passing of Andrew Lakoff. Andy was a dear colleague, mentor, and friend. He left us far too soon and will be so deeply missed. I'm at a loss for words...
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Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Really sad to hear of the death of Andrew (Andy) Lakoff. His work on pandemic preparedness was pivotal for a whole generation of anthropologists of medicine in providing crucial new ways of understanding the biopolitics of our times & envisioning pathways for Global Health beyond biosecurity
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gillian rose @profgillian.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
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British Academy President: UK higher education crisis risks irreversible damage
As course closures, shrinking provision and widening regional inequalities threaten the future of UK higher education and research, President of the British Academy, Susan J Smith calls for an immedia...
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Ben Phillips @benphillips1989.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
A statement from Exeter UCU branch @ucu.org.uk - please share far and wide.
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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Such awful, awful news. Marjane Satrapi, the author of the four volumes of "Persepolis", one of the greatest of all graphic novels, has "died of sadness" at the age of 56, one year after the death of her beloved husband Mattias Ripa.
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Sociological and Cultural Studies, University of Glasgow @uofgsociology.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
If you're near Birmingham on the 3rd June, here's a chance to reflect on the importance of music to Stuart Hall's work. Organised by the Stuart Hall Archive project, with Mykaell Riley and our own Les Back @academicdiary.bsky.social
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Select tickets – Stuart Hall Archive Project Reading Seminar: Summer Specials – BRIG Cafe, The Warehouse, 54-57 Allison Street
Stuart Hall Archive Project Reading Seminar: Summer Specials – BRIG Cafe, The Warehouse, 54-57 Allison Street, Wed 3 Jun 2026 - The Stuart Hall Archive Project Readings Seminar in 2026 continues with ...
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Perry Barber @umpireplb.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Some thoughtful person provided a link to a non-paywalled version of this article: gcaptain.com/drowning/
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Drowning Doesn't Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing, call for help that most people expect. In this article, Mario explains what drowning really looks like and how to recognize it when its happening.
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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Quite the image. Newly elected Birmingham councillors from all political parties* standing together against racism and hate crime. *All political parties except Reform. None of the Reform councillors agreed to stand against racism and hate crime.
Newly elected Birmingham City Councillors from all parties, except Reform, taking a stand against racism and hate crime.
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Jon Agar @jonagar.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Please help spread the news far and wide! We have a new, full-time, permanent Lecturer in Global History of Science job @stsucl.bsky.social Don't be fooled by the application of deadline of only 9 June 2026. This is an open search #histsci #skystorians www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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Urban Multiplicities @urbanmulti.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
The final talk in the Urban Multiplicities Seminar Series will be delivered by @profgillian.bsky.social (@oxfordgeography.bsky.social) Tuesday 19th May, 16:30–18:00, Small Lecture Theatre. All welcome!
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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
If you are the editor of a journal and you have received a submission from me that looks a bit weird (weirder than usual) please assume it is a LLM-generated paper from a ghost author. This has happened four times in recent weeks. In each case it is possible to see how a genuine published paper 1/2
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Nick Bingham @nickbi.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Please share! Two PDRA jobs available on the UKRI-funded interdisciplinary MoonRISE project researching the effective governance of sites of cultural, scientific and environmental interest on the Moon. One Geography/STS slant, one law/governance. A great team at the OU led by Dr Alessandra Marino.
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Post Doctoral Research Associate, MoonRISE (FASS)
Post Doctoral Research Associate, MoonRISE (FASS)
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The Open University @openuniversity.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
At the OU, life-changing education is what drives us 💙 That’s why we’re continuing to offer the Care Experienced Scholarship, giving young people who’ve been in care the chance to unlock their potential through fully funded study. Ready to take the next step? Apply now 👉 ow.ly/Tx6Z50YCoBt
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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
I agree with the sentiment. But while the Earthrise image emphasises Earth's fragile environment, it does so by contrasting it with a supposedly dead and barren Moon. A dead Moon justifies mining with no environmental constraints. The Moon has a right to its ecological integrity. 🧪
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AstrobiologyOU @astrobiologyou.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
We are incredibly proud of the work Dr Alessandra Marino at all times, but even more so this week! It was her first Legal Subcommittee of UN COPUOS and she was giving a technical presentation! Her talk was entitled ‘Preserving Science: Considerations for the Moon we share’. Amazing work Ale!!
Ale stood in front of a display of the flags of the UN
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
How do we govern the moon? Our topical discussion paper www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/60...
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CARNEGIE
ENDOWMENT FOR NTERNATIONAL PEACE
Global (DisOrder international policy programme
From disorder to harm?
Governing
the Moon and protecting its sites of interest
Alessandra Marino, The Open University
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LE @spacedemands.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Excited to share a new paper in @societyandspace.bsky.social, co-authored with 8 graduate students from a Fall 2023 Black Geographies Seminar. I am grateful for them and our collaborators at Highlander, BattleField Farm, and the Children’s Defense Fund/Alex Haley Farm. doi.org/10.1177/0263...
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Given the upcoming Artemis launch this seems a good moment to draw your attention to our discussion paper on governing the sites of scientific interest on the Moon. The paper calls for documenting key sites & prioritising non invasive scientific activities www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/60...

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CARNEGIE
ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE
Global (DisOrder international policy programme
From disorder to harm?
Governing
the Moon and protecting its sites of interest
Alessandra Marino, The Open University
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Nick Bingham @nickbi.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Very excited to be part of this project and team
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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Strong recommendation to teaching faculty to just say no to this stuff, even if you are AI curious/enthusiastic. This is meant to reduce faculty autonomy and capture human labor with automation. You're selling out your future self and the profession as a whole. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...
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Canvas Unrolls AI Teaching Agent
The new AI agent aims to save faculty time on “low-value tasks,” but stops short of fully automating grading. But some experts worry that the rise of agentic AI could lead to a dead classroom, where c...
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Next Tuesday evening at the Cooper Union, my friend / brilliant designer Curry Hackett and I are sharing "Making Sense in Seven Movements"; we'll explore how "actions from cooking and collaging to furniture making to syllabus design help us to make sense of a disordered world."
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Visiting Lecture | Shannon Mattern and Curry Hackett: Making Sense — Seven Movements
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Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) @rgs.org · 17/03/2026
Applications for the 2026 Fi Wi Road Internship are now open! Offering paid part-time work, mentoring, group sessions and workshops, this opportunity is open to Black or mixed Black heritage geography students currently enrolled at a UK university. Learn more and apply: ow.ly/NsR850YuM81
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Mark Dingemanse @markdingemanse.net · 14/03/2026
"Whether hailed or feared, AI is framed as an unstoppable technological, epistemological, and ontological trajectory. Awe invites enthusiastic adoption; anxiety calls for adaptation and preparation. Both discourage more fundamental questioning." — @samiraibnelkaid.bsky.social
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 13/03/2026
The Spectator, a right wing news magazine owned by Paul Marshall, falsely accused a HOPE not hate journalist of committing a serious criminal offence. They were forced to retract the story and apologise. But instead of stopping there, The Spectator couldn’t resist one more swing.
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
15% cuts across faculty and staff at The New School 😢
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katherine mckittrick @demonicgrounds.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
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book Heartbreak and Other Geographies
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
“…with new political alliances uniting against higher ed + in favor of rapid AI dvlpmnt, privatization, + the dismantling of the professional-managerial class, the hatred of theory threatens not only to reshape universities ideologically but to replace them with a data-driven ‘machine empiricism.’”
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Hating Theory Today
Abstract. Drawing on nearly a decade of research, this essay investigates the hatred of theory on the political right. The phobic fascination with theory is over a century old. Yet, in recent years, i...
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OU English and Creative Writing @ouliterature.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
This Monday novelist Kit de Waal will be talking to our colleague Dan Taylor about working class writers and the class ceiling, part of our series, Borders in Literature, with @mklitfest.bsky.social 16 Mar, 7pm, Zoom. Tickets (free): bit.ly/mklfdewaal #classceiling #workingclasswriters #literature
Image of author Kit de Waal in a red jumper with images of recent book jackets, Without Warning and The Best of Everything
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
🧵 Trump administration AI policy is widely described as deregulatory. This description is misleading. What's happening is not the absence of governance but its rearrangement--intensive state intervention operating through mechanisms we don't typically call regulation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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The mirage of AI deregulation
One of the most interventionist approaches to technology governance in the United States in a generation has cloaked itself in the language of deregulation. In early December 2025, President Donald Tr...
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
We were very sorry to learn of the death of political theorist William E. Connolly this week. He published six books with us. Here is our appreciation.
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Farewell to William E. Connolly
We are very sad to learn of the death of William E. Connolly earlier this week at the age of 88. Connolly was the author of six books with Duke University Press, the subject on an edited collection…
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The Open University @openuniversity.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Sixty years ago, Jennie Lee's vision created The Open University 🎓 Welcoming all backgrounds, millions have started life-changing journeys. #OUfamily #TheOpenUniversity #OU60 💙
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Tariq Jazeel @rikjaz.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
The UK universities cutting geography have lost their bearings www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/uk-u... With @jennypickerill.bsky.social @peterhopkins.bsky.social Beth Greenhough & Jamie Woodward
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The UK universities cutting geography have lost their bearings
From climate change to geopolitics, the knowledge, skills and insights of geographers have never been more relevant, say five professors
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adam searle @admsrl.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
important commentary!!! www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/uk-u...
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The UK universities cutting geography have lost their bearings
From climate change to geopolitics, the knowledge, skills and insights of geographers have never been more relevant, say five professors
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Stefan Ouma @econgeo.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
African Decolonial Theory: A Conversation (with an incredible lineup). A longread of 68 pages @antipodeonline.bsky.social #geosky @demonicgrounds.bsky.social @udadisi.bsky.social @roapejournal.bsky.social @africamultiple.bsky.social @pollenetwork.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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African Decolonial Theory: A Conversation
Antipode has become a key platform for engaging with decolonial and anticolonial scholarship, as well as adjacent fields such as Black geographies, Indigenous studies, Latin American feminism, and wo...
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Jay Todd 🏳️‍⚧️ @jaytoddgla.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
📣 Today @felicitycallard.bsky.social and I have published the first peer-reviewed response to the 'Sullivan Review' of research and data on sex and gender. doi.org/10.1111/tran... The Review could threaten trans rights and inclusion, erode academic freedom, and undermine research quality.
Graphic reading 'the UK Government-commissioned 'Sullivan Review' of sex and gender in data and research collection threatens British research and trans inclusion. Here's why.'
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Gail Davies @gailfdavies.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
New paper outlining a spatial account of #FND and proposing an approach to the co-production of functional symptoms. It draws on my longstanding work on geographies of health knowledges, my recent health experiences, and emerging interdisciplinary conversations www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Screenshot of the front page of an article published in the journal Social and Cultural Geography called Remapping the body: an autoethnography of pain, paraesthesia, and the co-production of functional neurological symptoms
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Paul Langley @paullangley.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
AI models are trained on books, journal articles, teaching materials without agreement of academic authors who then have to redesign their courses to try to minimise inappropriate use of AI models embedded in software provided by universities for students to use. Go figure
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
A non-existent paper attributed to ‪Ben Williamson‬ has already been cited 42 times. It's like Scholarly Communication has been injected with misinformation bombs. Events are totally out of control. No one has a handle on its extent. And, there's no plan to stop it. @benpatrickwill.bsky.social
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
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Leigh Walton @leighwalton.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
“When people try to sell you on the idea that the future is already settled, it’s because it is deeply unsettled.”
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