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Jeremy Schmidt

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Environmental Geographer QMUL; Co-editor of Area (areajournal.bsky.social)); Author of *Water: abundance, scarcity, and security in the age of humanity* (NYU Press); New book on Alberta’s water and energy coming 2026 with U Chicago Press.

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WIll do, I've been wanting to connect to learn more about Finbio as well!

09.10.2025 21:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Natural Capital and Sustainability MSc - Queen Mary University of London

How can we pursue nature-based solutions effectively and empirically?

We are launching a new MSc in Natural Capital and Sustainability. It runs across business, env. science, geography, and is in partnership with Kew Gardens!

Applications now open for 2026!
www.qmul.ac.uk/postgraduate...

08.10.2025 21:21 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Century-old papers saved from the bin reveal changes in Europe’s plant life Plant inventories dating back to 1884 and nearly thrown away enable unique time-lapse study of biodiversity in Swiss meadows

"Biodiversity loss is notoriously difficult to quantify. Even in Switzerland, a country with intense monitoring of nature, systematic measurements have only existed for about two decades." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

09.10.2025 07:44 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
Natural Capital and Sustainability MSc - Queen Mary University of London

How can we pursue nature-based solutions effectively and empirically?

We are launching a new MSc in Natural Capital and Sustainability. It runs across business, env. science, geography, and is in partnership with Kew Gardens!

Applications now open for 2026!
www.qmul.ac.uk/postgraduate...

08.10.2025 21:21 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests

I’m sure there are a few emails flying around at some of these universities right now

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

08.10.2025 16:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

In case anybody teaching game theory is looking for an example of what contemporary freeriding looks like.

30.09.2025 08:39 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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UK's first rice crop ripe for picking after hot summer - BBC News Paddy fields are thriving in a quiet part of east England and might help feed us in the future.

Just FYI, UK is now hot enough to grow rice

www-bbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....

28.09.2025 10:49 — 👍 1    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 1
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UK's first rice crop ripe for picking after hot summer - BBC News Paddy fields are thriving in a quiet part of east England and might help feed us in the future.

Just FYI, UK is now hot enough to grow rice

www-bbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....

28.09.2025 10:49 — 👍 1    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 1

If you are still looking for that reading at the intersection of environment, health, extraction and disposession (with a dash of the digital)...

23.09.2025 09:25 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Salvage work: The making of movable nature for post-submergence life This article critically examines environmental salvage projects undertaken in northeastern Turkey by focusing on political and technoscientific actors…

A highly controversial new law in Turkey allows mining in olive groves, requiring tree transplantation.

My new open-access article in @politicalgeography.bsky.social explores the making of "movable nature"— salvage work that moves nature out of the way of infrastructure and extraction projects.

19.09.2025 20:49 — 👍 6    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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A prudent planetary limit for geologic carbon storage - Nature A risk-based, spatially explicit analysis of carbon storage in sedimentary basins establishes a prudent planetary limit of around 1,460 Gt of geological carbon storage, which requires making explicit ...

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

21.09.2025 18:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Some food for thought: if you're reviewing a book & it has good, useful maps, say so in the review! And name the mapmaker if you can.

Often, folks writing books don't know where to go for good maps. Making mention of them in your review helps everyone.
#skystorians #midievalsky #historians

17.09.2025 19:05 — 👍 284    🔁 54    💬 2    📌 3
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‘Like walking through time’: as glaciers retreat, new worlds are being created in their wake As Swiss glaciers melt at an ever-faster rate, new species move in and flourish, but entire ecosystems and an alpine culture can be lost

'Many of the living worlds in the ice and snow are not visible to the human eye. “You don’t expect a living organism on the ice,” Bamert says. But there is a rich ice-loving biotic community and surprising biodiversity that thrives in this frozen landscape.'

13.09.2025 07:10 — 👍 11    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Humming-bird Hawk-moth Similar to Bee hawk moths in flight but the Humming-bird Hawk-moth has orange-brown hindwings which is evident in flight. It has forewings that are greyish-brown and a black and white chequered body.T...

Saw my first humming hawk moth today, amazing!

Had been missing hummingbirds since moving to UK and was wowed by this moth!!

butterfly-conservation.org/moths/hummin...

09.09.2025 19:54 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Two books for me; similarly hoping something breaks through the thieving

06.09.2025 08:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yeah i doubt it now that >50% of the internet seems to be ai content or bots chattering with each other

05.09.2025 11:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Substack’s extremist ecosystem is flourishing The app's recent swastika push alert was just the tip of the iceberg.

Is it just reporting on other substacks?

www.thehandbasket.co/p/substack-e...

05.09.2025 11:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I always just ask them where to send the invoice for my author/editor/editorial board fee.

05.09.2025 10:56 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Assistant Professor of Environmental History with a Focus on Water in Human History The Department of History at Texas State University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of environmental history with a focus on water in human history (regional and period spe...

JOB: Assistant Professor of Environmental History with a Focus on Water in Human History, Texas State University (USA)
jobs.hr.txstate.edu/postings/53043
#envhist

05.09.2025 05:11 — 👍 11    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

I am so furious at all the scenario modelers and CDR promoters who promised that machines could afford us "climate restoration." These people should be shunned.

Techno-optimism is as dangerous to our children as outright climate denial.

Denial isn't driving EU and UK policy! But CDR BS totally is.

03.09.2025 16:59 — 👍 34    🔁 8    💬 3    📌 2
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A prudent planetary limit for geologic carbon storage - Nature A risk-based, spatially explicit analysis of carbon storage in sedimentary basins establishes a prudent planetary limit of around 1,460 Gt of geological carbon storage, which requires making explicit ...

If you want to know the details, read to open source @nature.com publication, led by @gidden.bsky.social online. /end
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

03.09.2025 15:39 — 👍 37    🔁 10    💬 2    📌 0

Thanks Jonny!

02.09.2025 16:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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‼️ EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism will be out in the UK with Icon Books on 25 September ‼️

02.09.2025 16:34 — 👍 70    🔁 19    💬 3    📌 1

Thank you!

02.09.2025 16:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

In my quest to hold every possible academic title I’m very happy to now be Reader in Environmental Geography at QMUL!!

02.09.2025 16:24 — 👍 14    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

I was once drinking rusty nails with a very high ranking minister in CofE and he said to me there are just two kinds of people in the world: those who think the French revolution should have happened and those who don’t.

So maybe it’s just binary

02.09.2025 16:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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It’s really real! Exciting to see The Price of Gold in print. Pre-order yours today! @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social

02.09.2025 13:14 — 👍 48    🔁 15    💬 4    📌 1

Elevating this thread of his thinking sounds to me like it might also be valuable for expanding the notion of "vulnerability" from its current, damage-centric focus.

01.09.2025 09:26 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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UK advertises contract to run Erasmus scheme Tender indicates ministers are preparing ground to rejoin European student swap programme

Erasmus redux? Happy news if it happens.

31.08.2025 07:58 — 👍 25    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 2
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On the Swamp Despite centuries of colonialism, Indigenous peoples still occupy parts of their ancestral homelands in what is now Eastern North Carolina—a patchwork quil...

It’s back to school time - what are you reading? For the next 2 days, On the Swamp and other titles are 50% off at the publisher’s new website. Use discount code 01NEWSITE50.

uncpress.org/978146967832... #Indigenous #EnvironmentalJustice #OnTheSwamp @uncpress.bsky.social

26.08.2025 11:13 — 👍 5    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

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