UK universities are currently facing a significant financial crisis. Recently, we undertook a snapshot survey across all UK higher education institutions offering geography. Read our new report by Professor Jenny Pickerill, the Society’s Vice President for Research and Higher Education.

Our new piece out today in Times Higher Education about the threats to Geography in the UK - particularly fieldwork - please do share. It links to a recent snapshot survey on the challenges being faced in UK HE, which highlights the inequities of the challenges, but also fears of what is yet to come

Last week, our very own Roosa Rytkönen was guest speaker at the University of Freiburg's lecture series on ‘Healing, Repair and Ecological Restoration: Interdisciplinary Dialogues on Planetary Health’! Roosa spoke to contestations around forestry-drained peatland restoration in Estonia and Finland.

SAVE GEOGRAPHY at Leicester University (UK) - We call on the University of Leicester to urgently reconsider the proposal to dissolve Geography. This is direct attack on the discipline of Geography at Leicester with likely loss of Geography staff. Please sign + share www.change.org/p/save-geogr...

Human Geography at Leicester is facing closure. Staff contracts are to end in June 2026; students are to be relocated to other universities, or taught out by a maximum of two (!) teaching-only staff. Other departments and subjects are facing closure, too. Please join the demo!

Proud to share our first project output in Estonian! 🇪🇪 Our Roosa Rytkönen presents this poster today at the "Habitat restoration and conservation" conference in Saaremaa, Estonia, organized by key national experts and the State Forest Management Centre, RMK. Excited for feedback! @leverhulme.ac.uk

The Estonia-Oxford postdoctoral visiting fellowship in Baltic Studies at St Anthony's College is now open for 2026/27 applications: www.sant.ox.ac.uk/european-stu...

PhD scholarship opportunity, to work with @sherilynmacgregor.bsky.social and myself on the 'local politics of climate backlash' at @uompols.bsky.social and @justcentre.bsky.social. Please circulate to anyone who might be interested! www.findaphd.com/phds/project....

@triofrancos.bsky.social on the astonishing biodiversity in the Atacama Salt Flat and the environmental cost of green capitalism.

📣 It's publication day! 🔥Burning Swamps🔥 is out with @universitypress.cambridge.org ! My book tells the forgotten history of peat in the context of Russia’s industrialization & electrification and points to the lingering presence of past extraction 1/5 #envhist #energysky

Today is publication day! EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism is officially out with @wwnorton.com - find it at a bookstore near you or order online💚📚 wwnorton.com/books/978132...

"To understand Estonia, you must understand its bogs."🙏 www.bbc.com/travel/artic...

We have a great line-up for these two @rgsibg.bsky.social sessions this afternoon, on the politics of carbon in land management and restoration! Please join @kargkama.bsky.social, @annakspeaking.bsky.social and me over in the Alan Walters Building, Room 111, from 14.40 until the end of the day!

Excited for today's sessions on 'Carbon Creations & Creative Carbons' at the @rgsibg.bsky.social, Birmingham! Our very own Roosa Rytkönen will present on: "Seeing the Mire from the Trees: The Calculative Politics of Forestry-Drained Peatlands in Finland" 🌲🌳 4.50pm, Alan Walters Building, Room 111

Peatscapes will be at #INTECOL2025 this coming week in Tartu, Estonia 🇪🇪! Our Roosa Rytkönen opens the socio-economic panels with KEYNOTE "Seeing the bog from the trees: Social science agenda for the study of forestry drained #peatlands". Monday 11:15, please drop by! intecolwetlands2025.ee #geo #STS

The Human Ecology division (part of the department of Human Geography) at Lund University is hiring a Senior Lecturer. This is a tenured position in a workplace with a strong tradition of critical research. Please forward to anyone who might be interested! lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

So happy to see our first Peatscapes paper out! Thanks to our amazing team @peatscapes.bsky.social, to our research collaborators, and to @leverhulme.ac.uk for funding. Open access! #geography #STS #politicalecology #peatland #restoration

Great to see our first paper emerging from the @peatscapes.bsky.social project. Now available open access, in @progenvgeog.bsky.social. Huge thanks to everyone in the Peatscapes team – @kargkama.bsky.social, Roosa Rytkönen and Nye Merrill-Glover – and of course to @leverhulme.ac.uk!

Really excited to see our first 'Peatscapes' journal article out today in @progenvgeog.bsky.social! Carbon futures in the mire? Knowledge controversies in European peatland restoration and remaking Open Access link: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #geography #sts #peat #restoration

Job alert 📣 Here in Bristol we are advertising for a 13-month fixed-term Lecturer in Environmental Policy, starting this September. Application deadline is May 14th, full details in link. Please get in touch if you're interested! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Pat Brodie and I have a book coming out in September w/ @brisunipress.bsky.social Started with data centres and energy and turned into a story about monopoly tech, empire and Ireland's (under)development in the capitalist world system.

JOB ALERT! Deadline 19.05 Tenure Track Assistant/Associate Prof position, environmental social scientist or humanities scholar, Oulu University, in our superb project SAFIRE. Great joining package, relocation support, fantastic team. Contact me with questions oulunyliopisto.varbi.com/what:job/job...

As I'm grading dozens of essays almost certainly at least heavily co-authored by #ChatGPT, here's what I'm thinking: part of what I study is how communities survive world-threatening events. Across the board, the communities who do survive take care of their knowledge systems 1/

Final CfP RGS-IBG 2025: deadline on Friday! 🌍 Carbon Creations and Creative Carbons 🌎 We seek papers on carbon farming, afforestation, peatland restoration & related work in #STS #geography 📩 @annakspeaking.bsky.social @jamesrpalmer.bsky.social @kargkama.bsky.social docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Call for Applications @ESCStAntonys in #Baltic Studies. The Estonia-Oxford Postdoctoral Visiting Fellowship in Baltic Studies 2025-2026, European Studies Centre, St Anthony's College, Oxford University. Deadline February 26, 2025: www.sant.ox.ac.uk/.../Estonia-....

A historic moment as the 3 Baltic states have just desynchronized their electricity grids from Russia (incl Kaliningrad). It's been two decades in the making! #technologicalzones #STS news.err.ee/1609599566/e...

This week we're joined by Dr Kärg Kama & Dr James Palmer who will be presenting their new project 'Peatscapes in transition: knowledge controversies in European peatland restoration' 🗓️ 06/02 ⏰ 4pm 📍@oxfordgeography.bsky.social All welcome! @jamesrpalmer.bsky.social @kargkama.bsky.social

I did a piece about the political economy of climate breakdown for @londonreview.bsky.social, pivoting off the essential new book by Andreas Malm and @wimcarton.bsky.social. Please give it a read!

Supporting the right for peaceful environmental protest - Dr Larch Maxey, a British geographer, is currently in jail for peaceful climate activism. He has asked that we support his latest appeal being heard at the Court of Appeal TODAY January 2025 defendourjuries.org/free-politic... #16for16

Please join us in Birmingham! Deadline for abstracts 21st Feb. #geosky #geography #STS @rgsibg.bsky.social

Delighted to see our new paper out in Environmental Science and Policy: ‘Just nature recovery: A framework for centring multispecies and multi-dimensional justice in land management' www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @naturerecovery.bsky.social

JOB ALERT Please spread the word! 4-year post-doc with me @ SAFIRE on transforming ecosystem restoration research. The job unites stakeholder management and and research on theoretical/conceptual and methodological approaches to transdisciplinary research on ecosystem restoration. lnkd.in/dj-Zd3Q6

CFP Nordic #STS meeting in Stockholm this June. Please join us in our panel "The data, the science, and the politics of representing the food system". Conference info www.nordicsts.se, deadline 1st March. Full panel abstract attached. Hope to see you there!

an important report on precarity in UK geography departments: “Whilst we cannot take full responsibility for the endemic structural problems within UK Higher Education, nor can we cede responsibility for caring about our colleagues.” blog.geographydirections.com/2025/01/13/r... @rgsibg.bsky.social

2 fully-funded PhD studentships are available here at Bristol as part of Naomi Millner's European Research Council project PEATSENSE: Diverse Knowledges and Sensing Practices in Peatlands for Inclusive Climate Futures Closing date for applications: 1st April 2025 www.bristol.ac.uk/geography/co...

The first major study on the relationship between the fossil fuel industry and higher education. Work from CSSN scholars S. Hiltner, E. Eaton, @andyjsc.bsky.social, @jenniecstephens.bsky.social, @drnoelhealy.bsky.social, and @geoffreysupran.bsky.social featured: universitytimes.ie/2024/12/clim...

I've written a piece on biofuels and the potential for plants to help us rethink relationships between energy, growth and productivity – just out in Environmental Humanities 🌿🌳🌾 Thanks to @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social & Franklin Ginn for making space for this! read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta...

Two permanent human geography posts at Durham University ( a focus on nature, climate change and just futures) durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

Marion Ernwein and I have a new paper out in EPE: Nature & Space: "Making the mos(s)t of nature? Cleantech, smart nature-based solutions, and the ‘rendering investable’ of urban moss" Hopefully of interest to vegetal geographers and critical NBS scholars 🌿🌱🌳🌍 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Check out this recent Peatscapes blogpost on restoration in the Somerset Levels, written by our Research Associate Nye Merrill-Glover. Part of the fabulous 'Seeing the Woods' blog, hosted by @carsoncenter.bsky.social

Peatscapes is a 3-year project investigating knowledge controversies around European peatland restoration, funded by @leverhulme.bsky.social Find out more about the project and our brilliant research team - including Roosa Rytkönen and Nye Merrill-Glover - at peatscapes.com

Humbled to be included in this list, but I'm an environmental geographer not a restoration ecologist. Lots of other important folks to follow here:

New piece by our amazing research fellow Nye introducing peatscapes.com fieldwork in Somerset Levels!

The "Peatscapes" project has a shiny new website! Check it out for our research aims, team profiles, fieldwork photos, conference papers & publications - more to come soon! The first social science project on peat restoration controversies, funded by the Leverhulme Trust (2023-2026). peatscapes.com