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Vanessa Lamb
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Geographer. Associate Professor @ York University, Toronto. previously University of Melbourne. Political Ecology. Rivers, Borders, Sand, Dams, Climate, Justice, Southeast Asia. https://www.yorku.ca/professor/vanessa-lamb/
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Heavy metals impact river livelihoods on the #Salween www.straitstimes.com/asia/murder-...
Murder of the Salween: Pollution, dams and destructive fishing practices affect Karen communities
Biodiversity has been affected and thousands of villagers displaced. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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November 13, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Apply now — Antipode’s 10th Institute for the Geographies of Justice, “Organizing and Solidarity in a Polycrisis”, deadline 20 December 2025 antipodeonline.org/2025/11/13/a...
Apply now—Antipode’s 10th Institute for the Geographies of Justice, “Organizing and Solidarity in a Polycrisis” - Antipode Online
Toronto, Ontario, Canadathe traditional territory of the Huron Wendat, the Seneca and the Mississaugas of the Credit June 1st – 5th, 2026 The contemporary global landscape is increasingly defined by w...
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November 13, 2025 at 11:57 AM
drvanessalamb.bsky.social
Heavy metals impact river livelihoods on the #Salween www.straitstimes.com/asia/murder-...
Murder of the Salween: Pollution, dams and destructive fishing practices affect Karen communities
Biodiversity has been affected and thousands of villagers displaced. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
www.straitstimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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There it is.
bookshop.org Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 14d
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.
October 31, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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nsharma101.bsky.social
I just donated to World Central Kitchen's on-the-ground efforts in Jamaica.

Please consider doing the same.
World Central Kitchen | WCK in Jamaica After Historic Hurricane
World Central Kitchen’s Relief Team is in Jamaica after Category 5 Hurricane Melissa made landfall. The storm brought destructive winds, torrential rain, and widespread flooding. We’re working with lo...
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October 30, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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The lecture is free. In person and live streaming.
hystericalblkns.bsky.social Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · Sep 14
The Alchemy Lecture 2025

Sound—at the Interregnum

Glen Coulthard
Canisia Lubrin
Madeleine Thien
Immanuel Wilkins

Date: October 30, 2025
Time: 5 - 8 p.m. (Reception: 5 - 6 p.m.)
Venue: Tribute Communities Recital Hall, CIBC Lobby (Location) YorkU
Event type: Hybrid – in person and online
GLEN COULTHARD (Yellowknives Dene/Canada), Scholar of Indigenous Studies) CANISIA LUBRIN (St. Lucia/Canada) Poet MADELEINE THIEN (Canada) Novelist IMMANUEL WILKINS (US) Saxophonist, Composer, Arranger
October 24, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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thefordon.bsky.social
What a beautiful piece, definitely planning to assign this to students.
What matters in your courses, even in many cases within your major, isn't the topic. You'll probably forget most of what you learn, especially if you don't end up using it repeatedly in future. What you will always have, though, is the mind that taking the courses made. By that I mean, the mind that was shaped by working through Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina while trying to understand Maxwell's equations for the first time. I don't remember the sequence of events we discussed (repeatedly!!) in my French Revolution course, but I remember the importance of understanding that history is made through discourses. There is the way my writing skills were improved. There is the way that my courses helped make me into the human that I am today -- even the lazily taught ones.
October 23, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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spaceforpeace.bsky.social
Good take on what no kings was good for.
October 20, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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jamiepeck.bsky.social
Pls share: Applications open for Summer Institute in Economic Geography, Toronto, 5-10 July 2026

Featuring: Lars Coenen, Karen Lai, Devika Narayan and Stefan Ouma

Early career economic geographers (broadly defined) are welcome to apply. Stipends available. www.econgeog.net/Toronto2026
Toronto 2026 | Summer Institute in Economic Geography
www.econgeog.net
October 16, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Border Narratives: Young Voices Fighting Hate in Thailand–Cambodia Conflict - ASEAN Youth Forum
Since 2024, the border between Thailand and Cambodia has been tense, and in 2025 the conflict continued. Clashes have caused deaths, including children, and hate-filled stories spread online. We spoke...
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October 15, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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American humour can never again be funny as nothing tops this guy.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Oct 14
Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."
October 14, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Want a fast and easy way to make your Indigenous Peoples Day impactful for years to come?

I made this list of 100+ Indigenous Voices who post daily about our lives, our truths, and our fight. Easily auto-follow all 🪶

Come honor these beautiful Native voices!
October 13, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Welcome back monarchs on Sunday,
No kings next Saturday.
A sign like this should work for both.
THE ONLY ORANGE MONARCH I CARE ABOUT IS THE BUTTERFLY
October 11, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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roadsides.bsky.social
Working on fresh approaches to infrastructures? If you can imagine editing a special issue with us, send us a proposal!

Deadline for proposals: 15 November 2025

Send proposals to our editors-in-chief:

Agnieszka Joniak-Lüthi
agnieszka.joniak@unifr.ch

Tina Harris
C.H.Harris@uva.nl
Guide for Editors | Roadsides
Dear Editors, Thank you for considering editing a guest collection in Roadsides. The following Guide for Editors will help you understand the application and publication process. The Editorial Board t...
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October 6, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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haymarketbooks.org
We made a reading list for you.
Abolish the Border, Abolish the Police Reading List
In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and police repression, we offer an extensive reading list about border and police ab...
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September 30, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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mazzucatom.bsky.social
The debt crisis is fundamentally a development crisis. Today I'll be joining Laura Carvalho and Daouda Sembene to discuss how to forge a more equitable global debt architecture. #UNGA

Register (In-person & Virtual) ➡️ buff.ly/EdGw4pa

Our G20 discussion paper ➡️ buff.ly/nDNM2Kt
September 25, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."

www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
www.computerworld.com
September 21, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
The new TOC from academia dot edu. By creating an Account with Academia.edu, you grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent for Academia.edu to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness, city, institutional affiliations, citations, mentions, publications, and areas of interest) in any manner, including for the purpose of advertising, selling, or soliciting the use or purchase of Academia.edu's Services.
September 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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PSA that there is cheap (good!) lunch on campus at the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre cafe. The woman today told me I was only the third person in for the day — it’s quiet and they need our support! Level 4 of the building with the student food court. UniMelb people please reshare 🙏🏼
September 8, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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This is the best explainer I’ve seen so far of the rare earth mining pollution issue in the Mekong. @bbcbreaking-bot.bsky.social @cnn.com @channelnewsasia.bsky.social it’s time for you to cover this story. This is the absolute worst thing to happen to the the Mekong.

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Skin rashes and deformed fish: How rare earth mining is destroying vital Thai rivers
YouTube video by SBS News
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September 5, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Melbourne Uni needs to explain this bullshit. This is destroying critical cultural infrastructure.

Unimelb axing Meanjin, ANU scuttling the Australian National Dictionary Centre, and then universities wonder why they can’t seem to exert any influence over the national discourse.
Literary journal Meanjin to close after 85 years of publishing
Meanjin, a mainstay of Australia's cultural landscape and the nation's second-oldest literary publication, is shuttering after Melbourne University Publishing decided to cease financial support.
www.crikey.com.au
September 4, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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"The nickname is “Nousferatu,” as in the vampire, because of what critics describe as a reputation for selling a slash-and-burn template for saving bankrupt universities by making them go ruthlessly corporate; ...

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How to run a university in Canada? Outsource it to this management consulting firm
Nous Group's template for getting out of the red has been adopted by major schools. Critics call it the corporatization of higher education.
nationalpost.com
August 29, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Tenure-Track Assistant Professor - Technology, Society, and Power at the School of Information, University of Michigan, in the areas of critical study of technology and its relationship to governance, violence, control, surveillance, resistance, and war apply.interfolio.com/171466
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August 26, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Please join us! I am co-convening 3 Royal Geographical Society panels on Feminist and Gendered Geographies of Resistance with @zalifung.bsky.social and Rebecca Elmhirst at the University of Birmingham next week. A great lineup of presentations. bit.ly/4lgkPnk @rgsibg.bsky.social
Panel description feminist and gendered geographies of resistance
August 18, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.
August 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM