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Jeremy Schmidt
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Environmental Geographer QMUL; Co-editor of Area (areajournal.bsky.social)); Author of *Water: abundance, scarcity, and security in the age of humanity* (NYU Press); New book on Alberta’s water and energy coming 2026 with U Chicago Press. .. more

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Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · 1d
What tree (in London) blooms in November?
Tree blossom

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Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · 3d
That newswashing final few sentences…

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Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · 3d
techcrunch.com/2025/09/18/o...
OpenAI’s research on AI models deliberately lying is wild  | TechCrunch
AI models don't just hallucinate. They also "scheme," meaning deliberately lie or hide their true intentions.
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Ardath Whynacht @ardathjean.bsky.social · 4d
The Feds amended their egregious data mining operation at the Tri-Councils but they pretended it had nothing to do with our protest! I’ll take it.

www.nsnews.com/national-new...
Parliamentary committee revises order to share federal grant applicant data
A parliamentary committee has amended a controversial order that seeks 25 years' worth of data on researchers who applied for health and science grants.
www.nsnews.com

Reposted by Jennifer Pett‐Ridge, Jeremy J. Schmidt, David Stott

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The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 12d
Are you an earth or environmental scientist with an interest in climate change mitigation? Join our upcoming scientific meeting looking at enhanced weathering as leading researchers discuss the scientific and societal challenges ahead:
royalsociety.org/science-even...

Reposted by Axel Bruns, Henrik Skaug Sætra, Jeremy J. Schmidt , and 4 more

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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 13d
Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same

Reposted by Dustin Mulvaney, David Murakami Wood, Jeremy J. Schmidt , and 1 more

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 17d
this question being led by a private firm (and potential privatization of rollout) is a worst case scenario if you ask me

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Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · 18d
When does the 2025 data go to? It all seems a big drop from 2024, which makes one wonder if there are apps still in review or respond-to-review stage that will affect the 2025 data?

Reposted by Cathy N. Davidson, Jeremy J. Schmidt

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 18d
'New research coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC has found that AI assistants – already a daily information gateway for millions of people – routinely misrepresent news content no matter which language, territory, or AI platform is tested.' 1/2
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC
www.bbc.co.uk

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Rebecca Altman, PhD @rebecca-altman.bsky.social · 18d
This book. My word, this book! Plastics folks— the archaeologists on plastics are 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯 I’m in do not disturb mode over here until I finish it.
Picture of the front cover of a hardback book entitled the Routledge handbook of archaeology and plastics

Reposted by Kelly Smith, Jeremy J. Schmidt

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 19d
'Before William Wordsworth’s imagination had wandered, lonely as a cloud, and before John Keats’s nib had quivered with notions about nightingales, a Black woman named Phillis Wheatley was circulating a treasury of nature-inspired verse in London.'
Phillis Wheatley, the first Black nature poet | The Observer
Enslaved as a child, the 18th-century writer became the first published Black woman – and a pioneer of nature poetry whose legacy still inspires
observer.co.uk

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Area @areajournal.bsky.social · 20d
New in Area!

'Making geography move: The Royal Geographical Society and the exchange of periodical knowledge, 1830–1900' by Benjamin Newman

This paper examines how the RGS's Library and Map Committee controlled the circulation of the Society's journal in the 19th century.

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Area by Benjamin Newman (2025) entitled: 'Making geography move: The Royal Geographical Society and the exchange of periodical knowledge, 1830–1900' with a black banner at the top. This paper explores the decisions of the Royal Geographical Society's (RGS) Library and Map Committee in conditioning and constraining the circulation of Britain's first geographical periodical publication. Principally drawing on the committee's minutes in the last half of the nineteenth century, the paper unpicks the unwritten rules that shaped the flow of geographical knowledge to other institutions. As well as documenting the extent and reach of the RGS's periodical, the minutes also reveal the places to which the journal did not travel and the reasons for limiting the movement of geographical ideas and information. Uncovering the journal's travels in this way makes several important contributions to the history of geography and the geographies of knowledge. First, it contributes to new understandings of the RGS and its actors in conditioning the circulation and accumulation of nineteenth-century geographical knowledge. Second, it draws attention to the specificity of the periodical as a printed medium and illustrates its value in understanding the circulation of geography. Third, it makes clear the intricate processes that facilitate or disrupt the flow of geographical knowledge that should demand attention in the context of our modern-day scholarly practice.

Reposted by Stephan Lewandowsky, Sabine Pahl, Margot C. Finn , and 3 more

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24d
This morning my ChatGPT quota was inexplicably exhausted.

It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed.

The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasn’t asking and praising him for his insight.

Reposted by Jeremy J. Schmidt

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Dr. Brandon Beasley 🇨🇦 @drbeasley.bsky.social · 26d
Check out my good friend @niallroe.bsky.social's new paper on Charles S. Peirce on Experiment: philpapers.org/rec/ROECPA-2
Niall Roe, Charles Peirce and Experimental Science - PhilPapers
Among much else, Peirce was concerned with understanding the nature of experimentation. And while Peirce scholarship frequently appeals to the role of experimentation in his philosophy, no one has yet...
philpapers.org

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Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · Oct 9
WIll do, I've been wanting to connect to learn more about Finbio as well!

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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · Oct 9
"Biodiversity loss is notoriously difficult to quantify. Even in Switzerland, a country with intense monitoring of nature, systematic measurements have only existed for about two decades." www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Century-old papers saved from the bin reveal changes in Europe’s plant life
Plant inventories dating back to 1884 and nearly thrown away enable unique time-lapse study of biodiversity in Swiss meadows
www.theguardian.com

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Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · Oct 8
How can we pursue nature-based solutions effectively and empirically?

We are launching a new MSc in Natural Capital and Sustainability. It runs across business, env. science, geography, and is in partnership with Kew Gardens!

Applications now open for 2026!
www.qmul.ac.uk/postgraduate...
Natural Capital and Sustainability MSc - Queen Mary University of London
www.qmul.ac.uk

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Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · Oct 8
I’m sure there are a few emails flying around at some of these universities right now

www.theguardian.com/education/20...
UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show
Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests
www.theguardian.com

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Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · Sep 30
In case anybody teaching game theory is looking for an example of what contemporary freeriding looks like.
wsj.com The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · Sep 29
Exclusive: OpenAI is planning to release a new version of its Sora video generator, which creates videos featuring copyrighted material unless copyright holders opt out of having their work appear.
OpenAI’s New Sora Video Generator to Require Copyright Holders to Opt Out
Executives at the startup notified talent agencies and studios over the last week.
on.wsj.com

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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · Sep 29
Exclusive: OpenAI is planning to release a new version of its Sora video generator, which creates videos featuring copyrighted material unless copyright holders opt out of having their work appear.
OpenAI’s New Sora Video Generator to Require Copyright Holders to Opt Out
Executives at the startup notified talent agencies and studios over the last week.
on.wsj.com

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Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · Sep 28
Just FYI, UK is now hot enough to grow rice

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UK's first rice crop ripe for picking after hot summer - BBC News
Paddy fields are thriving in a quiet part of east England and might help feed us in the future.
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Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · Sep 23
If you are still looking for that reading at the intersection of environment, health, extraction and disposession (with a dash of the digital)...
geoopenaccess.bsky.social Geo: Geography and Environment @geoopenaccess.bsky.social · Jun 13
💻New in Geo!🛢️

'Minecraft's territory: Alberta's oil sands, settler knowledge infrastructure & digital geographies' by @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social

This paper traces how the data used for a Minecraft extension are tied to broader extractive networks of knowledge production.

doi.org/10.1002/geo2...
A photograph showing the 3D print of the Minecraft model of Peace River - a cross section of the geological formation of this site in different shades of grey and white to show the layers beneath the surface of the earth.

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Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · Sep 21
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A prudent planetary limit for geologic carbon storage - Nature
A risk-based, spatially explicit analysis of carbon storage in sedimentary basins establishes a prudent planetary limit of around 1,460 Gt of geological carbon storage, which requires making explicit ...
www.nature.com

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Ioannis Ziogas @ziogas.bsky.social · Sep 20
This.

No TT/non-TT/VAP job will be offered to an int'l candidate, since it requires an H1-B until the green card is issued.

This process takes at least a couple of years.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · Sep 20
this exists it is called thinking
Matthew McConaughey says he wants a private LLM, fed only with his books, notes, journals, and aspirations, so he can ask it questions and get answers based solely on that information, without any outside influence.

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Ekin Kurtiç @ekinkurtic.bsky.social · Sep 19
A highly controversial new law in Turkey allows mining in olive groves, requiring tree transplantation.

My new open-access article in @politicalgeography.bsky.social explores the making of "movable nature"— salvage work that moves nature out of the way of infrastructure and extraction projects.
Salvage work: The making of movable nature for post-submergence life
This article critically examines environmental salvage projects undertaken in northeastern Turkey by focusing on political and technoscientific actors…
www.sciencedirect.com

Reposted by Richard Hall, Jeremy J. Schmidt

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Paul Langley @paullangley.bsky.social · Sep 19
Fastest way to shorten the odds on a Reform government

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · Sep 17
Some food for thought: if you're reviewing a book & it has good, useful maps, say so in the review! And name the mapmaker if you can.

Often, folks writing books don't know where to go for good maps. Making mention of them in your review helps everyone.
#skystorians #midievalsky #historians