Sign the petition to save the John Medley building. Enough with the pointless capital works, invest in staff. www.change.org/p/stop-the-d...

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Stop the demolition of the John Medley Building

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happy to have a small part/quote in this hugely important conversation. ai is just the most recent shiny object the neoliberal university is using to gut higher ed’s mission as a social, public good. cutting educators and researchers is not the way 👎🏻 www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

Faculty Push Back Against OpenAI Deals

As higher ed institutions pay tech companies millions to provide students and faculty access to custom AI-powered tools, some faculty in Colorado and California are pushing back.

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New event! 📆27th March 🕔1:00pm Eastern Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Northern Illinois University Hold book talk by @mklaz.bsky.social “Socializing Land: Plantations, Dispossession and Resistance in Laos” Details: calendar.niu.edu/event/cseas-...

We love to see our Vic teachers taking action for better pay and conditions! www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Victoria teachers strike: warning of further action as 35,000 rally and hundreds of schools cancel classes

Union leaders say Tuesday’s protest in Melbourne’s CBD was among state’s ‘biggest’ in years

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Interested in Socializing Land but have too much to read already? Check out this podcast interview with the New Books Network @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/socializing-... Thank you to Dr Miranda Melcher for being an amazing host. NBN is serious public education!

AMAZING NEWS:

@elsevierconnect.bsky.social Considering how massively profitable you are, please pay for articles published in your journals to be professionally copy edited! This article is riddled with grammatical errors: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... I see it all the time

REDD+ at risk: Emerging ten questions that REDD+ must answer

As an important initiative of climate action, REDD+ has been increasingly discussed in global policy arena. But delay in wider scale yet full-fledged …

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Could capitalism ever be sustainable? No. But it will sure as hell try! And it's important to understand how, why, and with what implications. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Sustainability capitalism: Investing in climate transitions - W Nathan Green, Miles Kenney-Lazar, 2025

Private finance has become the dominant monetary response to climate change, growing nearly twice as fast as public finance between 2018 and 2023 and surpassing...

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Native title for the Wurrundjeri Woi-wurrung in Narrm Melbourne would be such a powerful step forward for the city Especially now that Treaty has been signed between the Victorian gov't and First Nations people www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Traditional owners file native title claim over Melbourne and surrounding areas

Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung elder says First Nations people want to work with government to ‘look after that country’

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Thanks to @micahfisher.bsky.social for inviting me to his graduate course, Environmental Conflict: Resolution?, to share my book, Socializing Land. Great group of students with sharp questions! Plus it's always fun to be a disembodied floating head for a while ;)

The press is offering a 30% discount associated with the New York Conference on Asian Studies (NYCAS). You can use the code NYCAS25 at checkout. It will expire on October 31st

Miles Kenney-Lazar@mklaz.bsky.social · last yr.

My first book, Socializing Land: Plantations, Dispossession, and Resistance in Laos (University of Hawai'i Press, 2025), exists in this world! Check it out at: uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/social... 1/4

My first book, Socializing Land: Plantations, Dispossession, and Resistance in Laos (University of Hawai'i Press, 2025), exists in this world! Check it out at: uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/social... 1/4

Pls share: Killam Postdoctoral Research Fellowship competition now open at UBC. Department of Geography deadline is October 9, 2025. Details: geog.ubc.ca/job-opportun...

Thanks, @profjulietlu.bsky.social ! I became very obsessed over cover design at one point, so I'm glad to know it works 🙏 More soon on the book..

Juliet Lu (she/her/hers)@profjulietlu.bsky.social · last yr.

@mklaz.bsky.social Miles Kenney-Lazar's book is out!! 👏🏼 I have to say the cover is one of the coolest I've seen in awhile... uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/social...

This is a great piece on how Melbourne Uni's anti-racism strategy has been captured by elites and used as a tool against pro-Palestine academics and students

Overland Journal@overlandjournal.bsky.social · last yr.

Shillan Shebly, Natalie Ironfield and Elizabeth Strakosch write about the policing of Palestine solidarity and the intensifying climate of political repression at the University of Melbourne, all “operating in the name of ‘antiracism’.”

We are excited to announce that over 10% of AAG members have signed onto the GJP petition! We're not done yet -- this week, we're making a final push to make sure we blow past that number. Especially if you've already signed, could you share the petition link with colleagues by April 11?

These travel security notifications that the uni sends us are actually an amazing way to find out about local protests to attend..

Launching our federal election launch at Brunswick Town Hall now.

If you haven't left Detroit #AAG2025 yet, come by the two-part session Friday morning on Frontiers of Green Capitalism organized by @jessicadicarlo.bsky.social and Shae Frydenlund. Room 420B - it's gonna be lit.. @geographers.bsky.social

If you're attending #AAG2025, please sign this petition from Geographers for Justice in Palestine that calls for the AAG to hold a special meeting to discuss proposals for taking action on Palestine: geog4pal.org/petition/ @geogboycott.bsky.social @geographers.bsky.social

Who are Geographers for Justice in Palestine?

Colleagues, A decade in the making, I’d like to share with you my new book entitled, 'For the Sake of Forests and God: Governing Life and Livelihood in the Philippine Uplands'. From the Cornell University Press webpage: lnkd.in/ghyuxMKT

The very idea of so many incredible geography friends and colleagues at the University of Wollongong being in scope for possible redundancy next month is absolutely gut wrenching www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11... 1/5

University to cut 137 academics due to $35m drop in international student enrolments

The University of Wollongong has approached staff across 25 disciplines for redundancies in a restructure the union fears could abolish its degrees in history, mathematics, geography and languages.

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