Jeremy Schmidt
@jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social
Environmental Geographer QMUL; Co-editor of Area (areajournal.bsky.social)); Author of *Water: abundance, scarcity, and security in the age of humanity* (NYU Press); New book on Alberta’s water and energy coming 2026 with U Chicago Press.
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Canada Excellence Research Chair in Comparative Democratic Resilience in the Global South.
Research focus - grassroots movements, Indigenous sovereignties, and racial justice campaigns contesting and transforming public institutions
www.mun.ca/vpacademic/m...
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Comparative Democratic Resilience in the Global South.
Research focus - grassroots movements, Indigenous sovereignties, and racial justice campaigns contesting and transforming public institutions
www.mun.ca/vpacademic/m...
www.mun.ca
November 16, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Job - please share widely!
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Comparative Democratic Resilience in the Global South.
Research focus - grassroots movements, Indigenous sovereignties, and racial justice campaigns contesting and transforming public institutions
www.mun.ca/vpacademic/m...
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Comparative Democratic Resilience in the Global South.
Research focus - grassroots movements, Indigenous sovereignties, and racial justice campaigns contesting and transforming public institutions
www.mun.ca/vpacademic/m...
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Please join @justwaterfutures.bsky.social for a discussion on: Do we need the Global Commission on the Economics of Water to Value Water? November 21, 2025, 14:00-15:00 CEST. Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/do-we-need...
#Water #Justice
#Water #Justice
November 14, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Please join @justwaterfutures.bsky.social for a discussion on: Do we need the Global Commission on the Economics of Water to Value Water? November 21, 2025, 14:00-15:00 CEST. Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/do-we-need...
#Water #Justice
#Water #Justice
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'A chancellor with an overriding commitment to growth would not slap an arbitrary tax on one of the country’s most successful export sectors.'
Raising costs for overseas students won’t help cash-strapped universities | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 7:39 AM
'A chancellor with an overriding commitment to growth would not slap an arbitrary tax on one of the country’s most successful export sectors.'
What tree (in London) blooms in November?
November 9, 2025 at 6:58 PM
What tree (in London) blooms in November?
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The Feds amended their egregious data mining operation at the Tri-Councils but they pretended it had nothing to do with our protest! I’ll take it.
www.nsnews.com/national-new...
www.nsnews.com/national-new...
Parliamentary committee revises order to share federal grant applicant data
A parliamentary committee has amended a controversial order that seeks 25 years' worth of data on researchers who applied for health and science grants.
www.nsnews.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:15 PM
The Feds amended their egregious data mining operation at the Tri-Councils but they pretended it had nothing to do with our protest! I’ll take it.
www.nsnews.com/national-new...
www.nsnews.com/national-new...
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What's the best use of rocks as a climate solution?
Is it grinding them up and spreading them on fields, or is it throwing them at billionaires? Let's go to this meeting and decide.
Is it grinding them up and spreading them on fields, or is it throwing them at billionaires? Let's go to this meeting and decide.
Are you an earth or environmental scientist with an interest in climate change mitigation? Join our upcoming scientific meeting looking at enhanced weathering as leading researchers discuss the scientific and societal challenges ahead:
royalsociety.org/science-even...
royalsociety.org/science-even...
October 30, 2025 at 12:01 PM
What's the best use of rocks as a climate solution?
Is it grinding them up and spreading them on fields, or is it throwing them at billionaires? Let's go to this meeting and decide.
Is it grinding them up and spreading them on fields, or is it throwing them at billionaires? Let's go to this meeting and decide.
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Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same
October 29, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same
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Thanks @drbeasley.bsky.social !
Check out my good friend @niallroe.bsky.social's new paper on Charles S. Peirce on Experiment: philpapers.org/rec/ROECPA-2
Niall Roe, Charles Peirce and Experimental Science - PhilPapers
Among much else, Peirce was concerned with understanding the nature of experimentation. And while Peirce scholarship frequently appeals to the role of experimentation in his philosophy, no one has yet...
philpapers.org
October 26, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Thanks @drbeasley.bsky.social !
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this question being led by a private firm (and potential privatization of rollout) is a worst case scenario if you ask me
Major scoop from @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social:
Stardust Solutions, the Israeli geoengineering startup led by a team of Israeli physicists, just raised $60 million to develop the technology to artificially cool the planet by reflecting sunlight as soon as the 2030s.
heatmap.news/climate-tech...
Stardust Solutions, the Israeli geoengineering startup led by a team of Israeli physicists, just raised $60 million to develop the technology to artificially cool the planet by reflecting sunlight as soon as the 2030s.
heatmap.news/climate-tech...
Exclusive: Stardust Solutions Raises $60 Million to Build a Solar Geoengineering System by 2030
A U.S. firm led by former Israeli government physicists, Stardust seeks to patent its proprietary sunlight-scattering particle — but it won’t deploy its technology until global governments authorize s...
heatmap.news
October 24, 2025 at 11:47 AM
this question being led by a private firm (and potential privatization of rollout) is a worst case scenario if you ask me
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'New research coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC has found that AI assistants – already a daily information gateway for millions of people – routinely misrepresent news content no matter which language, territory, or AI platform is tested.' 1/2
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC
www.bbc.co.uk
October 23, 2025 at 1:47 PM
'New research coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC has found that AI assistants – already a daily information gateway for millions of people – routinely misrepresent news content no matter which language, territory, or AI platform is tested.' 1/2
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I am very much appreciating @cassienewland.bsky.social’s opening chapter on #plastics history — begins with the whole rubber-human rights mess, ace primary sources, and puts the whole celluloid spared the elephant trope in its full context. 👏👏👏👏
This book. My word, this book! Plastics folks— the archaeologists on plastics are 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯 I’m in do not disturb mode over here until I finish it.
October 23, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I am very much appreciating @cassienewland.bsky.social’s opening chapter on #plastics history — begins with the whole rubber-human rights mess, ace primary sources, and puts the whole celluloid spared the elephant trope in its full context. 👏👏👏👏
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'Before William Wordsworth’s imagination had wandered, lonely as a cloud, and before John Keats’s nib had quivered with notions about nightingales, a Black woman named Phillis Wheatley was circulating a treasury of nature-inspired verse in London.'
Phillis Wheatley, the first Black nature poet | The Observer
Enslaved as a child, the 18th-century writer became the first published Black woman – and a pioneer of nature poetry whose legacy still inspires
observer.co.uk
October 23, 2025 at 6:36 AM
'Before William Wordsworth’s imagination had wandered, lonely as a cloud, and before John Keats’s nib had quivered with notions about nightingales, a Black woman named Phillis Wheatley was circulating a treasury of nature-inspired verse in London.'
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New in Area!
'Making geography move: The Royal Geographical Society and the exchange of periodical knowledge, 1830–1900' by Benjamin Newman
This paper examines how the RGS's Library and Map Committee controlled the circulation of the Society's journal in the 19th century.
doi.org/10.1111/area...
'Making geography move: The Royal Geographical Society and the exchange of periodical knowledge, 1830–1900' by Benjamin Newman
This paper examines how the RGS's Library and Map Committee controlled the circulation of the Society's journal in the 19th century.
doi.org/10.1111/area...
October 21, 2025 at 11:58 AM
New in Area!
'Making geography move: The Royal Geographical Society and the exchange of periodical knowledge, 1830–1900' by Benjamin Newman
This paper examines how the RGS's Library and Map Committee controlled the circulation of the Society's journal in the 19th century.
doi.org/10.1111/area...
'Making geography move: The Royal Geographical Society and the exchange of periodical knowledge, 1830–1900' by Benjamin Newman
This paper examines how the RGS's Library and Map Committee controlled the circulation of the Society's journal in the 19th century.
doi.org/10.1111/area...
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This morning my ChatGPT quota was inexplicably exhausted.
It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed.
The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasn’t asking and praising him for his insight.
It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed.
The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasn’t asking and praising him for his insight.
October 18, 2025 at 9:04 AM
This morning my ChatGPT quota was inexplicably exhausted.
It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed.
The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasn’t asking and praising him for his insight.
It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed.
The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasn’t asking and praising him for his insight.
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How can we pursue nature-based solutions effectively and empirically?
We are launching a new MSc in Natural Capital and Sustainability. It runs across business, env. science, geography, and is in partnership with Kew Gardens!
Applications now open for 2026!
www.qmul.ac.uk/postgraduate...
We are launching a new MSc in Natural Capital and Sustainability. It runs across business, env. science, geography, and is in partnership with Kew Gardens!
Applications now open for 2026!
www.qmul.ac.uk/postgraduate...
Natural Capital and Sustainability MSc - Queen Mary University of London
www.qmul.ac.uk
October 8, 2025 at 9:22 PM
How can we pursue nature-based solutions effectively and empirically?
We are launching a new MSc in Natural Capital and Sustainability. It runs across business, env. science, geography, and is in partnership with Kew Gardens!
Applications now open for 2026!
www.qmul.ac.uk/postgraduate...
We are launching a new MSc in Natural Capital and Sustainability. It runs across business, env. science, geography, and is in partnership with Kew Gardens!
Applications now open for 2026!
www.qmul.ac.uk/postgraduate...
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"Biodiversity loss is notoriously difficult to quantify. Even in Switzerland, a country with intense monitoring of nature, systematic measurements have only existed for about two decades." www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Century-old papers saved from the bin reveal changes in Europe’s plant life
Plant inventories dating back to 1884 and nearly thrown away enable unique time-lapse study of biodiversity in Swiss meadows
www.theguardian.com
October 9, 2025 at 7:44 AM
"Biodiversity loss is notoriously difficult to quantify. Even in Switzerland, a country with intense monitoring of nature, systematic measurements have only existed for about two decades." www.theguardian.com/environment/...
How can we pursue nature-based solutions effectively and empirically?
We are launching a new MSc in Natural Capital and Sustainability. It runs across business, env. science, geography, and is in partnership with Kew Gardens!
Applications now open for 2026!
www.qmul.ac.uk/postgraduate...
We are launching a new MSc in Natural Capital and Sustainability. It runs across business, env. science, geography, and is in partnership with Kew Gardens!
Applications now open for 2026!
www.qmul.ac.uk/postgraduate...
Natural Capital and Sustainability MSc - Queen Mary University of London
www.qmul.ac.uk
October 8, 2025 at 9:22 PM
How can we pursue nature-based solutions effectively and empirically?
We are launching a new MSc in Natural Capital and Sustainability. It runs across business, env. science, geography, and is in partnership with Kew Gardens!
Applications now open for 2026!
www.qmul.ac.uk/postgraduate...
We are launching a new MSc in Natural Capital and Sustainability. It runs across business, env. science, geography, and is in partnership with Kew Gardens!
Applications now open for 2026!
www.qmul.ac.uk/postgraduate...
I’m sure there are a few emails flying around at some of these universities right now
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show
Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests
www.theguardian.com
October 8, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I’m sure there are a few emails flying around at some of these universities right now
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
In case anybody teaching game theory is looking for an example of what contemporary freeriding looks like.
Exclusive: OpenAI is planning to release a new version of its Sora video generator, which creates videos featuring copyrighted material unless copyright holders opt out of having their work appear.
OpenAI’s New Sora Video Generator to Require Copyright Holders to Opt Out
Executives at the startup notified talent agencies and studios over the last week.
on.wsj.com
September 30, 2025 at 8:39 AM
In case anybody teaching game theory is looking for an example of what contemporary freeriding looks like.
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If you are still looking for that reading at the intersection of environment, health, extraction and disposession (with a dash of the digital)...
💻New in Geo!🛢️
'Minecraft's territory: Alberta's oil sands, settler knowledge infrastructure & digital geographies' by @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social
This paper traces how the data used for a Minecraft extension are tied to broader extractive networks of knowledge production.
doi.org/10.1002/geo2...
'Minecraft's territory: Alberta's oil sands, settler knowledge infrastructure & digital geographies' by @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social
This paper traces how the data used for a Minecraft extension are tied to broader extractive networks of knowledge production.
doi.org/10.1002/geo2...
September 23, 2025 at 9:25 AM
If you are still looking for that reading at the intersection of environment, health, extraction and disposession (with a dash of the digital)...
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A highly controversial new law in Turkey allows mining in olive groves, requiring tree transplantation.
My new open-access article in @politicalgeography.bsky.social explores the making of "movable nature"— salvage work that moves nature out of the way of infrastructure and extraction projects.
My new open-access article in @politicalgeography.bsky.social explores the making of "movable nature"— salvage work that moves nature out of the way of infrastructure and extraction projects.
Salvage work: The making of movable nature for post-submergence life
This article critically examines environmental salvage projects undertaken in northeastern Turkey by focusing on political and technoscientific actors…
www.sciencedirect.com
September 19, 2025 at 8:49 PM
A highly controversial new law in Turkey allows mining in olive groves, requiring tree transplantation.
My new open-access article in @politicalgeography.bsky.social explores the making of "movable nature"— salvage work that moves nature out of the way of infrastructure and extraction projects.
My new open-access article in @politicalgeography.bsky.social explores the making of "movable nature"— salvage work that moves nature out of the way of infrastructure and extraction projects.
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Some food for thought: if you're reviewing a book & it has good, useful maps, say so in the review! And name the mapmaker if you can.
Often, folks writing books don't know where to go for good maps. Making mention of them in your review helps everyone.
#skystorians #midievalsky #historians
Often, folks writing books don't know where to go for good maps. Making mention of them in your review helps everyone.
#skystorians #midievalsky #historians
September 17, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Some food for thought: if you're reviewing a book & it has good, useful maps, say so in the review! And name the mapmaker if you can.
Often, folks writing books don't know where to go for good maps. Making mention of them in your review helps everyone.
#skystorians #midievalsky #historians
Often, folks writing books don't know where to go for good maps. Making mention of them in your review helps everyone.
#skystorians #midievalsky #historians