Cristina Temenos

Netherlands pulls out of Eurovision as organizer votes to keep Israel in 2026 contest The Netherlands will not take part in next year's Eurovision Song Contest, with Dutch broadcast rights holder AvroTros deciding to boycott the event. The decision was made after the members of the eve...

The Netherlands, Spain, Ireland and Slovenia have pulled out of Eurovision, Iceland and Belgium still deciding

nltimes.nl/2025/12/04/n...

Haven’t you deleted that app yet?

Great to have @felmagalhaes.bsky.social present his current work at our final @cperguom.bsky.social seminar of the term. Discussion ranged from deindustrialisation in the context of authoritarian neoliberalism to futbol and populism. Looking forward to the book! @uomseed.bsky.social

Today!

I was asked by the Democracy Now producer if I still wanted to be introduced as the Renberg chair. I said yes. I am still being paid until Sept 1, 2026. Just bc Northwestern won’t let me teach & wants to pay Trump $75 mil, I still hold this LGBTQ chair for 10 more months & will do so w dignity

Perhaps also of interest:
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Dog on a leash

Introducing the newest research assistant. Skills include excellent sense of smell and mad zoomie technique. Paid in pets cuddles and plenty of treats.

Poster for our final Geography Research Seminar of the term! @felmagalhaes.bsky.social will be talking on Forty years of neoliberalization in Latin American cities: volatility, deindustrialization and the multiplication of extractivism.

Join us in Manchester for our final Geography Research Seminar of the term! @felmagalhaes.bsky.social will be talking on Forty years of neoliberalization in Latin American cities: volatility, deindustrialization and the multiplication of extractivism. @cperguom.bsky.social @uomseed.bsky.social

A bit of Vancouver in Manchester! Great to have Jesse Proudfoot giving a @cperguom.bsky.social talk about his work on addiction, structural racism and urban politics. @uomseed.bsky.social

If anyone is thinking about attending SASE 2026 and looking for a panel on East Asia, democracy, political economy, here's something i'm putting together. Pop me an email if your interests fit and would like to participate. Feels like SASE might be popular this year as many avoid US-based events.

Lovely heartfelt tributes here for Peter Krykant x

Lovely heartfelt tributes here for Peter Krykant x

We face an inequality emergency The needs of ordinary people must be placed at the centre of the world’s agenda

We face an inequality emergency on.ft.com/4o9deZr | opinion

If you're in Manchester, please join us in the Department of Geography, @uomseed.bsky.social Wed 26th November. Dr Jesse Proudfoot will be giving talk on: Connecting symptoms to social causes: Reading carceral urbanism in Chicago through a drug addiction. 3pm HBS, g.33 @cperguom.bsky.social

Fall in opioid deaths in BC is more likely down to a shift from injection to inhalation than policing.

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New: Dialogues in Urban Research exploring what it means to think about crisis as urban & how locating crisis in the urban reconfigures relations between eventful & everyday crisis politics, materiality, discourse & movement. Part of a great set of interventions.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

constructing-london.com/269-home-inc... myself and Ale Busa recently wrote on Woodberry Down - update here

Solidarity to all colleagues @sheffielducu.bsky.social who are back on the picket lines fighting the destruction of UK higher ed!

Edinburgh university staff back industrial action again in longstanding dispute over cuts and redundancies Staff at the University of Edinburgh have today (Tuesday) backed industrial action for a second time in a longstanding dispute over £140million cuts, job losses and compulsory redundancies.

There was moment I thought perhaps we had movement here, but the @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social strike is on. You can read more about why here:

www.ucu.org.uk/article/1423...

Please write and call your MSPs on Monday: www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/lobby-your-msp

This piece on Locating Crisis, along with the other fascinating commentaries, now has a home in Vol 3.3 of Dialogues in Urban Research! journals.sagepub.com/toc/DUS/curr...

Room of people at an innovation lab. The screen at the front says project pitches.

Great energy in the room at the @healthierfutures.bsky.social Innovation Lab yesterday! Wonderful to see such brilliant folks across practice and academia coming together to tackle health inequalities in the UK! @uomseed.bsky.social @cperguom.bsky.social @uomhums.bsky.social

Room of people at an innovation lab. The screen at the front says project pitches.

Great energy in the room at the @healthierfutures.bsky.social Innovation Lab yesterday! Wonderful to see such brilliant folks across practice and academia coming together to tackle health inequalities in the UK! @uomseed.bsky.social @cperguom.bsky.social @uomhums.bsky.social

This piece on Locating Crisis, along with the other fascinating commentaries, now has a home in Vol 3.3 of Dialogues in Urban Research! journals.sagepub.com/toc/DUS/curr...

Im so sorry Ryan, sending love 💙

Looking forward to this online talk!

Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...

NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...

Lots of great urbanists here!

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!

USF blog flyer for the series "Feminist and queer autonomous urban spaces under authoritarian neoliberalism" on a picture by Magdalena Moreno Wall covered with colorful protest posters and flyers advocating feminist and queer autonomous urban spaces, with the quote "“The aim of the project is to create an international network of activist(s and) scholars working in/with feminist and queer autonomous urban spaces, to share knowledge and practices to navigate the increasing violence of the present, imagine new ‘world-making’ practices (Muñoz 2009) and support each other.”

USF blog flyer for the series "Feminist and queer autonomous urban spaces under authoritarian neoliberalism" on a picture by Magdalena Moreno Wall covered with colorful protest posters and flyers advocating feminist and queer autonomous urban spaces, with the quote "“The aim of the project is to create an international network of activist(s and) scholars working in/with feminist and queer autonomous urban spaces, to share knowledge and practices to navigate the increasing violence of the present, imagine new ‘world-making’ practices (Muñoz 2009) and support each other.”

📢 This week on the USF Blog!

Dr Cesare Di Feliciantonio, Magdalena Moreno & Dr Gabriella Palermo introduce their #USFSeminarSeriesAwards grant on feminist & queer autonomous urban spaces under authoritarian neoliberalism.

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#UrbanStudies #FeministGeographies #QueerUrbanism

Picture of blue sky (duh!) and a bit of a larger poster saying “vous êtes bien” (you are good / comfortable)

We might like Bluesky because there is no evil algorithm BUT unlike over on Mastodon where it is part of the culture, folks here often don’t think to boost posts they like. Remember that if there is no algorithm, then we all benefit from others sharing good stuff. Like & REPOST good stuff, people!