Russell Prince
@russellprince14.bsky.social
Geographer at Massey University in Aotearoa NZ. Opinions my own. Recent book Understanding Policy Mobility https://tinyurl.com/understandingpolicymobility
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Over the years I have made visuals for my geography courses. I'm going to start sharing them on this thread in no particular order or purpose other than I made them to make a specific point in a lecture. Feel free to use them with attribution if they're useful.
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A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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I love to see stuff like this because it helps explain to people trapped in tech-sponsored information bubbles the actually obvious fact that universities teach people to know & think things, and AI is a way to produce the effect of knowing & thinking things w/o actually knowing & thinking them.
Opinion | Why Even Basic A.I. Use Is So Bad for Students
www.nytimes.com
October 31, 2025 at 11:13 AM
I love to see stuff like this because it helps explain to people trapped in tech-sponsored information bubbles the actually obvious fact that universities teach people to know & think things, and AI is a way to produce the effect of knowing & thinking things w/o actually knowing & thinking them.
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If I could change one thing about political reporting in New Zealand it would be the reflex to treat policy criticism from the political opposition as not only meaningful but the most important thing.
October 27, 2025 at 9:23 PM
If I could change one thing about political reporting in New Zealand it would be the reflex to treat policy criticism from the political opposition as not only meaningful but the most important thing.
Does the government’s chief negotiator not understand how inflation works?
October 22, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Does the government’s chief negotiator not understand how inflation works?
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This is what Marsden Grants in Humanities (now scrapped!) and a decade of research can achieve — "a compelling and significant contribution to understanding the reordering of power that shaped Aotearoa in the nineteenth century". www.bwb.co.nz/books/garris... @bwbnz.bsky.social 👏 #NZHistory #history
October 17, 2025 at 3:57 AM
This is what Marsden Grants in Humanities (now scrapped!) and a decade of research can achieve — "a compelling and significant contribution to understanding the reordering of power that shaped Aotearoa in the nineteenth century". www.bwb.co.nz/books/garris... @bwbnz.bsky.social 👏 #NZHistory #history
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Could I politely suggest, that with how Arts & Humanities research funding has been pulled from all of these, that political interference has already occurred.
Marsden Fund shake-up raises potential for political interference, Royal Society says
Marsden Fund shake-up raises potential for political interference, Royal Society says
MBIE will take over administration of the Marsden Fund, but the society warns such centralisation could undermine the country's science credibility.
www.rnz.co.nz
October 15, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Could I politely suggest, that with how Arts & Humanities research funding has been pulled from all of these, that political interference has already occurred.
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there are a ton of changes in here but a huge one appears to be taking the Marsden fund, our main supporter of basic science, away from the Royal Society and handing it to a govt agency "Research Funding New Zealand" which does not yet exist
October 14, 2025 at 2:57 AM
there are a ton of changes in here but a huge one appears to be taking the Marsden fund, our main supporter of basic science, away from the Royal Society and handing it to a govt agency "Research Funding New Zealand" which does not yet exist
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This Progress Report on Mobilities I: Crisis now has a home in Volume 49 Issue 5. #OpenAccess and alongside some excellent contributions all addressing crisis in its many forms @proghumgeog.bsky.social @uomhums.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/toc/PHG/curr...
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September 30, 2025 at 11:52 AM
This Progress Report on Mobilities I: Crisis now has a home in Volume 49 Issue 5. #OpenAccess and alongside some excellent contributions all addressing crisis in its many forms @proghumgeog.bsky.social @uomhums.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/toc/PHG/curr...
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Great piece on the politics of moving counter-hegemonic ideas into mainstream policy and practice. As this paper shows, there's not a huge amount of work bridging policy mobilities and the geographies of social movements, but really productive space for that work to be done.
New Open Access paper: "Moving ideas: An agenda for expanding the political scope of the policy mobilities approach" in @proghumgeog.bsky.social. Arguing that the #policymobilities & #socialmovements literatures can be combined to study counter-hegemonic activism. 1/6
tinyurl.com/88xmursz
tinyurl.com/88xmursz
Moving ideas: An agenda for expanding the political scope of the policy mobilities approach - Eugene McCann, 2025
This paper addresses the policy mobilities approach’s relative inattention to counter-hegemonic activism and contentious politics. It outlines one way to expand...
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September 24, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Great piece on the politics of moving counter-hegemonic ideas into mainstream policy and practice. As this paper shows, there's not a huge amount of work bridging policy mobilities and the geographies of social movements, but really productive space for that work to be done.
The Caring Economies Symposium, hosted by Massey University, on recentering care in turbulent times, Wellington, October 17th www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/caring-eco...
Caring Economies Symposium
Recentering care in turbulent times.
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September 24, 2025 at 12:52 AM
The Caring Economies Symposium, hosted by Massey University, on recentering care in turbulent times, Wellington, October 17th www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/caring-eco...
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New Open Access paper: "Moving ideas: An agenda for expanding the political scope of the policy mobilities approach" in @proghumgeog.bsky.social. Arguing that the #policymobilities & #socialmovements literatures can be combined to study counter-hegemonic activism. 1/6
tinyurl.com/88xmursz
tinyurl.com/88xmursz
Moving ideas: An agenda for expanding the political scope of the policy mobilities approach - Eugene McCann, 2025
This paper addresses the policy mobilities approach’s relative inattention to counter-hegemonic activism and contentious politics. It outlines one way to expand...
tinyurl.com
September 23, 2025 at 11:18 PM
New Open Access paper: "Moving ideas: An agenda for expanding the political scope of the policy mobilities approach" in @proghumgeog.bsky.social. Arguing that the #policymobilities & #socialmovements literatures can be combined to study counter-hegemonic activism. 1/6
tinyurl.com/88xmursz
tinyurl.com/88xmursz
I'm looking to refresh my geopolitics course next year (part of a geography programme) - are there any textbooks or recent works people would recommend?
September 18, 2025 at 11:24 PM
I'm looking to refresh my geopolitics course next year (part of a geography programme) - are there any textbooks or recent works people would recommend?
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Our pitch for constructivist economic geographies - Rachel Phillips, Chris Meulbroek, Jamie Peck, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Constructivist economic geographies - Rachel Phillips, Chris Meulbroek, Jamie Peck, 2025
The paper makes a case for explicitly constructivist approaches and projects in economic geography. Constructivism names and problematizes the relationship betw...
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September 18, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Our pitch for constructivist economic geographies - Rachel Phillips, Chris Meulbroek, Jamie Peck, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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new zealand government reaching new heights of stupidity
next year our public dollars will go more to AI grants ($70 million) than all investigator-initiated basic science combined ($56 million in the Marsden fund)
next year our public dollars will go more to AI grants ($70 million) than all investigator-initiated basic science combined ($56 million in the Marsden fund)
September 18, 2025 at 6:08 AM
new zealand government reaching new heights of stupidity
next year our public dollars will go more to AI grants ($70 million) than all investigator-initiated basic science combined ($56 million in the Marsden fund)
next year our public dollars will go more to AI grants ($70 million) than all investigator-initiated basic science combined ($56 million in the Marsden fund)
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My book Understanding Policy Mobility is out this month, for anyone interested in my take on this literature that has emerged over the last 15 odd years www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/und...
Understanding Policy Mobility
‘With great clarity and insight, Russell Prince’s Understanding Policy Mobility not only explains why and how public policy ideas move, but why it matters. An indispensable guide through decades of sc...
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September 15, 2025 at 11:28 PM
My book Understanding Policy Mobility is out this month, for anyone interested in my take on this literature that has emerged over the last 15 odd years www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/und...
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Wonderful to see this out! A great read that looks at policy mobilities that really gets to the political, power laden and spatial aspects of these processes.
My book Understanding Policy Mobility is out this month, for anyone interested in my take on this literature that has emerged over the last 15 odd years www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/und...
Understanding Policy Mobility
‘With great clarity and insight, Russell Prince’s Understanding Policy Mobility not only explains why and how public policy ideas move, but why it matters. An indispensable guide through decades of sc...
www.e-elgar.com
September 16, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Wonderful to see this out! A great read that looks at policy mobilities that really gets to the political, power laden and spatial aspects of these processes.
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Worth a read! A concise & clearly argued guide to the critical literature on global-relational policymaking. … An essential starting point for those interested in policy-making’s role in world-making.
My book Understanding Policy Mobility is out this month, for anyone interested in my take on this literature that has emerged over the last 15 odd years www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/und...
Understanding Policy Mobility
‘With great clarity and insight, Russell Prince’s Understanding Policy Mobility not only explains why and how public policy ideas move, but why it matters. An indispensable guide through decades of sc...
www.e-elgar.com
September 15, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Worth a read! A concise & clearly argued guide to the critical literature on global-relational policymaking. … An essential starting point for those interested in policy-making’s role in world-making.
My book Understanding Policy Mobility is out this month, for anyone interested in my take on this literature that has emerged over the last 15 odd years www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/und...
Understanding Policy Mobility
‘With great clarity and insight, Russell Prince’s Understanding Policy Mobility not only explains why and how public policy ideas move, but why it matters. An indispensable guide through decades of sc...
www.e-elgar.com
September 15, 2025 at 11:28 PM
My book Understanding Policy Mobility is out this month, for anyone interested in my take on this literature that has emerged over the last 15 odd years www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/und...
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Quick question: what the fuck is anyone talking about anymore
September 11, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Quick question: what the fuck is anyone talking about anymore
A better framing for the article would have been how the covid house price boom showed the dangers of organising so much of the management of the economy around housing, not just for these folks and the people priced out, but more generally because of the lost years as it unwinds
Top news on the utterly Listenerized RNZ: but my homies (see what I did there) the falling price of your house makes no difference whatsoever to you if you bought it to actually live there. You knew the size of the mortgage going in. If you have to move, you'll sell and buy in the same market.
September 11, 2025 at 9:44 PM
A better framing for the article would have been how the covid house price boom showed the dangers of organising so much of the management of the economy around housing, not just for these folks and the people priced out, but more generally because of the lost years as it unwinds
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Excellent piece calling bullshit on the story that NZ can and should transform our economy in the same ways that Ireland and Singapore shifted theirs.
Politicians love comparing NZ’s economy to Singapore or Ireland – but it’s simplistic and misleading
theconversation.com/politicians-...
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Politicians love comparing NZ’s economy to Singapore or Ireland – but it’s simplistic and misleading
Christopher Luxon has hyped Amazon Web Service’ data centre plans as a chance for NZ to emulate Singapore and Ireland. Politics and geography make this unlikely.
theconversation.com
September 9, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Excellent piece calling bullshit on the story that NZ can and should transform our economy in the same ways that Ireland and Singapore shifted theirs.
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“Deskilling” skilled professions is a core promise of technological projects, so it’s probably not best understood as a side-effect even if some of the people pushing generative AI see it that way themselves. If the erosion of thinking is unforeseen, that’s just (so to speak) for lack of thinking.
Physicians are using A.I. for diagnoses and more. But a new study found evidence that relying on A.I. tools might erode a doctor’s ability to perform fundamental skills without the technology, a phenomenon known as “deskilling.”
Are A.I. Tools Making Doctors Worse at Their Jobs?
Physicians are using the technology for diagnoses and more — but may be losing skills in the process.
nyti.ms
August 28, 2025 at 8:37 PM
“Deskilling” skilled professions is a core promise of technological projects, so it’s probably not best understood as a side-effect even if some of the people pushing generative AI see it that way themselves. If the erosion of thinking is unforeseen, that’s just (so to speak) for lack of thinking.
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Inside the annual torment of the bird of the year contest
Book of the Week: How to argue a bird
newsroom.co.nz
August 28, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Inside the annual torment of the bird of the year contest
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'Fewer graduates regret going to university than is widely assumed and the public have a more favourable view of universities than people imagine, according to new research.' 1/3
Public vastly overestimate level of ‘graduate regret’, poll finds
New research highlights misconceptions about higher education, with people more positive about universities than is commonly realised
www.timeshighereducation.com
August 20, 2025 at 6:32 AM
'Fewer graduates regret going to university than is widely assumed and the public have a more favourable view of universities than people imagine, according to new research.' 1/3
"AI can now produce essays credible enough to pass as human work. The humanities tend to reward theoretical fluency and stylistic polish-areas where AI excels...By contrast STEM subjects...are harder for AI to mimic."
You understand we don't set essays to increase the total number of essays right?
You understand we don't set essays to increase the total number of essays right?
yet again the dominance of cows is being entrenched - the hege-moo-ny perhaps
AI is peeling back the layers of 'low-value' work - NZ may be well-placed to adapt | RNZ News share.google/jynZSfVQW3Ia...
AI is peeling back the layers of 'low-value' work - NZ may be well-placed to adapt | RNZ News share.google/jynZSfVQW3Ia...
AI is peeling back the layers of 'low-value' work - NZ may be well-placed to adapt
As generative AI advances at breakneck speed, it is upending assumptions about which jobs are "safe" from automation.
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August 13, 2025 at 10:31 PM
"AI can now produce essays credible enough to pass as human work. The humanities tend to reward theoretical fluency and stylistic polish-areas where AI excels...By contrast STEM subjects...are harder for AI to mimic."
You understand we don't set essays to increase the total number of essays right?
You understand we don't set essays to increase the total number of essays right?