Maximilian Hepach

Maximilian's Race for Life Cancer is happening right now, which is why I'm taking part in a Race for Life 10k to raise money and save lives. 1 in 2 people will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime. Every single pound you...

Last month, my father passed away from cancer. The journey to that point showed me how many lives are affected by cancer, either directly or through friends and family. I am collecting donations in memory of my father for @cancerresearchuk.org:

fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/maximil...

Maximilian's Race for Life Cancer is happening right now, which is why I'm taking part in a Race for Life 10k to raise money and save lives. 1 in 2 people will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime. Every single pound you...

Last month, my father passed away from cancer. The journey to that point showed me how many lives are affected by cancer, either directly or through friends and family. I am collecting donations in memory of my father for @cancerresearchuk.org:

fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/maximil...

Launch event:
WIND AS MODEL, MEDIA, AND EXPERIENCE
June 11th, 04:00pm (London/Online)

Join us for the launch of the Stream “Wind as Model, Media, and Experience” with Media+Environment.

Editorial: mediaenviron.org/article/1274...

Zoom link: sfu.zoom.us/j/8429412299...

Introducing Wind Humanities: A Q&A with Media+Environment’s Wind as Model, Media, and Experience Guest Editors As a complex, dynamic system, wind challenged physics and scientific modelling capabilities while also presenting human imagination with the very embodiment of change and ephemera in spite of its appa...

Just in time for @scmstudies.bsky.social #SCMS2025 👉Introducing Wind Humanities: A Q&A with Media+Environment’s Wind as Model, Media, and Experience Guest Editors www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/i...

“In an oral culture, cliché and stereotype are valued, as accumulations of wisdom, and analysis is frowned upon, for putting those accumulations at risk.”

Two print metaphors for oral culture. ♾️

https://tinyurl.com/bdd737vp

What if Zone of Interest, but no one is embarrassed and everyone is aiming for online clout?

PhD studentship: The history and heritage of the discovery of environmental change and the interpretation of place in the East of England (Cambridge, UK)

Deadline: 16 May 2025

https://www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/cc-ee/studentships/cambridge-university-library-and-university-of-cambridge/

this article is published in a special issue of Media + Environment which I contributed to editing as part of an AHRC & DFG funded project called Weather Reports: Wind as Model, Media, and Experience. with many thanks to @hepach.org for the editorial heavy lifting mediaenviron.org/article/1274...

beyond thrilled to announce the publication of “An Island of Sound: A Libretto” — an article co-authored with @julesrawlinson.bsky.social written into the libretto devised for the live performance of An Island of Sound, a browser-based work about phantom islands mediaenviron.org/article/1295...

As part of "Weather Reports", we've just published the first part of a Stream (Special Issue) on wind as media, model, and experience with Media+Environment.

In our introduction, we ask what shape the Wind Humanities might take: mediaenviron.org/article/1274...

We’re hiring! The Polyphony is seeking two Editors to join our team, including one Associate Editor (General Editor) and one Guest Editor. Applications close 20 January 2025.

The Polyphony (coming to Bluesky in 2025 ☺️) is one of the world's leading medical humanities platforms. We are recruiting 2 new part-time editors to join our dynamic ECR-led team, working closely with Editor-in-Chief @evasurawy.bsky.social

Apply by Jan 20!

thepolyphony.org/2024/12/17/w...

Durham home & international PhD studentships for work on climate action, open to all Departments:

www.durham.ac.uk/business/pro...

12 funded PhD positions available at the Augsburg-Munich International Doctoral Program "Rethinking Environment: The Environmental Humanities and the Ecological Transformation of Society"

-> Deadline: January 31, 2025 #envhum #ecocriticism

www.uni-augsburg.de/en/forschung...

A light brown zebra with faded stripes stands on a grassy hillside at Vergelegen wine farm near Cape Town. Unlike typical zebras, its stripes are less pronounced and fade into a plain brown color on its lower body. The animal is photographed against a backdrop of dense green vegetation and a bright blue sky with a single white cloud. Below the image is a headline in white text asking "Did Scientists Revive an Extinct Animal or Just Breed a Less Stripey Zebra?"​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Anyone else feel seen?

The cover of Vol 1 of Climates and Cultures in History, featuring a painting of an inferno engulfing buildings and countryside.

Delighted to see that my review of David N. Livingstone's The Empire of Climate is now out in @whitehorsepress.bsky.social's exciting new journal Climates and Cultures in History: doi.org/10.3197/whpc...

NOAA drops scientist’s ashes into the eye of Category 5 Milton Hurricane hunter Peter Dodge’s last flight into the storms he spent his life studying.

Final flight into the eye of a storm for the late Peter Dodge, who spent his life studying hurricanes.

Field work – the physics of sheep, from phase transitions to collective motion – Physics World Physics sheds a new insight on the behaviour of sheep flocks, helping with new tips on shepherding

Sheep physics is a thing. A rather wonderful thing. Here is my new article about it for Physics World.
physicsworld.com/a/field-work...

Feminist Methodologies 'Feminist Methodologies' published in 'The Encyclopedia of Human Geography'

I'm excited to announce the publication of my latest chapter on Feminist Methodologies in the Encyclopedia of Human Geography by Springer. 📚

Here, I explore how feminist research methodologies challenge traditional approaches to knowledge production #geosky ⤵️

link.springer.com/referencewor...

CFP #AAG2025 - Media Matter(s) in Geography: On Theory, Genealogy, and Analysis of Media Spatiality. Addresses the diverse materialities of media, digital and otherwise, bringing into dialogue geographic scholarship on media. Deadline 18 Oct buff.ly/3TEDBKr

An illustration depicting a medieval cityscape with colorful buildings in the foreground. Above the city, there is a stylized sun on the left with a human face, surrounded by rays. To the right, a large celestial object with a face and long, flowing tail extends upward, resembling a comet. The sky is mostly clear and blue.

Some personal news..

I will be joining Durham Geography as Assistant Professor (Research) this November! My 5-year Wellcome Trust project "Under Pressure" will explore the historical and cultural geographies of meteorosensitivity (the physiological and psychological impact of weather on health).

As global temperatures rise, the world's workers are feeling the heat

You could be a part of the solution

Our growing Oppressive Heat team is hiring a PDRA for 2+ years

To join us at the cutting edge of heat stress research, see link below👇...or get in touch with questions!

t.co/XW1ko8qQPT

I Really Can’t Tell If You’re Serious The latest style of engagement-bait video is designed to be confusing—but why?

On confusion-bait:

“Racking up a lot of views is crucial for achieving greater visibility, as well as moneymaking opportunities—and confusing people is a pretty innovative way to do it.”

A rough background with scraps of sandpaper + the title "Grit and Gleam"

"Itself the product of weathering and erosion, sand has long been used to smooth, abrade, texture, and shape the materials with which it comes into contact -- and to erase the traces of time's passage."

An etching showing a man sanding wood

"Sandpaper requires patient engagement. It can graze the knuckles and make them bleed; it can also change the way light filters through a room."

I contributed a short piece about the cultural history of sandpaper to the "sand" issue of Material Intelligence!

[the editors asked me to share these :)]

www.materialintelligencemag.org

The future of phenomenological psychopathology Published in Philosophical Psychology (Ahead of Print, 2024)

Our introduction to a special issue of @journalphp.bsky.social devoted to our Wellcome project, Renewing Phenomenological Psychopathology, edited and co-authored by Lucienne Spencer, Giovanni Stanghellini and myself www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

UK universities call for tuition-fee rise as new term begins As freshers get settled in, a group of unis is calling for inflation-linked fee hikes in England.

The problem with this and most reporting of #StudentFinance is that it perpetuates the myth that 'students pay £9,250 a year in fees'.

THEY DON'T. 🧵

1/11
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

weather channel vaporwave The weather channel means a lot to me, as I grew up with it. I not only made this with my personal memories in mind, but it was also created for anyone to vi...

TIL of #weatherwave ...

https://buff.ly/3XvQ5Fi

"Kana is one of a number of artists who have taken transmissions from the weather reports of yesteryear and merged them with the lo-fi electronic music genre known as vaporwave."

https://buff.ly/4goq2s5

Short stack of printer paper held together with a binder clip. Title reads “critical phenomenology now! Space, subjectivity, difference.” It’s my book draft!

book writing milestone! printed, edited, and sent to friends for feedback!

Keith Thomas · Diary: Working Methods It is possible to take too many notes; the task of sorting, filing and assimilating them can take for ever, so that...

This is a fantastic read on the nature of taking (research) notes: https://buff.ly/3Zl5QkU

I’m endlessly fascinated by thinking digital writing through analogue methods. Any reading suggestions welcome!

I'm so excited about reading Paul Simpson's new book Coexistence: Spacings, Dis-positions, and Being-with Others which is out later in the year🙌 The intro is already available to read online🤩 taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...