beki m.
@beki.bsky.social
Critical urban and economic geographer. Development, finance, climate risk and governance, political economy. Birds, books, trees, records, etc. ☕️✨
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beki m.
@beki.bsky.social
· May 13
Trying to Reason with Hurricane Season
In Florida, risk is a feature of life. In a deepening climate crisis, financial capitalism gives risk new meaning.
www.break-down.org
My new piece on the death drive in Florida and the need for roots is out in the incredible inaugural issue of @the-breakdown.bsky.social. Grateful to the editors for the opportunity to gather my thoughts on the meanings of risk and to write about home—and in the company of such brilliant people. ✨
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«The biggest lesson of the past two decades of Silicon Valley is that Meta, Amazon, and Google … have remade our world and have become unfathomably rich for it, all while being mostly oblivious or uninterested in the fallout. They have chased growth and scale at all costs …»
Here’s How the AI Crash Happens
The U.S. is becoming an Nvidia-state.
www.theatlantic.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:58 AM
«The biggest lesson of the past two decades of Silicon Valley is that Meta, Amazon, and Google … have remade our world and have become unfathomably rich for it, all while being mostly oblivious or uninterested in the fallout. They have chased growth and scale at all costs …»
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Excellent article here. Our students are our greatest advocates. Counter proposals will be put forward, and we are supporting colleagues in Music, Modern Languages, Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies at Nottingham with their campaigns www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
University of Nottingham students fight 'insane' cull of courses
Traitors composer Sam Watts is among those against plans to cut University of Nottingham courses.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Excellent article here. Our students are our greatest advocates. Counter proposals will be put forward, and we are supporting colleagues in Music, Modern Languages, Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies at Nottingham with their campaigns www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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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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Incredibly sad news from our Geography community at Loughborough www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/geo...
Professor Joanna Bullard (1969-2025)
We are incredibly sad to share news of the recent passing of Joanna Bullard, Professor of Physical Geography in the Department of Geography and Environment, School of Social Sciences and Humanities at...
www.lboro.ac.uk
November 7, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Incredibly sad news from our Geography community at Loughborough www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/geo...
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as we build power, we also find our way back into community
come for the defiance, stay because we are building new cultures of care together
come for the defiance, stay because we are building new cultures of care together
here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol
Zohran Mamdani's Establishment-Fighting Campaign Built Community for Young People
“What Mamdani has done is not only inspire and mobilize young people, but he has exposed the establishment and some of their calcified views of participation and inclusion.”
www.teenvogue.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:34 PM
as we build power, we also find our way back into community
come for the defiance, stay because we are building new cultures of care together
come for the defiance, stay because we are building new cultures of care together
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be stoked, stay stoked, all around the country the people are back at it
November 5, 2025 at 12:33 PM
be stoked, stay stoked, all around the country the people are back at it
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Just TWO DAYS until our Issue 2 launch party in London!
Tickets for readings are sold out, but there are still a handful available for the party from 8pm — See you there!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-breakd...
Tickets for readings are sold out, but there are still a handful available for the party from 8pm — See you there!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-breakd...
November 5, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Just TWO DAYS until our Issue 2 launch party in London!
Tickets for readings are sold out, but there are still a handful available for the party from 8pm — See you there!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-breakd...
Tickets for readings are sold out, but there are still a handful available for the party from 8pm — See you there!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-breakd...
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🚨 Fully funded PhD opportunity with me and Richard Hodgkins at @lborogeog.bsky.social. Please reach out with any questions, and do share widely!
Storyline approaches to regional flood risk: making climate change relatable. | Postgraduate study | Loughborough University
This project aims to bring together evidence from climate projections, risk assessment and observations to develop and evaluate event-based storylines based on recent flooding in Leicestershire, UK.
www.lboro.ac.uk
October 29, 2025 at 1:30 PM
🚨 Fully funded PhD opportunity with me and Richard Hodgkins at @lborogeog.bsky.social. Please reach out with any questions, and do share widely!
'Donations are welcome, but this is not a matter of charity. Meaningful conversations need to be had as to how Caribbean nations came to be and what they are owed.'
Jamaica didn’t cause the climate crisis – but will pay th...
The country is being held back by not receiving the reparations for slavery it is owed
observer.co.uk
November 1, 2025 at 8:57 AM
'Donations are welcome, but this is not a matter of charity. Meaningful conversations need to be had as to how Caribbean nations came to be and what they are owed.'
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To fund public infrastructure and investment, elected city officials often have to turn to the bond market. But @schooldaves.bsky.social explains how the system restricts a municipality’s ability to offer public provisions of any kind.
Paying for It | David I. Backer
Should Zohran Mamdani become the next mayor of New York City, he will be restricted by the municipal bond market.
thebaffler.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:41 PM
To fund public infrastructure and investment, elected city officials often have to turn to the bond market. But @schooldaves.bsky.social explains how the system restricts a municipality’s ability to offer public provisions of any kind.
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Parents, make sure you're careful this Halloween! Inside this Snickers we've just found the 1444 map of Boarstall, one of the oldest maps of an English village and a fantastic example of late medieval cartography.
October 30, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Parents, make sure you're careful this Halloween! Inside this Snickers we've just found the 1444 map of Boarstall, one of the oldest maps of an English village and a fantastic example of late medieval cartography.
'The real dereliction is that needless austerity and turmoil has replaced the kind of sober long-term financial planning and strategy that the university needs.'
Excellent writing on completely unsubstantiated redundancies from the folks at @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social ✊
Excellent writing on completely unsubstantiated redundancies from the folks at @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social ✊
The Academic Contribution Framework: a flawed, discriminatory response to a failure of management’s making — UCU Edinburgh
The ACF is the mechanism by which management will size up workers for redundancy targets that we already know are arbitrary. The ACF is obviously bad. It will be personally devastating for many collea...
www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk
October 30, 2025 at 11:37 AM
'The real dereliction is that needless austerity and turmoil has replaced the kind of sober long-term financial planning and strategy that the university needs.'
Excellent writing on completely unsubstantiated redundancies from the folks at @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social ✊
Excellent writing on completely unsubstantiated redundancies from the folks at @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social ✊
🚨 Fully funded PhD opportunity with me and Richard Hodgkins at @lborogeog.bsky.social. Please reach out with any questions, and do share widely!
Storyline approaches to regional flood risk: making climate change relatable. | Postgraduate study | Loughborough University
This project aims to bring together evidence from climate projections, risk assessment and observations to develop and evaluate event-based storylines based on recent flooding in Leicestershire, UK.
www.lboro.ac.uk
October 29, 2025 at 1:30 PM
🚨 Fully funded PhD opportunity with me and Richard Hodgkins at @lborogeog.bsky.social. Please reach out with any questions, and do share widely!
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Oh this cheered me this dark morning~ @SASE mini conferences announced including MC20: Insurance: Financialisation, New Data and Emerging Risks sase.org/events/2026-...
2026 Bordeaux - SASE
sase.org
October 29, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Oh this cheered me this dark morning~ @SASE mini conferences announced including MC20: Insurance: Financialisation, New Data and Emerging Risks sase.org/events/2026-...
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📰 Our geography colleagues and doctoral students are leading a cutting-edge research project in Cumbria on how simple on-farm features like sediment ponds can help farmers manage runoff, protect valuable soil, and support vital biodiversity.
Read the full story here!
Read the full story here!
New research highlights how sediment ponds help farmers protect land and boost biodiversity
A research project in Cumbria is shedding light on how simple on-farm features like sediment ponds can help farmers manage runoff, protect valuable soil, and support vital biodiversity – all while con...
www.lboro.ac.uk
October 28, 2025 at 4:17 PM
📰 Our geography colleagues and doctoral students are leading a cutting-edge research project in Cumbria on how simple on-farm features like sediment ponds can help farmers manage runoff, protect valuable soil, and support vital biodiversity.
Read the full story here!
Read the full story here!
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The current federal administration is destabilizing the offshore wind industry with stop-work orders and slashed subsidies. We need a credible plan to meet climate targets and build capacity—enter a federal Offshore Wind Authority. climateandcommunity.org/research/off...
A Federal Offshore Wind Authority: A Public Moon Shot for Offshore Wind
We propose that a future administration establish a federal Offshore Wind Authority to supercharge buildout and deliver affordable electricity.
climateandcommunity.org
October 28, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The current federal administration is destabilizing the offshore wind industry with stop-work orders and slashed subsidies. We need a credible plan to meet climate targets and build capacity—enter a federal Offshore Wind Authority. climateandcommunity.org/research/off...
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10 AM Update from the NHC. Winds up to 185 MPH. "Last Chance to Protect Your Life"
October 28, 2025 at 2:03 PM
10 AM Update from the NHC. Winds up to 185 MPH. "Last Chance to Protect Your Life"
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Investors in a catastrophe bond tied to Jamaica look set to experience a trigger event as Hurricane Melissa barrels toward the Caribbean island as a Category 5 storm.
Catastrophe Bond Investors Told to Brace for Jamaica Payout
Investors in a catastrophe bond tied to Jamaica look set to experience a trigger event as Hurricane Melissa barrels toward the Caribbean island as a Category 5 storm.
bloom.bg
October 27, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Investors in a catastrophe bond tied to Jamaica look set to experience a trigger event as Hurricane Melissa barrels toward the Caribbean island as a Category 5 storm.
Something new to read as Hurricane Melissa promises another 'unprecedented' and profoundly devastating storm season.
With @alejandrodecoss.bsky.social for @urbangeography.bsky.social 🙏🏻
With @alejandrodecoss.bsky.social for @urbangeography.bsky.social 🙏🏻
October 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Something new to read as Hurricane Melissa promises another 'unprecedented' and profoundly devastating storm season.
With @alejandrodecoss.bsky.social for @urbangeography.bsky.social 🙏🏻
With @alejandrodecoss.bsky.social for @urbangeography.bsky.social 🙏🏻
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Fascinatingly critical retheorization of southern urban':
"Increasingly 'unprecedented' risks compel us to retheorize the South and what it means to think the “unthinkable” as a variegated politics of improvisation and duration mediated by force and resistance located through repair practices ..."
"Increasingly 'unprecedented' risks compel us to retheorize the South and what it means to think the “unthinkable” as a variegated politics of improvisation and duration mediated by force and resistance located through repair practices ..."
Amid the many pressures of modern academia, it is rare to have time to think creatively and critically. That makes particularly happy to share this intervention that aims to rethink the Urban South, co-written with and led by with the brilliant @beki.bsky.social: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Rethinking the urban South? Centering “unprecedented” risk and repair
As the climate crisis intensifies, those least responsible for its root causes are disproportionately affected by disaster, where loss and damage are the presumptive endpoints of unmitigated ecolog...
www.tandfonline.com
October 21, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Fascinatingly critical retheorization of southern urban':
"Increasingly 'unprecedented' risks compel us to retheorize the South and what it means to think the “unthinkable” as a variegated politics of improvisation and duration mediated by force and resistance located through repair practices ..."
"Increasingly 'unprecedented' risks compel us to retheorize the South and what it means to think the “unthinkable” as a variegated politics of improvisation and duration mediated by force and resistance located through repair practices ..."
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Check out the exciting Autumn 2025 line up for our Loughborough Geography Seminar Series! We are dedicated to creating an exciting space for knowledge exchange versus webinar-style lectures, so most of these talks are in person. Please feel free to DM with any questions!
October 23, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Check out the exciting Autumn 2025 line up for our Loughborough Geography Seminar Series! We are dedicated to creating an exciting space for knowledge exchange versus webinar-style lectures, so most of these talks are in person. Please feel free to DM with any questions!