Judith Krauss
@judithekrauss.bsky.social
Lecturer @ UoYork, UK, Politics, IGDC member, YESI co-research theme lead, Assoc Editor @JPoliticalEcology. Sustainable value chains, convivial conservation, SDGs, squirrels & more. Love singing & cycling, sometimes in conjunction. My views. She/her
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Eben.
November 29, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Eben.
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Diese Bilder aus #Gießen kannst du keinem Opfer rechter Gewalt, weder den Familien in Halle & Hanau, noch den Angehörigen der Opfer des NSU oder der Familie Walter Lübckes noch irgendwie erklären! Wir sollten uns als Politik unsrer Verantwortung endlich stellen & das #AfDVerbotsverfahren freigeben!
November 29, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Diese Bilder aus #Gießen kannst du keinem Opfer rechter Gewalt, weder den Familien in Halle & Hanau, noch den Angehörigen der Opfer des NSU oder der Familie Walter Lübckes noch irgendwie erklären! Wir sollten uns als Politik unsrer Verantwortung endlich stellen & das #AfDVerbotsverfahren freigeben!
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This is why OpenAI is selling so aggressively to education at all levels—they want to create entire generations of users incapable of reading, writing and thinking without ChatGPT to hold their hands
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
To bear out this rosy projection, HSBC assumes that OpenAI will become "as ubiquitous [...] as Microsoft 365" (345mm users worldwide) while bringing in 10x the number of users (3bn).
November 25, 2025 at 11:11 PM
This is why OpenAI is selling so aggressively to education at all levels—they want to create entire generations of users incapable of reading, writing and thinking without ChatGPT to hold their hands
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
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Excited that our session — 'Cyborg rivers and riverhood movements: potentials of re-imagining, re-politicizing and re-commoning relations between rivers, nonhumans and people' — was accepted for #POLLEN2026. Call for papers is open until 5th December! 🦦
pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026/
pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026/
POLLEN Conference 2026 - POLLEN
Universitat de Barcelona: 29 June, 1-3 JulyUniversitat Autònoma de Barcelona: 30 June The call for Presentations and posters is now Open: The call for presentations & posters has now begun, please vis...
pollenpoliticalecology.network
November 25, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Excited that our session — 'Cyborg rivers and riverhood movements: potentials of re-imagining, re-politicizing and re-commoning relations between rivers, nonhumans and people' — was accepted for #POLLEN2026. Call for papers is open until 5th December! 🦦
pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026/
pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026/
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Fieldwork can be a unique opportunity, but it can also be a very significant challenge to well-being. My colleagues have developed this interactive reflection tool to help manage well-being whilst on fieldwork, preparing to fieldwork, and when you get back
inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/wellbeing/
inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/wellbeing/
Wellbeing Reflection Tool | Inclusive Fieldwork Hub
inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk
November 25, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Fieldwork can be a unique opportunity, but it can also be a very significant challenge to well-being. My colleagues have developed this interactive reflection tool to help manage well-being whilst on fieldwork, preparing to fieldwork, and when you get back
inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/wellbeing/
inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/wellbeing/
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November 24, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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Call PhD Proposals related to Political Ecologies of Conservation, Infectious Animal and Zoonotic Diseases, One Health, and Wildlife Trade
#politicalecology #humanenvironmentgeography
Please share and pass on to potentially interested people.
@pollenetwork.bsky.social
@findaphd.bsky.social
#politicalecology #humanenvironmentgeography
Please share and pass on to potentially interested people.
@pollenetwork.bsky.social
@findaphd.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Call PhD Proposals related to Political Ecologies of Conservation, Infectious Animal and Zoonotic Diseases, One Health, and Wildlife Trade
#politicalecology #humanenvironmentgeography
Please share and pass on to potentially interested people.
@pollenetwork.bsky.social
@findaphd.bsky.social
#politicalecology #humanenvironmentgeography
Please share and pass on to potentially interested people.
@pollenetwork.bsky.social
@findaphd.bsky.social
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Mit Nazis reden. (Heute vor 80 Jahren war Prozessbeginn.)
November 20, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Mit Nazis reden. (Heute vor 80 Jahren war Prozessbeginn.)
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Calling all White Rose ECRs in the humanities and social sciences! Join us for the launch of the British Academy ECR Network Yorkshire and Humber cluster in January - featuring panels, interactive sessions and networking.
👉 whiterose.ac.uk/event/ba-erc...
👉 whiterose.ac.uk/event/ba-erc...
November 18, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Calling all White Rose ECRs in the humanities and social sciences! Join us for the launch of the British Academy ECR Network Yorkshire and Humber cluster in January - featuring panels, interactive sessions and networking.
👉 whiterose.ac.uk/event/ba-erc...
👉 whiterose.ac.uk/event/ba-erc...
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🎄✨ Join #YESI for a relaxed, drop-in festive get-together.
Mince pies, good company + space to unwind with others passionate about environmental sustainability. 🔗 buff.ly/2a8xXVG
👋 ECR Hour – come share your ideas for future YESI ECR activities.
Festive attire optional but encouraged!
Mince pies, good company + space to unwind with others passionate about environmental sustainability. 🔗 buff.ly/2a8xXVG
👋 ECR Hour – come share your ideas for future YESI ECR activities.
Festive attire optional but encouraged!
November 18, 2025 at 12:30 PM
🎄✨ Join #YESI for a relaxed, drop-in festive get-together.
Mince pies, good company + space to unwind with others passionate about environmental sustainability. 🔗 buff.ly/2a8xXVG
👋 ECR Hour – come share your ideas for future YESI ECR activities.
Festive attire optional but encouraged!
Mince pies, good company + space to unwind with others passionate about environmental sustainability. 🔗 buff.ly/2a8xXVG
👋 ECR Hour – come share your ideas for future YESI ECR activities.
Festive attire optional but encouraged!
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“How many refugees have been granted asylum in the UK?”
Most people overestimate the number - by a lot. With far-right figures spreading misinformation, it’s hard for the public to know the truth.
Watch the video to see just how wide the gap is between perception and reality.
Most people overestimate the number - by a lot. With far-right figures spreading misinformation, it’s hard for the public to know the truth.
Watch the video to see just how wide the gap is between perception and reality.
November 17, 2025 at 1:10 PM
“How many refugees have been granted asylum in the UK?”
Most people overestimate the number - by a lot. With far-right figures spreading misinformation, it’s hard for the public to know the truth.
Watch the video to see just how wide the gap is between perception and reality.
Most people overestimate the number - by a lot. With far-right figures spreading misinformation, it’s hard for the public to know the truth.
Watch the video to see just how wide the gap is between perception and reality.
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Profits from scientific publishing are eye-watering, costing us billions. In ‘The Drain of Scientific Publishing’ (arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820), (building on ‘The Strain of Scientific Publishing’ doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00327) we show how it is harmful – and unnecessary.
The Drain of Scientific Publishing
The domination of scientific publishing in the Global North by major commercial publishers is harmful to science. We need the most powerful members of the research community, funders, governments and ...
arxiv.org
November 12, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Profits from scientific publishing are eye-watering, costing us billions. In ‘The Drain of Scientific Publishing’ (arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820), (building on ‘The Strain of Scientific Publishing’ doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00327) we show how it is harmful – and unnecessary.
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After journeying for weeks from a glacier in the Andes to Brazil’s tropical coast, a boat carrying dozens of Indigenous leaders docked in Belem to attend the COP30 climate summit.
November 10, 2025 at 6:38 AM
After journeying for weeks from a glacier in the Andes to Brazil’s tropical coast, a boat carrying dozens of Indigenous leaders docked in Belem to attend the COP30 climate summit.
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I honestly don’t get the value of this company. They hoover up energy and water. Their product constantly gets things wrong and, in extreme cases, coaches people into suicide.
And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft.
What does OpenAI offer the world?
And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft.
What does OpenAI offer the world?
“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion”
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
OpenAI in Danger After Authors Suing It Gain Access to Its Internal Slack Messages
Authors and publishers, who are suing OpenAI, secured access to internal Slack messages and emails discussing the deletion of pirated books.
futurism.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:35 AM
I honestly don’t get the value of this company. They hoover up energy and water. Their product constantly gets things wrong and, in extreme cases, coaches people into suicide.
And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft.
What does OpenAI offer the world?
And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft.
What does OpenAI offer the world?
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Wishing Mr Zitouni a full and fast recovery and hoping the story of his heroism would bring some sense and shame to the rampant racist narratives sweeping our country.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Samir Zitouni named as train hero who saved lives during attack
The family of rail worker Samir Zitouni say they are
www.bbc.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Wishing Mr Zitouni a full and fast recovery and hoping the story of his heroism would bring some sense and shame to the rampant racist narratives sweeping our country.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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New in Geo:
'Repairing epistemic injustice and loss in the era of climate coloniality' by Farhana Sultana
This paper critically examines the intersections of power, pedagogy and praxis in producing inequitable climate knowledge, global governance, policies and solutions.
doi.org/10.1002/geo2...
'Repairing epistemic injustice and loss in the era of climate coloniality' by Farhana Sultana
This paper critically examines the intersections of power, pedagogy and praxis in producing inequitable climate knowledge, global governance, policies and solutions.
doi.org/10.1002/geo2...
October 31, 2025 at 4:28 PM
New in Geo:
'Repairing epistemic injustice and loss in the era of climate coloniality' by Farhana Sultana
This paper critically examines the intersections of power, pedagogy and praxis in producing inequitable climate knowledge, global governance, policies and solutions.
doi.org/10.1002/geo2...
'Repairing epistemic injustice and loss in the era of climate coloniality' by Farhana Sultana
This paper critically examines the intersections of power, pedagogy and praxis in producing inequitable climate knowledge, global governance, policies and solutions.
doi.org/10.1002/geo2...
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🚨 We are looking for 3 new colleagues to join the GreenFrontier team as Postdoctoral Researchers!
Deadline for applications: 25 Nov 2025
Each of the 3 openings will involve extended ethnographic fieldwork + plenty of opportunities to consolidate research & leadership skills!
Please share widely!
Deadline for applications: 25 Nov 2025
Each of the 3 openings will involve extended ethnographic fieldwork + plenty of opportunities to consolidate research & leadership skills!
Please share widely!
November 3, 2025 at 7:32 AM
🚨 We are looking for 3 new colleagues to join the GreenFrontier team as Postdoctoral Researchers!
Deadline for applications: 25 Nov 2025
Each of the 3 openings will involve extended ethnographic fieldwork + plenty of opportunities to consolidate research & leadership skills!
Please share widely!
Deadline for applications: 25 Nov 2025
Each of the 3 openings will involve extended ethnographic fieldwork + plenty of opportunities to consolidate research & leadership skills!
Please share widely!
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“In my work with the (Nuremberg Trial) defendants, I was searching for the nature of evil, and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy... a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”
- Captain G.M. Gilbert, US Army
- Captain G.M. Gilbert, US Army
October 29, 2025 at 9:37 PM
“In my work with the (Nuremberg Trial) defendants, I was searching for the nature of evil, and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy... a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”
- Captain G.M. Gilbert, US Army
- Captain G.M. Gilbert, US Army
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Just in case anyone is listening, please note that UK universities cannot operate successfully on the basis of continuous reduction of academic staff and academic staff pay. No amount of staff wellness sessions will change this.
October 29, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Just in case anyone is listening, please note that UK universities cannot operate successfully on the basis of continuous reduction of academic staff and academic staff pay. No amount of staff wellness sessions will change this.
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What we're witnessing with #Melissa is ultra rare in the history of known hurricanes in the Atlantic. This level of sustained intensity and feasting on every joule of ocean heat content without any real disruption is incredible.
Not hyperbole: Jamaica is facing a generational catastrophic event.
Not hyperbole: Jamaica is facing a generational catastrophic event.
October 28, 2025 at 2:23 AM
What we're witnessing with #Melissa is ultra rare in the history of known hurricanes in the Atlantic. This level of sustained intensity and feasting on every joule of ocean heat content without any real disruption is incredible.
Not hyperbole: Jamaica is facing a generational catastrophic event.
Not hyperbole: Jamaica is facing a generational catastrophic event.
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As the single most important news story this year, I can't wait to see the detailed and central coverage this will get in every media outlet we have
‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head
Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:00 AM
As the single most important news story this year, I can't wait to see the detailed and central coverage this will get in every media outlet we have
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I strongly believe the smallest act of daily creativity can powerfully reinforce & fuel our trauma recovery.
Our bullies & abusers desperately want us forgetting how to make & share music, art, poetry, or anything else. Ask yourself why.
Our bullies & abusers desperately want us forgetting how to make & share music, art, poetry, or anything else. Ask yourself why.
October 25, 2025 at 3:29 AM
I strongly believe the smallest act of daily creativity can powerfully reinforce & fuel our trauma recovery.
Our bullies & abusers desperately want us forgetting how to make & share music, art, poetry, or anything else. Ask yourself why.
Our bullies & abusers desperately want us forgetting how to make & share music, art, poetry, or anything else. Ask yourself why.
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The richest man on earth owns X.
The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
October 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The richest man on earth owns X.
The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
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The journal Environmental Humanities is still looking for midcareer/senior #envhum scholars interested in becoming a co-editor-in-chief from January 2026. You can apply as an individual and we'll find an appropriate co-editor match for you.
See environmentalhumanities.org
See environmentalhumanities.org
Environmental Humanities – A journal published by Duke University Press
environmentalhumanities.org
October 21, 2025 at 6:34 AM
The journal Environmental Humanities is still looking for midcareer/senior #envhum scholars interested in becoming a co-editor-in-chief from January 2026. You can apply as an individual and we'll find an appropriate co-editor match for you.
See environmentalhumanities.org
See environmentalhumanities.org
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"Für Jüdinnen und Juden kann es aus der Geschichte nur eine Lehre geben: Die Einteilung in jene, die aus dem #Stadtbild entfernt gehören, und in jene, die in das Stadtbild passen und deshalb verschont bleiben, ist nicht hinnehmbar"
~ Sasha Marianna Salzmann @taz.de
~ Sasha Marianna Salzmann @taz.de
Autor*in zur Stadtbild-Debatte: Der böse Traum vom gereinigten Deutschland
Woran will Bundeskanzler Merz eigentlich das irregulär Migrantische erkennen? Seine Äußerungen zum deutschen Stadtbild sind menschenverachtend.
taz.de
October 19, 2025 at 5:12 PM
"Für Jüdinnen und Juden kann es aus der Geschichte nur eine Lehre geben: Die Einteilung in jene, die aus dem #Stadtbild entfernt gehören, und in jene, die in das Stadtbild passen und deshalb verschont bleiben, ist nicht hinnehmbar"
~ Sasha Marianna Salzmann @taz.de
~ Sasha Marianna Salzmann @taz.de