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Joshua Kirshner

@joshkirshner.bsky.social

Reader in human geography and Co-Director @igdc.bsky.social • energy, urban climate, landscape, extraction frontiers • known to frequent the Uni of York

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Philip Gourevitch@pgourevitch.bsky.social · 5h ago

"Among the 18,000 skulls and human remains stored in the basement of the Musée de l'Homme in Paris are those of Guinean anti-colonial fighters." www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

Guinea asks France to return skull of Bokar Biro, who led resistance against French colonization

Guinea is seeking to reclaim the skulls of the last ruler of the theocratic state of Fouta-Djallon and those of three of his close companions, nearly 130 years after their murder by French colonial tr...

lemonde.fr

Helsinki University Press@helsinkiupress.bsky.social · 10h ago

Want to learn more about starting and managing an #OA journal? Check out the OA Journals Toolkit! #OpenAccess #ScholarlyPublishing

OASPA - The Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association@oaspa.bsky.social · 2w ago

The OA Journals Toolkit provides guidance for new & established open access journals to navigate the rapidly changing #ScholarlyPublishing landscape. The Toolkit is a free resource from OASPA and @doaj.bsky.social with information on how to start or run an #OA journal. www.oajournals-toolkit.org

Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · 2w ago

As scholars and journalists start to write more about data center noise politics, I hope they'll consider the precedents — the history of noise abatement activism + regulation, the whole history of zoning (which is in large part about sensory regulation), etc.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2w ago

Brazilian authorities blocked two senior U.S. officials from traveling to the country next week, concerned that the visitors planned to sow doubt about the security of the nation’s voting systems, according to U.S. and Brazilian officials.

Brazil Blocks Visit by U.S. Delegation Seeking to Question Election System

Brazilian authorities refused to grant visas to two senior U.S. officials out of concern they planned to sow doubt about the security of the country’s voting systems.

nyti.ms

Joshua Kirshner@joshkirshner.bsky.social · 3w ago

Reflections from @benandersongeog.bsky.social "...in the turbulent period since the 2008 financial crisis, politics in the UK and US has no longer been about coherent ideology expressed through policy and programmes." What is left in their wake? theconversation.com/the-politics...

The politics of feeling: why did ‘boring’ prime minister Keir Starmer provoke such visceral reactions?

In the post-2008 world, the political climate is often determined by emotion rather than ideology.

theconversation.com

Lorna Richardson@lornarichardson.bsky.social · 3w ago

“To accountants, some courses or departments may be viewed as cost centres. But to lecturers and students, and the places in which they are based, they are cultural resources – repositories of knowledge built up over decades, some of which will have a specific, local character and relevance”

The Guardian view on humanities cuts in universities: academic departments are more than cost centres | Editorial

Editorial: Literature, the arts and social sciences must not be sacrificed as higher education funding is squeezed

theguardian.com

Josiah Mortimer@josiahmortimer.bsky.social · last mo.

Rounding up some translations of Count Binface that have been appearing in foreign press 🇷🇴 Romanian: Contele Tomberonez 🇫🇷 French: Comte Tête-de-Poubelle (bin-head, more accurate than bin-face) 🇮🇹 Italian: Conte Faccia-da-Bidone 🇪🇸 Spanish: "un hombre con un cubo de basura en la cabeza" (!) Cont...

Dominic Boyer@dominicboyer.bsky.social · 4w ago

New Cultures of Energy pod! We speak with Ryan Cecil Jobson about his fascinating work in Trinidad and how petrostates try to masquerade their way into the future. Please listen and share! tinyurl.com/ytekzctk

Cultures of Energy: 259 - Petrostates (feat. Ryan Cecil Jobson)

The China adventure continues for your two co-hosts. Cymene and Dominic report from Zhangzhou, a small city of five million in Fujian province, and talk about party hotel life and what might have been...

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Bethany Brookshire@beebrookshire.bsky.social · last mo.

There's an OMB rule change that would require political oversight of scientific grants, and could pull any that don't "reflect presidential priorities" Another country has tried this before! It was the USSR and it was called Lysenkoism. By @thsaey.bsky.social www.sciencenews.org/article/omb-...

Here’s what happens when you put politicians in charge of science

Proposed federal rules would rely on political appointees to decide how a lot of U.S. science gets done. History shows the consequences of such actions.

sciencenews.org