Reading for the Area Prize each spring is a really lovely opportunity to engage with all the amazing early career work being produced across the discipline and that @areajournal.bsky.social is proud to publish. Well done to Maddie, Stefano, and Rosie on their excellent papers! @rgs.org

& Rosie Knowles for her paper 'Narrating health and well-being with vulnerable participants: The ethics of composite fiction as a creative method in health geographies' ⬇️ doi.org/10.1111/area... @livunigeog.bsky.social

The editors also recognised two highly commended authors: Stefano Pagin for his co-authored paper with Daniel Sanfelici: 'Bringing nuance to real estate financialisation: Insights from Brazil' ⬇️ doi.org/10.1111/area... @uniofleicester.bsky.social

🏆Area Prize Announcement!🏆 This year's Area Prize for the best paper written by an ECR has been awarded to 𝐌𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐉𝐨𝐲𝐜𝐞 for her paper 'Sensing the sky's edge: Atmospheric insights into the Korean demilitarised zone' ⬇️ doi.org/10.1111/area... @maddiejoyce.bsky.social @rhulgeography.bsky.social

New in TIBG: 'Green refrontierisation: Critical cartographies of the hydrogen rush in Africa' by William Monteith This paper provides a critical cartographic analysis of the green hydrogen maps within the reports of European states, lobby groups & investment bodies. doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geo

What happens if you ask somebody who makes medieval-style maps to make one of Alberta, but emphsasing Treaty lands and watershed boundaries? Something like this I suppose! DM me if you want a copy.

My latest article is a look at how western irrigation experts in the US and Canada tried (and failed) to get a transboundary water agreement in southern Alberta in the decades prior to the 1909 Boundary Waters Treaty: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

@justwaterfutures.bsky.social, @waalternatives.bsky.social, @humanright2water.bsky.social, @endwaterpoverty.bsky.social, @icruxen.bsky.social, @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social .........

My latest article is a look at how western irrigation experts in the US and Canada tried (and failed) to get a transboundary water agreement in southern Alberta in the decades prior to the 1909 Boundary Waters Treaty: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Powerful stuff from our students: "AI cannot coexist with education — it can only degrade it.... With our own university leading the charge, AI is now corrupting those few sacred spaces and leaving us with nowhere to engage in true scholarship."

To all those who celebrate: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KalQ...

Now book-cover-official! Coming this September: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Now book-cover-official! Coming this September: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

A new paper, by an international team of researchers, reviews the latest evidence and says global temperatures must cool to around 1°C above pre-industrial levels in the long term. tinyurl.com/52xyujnf

I didn't think Small Prophets could get better, then the Modest Mouse tee-shirt scene.

BBC switching mid-game from hockey to luge. Things that would never happen in Canada. #Canada #Olympics

Read a review of a book where somebody takes a swipe at a junior scholar for no clear reason. So, I bought the book and plan to give it a great review (because it is a great book!).

Super excited to host @karsohini.bsky.social this Thursday as part of the Centre of Development Studies Seminar Series @campolis.bsky.social. All welcome!

Well played, London Underground.

Is it normal for butterflies to be out in January in London? There’s one dancing around our garden but it seems early in the year (but I’m really not sure!)

New, by me, on the ethical and political dimensions of global health photography, situating Sebastião Salgado's polio eradication work within debates on representation, witnessing and power in humanitarian visual culture. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🔔 We're launching our Bluesky account today! Can you help us spread the word by retweeting this post? 😀 #Theoria #diamondopenaccessjournal

It turns out that the phenomenon in this article is incredibly noticeable in the research on Great Tits. These are one of the most widely studied species, yet I haven't found a single paper that talks about the song repertoires of female birds.

Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).

📣 New Blog Post: The snowy phantom of the equator. Imagine a mountain range so elusive that for nearly two thousand years, half the world thought it was a fairy tale. This is the story of the Mountains of the Moon, and it begins with a lost Greek merchant. 🧵

This is a great analogy for jargon and why it's not terrible, but also need to consider who you are talking/writing to and why you need that word instead of another. We've all been that person who doesn't get most of the jokes. It's a horrible isolating feeling. Don't do that to people.

In what could plausibly represent a Christmas miracle* SFU Geography has two (2) new tenure track hires. One is urban/climate, which I will repost below. The other is a Landscape Ecologist. Please share ... #academicsky *actually just the good decisions of our new Dean www.sfu.ca/geography/ab...

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We were talking about this recently too (didn’t think of a graph tho!). Baffling trend.

Amazing!

Thanks to everyone who has helped make this a great year for @areajournal.bsky.social! Authors, reviewers, and our intrepid managing editor! Cc @jonnydarling.bsky.social

If you missed the four tenure track positions' deadline (today) in my department, there's another position in Geography @ucalgary.bsky.social as Assistant Professor in Climate Change and the Critical Zone. Come be my office neighbour! careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1710469... 🧪⚒️

Just on Nature's submission site and see "article types" is now "content types" and the distinction of academic from content creator seems that much blurrier by the day.

Job - please share widely! Canada Excellence Research Chair in Comparative Democratic Resilience in the Global South. Research focus - grassroots movements, Indigenous sovereignties, and racial justice campaigns contesting and transforming public institutions www.mun.ca/vpacademic/m...

Please join @justwaterfutures.bsky.social for a discussion on: Do we need the Global Commission on the Economics of Water to Value Water? November 21, 2025, 14:00-15:00 CEST. Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/do-we-need... #Water #Justice

Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same

Thanks @drbeasley.bsky.social !

"Biodiversity loss is notoriously difficult to quantify. Even in Switzerland, a country with intense monitoring of nature, systematic measurements have only existed for about two decades." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

How can we pursue nature-based solutions effectively and empirically? We are launching a new MSc in Natural Capital and Sustainability. It runs across business, env. science, geography, and is in partnership with Kew Gardens! Applications now open for 2026! www.qmul.ac.uk/postgraduate...

I’m sure there are a few emails flying around at some of these universities right now www.theguardian.com/education/20...

In case anybody teaching game theory is looking for an example of what contemporary freeriding looks like.

Just FYI, UK is now hot enough to grow rice www-bbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....

Just FYI, UK is now hot enough to grow rice www-bbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....

If you are still looking for that reading at the intersection of environment, health, extraction and disposession (with a dash of the digital)...

A highly controversial new law in Turkey allows mining in olive groves, requiring tree transplantation. My new open-access article in @politicalgeography.bsky.social explores the making of "movable nature"— salvage work that moves nature out of the way of infrastructure and extraction projects.

Some food for thought: if you're reviewing a book & it has good, useful maps, say so in the review! And name the mapmaker if you can. Often, folks writing books don't know where to go for good maps. Making mention of them in your review helps everyone. #skystorians #midievalsky #historians

'Many of the living worlds in the ice and snow are not visible to the human eye. “You don’t expect a living organism on the ice,” Bamert says. But there is a rich ice-loving biotic community and surprising biodiversity that thrives in this frozen landscape.'

Saw my first humming hawk moth today, amazing! Had been missing hummingbirds since moving to UK and was wowed by this moth!! butterfly-conservation.org/moths/hummin...