How can we use oral history to capture the diverse history of the UK environmental movement? Barbara Brayshay (@bbrayshay.bsky.social) and Saskia Papadakis (@sazpaps.bsky.social) introduce the OHEM archive which is now available @britishlibrary.bsky.social

exciting events coming to manchester, oxford and london!

In these dark days of February, a little something to look forward to.

@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social are on strike 12, 13, 17-19 Feb and 2-6 March to stop bosses @northumbriauni.bsky.social slashing pay and pensions forever. Please donate to the branch fighting fund here: Unity Trust Bank, UCU Northumbria Univ NE119, Hardship Fund, SC 608301, AN 20295578

getting back into finishing my book on the english north-south divide and delving into the government's plans for AI in the north - my friends, it is a bleak task

📢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...

My book is coming out soon and you can ask your library to order it! edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-queerin... If you have loads of money, you can also order it yourself, and use the code NEW30 to get a 30% discount, but I recommend the library route 📚📚

#ERSNew 🐣🔓 What links Ugandan Asian refugees, a US multinational corporation that made its money from imperial warfare, a typewriter factory in Leicester, and a group of black revolutionaries? #1974ImperialTypewritersStrike. Article: doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2025.2539908

super happy that my article on Race Today and the Imperial Typewriters strike is out now and open access in @ersjournal.com! doi.org/10.1080/0141...

#OpenAccess in Transactions: 'Postimperial melancholia and the English North-South divide: Reading the life stories of Northern women of colour in London' by @sazpaps.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky

Goodbye to the history department at Lancaster University, where the @socialhistsoc.bsky.social was founded 49 years ago. From tomorrow we are part of a School of Global Affairs. Next year, who knows what will be - please sign our petition against mass redundancies chng.it/PZfTFDjNcr

Great to be interviewed for the @rgsibg.bsky.social Ask the Geographer podcast series! Toby Butler and I chat to Rachel about oral histories and research. It's a lovely resource for A Level students and anyone interested in how oral history can be used in geography!

🚨 Lincoln Uni staff vote to strike after nearly 300 redundancies announced. 🔺 86% backed action 🔺 95% no confidence in management 🔺 220 jobs already lost last year Send your support and solidarity to @uculincolnbranch.bsky.social www.ucu.org.uk/article/1404...

with reports that the north of england has missed out on £140bn of transport spending over the past 10 years, i've written about how the imagined white working class northern man is linked to infrastructural violence and the north-south divide blog.geographydirections.com/2025/06/03/t...

new blog! on why everyone is obsessed with the idea of the white working-class northern man! this continues to be depressingly relevant with reform in the ascendant, starmer's 'island of strangers' and blue labour's attacks on EDI 🙃🙃🙃 blog.geographydirections.com/2025/06/03/t...

Sign the petition against redundancies at @newcastleuni.bsky.social! Totally unnecessary and hugely damaging to staff, students, the uni, and to geography and other affected disciplines. All solidarity with @newcastleucu.bsky.social www.change.org/p/end-unnece...

🎉 New Journal Article Alert rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... by @sazpaps.bsky.social #RHULGeogResearch #royalholloway #royalhollowayuniversity #rgs_ibg

Please show your solidarity for Disability Studies colleagues at Liverpool Hope, who've recently been informed of plans to cut their team by half. Open letter to sign: docs.google.com/document/d/1... [docs.google.com]

last week i published a journal article for the first time and i fainted for the first time! a week of firsts. luckily the journal article will have the more lasting impact! read it now on @tibg.bsky.social rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🚨 NEW 🚨 We don't believe the EHRC's 'interim update' on trans people's rights is lawful. So we’re bringing a legal challenge

It's out! It's here! My first ever journal article 'Postimperial melancholia and the English North–South divide: Reading the life stories of Northern women of colour in London' is out today with @tibg.bsky.social 🤩 rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

NEWS!!! If you're in #Glasgow in June and want to hear about the history Scottish environmental movement, we've assembled a 'witness seminar' of activists and policy makers, and the event is public - get your free ticket here: www.tickettailor.com/events/oralh...

Amidst the bleakness, I've just published an article exploring how young trans people are dealing with life in the UK @geographers.bsky.social. Do read to understand more about how trans youth are navigating & thriving in these times. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Super chill lunch break with colleagues outside the offices of the Equality and Human Rights Commission in Glasgow 🥰

Just announced by a coalition of Glasgow groups - lunchtime protest outside the local office of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, opposing their call for trans segregation. Friday 2nd May, 12pm-2pm.

proud to have signed - thank you to everyone who put this together 💙🤍♥️ look forward to @rgsibg.bsky.social taking a stand to protect trans people

This morning, 533 academic geographers have written to @rgsibg.bsky.social calling for them to respond to UK Supreme Court and EHRC events, and take action to protect trans and gender diverse members of the geographical community and people across the UK. Please share docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Almost as if “we have no choice but to slash a stupid amount of jobs” isn’t, as it turns out, the only choice…. Still dreadfully high number though.

AND THAT IS THE SECOND MANAGEMENT OF THE DAY THAT HAS TO ADMIT THAT THE IMPOSSIBLE IS ACTUALLY POSSIBLE AFTER ALL, NOW THAT YOU MENTION IT, LOUDLY WITH STRIKE MANDATES. #UKHE

If you're interested in the Scottish environmental movement and you're around in Glasgow on 5 June, this is the event for you! www.tickettailor.com/events/oralh...

I have just signed the open letter "Not In Our Name: Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out Against Transphobia" in response to the recent hateful and harmful Supreme Court ruling I hope others will too: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

always time to join the union excellent from @qmucu.bsky.social's Zara Dinnen www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ap...

“The drones would come down and pick off civilians – children”, retired surgeon Nizam Mamode told British MPs in November. “We [were] operating on children who would say: ‘I was lying on the ground after a bomb had dropped and this quadcopter came down and hovered over me and shot me’”, he added.

Had a great time at #britsoc25 - many fab papers on futures, subjectivity and/in space, creative methods +++ I lowkey love going to a conference and not presenting. so much more brain space for ideas @sazpaps.bsky.social @sociodigfutures.bsky.social @britsoci.bsky.social @socrevdev.bsky.social

My heart is feelingvery full after 3 days at #britsoc25! A truly beautiful and joyful gathering 💖 thank you to @britsoci.bsky.social and everyone who made it happen!

Had the best time presenting on Northern masculinities and the English North-South divide at the @britsoci.bsky.social conference today with my favourite ever slides 🍆👯‍♂️👷‍♂️

The anti-trans/GC movement is one of the most successful divide & conquer, distraction techniques ever. It has consumed and divided three generations of feminists while women around the world get poorer, our access to abortion is threatened and it becomes harder to escape domestic violence

My analysis of today's UK Supreme Court judgment. The UK Supreme Court Rules That Trans Women Aren't Women Under the Equality Act 2010 www.wearequeeraf.com/uk-supreme-c...

it's taken me 3 [three] years since handing in my phd but last week i finally had an article accepted by an academic journal ☺️ can't wait to share it and get over my complex about publishing

All power to the Serbian students! www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

Masters scholarships for Palestinian students at Sussex. Please disseminate? www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...

Not unrelatedly... signalling my availability for freelance projects! I'm an interdisciplinary researcher - specialised in queer/gender studies, but broadly interested in radical histories, literature and queer culture. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

There could be nothing more important for Syria's future stability than supporting their civil society right now. Huquqyat is Syrian women building a justice framework to heal from the crimes against humanity Syrians have suffered THEY NEED OUR SUPPORT👇 www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

BUILD YOUR OWN POWER Look at this incredible gig we are running in Glasgow for the Transfem Electrolysis Project! We are using it to help fund affordable community healthcare providers. Tickets here: wegottickets.com/event/645050/

back at my desk today and trying not to let 2024's repeated rejections get me down! solidarity with all the ECRs out there trying to do radical and creative things despite the current state of HE

21 December: an excellent day and night to celebrate @naoisemurphy.bsky.social being brilliantly queer about haunting in Irish culture 🥳

Crossroads women's centre are collecting donations for destitute asylum-seeking women - they're planning to distribute the funds today so anything you can give to help them get nearer their target would be appreciated! www.totalgiving.co.uk/appeal/Chris...

👀 www.the-londoner.co.uk/a-government...

**Black UK PhD students** Fully funded PhD study - fees and stipend -Faculty of Arts, Law and Social Sciences -Faculty of Health and Life Sciences **Tell everyone** www.bristol.ac.uk/study/postgr...