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really interesting special issue of New Media & Society on digital twins now out: journals.sagepub.com/toc/NMS/curr...
gives me an excuse to reshare my own (feminist) take on city digital twins, accompanied by some excellent commentaries: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Very excited for UoB to host the RGS conference this year and looking forward to welcoming everyone to our very beautiful campus!

The FAA will now let commercial drones fly beyond the operator’s line of sight.

The move will "unleash American drone dominance," Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said.

As a result, Duffy said, " You may get a Starbucks cup of coffee from a drone."

UN AI summit accused of censoring criticism of Israel and big tech over Gaza war - Geneva Solutions A prominent AI scientist says she was pressured by the organisers of the UN’s flagship conference on AI to censor parts of her presentation that criticised Israel over its war in Gaza and the role of ...

I talked to a journalist at the Geneva Solutions about the censorship i experienced at the AI for Good Summit 2 days ago

genevasolutions.news/science-tech...

The top half of the image features text stating: Global Digital Geographies: Digitalising the Territorial/ Territorialising the Digital which is in white font. Below in black font is the text: Annual Symposium Digital Geographies Research Group 19-20 June 2025 online. In the bottom half of the image is a map of the world in a blue and purple tint. Various digital symbols are placed on top of the map such as smartphones, sensors, location pins, satellites, and submarine cables. In the bottom right hand corner is the RGS logo and the City University of Hong Kong logo. The background of the image is a graduated purple to white colouring with purple at the top and white at the bottom of the image.

Last week was our Global Digital Geographies Symposium with speakers from China, India, Brazil, Vietnam, South Africa, Iran, the US, UK & more making it our most international symposium! Thank you to everyone who presented work, attended sessions, & discussed emerging ideas 1/3
#DGRGSymposium2025

With Yu-Shan Tseng, I am co-editing a Special Issue (for Urban Studies, subject to full proposal acceptance) on 'Ordinary Democracy and Digital Cities'. Read the CFP details here: docs.google.com/document/d/e...

Techno-legal geographies: consumer drone misuse and harms Drones increasingly feature beyond battlefields, deployed across civil, commercial and hobbyist applications and contexts. So too are off-the-shelf consumer drones increasingly being misused. From ...

📢 New article - 'Techno-legal geographies: consumer drone misuse and harms'. Louise Hooper
@gardencourtlaw.bsky.social and I reflect on the legal dimensions of off-the-shelf drone incidents and the potential diversified harms accompanying them.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Exploring Young Trans and Non-binary People’s Strategies and Spaces for Navigating Marginality in the United Kingdom: A Novel Resilience, Resistance, and Restoration Framework Amid recent, unprecedented sociopolitical scrutiny and hypervisibility of young trans people in the United Kingdom, this article considers how trans youth develop individual and collective mechanis...

Amidst the bleakness, I've just published an article exploring how young trans people are dealing with life in the UK @geographers.bsky.social. Do read to understand more about how trans youth are navigating & thriving in these times. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Digital Geographies Research Group annual symposium 2025 - RGS Join us for the annual Digital Geographies Research Group annual symposium. This year's topic will be Global Digital Geographies: Digitalising the Territorial.

Registration for the online Digital Geographies Research Group Annual Symposium on 'Global Digital Geographies: Digitalising the Territorial / Territorialising the Digital' is now open: www.rgs.org/events/upcom...

@dgrgrgs.bsky.social @rgsibg.bsky.social

'From 5G to drones: For a feminist geopolitics of the electromagnetic spectrum'. New in @proghumgeog.bsky.social , Daisy Curtis & I think across the spectrum, developing a feminist-inspired agenda attentive to bodies, more-than-human encounters, and living with spectrum doi.org/10.1177/0309...

🙌🏻 yes!! so excited to read this

Digital Geographies Research Group annual symposium 2025 - RGS Join us for the annual Digital Geographies Research Group annual symposium. This year's topic will be Global Digital Geographies: Digitalising the Territorial.

Are you interested in learning about exciting work happening in digital geographies (& aligned) research? Join us for our free online symposium 19-20th June Global Digital Geographies: Digitalising the Territorial & Territorialising the Digital
Sign up: www.rgs.org/events/upcom...
#DGRGSymposium2025

The Geographical Journal | RGS Research Journal | Wiley Online Library In this commentary, we explore the implications of the 2024 US elections for four key areas of trans lives: the body, public space, legal geographies and mobility. While we focus on the United States...

earlier this year, i had the pleasure (& the pain!) of writing a on the state of trans politics in the US with some wonderful colleagues. we conclude that these political attacks are nothing less than an effort to erase trans people from public life. open access link here:

doi.org/10.1111/geoj...

The Digital Geographies Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society is now on BlueSky here:

@dgrgrgs.bsky.social

DGRG can also be found on LinkedIn and on its website here: digitalgeographiesrg.org

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🚨 NEW DATES!

If you are a UK #geographer (or have previously worked in a UK geography department) and are concerned about #precarious employment, please contribute to a focus group and help us develop a set of best-practice guidelines.

We have multiple dates open - sign up using the link below.

🌳 My first solo article is out! Check out "Models vs infrastructures? On the role of digital twins’ hype in anticipating the governance of the UK energy industry", now out in Environmental Science and Policy
doi.org/10.1016/j.en...

v excited to read this!

Call for Proposals - Degruyter Handbook of Feminist Digital Scholarship Call for Proposals - De Gruyter Handbook of Feminist Digital Scholarship: DS/DH at the Kitchen Table Edited by Anne Cong-Huyen & Kim Brillante Knight Overview This collection will bring together eme...

@purplekimchi.bsky.social and I are editing a handbook on Feminist Digital Studies/Scholarship/Humanities! If you're a feminist technologist, scholar, activist, etc., regardless of where you work or where you are in your career, we want to hear from you! CFP: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Energy X Digital: Dr Iain Soutar | EnGRG Inevitable and enabling? Digitalisation and the UK energy system

Announcing our final webinar - 26/03, 2-3PM GMT.
@isoutar.bsky.social will give a talk on "Inevitable and enabling? Digitalisation and the UK energy system". Please register here 👇 www.energygeographies.org/event-detail...

🚨 Calling all current UK #geography #PhD students!

We are developing best-practice guidelines for addressing #precarious employment within geography departments.

Join a focus group below to contribute your insights!
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Calling all PERMANENT colleagues working in a UK #geography department!

We are developing best-practice guidelines for addressing #precarious employment within geography departments.

Join a focus group below to contribute your insights!
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🚨 Calling all colleagues who have previously worked in a UK #geography department, but no longer do.

We are developing best-practice guidelines for addressing #precarious employment within geography departments.

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Podcast ads absolutely speak to some of the odd contradictions about technology in society. Listening to the Rest is Entertainment, which often features significant scepticism about AI, yet is book-ended by the presenters personally endorsing AI-driven products.

This looks really interesting - will it be hybrid at all?

Please join us for our seminar today!

Tomorrow! ⤵️ Still time to register!

Energy X Digital: Dr Ola Michalec | EnGRG Developing digital twins in the energy industry – lessons for innovators, policy makers and infrastructure operators

Announcing our second webinar - 05/03 2-3PM GMT. @olamichalec.bsky.social will give a talk on "Developing digital twins in the energy industry – lessons for innovators, policy makers and infrastructure operators". Please register here 👇 www.energygeographies.org/event-detail...

Registration open for the second Energy x Digital webinar next Wednesday! Super excited to hear @olamichalec.bsky.social's presentation on digital twins in the energy industry.

📣 CfP ALGORITHMIC REFUSAL.
We have extended the deadline to 28th February. Looking for a couple more papers to complete the double session.
Sponsored by Digital Geographies and Urban Geographies Research Groups at @rgsibg.bsky.social

Announcing our Webinar Series 2025: Energy X Digital Digital and energy systems are often researched separately, yet there is a growing body of analysis addressing the multiple ways in which they overlap and intersect. From analysis addressing the ways ...

Also, I will be giving a more geographers-oriented version of this talk on 5th March at @energygeography.bsky.social webinar series. You can register here www.energygeographies.org/post/announc...