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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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Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · 1d

Weird works

Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · 2d

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

Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · 2d

Exactly!

Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · 2d

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.

Reposted by Margreet Zwarteveen, Jeremy J. Schmidt

Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social · 2d

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Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social · 3d

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

Reposted by Marco Festa‐Bianchet, Margreet Zwarteveen, Jeremy J. Schmidt , and 1 more Marco Festa‐Bianchet, Margreet Zwarteveen, Jeremy J. Schmidt, Clark Gray

Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social · 2d

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
www.sfu.ca/geography/ab...

Assistant Professor of Landscape Ecology

www.sfu.ca

Reposted by Margreet Zwarteveen, Katherine Brickell, Jeremy J. Schmidt

Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social · 3d

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

Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · 4d

2025’s and of the year meme?

Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 4d

This is how I would end the news if I was reading the news.

Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · 4d

I just read the first dozen pages…takes awhile to get through those two first footnotes!

Reposted by Steve Peers, Martin Paul Eve, Jonathan Hopkin , and 1 more Steve Peers, Martin Paul Eve, Jonathan Hopkin, Jeremy J. Schmidt

Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 4d

This is how I would end the news if I was reading the news.

Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · 4d

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

Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · 7d

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

Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 7d

made a graph about the return of psychoanalysis

Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · 7d

We were talking about this too (didn’t think of a graph tho!). Baffling.

Reposted by McKenzie Wark, Michiel van Meeteren, Jeremy J. Schmidt

Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 7d

made a graph about the return of psychoanalysis

Reposted by Reece Jones, Guntram B. Wolff, Richard S.J. Tol , and 58 more Reece Jones, Guntram B. Wolff, Richard S.J. Tol, Dorothy Bishop, Peter Thorne, Mor Naaman, Suzana J. Camargo, Steve Peers, Brad R. Humphreys, Evelyne de Leeuw, Jonathan Wolff, Mary Feeney, Olivier Corneille, Kai Arzheimer, Ian Hall, Henning Melber, Julian Webb, Patricia Aufderheide, Lesley A. Hall, Juan Cole, John Mullahy, Valerie Mueller, James Grimmelmann, Smith, Silvia Secchi, Robert Wolfe, Ariadne Vromen, Trevor A. Branch, Aileen McHarg, Margot C. Finn, Marina Costa Lobo, Howard Stevenson, Michael H. Whitworth, Melanie Simms, Stephen Jones, Miranda J. Lubbers, Maria Abreu, Jen Schneider, Anders Sundnes Løvlie, Michael Jones‐Correa, Aurélien Mondon, Kevin Manaugh, David Bartram, Yue Qian, Helen Schwenken, Henrik Skaug Sætra, Urška Demšar, Jeremy J. Schmidt, Judith Freedman, Hisham Zerriffi, Klaus Oschema, Daxton R. Stewart, Pádua Fernandes, Annette Yoshiko Reed, Lisa A. Kramer, Aidan O’Sullivan, Karin Wulf, Giulio Mattioli, Catherine Spooner, Clark Gray, David Spurrett

Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 7d

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...

Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · 7d

Congratulations!!!

Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · 7d

Amazing!

British Beekeepers Association @bbka.org.uk · 8d

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

Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · 7d

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

Cc
@jonnydarling.bsky.social

Shane Anderson 🏳️‍🌈 @shaneanderson.bsky.social · 7d

"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!

Reposted by Jeremy J. Schmidt

British Beekeepers Association @bbka.org.uk · 8d

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

Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · 14d

Agreed!!

Reposted by Marc Strous, Jeremy J. Schmidt

Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 21d

If you missed the four tenure track positions' deadline (today) in my department, there's another position in Geography @ucalgary.bsky.social as Assistant Professor in Climate Change and the Critical Zone. Come be my office neighbour! careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1710469... 🧪⚒️

Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · 21d

Just on Nature's submission site and see "article types" is now "content types" and the distinction of academic from content creator seems that much blurrier by the day.

Reposted by Felicity Callard, Jeremy J. Schmidt

Sage Brice (she/her) @sagebrice.bsky.social · 22d

A frequent reaction to queer-trans animality that I touch on in this piece is the charge of anthropomorphism. Strategic anthropomorphism has many advantages, one of which is to show how misuse of cishet norms & constructs distorts science (courtship, anyone?) doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2025.2504375

Black and white line drawing of an internet meme. The meme depicts a rainbow, galaxy, a human skeleton and two frogs

Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · 23d

I’ve got one from around then. Even had my MP involved at one point. So long and drawn out I managed to include it in an article I wrote on FOI methods:

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Live archives: Freedom of information requests as political methodology

Freedom of information requests are a distinct method and require appraisal of their limits and potential. Bureaucratic procedures for acquiring information are peopled, and these relationships req...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Reposted by Dave O’Brien, Kris Inwood, Jeremy J. Schmidt , and 1 more Dave O’Brien, Kris Inwood, Jeremy J. Schmidt, Elizabeth Ewan

Sarah J. Martin @eatingpolitics.bsky.social · Nov 16

Job - please share widely!
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Comparative Democratic Resilience in the Global South.
Research focus - grassroots movements, Indigenous sovereignties, and racial justice campaigns contesting and transforming public institutions

www.mun.ca/vpacademic/m...

www.mun.ca

Reposted by Jeremy J. Schmidt

Lyla Mehta @lylamehta.bsky.social · Nov 14

Please join @justwaterfutures.bsky.social for a discussion on: Do we need the Global Commission on the Economics of Water to Value Water? November 21, 2025, 14:00-15:00 CEST. Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/do-we-need...
#Water #Justice