i can confirm this theory based on an interaction with a former employee (who got fired after developing their AI tools)

Commonwealth & Comparative Politics Hindutva and anti-Christian violence in contemporary India. Volume 63, Issue 1 of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics

this SI, a crucial addition to the work on Hindu nationalism, speaks to the increasing cultural and physical violence on Indian Christians. the editors stay away from a convenient flattening of the minority figure (as they show, this varies markedly across states) www.tandfonline.com/toc/fccp20/6...

As many of you know, the German academic system offers very few permanent jobs, which are mostly full professor positions, while the bulk of academic work is done by a vast number of fixed-term academic staff.

Over the past decades, Germany added <1k permanent jobs but >100k (!) fixed-term.

Relocating leopards from Maharashtra to Vantara raises profound ecological and ethical questions Across large parts of India, leopards have demonstrated an extraordinary ability to survive in human-dominated landscapes. Unlike many large carnivores that ret

"If biodiversity conservation increasingly takes the form of celebratory rescue stories, AI-generated imagery, algorithm-driven narratives, and the relocation of wildlife into controlled environments, are we truly addressing the biodiversity and climate crises?"

this is some great advice, Veit!! thanks for sharing. hope all's well.

any rough ideas / guidance on how many articles from the dissertation can be published, so as to not be turned away from book publishers?

a green and red title graphic: "geographers for justice in palestine's guide to AAG 2026 sessions and events"

attending #AAG next week? check out Geographers for Justice in Palestine's organized sessions and events! also available at geog4pal.org/aag

Multispecies Mutualisms - Join Our Research Team! We’re hiring 4 Postdoctoral Research Associates (PDRAs) In this video, members of the team share insights into four exciting PDRA opportunities currently available. If you are ready to take the next s...

A rare thing: *four* three-year hums/soc-sci posts in animal studies, on the Multispecies Mutualisms project at UoSheffield - with @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social, me, Robert McKay and Alasdair Cochrane; see here for a video explainer: digitalmedia.sheffield.ac.uk/media/Multis...

And some fresh beginnings!! Starting today, I work in a postdoc role at the Institute of Social & Cultural Anthropology, Uni Leipzig as part of the DFG Project "Environmental-Mental Health: Experience, Ethics and Poetics of Ecological Mourning Amidst a Wounded Environment in India (ENVIRON-MENTAL)"

Four wonderful years of learning and unlearning came to a close last month with the successful defense of my PhD Thesis. So grateful to my supervisors, Uli Beisel and Maan Barua, for their unwavering support and the many thoughtful, caring, and critical inputs throughout this journey.

Notes on Munira Khayyat’s ‘Another Season of War in South Lebanon’ I wanted to post these notes on Munira Khayyat’s lecture a while ago (she gave the talk on 21 May 2025), but it took a while to decide whether they would go on the Decolonization in Dialogue substa…

mutablematter.wordpress.com/2025/12/11/n...

"in this vein"

Their ways of life don't conform to the "(Western) European Way of Life", and they are judged for it. This standard is arrogant and harmful, and sucks up the resources that peripheral, marginalized, and rural people need.

Potential workaround if you're already logged in and get prompted by the ToS notification: opening this "privacy policy" link www.academia.edu/privacytakes you to a page where you can access the drop-down menu and reach "account settings." From there I was able to delete my account without agreeing.

Met so many, learnt so much, got gifts and even played a game 🥂🍀 #RGS-IBG2025 #creativegeographies

Still decompressing from #ESEH2025 week but hey was it good!
@elinetabak.bsky.social @chriskla.bsky.social @charrlotte.bsky.social, Sven Seelinger plus @aberehrlich.bsky.social
(Go “invasive species”! I guess…)

What an excellent moderation. Lots to learn for many, there. Not only was the room really opened up to online participants (incl. me), but ECRs were given space FIRST in the discussion #downwithheirarchies #changingacademia

this was such an amazing experience 💚 the organisers @katiekung.bsky.social @elinetabak.bsky.social, the presenters, AND the audience were so engaging.

some of these reactions cannot be read without the aversion to intl. labour mobility in germany (pervasive everywhere but also in academia), the economy, & the arrogance of the german society in saying 'we won't adapt to a post-migration society one bit, but need to fill our pension gaps'

the responses on this post shared elsewhere is extremely hostile to intl postdocs. there seems to be the expectation that intl folks should master a language + research + adapt in a new society + understand the bureaucratic framework (all within the short contract timeframe)

Postdoc depression and anxiety rates are rising, finds survey of 872 researchers The Max Planck Society is good at attracting international postdocs but struggles to retain them, survey finds.

“International postdocs don’t know their rights or know the [German] law.”
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I've always been really upfront about my experiences with this. I have encountered accent-based classism (not actually a true assessment of my 'class') at every stage in my student and now academic career. It is RIFE in this country across students and also staff members. Something HAS to change.

I have many a bones to pick with the travel admin, who seems to think it's too much work to calculate petty pennies (INR) for field work periods. None of the forms and systems here are made for international researchers. I'm sorry for the workload, but I can't alter global currency exchange systems

One of the reasons I moved out of this research focus is really just the raw pain from field work with waste workers and street vendors & the guilt at interviewing the most precarious and instrumentalizing their narratives for research

POCs are becoming increasingly tense about the emerging situation in Germany. The media and politicians have done their job exceedingly well - even seemingly mundane conversation are tinted with nefarious hints of racist incitement.

blessed are those who haven't heard the ELSTER hotline's music on hold

what a deeply cathartic read on caste and academic collaborations!

On the flattening of brown scholars in the Western Academy, from Patel, S. & Da Costa, D. (2022). “We Cannot Write About Complicity Together”:
Limits of Cross-Caste Collaborations in Western Academy. Engaged Scholar
Journal, 8(2), 1–27. doi.org/10.15402/esj...

Please register for the HSS meeting @NOLA & come meet Ashton Wesner 🐟Sam Muka 🪸 Rebecca Woods 🐒 Aleksandar Shopov 🐫 and + discuss their research on animal mobilities and why such histories of science matter. Thanks to Sonia Wigh, co-organizer of this roundtable with the Osiris editors! #histsci

Looking forward to the ESEH panel by @katiekung.bsky.social and @elinetabak.bsky.social to think together on "Vegetal (hi)stories: more-than-human narratives of invasion and belonging"