Maximilian Hepach

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Assistant Professor (Research) in Geography Wellcome Trust Early Career Fellow @ Durham University weather | climate | health https://hepach.org/

'What is perhaps remarkable about the Exeter cuts is that they are targeted at some of the university’s most successful departments, many of which turn over a profit even after they have made enormous and increasing contributions to the central university budget.' Read, rage and weep.

The Crisis in Britain’s Universities

The cuts that have been proposed at the University of Exeter demonstrates the crisis of purpose in Britain’s universities. Should not universities also be places to prepare for "eternal dwellings"?

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📣 Webinar 📣 20 March (13.00-14.00 GMT) Angela Last (Freie Universität Berlin) will discuss her forthcoming book 'Tainted Tools: New Materialisms as a Decolonial Project'. Registration 👉 tinyurl.com/5x4jd9tz Bio 👉 mutablematter.wordpress.com/about/ 📚 tinyurl.com/39wt72s9

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Excited to host the Measurement Heretics Workshop: Being Meaning and Measuring Well on March 11-13, at the Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham University. The keynote will be hybrid so register for this free event! @durhamimh.bsky.social #histsci #histmed #hps #philsci #medhums #histtech #sts

Measurement Heretics Workshop: Being, Meaning, and Measuring Well

This 3-day workshop brings together international & interdisciplinary perspectives to guide the future of ethical, meaningful health data.

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If you can substitute "hungry ghost trapped in a jar" for "AI" in a sentence it's probably a valid use case for LLMs. Take "I have a bunch of hungry ghosts in jars, they mainly write SQL queries for me". Sure. Reasonable use case. "My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged.

New Book! "All Geographers Should be Feminist Geographers: Creating Care-full Academic Spaces" now available from UGA Press. Excited to talk about the book with folks, so please consider if this topic and ideas are well-suited to department seminars, class visits, or other conversational spaces.

Front cover of new book--"All Geographers Should be Feminist Geographers." Showcases university building and sculpture at Mentor's Circle at University of Delaware.

If any journalists would like a copy of Electric Wind: An Energy History of Modern Britain to review, please get in touch w me /MUP. It's a rigorous history of wind energy written for a wide audience, with plenty to say about today's energy challenges. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182968/

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Electric wind - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Electric wind by Marianna Dudley

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