beki m.

Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

Book in hand, brown, blue, red, green cover, title Existential Politics: Why Global Climate Institutions Are Failing and How to Fix them

Nice one for teaching. Can also recommend an excellent interview on the book with @greenprofgreen.bsky.social on @trashfuture.bsky.social (the pod that rarely misses)!🔥

AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

„CSU—US’s largest public uni system—went all-in with a $17mill partnership with OpenAI. . .CSU unveiled its grand technological gesture just as it proposed slashing $375mill from its budget. While admin cut ribbons on AI, they were cutting faculty positions, academic programs, student services.“

The Open University already exists and it has an excellent distance learning model that does not rely on parasitic profit driven ed-tech companies pushing their products

Definitely pitch your ideas to @the-breakdown.bsky.social! They're on the cutting edge of climate/political economy writing, are very open to non-traditional thinking and approaches, and are just a lovely and supportive editorial team to work with. ✨

CfP: a special issue of Œconomia – History | Methodology | Philosophy on the History of Climate Economics
journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/19...

God this thread is depressingly real. With a few lovely exceptions, teaching feels demoralizing. I opened a short article I'd assigned yesterday and the reader automatically provided an AI summary missing important points. Unis everywhere are "piloting" AI study tools. Why? What are we even doing?

Applications Now Open for the University of Glasgow Library Visiting Research Fellowship scheme - supporting scholars from across academic disciplines to come to Glasgow to work on our unique research collections. Please RT or pass on:

www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...

Robin Hood in his animated fox incarnation at a window like the sickos meme saying "Yes...ha ha oo-de-LALLY!"

it's seven pages long, adobe

Important new report out on precarious working conditions in Geography in UK HE. Sadly the nature and scale of the findings are grim but unsurprising. www.rgs.org/research/hig...

New essay, written for the excellent @transitionsec.bsky.social
Propelled by the climatic and hegemonic transitions, military-imperial forms of state capitalism are confiscating our collective right to a safe, green, tech-powered future.
transitionsecurity.org/imperial-sta...
@campolis.bsky.social

End of fossil fuel era inches closer as Cop30 deal agreed after bitter standoff Wealthy countries should triple funds for countries to tackle climate impacts, but deforestation and critical minerals blocked from final deal

With the disappointing progress at Cop30, evergreen reminder it isn't "we" or "humanity" failing to address the climate crisis — oil-producing nations and fossil fuel interests are actively obstructing action, despite heroic efforts by developing nations, Indigenous peoples, and many, many others.

Living through Brexit made visceral something that is easy to appreciate intellectually: bad policies can just make everything worse without a cathartic moment of accountability or even clarity. You won’t lose an election on deer health, it will just be part of an overwhelming sense of decline.

comrade JCO gets it completely

CHOP FROM THE TOP

(solemn vow never ever to screenshot badsite; solemn exception for this urgent story; rally against these anti-intellectuals detonating public goods for the working people of NJ!)

Why do global environmental institutions multiply and persist even when they seem unable to address biodiversity loss and environmental governance failures effectively?

Our new OA article with @jacquelinebest.bsky.social in @risjnl.bsky.social tries to answer this question. 1/7

cup.org/4hZNlcX

Professor Joanna Bullard (1969-2025) | Obituary It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Joanna Elizabeth Bullard, Professor of Physical Geography at Loughborough University.

We will be celebrating Jo Bullard's life on Thursday 4th December, from 2.30pm at Loughborough University.

Please register here if you would like to attend: forms.office.com/pages/respon...

The @rgsibg.bsky.social have published an obituary of Jo:
www.rgs.org/about-us/our...

🚨 Fully funded PhD opportunity with me and Richard Hodgkins at @lborogeog.bsky.social. Please reach out with any questions, and do share widely!

Film Screening Hosted by STAR STudent Action for Refugees Friday, 21 November 2025 17:15 Martin Hall — MHL014 Register by clicking the link or scanning the QR code below: https://forms.office.com/e/RRq1zSuigc?origin=lprLink We are screening Thank You For The Rain to commemorate Climate and Migrant Justice Day. The documentary follows Kisilu Musya, a Kenyan farmer who begins filming his daily life to show the real impacts of climate change on his community. Over five years, his story evolves from local struggle to global activism as he journeys to the UN climate talks in Paris. The film captures the personal toll of changing weather patterns while exposing the deep inequalities that shape who is heard (and who is not) in global climate debates. The screening will be followed by a discussion about climate and migrant justice.

🎥 Some of our geography PhD students are involved with the Loughborough group of @starnational.bsky.social and have organised a film screening and discussion of ‘Thank You For The Rain’ on Friday, 21/11 to commemorate Climate and Migrant Justice Day.

Register here: forms.office.com/e/RRq1zSuigc...

This is so well done. It's true that when I feel especially pressed by everything, it helps to remember that the work and the job are profoundly different things. But what comes after the job when it all comes down?

Here’s How the AI Crash Happens The U.S. is becoming an Nvidia-state.

«The biggest lesson of the past two decades of Silicon Valley is that Meta, Amazon, and Google … have remade our world and have become unfathomably rich for it, all while being mostly oblivious or uninterested in the fallout. They have chased growth and scale at all costs …»

Two zines

A bunch of people at the zine fest

This one in Notts is having a zine fest ✨

god i love a library

University of Nottingham students fight 'insane' cull of courses Traitors composer Sam Watts is among those against plans to cut University of Nottingham courses.

Excellent article here. Our students are our greatest advocates. Counter proposals will be put forward, and we are supporting colleagues in Music, Modern Languages, Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies at Nottingham with their campaigns www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Human Geography at Leicester is facing closure. Staff contracts are to end in June 2026; students are to be relocated to other universities, or taught out by a maximum of two (!) teaching-only staff. Other departments and subjects are facing closure, too. Please join the demo!

Professor Joanna Bullard (1969-2025) We are incredibly sad to share news of the recent passing of Joanna Bullard, Professor of Physical Geography in the Department of Geography and Environment, School of Social Sciences and Humanities at...

Incredibly sad news from our Geography community at Loughborough www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/geo...

as we build power, we also find our way back into community

come for the defiance, stay because we are building new cultures of care together

be stoked, stay stoked, all around the country the people are back at it