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That means you'll no longer be able to view archived versions of NYT stories published in 2026 and beyond on archive.org.
(All those posts you see tracking changes to NYT headlines and ledes? They relied on WBM).
One of the best parts of the job is working with amazing PhD Researchers, and its excellent when their hard and brilliant work is recognised. Congratulations to @cperguom.bsky.social Yihan Yan on winning this year's @geographers.bsky.social
Urban Geography Specialty Group Grad Student Paper Award!
This. It’s been a nonstop fight for 16 years. I hope they’re dancing all night.
Orbán came in on a landslide and he’s going out on one. So much work to rebuild what these last 16 years have crushed, but this is a great night for Hungary.
‘The Orbán government has for years systematically obstructed or undermined pan-European unity…This is why the elections represent a critical test for the Kremlin: what is at stake is the preservation, within the EU, of an active center of resistance to a common European policy toward Moscow…’
16 years of rightwing rule has ebbed away at citizen rights + it happened from the beginning. Yet, it’s important to remember that many failures were manufactured, and resistance was ongoing and has worked towards overcoming a seeming no alternative consensus onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
On the eve of what is hopefully the end of the Orbán regime, it’s worth thinking about how quickly he moved to dismantle democratic norms by attacking the health of its city’s most vulnerable by manufacturing crisis acme-journal.org/index.php/ac...
By 2021, Orbán had already implemented every anti-LGBTQ+ ban now sweeping the US. In 2023, he said of this: "Hungary is actually an incubator where experiments are done on the future of conservative policies." This was clearly true. May his 2026 loss tomorrow continue to prefigure fascism's future.
Yihan's paper on Borrowing Space, Buying Certainty: Dog Caregivers’ Tactics and the Redistribution of Publicness in Urban China isn't out yet, but you can read her take on animaling public space and the right to the city here: compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @uomseed.bsky.social
One of the best parts of the job is working with amazing PhD Researchers, and its excellent when their hard and brilliant work is recognised. Congratulations to @cperguom.bsky.social Yihan Yan on winning this year's @geographers.bsky.social
Urban Geography Specialty Group Grad Student Paper Award!
It was a total pleasure to have @ctemenos.bsky.social on #UrbanRadar to talk about her work on #crisis #policymaking, public health and the city with me and @itsbethperry.bsky.social. From social infrastructures to the politics of expertise, listen here:
www.buzzsprout.com/2451716/epis...
Nancy Fraser: “On the colonisation of the lifeworld, I felt that, in essentialising the system/lifeworld distinction, Habermas masked historically specific forms of male domination and missed the transformative potential of feminist movements.”
We are looking to recruit an Assistant Professor in Human Geography, with expertise in Health Geography (closing May 10th).
Health geography is broadly defined here - see examples in the text in the link.
We've worked with the Geographical Association to develop some school learning materials for A-Level students to think through financialisation, displacement, gentrification etc
'Post-industrial urban change in the UK: A Manchester case study'
geography.org.uk/resources/po...
📢 BOOK LAUNCH EVENT📢
The good folk at Urban Salon are hosting the launch of my new book 'Postcapitalist Cities' on 1 May 4pm at KCL where I'll be in discussion with @davidjmadden.bsky.social & @gypjh2000.bsky.social
Details & FREE tickets here: theurbansalon.com/2026/02/19/b...
New: Dialogues in Urban Research exploring what it means to think about crisis as urban & how locating crisis in the urban reconfigures relations between eventful & everyday crisis politics, materiality, discourse & movement. Part of a great set of interventions.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Let's keep up the pressure: #PalantirOut.
First the NHS, then defence contracts
www.ft.com/content/2d2b...
Thanks to @itsbethperry.bsky.social & @goodfellowtom.bsky.social for inviting me to their #UrbanRadar podcast to talk about my #UKRI_FLF on health crises. It's a privilege to talk about this work. I hope some of it is useful to those working in this space www.buzzsprout.com/2451716/epis...
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New York City’s public hospital system announced that it would not be renewing its contract with Palantir as controversy mounts in the UK over the data analytics and AI firm’s government contract
“I can't pay no doctor bills / But Whitey's on the moon … No hot water, no toilets, no lights / But Whitey's on the moon” Gil Scott-Heron
www.forbes.com/sites/saibal...
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Agnieszka Leszczynski, @joncinnamon.bsky.social et al argues that efforts to govern this #dockless #micromobility mess, which most frequently come in the form of parking regulations, effectively impose and enforce normative #VisualOrder on the cityscape
buff.ly/qslhH84
One of the most important sociological studies of our time: documenting the cat ladders of Switzerland brigitteschuster.com/swiss-cat-la...
A great new piece on crisis and urban possibility, really glad to see this out!
Job opportunity: Teaching Fellow in Human Geography, University of Southampton.
Four-month post to cover my teaching from Sept 2026. Deadline for applications: 13 April.
jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Today! #AAG2026
My latest for @thenation.com. For those of us in healthcare, public health, science resisting is a duty born of our commitment to serve, make the world a better place. But our institutions don't make it easy. But we still have to do it in large and small ways. www.thenation.com/article/acti...
The perfect news release does not exi—
Can anyone explain to me what the Blue Labour justification for this is? Who out there will vote Labour because Mahmood prevented a Sudanese Chevening Scholar? And to be honest, why won’t the PM simply overrule her?
