MikeCrang
@crangma.bsky.social
Geographer, mostly posting about work. @geogdurham.bsky.social
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Tractor maker Deere has warned that US President Donald Trump’s tariffs are backfiring on American farmers, prompting cash-strapped producers to delay replacing aging equipment. Deere has had to cut production and workers and says it is likely to cut more jobs in 2026. www.ft.com/content/523a...
Donald Trump’s tariffs intensify strain on US farmers, Deere warns
Farming equipment giant is scaling back production at flagship tractor plant in Iowa
www.ft.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Tractor maker Deere has warned that US President Donald Trump’s tariffs are backfiring on American farmers, prompting cash-strapped producers to delay replacing aging equipment. Deere has had to cut production and workers and says it is likely to cut more jobs in 2026. www.ft.com/content/523a...
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Want to visit the US?
Hand over 5 years of social media, 10 years of email addresses, the names, birth dates, places of residence and birthplaces of parents, spouses, siblings and children…
And even if Dems win in 2028, you know this is never getting rolled back.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t...
Hand over 5 years of social media, 10 years of email addresses, the names, birth dates, places of residence and birthplaces of parents, spouses, siblings and children…
And even if Dems win in 2028, you know this is never getting rolled back.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t...
U.S. Plans to Scrutinize Foreign Tourists’ Social Media History
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Want to visit the US?
Hand over 5 years of social media, 10 years of email addresses, the names, birth dates, places of residence and birthplaces of parents, spouses, siblings and children…
And even if Dems win in 2028, you know this is never getting rolled back.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t...
Hand over 5 years of social media, 10 years of email addresses, the names, birth dates, places of residence and birthplaces of parents, spouses, siblings and children…
And even if Dems win in 2028, you know this is never getting rolled back.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t...
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Absolutely amazing chart from @peterkellner.bsky.social's piece in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social today:
www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-kellne...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-kellne...
December 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Absolutely amazing chart from @peterkellner.bsky.social's piece in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social today:
www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-kellne...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-kellne...
'Google Maps is not just indexing demand - it is actively organising it '
I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it
I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.
open.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
'Google Maps is not just indexing demand - it is actively organising it '
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@geogdurham.bsky.social research has shown that rising greenhouse gas emissions could see the size of extreme floods in the Central Himalayas increase by between as much as 73% and 84% by the end of this century. Find out more 👉 www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...
Greenhouse gases to intensify extreme flooding in the Central Himalayas - Durham University
www.durham.ac.uk
December 9, 2025 at 9:28 AM
@geogdurham.bsky.social research has shown that rising greenhouse gas emissions could see the size of extreme floods in the Central Himalayas increase by between as much as 73% and 84% by the end of this century. Find out more 👉 www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Russia’s revived plan to pipe Siberian river water to Central Asia resurfaces as the region faces worsening shortages and renewed debate over environmental and geopolitical risks https://ow.ly/SokT50XBsLr #CentralAsia #Russia #WaterSecurity #WaterScarcity
Russia Revives Plan to Redirect Siberian Rivers as Central Asia Faces Worsening Water Crisis - The Times Of Central Asia
The long-contested idea of diverting Siberian rivers to Central Asia has re-emerged after the Russian Academy of Sciences announced on November 14 that it is
ow.ly
December 3, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Russia’s revived plan to pipe Siberian river water to Central Asia resurfaces as the region faces worsening shortages and renewed debate over environmental and geopolitical risks https://ow.ly/SokT50XBsLr #CentralAsia #Russia #WaterSecurity #WaterScarcity
one for @greenleejw.bsky.social
An eel donated to a natural history museum in 1873 had two ticks embedded in its skin, making it the first known instance of ticks parasitizing a fish. But it was only first documented this year, when a tick specialist identified the ticks and reported the case in the Journal of Medical Entomology.
Ticks on an Eel: Museum Specimen is a First of its Kind
Two ticks found on an 1873 electric eel specimen mark the first recorded case of ticks parasitizing a fish—but only documented just this year.
entomologytoday.org
December 4, 2025 at 4:16 PM
one for @greenleejw.bsky.social
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Kazakhstan’s post-2022 Russian influx has settled into a skilled new diaspora boosting urban economies and IT growth while reshaping housing and integration dynamics https://ow.ly/X5uS50XAP80 #Kazakhstan #Russia #MigrationTrends
How the Russian Relocation Wave Reshaped Kazakhstan’s Economy - The Times Of Central Asia
In September 2022, northern Kazakhstan’s border crossings experienced huge surges as tens of thousands of Russians fled mobilization for the war in Ukraine.
ow.ly
December 2, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Kazakhstan’s post-2022 Russian influx has settled into a skilled new diaspora boosting urban economies and IT growth while reshaping housing and integration dynamics https://ow.ly/X5uS50XAP80 #Kazakhstan #Russia #MigrationTrends
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1000s of historic landfills across Europe - many in groundwater protection zones and highly vulnerable to flooding and erosion. We are just not adequately assessing the potential risks of climate change on our waste legacy.
Watch @itvnews.bsky.social tonight, as Martin Stew covers our joint report with @investigate-europe.eu on pollution from landfills in the UK + Europe - many so old they're not lined or filtered - in flood risk, coastal erosion or drinking water protection zones.
www.itv.com/news/2025-12...
www.itv.com/news/2025-12...
December 2, 2025 at 2:03 PM
1000s of historic landfills across Europe - many in groundwater protection zones and highly vulnerable to flooding and erosion. We are just not adequately assessing the potential risks of climate change on our waste legacy.
Niu Tong's award winning "The Express Delivery Project" documenting the lives of delivery drivers in China -- among them his terminally ill mother, through whom he found a respectful idiom to depict her co-workers' lives
www.sixthtone.com/news/1017783
www.sixthtone.com/news/1017783
Lens and the Loss: How a Chinese Photographer Turned Grief Into Art
Photographer Niu Tong’s Leica-shortlisted project on China’s delivery workers began with his mother’s job and became both a portrait of working life and a tribute to her final months with cancer.
www.sixthtone.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Niu Tong's award winning "The Express Delivery Project" documenting the lives of delivery drivers in China -- among them his terminally ill mother, through whom he found a respectful idiom to depict her co-workers' lives
www.sixthtone.com/news/1017783
www.sixthtone.com/news/1017783
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An affective atmosphere of captivation: Douyin, performative authenticity, and Xinjiang food in China’s Wanghong economy www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
An affective atmosphere of captivation: Douyin, performative authenticity, and Xinjiang food in China’s Wanghong economy
This study examines how Uyghur wanghongs in Xinjiang construct authentic representations of regional food culture by situating it in an ever-shifting …
www.sciencedirect.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:20 AM
An affective atmosphere of captivation: Douyin, performative authenticity, and Xinjiang food in China’s Wanghong economy www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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@china-geographies.bsky.social examines the infrastructures that move pesticides from China to Australia and what they tell us about the global production of food. www.roadsides.net/articles/8236
December 1, 2025 at 10:16 AM
@china-geographies.bsky.social examines the infrastructures that move pesticides from China to Australia and what they tell us about the global production of food. www.roadsides.net/articles/8236
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Looking forward to hearing Joanna Allan talk about her prize-winning book Saharan Winds: Energy Systems and Aeolian Imaginaries in Western Sahara in the @greenhouseuis.net #envhum book talks tomorrow (Monday, 1 December) at 16:00 CET / 15:00 GMT. Hope you will join us for the live discussion!
Online book talk: Allan, Saharan Winds – The Greenhouse
newnatures.org
November 30, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Looking forward to hearing Joanna Allan talk about her prize-winning book Saharan Winds: Energy Systems and Aeolian Imaginaries in Western Sahara in the @greenhouseuis.net #envhum book talks tomorrow (Monday, 1 December) at 16:00 CET / 15:00 GMT. Hope you will join us for the live discussion!
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Kinnock voice - "I’ll tell you what happens with impossible promises. You start with far-fetched resolutions....and you end up in the grotesque chaos of a Labour government, a *Labour* government, rejecting visas for homeless 8 yr olds trying to joing their parents"
November 28, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Kinnock voice - "I’ll tell you what happens with impossible promises. You start with far-fetched resolutions....and you end up in the grotesque chaos of a Labour government, a *Labour* government, rejecting visas for homeless 8 yr olds trying to joing their parents"
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The Brexit "news" never is @nick1webb.bsky.social
Brexit choices were always
1/ Trying to take back (border) control, meaning greater rocketing prices for far less choice & empty shelves
OR
2/ Giving up all semblance of control meaning
unilaterally advantaging the EU (their exporters) & smugglers
Brexit choices were always
1/ Trying to take back (border) control, meaning greater rocketing prices for far less choice & empty shelves
OR
2/ Giving up all semblance of control meaning
unilaterally advantaging the EU (their exporters) & smugglers
November 28, 2025 at 4:44 PM
The Brexit "news" never is @nick1webb.bsky.social
Brexit choices were always
1/ Trying to take back (border) control, meaning greater rocketing prices for far less choice & empty shelves
OR
2/ Giving up all semblance of control meaning
unilaterally advantaging the EU (their exporters) & smugglers
Brexit choices were always
1/ Trying to take back (border) control, meaning greater rocketing prices for far less choice & empty shelves
OR
2/ Giving up all semblance of control meaning
unilaterally advantaging the EU (their exporters) & smugglers
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Public man-made death: The dismantling of USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.”
That’s 1000+ excess dead children every day. Every day.
hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...
That’s 1000+ excess dead children every day. Every day.
hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...
USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...
hsph.harvard.edu
November 27, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Public man-made death: The dismantling of USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.”
That’s 1000+ excess dead children every day. Every day.
hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...
That’s 1000+ excess dead children every day. Every day.
hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...
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This is incredibly grim
Threshold for repaying student loans to converge with minimum wage on.ft.com/3M2AYkD
Threshold for repaying student loans to converge with minimum wage
Surprise move from chancellor means some university graduates in England may have to pay back debts sooner
on.ft.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:47 AM
This is incredibly grim
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Meghal Perera explores how vendors reject and repurpose cold chain infrastructure in a fish market in Colombo, to suit their own understandings of freshness. www.roadsides.net/articles/8248
November 26, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Meghal Perera explores how vendors reject and repurpose cold chain infrastructure in a fish market in Colombo, to suit their own understandings of freshness. www.roadsides.net/articles/8248
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Saxaul plantations in the Aralkum Desert are failing to curb toxic dust storms as locals face worsening health impacts https://ow.ly/Ngao50XyhZ5 #AralCrisis #Kazakhstan #PublicHealth #DesertEcology #SaxaulTrees #DustStorms
Planting Trees to Heal Old Wounds: Can a Desert Forest Save the Aral’s Last Residents? - The Times Of Central Asia
In the Aralkum Desert, afforestation campaigns have multiplied since the early 2000s. They are meant to slow the sandstorms, temper a rapidly warming climate,
ow.ly
November 26, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Saxaul plantations in the Aralkum Desert are failing to curb toxic dust storms as locals face worsening health impacts https://ow.ly/Ngao50XyhZ5 #AralCrisis #Kazakhstan #PublicHealth #DesertEcology #SaxaulTrees #DustStorms
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In her photo essay, @fizza7.bsky.social recounts how the Karakoram Highway traded food sovereignty for dependency, how the road built to connect them dismantled the world for the people of Ishkoman.
www.roadsides.net/articles/8243
www.roadsides.net/articles/8243
November 26, 2025 at 1:35 PM
In her photo essay, @fizza7.bsky.social recounts how the Karakoram Highway traded food sovereignty for dependency, how the road built to connect them dismantled the world for the people of Ishkoman.
www.roadsides.net/articles/8243
www.roadsides.net/articles/8243
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Municipal corruption has been a huge issue in many times and places in U.S. history (Tammany Hall etc.).
But in terms of presidents, Trump is by far the most personally corrupt ever, and it’s not even debatable. Shame on the Beeb. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
But in terms of presidents, Trump is by far the most personally corrupt ever, and it’s not even debatable. Shame on the Beeb. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
Reith lecturer accuses BBC of censoring his remarks on Trump
Dutch writer Rutger Bregman says claim that Trump was ‘most openly corrupt president in US history’ was removed
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Municipal corruption has been a huge issue in many times and places in U.S. history (Tammany Hall etc.).
But in terms of presidents, Trump is by far the most personally corrupt ever, and it’s not even debatable. Shame on the Beeb. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
But in terms of presidents, Trump is by far the most personally corrupt ever, and it’s not even debatable. Shame on the Beeb. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
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Industry rightly claims that 99% of US lead-acid batteries are recycled.
When done cheaply, that recycled lead comes at a grave cost to workers and communities around the world.
#energysky
When done cheaply, that recycled lead comes at a grave cost to workers and communities around the world.
#energysky
Second part of this great, devastating, reporting.
"As the auto industry struggled through the subsequent financial crisis, other car companies and battery retailers also declined to sign on. Green Lead collapsed"
Explore this gift article. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
"As the auto industry struggled through the subsequent financial crisis, other car companies and battery retailers also declined to sign on. Green Lead collapsed"
Explore this gift article. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
The Auto Industry Was Warned: Battery Recycling Was Poisoning People
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Industry rightly claims that 99% of US lead-acid batteries are recycled.
When done cheaply, that recycled lead comes at a grave cost to workers and communities around the world.
#energysky
When done cheaply, that recycled lead comes at a grave cost to workers and communities around the world.
#energysky
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Fizza Batool recounts how the Karakoram Highway traded food sovereignty for dependency and how the road built to connect the people of Ishkoman instead dismantled the world for them.
Food subsidies and infrastructure are not neutral. I wrote a little thing about it.
Thrilled to be part of this @roadsides.bsky.social on #Foodways. Massive thanks to the editorial team! @mattrest.bsky.social and Dolly:
www.roadsides.net/articles/8243
Thrilled to be part of this @roadsides.bsky.social on #Foodways. Massive thanks to the editorial team! @mattrest.bsky.social and Dolly:
www.roadsides.net/articles/8243
The Empty Granary of Ishkoman (Roadsides Journal Article)
www.roadsides.net
November 25, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Fizza Batool recounts how the Karakoram Highway traded food sovereignty for dependency and how the road built to connect the people of Ishkoman instead dismantled the world for them.