@jaredmargulies
Geographer, political ecologist, enthusiastic dilettante, plant pal. Recently relocated to the Big Smoke from the Deep South. Author of The Cactus Hunters ('23, Minnesota). All the links: https://linktr.ee/jdmargulies
Incredible opportunity for *4* #postdocs, *3 years each* to work with @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social, @evahaifa.bsky.social, Alasdair Cochrane and Bob McKay on their wonderful new "#multispecies #mutualisms" project at the University of of Sheffield #EnvHumanities
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Is there an equivalent of an oil change for the brain? I’ve hit 100,000 miles.
Oh this is really dispiriting as a new comer, I was so excited to find ways of engagement there. Really disappointing and frustrating news :(
My uncontroversial opinion having moved back to the UK is that estate agencies shouldn’t be allowed to exist 🧛🏻👻🧟🧟♂️🧟♀️🧛🏻🧛🏻🧛🏻👻
A valuable read from my (new!) colleague @rikjaz.bsky.social and other great geographers about the importance of our discipline now more than ever amidst widespread cuts across the sector in the UK
Making America full of smog, asthma, and shorter life spans again, to say nothing of the climate, what a win. Just dystopian stuff.
GOOD NEWS TODAY
I woke up to discover last night was the superbowl - I still don’t know who won or lost the dumb game but clearly the winner was las americas. That was the most beautiful half time show ever. God bless bad bunny!
Today on Edge Effects, we take our first dive into Botanical Imaginations with our Spring 2026 Faculty Favorites! Faculty across academic disciplines recommend plant-y books and poems they're excited to read/teach this semester 🌿 📖
I just moved! I'm at UCL now - we moved a few weeks ago!
Unreal
incredible (and utterly horrifying). Hope we can catch up soon IRL, Lisa!
Very horrified to learn an imprisoned UCL student is being denied critical life saving care: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Nobody ever talks about the Midrash of Hannah in the story of Chanukkah- Brilliant drash from @theradr.bsky.social especially attuned to our very challenging times, and may the memory of all those lives unjustly taken in Sydney be a blessing.
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It's so great when universities are like 'We're going all in on AI' but they never talk about anything specific. It's all just vague language about innovation and the power and magic of tech. They might as well be making calls for going all in on alchemy.
The RFK, jr effect.
Going to share this fantastic interview between @pmbigger.bsky.social and @mjhaugen.bsky.social with so many folks- extremely valuable for students thinking about how to best make change and life outside academia
Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon
Some 15 years ago there was an
Angry paper in nature arguing strongly against the use of puns bc they are so culturally specific that it can
Confuse readers-they aren’t wrong-but also, my god don’t we need even small joys and guffaws at the moment!
@georgeholmes.bsky.social wins best new article title: Who Let the Frogs out? Illicit and Unregulated Species Translocations
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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!
“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”
love this!
After a searing ocean heat wave in 2023, two of the most historically important coral species in Florida are functionally extinct from the state’s reef, scientists have found.
very happy book author holding new book while standing in front of a world map!
Unexpected but delightful post--my new book arrived in the mail yesterday evening!!!
pre-order from @ugapress.bsky.social
Anyhow, if you are a colleague or comrade in London would love to hear from you and get in touch. There is so much I'm gonna miss about life in Alabama and the South, we built a great little community here in Bham and the organizing work here has felt v important, but grateful for the eject button.
Things have gotten so bad so fast. It's all so anger-inducing and my heart is with all my colleagues here. I hope it gets better soon, but I fear it may get much worse first. In the meantime, excited for this next chapter in such a stellar department to raise my daughter in such an amazing city.
I just got tenure. But I also lost federal funding, and the NSF is gutted. And I care about my research! So here I am, instead of taking a breath and enjoying a much needed teaching break on paternity leave, prepping for a major international move and pulling my hair out (and losing it fast!).
Amidst more dire news about the destruction of US higher ed in real time, this is as good a time as any to share with folks that this is my last semester as an academic in the US - I am starting 2026 as a member of the Geography department at UCL. Fam and I moving to London in a matter of months!
