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US Fascism has academia in its crosshairs now. The whole point is to terrorize us into silence. I'm still considering going to the in Detroit, but considering if my financial, intellectual, and emotional labour is better spent elsewhere (e.g. ). 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 is sending announcements to grad students and faculty members who are going to the 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 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.

sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.

sci-hub.seSci-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.