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A robin sits atop a postbox

As it's Christmas... a welcome friend awaits on the postbox at Boot, Eskdale in Cumbria. #PostboxSaturday

a happy winter solstice greeting card with a tree ALT: a happy winter solstice greeting card with a tree

A Happy Winter Solstice to you all. Time to celebrate It’s the shortest day of the year and from tomorrow the days get longer, enjoy your extra minute of daylight

I felt this…besides…it’s Saturday…

!!!! you encounter this creature. what do you do

Good morning-let’s hope for more days like this ….taken on the banks of Loch Lomond

THIS makes me think

Check out this starter pack on people and journals that have dealth with financialization, assetization and the colonization of the lifeworld by finance at large in their work. Leave me a note if you want to join.
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The latest publication from the group, led by talented early career researchers Carmen Petitjean and Xin Yang @xinyang6699.bsky.social on the performance of BOADICEA/CanRisk for breast cancer risk prediction in UKBiobank out now in JNCI.

Paper: doi.org/10.1093/jnci...

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My recent work on Economics of the #CommonGood offers a reframing of economics to focus as much on the ‘how’ as the ‘what’.

I recently organised an event at the Vatican to discuss this approach with PM Mia Mottley & @pontifexeng.bsky.social

Watch the full film here: youtu.be/Ev3SOKNNtF

Congratulations Oxfam GB for the new discussion paper on regional feminist perspectives on moving beyond GDP, with inputs from Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. So important to have these perspectives from the Global South!
#degrowth
#postgrowth
#GlobalSouth

A few days to go for PhD students and postdocs interested in the geography of economic ideas to apply for workshop travel stipends. This invitational workshop will be hosted at UBC, June 2025. Funded by EPA: Economy & Space

blogs.ubc.ca/peck/researc...

I'm reading it. I'm teaching it. Let's read it together

I didn’t think it was possible to be more disappointed in Labour than I already was but here we are.

"Go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow...You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something."

~Kurt Vonnegut

when your plan is to get BlackRock to rebuild Britain, even the FT is to your left.

court sketches of Gisèle Pelicot, pictured as she listened to the verdicts and sentences being read out this morning.

court sketches of Gisèle Pelicot, pictured as she listened to the verdicts and sentences being read out this morning.

In awe of Gisèle Pelicot.

Thinking of her and all survivors today.

YouTube video by Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence Annual Cluster Conference "Spatialities": Keynote - Patricia Daley

Learning Disobedience in African Studies...Excellent talk by Keynote by Patricia Daley. You may also wanna check out the rich archive of the Cluster "AfricaMultiple" on youtube (www.youtube.com/@africamulti...). #geosky #geo #geography #socialtheory #afripolsky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=36mR...

I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
—Sylvia Plath—

Gisèle Pelicot has allowed us all to shout out loud: she did it, and we can do it. Gisèle Pelicot is us | Judith Godrèche The denial of Gisèle’s humanity by her rapists is the denial of violence done to every woman. At her side, we can now look the world in the eye, says actor Judith Godrèche

She looked us all in the face.

Teamsters Union Launches 'Largest Strike Against Amazon in US History' | Common Dreams The Teamsters launched "the largest strike against Amazon in U.S. history" on Thursday morning to protest the e-commerce giant's unlawful refusal to bargain with organized drivers and warehouse…

I stand with the thousands of Teamsters workers across the country who are striking over Amazon's refusal to bargain.

Amazon had $15B in profits last quarter. Don't tell me they can't afford to bargain a fair contract.

Elon Musk is a clown, a descendant of racist white people that colonized South Africa. If you drive his cars, buy his garbage, you are part of the problem. All of us need to mock his dumbass early and often.

And so it continues. Musk could bankroll the entire European far-right to power and not see a dent in his fortunes. We have birthed a monster.

Join us!

I swear...this talk was given BEFORE the Musk takeover of DOGE/valley takeover of the White House.

Caroline Shenaz H. on LinkedIn: #solidarity #feminist #utpress My new book 2024 The Banker Ladies is on the #Solidarity Economy and its out. Historian and Prof Afua Cooper, PhD wrote the Foreword - so grounded and…

Had the chance to teach the Banker Ladies film earlier this semester. Students loved thinking about mutualist and grassroots forms of community finance. Thrilled there is now this wonderful book! Congrats @carolinehossein.bsky.social #solidarityeconomy #communityfinance

Children executed and women raped in front of their families as M23 militia unleashes fresh terror on DRC First-hand accounts from victims of unthinkable violence paint a gruesome picture of the brutality sweeping the central African country. How long is the West prepared to look away?

It's not just Gaza where the US, UK, France and others have turned hypocrisy into war crimes

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

and his adopted home was Sri Lanka. If I recall, he lived there until his death.

It's the Winter Solstice.

After today, in the North, the days will slowly lengthen. Spring will come.

It's a time when our ancestors marked the defeat of darkness with celebrations; so important they created a magnificent device to pinpoint the day.

The light will return. Happy Solstice all! ❤️

Get a library card even if you're not planning to use it. It impacts their funding.

Destroy this myth. Please share if you have visited and researched in a library this past year! RT And give a shout out to your favorite library you have ever visited.