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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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📣 New Blog Post: The snowy phantom of the equator.

Imagine a mountain range so elusive that for nearly two thousand years, half the world thought it was a fairy tale.

This is the story of the Mountains of the Moon, and it begins with a lost Greek merchant. 🧵

It’s really efficient altruism, where efficiency is always the numerated ratio denominated by the donor.

No I didn't know about that one, thanks!! Maybe a little New Years bonus?

I did submit my claim. The settlement is a 50/50 split between author and publisher (which only became clear to me during the actual submission)

For the small minority who haven’t used google in years this isn’t a massive shock….

Whoever oversaw the BBC dubbing and out of tune singing of Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood has butchered an otherwise lovely kids show.
“California is on a path to self-destruction,” wrote Bill Ackman, joining opposition to a tax proposal alongside Google’s cofounder and more.
Possible California Wealth Tax Causes Billionaire Freakout: Page, Thiel Threaten To Leave
“California is on a path to self-destruction,” wrote Bill Ackman, joining opposition to a tax proposal alongside Google’s cofounder and more.
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That's a pretty small concert arena (or one largish farmer's field)
Apparently, the world is getting richer. Here’s the catch: ‘The top one-in-a-million (about 5,600 adults, enough to fill a concert arena) collectively hold 3% of global wealth, more than the entire bottom half of the world’s adult population’… wid.world/document/wor...
wid.world

Weird works

Finally, a day when I can watch every Die Hard and think about the Roman Empire without interruption.

Exactly!

Totally agree! I always teach my students about theory by starting with the idea of an in-joke that you have with friends—one word or phrase that brings a whole package with it.
Be our colleague… Hiring an Assistant Prof of Urban Geography & Climate Crisis.

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Assistant Professor of Urban Geography/Climate Crisis
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In what could plausibly represent a Christmas miracle* SFU Geography has two (2) new tenure track hires. One is urban/climate, which I will repost below. The other is a Landscape Ecologist. Please share ... #academicsky

*actually just the good decisions of our new Dean
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Assistant Professor of Landscape Ecology
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Be our colleague… Hiring an Assistant Prof of Urban Geography & Climate Crisis.

www.sfu.ca/geography/ab...
Assistant Professor of Urban Geography/Climate Crisis
www.sfu.ca

2025’s and of the year meme?
This is how I would end the news if I was reading the news.

I just read the first dozen pages…takes awhile to get through those two first footnotes!
This is how I would end the news if I was reading the news.

It is time to reveal the smelter that keeps it going and which must never cool.

We were talking about this recently too (didn’t think of a graph tho!). Baffling trend.
made a graph about the return of psychoanalysis

We were talking about this too (didn’t think of a graph tho!). Baffling.
made a graph about the return of psychoanalysis
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵

Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

Congratulations!!!

Amazing!

Thanks to everyone who has helped make this a great year for @areajournal.bsky.social! Authors, reviewers, and our intrepid managing editor!

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"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."

- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.

Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!

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Queen Mary bee expert Professor Lars Chittka praised for his performance as an “unhinged and uncompromising scientist” in acclaimed film.

www.qmul.ac.uk/media/news/2...
The Last Bee
Queen Mary bee expert Professor Lars Chittka praised for his performance as an “unhinged and uncompromising scientist” in an acclaimed film.
www.qmul.ac.uk