feeling I should go see it just because it’s got this traction, but my personal oracle is warning me… visualmethodculture.wordpress.com/2023/08/22/o...

Oppenheimer: Man, man and oh man…

Yes, I’ve been to see Barbie and Oppenheimer. Here are some thoughts on the latter. Well, one thought really: Oppenheimer the movie is so deeply wedded to the idea of the white straight male …

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Rachel Coldicutt@rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 2w ago

I've been on Bluesky for a while now and the Odyssey is the first pop culture event (not politics or sport) that's regularly popping up across my timeline and (with love) I guess nerds must really like Christopher Nolan films.

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British Academy President: UK higher education crisis risks irreversible damage

As course closures, shrinking provision and widening regional inequalities threaten the future of UK higher education and research, President of the British Academy, Susan J Smith calls for an immedia...

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🚀 Not long to go until our free online DGRG Annual Symposium on 9 July 2026! Don't forget to register via the link. Join us for three exciting sessions exploring Digital Geographies in Fragile Times. For more info: digitalgeographiesrg.org/9-july-2026-... See you there! #DGRGAnnualSymposium2026

Digital geographies in fragile times | Webinar

This online symposium, hosted by the Digital Geographies Research Group, asks how digital geographies can help frame and address complex issues.

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Interdisciplinary conference | Multisensory XR: From 'Tech for Good' to Ethical Immersive Experience KCL, London, 6-7 Jan 2027 Organised by the Centre for the Ecologies of Attention and Perception and @joannazylinska.bsky.social Abstracts by Sept. 1 multisensoryxr.sites.er.kcl.ac.uk/2026/06/36/

Applications are open for a fully funded DPhil studentship at the OII, supported by the Leverhulme Trust. The project investigates how museum visitors experience reproductions of cultural objects in collaboration with @GoldsmithsUoL. www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/g...

@drnikko.bsky.social and I are putting together a special issue proposal for Big Data and Society on "Trans Data"! If you're an #STS nerd, or a #transstudies nerd, or ideally both, do submit ideas if you have them - docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Big Data and Society - Trans Data CFP

Call for PapersSpecial Issue of Big Data & Society on Trans Data Data and trans lives go - both fortunately and unfortunately - together. From surveillance systems seeking to normalise and control t...

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reposting this which enthuses not only about Sarah Sharma's book but also the work of Devika Narayan @devikanarayan.bsky.social. @dukepress.bsky.social @goodrobotpod.bsky.social @robkitchin.bsky.social @ahjackman.bsky.social @melhogan.bsky.social @alinau27.bsky.social

gillian rose@profgillian.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I just wrote a very enthusiastic review of Sarah Sharma's new book. @dukepress.bsky.social @dgrgrgs.bsky.social

I just wrote a very enthusiastic review of Sarah Sharma's new book. @dukepress.bsky.social @dgrgrgs.bsky.social

Insufferable Tools and critical tactics

I just finished reading Sarah Sharma’s new book Insufferable Tools: Feminism Against Big Tech. It’s a sustained and wonderful piece of feminist technoscience writing, from a media studies scholar determined to forge a structural/strategic analysis of the white patriarchy that surrounds so much of contemporary digital tech and its hype. In one way, that white patriarchy is all too obvious.

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this is a fascinating essay but when I rule the world, I will ban the use of the word "geography" to refer to controlling 'natural' constraints - these are vanishingly few - almost all physical environments are mediated by culture, tech and power. you have been warned. #geosky

London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · 2mo ago

‘Although they never managed Roman-style conquest – hemmed in by geography, revolt and circumstance – the Ptolemies and their citizens held on for three centuries. They were the last of the Hellenistic kingdoms to succumb to Rome.’ Robert Cioffi: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Vacancy: Departmental Lecturer in Human Geography SoGE, in association with @mansfieldoxford.bsky.social, seeks an outstanding Departmental Lecturer in Human Geography to provide cover during Professor Derek McCormack’s period as Head of School: https://bit.ly/3PUDVG7 #academicsky

Job Details: Departmental Lecturer in Human Geography

The School of Geography and the Environment (SoGE), in association with Mansfield College, seeks an outstanding Departmental Lecturer in Human Geography to provide cover during Professor Derek McCormack’s period as Head of School.

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🚨📣 We’re launching the first Early Career Editorial Board for Digital Geography & Society. If you’re a #PhD student, postdoc, or #ERC working on #digitalgeographies, we’d love to hear from you. We offer mentoring & hands-on experience in #academicpublishing & editorial work. Please share widely 🙏

very excited to have a date for the publication of my new book: 8 December!! 'Animated Urbanism' interrogates the visualisation of the mandate that urban life should be 'smart.' @uminnpress.bsky.social www.upress.umn.edu/978151792206...

Animated Urbanism

A critical examination of the digital imagery and visualization tools that mediate urban lifeAnimated Urbanism explores the ways urban life is increasingly m...

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The final talk in the Urban Multiplicities Seminar Series will be delivered by @profgillian.bsky.social (@oxfordgeography.bsky.social) Tuesday 19th May, 16:30–18:00, Small Lecture Theatre. All welcome!

Please share! Two PDRA jobs available on the UKRI-funded interdisciplinary MoonRISE project researching the effective governance of sites of cultural, scientific and environmental interest on the Moon. One Geography/STS slant, one law/governance. A great team at the OU led by Dr Alessandra Marino.

🚨Job alert🚨 Another postdoc opportunity up in Umeå as part of a WASP-HS research cluster I'm affiliated with, "AI Futures of Culture and Memory" -- another great AI/DH research environment! www.umu.se/en/work-with...

Postdoctoral fellow in Digital Humanities

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📣 Lecture: Dronotope: Emerging Technologies & the Politics of Timeline Visualisations 🗓 11 May, 17:30–19:30 📍 Macadam Building, Strand Campus, KCL Dr Beryl Pong shares her work on Dronotope, a creative “untimeline” of recent cross-sectoral drone developments 🎟️ www.tickettailor.com/events/digit...

Select tickets – Dronotope: Emerging Technologies and the Politics of Timeline Visualisations - Beryl Pong – Macadam Building (MAC 405), Strand Campus, King’s College London

Dronotope: Emerging Technologies and the Politics of Timeline Visualisations - Beryl Pong – Macadam Building (MAC 405), Strand Campus, King’s College London, Mon 11 May 2026 - Data visualisations ofte...

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An important, powerful paper by @oliviamason.bsky.social on #precarity in academia: "the experiences of what it means to enter, get a job in, and then stay in the neoliberal academy are defining mine and others' experiences of being an academic." rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Area | RGS Geography Journal | Wiley Online Library

Precarity is shaping what it means to do geography, who can do geographical research, and how we do geographical research. In this short intervention I reflect personally on the relationship between ...

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Seconding this! And if anyone wants to mix it up, there's also "foundational," "groundbreaking,""important," "essential," "landmark," "revolutionary"—all of which convey something slightly different without reinforcing gendered norms or giving anyone the ick.

Melissa Terras@melissaterras.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I cross it out in every draft I read and insert “germinal” and then we discuss Why Entrenched Power Structures in Language Matter #laughOfTheMedusa

we’ve got human beings on the dark side of the moon but microsoft word will still not let me add a comment to a footnote

really looking forward to this workshop on the techno-geographies of AI in Milan next week - if you're nearby and interested, register here: www.meta.polimi.it/internationa...

I was on a panel this week at the Royal Society, talking about AI and the future of women in science, and Wendy Hall asked us about the consequences of a future without women working in AI. And my reply was that we don't need to imagine that future. It's here. It's the present.

Huw C. Davies@huwcdavies.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Palantir’s UK CEO, Louis Mosely, wrote something similar in The Spectator recently citing Blue Labour’s Maurice Glasman’s term ‘Lanyard Class’.

The original sin here, IMV, is that a lot of writers and editors hear 'reading age of ten years old' and go 'ah, I'm writing for a moron!'

John Self@john-self.bsky.social · 5mo ago

This dumbo, gee-whiz, why-would-anyone-normal-care stuff is so depressing. "Niche yellow powder". "It's probably not an element you've thought about before." Anyone who did chemistry in school has thought about sulphur before and knows what it is.

Did you know Tila Tequila was one of the internet's first influencers? 🤔 How do you think early pioneers like her shaped today's social media landscape? Don't miss this podcast episode with Lisa Nakamura discussing these insights and more! YouTube: youtu.be/2LfDIyFPZOI?...

A true publishing event... The collected writings of the esteemed Katherine McKittrick, out now from the @uminnpress.bsky.social. www.upress.umn.edu/978151791706...

Looking for public domain & open license images? “Openverse is a tool that allows openly licensed and public domain works to be discovered and used by everyone... [searching] 800 million images and audio tracks from open APIs and the Common Crawl dataset.“ Also, attribute authorship with one click 📸

Openverse

Search over 800 million free and openly licensed images, photos, audio, and other media types for reuse and remixing.

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'Sensorial Methodologies, Extended Urbanization' Excited to be involved in this event in Sheffield (12 March) at the Site Gallery inc film screening, book launch + panel discussion w/ @nitin-bathla.bsky.social, Junia Mortimer and more More info here: sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...

Our new piece out today in Times Higher Education about the threats to Geography in the UK - particularly fieldwork - please do share. It links to a recent snapshot survey on the challenges being faced in UK HE, which highlights the inequities of the challenges, but also fears of what is yet to come

The UK universities cutting geography have lost their bearings

From climate change to geopolitics, the knowledge, skills and insights of geographers have never been more relevant, say five professors

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🚨CFP: The ADM+S Generative Authenticity project is hosting a small scholarly symposium on Authenticity, Generative AI and Synthetic Media on 6-7 May at QUT Kelvin Grove (and hybrid node). Short abstracts due 9 March. All info and the submission form: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

CFP: ADM+S Generative Authenticity Symposium

Call for Papers Authenticity, Generative AI and Synthetic Media: An ADM+S Symposium 6-7 May 2026, QUT Kelvin Grove, Brisbane Authenticity is often at the centre of concer...

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Last week on Wonkhe: For Rex McKenzie, higher education assessment has always privileged certain discourses – but the rise of artificial intelligence means that this can no longer hold

AI shatters the pretence that academic polish was ever anything but gatekeeping

For Rex McKenzie, higher education assessment has always privileged certain discourses – but the rise of artificial intelligence means that this can no longer hold For Rex McKenzie, higher education...

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