Mark Kear

Excited to share my recent article, “Home thermal security, energy equity and the social production of heat in manufactured housing,” with coauthors Margaret Wilder, @kgmm21, @lemccann_ua, and @softsubversions in Energy Research & Social Science . sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

A lot of post-Helene Google Street View imagery has filtered in over the past few months. I'm slowly piecing together some pre/post storm comparisons 🧵 📍 Bat Cave, NC

Pls share: Faculty Position at UBC Geography: Canada Excellence Research Chair in Cultures & Ecosystem at Risk Details: geog.ubc.ca/job-opportunit… Closing date for applications, July 21.

Please join us next week for our early career keynote lecture featuring @Devika__narayan and @outtaKimbo Wednesday 3/26, 10.10AM - 11.30AM EST

There are 1.2 million mobile homes - factory built houses from before 1976 - still in the housing supply. These homes are vital affordable housing, but often at extreme risk to climate hazards. What can policymakers do? New from our team at Urban: urban.org/urban-wire/mob…

Health humanities job in comp lit at UCLA! recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF09937

Researching digital financial practices, fintech use, or financial life on social media? @FieldsDesiree and I are organising a session on 'Platform(ed) Financial Subjectivity' at @theAAG in Detroit, March 2025. CFP below. Abstracts by October 20. docs.google.com/document/d/1E1…

This Perspective article by @VanessaHuxter discusses how ultrafast spectroscopy can be used to answer fundamental questions about the mechanisms of organic photoredox spectroscopy Read here ➡ go.acs.org/ayC

Today the Federal Housing Finance Agency announced regulations— the first of their kind— to condition federal financing on tenant protections. Effective Feb 2025, FHFA will require 30 day notice before a rent hike or lease term expirations. fhfa.gov/news/news-rele…

@SuggZP I've followed the updates over the past year first with horror and anger then with amazement. You are inspiring. Keep going. Thank you for sharing your struggle and achievement.

@JamesMelville Except when they make the agricultural land better: youtu.be/u_hRm-WFM1M?si…

Covering parking lots with solar panels is a hell of a lot more sensible than plastering them over prime agricultural land.

'When temperatures reach that threshold, insurance payments are triggered.' So many possible applications for this sort of small scale heat insurance. Who's doing work in this space? nytimes.com/2024/06/25/cli…

Anyone want to come work with me? I promise that we will plot the takedown of the fossil fuel industry, scheme up visions of an equitable energy system, and make lots of terrible power puns together... 👀💡 climateandcommunity.org/energy-industr…

In the colonial archives, I've seen stories of heat-related illnesses & death during the Hajj. But I've never read of anything this bad. This is a travesty wrought by climate change. Every aspect of our world-including religious practices-will be forcibly transformed by the heat.

📍Our paper 'The Ground Rent Machine' is out in @theAAG! Using critical quant, we illustrate the uneven and racialized geog of ground rent in Baltimore (roughly 1 in 3 homes), shaping the geog of segregation and housing inequality. Grateful to @dillonm my dear friend + colleague.

I am bookmarking half my feed today! So much amazing work coming out right now on property, race, climate finance, housing, insurance, heat, other climate hazards...my fall seminar syllabus is getting a tad 📃📃📃📃📃📃📃📃

Excited our paper "The Ground Rent Machine" is out in @theAAG, which tells the story of racial dispossession thru a little known legal mechanism: ground rent. A dream to collaborate with @JasonJurjevich, engage in crit quant, and decline-as-urbanization. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Does @fema need the #staffordact amended to respond to #extremeheat? Great coverage by @NPR’s @alejandrabee_ Why doesn't FEMA consider extreme heat a disaster? npr.org/2024/06/18/nx-…

@lfalvarezleon Big congrats!

It’s official.