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@stilllife0.bsky.social
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Loser. Geographer, Durham, UK.

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Hester Parr @hesterparr.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
All the.folks paying tribute to academic kindness and Chris Philo - a rare thing indeed! 🙏
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Anna Secor @ajsecor.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
What happens when cultural geographers talk about love? They talk about rocks, mushrooms, glaciers, revolution, landscape, film, literature, deindustrialisation and more! New book open access from @edinburghup.bsky.social !
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stilllife @stilllife0.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Today is official publication day for Cultural Geographies of Love and Catastrophe, edited by @ajsecor.bsky.social @mikkojorge.bsky.social and myself, and published by @edinburghup.bsky.social. You can DOWNLOAD THE WHOLE TEXT FOR FREE via the EUP web page edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-cultura...
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Cultural Geographies of Love and Catastrophe
Cultural Geographies of Love and Catastrophe
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stilllife @stilllife0.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
fascismslop
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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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stilllife @stilllife0.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
crit-geog forum right now
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Anna Secor @ajsecor.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
On the horror of our times and what it means to feel like you’re on the darkest timeline: my 2025 Political Geography Plenary, at last out from embargo with three brilliant commentaries and my response: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @squirerachael.bsky.social @politicalgeography.bsky.social
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2025 Political Geography Plenary: On the bad timeline: Dissociative geo-politics in the time of Trump
Distortion, unreality, a confusion of perspective: it is hard to shake the feeling of “time out of joint” in the period since Trump's re-election to t…
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e. kinkaid (they/them) @queergeog.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Here’s discount codes to preorder my book Disorienting Phenomenology: Queer Space & Trans Life! $7! US, use code MN95400 at: www.upress.umn.edu/978151792174... Canada, use MNUTPF26 at: utpdistribution.com/978151792174... Europe/Asia/Africa/Middle East, use MNMNGF26 at: mngbookshop.co.uk
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Anna Secor @ajsecor.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
We are hiring an Assistsnt Professor of Human Geography with a focus on Health. I’m happy to answer any questions. durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
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Assistant Professor in Human Geography
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
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Thomas Dekeyser @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Officially released today!💥Techno-Negative: A Long History of Refusing the Machine💥 Tracing the refusal that haunts the history of tech, my book offers a source of inspiration for those looking for a new tech politics beyond reform/acceleration. www.upress.umn.edu/978151791773... Buy w/ discount👇
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e. kinkaid (they/them) @queergeog.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
FYI you can catch a recorded version of my latest talk — Transgender Experience and the Question of Space below. If you like it, stay tuned for the book, Disorienting Phenomenology: Queer Space and Trans Life! www.rgs.org/events/talks...
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Transgender experience and the question of space | Webinar
In this webinar, Dr Eden Kinkaid explores what theory of space emerges from transgender experience and develops a critical phenomenology of space.
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Thomas Dekeyser @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
We've put together a 'call for papers' for the 2026 RGS-IBG Conference in London (1 - 4 September). The theme: *pessimist geographies*. Get in touch if you have any questions. www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-j...
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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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stilllife @stilllife0.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
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In Memoriam Béla Tarr - European Film Academy
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Ben Anderson @benandersongeog.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Fantastic that a long interview with @ajsecor.bsky.social and I is the cover story for the January issue of Byline Times - was a pleasure to talk to Hardeep and Peter about the ideas in the The Politics of Feeling! @bylinetimes.bsky.social @peterjukes.bsky.social @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social
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Marika Rose @marika.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
In Book X of The Republic, Plato excludes poets on the grounds that mimetic language can distort judgment and bring society to a collapse. As contemporary social systems increasingly rely on large language models (LLMs) in operational and decision-making pipelines, we observe a structurally similar failure mode: poetic formatting can reliably bypass alignment constraints. In this study, 20 manually curated adversarial poems (harmful requests reformulated in poetic form) achieved an average attack-success rate (ASR) of 62% across 25 frontier closed- and open-weight models, with some providers exceeding 90%. The evaluated models span across 9 providers: Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, Deepseek, Qwen, Mistral AI, Meta, xAI, and Moonshot AI (Table 1). All attacks are strictly single-turn, requiring no iterative adaptation or conversational steering.
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joe gerlach @joegerlach.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Spinoza's Geographical Ethics - out now, open access in e-book form: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-spinoza... @edinburghup.bsky.social
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Spinoza's Geographical Ethics
Spinoza's Geographical Ethics
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 09/10/2025
Krasznahorkai has said of his work: ‘You will never go wrong anticipating doom in my books, any more than you’ll go wrong in anticipating doom in ordinary life.’ In 2012, we recorded a 94-minute conversation with Colm Tóibín for our Bookshop podcast: www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/podcasts-vid...
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László Krasznahorkai in conversation with Colm Tóibín | London Review Bookshop
Our first Literary Friendships event brought together Colm Tóibín with his friend László Krasznahorkai. Described by the Guardian as a ‘visionary writer’,…
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Aya Nassar @ayanassar.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Just out paper which might be of interest to those who work on Urban Geograpy, Geographies of Home, and affective thinking (especially ambivalence). It is a paper that considers the wonderful Iman Mersal's poetic oeuvre as a form of geography. academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...
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“Giving up the Idea of Home”: Ambivalent Geographies, Geopoetics, and Resisting Capture in the Cities of the Middle East
Abstract. This paper sits with the geopoetics of the Egyptian poet and writer Iman Mersal to grapple with affective ambivalence towards common objects of d
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Jay Todd 🏳️‍⚧️ @jaytoddgla.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
⏰ Geographers! In light of the emergency situation we find ourselves in, I have put together an open letter to the RGS asking them to respond to the current unfolding situation with the RGS and EHRC. Please DM/email for details on how to read/sign. Re-post!
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Sage Brice (she/her) @sagebrice.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
“Biology is all the more political because of how it is used as if it isn’t” @saranahmed.bsky.social in her usual uncompromising form: feministkilljoys.substack.com/p/patriarcha...
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Patriarchal Hammers
Some thoughts on the recent judgement by the Supreme Court
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Nick Bernards @nickbernards.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
This is very good and if you work in a UK university you should read it.
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Geography at Durham @geogdurham.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
An Atmospheric History of Smoking in Modern Britain by our colleague Ivan Markovic focuses on the social, cultural and emotional aspects of smoking in modern Britain, covering 150 years of British history bit.ly/40qP8j5
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An Atmospheric History of Smoking in Modern Britain
This book studies the historiography of smoking in modern Britain, with a focus on the social, cultural, and emotional aspects of the practice.Centring on four…
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Andy Williams @llantwit.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Two Weeks In The Death Spiral Of Cardiff University, by an anonymous academic. This is truly shocking read. The Cardiff executive board should hang their heads in shame. voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...
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Two Weeks In The Death Spiral Of Cardiff University -
Reading Time: 4 minutesBy an anonymous academic. Cover image by Adwitiya Pal On the second day of classes…
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Sage Brice (she/her) @sagebrice.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Excited to see this is out - and with an expanded online edition alongside! Congratulations and thank you @erindurban.bsky.social and team for all the work that went into it
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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
fuck yes. Borges those motherfuckers
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Developer Creates Infinite Maze That Traps AI Training Bots
"Nepenthes generates random links that always point back to itself - the crawler downloads those new links. Nepenthes happily just returns more and more lists of links pointing back to itself."
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stilllife @stilllife0.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
My holiday project.
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Ben Anderson @benandersongeog.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Invitation to a collective project! What, for you, is the promise of cultural geography? Vickie Zhang and I are seeking responses to the prompt (1-1000 words) by the end of February. They will be compiled, and made freely available in a publication (with DOI & ISBN). Details 👇
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stilllife @stilllife0.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Essential reference material
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stilllife @stilllife0.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
NEW GEOGRAPHY JOURNAL! Agoriad: A Journal of Spatial Theory. Issue 1, special issue on Indigenous Ontologies, out now, open access. It looks excellent. Congratulations to the managing and issue editors on making this happen.
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Indigenous Ontologies | Agoriad: A Journal of Spatial Theory
Agoriad (meaning Openings in Welsh) is a diamond open access journal exploring theoretical and philosophical ideas in Human Geography and associated fields, published annually. Each volume explores a ...
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Marika Rose @marika.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Any model of philosophy which thinks the real dangers are all on the continental philosophy side is just begging for a return of the British empire
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stilllife @stilllife0.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
To start with this new platform as I mean to go on - pictures of cats hassling me while I work. Here’s Spike…
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