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Himalayan valley-floor widths controlled by tectonically-driven exhumation (2023)
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Clubb, F. J., Mudd, S. M., Schildgen, T. F., van der Beek, P. A., Devrani, R., & Sinclair, H. D. (2023). Himalayan valley-floor widths controlled by tectonically-driven exhumation. Nature Geoscience, 16, 739–746. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-023-01238-8

Himalayan rivers transport around a gigaton of sediment annually to ocean basins. Mountain valleys are an important component of this routing system: storage in these valleys acts to buffer climatic and tectonic signals recorded by downstream sedimen... Read More about Himalayan valley-floor widths controlled by tectonically-driven exhumation.

From rules to examples: Machine learning's type of authority (2023)
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Campolo, A., & Schwerzmann, K. (2023). From rules to examples: Machine learning's type of authority. Big Data and Society, 10(2), https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517231188725

This paper analyzes the effects of a perceived transition from a rule-based computer programming paradigm to an example-based paradigm associated with machine learning. While both paradigms coexist in practice, we critically discuss the distinctive e... Read More about From rules to examples: Machine learning's type of authority.

Density as a politics of value: regulation, speculation, and popular urbanism (2023)
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Habermehl, V., & McFarlane, C. (2023). Density as a politics of value: regulation, speculation, and popular urbanism. Progress in Human Geography, https://doi.org/10.1177/03091325231189824

Density is at the centre of urban change, and is often politicised. Building on Geographical and Urban scholarship, we set out a critical approach to understanding density through a focus on value. Following a review of key approaches to density, we... Read More about Density as a politics of value: regulation, speculation, and popular urbanism.

Experiments on Gravel‐Sand Transitions: Examination of Washload Deposition (2023)
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Dingle, E. H., & Venditti, J. G. (2023). Experiments on Gravel‐Sand Transitions: Examination of Washload Deposition. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 128(7), Article e2023JF007116. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023jf007116

An abrupt transition in bed grain size occurs in river systems. Over a short downstream distance, often only a few channel widths, the bed surface fines from gravel (∼10 mm) to sand (∼1 mm). This is the gravel-sand transition (GST), and it is the onl... Read More about Experiments on Gravel‐Sand Transitions: Examination of Washload Deposition.

The Global Turbidity Current Pump and Its Implications for Organic Carbon Cycling (2023)
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Talling, P. J., Hage, S., Baker, M. L., Bianchi, T. S., Hilton, R. G., & Maier, K. L. (2024). The Global Turbidity Current Pump and Its Implications for Organic Carbon Cycling. Annual Review of Marine Science, 16(1), https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-marine-032223-103626

Submarine turbidity currents form the largest sediment accumulations on Earth, raising the question of their role in global carbon cycles. It was previously inferred that terrestrial organic carbon was primarily incinerated on shelves and that most t... Read More about The Global Turbidity Current Pump and Its Implications for Organic Carbon Cycling.

Unravelling and understanding local perceptions of water quality in the Santa basin, Peru (2023)
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Rangecroft, S., Dextre, R. M., Richter, I., Grados Bueno, C. V., Kelly, C., Turin, C., …Clason, C. (2023). Unravelling and understanding local perceptions of water quality in the Santa basin, Peru. Journal of Hydrology, 625(Part A), Article 129949. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.129949

Water quality is an integral part of water security. Measuring the physico-chemical indicators for water quality can provide an objective picture of water health, but it does not provide information on lived experiences related to water quality, expe... Read More about Unravelling and understanding local perceptions of water quality in the Santa basin, Peru.

Atmospheric Pedagogies: Everyday Ethnographies of the (Post) Pandemic Classroom (2023)
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Nieuwenhuis, M., & Strausz, E. (2023). Atmospheric Pedagogies: Everyday Ethnographies of the (Post) Pandemic Classroom. Theory and Event, 26(3), 597-625. https://doi.org/10.1353/tae.2023.a901580

This paper offers a series of (auto)ethnographic reflections on COVID-19 and the ways it changes how we, as educators, practice, perform and inhabit the spaces of higher education. Using a phenomenological framework based on the concept of atmosphere... Read More about Atmospheric Pedagogies: Everyday Ethnographies of the (Post) Pandemic Classroom.

Stratigraphic evidence of relative sea level changes produced by megathrust earthquakes in the Jalisco subduction zone, Mexico. The signature of the 1995 Colima-Jalisco earthquake (Mw 8) as a modern analogue (2023)
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Bustamante Fernandez, E., Woodroffe, S., Lloyd, J. M., & Shennan, I. (2023). Stratigraphic evidence of relative sea level changes produced by megathrust earthquakes in the Jalisco subduction zone, Mexico. The signature of the 1995 Colima-Jalisco earthquake (Mw 8) as a modern analogue. Marine Geology, 463, Article 107100. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2023.107100

Geological evidence of megathrust earthquakes along the Mexican Pacific coast relies predominantly on tsunami deposits. Records of coseismic relative sea-level changes are scarce even though such evidence can complement and constrain tsunami records,... Read More about Stratigraphic evidence of relative sea level changes produced by megathrust earthquakes in the Jalisco subduction zone, Mexico. The signature of the 1995 Colima-Jalisco earthquake (Mw 8) as a modern analogue.

Close to the metal: Towards a material political economy of the epistemology of computation (2023)
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Rella, L. (2024). Close to the metal: Towards a material political economy of the epistemology of computation. Social Studies of Science, 54(1), 3-29. https://doi.org/10.1177/03063127231185095

This paper investigates the role of the materiality of computation in two domains: blockchain technologies and artificial intelligence (AI). Although historically designed as parallel computing accelerators for image rendering and videogames, graphic... Read More about Close to the metal: Towards a material political economy of the epistemology of computation.

Forensic uncertainty, fragile remains, and DNA as a panacea: an ethnographic observation of the challenges in twenty‐first‐century Disaster Victim Identification (2023)
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Easthope, L. (2023). Forensic uncertainty, fragile remains, and DNA as a panacea: an ethnographic observation of the challenges in twenty‐first‐century Disaster Victim Identification. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 29(S2), 27-49. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.13990

This is an account of ethnographic research examining the specialist scientific processes known as ‘Disaster Victim Identification’ (DVI) in three settings: Québec, the United States, and the United Kingdom. In cases of multiple deaths, a series of a... Read More about Forensic uncertainty, fragile remains, and DNA as a panacea: an ethnographic observation of the challenges in twenty‐first‐century Disaster Victim Identification.

Managed Urban Retreat: The Trouble with Crisis Narratives (2023)
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Rahman, M. F., Lewis, D., Kuhl, L., Baldwin, A., Ruszczyk, H., Nadiruzzaman, M., & Mahid, Y. (2023). Managed Urban Retreat: The Trouble with Crisis Narratives. Urban Geography, https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2023.2228094

In response to narratives of the mass movement of people triggered by climate change, a number of “managed retreat” models have been proposed as policy options, especially for densely populated urban areas in the Global South. Reviewing a case study... Read More about Managed Urban Retreat: The Trouble with Crisis Narratives.

‘My Family Needed Me’: Exploring Caring Dimensions and Care Circulation among Older Venezuelans on the Move in Peru (2023)
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Blouin, C., & Borios, S. (2023). ‘My Family Needed Me’: Exploring Caring Dimensions and Care Circulation among Older Venezuelans on the Move in Peru. Journal of Refugee Studies, https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/fead041

The humanitarian, political, and socio-economic crisis in Venezuela has generated an unprecedented migration to other South American countries. In the last six years, Peru has become the second receptor of Venezuelan people after Colombia and the fir... Read More about ‘My Family Needed Me’: Exploring Caring Dimensions and Care Circulation among Older Venezuelans on the Move in Peru.

Amplified surface warming in the south-west Pacific during the mid-Pliocene (3.3–3.0 Ma) and future implications (2023)
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Grant, G. R., Williams, J. H. T., Naeher, S., Seki, O., McClymont, E. L., Patterson, M. O., …Johnson, K. (2023). Amplified surface warming in the south-west Pacific during the mid-Pliocene (3.3–3.0 Ma) and future implications. Climate of the Past, 19(7), 1359-1381. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-1359-2023

Based on Nationally Determined Contributions concurrent with Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) 2-4.5, the IPCC predicts global warming of 2.1–3.5 ∘C (very likely range 10–90th percentile) by 2100 CE. However, global average temperature is a poor i... Read More about Amplified surface warming in the south-west Pacific during the mid-Pliocene (3.3–3.0 Ma) and future implications.

An urban ‘age of timber’? Tensions and contradictions in the low-carbon imaginary of the bioeconomic city (2023)
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van Veelen, B., & Knuth, S. (2023). An urban ‘age of timber’? Tensions and contradictions in the low-carbon imaginary of the bioeconomic city. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486231179815

What will the low-carbon cities of tomorrow be made from? We see an unexpected answer today in the return of ‘premodern’/‘preindustrial’ materials to central cities and skylines. Champions of new mass timber materials have driven a race on iconic ‘pl... Read More about An urban ‘age of timber’? Tensions and contradictions in the low-carbon imaginary of the bioeconomic city.

Kitchen phenomenologies: Antiromantic poetics of space and food in the Anthropocene (2023)
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Astorga de Ita, D. (2023). Kitchen phenomenologies: Antiromantic poetics of space and food in the Anthropocene. Area, 55(4), 514-522. https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12889

This paper considers the kitchen and the phenomenological values that emerge from it. In this text the kitchen is seen as a space of possibility within the context of the Capitalocene, from which new values and imaginations for a more sustainable fut... Read More about Kitchen phenomenologies: Antiromantic poetics of space and food in the Anthropocene.

Global variability and controls on the accumulation of fallout radionuclides in cryoconite (2023)
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Clason, C. C., Baccolo, G., Łokas, E., Owens, P. N., Wachniew, P., Millward, G. E., …Di Mauro, B. (2023). Global variability and controls on the accumulation of fallout radionuclides in cryoconite. Science of the Total Environment, 894, Article 164902. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.164902

The accumulation of fallout radionuclides (FRNs) from nuclear weapons testing and nuclear accidents has been evaluated for over half a century in natural environments; however, until recently their distribution and abundance within glaciers have been... Read More about Global variability and controls on the accumulation of fallout radionuclides in cryoconite.