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Aseela Haque
@aseela.bsky.social
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Human Geography, PhD candidate FU Berlin | Interested in mobilities, infrastructure, public space, and more-than-human relations. she/her.

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climateadam.bsky.social
When activism collides with academia.

My pod for @nature.com feat. @ulibeisel.bsky.social & @climatehuman.bsky.social 🧪

🎧 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
(or search "Working Scientist" wherever you get podcasts)
Campus protests and civil disobedience: does academia have a problem with activism?
Scientists who join protest movements often find themselves at the centre of a media and political firestorm, causing tensions with some employers.
www.nature.com
January 16, 2026 at 1:10 PM
aseela.bsky.social
Sudden fog/smog conditions in Karachi. Several flights diverted to Muscat due to poor visibility. Still waiting in Muscat… :(
December 21, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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desfitzgerald.bsky.social
I genuinely think these schemes are worse than useless. The tiny scale, and the temporary nature of what's offered, make them look opportunistic more to hang anything. Also why specify the USA of all places where academic freedom is challenged? uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...
Call for Applications: Early Career Rescue Fellowship – Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
uni-freiburg.de
December 20, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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michaelbarenboim.bsky.social
"Palestinians are now facing another winter without any of the things that anyone needs to survive. To reach the point we have, where Israel can weaponise starvation, you have to confront who enables that."

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I’m on hunger strike in a British prison. This is why | Amu Gib
Our demands are simple – and they start with stopping the flow of arms to Israel, says activist Amu Gib
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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mikkojorge.bsky.social
Khalid from our GOCEP group published a great paper about everyday scarcity, entrapment and erasure of time in Gaza:

‘Temporal ruination: Scarcity, entrapment, and the affective intensities of time in Gaza’
gocep.bsky.social Geographies of Coloniality and Everyday Violence Research Group @gocep.bsky.social · Dec 16
Great paper by Khalid Dader in @societyandspace.bsky.social looking at deliberate ruination of daily life in Gaza - the unstructured, unpredictable, and uninhabitable time; the infrastructural annihilation; the exhaustion, humiliation, and anticipatory dread. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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December 16, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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saanchi.bsky.social
#CFP #RC21
@aseela.bsky.social & I have a session "Epistemic friendships in/across difference: Rethinking methodologies in urban research" @rc21.bsky.social Vienna 2026
If you're interested in political & epistemological potential of friendships within urban studies/geog, do submit your abstract!
November 26, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social
💥 New publication out on the alignment of AI & authoritarianism 💥

We argue that AI is not simply extending, but actively modulating, key dynamics of authoritarianism, and present a flexible analytical framework to account for these changes.

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
November 24, 2025 at 9:39 AM
aseela.bsky.social
This was a brutal read. An incisive rendering of the life of ECRs and (false) promise of an academic career:

journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
November 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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areajournal.bsky.social
New in Area:

'Friendship in academia: A radically ordinary praxis?' by @smhall.bsky.social

This piece is part of an ongoing Special Section: 'Dialogues in Radical Geography'.

doi.org/10.1111/area... #geosky
Screenshot of a paper abstract in Area by Sarah Marie Hall (2025) entitled: 'Friendship in academia: A radically ordinary praxis?' with a black banner at the top. Friendships play a fundamental role in everyday life, offering companionship, mutuality, and care, across multiple and intersecting socio-spatial contexts. Drawing on scholarship and activism across feminist geographies, and contributing to this growing field of geographical interest, this piece brings together considerations of solidaristic friendship with/in everyday academic practice. Turning this critical lens inwards, I argue that everyday relational spaces of friendship within academia have radical potential – a radically ordinary praxis? – and yet are often overlooked or undervalued. I suggest that, in being so very ordinary, friendship has the possibility to be much more widely registered and deployed within academic spaces to engender greater and much needed solidarity in current times.
October 15, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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carsoncenter.bsky.social
🚨CfP: Lexicon for Animacy
Deadline: 1 December 2025

Please find more info in the full call online: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/06/...
cfp | call for papers
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu
October 15, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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michaelbarenboim.bsky.social
Israel is turning Gaza city into an apocalyptic wasteland, and the world watches on.
May the cries of desperation from Palestinians in Gaza forever haunt complicit state leaders who have not only allowed this to happen, but have willingly supported this extermination campaign for the last 2 years.
September 16, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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verfassungsblog.de
German arms exports to Israel have been the subject of debate for some time.

But what about Israeli arms exports to Germany?

ALON SAHAR (@alonsahar.bsky.social) and ITAMAR MANN (@itamann.bsky.social) on the political and legal risks of arms imports from Israel.

verfassungsblog.de/the-other-si...
August 26, 2025 at 6:38 PM
aseela.bsky.social
Karachi is flooded. Have not been able to get in touch with my parents at home. They haven’t had electricity for many many hours now.
August 19, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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apsaurban.bsky.social
📢 Call for Papers!

Urban Politics in the Global South Conference

November 6-7, 2025 (fully virtual!)

This conference showcases research on urban politics in low- and middle-income countries in different world regions.

Deadline for Submissions: Sept. 5

Link: www.globalsouthurbanpolitics.com
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Urban Politics in the Global South is an annual virtual conference series that brings together the growing community of social scientists conducting research on urban politics in low- and middle-incom...
www.globalsouthurbanpolitics.com
August 14, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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vbivar.bsky.social
For all of the educators trying to deal with AI, I did a deep dive in early June and these are the four articles I decided to assign to my students.

1. This is the longest of the bunch, but so wonderfully comprehensive.

www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...
We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.
The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.
www.technologyreview.com
August 14, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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newseye.bsky.social
This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen.

By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza
August 4, 2025 at 9:52 PM
aseela.bsky.social
“Feminism has in fact offered a diagnosis, steadily, for decades and centuries: that the cause is misogyny and the violence is intended to perpetrate the inequality, exploitation and subordination of women.”
rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · Aug 3
"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."
The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit
Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against women
www.theguardian.com
August 3, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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hannakienzler.bsky.social
250 signatures by academics in Germany/German academics abroad pledging to boycott Israeli institutions supporting and/or benefiting from military occupation, apartheid, and genocide. Join the growing movement‼️
August 2, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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elinorcarmi.bsky.social
Just stumbled upon this young, talented woman's project called - Detectly - which is like an ad blocker but for AI content, suitable for Chrome and Firefox.

detectly.xyz
Detectly
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detectly.xyz
August 1, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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robin-c.bsky.social
“Gaza is a turning point that lays bare the full range and cruel depths of the contemporary world’s contradictions ... It exposes what is fundamentally wrong today: a persistent inability to recognize every human being as equal and deserving of dignity and life.”
bostonreview.bsky.social Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · Jul 30
“Gaza has become a symbol both of Western hypocrisy and its victims’ recourse to human rights as a final forum for collective deliverance—the deliverance of the wretched of the earth, whoever and wherever they may be. The consequences cannot be overstated.” @joelleabirached.bsky.social
Gaza and the End of History - Boston Review
The apocalyptic scale of death and destruction lays bare the contradictions at the heart of the liberal international order.
www.bostonreview.net
August 1, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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alidacantor.bsky.social
Glad to share that the edited volume "Amphibious Anthropologies: Living in Wet Environments" is now officially published! I have a chapter in the book about the Salton Sea.
uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...
UW Press has a sale thru August 31- WARM25 for 40% off & free shipping. #Geosky #waterscience
uwapress.uw.edu
July 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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flyingrodent.bsky.social
Try to imagine any other context where a news presenter describes credible reports that soldiers have been shooting huge numbers of teenagers and children *for sport*, for fun, and a politician gives this reaction.
saulstaniforth.bsky.social Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · Jul 25
Adil Ray recounts the testimony of a doctor who explains IDF soldiers play a game where each day they decide to shoot Palestinian boys in a different part of their body

Flint: "Israel is a functioning democracy. It is understandable when you have Hamas in control.." #GMB
July 25, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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m.sappir.net
Disturbing footage: Berlin police violently assaulting peaceful protestors for Palestine, today (July 24, 2025.) Credit: Unpublished.de (found on Instagram)
July 24, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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barnabascalder.bsky.social
Some actual good news: the ICJ have set out the ecological situation clearly and authoritatively, and confirmed that each country has a legal obligation to take effective climate action. Could we get on and do it, please?
www-aljazeera-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.alja...
Climate change an ‘existential threat’, UN court says in landmark opinion
ICJ Judge Yuji Iwasawa says greenhouse emissions are ‘unequivocally caused by human activities’ as he delivers opinion.
www-aljazeera-com.cdn.ampproject.org
July 24, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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emanabdelhadi.bsky.social
It’s worse than “Gaza is being starved and destroyed and no one cares.” It’s that hundreds of millions *do* care and are powerless to stop it. We need a world where that can never happen, where the masses actually have political power.
July 22, 2025 at 2:41 PM