Over the moon to see my first PhD advisee successfully defend his dissertation! Congratulations, Hanbyeol Jang, on overcoming too many obstacles to count yet staying unflappable throughout 🎉🙌🏼 Temple University Geography and Urban Studies

The disconnect between public perception of academia vs. the reality is so immense. Anti-intellectuals on the right and left assume that academia is run by--and full of cushy tenured jobs for--'Marxists.' The reality is that universities are run like neoliberal businesses. 1/

Excited to share I received an NSF CAREER award for addressing flood justice and equity impacts of adaptation and urban expansion with satellite observations-so the Social Pixel lab beth-tellman.github.io/opportunities.… is #Hiring a new #postdoc to work with us- arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/careers… 1/4

Geoforum wishes to support scholars from the Global South and underrepresented groups more widely to attend American Association of Geographers annual meeting in Honolulu. Priority will be given to researchers who can demonstrate that they are not able to secure financial support through other channels(1/2)

The racism behind chatGPT that we aren't talking about...

This year, I learned that students use chatGPT because they believe it helps them sound more respectable. And I learned that it absolutely does not work. A thread. 🧵

Bonus - it’s open access!

compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…

Your periodic reminder that less ice at the Arctic is consistent with a weaker jet stream that allows cold air to drift down into the Great Plains.

The frigid temps you're experiencing happen BECAUSE of a warming planet, not in spite of it.

Coming soon to the Spring Colloquium UPenn Anthropology

talks by Teresa Montoya, Ann Kelly, Paja Faudree, J.T. Roane, Elif Babul, Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels, Chloe Ahmann, @Myra_Laird, and others not on X.

More details at anthropology.sas.upenn.edu/colloquium-ser… Join us!

This is huge: ynet.co.il/news/article/y…

Top Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth confirms Israel used the 'Hannibal directive' on Oct 7th, which calls to kill Israeli hostages along with their captors.

This is the exact quote from the paper:

'At midnight on October 7, the IDF…

Trending in #Geography :
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1) Blast Walls, Wartime Emissions & US Occupation of Iraq (Antipode)

2) Accumulation by adaptation

3) Militant Research in the Housing Movement (Antipode)

4) Trans people's everyday experiences of…

1) Philly city planning staff testified at today’s Civic Design Review meeting of the proposed Sixers arena that 10 and 11th Streets would have to be closed before and after every event for crowd control. That suggests the site isn’t big enough for this use.

I was hesitant to retweet this story the whole day bc (1) I thought it’s so evil that (2) I needed to make sure that I at thought it most probably happened. I believe that now. It’s most vile, evil, satanic, and violent. I saw many testimonials on the ground, and from the…

If you're seeing dire news about water & alfalfa lately, I have good news for you.

The US's water problems have solutions!

One of the most powerful solutions: give serious attention & investment to agriculture in the southeastern US.

Let's talk about just one way to do that.

This is a reminder on the Call for Abstracts for DOPE+ 2024 is Dec 15th. Deadline for priority registration is Dec 29. Conference is on Feb 22 - 24, 2023. Hope to see you there!
Links 🔗 below
politicalecology.org/abstracts2024 politicalecology.org/sessions

So much for the attraction of downtown basketball arenas. Having built one in DC’s Chinatown, the Wizards are now being courted by suburban Virginia with the promise of a suburban campus. wjla.com/news/local/va-…

Excited to be joining colleagues on Friday to discuss the temporal, spatial, and social dimensions of infrastructural violence, and to explore ways to prevent these harms.