Thomas Cheney
@thomascheney.bsky.social
Academic, (outer) Space Governance at Northumbria University. Legal geography and environmental humanities of space governance (space resources, planetary protection, astrobiology, settlement etc). Working on project 'Life the Ultimate Frontier'. He/him.
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Thomas Cheney
@thomascheney.bsky.social
· Jan 24
Now that I've signed the contract and its properly official, very excited to announce that I'm writing a book for Bloomsbury Academic titled: Space, the Final Resource Frontier? The Governance of Planetary and Extraplanetary Natural Resources which should be published sometime in 2028 (ish)
watched House of Dynamite, and it was ok... first 30 mins were really good but should have cut before the interceptor bit cause lost tension after, and yeah agree with @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social needed more missiles (fire 12 tax the GBIs!) also think making it NK would have been more impactful
November 29, 2025 at 9:20 PM
watched House of Dynamite, and it was ok... first 30 mins were really good but should have cut before the interceptor bit cause lost tension after, and yeah agree with @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social needed more missiles (fire 12 tax the GBIs!) also think making it NK would have been more impactful
oof thatd really limit their bench
November 29, 2025 at 5:23 PM
oof thatd really limit their bench
very noticable increase in border force at the airport, have never had to show id when landing from an internal flight... and never seen border force just loitering in the baggage claim area...
November 29, 2025 at 4:18 PM
very noticable increase in border force at the airport, have never had to show id when landing from an internal flight... and never seen border force just loitering in the baggage claim area...
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The asylum seeker (not "illegal immigrant") who needed a 200 mile taxi journey had been relocated against his will but was required to attend a hospital appointment. The government refused to allow him to take public transport.
It's 100% a government failure, but easier to scapegoat the innocent
It's 100% a government failure, but easier to scapegoat the innocent
November 29, 2025 at 11:35 AM
The asylum seeker (not "illegal immigrant") who needed a 200 mile taxi journey had been relocated against his will but was required to attend a hospital appointment. The government refused to allow him to take public transport.
It's 100% a government failure, but easier to scapegoat the innocent
It's 100% a government failure, but easier to scapegoat the innocent
wound up getting the district to ealing and then getting the elizabeth line, thanks the very helpful TFL staff member for suggesting this option, will have to remember this for future as e-line a lot nicer than piccadilly!
Londoners help please, staying in Hammersmith and need to get to Heathrow, been a person hit by train at Hammesmith so Piccadilly suspended between here and Acton Town, now does that mean my best option is to get the Circle Line to Acton Town and then get the piccadilly line or am i best off just
November 29, 2025 at 11:23 AM
wound up getting the district to ealing and then getting the elizabeth line, thanks the very helpful TFL staff member for suggesting this option, will have to remember this for future as e-line a lot nicer than piccadilly!
thought provoking and i think i might try this next semester
November 29, 2025 at 10:36 AM
thought provoking and i think i might try this next semester
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Law! Time! Consent!
My book is half price today in the @edinburghup.bsky.social flash sale. (It does make the ebook a v reasonable £12.50)
My book is half price today in the @edinburghup.bsky.social flash sale. (It does make the ebook a v reasonable £12.50)
Legal Temporalities of Sexual Consent
Legal Temporalities of Sexual Consent
edinburghuniversitypress.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Law! Time! Consent!
My book is half price today in the @edinburghup.bsky.social flash sale. (It does make the ebook a v reasonable £12.50)
My book is half price today in the @edinburghup.bsky.social flash sale. (It does make the ebook a v reasonable £12.50)
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I don’t know how many ways there are to say “Manchester’s economy is growing, so if we’re not going to do much proactive on infrastructure, can we at least not do stuff that’s actively damaging”
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Soon-to-be-axed 7am Manchester-London train will still run – but without passengers
Exclusive: Rail regulator pulls Avanti service from timetable from mid-December but it is needed for staff travel
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:52 AM
I don’t know how many ways there are to say “Manchester’s economy is growing, so if we’re not going to do much proactive on infrastructure, can we at least not do stuff that’s actively damaging”
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Londoners help please, staying in Hammersmith and need to get to Heathrow, been a person hit by train at Hammesmith so Piccadilly suspended between here and Acton Town, now does that mean my best option is to get the Circle Line to Acton Town and then get the piccadilly line or am i best off just
November 29, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Londoners help please, staying in Hammersmith and need to get to Heathrow, been a person hit by train at Hammesmith so Piccadilly suspended between here and Acton Town, now does that mean my best option is to get the Circle Line to Acton Town and then get the piccadilly line or am i best off just
boo to whomever decided that sending out grant rejection emails on a Friday afternoon was a good idea - thats a Wednesday email
November 28, 2025 at 10:03 PM
boo to whomever decided that sending out grant rejection emails on a Friday afternoon was a good idea - thats a Wednesday email
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The University of Bristol will offer their summer school in Environmental Humanities again!
@bristoluni.bsky.social #envhum #envhist
@bristoluni.bsky.social #envhum #envhist
November 28, 2025 at 5:20 PM
The University of Bristol will offer their summer school in Environmental Humanities again!
@bristoluni.bsky.social #envhum #envhist
@bristoluni.bsky.social #envhum #envhist
i find the idea interesting BUT i really hate the term 'technofuedalism'
November 28, 2025 at 5:19 PM
i find the idea interesting BUT i really hate the term 'technofuedalism'
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Not a drill - there's a Britain-focused lectureship (FT, permanent) available.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPQ588/l...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPQ588/l...
Lecturer in British and Comparative Politics at UCL
An academic position as a Lecturer in British and Comparative Politics is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.
www.jobs.ac.uk
November 28, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Not a drill - there's a Britain-focused lectureship (FT, permanent) available.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPQ588/l...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPQ588/l...
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Just passed 600 - 700 next??
www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...
www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...
Northumbria Pay and Pension Petition: Stop the Steal!
If Northumbria does this, other universities will too.
These cuts will harm thousands of people, their students, families, and their local communities now and into the future.
www.megaphone.org.uk
November 28, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Just passed 600 - 700 next??
www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...
www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...
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Just cancel your Netflix subscription and stop buying avocados. You'll be fine
November 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Just cancel your Netflix subscription and stop buying avocados. You'll be fine
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Have I got a book for you if you weren't taught historic US immigration policy. My book about how the US migration & citizenship policy history and law, from the colonial period to 1888 is available for pre-order for March 10, 2026 delivery. Order info in the link on my bio.
Trump and Miller want to turn the clock back to the era of American immigration politics I think few of us were taught honestly about in American public education, outside reading The Great Gatsby
November 28, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Have I got a book for you if you weren't taught historic US immigration policy. My book about how the US migration & citizenship policy history and law, from the colonial period to 1888 is available for pre-order for March 10, 2026 delivery. Order info in the link on my bio.
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📢 We are hiring! Tenure-track position in environmental history with a focus on long-term socio-ecological research. Exciting opportunity for post-docs working at the interface of environmental history & sustainability sciences. Deadline Jan 6, please spread far and wide! boku.ac.at/fileadmin/da...
boku.ac.at
November 27, 2025 at 11:52 AM
📢 We are hiring! Tenure-track position in environmental history with a focus on long-term socio-ecological research. Exciting opportunity for post-docs working at the interface of environmental history & sustainability sciences. Deadline Jan 6, please spread far and wide! boku.ac.at/fileadmin/da...
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I guess I could imagine doing a victory lap if UK growth was super high, the budget was balanced, essential services were fully staffed, innovation was booming and the country felt energized and dynamic - all somehow with low net migration.
But none of that is true.
But none of that is true.
November 28, 2025 at 10:25 AM
I guess I could imagine doing a victory lap if UK growth was super high, the budget was balanced, essential services were fully staffed, innovation was booming and the country felt energized and dynamic - all somehow with low net migration.
But none of that is true.
But none of that is true.
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Setting aside the merits of migration, getting it down isn't some massive achievement when the officials who issue visas work for you.
You can just order them to issue fewer visas.
It's a tap you control, why are you bragging about turning it?
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.
You can just order them to issue fewer visas.
It's a tap you control, why are you bragging about turning it?
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.
November 28, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Setting aside the merits of migration, getting it down isn't some massive achievement when the officials who issue visas work for you.
You can just order them to issue fewer visas.
It's a tap you control, why are you bragging about turning it?
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.
You can just order them to issue fewer visas.
It's a tap you control, why are you bragging about turning it?
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.
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We are running a free workshop at @tandfresearch.bsky.social's office in South London on 30 January 2026 to support early career scholars in developing their work into a publishable journal article. Expressions of interest due by 16 January. See here for more details (and please share widely!)
thelondonjournal.org
November 27, 2025 at 5:57 PM
We are running a free workshop at @tandfresearch.bsky.social's office in South London on 30 January 2026 to support early career scholars in developing their work into a publishable journal article. Expressions of interest due by 16 January. See here for more details (and please share widely!)
oh, have had the most MOD vetos on archival requests of any visit ive made todat 3 whole files from FCO 7 i cant have - all about the mineral convention (to be fair just outside the 30 year rule)
November 27, 2025 at 12:38 PM
oh, have had the most MOD vetos on archival requests of any visit ive made todat 3 whole files from FCO 7 i cant have - all about the mineral convention (to be fair just outside the 30 year rule)
realising that Lizzo and Lizza are not the same person and all the US discourse on here is slightly less confusing as a result
November 27, 2025 at 11:53 AM
realising that Lizzo and Lizza are not the same person and all the US discourse on here is slightly less confusing as a result
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One thing is true: children living in poverty do not work and instead tend to require support from the welfare state
If you think they are therefore 'skivers', you can of course call for the repeal of child labour laws or for the state to forcibly adopt them and raise them by a sort of nanny state
If you think they are therefore 'skivers', you can of course call for the repeal of child labour laws or for the state to forcibly adopt them and raise them by a sort of nanny state
November 27, 2025 at 10:47 AM
One thing is true: children living in poverty do not work and instead tend to require support from the welfare state
If you think they are therefore 'skivers', you can of course call for the repeal of child labour laws or for the state to forcibly adopt them and raise them by a sort of nanny state
If you think they are therefore 'skivers', you can of course call for the repeal of child labour laws or for the state to forcibly adopt them and raise them by a sort of nanny state
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This is some good news:
Following a public consultation, the UK gov has published its North Sea Future Plan. It includes both detail on its approach to new oil & gas exploration licensing AND details on its support for the O&G workforce & communities. The headline is that there will be no new exploration licences issued
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November 27, 2025 at 7:43 AM
This is some good news: