Adam Moore
@conflictgeog.bsky.social
Geographer studying political violence, war, peacebuilding, U.S. military, geopolitics, empire, Bosnia. UCLA professor. Author of Peacebuilding in Practice (2013), Empire's Labor (2019), and The Difference Place Makes (2026)
"At the seminar we were asked, ‘what is the frontier technology we need to teach, the skill we need to impart for this bright future?” Most of the answers were about entrepreneurship, technical skills, team culture, capacity to innovate – all of which is completely right. I said: “Reading.”"
Christopher Smith@christophersmith.bsky.social · 2d agoOn History, Carlo Ginzburg, Ian McEwan and the art of reading. anatomiesofpower.wordpress.com/2026/08/06/c...
I say this as somebody who, on balance, thinks there is a place for institutional neutrality. When American civil society is facing an unprecedented authoritarian attack, if your response is to signal neutrality, that is simply an act of moral cowardice. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Harvard Must Take a Stand for Democracy | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
To silence ourselves in the name of neutrality would not only violate our own policy but also abdicate our broader civil responsibility.
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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴@wamsleylab.bsky.social · 2d agoThis is an unprompted assault on academic freedom & free speech from a prestigious PRIVATE university: "the university will implement a policy of institutional neutrality that requires university leaders at all levels to abstain from actions or speech relating to political and social matters” 4/x
If anyone had any doubt about what kind of publisher Frontiers is, this is a shocking whistleblower account
Michael Okun@michael-okun.bsky.social · 2mo agoOver the last month I saw that human editors are now stripped of control. I could no longer stop the system from auto-inviting "reviewers" with zero relevant expertise. Even worse - the AI began actively revoking the invitations I manually sent out to actual, qualified experts.
Journalism has become the art of stubbornly refusing to draw the obvious conclusion
it's pretty difficult to study the capital / imperialism intersection without this in mind, for what it's worth
Amanda Mull@amandamull.bsky.social · 5d agothere is a strain of lefty discourse where you can’t come to any unflattering conclusions about the populace—those must be explained away by how they are being acted upon by capital—but I think you’ll understand things better if you understand capital can also exploit weaknesses it didn’t create
Judge Mehta's J6 Requiem "That book is now closed. Today’s epilogue diminishes the gravity of that day, denigrates the work of the prosecutors and ... officers who secured these convictions, and excuses criminal acts that caused a centuries-long pillar of our democracy ... to buckle."
via @arpitrage.bsky.social, a pied-a-terre tax for unused faculty offices
I used to do some work on the ethical use of satellite and drone imagery for aid and disaster response, and it is genuinely hard to express in words what a dangerous, stupid thing Google is doing by making it easy to use GenAI to create faked satellite imagery:
How to plant a nuclear plant in Iran
The question is: what on earth is Google doing?
digitaldigging.org
IN A WORLD WHERE TWO ROADS DIVERGE ONE CHOICE CAN MAKE ALL THE DIFFERENCE
Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · 2w agoStudio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now
Lindsey Graham finally getting his Iran war and then immediately dying really helps sell the case that this is the make a wish administration for the hell bound.
The death of the presumption of regularity among federal judges concerning this regime's legal representations (and its representatives) is both one of the strongest indicators of creeping dual state authoritarianism and perhaps the most consequential case of institutional resistance to this.
Katie Phang@katiephang.bsky.social · 2w agoBREAKING: In my lawsuit against Todd Blanche for the Epstein Files, Judge Sullivan has just ordered Blanche to produce, in camera (in chambers), the UNREDACTED emails & documents, and Blanche must bring documentation supporting his representations the DOJ’s redactions are what he claims they are.
If you’ve never recalled a book from yourself, are you even an academic?
Monica C. Schneider@poliscimonica.bsky.social · 2w agoPro-tip: If you are looking for a book, don't spend so much time on the library site or googling for a pdf or ordering it on Amazon until after you've looked through your own shelf.
Today, in violations of the rule of law that would be sufficient for impeachment in any other American presidency but aren't in this one because pathological partisan loyalty has rotted the constitutional order:
tony romm@tonyromm.bsky.social · 2w agoNEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...
A great deal ($12.22) for anyone who is interested in my book that came out last month. And a great deal for any other SUP titles!
Stanford University Press@stanfordpress.bsky.social · 2mo agoSUP is having a big sale! From today, June 23, through Friday, June 26, we're honoring Sophie Germain—and offering 53% off all in stock print and ebooks sitewide. It's a meaningful number for a meaningful mission. For full details: https://ow.ly/4FRb50ZfZF0 #ReadUP
It's a great feeling to have this out in the world, finally. And was a wonderful process working with everyone @stanfordpress.bsky.social!
Stanford University Press@stanfordpress.bsky.social · 3mo agoGeographers have long argued that places are constituted by relations with the wider world, relations that are always in flux. In The Difference Place Makes, Adam Moore argues that the inverse is also true: places are generative of relations. https://ow.ly/G0Fh50YZTi9
