Arne Rieber
@arnerieber.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Researcher & Lecturer @UniBonn Geography / interested in economic geography, political economy, political ecology, industrial policy, infrastructure and hydropolitics and all connected policy dilemmas and societal trade-offs
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Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
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#mittwochsimGIUB
Tomorrow, Prof. Dr. Andrew Cumbers (@uofglasgow.bsky.social | Visiting Professor @unibonn.bsky.social) will give a talk on "The Future of the Public and the Struggle for the Democratic Economy"
When? Nov. 18, 5:15pm
Where? Lecture Hall, Dept. of Geography
#geosky #geography
Tomorrow, Prof. Dr. Andrew Cumbers (@uofglasgow.bsky.social | Visiting Professor @unibonn.bsky.social) will give a talk on "The Future of the Public and the Struggle for the Democratic Economy"
When? Nov. 18, 5:15pm
Where? Lecture Hall, Dept. of Geography
#geosky #geography
November 18, 2025 at 7:59 AM
#mittwochsimGIUB
Tomorrow, Prof. Dr. Andrew Cumbers (@uofglasgow.bsky.social | Visiting Professor @unibonn.bsky.social) will give a talk on "The Future of the Public and the Struggle for the Democratic Economy"
When? Nov. 18, 5:15pm
Where? Lecture Hall, Dept. of Geography
#geosky #geography
Tomorrow, Prof. Dr. Andrew Cumbers (@uofglasgow.bsky.social | Visiting Professor @unibonn.bsky.social) will give a talk on "The Future of the Public and the Struggle for the Democratic Economy"
When? Nov. 18, 5:15pm
Where? Lecture Hall, Dept. of Geography
#geosky #geography
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As seen in the release notes of ChatGPT Atlas. Cool cool cool
October 22, 2025 at 10:07 AM
As seen in the release notes of ChatGPT Atlas. Cool cool cool
‼️There's a PhD or Postdoc position open in my working group ‼️Let's be colleagues 🥹
Economic Geography in Bonn
Application deadline 22 November 2025
Due to teaching obligations, fluency in German is required
Economic Geography in Bonn
Application deadline 22 November 2025
Due to teaching obligations, fluency in German is required
October 21, 2025 at 9:53 AM
‼️There's a PhD or Postdoc position open in my working group ‼️Let's be colleagues 🥹
Economic Geography in Bonn
Application deadline 22 November 2025
Due to teaching obligations, fluency in German is required
Economic Geography in Bonn
Application deadline 22 November 2025
Due to teaching obligations, fluency in German is required
Today's session on the responsible use of AI in geography for incoming Master's students showed that:
a) students are using AI, and
b) they would like much clearer guidelines (and guidance). Simply telling them not to use it because it's evil will not be sufficient.
a) students are using AI, and
b) they would like much clearer guidelines (and guidance). Simply telling them not to use it because it's evil will not be sufficient.
October 13, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Today's session on the responsible use of AI in geography for incoming Master's students showed that:
a) students are using AI, and
b) they would like much clearer guidelines (and guidance). Simply telling them not to use it because it's evil will not be sufficient.
a) students are using AI, and
b) they would like much clearer guidelines (and guidance). Simply telling them not to use it because it's evil will not be sufficient.
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Call for Abstracts - AAG 2026 | SF
Deadline: October 23rd
Join my Panel at next year's AAG conference on "Infrastructure Monsters and the Specter of Sabotage". We talkin' horror stories, queer geography, ghosts, Marx' specters, ruination, sabotage, and much more!
@geographers.bsky.social #GeoSky
Deadline: October 23rd
Join my Panel at next year's AAG conference on "Infrastructure Monsters and the Specter of Sabotage". We talkin' horror stories, queer geography, ghosts, Marx' specters, ruination, sabotage, and much more!
@geographers.bsky.social #GeoSky
October 2, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Call for Abstracts - AAG 2026 | SF
Deadline: October 23rd
Join my Panel at next year's AAG conference on "Infrastructure Monsters and the Specter of Sabotage". We talkin' horror stories, queer geography, ghosts, Marx' specters, ruination, sabotage, and much more!
@geographers.bsky.social #GeoSky
Deadline: October 23rd
Join my Panel at next year's AAG conference on "Infrastructure Monsters and the Specter of Sabotage". We talkin' horror stories, queer geography, ghosts, Marx' specters, ruination, sabotage, and much more!
@geographers.bsky.social #GeoSky
First day in my new position 🎉 Excited to join the economic geography group at @giubresearch.bsky.social as a postdoctoral researcher. Moving from political ecology to political economy, in the next years I will focus on the role of the state in the geoeconomy and industry policy.
October 1, 2025 at 6:11 AM
First day in my new position 🎉 Excited to join the economic geography group at @giubresearch.bsky.social as a postdoctoral researcher. Moving from political ecology to political economy, in the next years I will focus on the role of the state in the geoeconomy and industry policy.
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Congrats to @arnerieber.bsky.social who completed his dissertation this summer! 🎉 Arne worked in @crctrr228.bsky.social on on future-making in large-scale hydraulic infrastructure projects in East Africa.
Read more: bonndoc.ulb.uni-bonn.de/xmlui/handle...
#geosky #PoliticalEcology #geography
Read more: bonndoc.ulb.uni-bonn.de/xmlui/handle...
#geosky #PoliticalEcology #geography
September 16, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Congrats to @arnerieber.bsky.social who completed his dissertation this summer! 🎉 Arne worked in @crctrr228.bsky.social on on future-making in large-scale hydraulic infrastructure projects in East Africa.
Read more: bonndoc.ulb.uni-bonn.de/xmlui/handle...
#geosky #PoliticalEcology #geography
Read more: bonndoc.ulb.uni-bonn.de/xmlui/handle...
#geosky #PoliticalEcology #geography
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A man on the streets of the UK is asked about the “problem of immigration” and dismantles talking points with ease.
September 2, 2025 at 12:42 PM
A man on the streets of the UK is asked about the “problem of immigration” and dismantles talking points with ease.
In 2022 the High Grand Falls Dam was announced by UK and Kenyan governements, to irrigate 400,000ha and produce 1 GW. By 2025 it was cancelled again. What remained in the region was no material change, but the violence of broken promises impacting future-making and everyday actions of those affected
September 3, 2025 at 12:40 PM
In 2022 the High Grand Falls Dam was announced by UK and Kenyan governements, to irrigate 400,000ha and produce 1 GW. By 2025 it was cancelled again. What remained in the region was no material change, but the violence of broken promises impacting future-making and everyday actions of those affected
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"The Government of Israel’s restrictions, delays, and fragmentation under its total siege have created chaos, starvation, and death."
Israel blocking aid from Gaza is creating ‘chaos and death’, say 111 humanitarian groups
Letter signed by agencies including Doctors Without Borders condemn Israeli military attacks on Palestinians
www.theguardian.com
July 23, 2025 at 9:37 AM
"The Government of Israel’s restrictions, delays, and fragmentation under its total siege have created chaos, starvation, and death."
Very happy and proud to share that today I’ve successfully defended my dissertation. So grateful to the @unibonn.bsky.social @giubresearch.bsky.social @crctrr228.bsky.social, my supervisors, reviewers and wonderful colleagues in Bonn who guided and supported me over the last three years!
June 30, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Very happy and proud to share that today I’ve successfully defended my dissertation. So grateful to the @unibonn.bsky.social @giubresearch.bsky.social @crctrr228.bsky.social, my supervisors, reviewers and wonderful colleagues in Bonn who guided and supported me over the last three years!
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📢June Issue of Area📢
This latest issue pulls together the fully #OpenAccess 'Rivers as Borders' Special Section alongside papers on topics including de-development, AI, and diary methods.
Read all the papers here: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14754762... #geosky
This latest issue pulls together the fully #OpenAccess 'Rivers as Borders' Special Section alongside papers on topics including de-development, AI, and diary methods.
Read all the papers here: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14754762... #geosky
June 30, 2025 at 3:47 PM
📢June Issue of Area📢
This latest issue pulls together the fully #OpenAccess 'Rivers as Borders' Special Section alongside papers on topics including de-development, AI, and diary methods.
Read all the papers here: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14754762... #geosky
This latest issue pulls together the fully #OpenAccess 'Rivers as Borders' Special Section alongside papers on topics including de-development, AI, and diary methods.
Read all the papers here: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14754762... #geosky
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Can sabotage be an act of care? A way to build the future?
In our new @antipodeonline.bsky.social article, Eric Kioko & I introduce the Sabotage Matrix, a tool to rethink infrastructure sabotage as both destructive and constructive.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
In our new @antipodeonline.bsky.social article, Eric Kioko & I introduce the Sabotage Matrix, a tool to rethink infrastructure sabotage as both destructive and constructive.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
![A 2x2 matrix titled "Sabotage Matrix", showing the material and immaterial effects of infrastructure sabotage, divided into destructive (left) and constructive (right) axes.
Top-left (Q1): Labeled "Destructive material effects" with a photo of a partially dismantled dam.
Top-right (Q2): Labeled "Constructive material effects" with a photo of a dislodged water pipe on dry earth.
Bottom-left (Q3): Labeled "Destructive ideational effects", with the quote: "We are saying [sabotage] is good, because it has made the things that were in darkness to come into the light."
Bottom-right (Q4): Labeled "Constructive ideational effects", with the quote: "The reason for us being included, it is because of the destructions they have seen."
The vertical axis is labeled "Material" (top) and "Immaterial" (bottom), and the horizontal axis is labeled "Destructive" (left) and "Constructive" (right).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:opouudsmslyt4wwrlgf7v4ca/bafkreif3uyqyulyovtfcwpsmqtkisuxnb2d6nh6dfissgaqqal3zvnk65e@jpeg)
June 17, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Can sabotage be an act of care? A way to build the future?
In our new @antipodeonline.bsky.social article, Eric Kioko & I introduce the Sabotage Matrix, a tool to rethink infrastructure sabotage as both destructive and constructive.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
In our new @antipodeonline.bsky.social article, Eric Kioko & I introduce the Sabotage Matrix, a tool to rethink infrastructure sabotage as both destructive and constructive.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Political Ecology Network (POLLEN) Conference in Barcelona, June 2026. Help us disseminate the event and submit your articles, please! @icta-uab.bsky.social @pollenetwork.bsky.social
pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026/
pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026/
POLLEN Conference 2026 - POLLEN
To learn more about our rational and purposes, then please look at this page , or download this document. If would like to participate then the first step is to propose a panel, or some other contribu...
pollenpoliticalecology.network
May 19, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Political Ecology Network (POLLEN) Conference in Barcelona, June 2026. Help us disseminate the event and submit your articles, please! @icta-uab.bsky.social @pollenetwork.bsky.social
pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026/
pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026/
Hey Bonn/Cologne people. The KritGeo group at our department is hosting an event next week that speaks for itself in terms of urgency or relevance.
May 14, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Hey Bonn/Cologne people. The KritGeo group at our department is hosting an event next week that speaks for itself in terms of urgency or relevance.
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Over the past weeks I've had 2 major grants terminated, from EPA and NSF. Over $1 million of funding for human-enviro geography research lost. These terminations have negative impacts for myself, my graduate students, my university, community partners, and society. #withoutNSF #geosky 1/9 🧪
May 4, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Over the past weeks I've had 2 major grants terminated, from EPA and NSF. Over $1 million of funding for human-enviro geography research lost. These terminations have negative impacts for myself, my graduate students, my university, community partners, and society. #withoutNSF #geosky 1/9 🧪
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#OA paper in Area:
'Claim-making in hydrosocial spaces: The temporality of displacement around Kenya's Masinga Dam reservoir' by @arnerieber.bsky.social & Benson Nyaga
This paper explores how historical injustices shape contemporary contestations over land & water rights.
doi.org/10.1111/area...
'Claim-making in hydrosocial spaces: The temporality of displacement around Kenya's Masinga Dam reservoir' by @arnerieber.bsky.social & Benson Nyaga
This paper explores how historical injustices shape contemporary contestations over land & water rights.
doi.org/10.1111/area...
Area | RGS Geography Journal | Wiley Online Library
The article examines the contested hydrosocial territory of the Masinga Dam reservoir in Kenya, focusing on how historical injustices, infrastructural temporalities, and spatial reconfigurations shap...
doi.org
April 1, 2025 at 4:27 PM
#OA paper in Area:
'Claim-making in hydrosocial spaces: The temporality of displacement around Kenya's Masinga Dam reservoir' by @arnerieber.bsky.social & Benson Nyaga
This paper explores how historical injustices shape contemporary contestations over land & water rights.
doi.org/10.1111/area...
'Claim-making in hydrosocial spaces: The temporality of displacement around Kenya's Masinga Dam reservoir' by @arnerieber.bsky.social & Benson Nyaga
This paper explores how historical injustices shape contemporary contestations over land & water rights.
doi.org/10.1111/area...
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Future Rural Africa Public Lecture:
How does wealth accumulate in African cities & beyond? Who owns what, who gets what, and why?
@econgeo.bsky.social unpacks these questions, linking local & global economies.
📅 7 April 2025
🕓 16:00 - 17:30 (CEST)
More ➡️ crc-trr228.de/crc-trr-publ...
How does wealth accumulate in African cities & beyond? Who owns what, who gets what, and why?
@econgeo.bsky.social unpacks these questions, linking local & global economies.
📅 7 April 2025
🕓 16:00 - 17:30 (CEST)
More ➡️ crc-trr228.de/crc-trr-publ...
CRC-TRR Public Lecture: Stefan Ouma - Collaborative Research Center TRR 228
Mon | April 7th, 2025 | 16:00 – 17:30 (CEST)
crc-trr228.de
March 26, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Future Rural Africa Public Lecture:
How does wealth accumulate in African cities & beyond? Who owns what, who gets what, and why?
@econgeo.bsky.social unpacks these questions, linking local & global economies.
📅 7 April 2025
🕓 16:00 - 17:30 (CEST)
More ➡️ crc-trr228.de/crc-trr-publ...
How does wealth accumulate in African cities & beyond? Who owns what, who gets what, and why?
@econgeo.bsky.social unpacks these questions, linking local & global economies.
📅 7 April 2025
🕓 16:00 - 17:30 (CEST)
More ➡️ crc-trr228.de/crc-trr-publ...
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New Publication!
@theobromin.bsky.social & Detlef Müller-Mahn explore how labor shapes future-making in East African infrastructure projects.
📰➡️https://crc-trr228.de/new-publication-how-labour-has-the-potential-to-make-marginalised-futures-visible-and-real/
@theobromin.bsky.social & Detlef Müller-Mahn explore how labor shapes future-making in East African infrastructure projects.
📰➡️https://crc-trr228.de/new-publication-how-labour-has-the-potential-to-make-marginalised-futures-visible-and-real/
New Publication: How Labour has the Potential to Make Marginalised Futures Visible and Real - Collaborative Research Center TRR 228
In this recent publication, researchers Theo Aalders and Detlef Müller-Mahn (Project C03 Green Futures) explore how labor shapes future-making in East African
crc-trr228.de
March 12, 2025 at 11:40 AM
New Publication!
@theobromin.bsky.social & Detlef Müller-Mahn explore how labor shapes future-making in East African infrastructure projects.
📰➡️https://crc-trr228.de/new-publication-how-labour-has-the-potential-to-make-marginalised-futures-visible-and-real/
@theobromin.bsky.social & Detlef Müller-Mahn explore how labor shapes future-making in East African infrastructure projects.
📰➡️https://crc-trr228.de/new-publication-how-labour-has-the-potential-to-make-marginalised-futures-visible-and-real/
Really happy to see our article in JPE! In it, we discuss the 'non-economy of anticipation', a double vision in the construction phase of infrastructure, where future promises collide with the actual realities of implementation. We show how this leads to apathy and infrastructural violence.
March 17, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Really happy to see our article in JPE! In it, we discuss the 'non-economy of anticipation', a double vision in the construction phase of infrastructure, where future promises collide with the actual realities of implementation. We show how this leads to apathy and infrastructural violence.
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Politicians in Berlin, @kaiwegner.bsky.social & Ina Czyborra have pressured the FU Berlin to cancel Albanese's & Weizman's lecture. @christinebinzel.bsky.social, @michaelbarenboim.bsky.social and I condemn this in the strongest terms. Below our letters to the politicians in EN & DE, plus a 🧵 1/4
February 13, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Politicians in Berlin, @kaiwegner.bsky.social & Ina Czyborra have pressured the FU Berlin to cancel Albanese's & Weizman's lecture. @christinebinzel.bsky.social, @michaelbarenboim.bsky.social and I condemn this in the strongest terms. Below our letters to the politicians in EN & DE, plus a 🧵 1/4
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Thank you @sebhaug.bsky.social from @idos-research.bsky.social for your contributions in our public lecture series today!
Stay tuned for more lectures:
➡️ crc-trr228.de/crc-lecture-...
Stay tuned for more lectures:
➡️ crc-trr228.de/crc-lecture-...
February 3, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Thank you @sebhaug.bsky.social from @idos-research.bsky.social for your contributions in our public lecture series today!
Stay tuned for more lectures:
➡️ crc-trr228.de/crc-lecture-...
Stay tuned for more lectures:
➡️ crc-trr228.de/crc-lecture-...
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So obvious that it feels absurd to even engage with this, but some statistics re the extreme economic position of white South Africans, in one of the most unequal countries in the world:
February 8, 2025 at 11:05 AM
So obvious that it feels absurd to even engage with this, but some statistics re the extreme economic position of white South Africans, in one of the most unequal countries in the world: