A new documentary on the Falkland Islands/Las Malvinas is set for release soon. Argentine director Pablo Aparo visited the islands to document life there. Entitled Los Vencedores (‘The Victors’) it’s going to be fascinating…
Gela Merabishvili
@gmerabishv.bsky.social
Political geography postdoc at KU Leuven
mwsgeorgia.hypotheses.org/13941 Call for papers: Paths Not Taken: Forgotten (?!) (Non-)Territorial Entities in the Early Soviet Union, conference in Tbilisi, 25-27 February 2027, organized by Davit Jishkariani & Jörn Happel. Submission deadline: 20 October.
CfP: Paths Not Taken: Forgotten (?!) (Non-)Territorial Entities in the Early Soviet Union
International Conference, Tbilisi, 25–27 February 2027 Organizer: David Jishkariani (Max Weber Foundation – Max Weber Network Eastern Europe (MWNO)Co-organizer: Jörn Happel (Helmut-Schmidt-Universität...
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Progress in Human Geography editorial on AI use: "It also misses the point of what makes Progress papers distinctive: they are original, woven tapestries, works of craft rather than summaries clipped together like pieces of an already existing jigsaw." doi.org/10.1177/0309...
Progress in human geography and AI: A policy statement - Noel Castree, David Bissell, Chris Gibson, Kevin Grove, Don Mitchell, Marit Rosol, Anna J. Secor, 2026
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The Eternal Derby opened with a minute’s silence for Ratko Mladic observed by both Zvezda and Partizan fans as the Delije unveiled a massive Mladic Tifo.
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 · 4mo 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
Ok, the US went against, but a really weird combination of countries abstained: Estonia, Lithuania, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine and Serbia.
Tom Cruise Looks Confused: What?
ALT: Tom Cruise Looks Confused: What?
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Olga Nesterova@onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 7d agoOn Friday, the United Nations General Assembly adopted an African proposal for a new world map, which shows countries’ true size relative to one another.
Wolves supporters funnel down Molineux Alley, which ran next to the old South Bank and Waterloo Road side of Molineux. Many modern supporters reckon their family members are in this photo, or at the very least would have walked down this lane every matchday.
🌎 El Niño’s distinct warming pattern is evident in new data from August 25, 2026. Warmer waters stretch across the central and eastern equatorial Pacific, critical for global weather and climate forecasting. 📍 Pacific Ocean 📸 European Union, Copernicus Marine Service Data
Yeah but other than Bosnia Kosovo GFA Camp David Kuwait South Korea... what have the Americans ever done for us?
Peter M. Sullivan@citizensullivan.bsky.social · last mo.Bosnia Kosovo Good Friday Agreement Dayton Accords Camp David Agreement Peace Corps
Claiming space: @deborahcole.bsky.social with a tale of borders, migration and geopolitics in Berlin www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
‘A symbol of resistance’: the fight to save treehouse built on no man’s land next to Berlin Wall
Supporters fear structure could be torn down as safety hazard and want it to become memorial to postwar foreign labourers in honour of its Turkish creator
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A hero whose heroism consists of killing people is uninteresting to me, and I detest the hormonal war orgies of our visual media, the mechanical slaughter of endless battalions of black-clad, yellow-toothed, red-eyed demons.
July 30, 1990: Toni Kukoč (age 21) of Yugoslavia dunks on Alonzo Mourning (age 20) of the United States during the Men's Basketball Final at the Goodwill Games in Seattle. Yugoslavia defeated the United States, 85-79, to win the gold medal in men's basketball.
Climate emergency 'turning time into space': "temperatures in Athens are set to be on a par with Bahrain; that Spain and France are the new Greece, and London the Athens I first knew, in terms of heat, in the late 90s." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
A decade on the Iberian frontline has shown me that Europe’s climate emergency is impossible to deny
What once felt exceptional now arrives with grim regularity all over the continent and it will only get worse
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🇭🇺 Danube River in northern Hungary faces critically low water levels due to drought/heat. Navigation and tourism services are suspended. July 2026 satellite images reveal extensive exposed sediment bars. 📍 Hungary 📸 European Union, Copernicus Sentinel-2 imagery
Sunday long read: EU institutional names and job titles are long-winded and confusing by design - national leaders did not want anything that gives the appearance of a state. But this does a disservice to citizens because it masks what they really are.
The five name changes that would make the EU more honest
Sylvain Kahn's book "Europe: A State Unaware of Itself" describes all the ways European leaders have used confusing language to hide the fact that the EU is a federal state.
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Messi might be the best footballer ever but he'll never be the greatest newlinesmag.com/argument/des...
Despite the Trophies, Messi Will Never Mean What Maradona Does for Argentines
Frustratingly silent throughout his career, the soccer icon’s visit to the White House is costing him national hero status among fans back home
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Back in 2018, my new drug was putting that sexy saxophone crescendo from "Baker Street" over highlights. Time to bring my favorites here. 🎷 Sound ON. 🔊 Exhibit A: Wayne Rooney to Acosta (2018)
As public awareness and resistance ramp up, I'm regularly reminded that researchers have been addressing the environmental, geopolitical, and political-economic impacts of data centers for *a very long time*; legislators, journalists, et al just haven't noticed!
Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · last yr.So much think-piecing and op-ed'ing about data centers. I wish folks knew that some scholars have been studying these things — as real estate, as geopolitical battlegrounds, as ecological disasters — for a decade+. Mél Hogan, Alix Johnson, Ingrid Burrington, Jen Holt, Patrick Brodie, et al
When you’ve spent as much time in Bosnia as @julianborger.bsky.social has, you’re able to detect subtle shifts in public attitudes, and write about them in compelling, historically-informed fashion. A great piece on the ‘return’ of the golden lilies to Bosnia. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
‘It’s defiance’: why some Bosniaks are reviving historic flag as they cheer on World Cup squad
Lilies making a vivid comeback alongside foreign-imposed flag, as younger generation wrestles with national identity
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Rozafa Berisha's & Claudia Eggart's edited collection "Locating the geopolitical. Ethnographies of contact zones" explores how people across various contexts actually align the most intimate aspects of their lives to various geopolitical configurations. Really timely, really hot stuff!
Introduction: Locating the geopolitical: Ethnographies of ‘contact zones’
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65 years ago today, the Antarctic Treaty entered into force, affirming that Antarctica is exclusively for peaceful, scientific uses by demilitarizing the entire continent, creating the first nuclear-weapon-free zone (covering testing and deployment), and banning the disposal of radioactive wastes.
