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Mia Bennett @cryopolitics

bsky.app/profile/cryopolitic… 🦋 Assoc. Prof. @UW Geography | Arctic geopolitics / critical remote sensing / infrastructure / satellites / skiing

Joined April 2012
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Mia Bennett@cryopolitics
15 Nov 2024
🎵 be more like the sky and welcome every kind of weather🎵 following the masses to bluesky 🦋🌞 bsky.app/profile/cryopolitic…
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Blog: First there was the post-Soviet #Arctic, when all the walls came down. Then they started coming back up. Now, after having to reconsider the Arctic post-Crimea & post-Ukraine, we need to brace ourselves for pre-Trump 2.0–but not without some history. cryopolitics.com/2024/11/14/…

November drives another nail in the coffin for Arctic cooperation - CRYOPOLITICS

The election of a convicted felon to the presidency compounds what has already been a fairly disastrous decade for the world's northernmost region.

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An interesting @nytimes map of the airship Norge's flight across the North Pole – the first verified flight over the extremity – from Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard to Teller, Alaska in 1926. Notice the "Unexplored Area" 👀 #Arctic #maps
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12 Nov 2024
shoutout to japanese pm ishiba falling asleep while being re elected:
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Does anyone know whether former @QuintillionNet CEO Elizabeth Pierce, who was sentenced to five years in prison in June 2019 for defrauding investors of $270 million, was released this year? #Alaska @adndotcom justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/for…

Former CEO Of Alaska-Based Fiber Optic Cable Company Sentenced To 5

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Scandinavian Airlines @SAS has cut its route between Copenhagen and Shanghai as of 7 Nov 2024 due to "difficult market conditions" – aka not being able or willing to access Russian airspace. Meanwhile, China plows ahead... flyertalk.com/articles/europ…

European Carriers Cut China From Schedules Over Russian Airspace

Scandinavian Airlines and LOT Polish Airlines are both exiting China as they claim European carriers pay more to fly into Asia.

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Remembering when the Transpolar Dream was alive and well when Russian and American air traffic regulators would regularly meet in cities like Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Anchorage, and...Las Vegas to discuss flight planning across Siberia.
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Photos of Russian icebreaking research vessel Akademik Fedorov looking for an ice floe in Sept 2024 in which to position Severnyy Polyus (in the back) as it floats for 2 years (!) across the #Arctic. Source: Russia's Arctic & Antarctic Research Institute t.me/s/aari_official
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Christian Drury@cj_drury
11 Nov 2024
‘Some token of being there’: Visuality and the Inuit Body in Early Modern England - a really interesting piece by @ali_wedderburn: niche-canada.org/2024/11/07/… via @niche_canada

‘Some token of being there’: Visuality and the Inuit Body in Early Modern England

Jamasee Pitseolak’s carving of Martin Frobisher as a mechanical excavator critiques the exploitative model of European colonialism in the Arctic, capturing Frobisher’s extraction of resources and...

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Coming out in February 2025: A Russian movie "North Pole" (Северный полюс) about the Soviet submarine K-3 Leninsky Komsomol, which was the country's first to surface at the North Pole in 1962. youtube.com/watch?v=XXbc6N0Z…

Северный полюс⚡😊Трейлер фильма (2024) Приключения, драма

▸Трейлер фильма «Северный полюс» 2024 года.▸Дата выхода: 27 февра...

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Melanie Walsh
@mellymeldubs
11 Nov 2024
I'm recruiting a PhD student to join my group @uw_ischool in 2025-26. If you like the mountains and interdisciplinary research that blends data and culture, this could be a good fit! PhD apps due Dec 2: ischool.uw.edu/programs/phd/… More info about my group: melaniewalsh.org/mentorship

Ph.D. Application Process

Details on how to apply to the Ph.D. in Information Science program.

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mixed media: a video of the first time a radio was used to talk on the phone between the UK and Japan (1935) britishpathe.com/asset/17050…
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When NATO and natas meet 🥚: A Portugese submarine, Arpão, carried out a 70-day deployment to the #Arctic, sailing under the marginal ice zone, ice shelf, and even making a port call in Nuuk. navalnews.com/naval-news/202…

Portugal’s First Under-ice Patrol Demonstrated Importance for NATO of Conventional Submarine...

The Portuguese Navy’s first deployment of a submarine to the Arctic – and under the Arctic ice – earlier in 2024 demonstrated...

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TIL that the second-tallest structure in Iceland is this 1,000 ft guyed mast, which is used for communicating with US and NATO submarines. the mind boggles
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What a fascinating article by @KennyHolston about life aboard a US nuclear submarine. It appears that even underneath the #Arctic sea ice miles from any internet connection, we remain tethered to our phones. nytimes.com/2024/04/30/us/po…
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The @NSF has requested input on building a Science Monitoring And Reliable Telecommunications (SMART) Subsea Cable between #Antarctica and New Zealand (deadline closed Monday, but still an interesting proposal). federalregister.gov/document…
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Excited to receive this book on the 1989 US-Soviet Bering Bridge Expedition, which counted six Indigenous people among its 12-member team of "dog sled diplomats". The book opens with stirring letters by Gorbachev and Reagan to the expedition. Unfathomable today. #Arctic #history
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Christian Drury@cj_drury
5 Nov 2024
Some striking repeat photography of glaciers in Svalbard. The contrast between 2002 and 2024, let alone the early twentieth century, is remarkable: theguardian.com/environment/…

‘People do not want to believe it is true’: the photographer capturing the vanishing of glaciers

Christian Åslund was shocked at the difference between what he saw in 2002 and what confronted him this summer

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Malte Humpert@malte_humpert
5 Nov 2024
⚠️🇺🇸U.S. Sanctions Fail to Stop Chinese Power Plant, Delivery Salvages Next Stage of Russian #Arctic #LNG Plant 👉US missed window to stop delivery 👉Wison power plant delivered allowing for Train 2 of #ALNG2 startup next month. @johnkonrad @BuchananLiz gcaptain.com/u-s-sanctions-f…

U.S. Sanctions Fail to Stop Chinese Power Plant, Delivery Salvages Next Stage of Russian Arctic LNG...

By Malte Humpert (gCaptain) –  Russia has taken a major step towards commissioning the second production line of the country’s flagship liquefied natural gas project, Arctic LNG 2. Despite ongoing...

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US Congressional Committee @CmteOnCCPDems warns of "dual civil-military research efforts" in the #Arctic, including in Svalbard. Norway's @Dagbladet has the full story ➡️ borsen.dagbladet.no/nyheter/…
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