To kick off our celebrations for #WorldBookDay, assembly this morning focused upon the power of books and how they have been burned, altered and banned. Margaret Atwood and her flame-retardant book got a big reaction! #BSBenglish

Wow US military announces $20m grant to build cobalt refinery in Canada theguardian.com/us-news/articl…

The UW–Madison campus is becoming much (much) livelier and festive this week with 8,500+ new undergrads & 1,600 new transfer students moving in, acquiring supplies, checking out where there classrooms are located (term starts next Wednesday), etc. It’s a special time of the year.

Faculty #hiring at Ashoka University. Please help spread the word. We’re looking for scholars with an exciting research profile in the #SocialSciences. #AcademicTwitter

The Invisible University for 🇺🇦 Central European University goes on. We organize online courses for students in social sciences, including research methods. Courses are free & scholarships are available. Pls share to reach those who would benefit. Application DL: Sept 12 👉bit.ly/3Oct7PH

Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space Vol. 56, No. 5 is now available online! It features a special exchanges section on "constructing explanations in economic geography", edited by Desiree Fields, Jamie Peck, and Jessie Poon. Link and ToC below: journals.sagepub.com/toc/epna/56/5

Interesting piece by Frances Bula. She might consider a BC follow-up looking at the changes to the way students attend places like UBC. We've seen large drops in student use of campus food services, e.g., and there are questions around in-person class attendance.

#AcademicTwitter, I am going to start sharing more details of some quality, #openaccess journals in the social sciences, who won't sell your stuff to AI companies, and also don't charge you fees. Please DM me or reply with *genuine* examples. This will be on ongoing thread. 1/n

NEW POSTDOC AT New York University IPK Cities, Communities, and Social Infrastructure. Open to applicants with PhDs in the social sciences, humanities, public policy, and design fields. We're reviewing applications now. Please share. ASA Sociology apply.interfolio.com/153600

Today a senior exec from Taylor & Francis replied confirming that T&F journal articles *are* and will continue to be provided to its AI partners for model training, with *no opt-out*. Seems all the academic publishers are doing the same. Disappointing to say the least.

I teach a large enrollment asynchronous online course and one of the intro Qs I ask ~300 students is highlighted below. The responses to it are truly eye-opening...

academia is so brutal to ECRs. my current job ends this month & my email is vanishing that same day, which is causing havoc with the journal portals where Ive got articles submitted / accepted / in production. mayb Im naive, but is it rlly that hard to give us a few months grace?

The new version of Zotero was recently released. It's more powerful and versatile than ever. It can help you organize your reading lists, take notes, and automate your citations and bibliography. And it's totally free. Here's how to get started with Zotero:

Political science: An ‘endangered species’ in Hong Kong universityworldnews.com/post.php?story…

Link for a 3 year postdoctoral research associate position on our Leverhulme Trust ‘Unfeeling climate change’ project - on how disaffected feelings relate to the climate crisis. Please forward/retweet etc. Questions by email, not DM. durham.taleo.net/careersection/…

Our department at UCLA Geography has two TT Assistant Professor positions open!!🐻 We're recruiting: Physical geographer (Environmental Challenges) recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF09700 Human geographer (Nature-Society) recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF09695 Let me know if you have any questions!

It was a real pleasure to present recent work with Janja Komljenovic on edtech investors as political actors for AKU-IED, PK today. Thanks all who came, and here's a summary of our collaboration and publications on this topic so far codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2023/11/03/the…

Atlas of Finance by Dariusz Wojcik and co-authors, published by Yale University Press London📚, is just out! An incredible visual journey through 5,000 years of global finance! Great blend of data and maps to bring the history of finance to life. Not to be missed! yalebooks.yale.edu/book/978030025…