adam searle
cultural and historical geographer
interested in ecology and technology
Assistant Professor, University of Nottingham
Member and co-founder, @digicologies.bsky.social
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- Reposted by adam searleStreaming services are costlier every year, and you need to sign up for multiple services just to catch your favorite sports team every time they play. As viewers become more fed up, more have embraced rogue streaming boxes. Read more from @jank0.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/streaming/87...
- Reposted by adam searleImagine discovering that the entire structure of state secondary education was about to collapse, and musing "Ah well, we'll always have Eton, Harrow and Winchester..." This is basically how the political class thinks about higher education.
- Reposted by adam searleWhen people talk about the idea that some universities must go under, there’s a certain tendency to behave as if these smaller local campuses are negligible- regrettable casualties perhaps but not ‘real’ universities. This report does a great job of illustrating why that’s wrong.
- Reposted by adam searleNew publication! In this paper I draw on heterodox marxist engagements with subsumption to revise core approaches within marxist geography. Subsumption provides us with a dynamic tool to rethink capitalist property, uneven development and difference. Do reach out for access! doi.org/10.1177/2043...
- Tom Cowan, Geographies of Subsumption, @dialogueshg.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
- Reposted by adam searleHelpful thread here on UKRI + strategy. Vital in any cross-disciplinary calls that arts, humanities + social sciences have a central and transformative role, and hopefully aren't seen as 'service sciences' stuck on at the end of the pipe to assess public opinion or 'convince' the public about tech.
- amazing journalism again at @404media.co
- We got Palantir's user guide for ELITE, the tool they made for ICE: www.404media.co/here-is-the-...
- really exciting reading academic reflections on my artwork collaboration with Christian Kosmas Mayer, in the introduction to an amazing special issue on "The Art and Science of De-extinction," Configurations, edited by Sarah Bezan and Peter Sands muse.jhu.edu/article/981314
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- Reposted by adam searleAnnouncing the Urban Multiplicities Seminar Series, featuring six brilliant speakers @rikjaz.bsky.social @ayonadatta.bsky.social Charlotte Lemanski @princeguma.bsky.social @maanbarua.bsky.social @profgillian.bsky.social Location: Small Lecture Theatre @camunigeography.bsky.social
- a really great paper
- New article for @tibg.bsky.social. Through the case of digital snake rescue, I merge @digicologies.bsky.social and disease ecology work to develop the lens of 'digital disease ecologies' - a way to analyse how digital encounter and datafication configure disease emergence and multispecies health.
- Reposted by adam searleTomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026
- very excited for this!
- Tickets have now sold out. We're looking forward to welcoming everyone to Oxford in just over a week! The schedule can be viewed at our website: digicologies.com/schedule
- Reposted by adam searleAbsolutely this! Modules with the same prescribed form, team taught, substitutable and therefore replacable staff (often done in the name of ‘workload’)
- Reposted by adam searleTickets have now sold out. We're looking forward to welcoming everyone to Oxford in just over a week! The schedule can be viewed at our website: digicologies.com/schedule
- 🌐 Registration NOW OPEN for 'The Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies' 🌐 Join us to explore how emerging visual regimes are shaping environmental governance and knowledge politics With wonderful keynotes: @joannazylinska.bsky.social & Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-visual...
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- Reposted by adam searleA moment many years in the making – it's time to check proofs of my forthcoming book, Power Plants, due out in June with @manchesterup.bsky.social! Somehow, this has snuck on to the AAG's Winter 2025 books list – which looks great (www.aag.org/new-books-fo...). Preorder by end of Jan for 40% off 🌿🌲🌳
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- Reposted by adam searle🌐 Registration NOW OPEN for 'The Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies' 🌐 Join us to explore how emerging visual regimes are shaping environmental governance and knowledge politics With wonderful keynotes: @joannazylinska.bsky.social & Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-visual...
- Reposted by adam searleregister now for the Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies conference, 2-3 Feb 2026 in Oxford! with keynotes @joannazylinska.bsky.social and Daisy Ginsberg www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-visual... 🌳 📹 🦫 🛰️
- DIGITAL ECOLOGIES is available for just £15 in paperback until the end of January; discount applied automatically unless you're in North America, where you need to type "JAN40" at payment this also applies to ALL @manchesterup.bsky.social books!!! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526188601/
- buy these too: @dudleymarianna.bsky.social, Electric Wind manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182968/ @laurieparsons.bsky.social, Carbon Colonialism manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526184955/
- as Alfred North Whitehead (1929: 39) noted in his magnum opus, Process and Reality: "The safest general characterisation of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to [redacted]."
- "I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato." surreal times dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
- Reposted by adam searleIf you've been thinking of buying Electric Wind, now would be a very good time - it's only £11.40 in the MUP sale!
- HAPPY NEW YEAR! 🎉 To celebrate the start of a new year, we are currently offering 40% OFF EVERY SINGLE BOOK on our website, until 31st January 2026. Head to our website (link in bio) to shop now. #booksky
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- first time I’ve seen a Nicobar pigeon up close and completely unsurprised that they don’t remind me of the much larger, flightless, big-beaked dodo at all; the idea of gene-editing this animal to de-extinct a so-called “dodo” is so utterly far-fetched it’s beyond comprehension to me
- Izat Arif, “In Loving Memory,” terrazzo bench and industrial paint, my favourite 2025 commission for the Singapore Biennale
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- Reposted by adam searleNew Special Section in Area: 'Gender and Rewilding' guest edited by Nadia Bartolini Featuring contributions from @kimjward.bsky.social, @sherilynmacgregor.bsky.social, @sarahmay1.bsky.social & others Read the full #OpenAccess collection here ⬇️ rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
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- Reposted by adam searle📣Join the States of Precarity team for the launch of the States of Precarity in UK Higher Education Geography report. 📅 Wednesday 14 January 🎦 Online 👉 Sign up to attend: bit.ly/4rvQgP2 Check out the report before the launch: bit.ly/44HTUvg
- Reposted by adam searleI’ve written the @resprofnews.bsky.social Sunday Read this week. I’ve looked at the value and importance of the arts, humanities and social sciences and what policymakers might do to support them at a time we are seeing major cutbacks in universities www.researchprofessional.com/news-article...
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- Reposted by adam searleThis is such evocative writing… "But while Pantone tries to invoke the color's connotation as a fresh start or blank canvas, remember that the white of a new sheet of paper is born from the brown-trunked trees that were planted, nurtured, cut, pulverized, bleached, and pressed."
- Reposted by adam searleResearcher Rhiannon Bull from @uofgges.bsky.social is launching an appeal to gather short pieces of creative writing reflecting thoughts and feelings about climate change in Scotland. Interested in signing up? Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin... @communitylandsc.bsky.social
- my phone just reminded me of this: six years ago today, with the May68-inspired banner I sewed (very poorly I might add) on strike in Cambridge with @benaplatt.bsky.social higher education is in a far worse place now: la lutte continue !!
- Reposted by adam searleOut in spring from @bentarnoff.com & I www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
- Reposted by adam searleExcited to announce @leverhulmecal.bsky.social posts - we are looking for 7 interdisciplinary fellows to join our Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life, closing date 30 January 2026 (1/3) durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
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- Reposted by adam searle🌺New in Geo🌺 'Cultivating scientific authority: A vegetal geography of Chinese rhododendrons at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh' by @mingcan-rong.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/geo2... #geosky
- Reposted by adam searleRachael Chan and I have a new paper out in the ever-excellent Gender, Place and Culture. title: picturing reproductive techno-futurism through pre-wedding photography in Singapore. #openaccess here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @oxfordgeography.bsky.social
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- When Nottingham's School of Geography is closed as part of managerial restructuring, and we find ourselves in a "School of Earth Sciences" next year, where will that leave cultural, historical, political, social, – etc. – geographers who don't fit the new model, when management ask for redundancies?
- Precarity is often presented as something that only effects early career researchers or people on fixed term contracts. Our report found that 45% of geographers on permanent contracts feel precarious. The implications for the discipline are wide ranging. Read more 👇 www.rgs.org/research/hig...
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- Reposted by adam searleNottinghamshire MPs have written to @uniofnottingham.bsky.social, urging the university to reconsider proposed course suspensions and potential closures, which would significantly impact staff, students, and our wider city and county.
- Reposted by adam searle💥 New publication out on the alignment of AI & authoritarianism 💥 We argue that AI is not simply extending, but actively modulating, key dynamics of authoritarianism, and present a flexible analytical framework to account for these changes. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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- Reposted by adam searleQuestion from @martinwhitfieldmsp.bsky.social in the Scottish Parliament on cuts and job losses at Edinburgh University as @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social take third day of strike action this week #SaveHE #StopTheCuts www.heraldscotland.com/news/2563152...
