🚨 Special section with John Berten on "quantified futures", a follow-up to tandfonline.com/toc/cgsj20/36/2. We closely engage with work by, among others, Louise Amoore Ben Anderson Prof Claudia Aradau Jacqueline Best Marieke de Goede WN Espeland B Heintz Andy Hom Ann Mische.

New data about #LongCovid comes every single day from the most important scientific journals in the world. Yet mainstream media don’t discuss it. Why is that?

A question I did not expect to ask today: “Could the women’s 800m world record (which has stood since 1983) be beatable?” Keely Hodgkinson’s response: “Yes.” Report from London Diamond League on Hodgkinson’s latest spectacular feat, for Guardian sport theguardian.com/sport/article/…

Academic books are no longer just commodities to be sold by publishers. They are also assets held by publishers for the expropriation of data rents thebookseller.com/news/academic-…

Applications for the Global Professorships are now open. The scheme offers mid-career and senior researchers an opportunity to undertake high-risk, cutting-edge research in the humanities and social sciences. Awards are up to £900,000. Apply now: thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/global…

So far, so good avoiding reinfection with the #Novavax vaccine. Thanks so much Pharmadoctor for patients & please continue the service in the Autumn 🤞

Flashback for July 27, 2024 28 points 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Play here: nytimes.com/interactive/20…

NEW in PG - A world model: On the political logics of generative AI, by Louise Amoore, Alexander Campolo, Benjamin Jacobsen and Ludovico Rella sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

I'm back home a week after this ended, and what a great summer school it was! Truly academia at its best thanks to the generosity of the organizers who went out of their way to produce an open-ended, informal yet productive and critical conversation around economic geographies.

I am so very pleased to see my article 'The Stack Inversion: On Algo-Centrism and the Complex Architecture of Automated Financial Securities Trading Systems' in the wonderful Science, Technology, & Human Values. A short thread will probably follow soonish... 🤖📉📈💻 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01…

JOB: Assistant Professor in Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Cambridge jobs.ac.uk/job/DJE524/ass…

Our new The British Academy National Foundation for Educational Research research out today shows a narrowing of subject combinations studied in England post-16 with a particular turning point from 2015/16 from when AS levels stopped counting towards A level results theguardian.com/education/arti…

Nice cricket bat oiling installation Paul Langley …. Somehow it’s you in grouped objects 🤣

We are still inviting applications from overseas researchers in the social sciences and humanities for the Visiting Fellowships 2025. Awards of up to £40,000 in value are available for international and collaborative research projects. Find out more: thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/visiti…

⏰ #EISAPEC24 begins in two days in Lille! ⬇️ Don’t miss: three exciting plenary sessions on Wednesday 28th August…

The value of Nietzsche and Foucault "for the sake of life." I have a new article titled "On Critical Genealogy" that just published in *Contemporary Political Theory* arguing for a new way to think about the genealogical method. It is online in Open Access rdcu.be/dSwA8

Pls share: call for UBC Killam postdoc applications geog.ubc.ca/job-opportunit… Deadline October 10

UK scientists have finally been granted EU funding for the first time since Brexit. As our Europe Reporter Georg von Harrach explains, 50 UK-led research projects will now benefit from the EU’s Horizon programme. channel4.com/news/uk-scient…