Photo taken by one of my key note speakers at the Geographical Association conference in April. Anyone know the location?

Great to see @anjanakhatwa.bsky.social on antiques roadshow just now. You can hear her speak at the Geographical Association conference on the 15th of april at Oxford Brookes!

#RememberingRuth today

Absolutely perfect ….. ✨🧡✨🩵✨🧡✨🩵✨

frost magic

Every geographer on Bluesky! 🌍🌏🌎

In the middle of a particularly difficult week, 2 hours of absolute delight: the Network of Women Doing Fieldwork asked me to speak as part of an online seminar. Such a collegiate, collaborative network, trying to envision a different future for academia. 🙏 womendoingfieldwork.org

I am a witch. I'll never apologise for my slow navigations across the land. For each hedge offers wonders. Each path has it spirits, its talkative trees. I shall get to where I need to be at the pace of my curiosity and the nature's desire to hold me in its splendour. – #EmilyCanting #WitchSky

It’s the leaving of Liverpool… #liverpool

One Monday evening in December #Liverpool

One of my many complaints about AI is that when I write my books I am *thinking*. It's how I process my ideas. To hand that over would be to hand over my thinking. Another example of this is lesson planning - it encourages us to *think through* a classroom situation ahead of time. #EduSky

Always wonderful to pay attention and engage in playful pedagogies with the the amazing @attention2place.bsky.social - thank you for a brilliant session!

It's a tree gargoyle!

Final proofs have been signed off. Excited that this edited book will be out in April 2025. A book which really looks at what we need for Early Childhood. #EarlyYearsSky @ruthswailes.bsky.social

Gift Thinking Robin Wall Kimmerer (author of my all-time favourite book Braiding Sweetgrass) talks with Jenny Odel about her new book 'The Service Tree' - and the relationships, abundance, and reciprocity of nature’s economy #books #nature 🌿 orionmagazine.org/article/gift...

The Early Learning Cafe. Delighted to be able to share this podcast with you. A conversation between myself and Susan Ramsay. Enjoy. earlylearningcafe.com/outdoor-lear... #EYFS #EYoutdoors #forestschool #childrennature #EduSky #ECE #outdoorplay #earlyyears #earlylearning

Why value trees? So many reasons but here’s a few ideas to get you started using a local tree for inspiration. One of 10 online teaching supports from the Geographical Association ‘Landmarks Landscapes & Loss’ #NationalTreeWeek geography.org.uk/resources/sy...

We can't have an understanding of the collective until we have healed (or heal along with) our separation from the rest of the living world, from which our collectivity emerges and on on which our collective health and life depends.

We will share a summary of the @rgsibg.bsky.social response to the curriculum and assessment review next week - here is the GA’s summary - nicely done geography.org.uk/gas-response...

Excellent talk from Mackenzie Crook at the Cambridge Union earlier - Nick Drake, Detectorists, Brittania, The Office and this banger all getting a mention …

‘Beech Tree Fairy’. “Some see nature all ridicule and deformity, and by these I shall not regulate my proportions; and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. As a man is, so he sees”. William Blake #Imagination #Art #CreativeNature

Delighted to share our #whispersofchalkstream project adventures with Bishop’s Sutton WI last night #women’sinstitute Wonderful participation, crafts and river making and lovely company. Thank you for making us so welcome 🤗 #WatercressandWinterbournes

❤️this What a lovely idea to communicate significant landmarks in local places #children’sgeographies #placeresponses #primarygeography

Playing in mud can be a beneficial activity for children. Brain development: The sensory stimulation and increased input from mud play helps form pathways in the brain. Motor skills: Children use their smaller muscles by squishing, squeezing, scooping, mixing, and pouring mud. #EarlyYearsSky

The late composer Ryuichi Sakamoto once said "The world is filled with profound beauty and tragedy, and it is through art that we can reconcile these contradictions." I think about that a lot these days.

This is one of my books of 2024. Delighted that it captures Tim and his legacy. @crownhousepub.bsky.social #edusky #UKed #UKedchat

Ginko leaves @gilbertwhites.bsky.social

Take your ears and imagination on a journey with me into the sonic riches and brokenness of our world. Music, nature, listening. A Pulitzer and PEN finalist. Now out in paperback. 🦜💚🎵🐸🎻🏙️⚖️

This sign reminds us that Aboriginal people have lived in this place for 47,000 years. [see alt text for full wording of sign]

The final Supermoon of 2024 - Woodcock Moon - rises tonight This gorgeous painted stone is the work of Kerrie Ann Gardner @kerriedoodles.bsky.social ... whose art is an absolute delight #moon #supermoon #woodcock #birds #birdart #art

Just a reminder that the #CurriculumReview call for evidence ends next week if you haven’t already contributed. I’m going to add a thread of things on my mind as someone passionate about #primarygeography

New short article just published with @salawatson.bsky.social on “making space for children's play and mobility” in @ippr.bsky.social’s Progressive Review. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower" From the inside birch, hazel, beech, cherry, hornbeam, sycamore

Last light in Thórsmörk, Iceland. Thórsmörk is a mountain ridge named after the Norse god Thor and situated in the south of Iceland between some of the oldest glaciers in the world. Source: Arnar & Simona

One more reason why we need to create space for children to be outside, easily, routinely and safely - this article says children need 14 hrs a week outside; that can be much more easily achieved by everyday play and mobility than “sport and leisure” www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

www.earth.com/news/colors-... Bodies need rest.

#OnLocation 🎥