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Mark Cooper

@mhcooper.bsky.social

Senior Lecturer in Geography School of Earth and Environment University of Canterbury Climate, political economy, measurement and metrics, animals Here to learn.

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Andrew@openpolicy.bsky.social · 4mo ago

There has been shockingly little coverage of the American regime’s demands for access to personal data on New Zealanders. MPs need to be tabling written PQs and demanding information in question time.

Civil liberties newsfeed (NZ)@civillibertynznews.bsky.social · 4mo ago

US border deal may pressure New Zealand - https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/news/2026/03/30/us-border-deal-may-pressure-new-zealand-.html - Details and more news at: https://nzccl.org.nz/news

Wim Carton@wimcarton.bsky.social · 10mo ago

The Long Heat is finally out from @versobooks.bsky.social today: It deals with inter alia the promise of climate reversal, climate tipping points, the political economy of carbon removal and the very many antinomies of solar geoengineering. www.versobooks.com/products/331...

The Long Heat

The world is crossing the 1.5°C global warming limit, perhaps exceeding 2°C soon after. What is to be done when these boundaries, set by the Paris Agreement, have been passed? In the overshoot era, sc...

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Adam David Morton@morton.bsky.social · last yr.

A three-year Postdoctoral Research Fellowship to work on "The Climate Economy: Emerging Strategies for Australia" with @garethbryant.bsky.social and Sophie Webber. A wonderful opportunity👇 www.ppesydney.net/postdoctoral...

Postdoctoral Research Associate - Australia's Climate Economy - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Full time (Part Time negotiable), Fixed term for 3 years Work with a team of interdisciplinary researchers and doctoral students building a conceptual and empirical map of the emerging Climate Economy...

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Charles Ornstein@charlesornstein.bsky.social · last yr.

DON’T LOOK AWAY! The Trump administration is catapulting us into a data black hole and the consequences could be massive. Halting data collection on drug use, maternal mortality, climate change, more, by @alecmac.bsky.social

Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More

By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose con...

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Tuomas Väisänen 📼🧟@waeiski.bsky.social · last yr.

My dear fellow researchers in #America and elsewhere! If you are in the midst of finding a new #academic home and securing new #research #funding the Research Council of Finland is preparing a large funding call to cover the period from 2026 to 2030. www.aka.fi/en/about-us/... #science #phd

RCF preparing call for universities to invite foreign researchers to Finland

The Research Council of Finland (RCF) is planning a new funding call to help universities recruit international experts to Finland. The call would be part of the RCF funding scheme that strengthens un...

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Gavin Lamb@gavinlamb.org · last yr.

2 year Postdoc opportunity in Environmental Humanities (focus on Multispecies Politics) at William & Mary. "We seek an individual with expertise in Multispecies Politics or Animate Ecologies...the postdoc will have substantial amounts of time to focus on their own research agenda."

Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow

The Environment & Sustainability Program at William & Mary, a public university of the Commonwealth of Virginia, invites applications for a two-year Mellon Postdoctoral Research Associate position tha...

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Ronald Hartz@ronaldhartz.bsky.social · 2y ago

'The pressure to produce and perform in the short term can come at the expense of scientific progress in the long term. A more critical stance towards metrics and rankings is essential if we want to enhance the quality and credibility of research.' www.socialsciencespace.com/2025/01/how-...

How Research Credibility Suffers in a Quantified Society - Social Science Space

To address research credibility issues, we must reform the role of metrics, rankings, and incentives in universities.

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Joanna Kidman@joannakidman.bsky.social · 2y ago

"We need urgently to hold to account those with a will and an emerging capacity to control the production of knowledge. This includes university leaders and the educated elites of the state, as well as right-wing populist governments" newsroom.co.nz/2024/11/27/f...

Fears for university independence – who decides what is taught

From the University of Auckland – Opinion: Universities are restructuring themselves, but are they responding to government drivers or are their leaders exercising their new capacity to interpret univ...

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emsaurios@emsaurios.bsky.social · 3y ago

We are hiring tenure-track #job Assist Prof in geographical & related social science approaches to critical development w/place-based approach and interests in Middle East, Africa or East Asia, climate, EJ, health, disasters, human rights or humanitarianism. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Assistant Professor - Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Job Summary: The International Studies Major and the Department of Geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison seek a tenure-track assistant professor trained in geographical and related social...

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Bill Manhire@pacificraft.bsky.social · 3y ago

. Untitled This book about extinct birds is heavier than any bird: heavier than the dark bird eating my heart, page after page of abandoned wings. I lift it up and sit it on my lap and listen to it purring. .