adam searle
@admsrl.bsky.social
cultural and historical geographer
interested in ecology and technology
Senior Research Fellow, University of Nottingham
Member and co-founder, @digicologies.bsky.social
interested in ecology and technology
Senior Research Fellow, University of Nottingham
Member and co-founder, @digicologies.bsky.social
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Human Geography at Leicester is facing closure. Staff contracts are to end in June 2026; students are to be relocated to other universities, or taught out by a maximum of two (!) teaching-only staff. Other departments and subjects are facing closure, too. Please join the demo!
November 6, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Human Geography at Leicester is facing closure. Staff contracts are to end in June 2026; students are to be relocated to other universities, or taught out by a maximum of two (!) teaching-only staff. Other departments and subjects are facing closure, too. Please join the demo!
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Joe Gerlach @joegerlach.bsky.social, Spinoza's Geographical Ethics - @edinburghup.bsky.social, December 2025 (print and open access)
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-spinoza...
open access available now
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-spinoza...
open access available now
Spinoza's Geographical Ethics
Spinoza's Geographical Ethics
edinburghuniversitypress.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Joe Gerlach @joegerlach.bsky.social, Spinoza's Geographical Ethics - @edinburghup.bsky.social, December 2025 (print and open access)
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-spinoza...
open access available now
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-spinoza...
open access available now
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SAVE GEOGRAPHY at Leicester University (UK) - We call on the University of Leicester to urgently reconsider the proposal to dissolve Geography. This is direct attack on the discipline of Geography at Leicester with likely loss of Geography staff. Please sign + share
www.change.org/p/save-geogr...
www.change.org/p/save-geogr...
Sign the Petition
Save Geography at the University of Leicester
www.change.org
November 10, 2025 at 8:32 AM
SAVE GEOGRAPHY at Leicester University (UK) - We call on the University of Leicester to urgently reconsider the proposal to dissolve Geography. This is direct attack on the discipline of Geography at Leicester with likely loss of Geography staff. Please sign + share
www.change.org/p/save-geogr...
www.change.org/p/save-geogr...
a university without its staff is nothing! On strike again fighting against the cruelty and economic shortsightedness of course closures and compulsory redundancies at the University of Nottingham
November 10, 2025 at 2:27 PM
a university without its staff is nothing! On strike again fighting against the cruelty and economic shortsightedness of course closures and compulsory redundancies at the University of Nottingham
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A fantastical and unsustainable mega-project pushed by elites disconnected from reality and backed by huge volumes of fickle and self serving financial capital. Sounds familiar
ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled
Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance
ig.ft.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:39 PM
A fantastical and unsustainable mega-project pushed by elites disconnected from reality and backed by huge volumes of fickle and self serving financial capital. Sounds familiar
ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
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📚🎊✨ yay - joint book launch for @nsrnicek.bsky.social's Silicon Empires, @mayameme.bsky.social's Auto-Correct and my Public Data Cultures, in discussion with @joannazylinska.bsky.social & @noortjem.bsky.social on 3rd Dec, 7-9pm 💜 www.tickettailor.com/events/kings... @politybooks.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 6:15 PM
📚🎊✨ yay - joint book launch for @nsrnicek.bsky.social's Silicon Empires, @mayameme.bsky.social's Auto-Correct and my Public Data Cultures, in discussion with @joannazylinska.bsky.social & @noortjem.bsky.social on 3rd Dec, 7-9pm 💜 www.tickettailor.com/events/kings... @politybooks.bsky.social
These courses have not been ‘suspended’ at all; such language only minimises what is actually happening at Nottingham: a systemic gutting out of the arts and humanities with no clear business case. These cuts affect us all; please, join UCU in fighting for our future
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham
In a statement the institution also says it is
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 3:10 PM
These courses have not been ‘suspended’ at all; such language only minimises what is actually happening at Nottingham: a systemic gutting out of the arts and humanities with no clear business case. These cuts affect us all; please, join UCU in fighting for our future
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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HERE IT IS!!!!!
H Is For Hawk - Official Trailer
YouTube video by LionsgateFilmsUK
youtu.be
November 4, 2025 at 6:32 PM
HERE IT IS!!!!!
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Am hearing terrible news about closure of Leics Human Geography degree @ucu.org.uk a proud dept with strong research tradition! www.leicester.news/university-o...
University of Leicester moves forward with plans to cut 150 jobs
A 'large number of staff' across several schools could be impacted
www.leicester.news
November 5, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Am hearing terrible news about closure of Leics Human Geography degree @ucu.org.uk a proud dept with strong research tradition! www.leicester.news/university-o...
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Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."
November 5, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."
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two weeks left!!
received some INCREDIBLE abstracts so far!!
received some INCREDIBLE abstracts so far!!
🌐🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS 🚨🌐
'The Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies'
🗓️ 2-3 February 2026
📍 @oxfordgeography.bsky.social
We invite one-word titles (e.g. hallucinating, zooming, obscuring, glitching, generating)
Deadline: 14th November
Full info: digicologies.com/cfp
'The Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies'
🗓️ 2-3 February 2026
📍 @oxfordgeography.bsky.social
We invite one-word titles (e.g. hallucinating, zooming, obscuring, glitching, generating)
Deadline: 14th November
Full info: digicologies.com/cfp
November 3, 2025 at 12:45 PM
two weeks left!!
received some INCREDIBLE abstracts so far!!
received some INCREDIBLE abstracts so far!!
Colonial pyrotechniques in Palestine: Arboricide and fiery dispossessions
Marijn Nieuwenhuis and Mikko Joronen
EPE Nature and Space
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Marijn Nieuwenhuis and Mikko Joronen
EPE Nature and Space
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
journals.sagepub.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Colonial pyrotechniques in Palestine: Arboricide and fiery dispossessions
Marijn Nieuwenhuis and Mikko Joronen
EPE Nature and Space
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Marijn Nieuwenhuis and Mikko Joronen
EPE Nature and Space
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Maybe not ideal to name your embryo editing startup after the Manhattan Project:
A New Startup Wants to Edit Human Embryos
Seven years after the first gene-edited babies were revealed, biotech startup Manhattan Genomics is reviving the idea of editing human embryos to make disease-free children.
www.wired.com
October 30, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Maybe not ideal to name your embryo editing startup after the Manhattan Project:
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As an alumni of Syracuse University, it's appalling that they are capitulating against a right-wing campaign against Professor Farhana Sultana for exercising her first amendment rights. Do consider signing this letter calling on Syracuse University to reinstate her docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Letter of Support for Professor Farhana Sultana
As scholars within and beyond academia, we write in solidarity with academic freedom of expression with our colleague, Dr. Farhana Sultana, an internationally recognized scholar and tenured Full Profe...
docs.google.com
October 29, 2025 at 9:08 PM
As an alumni of Syracuse University, it's appalling that they are capitulating against a right-wing campaign against Professor Farhana Sultana for exercising her first amendment rights. Do consider signing this letter calling on Syracuse University to reinstate her docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Y'all. It's a HUGE day here on the ol' @wired.com because we have a giant package of stories on AI. Like deep, dark reporting on everything AI is doing to our world. I'll call out some favorite stories on subsequent posts, but for now—pick a card, any card
www.wired.com/ai-issue/
www.wired.com/ai-issue/
AI of a Thousand Faces
What happens now that AI is everywhere and in everything? WIRED can’t tell the future, but we can try to make sense of it. Behold: 17 readings from the furthest reaches of the AI age.
www.wired.com
October 27, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Y'all. It's a HUGE day here on the ol' @wired.com because we have a giant package of stories on AI. Like deep, dark reporting on everything AI is doing to our world. I'll call out some favorite stories on subsequent posts, but for now—pick a card, any card
www.wired.com/ai-issue/
www.wired.com/ai-issue/
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There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles.
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All
I talked to the scholars who literally wrote the book on tech bubbles—and applied their test.
www.wired.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:58 PM
There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles.
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
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New with @natashabernal.bsky.social:
ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Grok have all been founding citing Russian sources—including Russian media sanctioned by the EU—in response to queries about the war in Ukraine
ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Grok have all been founding citing Russian sources—including Russian media sanctioned by the EU—in response to queries about the war in Ukraine
Chatbots Are Pushing Sanctioned Russian Propaganda
ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Grok are serving users propaganda from Russian-backed media when asked about the invasion of Ukraine, new research finds.
www.wired.com
October 27, 2025 at 10:47 AM
New with @natashabernal.bsky.social:
ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Grok have all been founding citing Russian sources—including Russian media sanctioned by the EU—in response to queries about the war in Ukraine
ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Grok have all been founding citing Russian sources—including Russian media sanctioned by the EU—in response to queries about the war in Ukraine
Makiko has now voted for industrial action (n=3) more times than she has celebrated her birthday (n=2)
We can’t give in now. We are so close to victory after this long, exhausting fight. Together we can win a future for our sector and for each other. Get out there and VOTE YES!
#WeAreTheUniversity
We can’t give in now. We are so close to victory after this long, exhausting fight. Together we can win a future for our sector and for each other. Get out there and VOTE YES!
#WeAreTheUniversity
October 24, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Makiko has now voted for industrial action (n=3) more times than she has celebrated her birthday (n=2)
We can’t give in now. We are so close to victory after this long, exhausting fight. Together we can win a future for our sector and for each other. Get out there and VOTE YES!
#WeAreTheUniversity
We can’t give in now. We are so close to victory after this long, exhausting fight. Together we can win a future for our sector and for each other. Get out there and VOTE YES!
#WeAreTheUniversity
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It shouldn't take an FOI request to see grant success rates. UKRI has a duty of care to researchers to supply this from the outset. We are judged, compared, promoted (or not) according to unbelievably bad odds.
After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results:
- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
October 23, 2025 at 1:46 PM
It shouldn't take an FOI request to see grant success rates. UKRI has a duty of care to researchers to supply this from the outset. We are judged, compared, promoted (or not) according to unbelievably bad odds.
my wonderfully talented friend Nick Offord couldn't have put it better: "I can’t quite believe that’s how I spent so much of my adolescence. It makes me feel very lucky to have experienced and shared it with so many good people.” Check out his new book NO SHOWS
www.anothermag.com/art-photogra...
www.anothermag.com/art-photogra...
These Photos Capture Life as a Male Model During Fashion Week
Shot over a decade, Nick Offord’s new book documents the unseen side of the fashion world and the friendships formed in the long intervals behind the scenes
www.anothermag.com
October 22, 2025 at 8:34 PM
my wonderfully talented friend Nick Offord couldn't have put it better: "I can’t quite believe that’s how I spent so much of my adolescence. It makes me feel very lucky to have experienced and shared it with so many good people.” Check out his new book NO SHOWS
www.anothermag.com/art-photogra...
www.anothermag.com/art-photogra...
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A great job, application due November 17th. Please spread and help me with the right hashtags
Assistant Professor Social Studies of Medicine
This is a joint post 65% Sociology, 35% HPS. The Departments of Sociology and History and Philosophy of Science are looking to recruit an Assistant Professor in the Social Studies of Medicine in a
www.cam.ac.uk
October 20, 2025 at 7:50 AM
A great job, application due November 17th. Please spread and help me with the right hashtags
I loved writing this review *nearly* as much as I loved reading @drjamiew.bsky.social wonderful book
"Book review forum, Reimagining the More-Than-Human City: Stories from Singapore," now in @urbanstudiesjournal.com
doi.org/10.1177/0042...
(email me for the pdf if you have any access issues)
"Book review forum, Reimagining the More-Than-Human City: Stories from Singapore," now in @urbanstudiesjournal.com
doi.org/10.1177/0042...
(email me for the pdf if you have any access issues)
October 17, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I loved writing this review *nearly* as much as I loved reading @drjamiew.bsky.social wonderful book
"Book review forum, Reimagining the More-Than-Human City: Stories from Singapore," now in @urbanstudiesjournal.com
doi.org/10.1177/0042...
(email me for the pdf if you have any access issues)
"Book review forum, Reimagining the More-Than-Human City: Stories from Singapore," now in @urbanstudiesjournal.com
doi.org/10.1177/0042...
(email me for the pdf if you have any access issues)
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Today on Radio 4 is Episode 5 of ‘Winter Well’ we hear thoughts about living in the future, and learning from people with lived experience of SAD.
… with the wise voices of @alecfinlay.bsky.social, Ruth and @slipshodspeller.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Light is a right?
… with the wise voices of @alecfinlay.bsky.social, Ruth and @slipshodspeller.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Light is a right?
October 17, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Today on Radio 4 is Episode 5 of ‘Winter Well’ we hear thoughts about living in the future, and learning from people with lived experience of SAD.
… with the wise voices of @alecfinlay.bsky.social, Ruth and @slipshodspeller.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Light is a right?
… with the wise voices of @alecfinlay.bsky.social, Ruth and @slipshodspeller.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Light is a right?
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“Art practice and speculative imaginaries can be sites of dissent and intervention.”
The Border is a Technology—Art Can Dispute It - Public Books
Art practice and speculative imaginaries can be sites of dissent and intervention.
www.publicbooks.org
October 15, 2025 at 10:55 PM
“Art practice and speculative imaginaries can be sites of dissent and intervention.”