The UK's first, but definitely not last, climate evacuees 👇

Manchester UK pals - as respite from the rain, check out this fantastic exhibition at The Lowry - an imagining of an alternative and radical future, where humanity has a second chance as custodians of planetary care. #climatechange #morethanhuman #hope #mycellium thelowry.com/the-guardian...

Have a read of this blogpost by one of our recent authors @ckweatherill.bsky.social ⬇️

In what ways does the framing of climate change’s origins influence understandings of its causes and proposed solutions? 🌍 Charlotte Weatherill (The University of Manchester) discusses this in a new Geography Directions blog post. Check it out here 👇 https://ow.ly/CGRi50Y4KUL

Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) are looking for papers‼️ On the theme 'Climate Apartheid: meanings, contexts, politics, legitimacy' for their 1-4 September conference entitled 'Geographies of Inequalities: Toward Just Places' 🌍 All info attached on the PDF's below - submit now! 🌟

Third heavy snowfall since we moved to Buxton. Nobody was kidding...

Still lots of time left to submit an abstract for mine and Leah's session #RGSIBG session! If you've got some ideas for a contribution but would like an informal chat, please feel free to get in touch with me. #GeographySky docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Gutted

I know this is very boring, but my god I can't believe how stressful this move has been. Worst ever. Everything made extremely difficult by everybody. Don't make me do this again, world, I'm begging you.

In the blog, I use the example of Vanuatu to argue that ongoing effects of colonial violence need to be included in conversations of loss and damage. This example, and my argument is taken from my latest article in Geo @geoopenaccess.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/geo2...

I've written a new blog - Where do you start the story of climate change? This blog lays out the argument for why climate baselines should not be taken from the industrial revolution, and why the science needs to get past its fixation on attribution. blog.geographydirections.com/2026/01/29/w...

Has anyone in the UK had a heat pump fitted? Looking for practical advice on how to get it done...

I've written a new blog - Where do you start the story of climate change? This blog lays out the argument for why climate baselines should not be taken from the industrial revolution, and why the science needs to get past its fixation on attribution. blog.geographydirections.com/2026/01/29/w...

My Sheffield colleagues are locked out for not mitigating strike action and doing the teaching they haven’t been paid for, please donate to @sheffielducu.bsky.social if you can spare a few quid: www.gofundme.com/f/heubvb-sup...

Absolutely love this, great to see researcher which actually confronts these issues head on. Tinkering around the edges to preserve the status quo will not solve the problems that are a product of the status quo.

ICYMI My new article on the material politics of climate storytelling. I use an experimental approach to juxtapose two stories of climate change in the Pacific. That of the IPCC, representing the dominant narrative, & then an anti-imperial version. @geoopenaccess.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/geo2...

"Every critical ecosystem is on a pathway to collapse" - wow, the wording in this isn't pulling its punches

Translation: Begging global political and economic elite to force the people world over to adopt a half-baked technology propelled by the wealth accumulated during a global pandemic.

Slight hesitation in bringing attention to this, but my peer review requests have completely evaporated since I moved institutions. Editors - don't email people's publication emails, look up their current position.

Why is transport policy still failing our lungs? 🚗💨My research on #Asthma and #CarCulture argues we can't solve respiratory health with #VehicularDependency #EnvironmentalEducation can bridge gaps between #PublicHealth #Sustainability #AirPollution #UrbanPlanning doi.org/10.1080/1354...

Excited to share my first CfP for @rgsibg.bsky.social annual conference. Working with the fantastic @veronicaawhite.bsky.social and Alex Heffron, we're interested in hearing about the research around ongoing contestations of Green Transitions in UK agriculture. Deadline is 20th February

Whatever my uni declares, I am not going to engage with AI. I am not going to use AI or teach students to use it. I am going to continue to explain to students why it is harmful. Absolutely absurd to allow this anti-intellectual, environmentally devastating technology into the university at all.

Suddenly moving house next week. Also trying to finalise teaching details for this semester. Snooker the only thing keeping me off the ceiling.

REGISTRATION IS OPEN FOR #BISA2026!! Take a look at the conference programme and register now via the conference website: conference.bisa.ac.uk Participant registration deadline: 2 March See you in Brighton 🌊🏖️ @simonrushton.bsky.social @julietdryden.bsky.social @visitbrighton.bsky.social

ICYMI My new article on the material politics of climate storytelling. I use an experimental approach to juxtapose two stories of climate change in the Pacific. That of the IPCC, representing the dominant narrative, & then an anti-imperial version. @geoopenaccess.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/geo2...

New Books Network podcast! In this conversation, our convenor @paulinesophieh.bsky.social talks to @peternewell.bsky.social about his book States of Transition: From Governing the Environment to Transforming Society. Check it out! www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...

Christmas means Wii music.

Managed to submit an article before Christmas which feels pretty good. My first co-authored article, with the excellent @saddy94.bsky.social. Proud of us!

Half way out of the dark.

Stratford on a bright winter's day. Excellent.

Don't use it as a joke, don't use it to demonstrate how rubbish it is. Just don't use it.

1/ 📣 Jobs alert! 3x 3 year post docs & 2 PhD studentships on the Global Methane Project with Jan Selby at Leeds Uni cordis.europa.eu/project/id/1...

New in Area: 'Conference-based method: Interviewing elites at intergovernmental conferences' by @saddy94.bsky.social & Katie Peters This paper reflects on the logistical elements of undertaking geographical research at intergovernmental conferences. doi.org/10.1111/area... #geosky

Have you published an environment / climate politics paper recently? Get in touch if you'd like to publish a blog with us. Some recent examples: www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...

Funded collaborative PhD opportunity on contested memory with me in @oupolitics.bsky.social and Arthur Dudney at Arcadia: granduniondtp.web.ox.ac.uk/contested-hi... Deadline 7th Jan, please share!

I'm in this cool new book! Routledge Handbook of Critical Ocean Studies. www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...

Really tough job organising our panel for POLLEN. Two slots and 15 papers. Or hopefully, but not guaranteed, six slots and 15 papers - which is still so difficult. Conferences are so difficult to organise (believe me, I know) but I'm not sure this way of doing it has worked.

Today is my first day in my new job at the Uni of Manchester, and I have a new article to share! ‘Operation Hurricane’: Narrating Climate Change as Imperial Mess. This article is something a bit different, playing with format to explore why climate storytelling matters. doi.org/10.1002/geo2...

It’s Friday. May I be blunt? F*ck this. www.bbc.com/news/article...

🔉We are delighted to announce that we have kicked off todays event with @bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social! 🌏We are joined by Carl Death to discuss his new book 'African Climate Futures' followed by a roundtable with Farai Chipato and Audra Mitchell on alternative ecological futures.

The getting rid of juries has, in my opinion, a darker rationale. It means protestors, who are more likely to get let off when juries are involved, will now all be found guilty. Part of a sinister cross party agenda of slowly criminalising protest.

🚨LAST CHANCE for our Environment and Climate Politics Working Group event tomorrow!🚨 'Alternative ecological futures: Art, climate change and the radical imagination' the role of art and creativity in imagining alternative ecological futures 🌟 Register now 👉 https://ow.ly/2tPJ50XxVaE

Commute off to a good start. If things don't get worse, I'll be going back through my home station an hour and a half after I first left it.

Really looking forward to chairing and listening into this @bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social conversation on the role of art and creativity in imagining alternative ecological futures :-)

Last chance to register for Thursday's event! 'Alternative ecological futures: Art, climate change and the radical imagination'. Online, free to all, 3pm-4.30pm, UK time. More info and the link for registration: www.bisa.ac.uk/events/alter... @mybisa.bsky.social

In it I juxtapose stories of climate change across three sites of climate politics: uninhabitability, displacement, and loss and damage. For each, I tell the IPCC version of the story, and then a counter-narrative that places climate change in the Pacific in the context of centuries of imperialism.

"How climate change is narrated is fundamentally important for climate politics, as contained within each story of climate change are the causes of the problem and therefore implied solutions and implied futures." Really interesting article:

Today is my first day in my new job at the Uni of Manchester, and I have a new article to share! ‘Operation Hurricane’: Narrating Climate Change as Imperial Mess. This article is something a bit different, playing with format to explore why climate storytelling matters. doi.org/10.1002/geo2...

Preparing to fly back to the UK. Heart utterly broken as usual. Family emotions aside, there's nowhere as beautiful as Aotearoa.

Calling IR academics— looking for anyone who works with the writings of Christina Sharpe, LHM Ling and Anna Agathangelou (not all at the same time!) — project with mz, cristina masters & shine choi. Dm or email any of us. ☺️