Palantir is its own agnotology machine. Do not engage with their discourse, which throws spaghetti at the wall of media: every strand introduces a new kind of doubt. You try to consume & debate it but in the end all you are is tangled in spaghetti and covered with marinara.

paper three of our 'Terraforming Terra' Geoforum special issue is now out.. thank you Hannah for such a wonderful article!!

I have a new OA paper out in Geoforum:
🦐🌎 'What on Earth? Terraqueous Terraforming and Earth-shaping with shrimp-shells' 🌎🦐
doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...

Image of a book entitled End Times Fascism - and the fight for the living world. A wide burst on a yellow background with red letters.

One year after our original Guardian essay, Naomi Klein and I are excited to reveal the North American cover of our forthcoming book END TIMES FASCISM - and the Fight for the Living World. It will be on bookshelves on September 15th and is available for pre-order. More details below. bit.ly/4cbLfEr

Cover image for 'Power Plants: Bioenergy, vegetal labour and the politics of productivity' – to be published by Manchester University Press in June 2026.

Very exciting to have received final cover proofs for 'Power Plants' from @manchesterup.bsky.social.

I'm hugely grateful to Jenn Baka, Gavin Bridge and Cara Daggett for their very kind and generous endorsements.

The book is due out in June: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526192127/

📣 Fully-funded PhD position on Methane Politics on the ERC funded METHPOL project @ Leeds Uni w/Prof Jan Selby. Open to home (UK) applicants (international studentships have been filled) to start October 2026. Deadline 22 April. #ClimateChange.
Full details ⬇️ phd.leeds.ac.uk/funding/427-...

Excellent new special Issue on the challenges raised by the ancient DNA of kinship

Special Issue: Kinship Trouble: Traversing Interdisciplinary Boundaries between Archaeology, Archaeogenetics and Socio-cultural Anthropology

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

CARE Project cargo.site

I had a lot of fun making the website for @careproject.bsky.social 🌊

Check it out 👇
care2027.cargo.site

Roll up, roll up! Spring is here and I am looking for reviews for @urbanhistory.bsky.social. Here are some titles we're interested in. If you want a copy of anything below (in return for a review) or want to pitch something to us, drop us a line! Beginning with the incomparable Timothy Mitchell...

High above us, it’s the season of love again It’s spring time, and peregrine falcon enthusiasts are watching the world’s fastest birds court, mate and raise a new generation of raptors

Peregrine update:

* Ely pair have laid their 3rd egg.
* Cromer female chased off a mystery third peregrine who came close to her nest
* St Alban's pair laid first egg on Ash Wednesday

For background & webcam links 👇

What's Up Docs? - Doctors' Notes: Light - BBC Sounds Drs Chris and Xand dive into Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) and how it’s treated.

🌑 Suffering from Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)? Interested in light generally?

🌞 I'd highly recommend listening to this episode of What's Up Docs with the van Tulleken brothers & @hesterparr.bsky.social

❤️ Loving the Drs' crush on human geography ❤️

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

... Accumulation (of wealth and resources, knowledges and technologies – in short, of capital) is organized during this historical period. This period, the era of industrialization, of history and the great historical struggles for conquest and domination over nature (the struggle against nature being accompanied by intense struggles between nations, peoples, classes and fractions of classes), this period is drawing to an end. It is ending in contempt hidden behind knowledge, in a form of madness whereby reason and unreason are the same: the sacrifice of a considerable part of the earth's resources in order to gain possession of one of the ghastliest of all the piles of pebbles rattling around in space. Let’s move on.

Henri Lefebvre wasn't a fan of previous missions to the moon - "the sacrifice of a considerable part of the earth's resources in order to gain possession of one of the ghastliest of all the piles of pebbles rattling around in space" (La Fin de l’histoire in 1970, p. 212, Key Writings, p. 182).

i have been laughing at the incredulousness of this all day it's so funny... i've always said more-than-human geography was an attempt to unsettle Alex-Karp-esian ontological binaries like nature/culture and object/subject

Solidarity, Fraser. It isn't normal at all. Thank you for keeping up the fight, we are thinking of you all in Edinburgh this week

Editor-in-Chief needed for Geopolitics Editor-in-Chief needed for Geopolitics

Geopolitics is looking for two new co-editors-in-chief. Apply here: think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...

We are looking for a 3-year postdoc to work on a self-defined research project in environmental history that places electronic or digital technologies at the center of its historical inquiry.
More details in the announcement linked to below.
#envhist

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New piece in Progress in Human Geography, 'Crisis-thinking and critical urbanism'. What might crisis-thinking be doing to how the urban is conceived, researched, and politicised? How might it impact how we see urban possibility?

Open access here:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

the most urgent book we all need right now

I swear this is how Ned Beauman’s novel Venemous Lumpsucker starts???

"...a reminder not just of the fact that the future Silicon Valley is force feeding us is not inevitable, but that quite often these oligarchs quite simply cannot relate to real people, don’t know how or why people use their products, and very often have no idea what they’re doing."

Headline: "At SXSW, Mark Zuckerberg says metaverse is 'Holy Grail' of social experience"

I don't really feel like the press coverage of the metaverse implosion honestly captures the access tech press' role in propping up Mark Zuckerberg's fake innovation mythology

if you go back and read "journalism" from this era, 97% was indistinguishable from advertorial

RIP Metaverse, an $80 Billion Dumpster Fire Nobody Wanted Who could have possibly predicted this, besides everyone?

A few things on the end of Horizon Worlds, the metaverse that Mark Zuckerberg believed in so much that he renamed his company:

1) It’s very sad that many of the people who worked on it have been unceremoniously laid off because their leaders appear to have no idea what they’re doing
2) lol

Meta is shutting down its VR metaverse on June 15th.

I have a short Chapter out on why cultural geographers need to take the premise of abolitionism seriously, part of the wonderful new 'Handbook of Cultural Geographies' by @ajsecor.bsky.social P Merriman ans S Sumartojo.

Message me for scans of the chapter. www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

Can scientists really resurrect the dodo? Inside the company that says it can Colossal Biosciences’ CEO says its work follows a ‘moral obligation’ while critics say it’s ‘tech bro’ hype that could undermine conservation

This story is a good example of why it is so difficult to communicate genuine science to the public. Despite every scientist not on the company payroll decrying it as a bogus and unscientific project, the story presents it as some sort of both-sides issue.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

For the record, this is my comment to the journalist on Colossal’s dire wolf.

Go for it!

get your votes in @uonucu.bsky.social

Learning from the Lives of Threatened Plants Whose lives count in the modern history of extinction? Sadiah Qureshi considers what historians can learn by paying attention to the remarkable lives of plants.

Whose voices count in the modern history of distinction?

@sadiahqureshi.bsky.social considers how much historians can learn by paying attention to the remarkable lives of plants.