adam searle
@admsrl.bsky.social
cultural and historical geographer
interested in ecology, technology, and 'the future'
Assistant Professor, University of Nottingham
Member and co-founder, @digicologies.bsky.social
interested in ecology, technology, and 'the future'
Assistant Professor, University of Nottingham
Member and co-founder, @digicologies.bsky.social
Pinned
adam searle
@admsrl.bsky.social
· Feb 10
🐄 NEW OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE
We sitatue livestock agriculture as a terraforming practice making Earth alien. We develop SF author Becky Chambers' concept of 'somaforming' to examine the shaping of nonhuman bodies to suit alien Earth and how this preempts futures:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We sitatue livestock agriculture as a terraforming practice making Earth alien. We develop SF author Becky Chambers' concept of 'somaforming' to examine the shaping of nonhuman bodies to suit alien Earth and how this preempts futures:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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'In the most notable case, the University of Nottingham’s University and College Union (UCU) branch has declared strike action of 67 days, expected to last for the majority of the autumn term, as the institution looks to cut 600 full-time equivalent jobs.'
UK universities face autumn of chaos as ‘prolonged’ strikes planned
Unprecedentedly long strikes at Nottingham, Edinburgh and Dundee could be the shape of things to come, observers say
www.timeshighereducation.com
September 21, 2026 at 6:41 AM
'In the most notable case, the University of Nottingham’s University and College Union (UCU) branch has declared strike action of 67 days, expected to last for the majority of the autumn term, as the institution looks to cut 600 full-time equivalent jobs.'
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When blackshirts are marching through the streets of Dover and Portsmouth, the focus shouldn’t be on the disruption they cause, but on their fascist ideology and deliberate intimidation of migrants and people of colour. [1/2]
September 7, 2026 at 1:35 PM
When blackshirts are marching through the streets of Dover and Portsmouth, the focus shouldn’t be on the disruption they cause, but on their fascist ideology and deliberate intimidation of migrants and people of colour. [1/2]
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Plagiarism is only one part of a much broader scope of academic misconduct, and ‘race realism’ is itself a form of academic misconduct: using academia to launder long-discredited and empirically refuted white supremacist propaganda. It is disseminating pernicious lies into broader society
Racist Zero under investigation by his current employer
www.thenational.scot/news/2648073...
www.thenational.scot/news/2648073...
Academic who sparked Jason Arday pile on under investigation by university
The academic who sparked the pile on which preceded a black British professor’s suicide has said he is under investigation by his university
www.thenational.scot
August 20, 2026 at 12:20 PM
Plagiarism is only one part of a much broader scope of academic misconduct, and ‘race realism’ is itself a form of academic misconduct: using academia to launder long-discredited and empirically refuted white supremacist propaganda. It is disseminating pernicious lies into broader society
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Do your interests lie at the intersection of climate change, nature and human wellbeing? We invite researchers, policymakers, practitioners and independent experts to submit proposals for discussion papers on our new programme ‘Humanity, Climate & Nature’.
Find out more: https://bit.ly/4hH2qlA
Find out more: https://bit.ly/4hH2qlA
August 14, 2026 at 11:02 AM
Do your interests lie at the intersection of climate change, nature and human wellbeing? We invite researchers, policymakers, practitioners and independent experts to submit proposals for discussion papers on our new programme ‘Humanity, Climate & Nature’.
Find out more: https://bit.ly/4hH2qlA
Find out more: https://bit.ly/4hH2qlA
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Now do everywhere else
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Meta glasses banned from courts in England and Wales
Exclusive: Court service says anyone trying to enter buildings with glasses will have them confiscated and returned when they leave
www.theguardian.com
August 11, 2026 at 10:47 AM
Now do everywhere else
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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My column on how capital becomes a death cult.
Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want.
It's the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want.
It's the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Murderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George Monbiot
As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
August 5, 2026 at 7:22 AM
My column on how capital becomes a death cult.
Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want.
It's the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want.
It's the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The thing is, I think these are all fundamentally correct & completely reconcilable political economies of the contemporary.
March 15, 2026 at 1:45 AM
The thing is, I think these are all fundamentally correct & completely reconcilable political economies of the contemporary.
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📢 Another addition to our Forum on Tech Oligarchy!
📜 In "Rite to mine: Bitcoin, ritual, and oligarchy," Owen Marshall examines crypto-mining as a foundational ritual practice of tech oligarchy.
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...
📜 In "Rite to mine: Bitcoin, ritual, and oligarchy," Owen Marshall examines crypto-mining as a foundational ritual practice of tech oligarchy.
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...
Rite to mine: Bitcoin, ritual, and oligarchy
Published in Science as Culture (Ahead of Print, 2026)
doi.org
August 1, 2026 at 2:54 AM
📢 Another addition to our Forum on Tech Oligarchy!
📜 In "Rite to mine: Bitcoin, ritual, and oligarchy," Owen Marshall examines crypto-mining as a foundational ritual practice of tech oligarchy.
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...
📜 In "Rite to mine: Bitcoin, ritual, and oligarchy," Owen Marshall examines crypto-mining as a foundational ritual practice of tech oligarchy.
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...
excellent article
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Geography and the classics? - José Luis Romanillos, 2026
This paper examines the interdisciplinary relationship between geography and ‘the classics’. It attends to the relative paucity of (re)engagements with antiquit...
journals.sagepub.com
August 1, 2026 at 6:24 AM
excellent article
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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that was fast LOL
UPDATE: After the publication of this piece, Google sent 404 Media a statement saying it was “rolling back this feature in Google Earth while we work on implementing stronger guardrails.”
www.404media.co/google-earth...
www.404media.co/google-earth...
Google Earth’s New AI Lets Anyone Fabricate Completely Bullshit Satellite Images
"Tonight I typed just one sentence into Google Earth and put refugees near the Mexican border. Then I planted a nuclear plant in Iran. Then I put a fatal crash on a street in Amsterdam."
www.404media.co
July 31, 2026 at 6:26 PM
that was fast LOL
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New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles.
This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused
www.404media.co/google-earth...
This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused
www.404media.co/google-earth...
July 31, 2026 at 4:05 PM
New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles.
This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused
www.404media.co/google-earth...
This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused
www.404media.co/google-earth...
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The sec of state who has seen at least 15000 academics lose their jobs just said this. Out loud. Mercy me.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘It hurts to lose a job you love’: Starmer loyalist Bridget Phillipson fights on despite cabinet demotion
Exclusive: The former education secretary on her new role as Labour chair and continuing as the minister for women and equalities
www.theguardian.com
July 30, 2026 at 7:44 AM
The sec of state who has seen at least 15000 academics lose their jobs just said this. Out loud. Mercy me.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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What a harrowing story and an incredible work of #scicomm in the reporting. 🧪
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Exclusive: Death of girl in Chinese gene-editing trial was never made public
Parents want accountability after study went disastrously wrong, Science and Retraction Watch investigation reveals
www.science.org
July 23, 2026 at 8:07 PM
What a harrowing story and an incredible work of #scicomm in the reporting. 🧪
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
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#newbookalert Daniele Valisena's "Italian Lives, Belgian Coal: An Environmental History of Labour and Migration" will be published this fall with @upittpress.bsky.social
#envhist
👇
upittpress.org/books/978082...
#envhist
👇
upittpress.org/books/978082...
July 24, 2026 at 9:36 AM
#newbookalert Daniele Valisena's "Italian Lives, Belgian Coal: An Environmental History of Labour and Migration" will be published this fall with @upittpress.bsky.social
#envhist
👇
upittpress.org/books/978082...
#envhist
👇
upittpress.org/books/978082...
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Working in partnership with the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, the Food Museum, the Glasgow Life Museum, the Hastings Museum & Art Gallery and the Museum of Free Derry, the Migration Museum (London) is seeking 10 Community Curators. Might this be you?
Migration Museum partners with museums and galleries to launch new UK-wide Community Curators programme
The Migration Museum is partnering with five museums and galleries across the UK to launch a new programme bringing diverse voices, lived experiences, and perspectives into the creation of a series of...
www.migrationmuseum.org
July 22, 2026 at 1:07 PM
Working in partnership with the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, the Food Museum, the Glasgow Life Museum, the Hastings Museum & Art Gallery and the Museum of Free Derry, the Migration Museum (London) is seeking 10 Community Curators. Might this be you?
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In the new article, ‘Digital fire technologies and community networks’, Jennifer Gabrys, Paula Tiara Torres and Pablo González Rivas analyse how digital technologies influence fire prevention, response, and recovery in La Araucanía, Chile: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
July 22, 2026 at 4:17 PM
In the new article, ‘Digital fire technologies and community networks’, Jennifer Gabrys, Paula Tiara Torres and Pablo González Rivas analyse how digital technologies influence fire prevention, response, and recovery in La Araucanía, Chile: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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I strongly believe in giving the man a chance. But keeping Shabana Mahmood as Home Secretary suggests the vicious attacks on immigrants and refugees, and self-defeating attempts to outrun the far right, are likely to continue. Which is pretty damn depressing. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Read these words from 100 years ago about immigrants in Britain – and see how history is chillingly repeating itself | George Monbiot
Shabana Mahmood’s new rights clampdown looks outlandish until we remember that this kind of hardline action is part of our country’s fabric, says George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
July 21, 2026 at 7:39 AM
I strongly believe in giving the man a chance. But keeping Shabana Mahmood as Home Secretary suggests the vicious attacks on immigrants and refugees, and self-defeating attempts to outrun the far right, are likely to continue. Which is pretty damn depressing. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Before the Luddites and the arrival of capitalism, it wasn’t just workers pushing back against technology; governments did too.
This week @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to discuss how refusal of technology has a very long history.
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/337_...
This week @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to discuss how refusal of technology has a very long history.
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/337_...
July 16, 2026 at 2:22 PM
Before the Luddites and the arrival of capitalism, it wasn’t just workers pushing back against technology; governments did too.
This week @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to discuss how refusal of technology has a very long history.
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/337_...
This week @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to discuss how refusal of technology has a very long history.
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/337_...
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'Students’ positivity about all aspects of UK higher education courses has increased despite the problems facing the sector, according to the latest National Student Survey (NSS) results.'
80.9% positivity, up from 78.4% last year.
So go on, sack us. 1/3
80.9% positivity, up from 78.4% last year.
So go on, sack us. 1/3
NSS 2026: positivity scores up across the board despite pressures
Students more positive about teaching and free speech but some institutions still perform poorly on course management
www.timeshighereducation.com
July 8, 2026 at 12:50 PM
'Students’ positivity about all aspects of UK higher education courses has increased despite the problems facing the sector, according to the latest National Student Survey (NSS) results.'
80.9% positivity, up from 78.4% last year.
So go on, sack us. 1/3
80.9% positivity, up from 78.4% last year.
So go on, sack us. 1/3
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'Politicians from the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Modern Languages have told the university’s executive “in the strongest possible terms to reconsider” the plans, in a letter seen by Times Higher Education.' 1/3
‘Cold spot’ fears over Nottingham language cuts
Plans to close courses would have national impact, politicians write in letter urging university to reconsider
www.timeshighereducation.com
July 8, 2026 at 5:11 PM
'Politicians from the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Modern Languages have told the university’s executive “in the strongest possible terms to reconsider” the plans, in a letter seen by Times Higher Education.' 1/3
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New York City’s Summer of Ludd festival is teaching people how to live offline amid the suffocating presence of Big Tech.
Inside the Luddite Festival Harnessing Gen Z’s Rage Against Big Tech
New York City’s Summer of Ludd festival is teaching people how to live offline amid the suffocating presence of Big Tech.
wrd.cm
July 2, 2026 at 10:02 AM
New York City’s Summer of Ludd festival is teaching people how to live offline amid the suffocating presence of Big Tech.
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Redundancies at a post-92 are just as catastrophic--if not more--as redundancies at the institutions that are members of a group specifically set up to structurally advantage themselves at the expense of post-92s. Solidarity with everyone at risk. We are all very much needed.
June 27, 2026 at 1:20 PM
Redundancies at a post-92 are just as catastrophic--if not more--as redundancies at the institutions that are members of a group specifically set up to structurally advantage themselves at the expense of post-92s. Solidarity with everyone at risk. We are all very much needed.
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Join our #FAccT2026 CRAFT session on resistance to & refusal of AI this Sunday, June 28 at 2:15pm!
panel discussion w Renée Sieber @cyberlyra.bsky.social @ali-alkhatib.com @jordant.bsky.social @stoopt.bsky.social @hagenblix.bsky.social
& collage workshop to explore resistance together
panel discussion w Renée Sieber @cyberlyra.bsky.social @ali-alkhatib.com @jordant.bsky.social @stoopt.bsky.social @hagenblix.bsky.social
& collage workshop to explore resistance together
June 25, 2026 at 3:38 PM
Join our #FAccT2026 CRAFT session on resistance to & refusal of AI this Sunday, June 28 at 2:15pm!
panel discussion w Renée Sieber @cyberlyra.bsky.social @ali-alkhatib.com @jordant.bsky.social @stoopt.bsky.social @hagenblix.bsky.social
& collage workshop to explore resistance together
panel discussion w Renée Sieber @cyberlyra.bsky.social @ali-alkhatib.com @jordant.bsky.social @stoopt.bsky.social @hagenblix.bsky.social
& collage workshop to explore resistance together
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only baltimore's largest employer
higher ed is the largest employer in 10 states, 60 cities, dozens and dozens of counties; destroying universities is economic sabotage
higher ed is the largest employer in 10 states, 60 cities, dozens and dozens of counties; destroying universities is economic sabotage
Scoop with @mercohn.bsky.social: Johns Hopkins University is laying off more than 100 employees in the Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Carey Business School and central administration. Hopkins is suffering "debilitating" decreases in federal research funding
www.thebanner.com/education/hi...
www.thebanner.com/education/hi...
Johns Hopkins University lays off over 100 employees due to federal research losses
The layoffs this week impact the university’s Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Carey School of Business and the university’s general administration.
www.thebanner.com
June 25, 2026 at 10:16 PM
only baltimore's largest employer
higher ed is the largest employer in 10 states, 60 cities, dozens and dozens of counties; destroying universities is economic sabotage
higher ed is the largest employer in 10 states, 60 cities, dozens and dozens of counties; destroying universities is economic sabotage