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I still have and wear this 1998 #AAG t-shirt. #Geography
#withoutNSF we would not have eliminated the Viagra spammers who were polluting our inboxes and doing a billion dollars a year of hacking damage to sell their pills. #AAG

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Happy that we made it to the Charles Wright Museum of African American History in #Detroit while at the #AAG. V moving & shocking experience explaining why so much is still wrong + legacies of racialised injustice but also the power & potential of fearless struggle. #BlackHistory #AfricanAmericanHistory #detroit

US Fascism has academia in its crosshairs now. The whole point is to terrorize us into silence. I'm still considering going to the #AAG in Detroit, but considering if my financial, intellectual, and emotional labour is better spent elsewhere (e.g. #Palestine). In any case, and I have a call with an immigration US lawyer later today and will decide last-minute. Thankfully I can defer the decision because I don't have expensive flights to rebook.

@academicchatter

My department at #UofT is sending announcements to grad students and faculty members who are going to the #AAG in Detroit in a couple of weeks to ask us to register with the safety abroad office, because the USA is a dangerous hostile zone now.

If I end up going, this will likely be the very last time I go to the US in the foreseeable future.

@academicchatter

I'm reading this 1956 essay by Carl O Sauer, titled "the education of a geographer". It's a beautiful meditation on the disciplinary incoherence of #geography as a discipline, which was true back then, and is even more true today.

It strikes me is that I only came across the essay a few days ago, and I'm a PhD student in geography.

I feel that every university degree should have a required course about the history of the discipline it studies.

https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8306.1956.tb01510.x

#AAG #academia

Sci-Hub | THE EDUCATION OF A GEOGRAPHER. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 46(3), 287–299 | 10.1111/j.1467-8306.1956.tb01510.x

It is super weird how the #AAG conference is always held at a different time per year. In the past six years it has varied between January to April. As a Finn who likes orderly things and schedules, it baffles me, and I wonder what the reason is.

I wager it's something fairly ordinary, such as better rates or availability for the venues, but it might also be a peculiarity of American culture that I am not aware of. I have my hopes up for the latter.

The Illusion of the Web3 Decentralization: Distributing Power or Creating a New Tech-Savvy Elite?

This article critically examines how Web3 decentralization policy trends impact global governance, questioning whether they genuinely distribute power or merely