'New research coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC has found that AI assistants – already a daily information gateway for millions of people – routinely misrepresent news content no matter which language, territory, or AI platform is tested.' 1/2
The journal Environmental Humanities is still looking for midcareer/senior #envhum scholars interested in becoming a co-editor-in-chief from January 2026. You can apply as an individual and we'll find an appropriate co-editor match for you.
See environmentalhumanities.org
I have spent the last few days installing this wonderful exhibition Ecologies of the Machine, curated by Tania Tovar and researched by Kim Förster. Reminded of how exhausting install labour is, and how rewarding it is. Exhib is up for the next few days at Pavillon 333, Munich.
Excited to be part of the team to help realise this exhibition in Munich next week, our first public event/exhibition as part of the new Chair of Sustainable Urban Environments here at TUM
Inspired by David Bond's provocation that the future of toxicity is replacing the history of empire as a vehicle for addressing the blind spots of liberalism, highlighting that theories of toxicity have paid such little attention to the political economy of petrochemical industries. #DGSKA2025
Really enjoyed my last couple of days at the @infranortherc.bsky.social conference 'Beyond Infrastructure: Un-built environments of the anthropocene' in Vienna. My first time presenting research from my PhD in Europe 💫
Wrapping up my time at Penn in preparation for my move to Munich... Reflecting on the books that have kept me company (and been staring at me!) over the last 10 months...
#WomensHistoryMonth: The City of Women Map is a fascinating visualization of women’s history and urban transportation. Created by Molly Roy, Rebecca Solnit, and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, the map renames subway stops after notable women with links to that area, offering an entirely new way to view #NYC.
BREAKING: DOGE is starting to put together a team to migrate the SSA's computer systems entirely off one of its oldest programming languages in a matter of months, potentially putting the integrity of the system—and the benefits on which tens of millions of Americans rely—at risk.
The Tufts graduate student detained by federal authorities in Somerville has been sent to a Louisiana detention facility, despite a federal judge’s order telling US Immigration and Customs Enforcement not to remove her from Massachusetts without notice.
Harvard AAUP's Vincent Brown on the lawsuit filed yesterday
against the Trump administration's ideological-deportation policy.
OnlineFirst - "‘Mine the volume’: Excess and the voluminous ecological politics of capitalist frontiers" by @yolandaariadne.bsky.social, @theoreevesevison.bsky.social, @materialbarlow.bsky.social, and @lydcole.bsky.social:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Excited to see this out in the world! This article is a result from my year of working alongside Ari, Theo, and Lydia. Here we attempted to grapple with the ways that capitalist frontiers have always been voluminous, and are increasingly moving more explicitly into "non-terrestrial realms".
Chilling report from Brown University.
Administration advises all foreign students, staff, and faculty to postpone or reconsider (ie cancel) international travel, due to federal government's crackdown on universities.
Brown also warns against *domestic travel* -since it's unclear what ICE will do.
Thousands of protesters rallied in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday against President Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration and his aggressive deportation policies.
This is a concentration camp.
Ok, here's what you need to know about Trump's anti-trans executive order targeting trans youth. Teamed up with @leximcmenamin.bsky.social to explain what it means for trans youth right now, with legal input from @aclu.org attorney @harperseldin.bsky.social
www.teenvogue.com/story/trumps...
BREAKING NEWS ALERT EPA fires science advisers 01/28/2025 07:24 PM EST Acting EPA Administrator James Payne has ousted all members of two of the agency's most influential science advisory panels, giving President Donald Trump's administration the opportunity to reshape them with its own appointees. In an obliquely worded email sent late Tuesday afternoon, Payne said a decision had been made to "reset" the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee and Science Advisory Board "to ensure that the agency receives scientific advice consistent with its legal obligations to advance our core mission." EPA will seek nominations in the coming weeks, Payne added, with all members encouraged to reapply.
BREAKING: Acting @EPA Administrator James Payne has fired the agency's science advisors.
They will be replaced in order to, he says, "ensure that the agency receives scientific advice consistent with its legal obligations to advance our core mission," whatever that means.
Durham University has become the latest Russell Group institution to announce plans to cut jobs, stating it needs to reduce staff costs by £20 million over the next two academic years
#highered #EduSky
Really looking forward to working with someone on Indigenizing quantitative methods! The position is very flexible (FT or part time, remote or in person, can be made a postdoc) anticipating a range of researchers. #IndigeousSTEM
civiclaboratory.nl/2025/01/18/p...
You can track the unfolding disaster at Cardiff University here LIVE, as one of the UK's constituent nations actually chooses to gut parts of its flagship HEI: www.walesonline.co.uk/news/educati...
Hello, so, I'm an anthropologist who has studied wildfires for over a decade and, just recently, handed in a book manuscript for peer review on the pathologies of wildfire management in Australia and, to a lesser extent, Canada and the US. It's called "How to Control Fire" (TBC).
The uneven extraction of wealth and resources from South to North never ended, and the funds the South now demands for climate are a mere token of the kind of reparations that would actually be just (not to mention effective towards creating an actually-sustainable global society)
I'm keen to encourage more reflection & discussion about universities role in responding to the #ClimateCrisis.
So, I've started another starter pack of key voices on this topic. Would love to add more people to it.
Suggestions are very welcome 🙂
go.bsky.app/R51quRA
Interesting to see some collaborative river engagement/pedagogy happening at Cobbs Creek in West Philly, including a scavenger hunt to find human influences on the creek. penntoday.upenn.edu/news/penn-ne...
Another day, another university in crisis. This time it's Canterbury Christ Church, to lose say 400 jobs and over a quarter of posts. The reality of what is happening in UK Higher Education - and even worse, what is about to happen - is crushing. I'm so sorry. www.kentonline.co.uk/canterbury/n...
"Real impact on our economy will come from areas such as physics, chemistry, maths, engineering, and biomedical sciences"
People who think “the markets” will save us from climate change do not understand that capitalism created climate change.
