It is ironic that we've all been uploading our personal thoughts, demographic information, consumer habits, and so on, to social media and other websites for 25 plus years at this point, but the second a government asks us to confirm our age online we lose our collective minds.

New commentary in TIBG: 'Subtractive, ambient and bifurcated attention at work and when working from home: Towards a geography of workplace attention' by @tylerb.bsky.social & @dcockayne.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky

New Commentary w/ @dcockayne.bsky.social in @tibg.bsky.social. Daniel and I comment further on the politics of attention at work, building from @davidjbissell.bsky.social, @lillicrovara.bsky.social, Andrew Gorman-Murray, and @lstraughan.bsky.social excellent recent article. doi.org/10.1111/tran...

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This commentary responds to and extends recent research by Bissell al. (2025). We add to their analysis of attention, focusing on social difference and workplace politics by drawing on examples from ....

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Who at Routledge is responsible for changing the pagination of Gender Trouble seemingly every time it is reprinted and what form of retribution is appropriate for such a crime?

AI is useless.

Super exciting - congratulations on the quote Jessa!

Jessa Loomis@jessaloomis.bsky.social · last yr.

Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) payment technologies are targeting young women and reconfiguring the spaces, practices & relations of digital money and finance. Very happy to have been interviewed for this story based on my research on BNPL and the geographies of consumer fintech w/ @dcockayne.bsky.social

Really wonderful to work on this project with @tylerb.bsky.social - this includes a little two-page work of speculative fiction about work refusal in an AI-saturated future, as well as a bit of academic commentary. We're quite happy with it - check it out!

Tyler Blackman@tylerb.bsky.social · last yr.

New commentary with @dcockayne.bsky.social now out! As part of a special issue on AI refusal, we offer brief speculative narrative imagining working life in an AI-dominated future, navigating between dystopian and utopian visions of AI and its refusal. Open Access Here: doi.org/10.1177/1474...

Are we doing only 19th Century, or are To The Lighthouse and Beloved allowable?

Tobias Wilson-Bates@phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · last yr.

Echo chamber? ECHO CHAMBER?!? This site has BOTH people who think Moby Dick is the greatest novel ever written AND people who know the real GOAT is Middlemarch!!

This looks fascinating - excited to check out more of Smith's work! Her recent paper from Transactions also looks excellent: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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This article analyses the career of Edward Curtis by centring the Harriman Alaska Expedition of 1899, his relationship with George Bird Grinnell, and his production of spatial knowledge toward land d...

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Duke University Press@dukepress.bsky.social · last yr.

One of our new and exciting titles out this May is "Ice Geographies" by Jen Rose Smith @sprucehen.bsky.social . #EnvironmentalStudies #Geography buff.ly/BWX6cDK

I've added FOUR new peer-reviewed academic articles to my round-up post, "What's wrong with the Cass Review?" Together, these highlight serious ethical issues with the Cass Review's design, recommendations, and implementations. It's important to keep this story live! ruthpearce.net/2024/04/16/w...

Edmund White, novelist and great chronicler of gay life, dies aged 85

Edmund White, novelist and great chronicler of gay life, dies aged 85

The American essayist, playwrightauthor of books including A Boy’s Own Story and The Married Man, has died

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Consumers defer payments on 'Buy Now Pay Later' purchases, suggesting an affordability crunch www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/b... In our new article @dcockayne.bsky.social & I explore how fintech affects relations to payment, wages & debt. Check it out! compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Geographies of Fintech and Everyday Life: Reconfiguring Spaces, Practices, and Scales of Digital Money and Finance

Financial and monetary technologies, understood both through their digital platforms and the materiality of mobile devices, are increasingly pervasive, and now shape the economic practices of individ...

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This will be perfect for the class I'm teaching on AI economies in *checks syllabus* four weeks' time.

blair@blairaf.com · last yr.

What resources are distributed across the AI value chain, and to whom? Who benefits in the AI value chain, and who is harmed? In "The Ethics of AI Value Chains", @davidthewid.bsky.social & I address these fundamental questions, now out in Big Data & Society! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Please sign and share this petition, calling on Newcastle University’s Executive Board to halt the threat of ill-considered and unnecessary redundances that are imperilling careers and the future of our institution. www.change.org/p/end-unnece...

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I think we need to start upping the social pressure against using AI. Professors in the quotes talking about how it’s no different than Google. Absolutely pathetic.

Kashmir Hill@kashhill.bsky.social · last yr.

Now it's the professors using ChatGPT. Students aren't happy about it. I talked to professors. I talked to students. I read the scathing reviews on Rate My Professors. Here you go: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/t...

To the surprise of literally no one.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · last yr.

People who stop weight loss drugs return to original weight within year, analysis finds

Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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”Miyazaki said, 'I am utterly disgusted. If you really want to make creepy stuff you can go ahead and do it. I would never wish to incorporate this technology into my work at all.' He also said, 'I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.'"

OpenAI CEO Responds to ChatGPT Users Creating Studio Ghibli-Style AI Images

The latest version of OpenAI's image generation technology has resulted in a flood of users sharing images transformed in the style of Studio Ghibli.

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Gross. Sad to see some of these names...

Joseph Rezek@rezekjoe.bsky.social · last yr.

What the f everybody. The arrogance here, just, wow.

If the only thing I know about music is that Britten's Festival Te Deum is a Kinsey 6, that's probably enough.

This looks incredible!

Duke University Press@dukepress.bsky.social · 2y ago

In "Care at the End of the World," Jina B. Kim develops what she calls crip-of-color critique, bringing a disability lens to bear on feminist- & queer-of-color literature in the aftermath of US welfare reform. Read the intro for free on our website now! #DisabilityStudies https://buff.ly/4b5wmmc

Currently @universityaffairs.bsky.social has like 20 followers, so anyway, Canadian academics (and others) should follow them.

Glad to see this work with Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social on Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) payment technolgies and consumer fintech published in the newest volume of @jcultecon.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A feminist approach to fintech: exploring ‘buy now, pay later’ technologies and consumer fintech

‘Buy now, pay later’ (BNPL) is a financial technology that is reshaping online consumption by allowing users to split payment for goods over 3–4 interest-free digital installments. While the use an...

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I read this a couple of years ago and it was truly excellent - an inspiration to Ferrante that is surely worthy of her.

Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️@joiedevivre9.bsky.social · 2y ago

“He was never quite satisfied by the solitary joys of the imagination, but he also knew that reality would never be as rich as his lingering dreams.” #NYRBWomen25 Ugh, Edoardo. 😩

Martin Luther King was born on this day 96 years ago. He was murdered at age 39. When I was younger, I thought he lived far into adulthood. Now that I’m 42, I think, he was such a baby when he was pushed into the spotlight.

Interesting thread.

Erica Wilkinson@everywhereerica.bsky.social · 2y ago

I don't know how many of y'all are watching the migration of American TikTokers to RedNote, but it's the most fascinating thing I've EVER SEEN HAPPEN ONLINE. 🧵

It's exciting to see the launch of Urban Political Ecology (the journal). I'm on the ed board along with a bunch of great folks & it's a venue that values practitioner-facing articles to develop tools and concepts that make sense of cities' future as the ecological crisis intensifies.

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