📣 Webinar 📣 20 March (13.00-14.00 GMT) Angela Last (Freie Universität Berlin) will discuss her forthcoming book 'Tainted Tools: New Materialisms as a Decolonial Project'.
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Bio 👉 mutablematter.wordpress.com/about/
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Excited to host the Measurement Heretics Workshop: Being Meaning and Measuring Well on March 11-13, at the Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham University. The keynote will be hybrid so register for this free event!
@durhamimh.bsky.social
#histsci #histmed #hps #philsci #medhums #histtech #sts
Why is everything so strange (lauditory)
A three-dimensional schematic diagram illustrating the structure of a mid-latitude cyclone using the conveyor belt model. The diagram shows a comma-shaped cloud shield viewed from an oblique angle, with north indicated by an arrow in the upper left. Key features labeled include: a cold front on the left side with cold air flowing in from the west; a warm front extending to the right with warm air rising over cool air below the conveyor belt; and a warm sector containing convective cells (depicted as hatched oval shapes). The conveyor belt curves from the bottom of the diagram upward and around, carrying warm air aloft along the warm front. The legend in the lower right identifies symbols for: convective cells (hatched ovals), primary precipitation (diagonal hatching), secondary precipitation (horizontal lines), cloud shield (stippled gray shading), and low-level winds (arrows). Arrows throughout indicate airflow patterns, showing cold air undercutting warm air at the cold front, warm air rising over cool air at the warm front, and the cyclonic circulation of the overall system.
ominous brain cloud
P.s. Our Weather, Climate and Health research theme co-led by @hepach.org, me, Jed Stevenson (Geog, Soci, Anthro) has a webpage and our event line-up can be found here: mhep.github.io/wch/#events
Inc. webinars+ in-person workshops + hybrid roundtables
#medhums #envhums #sociology #climate
If you can substitute "hungry ghost trapped in a jar" for "AI" in a sentence it's probably a valid use case for LLMs. Take "I have a bunch of hungry ghosts in jars, they mainly write SQL queries for me". Sure. Reasonable use case.
"My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged.
As a response to: Whitehead, M., & Hannah, M. G. (2025). New figurations of freedom: Ricoeurian perspectives on the digital society. Dialogues in Human Geography. doi.org/10.1177/2043...
A short commentary I wrote for @dialogueshg.bsky.social on (involuntary) memory, forgetting, and haunting in digital tools and technologies: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Excited to announce @leverhulmecal.bsky.social posts - we are looking for 7 interdisciplinary fellows to join our Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life, closing date 30 January 2026 (1/3) durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started
Such a good experience presenting ‘Living with SAD’ and ‘Wintering Well to community link workers via
@vhscotland.bsky.social with @slipshodspeller.bsky.social.
A November tonic ☀️
💥New: In defence of boredom – Why the social sciences need time to “waste”
✍️ Madiha Tariq
#AcademicSky #SocialScience #SlowScholarship
CfP: Romantic Elements: Rocks, and Stones, and Soil, 1750–1850, Symposium at The University of Manchester, 25–26 June 2026. Deadline 30th January 2026. www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6185
The special issue of Eighteenth Century Studies on Coasts is now out - glad to be part of it with some thoughts about coasts and gardens in c18 Ireland #BlueHumanities #CoastalHistory #CoastalStudies 🌊
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55889
New Cultures of Energy pod on film, plastics, warfare, radiation and more. Plus did you know Rayon is made from wood? That & more marvels revealed in our chat with @alicelovejoy.bsky.social about her brilliant new book tinyurl.com/5fv6mc4f @cymene.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social @culanth.bsky.social
Front cover of new book--"All Geographers Should be Feminist Geographers." Showcases university building and sculpture at Mentor's Circle at University of Delaware.
New Book! "All Geographers Should be Feminist Geographers: Creating Care-full Academic Spaces" now available from UGA Press.
Excited to talk about the book with folks, so please consider if this topic and ideas are well-suited to department seminars, class visits, or other conversational spaces.
A link to a petition to save Geography, its staff, department and degree programmes at Leicester University, UK
SAVE GEOGRAPHY at Leicester University (UK) - We call on the University of Leicester to urgently reconsider the proposal to dissolve Geography. This is direct attack on the discipline of Geography at Leicester with likely loss of Geography staff. Please sign + share
www.change.org/p/save-geogr...
Map of Cuba from Alexander von Humboldt’s Political Essay on the Island of Cuba (1825-6).
New article, long in the making. On Alexander von Humboldt’s critique of natural-historical concepts of race and his diagnosis of a politics of racialised difference leveraged in the colonies. I try to say: there are good reasons to look beyond Kant!
doi.org/10.1177/0191...
If any journalists would like a copy of Electric Wind: An Energy History of Modern Britain to review, please get in touch w me /MUP. It's a rigorous history of wind energy written for a wide audience, with plenty to say about today's energy challenges. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182968/
Stack of Jacquard loom cards, about two meters in length at Queen’s Street Mill, near Burnley
By my calculation about 120kb of data
I'm not lazy, I'm just convenience maxxing.
Haven't done this in a while, but I have a new paper available online in @geopoliticsjournal.bsky.social offering a new way to think about a radio geopolitics assemblage - www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Join us for another series of online and in-person events on the digital environmental humanities:
www.digital-humanities.manchester.ac.uk/connect/even...
Next up on November 12: @ehameeteman.bsky.social on desalination
#envhist #envhum #skystorians #DH @kmcdono.bsky.social
My new article on the atmosphere in spatial history is out!
This looks amazing!
feel like aristotle probably said something wacky about this
A gift to post-structuralists everywhere
Last month, my father passed away from cancer. The journey to that point showed me how many lives are affected by cancer, either directly or through friends and family. I am collecting donations in memory of my father for @cancerresearchuk.org:
fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/maximil...