I agree with the sentiment. But while the Earthrise image emphasises Earth's fragile environment, it does so by contrasting it with a supposedly dead and barren Moon. A dead Moon justifies mining with no environmental constraints. The Moon has a right to its ecological integrity.
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Ale stood in front of a display of the flags of the UN
We are incredibly proud of the work Dr Alessandra Marino at all times, but even more so this week! It was her first Legal Subcommittee of UN COPUOS and she was giving a technical presentation! Her talk was entitled ‘Preserving Science: Considerations for the Moon we share’.
Amazing work Ale!!
The British Academy CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR NTERNATIONAL PEACE Global (DisOrder international policy programme From disorder to harm? Governing the Moon and protecting its sites of interest Alessandra Marino, The Open University
How do we govern the moon? Our topical discussion paper
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/60...
A curse on everyone who makes this possible.
Excited to share a new paper in @societyandspace.bsky.social, co-authored with 8 graduate students from a Fall 2023 Black Geographies Seminar. I am grateful for them and our collaborators at Highlander, BattleField Farm, and the Children’s Defense Fund/Alex Haley Farm.
doi.org/10.1177/0263...
The British Academy CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE Global (DisOrder international policy programme From disorder to harm? Governing the Moon and protecting its sites of interest Alessandra Marino, The Open University
Given the upcoming Artemis launch this seems a good moment to draw your attention to our discussion paper on governing the sites of scientific interest on the Moon. The paper calls for documenting key sites & prioritising non invasive scientific activities
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/60...
Very excited to be part of this project and team
Strong recommendation to teaching faculty to just say no to this stuff, even if you are AI curious/enthusiastic. This is meant to reduce faculty autonomy and capture human labor with automation. You're selling out your future self and the profession as a whole. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...
Next Tuesday evening at the Cooper Union, my friend / brilliant designer Curry Hackett and I are sharing "Making Sense in Seven Movements"; we'll explore how "actions from cooking and collaging to furniture making to syllabus design help us to make sense of a disordered world."
Applications for the 2026 Fi Wi Road Internship are now open!
Offering paid part-time work, mentoring, group sessions and workshops, this opportunity is open to Black or mixed Black heritage geography students currently enrolled at a UK university.
Learn more and apply: https://ow.ly/NsR850YuM81
"Whether hailed or feared, AI is framed as an unstoppable technological, epistemological, and ontological trajectory. Awe invites enthusiastic adoption; anxiety calls for adaptation and preparation. Both discourage more fundamental questioning." — @samiraibnelkaid.bsky.social
The Spectator, a right wing news magazine owned by Paul Marshall, falsely accused a HOPE not hate journalist of committing a serious criminal offence.
They were forced to retract the story and apologise. But instead of stopping there, The Spectator couldn’t resist one more swing.
15% cuts across faculty and staff at The New School 😢
If I started writing weekly blog posts, would people read them and consider subscribing to the blog?
I tend to have a strong desire to get written thoughts down on a variety of topics that are too long for social media threads, but not long enough for more traditional publishing outlets.
book Heartbreak and Other Geographies
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“…with new political alliances uniting against higher ed + in favor of rapid AI dvlpmnt, privatization, + the dismantling of the professional-managerial class, the hatred of theory threatens not only to reshape universities ideologically but to replace them with a data-driven ‘machine empiricism.’”
Image of author Kit de Waal in a red jumper with images of recent book jackets, Without Warning and The Best of Everything
This Monday novelist Kit de Waal will be talking to our colleague Dan Taylor about working class writers and the class ceiling, part of our series, Borders in Literature, with @mklitfest.bsky.social
16 Mar, 7pm, Zoom. Tickets (free): bit.ly/mklfdewaal #classceiling #workingclasswriters #literature
🧵 Trump administration AI policy is widely described as deregulatory. This description is misleading. What's happening is not the absence of governance but its rearrangement--intensive state intervention operating through mechanisms we don't typically call regulation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
We were very sorry to learn of the death of political theorist William E. Connolly this week. He published six books with us. Here is our appreciation.
Sixty years ago, Jennie Lee's vision created The Open University 🎓 Welcoming all backgrounds, millions have started life-changing journeys. #OUfamily #TheOpenUniversity #OU60 💙
The UK universities cutting geography have lost their bearings www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/uk-u...
With @jennypickerill.bsky.social @peterhopkins.bsky.social Beth Greenhough & Jamie Woodward
African Decolonial Theory: A Conversation (with an incredible lineup). A longread of 68 pages @antipodeonline.bsky.social
#geosky @demonicgrounds.bsky.social @udadisi.bsky.social @roapejournal.bsky.social @africamultiple.bsky.social @pollenetwork.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Graphic reading 'the UK Government-commissioned 'Sullivan Review' of sex and gender in data and research collection threatens British research and trans inclusion. Here's why.'
📣 Today @felicitycallard.bsky.social and I have published the first peer-reviewed response to the 'Sullivan Review' of research and data on sex and gender.
doi.org/10.1111/tran...
The Review could threaten trans rights and inclusion, erode academic freedom, and undermine research quality.
Screenshot of the front page of an article published in the journal Social and Cultural Geography called Remapping the body: an autoethnography of pain, paraesthesia, and the co-production of functional neurological symptoms
New paper outlining a spatial account of #FND and proposing an approach to the co-production of functional symptoms. It draws on my longstanding work on geographies of health knowledges, my recent health experiences, and emerging interdisciplinary conversations www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
AI models are trained on books, journal articles, teaching materials without agreement of academic authors who then have to redesign their courses to try to minimise inappropriate use of AI models embedded in software provided by universities for students to use. Go figure
A non-existent paper attributed to Ben Williamson has already been cited 42 times.
It's like Scholarly Communication has been injected with misinformation bombs. Events are totally out of control. No one has a handle on its extent. And, there's no plan to stop it.
@benpatrickwill.bsky.social
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
