We are a rich enough country to be funding 37% of all basic research proposals, not just considering "the best" 37% and then maybe only funding 12% in the end.

⁉️The ARC has delayed outcomes of ALL grants 1–4 months & increased scheduled outcome windows from 2 weeks to 3 months! This reverses 4 years of progress in providing greater certainty & ability to plan for researchers, their families & unis. Their excuse? Security checks under new ARC legislation👇

📢December Issue of TIBG📢 Our latest issue gathers papers around 3 broad themes: the more-than-human, borders, and working from home. It also features the third collection in our 'Geography in the World' series. 23/24 papers are #OpenAccess ⬇️ rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14755661...

This is an important report by @kayatbarry.bsky.social & colleagues on just some of the issues faced by workers who come to Australia on the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme. Much room for improvement and government needs to take action. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

New blog post. This week, @marycolwell1 gave the eulogy to the Slender-billed Curlew at the AEWA meeting of parties in Bonn. You can now read the eulogy on our new blog post. www.curlewaction.org/the-bird-wit...

aannddd it is — saw the 1000th bus too!

off to a good start with the rainbow cityglider arriving for the morning commute 🌈🚌

Photos from the amazing "Yield" exhibition at Caboolture Regional Gallery, where a selection of my "Seasonal" photographs are showing. On until March 2026, do check out this amazing exhibition on colonial agricultural legacies! www.moretonbay.qld.gov.au/Galleries-Mu...

Today's the last day to complete this short survey for the ARC about the use of AI in grant assessment. Survey link: www.surveymonkey.com/r/X7PY5GL

Here's the link to their "stakeholder survey on the use of AI in grant assessment": www.surveymonkey.com/r/X7PY5GL

an 8 hour round trip to Gayndah on Monday, to install the next version of the "Seasonal" exhibition. Stay tuned for more photos after the opening this Saturday at 6pm!

hello Newcastle! chasing the tail of this "bomb cyclone", ready for the Institute of australian geographer's conference! ‼️🌀⛈️✈️

next week I'm showing a selection of weather warning diagrams (artworks) at University of Newcastle gallery. Maybe I've jinxed it, looking at the weather forecast... 🫣⛈️🌀

NEW: "Seasonal excess: Moving with place and produce through creative fieldwork" out now, with my amazing collaborators Emily House and Willow Ross onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

brisbane's bus network will be overhauled next week! At major stations, extra staff at the platforms are announcing the changes, with calls like: "LAST CHANCE! to ride the 170, it will cease to exist next week!" 🚍

#OpenAccess in Transactions: 'Unseasonable seasons: Shifting geographies of weather and migration mobilities' by @kayatbarry.bsky.social This paper examines the experiences of seasonal migrants in horticultural communities in Queensland, Australia. doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky

8pm tomorrow night!! - listen to ABC Radio National Big Ideas for our public panel discussion: "We asked for workers and got people — inside the temporary visa scheme putting food on your plate" with @natashamitchell.bsky.social www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Listen in at 8pm tomorrow night! Our Canberra panel discussion: "We asked for workers and got people—inside the temporary visa scheme putting food on your plate." Listen to ABC Radio National's Big Ideas with @natashamitchell.bsky.social www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

More from Livingmaps Review 17! In Mapworks, Debbie Kent gives focus to the You Are Here maps that populate urban centres. At once, both mundane street furniture and a portal into understanding our location on the earth. www.livingmaps.org/you-are-here...

Check out this new paper out by @kayatbarry.bsky.social and Rafael Azeredo:

How did we become so reliant on backpackers for farm labour? Rafael Azeredo and I trace the evolution of the Aus Working Holiday Maker visa and the political push to repurpose rural tourism as essential labour. Out now in @tourismgeographies.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Great to see Beryl Pong's article 'Volumetric mediations' is out in Area. It is the first article in an SI on 'Atmospheric Borders' edited by @kayatbarry.bsky.social @umutozguc.bsky.social Andrew Burridge and I @acbsnetwork.bsky.social rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

after three years of tramping around Queensland, having to move office coincides with the end of my fellowship project! Dismantling the postcard collection today... 🚅🍌🍊🍍🫐🐑🧳✈️

As Australian Critical Border Studies Network @acbsnetwork.bsky.social, we are pleased to have Henk van Houtum present his new book Free the Map. Join us on the 16th of April. @henkvanhoutum.bsky.social @arijerrems.bsky.social @kayatbarry.bsky.social events.humanitix.com/free-the-map...

koala encounters! remember to slow down in the wet and during joey season! @griffith.edu.au

NEW: The bohemian imaginary — my brilliant co-conspirator Peter Varley & I dreamt up this paper about how tourism is imagined, practiced, and fetishised in contemporary consumerist culture. #Debord #spectacle #tourism #mobilties #subcultures www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

interested in weather, seasons, or climate mobilities? in this paper I unpack assumptions about Western, colonialist weather ideals that underpin seasonal employment and migration

NEW: "Unseasonable seasons: Shifting geographies of weather and migration mobilities" out now in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Here’s a report by John Ross in @timeshighered.bsky.social on ARC Board’s proposal to change grant schemes ▶️ www.timeshighereducation.com/news/arc-gra... [Free login required] Both @scienceau.bsky.social's & I am worried about opportunities & unintended consequences for early-career researchers👇

Join us Thurs 13 March for a public panel discussion hosted by ABC Radio National's @natashamitchell.bsky.social about the experiences of workers from the Pacific in Australia. Details and registration here: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/temporary-...

Join us Thurs 13 March for a public panel discussion hosted by ABC Radio National's @natashamitchell.bsky.social about the experiences of workers from the Pacific in Australia. Details and registration here: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/temporary-...

interested in #birds, #biosecurity, or #borders? my essay on continental scales and potential avian threats is now published in the latest issue of Australian Geographer, free to access here: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/KGVWT... @culturalgeogaus.bsky.social

peculiar little cyclone pictographic.. I like the way the rain drops are added in. (on a serious note — make sure you have an emergency kit, let's hope we don't need it)

happy first day of autumn 🍂🌀

The ARC Board has proposed a major shake-up of the National Competitive Grants Program ▶️ www.arc.gov.au/engage-us/co... I've only skimmed so far, but they propose reducing 13 grant schemes to 6, with intent & scope in the table👇 Submissions are being accepted in response until 13 April. Get to it!

And the thing is, the war never ended. The tactics just changed. 'More than 10,000 First Nations people killed in Australia’s frontier wars' www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Our @visualpolitics.bsky.social program is out. We discuss new research with wonderful scholars from different disciplines: K. Brimblecombe-Fox, @emilyfaux.bsky.social, @liliechouliaraki.bsky.social and @julietjfall.bsky.social. Join us in person or online. www.rolandbleiker.com/upcoming-eve...

Watch. Then vote wisely. No. Vote. Is. Ever. Wasted! Why? Preferential voting, of course. If you don't know how this *actually* works, watch this www.youtube.com/watch?v=bley.... Thanks, @thejuicemedia.bsky.social.

Thoroughly enjoyed this workshop - great to see the essay in print! Read on for some reflections on the aesthetics of emergency (im)mobilities

NEW: a creative essay "DRSABCD—RESUS IN AN EMERGENCY: A Collective Diagramming of Emergency (Im)mobilities" is now out in Mobility Humanities journal. Led by myself and Peter Adey, emerging from a workshop at Griffith Uni in 2023 journal-mobilityhumanities.com?ckattempt=1&...

‘Academics have accused the education minister of “arbitrary political interference” in the Australian Research Council’. Good to see this report on our academic open letter in support of @RandaAFattah which now has more than 700 signatures www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

a stack of new books! I'd better get reading..

sydney train strike...

Presenting at the Precarious Labour Geographies symposium today

Good to see our friends from @polgeographygroup.bsky.social on Bluesky!

for those who are geographically inclined, the Cultural Geography Study Group of the Institute of Australian Geographers now has a bluesky account! Follow us here -- @culturalgeogaus.bsky.social

Join us — 13 March in Canberra for the launch of TEMPORARY: we wanted workers but we got people — an exhibition of images & stories of temporary migration from the Pacific to Australia. By Matt Withers, Kirstie Petrou, Jeanette Tanghwa, Ema Moolchand, and me. www.eventbrite.com.au/e/temporary-...

new neighbourhood watch member...

The biggest collection in the world of hotel door hangers, organised by country. www.flickr.com/photos/11068... The old ones are the best.