Your weekly reminder that voter "concern" with immigration doesn't correspond to actual immigration levels. It corresponds to the amount of coverage the media gives immigration. This an entirely self-fulfilling mess, and it is entirely pointless.

Still time to apply for this Postdoc opportunity at Newcastle Uni with a great team: jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...

📢 New in The GJ! 📢 We've published 12 intervention pieces in a special collection reflecting on Trump's second term in the White House, and how geographers are responding. All pieces are free to read for the next 3 months - access them here ⬇️ rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

Please sign this petition to argue against compulsory redundancies at Newcastle University. chng.it/GxZdqW8xKv

I am thrilled to share with you the organisation of the international workshop "Futures of Gender and Sexuality in Europe". As advances in equality and recognition face growing resistance this workshop brings together international researchers to reflect on these issues @nclpolitics.bsky.social

I wish journalists would stop framing political news as wins or losses for politicians or political parties. It’s an abrogation of our mission. Why do we keep doing this? Is the spending bill a win or loss for the American people? Who does it help? Who does it hurt? Is it sound policy? Fiscally?

Please sign and share this petition, calling on Newcastle University’s Executive Board to halt the threat of ill-considered and unnecessary redundances that are imperilling careers and the future of our institution. www.change.org/p/end-unnece...

A note from the Editors, in solidarity with our colleagues across the sector.

Seeing yet more stories of unis moving to compulsory redundancy, with Geography colleagues (and of course others) at risk. Today, it's Newcastle Uni, a department that produces incredible scholarship with a vibrant culture. Sharing in solidarity x www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...

We've written an open letter to RGS/IBG re: Supreme Court ruling + EHRC update. If you're an academic geographer (broadly conceived) at any career stage anywhere in the world, please read, consider signing, and share (closes 1700 GMT 30 April) docs.google.com/document/d/1...

all of a sudden, after a decade of research, this book is available to pre-order from @uminnpress.bsky.social www.upress.umn.edu/978151791984...

‘If I die, I want a loud death’ - photojournalist Fatima Hassouna had been documenting the war, airstrikes, displacement and demolition in Gaza when she was murdered in an Israeli airstrike along with ten members of her family. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

This. An emergency recall of parliament on a weekend for British Steel. Nothing at all for UK HE which employs far more people, has already shed 10,000 academic jobs, with several institutions on the brink of collapse. A reminder: we train all the doctors, teachers, engineers, nurses, lawyers &c &c

Job at KCL geography - join us! - Lecturer in Geopolitics (permanent post) www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/112649-...

Wonderful news! Edinburgh welcomes the Palestine Museum and I can't wait to visit. cc @edinburghminute.bsky.social

Tuesday we’ll be out again. People keep telling us how angry and upset they are, how they don’t understand that there is ZERO movement, and wonder how much management even care. People are done, students are done, management need to stop these damaging cuts NOW.

His name is Hamdan Ballal and this type of violent retaliation is exactly what his Israeli co-director, Yuval Abraham, predicted in their Oscar acceptance speech www.huffpost.com/entry/ap-ml-...

A mob of Israeli settlers has attacked Palestinian filmmaker and activist Hamdan Ballal just three weeks after he won an Oscar. Israeli soldiers then blocked the ambulance transporting Ballal after the attack and detained him. His current condition and location is unknown.

I wrote about #Karachi's flyover geographies — an ethnography of uneven flows, liminal inhabitations in road #interstices, and experiences of #walking bodies. Fully open access as part of a special issue @CogitatioUP here: www.cogitatiopress.com/urbanplannin...

A one-year lectureship in Political Geography @newcastleuni.bsky.social - check it out 💞 jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...

Jo ha sabiem! elpais.com/espana/comun...

The United States government just disappeared a lawful US resident because it didn't like his speech. You should care about this because it shouldn't happen to anyone, but you should also care because it could happen to you. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/n...

Shall be joining some amazing folks for this @newcastleucu.bsky.social ‘teach out’ on Wednesday 12th March at 1pm at the Newbridge Project. Join us! thenewbridgeproject.com/news/ucu-new...

New zine drop on geoz.one! "People, Ports, and Power, 02" shares people’s experiences & thoughts around inhabiting port territories – considered as critical zones between sea & land, whose destinies are increasingly dependent on transformations in global shipping.

What a loss, trailblazer feminist scholar. 🙏🏼

This is a message from an ex colleague un a hospital I used to work as a nurse: the cutting costs mantra is decimating this country: education, health... a dis investment in people. That's why we're on strike at Newcastle University 💪🏼🙏🏼

Are you a PhD or MA student interested in gender, sexuality, and biopolitics? Join us at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social for this year’s NOISE Summer School, which I’m co-coordinating. graduategenderstudies.nl/education/no...

I just did a little digging into the V&A poster collection. Here are some of them that I liked, starting with this important reminder:
Palestine. Poster distributed by the Palestine Liberation Organization in New York City. USA, 1975. 🧵

Hey Newcastle Uni student poets, check this out: www.ncl.ac.uk/students/poe...

Very much looking forward to our new MA Global Sustainable Futures starting in September, bringing core geography concepts (social justice, sustainability, power, etc) into conversation with debates about key global challenges - more info and how to apply here: www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate...

¿Por qué caen las estatuas? Este libro de @cipripedia.bsky.social para la colección #Artefactos es la mejor lectura para entender cómo se ha construido (y borrado) la memoria a través de los monumentos. Puedes pedirlo en tu librería o comprarlo aquí: www.akal.com/libro/sobre-...

We are delighted to host a Book forum for 'Feminist Politics, Intersectionality and Knowledge Cultivation' by Dr Radhika Govinda. Tues 18 March 3pm - 5pm Chrystal Macmillan Building/Online With @critiquecentre.bsky.social, Centre for South Asian Studies and UoE Sociology Visit: edin.ac/4aUJ3A9

Here go. Universities have become markets: profit before education, money before care. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Extended deadline Monday 24 February! CfP Geographies of Trans Creativity, RGS 2025, Birmingham, UK. This will be a dynamic, discussion-based session co-convened with the wonderful Ed Kiely and Ezgi Yılmaz @geogdurham.bsky.social

So happy to see this published, and in such great company💞 My chapter 'Of Nails, Varnish and Kisses' explores how care of the human and non-human emerges through baroquely-informed community action. Thank you to the nurturing editors and my loved interlocutors. www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Posocc...

Hosted by @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social, GENDER.ED are co-badging the LGBTQ+ History Month lecture: 'Portable closets: Secrets and lives in queer Britain since gay liberation'. With Prof Matt Cook, Oxford University. 3 March, 5-6.30pm, Old Medical School. Visit: edin.ac/4ivqV3b

Cover is ready with all the lovely endorsements! Inching closer towards publication. 😍🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

This @vchlondon.bsky.social training session is obviously very close to my heart! We have fantastic speakers lined up to talk about just some aspects of Britain’s non-Anglican local religious histories. Do join or share with anyone you think might be interested.

Just a reminder that your local library has more than books! Many also have dvds, cds, video games, game systems, internet hot spots, streaming services, ebooks, audio books, park passes, museum passes, and so much more! Maybe it's time for a visit! ❤️📚

The UK's HSE in its reply to the University of Birmingham SMT's response to Birmingham UCU's complaint: 'I do not consider that your reply provides sufficient assurance that work-related stress is being suitably managed by the University'. 'we will be inspecting the University [..] in the new year'

After almost a decade of thinking, researching and writing... this came in the post today. 🤓 🥂

Delighted to have been invited to contribute a chapter to the NEW Handbook of #Geographies of #Religion ed. by Lily Kong, Orlando Woods & Justin K.H Tse link.springer.com/referencewor... A mammoth touch-stone volume, as the editors argue it marks the ‘end of the beginning’ of the subfield.

I'm excited to share a 2-year post-doc opportunity to conduct impactful research on benefit sharing with leading academics and practitioners. sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear... Project is funded by SNAPP and co-led with WCS, RECOFTC, and TNC. Please share!

Nativity scenes, yearly tradition.

It's rare you get such a clear illustration of whose lives have value in America and whose don't

New paper!! Hegemonic masculinity - new spaces, practices, and relations @proghumgeog.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/0309...

Hooray! Read some Stretcake. Love some Streetcake.