Mia Bennett

🦋 Assoc. Prof. @UW Geography | Arctic geopolitics / critical remote sensing / infrastructure / satellites / skiing

[Mia Bennett @cryopolitics]

🎵 be more like the sky and welcome every kind of weather🎵

following the masses to bluesky 🦋🌞
https://t.co/YvLdFKAKyd

[Mia Bennett @cryopolitics]

@Amtrak I had a ticket on Empire Builder 8 from Whitefish-Minot today. First, the train was delayed 10 hours. Now, it's cancelled. There's no service to Minot til Monday, so my only choice was to book a flight for $500. I want to love rail, but this is unacceptable. Can you help?

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@chasingtheskies @Starlink @united @AirTahitiNui Interesting anecdote! Thanks for sharing :)

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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.
https://t.co/UqenU4d53t

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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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power move

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

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

https://t.co/9dg54uzCE1

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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...

https://t.co/uwY892WewD

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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 https://t.co/0mcPkDMBL5

[Christian Drury @cj_drury]

‘Some token of being there’: Visuality and the Inuit Body in Early Modern England - a really interesting piece by @ali_wedderburn: https://t.co/y5Rch3j6ul via @niche_canada

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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.

https://t.co/dMTJQSgQ4w

[Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs]

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: https://t.co/S2dMirSr0d

More info about my group: https://t.co/2jHUw4O74S

[Mia Bennett @cryopolitics]

mixed media: a video of the first time a radio was used to talk on the phone between the UK and Japan (1935)

https://t.co/kXbWggeGph

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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.

https://t.co/F1nNzrO6EV

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@Unudurti When they explode, they can also land in people's flats

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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

[Mia Bennett @cryopolitics]

@AleksisOresch a big yes to 'weighing' such things in! :) relatedly, i'm working with @zacharycudney to conceptualize a geopolitics of mass through the example of objects in orbit, i.e. megaconstellations like Starlink

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@AleksisOresch yeah! it also depends on the materiality of the substrate. from what i'm reading, one reason the USSR/Russia's ELF Zevs transmitter (whose 82 Hz signals have a wavelength of 3,500 km!) was built on the Kola Peninsula was because of the geology's low electrical conductivity.

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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.

https://t.co/BxiXdczknT