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Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library Svamitva drone survey in Rajasthan. Source: Author.

Such a nice paper on feature extraction as a project of perception - drone enclosures in digital India. “Feature extraction is an entirely speculative endeavour” rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🌐🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS 🚨🌐

'The Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies'

🗓️ 2-3 February 2026
📍 @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

We invite one-word titles (e.g. hallucinating, zooming, obscuring, glitching, generating)

Deadline: 14th November

Full info: digicologies.com/cfp

Can't wait for this!

Promotional image for Electric wind. Book sits in centre of image. The book cover is a digital drawing of rolling blue and green hills with a purple cloudy sky in the background. Wind turbines and trees can be seen dotted along the hills. Text along bottom of image reveals the book's publication date: October 14th 2025.

Coming soon💨

How has energy shaped a nation?

Electric Wind by @DudleyMarianna.bsky.social is a cutting-edge history of wind power in Britain, from the industrial revolution to the aftermath of war, through energy crises and the changing politics of the late twentieth century💡

Pre-order now!

Congratulations, Thom. Very well deserved!

‘Priority courses’, give me strength.

Working class kids deserve to study classics and history and art as much as anyone else.

AA Book Launch: From the Bog to the Cloud The green digital transition is underway. But what does this transition look like when dictated by the demands of monopoly tech?

Pat Brodie and I have a book launch event for 'From the Bog to the Cloud' in London on October 22nd.

Please come along if you're interested in bogs, data centres, monopoly tech, postcolonial development, eco-imperialism, green capitalism, Ireland....

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/aa-book-la...

at our @uonucu.bsky.social rally this Wednesday, where Sam had a clear message for our comrades down under

amazing thread

A photograph of a packed picket line on the southern edge of the University of Nottingham's campus

A photo of a picketer with a very good boy looking on with the respect that the university should be giving too

A group of picketers holding a sign that says Students Support the Strikes

An inspiring first day of picketing to kick off our 4 weeks of strike action! Faculty, students, AND a dog or two made an appearance.

honestly I wish outlets like Wired would feature people who AREN'T surprised by this and DIDN'T spend years covering this ecosystem without recognizing the fundamental dynamics of power

I can tell you exactly why it was missed:

I love Wired, but this is some weak ass tea. It's far too late for this mealy-mouth head-scratching from editor emeritus Rip Van Winkle.

The cyberlibertarian to cyber-fascist trajectory is well understood at this point.

Anyone shocked that Reform plan to deport immigrants with Indefinite Leave to Remain hasn’t been paying attention.

Next it will be stripping citizenship from dual citizens, then deporting them.

Who do you think Reform are?

This.

This is who they are.

Thank you, James!!

love my inspiring geography colleagues!! day one of our four-week industrial action, picketing for @uonucu.bsky.social fighting for the future of our university

Dreadful to see this - Farhana Sultana is a stellar academic, with a commitment to social justice. She repeatedly said she was being targeted on this platform & on others. I note her account is deleted. Shame on Syracuse for not standing up for colleagues ⬇️ solidarity to her & Jenn Jackson

One of Manchester Museum's two replica dodos that featured in our public event, 'Extinction in the Museum'.

I'm wiped out after the Planetary Futures conference that @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social and I organised over the past two days at the University of Manchester. Huge thanks to everyone who gave papers and attended. I think it all went well!

next Monday we begin four weeks of industrial action at the University of Nottingham, inspired by the work of brave colleagues across the sector who've stood up and ruled out compulsory redundancies in many instances (Newcastle, Sheffield—many more!)

Without us, there is no university! #StopTheCuts

The £22bn deal announced today between the British government and Microsoft to build AI data centres across the country makes it all the more imperative that we read @pbresnihan.bsky.social and Pat Brody’s new book From the Bog to the Cloud. A quick thread. 1/7

#OtD 17 Sep 2011 inspired by events in Egypt and Spain, Occupy Wall Street began as 1000 people gathered in New York City's financial centre to protest economic inequality and austerity amid a global crisis. Occupy encampents soon spread across the US stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8948...

In London, hate will never win.

A Hedgehog on the front line (part 2) don’t be greedy with love and caring!

thanks to @jonnyjjt.bsky.social and Karolina for giving me this story - the amazing work of #hedgehog rescuers in #Ukraine open.substack.com/pub/hughwarw...

What’s Up With Peter Thiel’s Obsession With the Antichrist? The tech mogul is amping up his apocalyptic rhetoric—and adding a dangerous dose of extremism into the already-fraught culture war.

What’s up with Peter Thiel’s secret Antichrist lectures?

Let us pierce the veil.

For the @newrepublic.com I studied his past Antichrist speeches to decode his message—a chilling fusion of Nazi political theory and scripture.

Consider this an urgent warning:

newrepublic.com/article/2004...

YOU WILL FIND NO DIRECTION HERE Lola Olufemi and Agnes Cameron revive resistance in the concepts of 'history' and 'technology', through digitally reassembling the archive.

What if history could be 'weightless'?

Lola Olufemi and Agnes Cameron expand on their collaboration, This is a Temporal Landscape You Will Find No Direction Here, a digital assemblage for reimagining our relationship to the radical histories before us:
www.historyworkshop.org.uk/practice-his...

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, UN commission of inquiry says The panel finds that four of the five genocidal acts defined under international law have been carried out against Palestinians during the war.

How much will it take for people to accept that Israel is committing a genocide, and how many reports need to be released for our governments to stop it?

Israel committing genocide in Gaza - UN commission An independent UN commission has concluded that Israel has committed and continues to commit genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.

Genocide that is made possible by 'unwavering' US financial, military and political support.

The US is also committing genocide.

www.rte.ie/news/middle-...

I've got a new open access article out in BMJ Medical Humanities, co-written with my friend Georgia Walton. It's about the species politics of animal testing, human reproduction and horror cinema. Basically: what if we see animal testing for the horror that it is?

doi.org/10.1136/medh... #medhums

Realizing Better Futures Now: Review of Joseph M. Pierce’s Speculative Relations Jenna Hanchey Under Review:Speculative Relations: Indigenous Worlding and Repair. Joseph M. Pierce. Duke University Press, August 2025. I was recently walking in Chicago with other science fiction …

Realizing Better Futures Now: @jennahanchey.bsky.social reviews Joseph M. Pierce's SPECULATIVE RELATIONS: INDIGENOUS WORLDBUILDING AND REPAIR (@dukepress.bsky.social)

An ELSI for AI: Learning from genetics to govern algorithms In the United States, the summer of 2025 will be remembered as artificial intelligence’s (AI’s) cruel summer—a season when the unheeded risks and dangers of AI became undeniably clear. Recent months h...

🧵 The summer of 2025 has been AI's "cruel summer"—wrongful deaths, dangerous therapy chatbots, medical misinformation, facial recognition failures. These aren't isolated glitches but predictable harms from systems deployed without adequate oversight. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Announcing my book, Techno-Negative!

It will be out in Spring 2026, published with @uminnpress.bsky.social.