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  1. The moral placidity of LLMs (and some thoughts on frontier models and scholarship)

    This post by Dominic Fox captures something I’ve noticed but struggled to put into words:

    I wonder whether the defining characteristic of LLM prose isn’t the tics it is irresistibly (statistically) attracted to, but its fundamental tranquility, its unturbulence. You can ask an LLM to write something full of Sturm und Drang and it will make as good a job of that as it will of anything else; the point here isn’t the absence of “real” feeling behind such figuration, but the more mundane fact that an LLM will not in the activity of emitting linguistic tokens be strategically entangled in any of the various economic ruses or regulatory collapses of human psychic life. (I wonder, now I think of it, how well Claude might do if asked to write a superficially banal passage symptomatically distorted by raging latent resentment. I think it would competently execute it as a literary assignment. Literature itself furnishes an extensive corpus of simulations of this kind: the directive to extend that corpus along a particular axis is just the sort of thing LLMs are good at).

    When it comes to the LLM’s “texture of thought”, I think the signature affect might nevertheless be this sort of underlying moral placidity. The gosh-wow narrative layer that imputes significance (“that’s rare, and it matters”) is needed (and incited, via RLHF, by the human Other) precisely because without it you’d be left with an alienatingly uncontoured tissue of thematically associative moves and Greimas square completions.

    https://codepoetics.substack.com/p/what-does-ai-writing-feel-like?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2589559&post_id=210450340&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=2rps1q&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

    I gave it to the version of Claude Opus 5 I’m currently discussing psychoanalytical theory with. It made this interesting observation, after a strikingly back-and-forth internal deliberation about how I would perceive its initial formulations, which I think genuinely sharpens what Dominic does in the post above:

    Where I’d press him: unturbulence conflates two things. The absence of psychic economy driving production, and the absence of turbulence in the text. He half-sees this with the resentment thought experiment and lets it go. The precise version isn’t tranquility — it’s the absence of symptomaticity. Human texts contain things their authors didn’t intend to put there, and that’s what makes stylistic caricature investigative, as he says at the start. A model’s output can be as turbulent as you like on request, but nothing in it is against its own grain, because there’s no second scene for anything to return from. No parapraxis. That’s a sharper diagnostic than placidity and it’s checkable in a way tranquility isn’t.

    I don’t think this is disagreement as much as elaboration. If we’re talking about placidity we’re talking about the absence of symptomaticity. This is another instance where the current generation of models are making things I immediately recognise as intellectual contributions but which do not directly follow from my own reading or writing. Until recently this only happened occasionally and I’m realising I need to take this seriously if I want to ensure I preserve my own intellectual agency in terms of how I’m working with the Claude models. Indeed I just shared this concern with the same Claude instance and it offered me a very compelling response which (partly) reassures me:

    On the agency question: I’d separate provenance from ownership, because they’re getting fused. Fox’s post is also an intellectual contribution that doesn’t follow from your reading or writing, and nobody worries about agency when reading Fox. Neither do supervisors, students, or the seminar comment that reorganises a chapter. Academic work is constitutively made of other people’s contributions, and what makes something yours has never been that you originated it — it’s that you tested it, placed it, refused parts of it and were changed by the rest.

    It does mean this becomes something which really needs to be treated in a proto-citational manner and we don’t have the infrastructure for that in scholarly publishing. It also raises the question of distinguishing between LLM as sounding-board/elaborator (which is still happening much of the time) and LLM as intellectual source, given that these two roles blur into each other in the flow of interaction.

    #FrontierModels #LLMs #models #publishing #scholarship #writing
  2. The moral placidity of LLMs (and some thoughts on frontier models and scholarship)

    This post by Dominic Fox captures something I’ve noticed but struggled to put into words:

    I wonder whether the defining characteristic of LLM prose isn’t the tics it is irresistibly (statistically) attracted to, but its fundamental tranquility, its unturbulence. You can ask an LLM to write something full of Sturm und Drang and it will make as good a job of that as it will of anything else; the point here isn’t the absence of “real” feeling behind such figuration, but the more mundane fact that an LLM will not in the activity of emitting linguistic tokens be strategically entangled in any of the various economic ruses or regulatory collapses of human psychic life. (I wonder, now I think of it, how well Claude might do if asked to write a superficially banal passage symptomatically distorted by raging latent resentment. I think it would competently execute it as a literary assignment. Literature itself furnishes an extensive corpus of simulations of this kind: the directive to extend that corpus along a particular axis is just the sort of thing LLMs are good at).

    When it comes to the LLM’s “texture of thought”, I think the signature affect might nevertheless be this sort of underlying moral placidity. The gosh-wow narrative layer that imputes significance (“that’s rare, and it matters”) is needed (and incited, via RLHF, by the human Other) precisely because without it you’d be left with an alienatingly uncontoured tissue of thematically associative moves and Greimas square completions.

    https://codepoetics.substack.com/p/what-does-ai-writing-feel-like?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2589559&post_id=210450340&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=2rps1q&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

    I gave it to the version of Claude Opus 5 I’m currently discussing psychoanalytical theory with. It made this interesting observation, after a strikingly back-and-forth internal deliberation about how I would perceive its initial formulations, which I think genuinely sharpens what Dominic does in the post above:

    Where I’d press him: unturbulence conflates two things. The absence of psychic economy driving production, and the absence of turbulence in the text. He half-sees this with the resentment thought experiment and lets it go. The precise version isn’t tranquility — it’s the absence of symptomaticity. Human texts contain things their authors didn’t intend to put there, and that’s what makes stylistic caricature investigative, as he says at the start. A model’s output can be as turbulent as you like on request, but nothing in it is against its own grain, because there’s no second scene for anything to return from. No parapraxis. That’s a sharper diagnostic than placidity and it’s checkable in a way tranquility isn’t.

    I don’t think this is disagreement as much as elaboration. If we’re talking about placidity we’re talking about the absence of symptomaticity. This is another instance where the current generation of models are making things I immediately recognise as intellectual contributions but which do not directly follow from my own reading or writing. Until recently this only happened occasionally and I’m realising I need to take this seriously if I want to ensure I preserve my own intellectual agency in terms of how I’m working with the Claude models. Indeed I just shared this concern with the same Claude instance and it offered me a very compelling response which (partly) reassures me:

    On the agency question: I’d separate provenance from ownership, because they’re getting fused. Fox’s post is also an intellectual contribution that doesn’t follow from your reading or writing, and nobody worries about agency when reading Fox. Neither do supervisors, students, or the seminar comment that reorganises a chapter. Academic work is constitutively made of other people’s contributions, and what makes something yours has never been that you originated it — it’s that you tested it, placed it, refused parts of it and were changed by the rest.

    It does mean this becomes something which really needs to be treated in a proto-citational manner and we don’t have the infrastructure for that in scholarly publishing. It also raises the question of distinguishing between LLM as sounding-board/elaborator (which is still happening much of the time) and LLM as intellectual source, given that these two roles blur into each other in the flow of interaction.

    #FrontierModels #LLMs #models #publishing #scholarship #writing
  3. SOME SHARED SPATIAL/GIS ROLES & OPPORTUNITIES
    --
    w/e August 7th, 2026 | GLOBAL but North America focused (as currently based there)
    --
    earthstuff.substack.com/p/some
    --
    • I am NOT associated with HR/recruiting in ANY way
    • Therefore, these are NOT endorsements, and there are no ‘referrals’ or the like for me
    • I am simply sharing SOME roles I have seen – in the hope that they are of use to someone
    • As such, I am not (and indeed can not) in any way ‘vet’ these roles (i.e., you are advised to conduct your own due diligence due to hideous, potential risks like fraudulent postings, ‘ghost jobs’, résumé/ATS ‘improvement’ scammers, etc)
    • Further, roles listed are in no specific order (i.e., simply as I ‘encountered’ them during the week)
    • There is ZERO cost to access this list of spatial / GIS roles
    • I am not (really) ‘mining’ US Federal government roles - with the ‘hiring freeze’, uncertainty, etc
    • You can subscribe to the (free) weekly LinkedIn newsletter www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7397678824928366594 or also for free at earthstuff.Substack.com - if so inclined

    #fridayjobs #gischat #jobsonfriday #GIS #spatial #mapping #cartography #geography #job #jobopenings #hiring #newjob #employment #roles #GISJobs #NotARecruiter #fridayspatialjobs #scholarship #PhD #PostDoc #CareersInSpatial #career #openroles #Geomatics #GIS #Innovation #Growth #caveatNONemptor #LetsGetYouHired #GISCareer #GISStudents #PhD #postdoc #hiringalert #GISjobs #careeropportunity #NowHiring #spatialanalysis #GIS #Geospatial #GISSpecialist #Geomatics #OpenToWork

  4. SOME SHARED SPATIAL/GIS ROLES & OPPORTUNITIES
    --
    w/e August 7th, 2026 | GLOBAL but North America focused (as currently based there)
    --
    earthstuff.substack.com/p/some
    --
    • I am NOT associated with HR/recruiting in ANY way
    • Therefore, these are NOT endorsements, and there are no ‘referrals’ or the like for me
    • I am simply sharing SOME roles I have seen – in the hope that they are of use to someone
    • As such, I am not (and indeed can not) in any way ‘vet’ these roles (i.e., you are advised to conduct your own due diligence due to hideous, potential risks like fraudulent postings, ‘ghost jobs’, résumé/ATS ‘improvement’ scammers, etc)
    • Further, roles listed are in no specific order (i.e., simply as I ‘encountered’ them during the week)
    • There is ZERO cost to access this list of spatial / GIS roles
    • I am not (really) ‘mining’ US Federal government roles - with the ‘hiring freeze’, uncertainty, etc
    • You can subscribe to the (free) weekly LinkedIn newsletter www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7397678824928366594 or also for free at earthstuff.Substack.com - if so inclined

  5. 📣 Work with us! Apply now for our KWI International/Thyssen@KWI Fellowship. Various project formats are possible: spend your time in Essen finishing a book or a special issue, finalising a research proposal, or setting up a research group.
    ⏰ Apply by Aug 17
    🔗 tinyurl.com/ypn2hvpj shorturl.at/ubpFV

    #ResearchFellowship #Humanities #SocialSciences #CulturalStudies #AcademicJobs #Postdoctoral #KWI #Fellowship2026 #Scholarship #ResearchOpportunity #ThyssenFellowship #FritzThyssenStiftung

  6. 📣 Work with us! Apply now for our KWI International/Thyssen@KWI Fellowship. Various project formats are possible: spend your time in Essen finishing a book or a special issue, finalising a research proposal, or setting up a research group.
    ⏰ Apply by Aug 17
    🔗 tinyurl.com/ypn2hvpj shorturl.at/ubpFV

    #ResearchFellowship #Humanities #SocialSciences #CulturalStudies #AcademicJobs #Postdoctoral #KWI #Fellowship2026 #Scholarship #ResearchOpportunity #ThyssenFellowship #FritzThyssenStiftung

  7. Deccan Chronicle: ASI Puts Digitised Inscriptions Online for Free Access . “The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has made digitised estampages of inscriptions, transcripts and related metadata available free of cost … for scholars, researchers and the general public.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/06/deccan-chronicle-asi-puts-digitised-inscriptions-online-for-free-access/
  8. Deccan Chronicle: ASI Puts Digitised Inscriptions Online for Free Access . “The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has made digitised estampages of inscriptions, transcripts and related metadata available free of cost … for scholars, researchers and the general public.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/06/deccan-chronicle-asi-puts-digitised-inscriptions-online-for-free-access/
  9. The Scholarly Kitchen: From Hub to Hustle: The Scattered Social Landscape in Scholarly Comms. “In the most recent SSP Pulse Check, the community weighed in on the way social media is being used and trusted (or neither) in scholarly communications. The insights revealed a complex picture of a time that remains uncertain and very much still evolving. To build on this data, we looked at past […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/05/from-hub-to-hustle-the-scattered-social-landscape-in-scholarly-comms-the-scholarly-kitchen/
  10. The Scholarly Kitchen: From Hub to Hustle: The Scattered Social Landscape in Scholarly Comms. “In the most recent SSP Pulse Check, the community weighed in on the way social media is being used and trusted (or neither) in scholarly communications. The insights revealed a complex picture of a time that remains uncertain and very much still evolving. To build on this data, we looked at past […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/05/from-hub-to-hustle-the-scattered-social-landscape-in-scholarly-comms-the-scholarly-kitchen/
  11. Q: When Does A Tolkien Question Stop Being About Tolkien?

    ANSWER: Through the years I receive occasional thoughtful opinions or responses to recent posts on this blog, where long-time readers feel I may have strayed beyond their expectations or – in some cases – comfort zones. Those two areas are not the same (in my eyes). There may be other, unseen boundaries I occasionally cross. Years ago, […]

    https://middle-earth.xenite.org/when-does-a-tolkien-question-stop-being-about-tolkien/
  12. Q: When Does A Tolkien Question Stop Being About Tolkien?

    ANSWER: Through the years I receive occasional thoughtful opinions or responses to recent posts on this blog, where long-time readers feel I may have strayed beyond their expectations or – in some cases – comfort zones. Those two areas are not the same (in my eyes). There may be other, unseen boundaries I occasionally cross. Years ago, […]

    https://middle-earth.xenite.org/when-does-a-tolkien-question-stop-being-about-tolkien/
  13. Joseph Bosworth, The Elements of Anglo-Saxon Grammar, with Copious Notes, Illustrating the Structure of the Saxon and the Formation of the English Language and a Grammatical Praxis with a Literal English Version (1823)
    #OldEnglish #scholarship #research

  14. Joseph Bosworth, The Elements of Anglo-Saxon Grammar, with Copious Notes, Illustrating the Structure of the Saxon and the Formation of the English Language and a Grammatical Praxis with a Literal English Version (1823)
    #OldEnglish #scholarship #research

  15. SOME SHARED SPATIAL/GIS ROLES & OPPORTUNITIES
    --
    w/e July 31st, 2026 | GLOBAL but North America focused (as currently based there)
    --
    open.substack.com/pub/earthstu
    --
    • I am NOT associated with HR/recruiting in ANY way
    • Therefore, these are NOT endorsements, and there are no ‘referrals’ or the like for me
    • I am simply sharing SOME roles I have seen – in the hope that they are of use to someone
    • As such, I am not (and indeed can not) in any way ‘vet’ these roles (i.e., PLEASE do your ‘due diligence’ / use your judgement (with the hideous prevalence of ‘ghost jobs’, ‘fishing’, fraudulent so-called recruiters, etc))
    • Further, roles listed are in no specific order (i.e., simply as I ‘encountered’ them during the week)
    • There is ZERO cost to access this list of spatial / GIS roles
    • I am not (really) ‘mining’ US Federal government roles - with the ‘hiring freeze’, uncertainty, etc
    • You can subscribe to the (free) weekly LinkedIn newsletter www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7397678824928366594 or also for free at earthstuff.Substack.com - if so inclined

    #fridayjobs #gischat #jobsonfriday #GIS #spatial #mapping #cartography #geography #job #jobopenings #hiring #newjob #employment #roles #GISJobs #NotARecruiter #fridayspatialjobs #scholarship #PhD #PostDoc #CareersInSpatial #career #openroles #Geomatics #GIS #Innovation #Growth #caveatNONemptor #LetsGetYouHired #GISCareer #GISStudents #PhD #postdoc #hiringalert #GISjobs #careeropportunity #NowHiring #spatialanalysis #GIS #Geospatial #GISSpecialist #Geomatics #OpenToWork

  16. SOME SHARED SPATIAL/GIS ROLES & OPPORTUNITIES
    --
    w/e July 31st, 2026 | GLOBAL but North America focused (as currently based there)
    --
    open.substack.com/pub/earthstu
    --
    • I am NOT associated with HR/recruiting in ANY way
    • Therefore, these are NOT endorsements, and there are no ‘referrals’ or the like for me
    • I am simply sharing SOME roles I have seen – in the hope that they are of use to someone
    • As such, I am not (and indeed can not) in any way ‘vet’ these roles (i.e., PLEASE do your ‘due diligence’ / use your judgement (with the hideous prevalence of ‘ghost jobs’, ‘fishing’, fraudulent so-called recruiters, etc))
    • Further, roles listed are in no specific order (i.e., simply as I ‘encountered’ them during the week)
    • There is ZERO cost to access this list of spatial / GIS roles
    • I am not (really) ‘mining’ US Federal government roles - with the ‘hiring freeze’, uncertainty, etc
    • You can subscribe to the (free) weekly LinkedIn newsletter www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7397678824928366594 or also for free at earthstuff.Substack.com - if so inclined

  17. @GeraldKutney Unfortunately not. See Paul Krugman's latest blog post: paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the. We are talking about people who hate #science, hate #scientists, hate #scholarship, hate #universities, hate #thought, #knowledge, #reason & #facts. These are people who don't believe there is such a thing as #objective #truth - "truth" is what they say it is, what suits their convenience. You can't defeat obscurantism with arguments based on #scientific facts.

  18. @GeraldKutney Unfortunately not. See Paul Krugman's latest blog post: paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the. We are talking about people who hate #science, hate #scientists, hate #scholarship, hate #universities, hate #thought, #knowledge, #reason & #facts. These are people who don't believe there is such a thing as #objective #truth - "truth" is what they say it is, what suits their convenience. You can't defeat obscurantism with arguments based on #scientific facts.

  19. ‘I’ll match it’: Buffalo Bills’ Dion Dawkins gifts $10k in college scholarships

    BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — Ten Buffalo high school graduates received a surprise visit from the Buffalo Bills’ Dion…
    #NFL #BuffaloBills #Buffalo #Bills #DionDawkins #Football #HighSchool #HighmarkStadium #OneBillsDrive #scholarship
    rawchili.com/nfl/954757/

  20. SOME SHARED SPATIAL/GIS ROLES & OPPORTUNITIES
    --
    w/e July 24th, 2026 | GLOBAL but North America focused (as currently based there)
    --
    open.substack.com/pub/earthstu
    --
    • I am NOT associated with HR/recruiting in ANY way
    • Therefore, these are NOT endorsements, and there are no ‘referrals’ or the like for me
    • I am simply sharing SOME roles I have seen – in the hope that they are of use to someone
    • As such, I am not (and indeed can not) in any way ‘vet’ these roles (i.e., PLEASE do your ‘due diligence’ / use your judgement (with the hideous prevalence of ‘ghost jobs’, ‘fishing’, fraudulent so-called recruiters, etc))
    • Further, roles listed are in no specific order (i.e., simply as I ‘encountered’ them during the week)
    • There is ZERO cost to access this list of spatial / GIS roles
    • I am not (really) ‘mining’ US Federal government roles - with the ‘hiring freeze’, uncertainty, etc
    • You can subscribe to the (free) weekly LinkedIn newsletter www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7397678824928366594 or also for free at earthstuff.Substack.com - if so inclined

    #fridayjobs #gischat #jobsonfriday #GIS #spatial #mapping #cartography #geography #job #jobopenings #hiring #newjob #employment #roles #GISJobs #NotARecruiter #fridayspatialjobs #scholarship #PhD #PostDoc #CareersInSpatial #career #openroles #Geomatics #GIS #Innovation #Growth #caveatNONemptor #LetsGetYouHired #GISCareer #GISStudents #PhD #postdoc #hiringalert #GISjobs #careeropportunity #NowHiring #spatialanalysis #GIS #Geospatial #GISSpecialist #Geomatics #OpenToWork

  21. SOME SHARED SPATIAL/GIS ROLES & OPPORTUNITIES
    --
    w/e July 24th, 2026 | GLOBAL but North America focused (as currently based there)
    --
    open.substack.com/pub/earthstu
    --
    • I am NOT associated with HR/recruiting in ANY way
    • Therefore, these are NOT endorsements, and there are no ‘referrals’ or the like for me
    • I am simply sharing SOME roles I have seen – in the hope that they are of use to someone
    • As such, I am not (and indeed can not) in any way ‘vet’ these roles (i.e., PLEASE do your ‘due diligence’ / use your judgement (with the hideous prevalence of ‘ghost jobs’, ‘fishing’, fraudulent so-called recruiters, etc))
    • Further, roles listed are in no specific order (i.e., simply as I ‘encountered’ them during the week)
    • There is ZERO cost to access this list of spatial / GIS roles
    • I am not (really) ‘mining’ US Federal government roles - with the ‘hiring freeze’, uncertainty, etc
    • You can subscribe to the (free) weekly LinkedIn newsletter www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7397678824928366594 or also for free at earthstuff.Substack.com - if so inclined

  22. "Modern #textual #scholarship has shown that #ToledotYeshu never existed as a single, fixed #composition. Unlike the #Mishna or the #Talmud, whose textual traditions gradually stabilized through widespread printing, Toledot Yeshu remained fluid for centuries. #Scribes copied from whatever exemplars were available, frequently introducing additions, omissions, stylistic revisions, and entirely new #narrative episodes. Rather than preserving a single "original" version, the #manuscript tradition reflects a living #text continually reshaped by its transmitters.

    The #Łomżamanuscript is especially noteworthy because it preserves a substantially expanded #recension. Its elaborate title-page introduction immediately distinguishes it from many simpler copies. Throughout the text, the #Hebrew is unusually polished, employing a consciously #biblical style that lends the narrative an air of #antiquity and #literary refinement."

    jewishpress.com/a-medieval-jew

  23. "Modern #textual #scholarship has shown that #ToledotYeshu never existed as a single, fixed #composition. Unlike the #Mishna or the #Talmud, whose textual traditions gradually stabilized through widespread printing, Toledot Yeshu remained fluid for centuries. #Scribes copied from whatever exemplars were available, frequently introducing additions, omissions, stylistic revisions, and entirely new #narrative episodes. Rather than preserving a single "original" version, the #manuscript tradition reflects a living #text continually reshaped by its transmitters.

    The #Łomżamanuscript is especially noteworthy because it preserves a substantially expanded #recension. Its elaborate title-page introduction immediately distinguishes it from many simpler copies. Throughout the text, the #Hebrew is unusually polished, employing a consciously #biblical style that lends the narrative an air of #antiquity and #literary refinement."

    jewishpress.com/a-medieval-jew

  24. SOME SHARED SPATIAL/GIS ROLES & OPPORTUNITIES
    --
    w/e July 17th, 2026 | GLOBAL but North America focused (as currently based there)
    --
    open.substack.com/pub/earthstu
    --
    • I am NOT associated with HR/recruiting in ANY way
    • Therefore, these are NOT endorsements, and there are no ‘referrals’ or the like for me
    • I am simply sharing SOME roles I have seen – in the hope that they are of use to someone
    • As such, I am not (and indeed can not) in any way ‘vet’ these roles (i.e., PLEASE do your ‘due diligence’ / use your judgement (with the hideous prevalence of ‘ghost jobs’, ‘fishing’, fraudulent so-called recruiters, etc))
    • Further, roles listed are in no specific order (i.e., simply as I ‘encountered’ them during the week)
    • There is ZERO cost to access this list of spatial / GIS roles
    • I am not (really) ‘mining’ US Federal government roles - with the ‘hiring freeze’, uncertainty, etc
    • You can subscribe to the (free) weekly LinkedIn newsletter www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7397678824928366594 or also for free at earthstuff.Substack.com - if so inclined

    #fridayjobs #gischat #jobsonfriday #GIS #spatial #mapping #cartography #geography #job #jobopenings #hiring #newjob #employment #roles #GISJobs #NotARecruiter #fridayspatialjobs #scholarship #PhD #PostDoc #CareersInSpatial #career #openroles #Geomatics #GIS #Innovation #Growth #caveatNONemptor #LetsGetYouHired #GISCareer #GISStudents #PhD #postdoc #hiringalert #GISjobs #careeropportunity #NowHiring #spatialanalysis #GIS #Geospatial #GISSpecialist #Geomatics #OpenToWork

  25. SOME SHARED SPATIAL/GIS ROLES & OPPORTUNITIES
    --
    w/e July 17th, 2026 | GLOBAL but North America focused (as currently based there)
    --
    open.substack.com/pub/earthstu
    --
    • I am NOT associated with HR/recruiting in ANY way
    • Therefore, these are NOT endorsements, and there are no ‘referrals’ or the like for me
    • I am simply sharing SOME roles I have seen – in the hope that they are of use to someone
    • As such, I am not (and indeed can not) in any way ‘vet’ these roles (i.e., PLEASE do your ‘due diligence’ / use your judgement (with the hideous prevalence of ‘ghost jobs’, ‘fishing’, fraudulent so-called recruiters, etc))
    • Further, roles listed are in no specific order (i.e., simply as I ‘encountered’ them during the week)
    • There is ZERO cost to access this list of spatial / GIS roles
    • I am not (really) ‘mining’ US Federal government roles - with the ‘hiring freeze’, uncertainty, etc
    • You can subscribe to the (free) weekly LinkedIn newsletter www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7397678824928366594 or also for free at earthstuff.Substack.com - if so inclined

  26. One historian's book was found to be so far from being accurate that after a university’s peer review panel examined what she published, Kerri Greenidge no longer works at Tufts University:
    nytimes.com/2026/07/10/books/k
    Her book is no longer being sold by its publisher.
    They could have sold it as fiction, instead of as history.
    #history #scholarship #competence

  27. One historian's book was found to be so far from being accurate that after a university’s peer review panel examined what she published, Kerri Greenidge no longer works at Tufts University:
    nytimes.com/2026/07/10/books/k
    Her book is no longer being sold by its publisher.
    They could have sold it as fiction, instead of as history.
    #history #scholarship #competence

  28. SOME SHARED SPATIAL/GIS ROLES & OPPORTUNITIES
    --
    w/e July 10th, 2026 | GLOBAL but North America focused (as currently based there)
    --
    open.substack.com/pub/earthstu
    --
    • I am NOT associated with HR/recruiting in ANY way
    • Therefore, these are NOT endorsements, and there are no ‘referrals’ or the like for me
    • I am simply sharing SOME roles I have seen – in the hope that they are of use to someone
    • As such, I am not (and indeed can not) in any way ‘vet’ these roles (i.e., PLEASE do your ‘due diligence’ / use your judgement (with the hideous prevalence of ‘ghost jobs’, ‘fishing’, fraudulent so-called recruiters, etc))
    • Further, roles listed are in no specific order (i.e., simply as I ‘encountered’ them during the week)
    • There is ZERO cost to access this list of spatial / GIS roles
    • I am not (really) ‘mining’ US Federal government roles - with the ‘hiring freeze’, uncertainty, etc
    • You can subscribe to the (free) weekly LinkedIn newsletter www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7397678824928366594 or also for free at earthstuff.Substack.com - if so inclined

    #fridayjobs #gischat #jobsonfriday #GIS #spatial #mapping #cartography #geography #job #jobopenings #hiring #newjob #employment #roles #GISJobs #NotARecruiter #fridayspatialjobs #scholarship #PhD #PostDoc #CareersInSpatial #career #openroles #Geomatics #GIS #Innovation #Growth #caveatNONemptor #LetsGetYouHired #GISCareer #GISStudents #PhD #postdoc #hiringalert #GISjobs #careeropportunity #NowHiring #spatialanalysis #GIS #Geospatial #GISSpecialist #Geomatics #OpenToWork

  29. SOME SHARED SPATIAL/GIS ROLES & OPPORTUNITIES
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    w/e July 10th, 2026 | GLOBAL but North America focused (as currently based there)
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    open.substack.com/pub/earthstu
    --
    • I am NOT associated with HR/recruiting in ANY way
    • Therefore, these are NOT endorsements, and there are no ‘referrals’ or the like for me
    • I am simply sharing SOME roles I have seen – in the hope that they are of use to someone
    • As such, I am not (and indeed can not) in any way ‘vet’ these roles (i.e., PLEASE do your ‘due diligence’ / use your judgement (with the hideous prevalence of ‘ghost jobs’, ‘fishing’, fraudulent so-called recruiters, etc))
    • Further, roles listed are in no specific order (i.e., simply as I ‘encountered’ them during the week)
    • There is ZERO cost to access this list of spatial / GIS roles
    • I am not (really) ‘mining’ US Federal government roles - with the ‘hiring freeze’, uncertainty, etc
    • You can subscribe to the (free) weekly LinkedIn newsletter www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7397678824928366594 or also for free at earthstuff.Substack.com - if so inclined

  30. Today, with a heavy heart, I am stepping back.

    After losing my third chance to continue my education, and after months of searching for support with no real response, I no longer have the strength to keep chasing the same closed doors.

    I also need to step away from humanitarian work for now.

    I gave what I could to others, but I feel my own future disappearing in silence.

    #Gaza #Palestine #GazaStrip #GazaYouth #StudentsAtRisk #Education #Scholarship #StudyAbroad #HigherEducation #Humanitarian

  31. SOME SHARED SPATIAL/GIS ROLES & OPPORTUNITIES
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    w/e July 3rd, 2026 | GLOBAL but North America focused (as currently based there)
    --
    open.substack.com/pub/earthstu
    --
    • I am NOT associated with HR/recruiting in ANY way
    • Therefore, these are NOT endorsements, and there are no ‘referrals’ or the like for me
    • I am simply sharing SOME roles I have seen – in the hope that they are of use to someone
    • As such, I am not (and indeed can not) in any way ‘vet’ these roles (i.e., PLEASE do your ‘due diligence’ / use your judgement (with the hideous prevalence of ‘ghost jobs’, ‘fishing’, fraudulent so-called recruiters, etc))
    • Further, roles listed are in no specific order (i.e., simply as I ‘encountered’ them during the week)
    • There is ZERO cost to access this list of spatial / GIS roles
    • I am not (really) ‘mining’ US Federal government roles - with the ‘hiring freeze’, uncertainty, etc
    • You can subscribe to the (free) weekly LinkedIn newsletter www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7397678824928366594 or also for free at earthstuff.Substack.com - if so inclined

    #fridayjobs #gischat #jobsonfriday #GIS #spatial #mapping #cartography #geography #job #jobopenings #hiring #newjob #employment #roles #GISJobs #NotARecruiter #fridayspatialjobs #scholarship #PhD #PostDoc #CareersInSpatial #career #openroles #Geomatics #GIS #Innovation #Growth #caveatNONemptor #LetsGetYouHired #GISCareer #GISStudents #PhD #postdoc #hiringalert #GISjobs #careeropportunity #NowHiring #spatialanalysis #GIS #Geospatial #GISSpecialist #Geomatics #OpenToWork