Session: Doing diplomacy beyond national jurisdiction: the politics of unequal access in global decision-making spaces.

Organisers: @giuliachampion.bsky.social, @ameliahine.bsky.social & Kimberley Peters.

Deadline for 250 word abstracts & 150 word bios: Feb. 20th, 2026.

Front cover of book 'From Debris to Sediment: Unearthing Imperial Geology' by Felix Hasebrink and Petra Löffler

Image of the first page, with abstract and title, of Amelia's chapter 'Hadal Debris: Narrativizing Submersible Waste on the Deepest Seafloor'

Title page of book 'From Debris to Sediment: Unearthing Imperial Geology' by Felix Hasebrink and Petra Löffler

Well hello to this just-published OA chapter on submersible ballast and the ways in which pollution and waste in the Mariana Trench are narrativised. A delight to be included in Felix Hasebrink and Petra Löffler’s ‘From Debris to Sediment: Unearthing Imperial Geology’. meson.press/books/from-d...

the RGS session list could do with a few less just transitions sessions and a few more spooky monster sessions

3 year postdoc position in my institute for human geographers or related disciplines, working on governance of the Southern Ocean. Let me tell you, @hifmb.de is the loveliest work environment I can imagine in academia, I would really recommend it.

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A true delight!!

Ah and I should say generously supported by @hifmb.de 🙌

Thrilled to have guests @susanneferwerda.bsky.social and @giuliachampion.bsky.social coming to Bremen for the discussion panel Anna Pasco Bolta and I have been putting together on ‘Seabed Imaginaries’ 🪸 We’re also very lucky to have the wonderful Kim Peters as moderator 🙏

I have a blog post up on the @hifmb.de website about the trip Kate Sammler and I took to the Austrian Alps and our ✨quest✨ to understand the geology of the ancient ocean crust as part of our (with Kim Peters) broader enquiry into access to the international seabed 🪨

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Thanks so much! ✨

At today's @hifmb.de seminar, @gerlienverhaegen.bsky.social points out that collecting squishy deep-sea jellyfish for scientific study is an artform - some disintegrate in daylight, most fall apart with nets.. scientists are lucky to get one or two individual samples from ROV dives.

This is supposed to be a work account but I’m transcribing interviews at the moment so as a content interlude: before and after firing pottery 🔥🏺chunky cat bowl edition

Slippery substances: Accreting alternative chemical knowledges in a heavy industry port - Amelia Hine, 2025 How might chemicals slip unnoticed across boundaries and through bodies in a range of material and bureaucratic registers? This article responds by extending em...

OnlineFirst - "Slippery substances: Accreting alternative chemical knowledges in a heavy industry port" by @ameliahine.bsky.social

@hifmb.de @awi.de #chemicalgeographies #chemicalstudies #sediments #seabed #chemical #port #decarbonisation #hifmb 

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Started up the second half of my hyper-niche Deep Seabed Film Club last week - my extremely intellectual curatorial agenda is alternating between James Cameron docos and *not* James Cameron docos 😅🌊

Thanks so much, Rachael!! Popped an iconic lil ‘immersive terrain’ reference in there of course 🤿🐙

A paper I've been working on for quite a while has just come out today in @natureandspace.bsky.social! It brings together chemical 'slipperiness' from chemical studies and geographies literature, and defines characteristics to clarify and operationalise slipperiness.

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