• full-time urban geographer (UCL Bartlett)
• spare-time cyclejographer (London mostly)
• first-time author (*Reconstructing Public Housing: Liverpool’s hidden history of collective alternatives* https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv153k6cx
Matt Thompson
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This is exactly it. The work is the point.
Since Google revealed its plans for an AI search overhaul, visits to our "No AI" search page have tripled…and they’re still rising! Want to make it your default on Chrome or Firefox? Grab our No-AI extensions and banish AI-assisted answers, chat, and AI images. (1/3)
I really applaud both author & sources, & The Chronicle for running with this. As somebody who was a decade into recovery before I started grad school, I think there can be many reasons why addicts find their way into academe. But what resonates with me is this…
We are closing @goldperc.bsky.social after 12 years. Here I reflect on the times and what we made of them www.goldperc.uk/project_post...
"Rainy Street" - my oil painting
“Even more depressing is how well suited this cauterisation of the self is to the political moment, one of a glut of content and bad information…What is at stake isn’t just a few unfortunate errors here and there, but a commitment to strive [to maintain] the veracity of the world we all experience.”
The archive of SH teaching here is fantastic. Conjuncture = Hegelian dialectics is an odd contribution, but that aside this is really interesting and useful.
Capitalist Power in Post-War Croydon.
New post in which I discuss the network of business people & local politicians behind Croydon's concrete building boom.
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Matt Seybold
The Political Economy Research Centre is to close formally this summer. Here, founding Director, Will Davies, reflects on its twelve years of activity. It took two or three years before the causes, ef...
The biggest story of our time that we're not talking about nearly enough www.chronicle.com/article/my-s...
The University of Nottingham is cutting over 600 academic jobs. This includes 1 in 3 #geography lecturers.
"The lecturers *are* the University, and without them it's nothing" - Geography student (BBC interview):
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The generational collapse in literacy is measurable, persistent, and likely to get worse.
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6,038 likes, 179 comments - bbceastmidlands on May 22, 2026: "The action would "effectively block the university from handing out graduation certificates".
Students have joined lecturers on the picke...
“'We think of drug addicts or substance abusers as people who really just can’t deny themselves the pleasure.' But it’s really about escaping pain."
Episode Five - Stuart Hall asks: Is There An English Ideology?
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With @jemgilbert.bsky.social & Caitlin Doherty, with a special appearance at the end from Catherine Hall
Thom Davies
Career pressures and culture fosters substance abuse that can stay hidden.
AI is devoid of meaning and humanity. That’s why its vapid voice suits this political moment | Nesrine Malik
📢From now, reference lists will no longer be counted in the 10,000 word limit for papers submitted to TIBG
In our latest editorial, we lay out the reasons behind this decision & encourage prospective authors to reflect on their citational practices.
Available to read here ⬇️
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD
For ease and speed, we are degrading our ability to connect and to organise our societies. We must assert our trust in humans over machines, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
