Call for submissions: shorturl.at/rAH26 The South Asian Urban Climates collective invites scholars, writers, artists, activists, designers, planners, and others working on contemporary politics and cultures of urban environments in South Asia to submit case studies...

📢 Gender data is political - it's not just a technical issue. Learn about the barriers and enablers to mobilize political will for #GenderData in our new report with Data2X and LDRI - Africa. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Just finished reading this important contribution by Manisha Anantharaman - highly recommend for anyone working on issues of sustainability, circular economy, labour, and urban environmental politics anywhere in the world.

This thread = one aspect of academic work that I love - getting to read/be inspired by fascinating work and sharing praise with the authors 🥰👏🏼

My colleague Selin Yilmaz at Faculté Géosciences et Environnement - UNIL is recruiting a fulltime 1-2 year postdoc in Geography & Sustainability w/ a focus on the governance of green energy transformations. Deadline Mar 31. career5.successfactors.eu/career?company…

So well deserved! I'm continually impressed and inspired the work, commitments, and generosity of my friend and collaborator Mohammed Rafi Arefin

Unprecedented support from University of Toronto faculty members. “If you decide to move against the students, you’ll have to go through us first.” @debcowen

📢Thrilled to announce the launch of the✨Data Workers' Inquiry✨repository and talk series! Join us on July 8 for an online event where data workers will discuss wage theft, violent content, uncertainty, and their efforts to organize and resist. RSVP here tinyurl.com/data-workers

In this guest post, Mohammed Rafi Arefin, Carolyn Prouse, and Josie Wittmer discuss their collective research on wastewater-based epidemiology, urban politics, and COVID-19, which was supported by #USFPandemicsAndCitiesGrants. Read more: ow.ly/KULx50SqXEV

India's rich bend housing & land laws with impunity. Meanwhile the poor in cities like Bengaluru are kept in a perpetually precarious state without services in so-called 'undeclared' slums, reports Rishika Kashyap for Deccan Herald. Great video featuring Clifton D' Rozario and Issac Arul Selva~

Reading Higher Expectations (@rohawkins Lelly Kurniawati) with a small group of early-career feminist scholars. The intro prompted conversations on how emotional it is to see so many of our experiences published in words and validated. Excited for the chapters/ advice/ examples to come!

Don't miss this online panel on Monday if you're curious about how AI is truly built! We'll dive into how and why data workers are trained to "think like machines." Register here: tinyurl.com/data-workers-i… And please help us spread the word!🙏

Yay! Excited to see apiece of my postdoctoral research from/funded by Faculté Géosciences et Environnement - UNIL on its way to publication! 🎉

📢New paper published in TIBG by Mohammed Rafi Arefin (UBC Geography (also at @ubcgeography.bsky.social)) and Carolyn Prouse (Queen's Department of Geography and Planning) 📢 'Urban political ecologies of sewage surveillance: Creating vital and valuable public health data from wastewater'. #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1111/tran.1…

New piece by Mohammed Rafi Arefin Carolyn Prouse Josie Wittmer, and colleagues. "Making Waves: A justice-centred framework for wastewater-based public health surveillance" Funded by a #USFPandemicsandCities grant. Available online: doi.org/10.1016/j.watr… #wastewatersurveillance

New zine drop on geoz.one! "The Words They'll Use Against You: A Glossary for Navigating White Cishetero Institutions" provides resistant definitions of the keywords of straight white academia: diversity, inclusion, professionalism, civility, progress, etc.

Blueskying at: bsky.app/profile/jwittm…