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Joshua L. Conver @jlc-phd.bsky.social · 15h

Just published: my review of Wil Gesler’s career retrospective Freedom to Roam: Fell-Walking and the Life Geographic
Books like this are “important works because they reflect on the process of becoming a professional geographer and the meaning of geographic knowledge.”

Freedom to Roam: Fell-Walking and the Life Geographic

Published in The AAG Review of Books (Ahead of Print, 2026)

doi.org

Joshua L. Conver @jlc-phd.bsky.social · 15h

“To more fully integrate gender into our field, US-based archaeologists could address underrepresentation of women authors in journals, reluctance to engage with politics and activism, privileging of quantitative data, academic hiring, and strategic uses of different kinds of journals.”

Advances in Archaeological Practice @saa-aap.bsky.social · 16h

In her latest FirstView article, Jessica MacLellan explores how feminist and gender-focused archaeology has developed across major journals. While interest has remained steady, clear gaps in prestige and recognition persist.

Read more about her insights here:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Gender and Prestige in Household Archaeology: Publication and Citation Trends, 1990–2019 | Advances in Archaeological Practice | Cambridge Core

Gender and Prestige in Household Archaeology: Publication and Citation Trends, 1990–2019

www.cambridge.org

Advances in Archaeological Practice @saa-aap.bsky.social · 16h

In her latest FirstView article, Jessica MacLellan explores how feminist and gender-focused archaeology has developed across major journals. While interest has remained steady, clear gaps in prestige and recognition persist.

Read more about her insights here:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Gender and Prestige in Household Archaeology: Publication and Citation Trends, 1990–2019 | Advances in Archaeological Practice | Cambridge Core

Gender and Prestige in Household Archaeology: Publication and Citation Trends, 1990–2019

www.cambridge.org

Paul Musgrave @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 1d

LLM companies make the academic dishonesty equivalent of heroin, and we do not have academic honesty equivalents of methadone yet

Joshua L. Conver @jlc-phd.bsky.social · 3d

The impact of Harvard closing its geography department still reverberates through the academy. I’ve heard people point to it as an example of why geography is best chopped up and absorbed into other disciplines without knowing why Harvard made the decision to dissolve the department

Saleem H. Ali @saleemali.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks to @mitpress.bsky.social for providing this entire book open source -- "Let #Geography Die" tells the sad story of how #Harvard dissolved its department because of errant leadership decisions and prejudice cc: @geographers.bsky.social direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...

Let Geography Die: Chasing Derwent’s Ghost at Harvard

An investigative history of the closure of Harvard University's geography program in the mid-twentieth century due to homophobia and wider institutional po

direct.mit.edu

Saleem H. Ali @saleemali.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks to @mitpress.bsky.social for providing this entire book open source -- "Let #Geography Die" tells the sad story of how #Harvard dissolved its department because of errant leadership decisions and prejudice cc: @geographers.bsky.social direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...

Let Geography Die: Chasing Derwent’s Ghost at Harvard

An investigative history of the closure of Harvard University's geography program in the mid-twentieth century due to homophobia and wider institutional po

direct.mit.edu

Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 4d

"I’ll Samba Someplace Else" by Andrew G. Britt charts how spatial projects sustain popular ideologies of post-racialism despite enduringly high levels of racialized inequity in Brazil and beyond. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/LipCcpS

Cover of I’ll Samba Someplace Else: A Spatial History of Race, Ethnicity, and Displacement in São Paulo by Andrew G. Britt. The cover features a yellow and orange duotone of a crowd of people walking down a dirt road. This photograph overlays a yellow and orange map that is fully visible in the top right corner. A circle appears on the right side, inverting the image, making the yellow map orange. The title is written in a bold white aligned left. The subtitle is directly below in a smaller white font, separated from the title by a thick yellow line. The author’s name is in the top left in a burnt orange.

Joshua L. Conver @jlc-phd.bsky.social · 5d

“Conference participation is a source of economic, social, and cultural capital that translates into opportunities and future career success…gender plays a strong role in determining who occupies positions of prestige and that decisions about who is “qualified” affect distributions of capital...”

Debby Sneed @debscavator.bsky.social · 6d

OPEN ACCESS in @saa-aap.bsky.social: This team analyzed 22 years of data from the annual meeting of the SAA to examine how women's participation has changed over time.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Gender Inclusion and Representation in the Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology | Advances in Archaeological Practice | Cambridge Core

Gender Inclusion and Representation in the Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology

www.cambridge.org

Joshua L. Conver @jlc-phd.bsky.social · 5d

From the Stacks with the Librarian is now on the air until 1pm PST. Playing selections from the vinyl collection at Holland and Terrell Libraries on the beautiful campus of Washington State University
KZUU.org for streaming

Debby Sneed @debscavator.bsky.social · 6d

OPEN ACCESS in @saa-aap.bsky.social: This team analyzed 22 years of data from the annual meeting of the SAA to examine how women's participation has changed over time.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Gender Inclusion and Representation in the Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology | Advances in Archaeological Practice | Cambridge Core

Gender Inclusion and Representation in the Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology

www.cambridge.org

Joshua L. Conver @jlc-phd.bsky.social · 6d

With commentaries by Madiha Tahir at Yale, Lisa Bhungalia at UW Madison, Craig Jones at Newcastle University, and @geogsara.bsky.social from UNC Chapel Hill. Author Rhys Machold at the University of Glasgow provides a thought-provoking response

Joshua L. Conver @jlc-phd.bsky.social · 6d

Cc: @stanfordpress.bsky.social

Joshua L. Conver @jlc-phd.bsky.social · 6d

A powerful forum on Rhys Machold’s book Fabricating Homeland Security: Police Entanglements across India and Palestine/Israel is now available. Mark Griffiths writes that the book “addresses crucial questions on the workings of right-wing populism, authoritarianism, and weapons capitalism.”

Fabricating Homeland Security: Police Entanglements across India and Palestine/Israel

Published in The AAG Review of Books (Ahead of Print, 2026)

doi.org

Joshua L. Conver @jlc-phd.bsky.social · 7d

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Joshua L. Conver @jlc-phd.bsky.social · 7d

Graduate student Afrida Aranya reviews Kurt Fausch’s A Reverence for Rivers.
“…moral orientation, as highlighted by Fausch, adds a new dimension to geography, a discipline that has long documented river modification and degradation, yet has left questions of ethical responsibility implicit.”

A Reverence for Rivers: Imagining an Ethic for Running Waters

Published in The AAG Review of Books (Ahead of Print, 2026)

www.tandfonline.com

Joshua L. Conver @jlc-phd.bsky.social · 12d

One more hour of music From the Stacks of Holland and Terrell Libraries hosted by The Librarian
KZUU.org

Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 14d

In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice and border abolition.

We’ve also added a list of additional recommended reading:

Free Ebooks: Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border

In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice an...

www.haymarketbooks.org

Joshua L. Conver @jlc-phd.bsky.social · 15d

Stories like this don’t deceive people; they merely help people to deceive themselves

WSU Pullman @pullman.wsu.edu · 16d

In everything from health care to agriculture, AI tools are fueling scientific inquiry and being adapted for applications to benefit the public.
https://news.wsu.edu/news/2026/01/22/revolutionary-technologies-deeply-woven-into-wsus-research-and-teaching/ 💻

Revolutionary technologies deeply woven into WSU’s research and teaching

In everything from health care to agriculture, AI tools are fueling scientific inquiry and being adapted for applications to benefit the public.

news.wsu.edu

WSU Pullman @pullman.wsu.edu · 16d

In everything from health care to agriculture, AI tools are fueling scientific inquiry and being adapted for applications to benefit the public.
https://news.wsu.edu/news/2026/01/22/revolutionary-technologies-deeply-woven-into-wsus-research-and-teaching/ 💻

Revolutionary technologies deeply woven into WSU’s research and teaching

In everything from health care to agriculture, AI tools are fueling scientific inquiry and being adapted for applications to benefit the public.

news.wsu.edu

Joshua L. Conver @jlc-phd.bsky.social · 16d

A Tolkien analogy - “GenAI is like the One Ring. You think your use of it is justified because you don’t have evil in your heart. But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purposes, and anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.”
h/t Raphael von Lierop

WSU News @wsunews.bsky.social · 18d

From labs and farms to classrooms and communities, #WSU is weaving artificial intelligence into research and teaching to advance its land-grant mission and tackle real-world challenges in health, agriculture, energy, and beyond. news.wsu.edu/news/2026/01...

Revolutionary technologies deeply woven into WSU’s research and teaching

In everything from health care to agriculture, AI tools are fueling scientific inquiry and being adapted for applications to benefit the public.

news.wsu.edu

WSU News @wsunews.bsky.social · 18d

From labs and farms to classrooms and communities, #WSU is weaving artificial intelligence into research and teaching to advance its land-grant mission and tackle real-world challenges in health, agriculture, energy, and beyond. news.wsu.edu/news/2026/01...

Revolutionary technologies deeply woven into WSU’s research and teaching

In everything from health care to agriculture, AI tools are fueling scientific inquiry and being adapted for applications to benefit the public.

news.wsu.edu

Joshua L. Conver @jlc-phd.bsky.social · 20d

New review of Slavery and Capitalism by Noel Castree.
“McNally’s book speaks to the contemporary interest among critical-left geographers in capitalism and race…while adding weight to growing calls…for a historic reckoning with the stupendous harms caused by European colonialism”

Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History

Published in The AAG Review of Books (Ahead of Print, 2026)

www.tandfonline.com

Joshua L. Conver @jlc-phd.bsky.social · 20d

To paraphrase Dr. Ian Malcolm: Administration was so preoccupied with whether or not they could, that they didn’t stop to think if they should.

WSU News @wsunews.bsky.social · 20d

Starting Jan. 20, WSU Libraries will run trials on three AI-powered research platforms. news.wsu.edu/news/2026/01... #WSU

Libraries to start trials of AI scholarly search tools

Starting Jan. 20, WSU Libraries will run trials on three AI-powered research platforms: Consensus, Scite.ai, and Undermind.

news.wsu.edu

WSU News @wsunews.bsky.social · 20d

Starting Jan. 20, WSU Libraries will run trials on three AI-powered research platforms. news.wsu.edu/news/2026/01... #WSU

Libraries to start trials of AI scholarly search tools

Starting Jan. 20, WSU Libraries will run trials on three AI-powered research platforms: Consensus, Scite.ai, and Undermind.

news.wsu.edu

Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social · Dec 11

Preorder today. “Your Data Will Be Used Against You: Policing in the Age of Self-Surveillance.” #books

Richards Center Penn State @richardscenter.bsky.social · Dec 10

Congratulations to Antwain K. Hunter, whose book A Precarious Balance: Firearms, Race, and Community in North Carolina, 1715–1865 was published by UNC Press last month!

uncpress.org/978146968989...

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · Dec 2

This year, universities are giving $228 million to football coaches who failed at coaching football so that they won't coach football anymore.

Total buyouts for 15 fired coaches in 2025: $228 million. That's a record by nearly $100M.

Kelly $54M
Stoops $38M
Smith $33.5M
Napier $21M
Freeze $15.8M
Gundy $15M
Wilcox $10.9M
Pittman $9.8M
Franklin $9M
Pry $6M
Foster $5M
Bray $4M
Dilfer $2.4M
Beck $1.7M
Norvell $1.5M

Tim Howles @timhowles.bsky.social · Nov 30

A very important forthcoming book:
“Kant Machine: Critical Philosophy after AI”
Yuk Hui

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/kant-mach...

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