Our new piece out today in Times Higher Education about the threats to Geography in the UK - particularly fieldwork - please do share. It links to a recent snapshot survey on the challenges being faced in UK HE, which highlights the inequities of the challenges, but also fears of what is yet to come
17.02.2026 09:21 — 👍 65 🔁 53 💬 2 📌 3You know what, Miro? I do not need a 2025 recap of my use of your fine platform. No, no thank you.
09.12.2025 15:11 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We’ve extended the deadline by a week! More time to send in your abstract for potential inclusion in a special @mediapolis.bsky.social dossier on ‘The Synthetic City’!
01.12.2025 20:23 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
REMINDER! CfP: The Synthetic City
We’re putting together a special issue dossier for
@mediapolis.bsky.social
on 'urban AI' and seek short essays, provocations, creative-critical reflections on synthetic urbanism.
📅 Abstracts due: Nov 30
🔗 Details: mediacitytwg.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/c...
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
24.11.2025 11:48 — 👍 1565 🔁 747 💬 38 📌 280
Birkbeck, University of London is seeking an Associate Lecturer in Digital Video and Editing. Part-time, contractual – perfect for creatives who want to share their skills while continuing their practice.
👉 Details & apply: cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/asso...
Join us Nov 25 for Engaging Publics in Media, Cities & Space -free online conference on research impact in media and urban studies. Talks on monographs, journals, podcasts, walking tours + networking, incl. a special session for ECRs.
👉 Full programme & register: docs.google.com/document/d/e...
Two very late nights in a row keeping up with the Jays, and now I’m exhausted
02.11.2025 04:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Apropos of this Halloween day, Roger Luckhurst - a colleague in Birkbeck’s School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication - discusses how we lay the dead to rest today, drawing on his new book Graveyards: A History of Living with the Dead (Thames and Hudson 2025): youtu.be/ZPuNR9J9LGI?...
31.10.2025 10:10 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
2/ We welcome short essays, provocations, and creative-critical reflections that examine how synthetic urbanism is produced, experienced, and theorized across media, design, and everyday life.
#UrbanMedia #SyntheticCity #SyntheticData #Synthesis #Cities #Space #Media #ML #GenAI #AI #Mediapolis
1/ CFP Dossier for @mediapolis.bsky.social:
The synthetic city as an alternative, multivalent provocation to examine, interpret and forecast the emerging implications of AI and related digital technologies for urban living.
🗓️ Deadline: 30 Nov 2025
🔗 Link: mediacitytwg.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/c...
Savoured and then ruined
17.10.2025 10:22 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Wait that'll ruin the moment
17.10.2025 09:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Camera on the ready
17.10.2025 09:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Great to see this CfP "The Synthetic City" #urbanAI for @mediapolis.bsky.social w/ guest editors @scott-rodgers.bsky.social @marcospdias.bsky.social & colleagues.
mediacitytwg.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/c...
Abstract deadline 30 November 2025.
Today’s the day I take the two-stop Waterloo & City line for the first time. It’s gonna be a good one.
17.10.2025 07:31 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Call for Papers: The Synthetic City
We’re putting together a special issue dossier for @mediapolis.bsky.social on 'urban AI' and seek short essays, provocations, creative-critical reflections on synthetic urbanism.
📅 Abstracts due: Nov 30
🔗 Details: mediacitytwg.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/c...
Laura Mulvey, who recently retired from Birkbeck, to refeive a BFI Fellowship. www.bfi.org.uk/news/laura-m...
17.09.2025 06:48 — 👍 18 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
Some snaps from the @birmac.bsky.social / Media & Democracy / Qualitative Methods Group workshop 'Exploring Quali-Quantitative Approaches in Social Media Research', where me, @robtoes.bsky.social & participants explored methods for approaching the messy, contradictory phenomena that is social media
18.07.2025 14:38 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
I’d like to see some mainstream journalists put a question like this to Labour ministers. It the logical question to follow.
18.07.2025 12:47 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Finally something to cheer
17.07.2025 09:54 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0As part of the deal, I’ll stop saying please in my prompts
09.07.2025 11:46 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I’ve been increasingly using ChatGPT/copilot for various little things here and there. But you know what I’d like? For it not to be so complementary. I mean, be a bit rude and tell me my prompts are terrible, if they are, please.
09.07.2025 11:46 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0So sad to hear about the passing of my friend and former colleague Mark Saunders. Some thoughts and memories here: www.publiclysited.com/memories-of-...
07.07.2025 10:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Amiel & Melburn Annual lecture is happening this Wednesday!
A stellar lineup discussing how the Left can resist the Rise of the Radical Right, hosted at Birkbeck.
@kojokoram.bsky.social, @irrnews.bsky.social @afoggyplace.bsky.social @bethanyrielly.bsky.social @robtoes.bsky.social
cc. @mediacity-ecrea.bsky.social
19.06.2025 13:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0With Yu-Shan Tseng, I am co-editing a Special Issue (for Urban Studies, subject to full proposal acceptance) on 'Ordinary Democracy and Digital Cities'. Read the CFP details here: docs.google.com/document/d/e...
19.06.2025 13:57 — 👍 15 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
New article out in Urban Studies! I examine Google’s urban-tech power from Fiber to Sidewalk Labs and argue that the company is less a cohesive strategist and more a shapeshifter, driven by the speculative ethos of Silicon Valley journals.sagepub.com/eprint/JIJUW...
27.05.2025 11:49 — 👍 14 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
The worst happened. We were DOGE’d. Our NSF funding is gone.
So now there’s nothing stopping me from sharing Expert Voices Together, a crisis response system for US-based researchers and journalists facing harassment.
It's a true passion project. 🧵 1/
expertvoicestogether.org
