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Environmental Geographer QMUL; Author of *Water: abundance, scarcity, and security in the age of humanity* (NYU Press); NEW BOOK: Landlocked: water, energy and planetary politics in Alberta (w/Chicago): https://shorturl.at/aPnVO .. more

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Environmental science 20%

I was also thinking there are (limited) parallels with a land rush; where scale facilitates reach and return. But of course land is limited in ways that data, while also limited, is not.

I think so too. There is something different than a bubble being built (I'm working my way to a new metaphor but haven't landed on whatever it is that does not displace something and then pop, and is also not like a rhyzome (et al)).

Read a review of a book where somebody takes a swipe at a junior scholar for no clear reason. So, I bought the book and plan to give it a great review (because it is a great book!).

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Super excited to host @karsohini.bsky.social this Thursday as part of the Centre of Development Studies Seminar Series @campolis.bsky.social.

All welcome!

Thanks for tagging me into this! I'm working on something new around this too...hopefully some ££ news soon but we'll see. In other news, things are partially alive for a september release:
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Landlocked
The book Landlocked: Water, Energy, and Planetary Politics in Alberta, Jeremy J. Schmidt is published by University of Chicago Press.
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I thought so too, now if he took the same view domestically Indigenous-state politics could significantly shift

Wow!! Congrats!!

Maybe it’s a sign off like: and also, Carthage must be destroyed.

Is it normal for butterflies to be out in January in London?

There’s one dancing around our garden but it seems early in the year (but I’m really not sure!)

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New, by me, on the ethical and political dimensions of global health photography, situating Sebastião Salgado's polio eradication work within debates on representation, witnessing and power in humanitarian visual culture.

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Area | RGS Geography Journal | Wiley Online Library
Sebastião Salgado's photographic series ‘The End of Polio’ offers a critical lens on global health by depicting the spatial and infrastructural realities of polio eradication campaigns. Through an an...
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Good point!

I often wonder if there is a correlation among those sorts of reviews and people who themselves haven’t written a book.
Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).

Yeah, I forgot to mention we had just returned from the science museum!

podcasts

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📣 New Blog Post: The snowy phantom of the equator.

Imagine a mountain range so elusive that for nearly two thousand years, half the world thought it was a fairy tale.

This is the story of the Mountains of the Moon, and it begins with a lost Greek merchant. 🧵

It’s really efficient altruism, where efficiency is always the numerated ratio denominated by the donor.

No I didn't know about that one, thanks!! Maybe a little New Years bonus?

I did submit my claim. The settlement is a 50/50 split between author and publisher (which only became clear to me during the actual submission)

Forbes @forbes.com · Dec 27
“California is on a path to self-destruction,” wrote Bill Ackman, joining opposition to a tax proposal alongside Google’s cofounder and more.
Possible California Wealth Tax Causes Billionaire Freakout: Page, Thiel Threaten To Leave
“California is on a path to self-destruction,” wrote Bill Ackman, joining opposition to a tax proposal alongside Google’s cofounder and more.
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That's a pretty small concert arena (or one largish farmer's field)
Apparently, the world is getting richer. Here’s the catch: ‘The top one-in-a-million (about 5,600 adults, enough to fill a concert arena) collectively hold 3% of global wealth, more than the entire bottom half of the world’s adult population’… wid.world/document/wor...
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Weird works

Exactly!