New paper outlining a spatial account of #FND and proposing an approach to the co-production of functional symptoms. It draws on my longstanding work on geographies of health knowledges, my recent health experiences, and emerging interdisciplinary conversations www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Great news to start off 2026: Audio versions of all episodes of the Greenhouse #envhum book talks -- that's 188 episodes! -- are now available for you to listen to. Audio feed you can subscribe to: newnatures.org/greenhouse/f... (also available via many standard podcast listening services)

How can sharing real-world experiences from geographers help us better understand how qualitative analysis actually happens? 🌎 Lauren Wagner (Maastricht University) reflects on a recent Area Special Section on 'Digging into Data' in this new Geography Directions blog post 👇 https://bit.ly/49ia5lH

📢December Issue of Area📢 This issue features Special Sections on 'Gender & Rewilding' and 'Participatory Historical Geographies' alongside papers on topics from Tibetan pastoralist perceptions of the pandemic to research methods for legal geography ⬇️ rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14754762...

📢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...

Are you a physical geographer looking for an editorial opportunity? Join the wonderful team at The Geographical Journal - details below⬇️

'Participatory Historical Geographies' Special Section - out now in Area! This collection, guest edited by @ruthslatter.bsky.social & @ed-brookes.bsky.social, reflects on the increasing use of participatory methods in historical geography. Read here⬇️ rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

📣Work with us! The Society is seeking an Editorial Assistant to support the publication of its academic journals (part time, fixed term contract). Application deadline: 11 December. Find out more: https://ow.ly/8tZU50XCI4w

Come & work with me at the @rgsibg.bsky.social! Closing date for this fixed-term Editorial Assistant role is 11th December - get in touch with any questions ⬇️ www.rgs.org/about-us/wor...

Come & work with me at the @rgsibg.bsky.social! Closing date for this fixed-term Editorial Assistant role is 11th December - get in touch with any questions ⬇️ www.rgs.org/about-us/wor...

🚨 Job opportunity🚨 We are looking for an editorial assistant to work with me on the RGS journals (TIBG, The GJ, Area & Geo) as we move online systems. 🗓6 months fixed term 🕑0.4 FTE 📍Remote working option ❗️Closing date 11th Dec Please share & apply! Happy to answer Qs. www.rgs.org/about-us/wor...

This is a lovely piece on participatory methods working with Vietnamese youth on projects to communicate local climate risk and resilience ⬇️

I have funding for a PhD student* to study a topic related to IP and plants/agriculture 🌱 Applications close 21 January 2026 *sorry, the funding doesn't support international students. Only UK, Irish nationals or EU nationals with settled status in UK law.qub.ac.uk/schools/Scho...

📕 Back 'home' for final 2025 book talk @rgsibg.bsky.social! 🙏 Thanks to everyone who has invited + hosted us since the Debt Trap Nation was published in Oct. 🎁 The book would make a great gift this Christmas, with all royalties donated to Surviving Economic Abuse www.debt-trap-nation.org/book

Editorial assistant wanted!

Salary range for this post is £30,065-£31,740 per annum (pro rata to £12,026-£12,696 per annum) depending on experience and qualifications. Option for home working. 0.4 FTE for 6 months.

🚨 Job opportunity🚨 We are looking for an editorial assistant to work with me on the RGS journals (TIBG, The GJ, Area & Geo) as we move online systems. 🗓6 months fixed term 🕑0.4 FTE 📍Remote working option ❗️Closing date 11th Dec Please share & apply! Happy to answer Qs. www.rgs.org/about-us/wor...

I wrote an article reflecting on how i bring plants to the classroom for @sociologyjnl.bsky.social. “Teaching with Plants as Liberatory Practice: Posthuman Pedagogies and The Sociological Imagination” is now available free access journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 🌱

Statement on academic freedom in Geography This statement from the Editors and representatives of the RGS-IBG RHE Committee acknowledges the (geo)political tensions of the current moment & asks geographers to be mindful of how we make use of our academic freedom. doi.org/10.1111/tran...

📢New Editor sought📢 We are seeking to appoint a Physical Geography Editor to The Geographical Journal. The GJ publishes work which engages with public issues and policy-relevant agendas. 🗓️Deadline: 7 January 2026 For more information, please see this page: www.rgs.org/about-us/our...

So delighted to see this piece out in @areajournal.bsky.social — a journal I value enormously for its sharp, thoughtful and boundary-pushing work in geography. The article grows out of my research on eviction hearings and explores how legality is lived, felt and negotiated in court. ⤵️ #geosky

Please share widely - new editor opportunity at The GJ ⬇️

Please share widely - new editor opportunity at The GJ ⬇️

This is an excellent (if sobering) piece - well worth a read.

Excited to share my first PhD paper which was based on my fieldwork at @thebotanics.bsky.social and just published on @geoopenaccess.bsky.social yesterday! 🌺

New in The GJ: 'A reparative paradigm for thinking with disasters' by Gregory L. Simon et al. This commentary argues for a paradigm shift in disaster research drawing from debates on reparations and reparative thought. doi.org/10.1111/geoj... #geosky

New in TIBG: 'Asylum as artifice: Race, law and capital as regimes of abstractions in the United Kingdom's asylum accommodation system' by Anna Pearce This paper charts the history of the category of 'asylum seeker' from 1993 to 2023. doi.org/10.1111/tran...

Join the Society's Historical Geography Research Group for their upcoming conference: 'Practising Historical Geography: Porous Archives 2'. 📍 In person (Newcastle University) and online 📅 Friday 12 December Find out more and register for free 👉 blogs.ncl.ac.uk/porousarchives

Powerful article from Beth Mead on how the #climate crisis is already threatening the future of sport & the importance of investing in adaptation. If you agree please do sign & share the petition urging Ministers to act petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73... @climatemajority.bsky.social

Commentary on govt proposals to further restrict refugee protection, expand removals, and limit support. Talking tough will not fix govt failures on asylum, but it will hinder integration, cause harm, and further drive resentment towards those seeking protection theconversation.com/uk-to-overha...

We will be celebrating Jo Bullard's life on Thursday 4th December, from 2.30pm at Loughborough University. Please register here if you would like to attend: forms.office.com/pages/respon... The @rgsibg.bsky.social have published an obituary of Jo: www.rgs.org/about-us/our...

We are very sad to share the news of Jo Bullard, one of our editors, who passed away last month. Jo's rich contribution to the discipline is evident in this obituary published by the RGS: www.rgs.org/about-us/our.... She will be greatly missed.

PhD in Early Modern Ethnobotanical History – KU Leuven, Belgium Fully funded position Eligibility: Master’s Deadline: 30 Nov 2025 🔗 Details: higherjobz.com/phd-ethnobot... #PhDPosition #Ethnobotany #EuropeJobs #AcademicCareer #ResearchOpportunities #EnvironmentalHistory

'Repairing epistemic injustice and loss in the era of climate coloniality' Important new paper from Farhana Sultana rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Crafting the Ocean: The Geographies of Environmental World-Making - a new paper by Kim Peters and I in @tibg.bsky.social. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Huge thanks to the team at Transactions for such a constructive process.

New Special Section in Area: 'Gentle Geographies' edited by @mattmattfinn.bsky.social & @drjeffers.bsky.social This collection features five papers and an editorial introduction which reflect on ideas of 'gentleness' in research and practice. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

New in Geo: 'Repairing epistemic injustice and loss in the era of climate coloniality' by Farhana Sultana This paper critically examines the intersections of power, pedagogy and praxis in producing inequitable climate knowledge, global governance, policies and solutions. doi.org/10.1002/geo2...

Sultana draws on documentary video content from the 'Voices from the Global South' project, produced by the Open University, @rgsibg.bsky.social & @igu-ugi.bsky.social, to illustrate the arguments in her paper. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

New Special Section in Area: 'Digging into Data' adds to our 'Thinking with Methods' collection, with 6 papers reflecting on the messy process of qualitative empirical analysis. Edited by @citiesandstuff.bsky.social & Lauren Wagner - available here⬇️ rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

🌋New in Geo🌋 'Safewashing in the conspicuous commodification of the hazardous aesthetic' by Geoff Main & Janet Speake This paper introduces the concept of 'safewashing' as a lens through which to investigate urban property development in unsafe, hazard-prone locations. doi.org/10.1002/geo2...

That’s us! With @mariegibertflutre.bsky.social @marineduc.bsky.social @rlg.bsky.social and others ! Viva multilingual geographies viva!

New in TIBG: 'Worlding geographies: A question of languages' by Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary et al. This intervention responds to the 'Geography in the World' series, shifting focus to the process of worlding geographies & practices of multilingualism in the academy. doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geo

☁️New in Geo!☁️ 'Glocalisation of environmental challenges: The impact of the war in Ukraine on smog and heating practices in Polish local communities' by Piotr Żuk & Paweł Żuk doi.org/10.1002/geo2... #geosky

New in Area! 'Making geography move: The Royal Geographical Society and the exchange of periodical knowledge, 1830–1900' by Benjamin Newman This paper examines how the RGS's Library and Map Committee controlled the circulation of the Society's journal in the 19th century. doi.org/10.1111/area...

New series just dropped! Victorian/ 19th C Global Anglophone folks, please take a look. www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...

New in The GJ: 'Comparative peripheries and decarbonising the uneven geographies of academia' by Todd Denham et al. This commentary reflects on international conference travel, drawing on attendee experiences of the hybrid 2023 RGS-IBG Annual Conference. doi.org/10.1111/geoj... #geosky

Winter Well is on air BBC Radio 4 this week. An audio guide to thriving in winter, with advice from medics, artists, poets and future-gazers on simple but effective ways to bring light into your life during the darkest part of the year. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... @hesterparr.bsky.social

RGS-IBG book series relaunch with LSE Press press.lse.ac.uk/rgs-ibg-series

Some great historical geography papers on @areajournal.bsky.social's early view pages - Ben Newman's paper 'Making geography move: The Royal Geographical Society and the exchange of periodical knowledge, 1830–1900' for one... rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... ... (1/2)

A very characterful medlar tree