gillian rose

gillian rose

@profgillian.bsky.social

digital things, visual culture, cities, visual research methods. And sometimes academic life. Prof of Human Geography at the University of Oxford. I still blog, occasionally, here: https://visualmethodculture.wordpress.com/

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Rob Kitchin
@robkitchin.bsky.social

Our 3D model of central Dublin in action - data are map projected on. Model is 3.5m (7km) by 2m (4km). This clip is building use, planning applications, population density, house prices & airbnb properties shown in time sequence. Visit exhibition to see in full fictions-frictions-evictions.ie

gillian rose
@profgillian.bsky.social

I know lots of people loved EJ Swift's novel When There Are Wolves Again. Me, less so. So I wrote a review puzzling out why.

visualmethodculture.wordpress.comWhen There Are Wolves Again: a dissenting reviewI read EJ Swift's novel When There Are Wolves Again earlier this year. The reviews quoted at the front of the current paperback edition are ecstatic about the book: apparently it's inspiring, beautifully written, poetic, passionate, uplifting, exquisite, eloquent, brilliant, thoughtful, courageous, remarkable, extraordinary. No surprise then that it won the British Science Fiction Association's Award for Best Novel of 2025, and the 2026…

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Bojan Fürst
@bojanfurst.bsky.social

Excellent! We once run a giant timer on the screen for questions. 30 seconds to ask your question. It worked like a charm. Also, if this is an in person event and people have lapel mics, make sure they are turned off if they decide to pop into the washroom before the session. Hard lesson, that one.

gillian rose@profgillian.bsky.social

I had a great time at the #RGS2026 conference a few weeks ago, but I was prompted to write this...

visualmethodculture.wordpress.comhow to chair a conference sessionThis is another in my occasional series of posts on stuff you might not be told but you will not in fact learn by osmotic immersion in the Academic Ether. (See also my posts on writing job applications, giving a job presentation and what to expect in a job interview.) This time: how to chair a conference session. As always, these are my thoughts - cross-check them with your peers, mentors, supervisors, best academic mates.
gillian rose
@profgillian.bsky.social

with excellent contributions from @davidjbissell.bsky.social; Tabea Bork-Hüffer and Katja Kaufmann; @evestowe.bsky.social; Fan Biang; @tessosborne.bsky.social, Danielle Drozdzewski and Tianchen Qu; and Shiva Nouri, Crystal Legacy and Derlie Mateo-Babiano.

gillian rose@profgillian.bsky.social

delighted that a special issue I co-edited with @ivinyeosj.bsky.social on being(s) and difference in the digitally-mediated city is out in Geoforum #geosky www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

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gillian rose
@profgillian.bsky.social

I had a great time at the #RGS2026 conference a few weeks ago, but I was prompted to write this...

visualmethodculture.wordpress.comhow to chair a conference sessionThis is another in my occasional series of posts on stuff you might not be told but you will not in fact learn by osmotic immersion in the Academic Ether. (See also my posts on writing job applications, giving a job presentation and what to expect in a job interview.) This time: how to chair a conference session. As always, these are my thoughts - cross-check them with your peers, mentors, supervisors, best academic mates.

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Dr Anna Clark
@drannaclark.bsky.social

A Vase of Flowers c 1670 by Jan Davidsz. de Heem, preeminent 17th Century still-life artist active in Utrecht & Antwerp. Profuse, vibrant composition with dark background, of flowers, fruits & 12 insects; arranged in glass vase, reflecting the cloudy sky of artist’s window. 1/2 Mauritshuis Den Haag

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Scifi Art
@scifiart.bsky.social

The World of the Future: Future Cities (Usborne,1979) by Kenneth Gatland and David Jefferis. Images from 2 Warps to Neptune

gillian rose
@profgillian.bsky.social

my review of an exhibition at the Barbican in London - it closes on 6 September!

visualmethodculture.wordpress.combig saviour architecture: In Other Worlds, sort ofI went to see In Other Worlds last week, the multimedia installation directed by Liam Young at the Barbican in London. I’m still a bit baffled by it, to be honest. photo by me It’s organised into six zones that you walk through one after the other. There’s a lot of video-like digital animation on big screens; there are some sculptural textile masks and scale models of buildings; there’s lots of fake rock and some presumably real tree trunks; there are life-size mannequins and various Barbie-sized dolls, all costumed; there is a lot of choral drone music; there’s an immersive 3D projection and a light installation.

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Nina Lager Vestberg
@lagernina.bsky.social

Fancy an excuse to come to Stockholm in September? Open seminar on PICTURE CULTURES with various folks involved in the project Selling Pictures: Pictorial Economy and Commoditization 1820–2020 (IFFS/VR). Speaker list in the comments!

gillian rose
@profgillian.bsky.social

feeling I should go see it just because it’s got this traction, but my personal oracle is warning me… visualmethodculture.wordpress.com/2023/08/22/o...

visualmethodculture.wordpress.comOppenheimer: Man, man and oh man…Yes, I’ve been to see Barbie and Oppenheimer. Here are some thoughts on the latter. Well, one thought really: Oppenheimer the movie is so deeply wedded to the idea of the white straight male …
Rachel Coldicutt@rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social

I've been on Bluesky for a while now and the Odyssey is the first pop culture event (not politics or sport) that's regularly popping up across my timeline and (with love) I guess nerds must really like Christopher Nolan films.

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Digital Geographies Research Group
@dgrgrgs.bsky.social

🚀 Not long to go until our free online DGRG Annual Symposium on 9 July 2026! Don't forget to register via the link. Join us for three exciting sessions exploring Digital Geographies in Fragile Times. For more info: digitalgeographiesrg.org/9-july-2026-... See you there! #DGRGAnnualSymposium2026

rgs.orgDigital geographies in fragile times | WebinarThis online symposium, hosted by the Digital Geographies Research Group, asks how digital geographies can help frame and address complex issues.
gillian rose
@profgillian.bsky.social

reposting this which enthuses not only about Sarah Sharma's book but also the work of Devika Narayan @devikanarayan.bsky.social. @dukepress.bsky.social @goodrobotpod.bsky.social @robkitchin.bsky.social @ahjackman.bsky.social @melhogan.bsky.social @alinau27.bsky.social

gillian rose@profgillian.bsky.social

I just wrote a very enthusiastic review of Sarah Sharma's new book. @dukepress.bsky.social @dgrgrgs.bsky.social

visualmethodculture.wordpress.comInsufferable Tools and critical tacticsI just finished reading Sarah Sharma’s new book Insufferable Tools: Feminism Against Big Tech. It’s a sustained and wonderful piece of feminist technoscience writing, from a media studies scholar determined to forge a structural/strategic analysis of the white patriarchy that surrounds so much of contemporary digital tech and its hype. In one way, that white patriarchy is all too obvious.
gillian rose
@profgillian.bsky.social

I just wrote a very enthusiastic review of Sarah Sharma's new book. @dukepress.bsky.social @dgrgrgs.bsky.social

visualmethodculture.wordpress.comInsufferable Tools and critical tacticsI just finished reading Sarah Sharma’s new book Insufferable Tools: Feminism Against Big Tech. It’s a sustained and wonderful piece of feminist technoscience writing, from a media studies scholar determined to forge a structural/strategic analysis of the white patriarchy that surrounds so much of contemporary digital tech and its hype. In one way, that white patriarchy is all too obvious.
gillian rose
@profgillian.bsky.social

this is a fascinating essay but when I rule the world, I will ban the use of the word "geography" to refer to controlling 'natural' constraints - these are vanishingly few - almost all physical environments are mediated by culture, tech and power. you have been warned. #geosky

London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk

‘Although they never managed Roman-style conquest – hemmed in by geography, revolt and circumstance – the Ptolemies and their citizens held on for three centuries. They were the last of the Hellenistic kingdoms to succumb to Rome.’ Robert Cioffi: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

lrb.co.ukRobert Cioffi · Pharaoh in all but name: Egypt under the PtolemiesThe Ptolemies came too late for many histories of Greece and Egypt and too early for Rome. Alexandria, their capital,...

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School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford
@oxfordgeography.bsky.social

Vacancy: Departmental Lecturer in Human Geography SoGE, in association with @mansfieldoxford.bsky.social, seeks an outstanding Departmental Lecturer in Human Geography to provide cover during Professor Derek McCormack’s period as Head of School: https://bit.ly/3PUDVG7 #academicsky

my.corehr.comJob Details: Departmental Lecturer in Human GeographyThe School of Geography and the Environment (SoGE), in association with Mansfield College, seeks an outstanding Departmental Lecturer in Human Geography to provide cover during Professor Derek McCormack’s period as Head of School.

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Tess Osborne
@tessosborne.bsky.social

🚨📣 We’re launching the first Early Career Editorial Board for Digital Geography & Society. If you’re a #PhD student, postdoc, or #ERC working on #digitalgeographies, we’d love to hear from you. We offer mentoring & hands-on experience in #academicpublishing & editorial work. Please share widely 🙏

sciencedirect.comNews - Digital Geography and Society | ScienceDirect.com by ElsevierRead the latest articles of Digital Geography and Society at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature

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Digital Humanities @ King's College London
@kingsdh.bsky.social

📣 Lecture: Dronotope: Emerging Technologies & the Politics of Timeline Visualisations 🗓 11 May, 17:30–19:30 📍 Macadam Building, Strand Campus, KCL Dr Beryl Pong shares her work on Dronotope, a creative “untimeline” of recent cross-sectoral drone developments 🎟️ www.tickettailor.com/events/digit...

tickettailor.comSelect tickets – Dronotope: Emerging Technologies and the Politics of Timeline Visualisations - Beryl Pong – Macadam Building (MAC 405), Strand Campus, King’s College LondonDronotope: Emerging Technologies and the Politics of Timeline Visualisations - Beryl Pong – Macadam Building (MAC 405), Strand Campus, King’s College London, Mon 11 May 2026 - Data visualisations ofte...
gillian rose
@profgillian.bsky.social

An important, powerful paper by @oliviamason.bsky.social on #precarity in academia: "the experiences of what it means to enter, get a job in, and then stay in the neoliberal academy are defining mine and others' experiences of being an academic." rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.comArea | RGS Geography Journal | Wiley Online LibraryPrecarity is shaping what it means to do geography, who can do geographical research, and how we do geographical research. In this short intervention I reflect personally on the relationship between ...

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Erin A. McCarthy
@erinannmcc.bsky.social

Seconding this! And if anyone wants to mix it up, there's also "foundational," "groundbreaking,""important," "essential," "landmark," "revolutionary"—all of which convey something slightly different without reinforcing gendered norms or giving anyone the ick.

Melissa Terras@melissaterras.bsky.social

I cross it out in every draft I read and insert “germinal” and then we discuss Why Entrenched Power Structures in Language Matter #laughOfTheMedusa

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Rachel Coldicutt
@rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social

I was on a panel this week at the Royal Society, talking about AI and the future of women in science, and Wendy Hall asked us about the consequences of a future without women working in AI. And my reply was that we don't need to imagine that future. It's here. It's the present.

Huw Davies@huwcdavies.bsky.social

Palantir’s UK CEO, Louis Mosely, wrote something similar in The Spectator recently citing Blue Labour’s Maurice Glasman’s term ‘Lanyard Class’.

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Stephen Bush
@stephenkb.bsky.social

The original sin here, IMV, is that a lot of writers and editors hear 'reading age of ten years old' and go 'ah, I'm writing for a moron!'

John Self@john-self.bsky.social

This dumbo, gee-whiz, why-would-anyone-normal-care stuff is so depressing. "Niche yellow powder". "It's probably not an element you've thought about before." Anyone who did chemistry in school has thought about sulphur before and knows what it is.

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Sarah E. Bond
@sarahebond.bsky.social

Looking for public domain & open license images? “Openverse is a tool that allows openly licensed and public domain works to be discovered and used by everyone... [searching] 800 million images and audio tracks from open APIs and the Common Crawl dataset.“ Also, attribute authorship with one click 📸

openverse.orgOpenverseSearch over 800 million free and openly licensed images, photos, audio, and other media types for reuse and remixing.

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Jenny Pickerill
@jennypickerill.bsky.social

Our new piece out today in Times Higher Education about the threats to Geography in the UK - particularly fieldwork - please do share. It links to a recent snapshot survey on the challenges being faced in UK HE, which highlights the inequities of the challenges, but also fears of what is yet to come

timeshighereducation.comThe UK universities cutting geography have lost their bearingsFrom climate change to geopolitics, the knowledge, skills and insights of geographers have never been more relevant, say five professors

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Jean Burgess
@jeanburgess.bsky.social

🚨CFP: The ADM+S Generative Authenticity project is hosting a small scholarly symposium on Authenticity, Generative AI and Synthetic Media on 6-7 May at QUT Kelvin Grove (and hybrid node). Short abstracts due 9 March. All info and the submission form: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

docs.google.comCFP: ADM+S Generative Authenticity SymposiumCall for Papers Authenticity, Generative AI and Synthetic Media: An ADM+S Symposium 6-7 May 2026, QUT Kelvin Grove, Brisbane Authenticity is often at the centre of concer...

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Wonkhe
@wonkhe.bsky.social

Last week on Wonkhe: For Rex McKenzie, higher education assessment has always privileged certain discourses – but the rise of artificial intelligence means that this can no longer hold

buff.lyAI shatters the pretence that academic polish was ever anything but gatekeepingFor Rex McKenzie, higher education assessment has always privileged certain discourses – but the rise of artificial intelligence means that this can no longer hold For Rex McKenzie, higher education...