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Gorgeous Galway, we will be back! X

New in Area: 'Friendship in academia: A radically ordinary praxis?' by @smhall.bsky.social This piece is part of an ongoing Special Section: 'Dialogues in Radical Geography'. doi.org/10.1111/area... #geosky

I bloody love Dublin ☺️❤️ EVERYTHING should come with a handful of crisps 🥔🥔

Join us for 'Imagining our Working Lives: A Creative Exploration' 💭🖍🪛🧤🥄🖱 1st Nov, Central Manchester. Part of ESRC Festival of Social Science 2025. Free to attend, places limited. Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/imagining-... P.s. There'll be cake!🍰 With @amycbarron.bsky.social + @clarecourtney

Special Section in The GJ: 'Legacies of Austerity', edited by @smhall.bsky.social & @sanvanlan.bsky.social This #OpenAccess collection explores how the lens of legacies can be applied to understand austerity's effects in Europe. Available here⬇️ rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

Some @austerityalters.bsky.social upcoming travel: if you're based in/around these cities + fancy a cuppa in the coming months pls let me know! ☕️ -Zurich, Malmo + Copenhagen (Sept) -Dublin*^ (Oct) -Rotterdam*, Amsterdam + Groningen (Nov) * will be repeat visits in near future ^ can include Max 🐕

🔥 Speaker Announced! - Rick Burgess 🔥 🎤 Talk title: Lessons from fighting the cuts: connecting struggle to win 🗓 Date: 7th September 2025 🕣 Time: 10am Doors 📍 Location: Mechanics Institute Get your tickets today 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/summit-of-... More details in alt text.

A year and a half of making disability zines...

Brings a whole new meaning to "Bread & Roses"! Speaking of, a small group of us have been coming together for c2yrs as the Bread & Roses Collective to think about radical care and activism in an unequal world. We have a logo and blurb: @austerityalters site will be updated soon with more info 🍞🌹

🌍Are you attending the RGS-IBG Annual Conference in Birmingham later this month?🌏 🚌You can request free bus travel around Birmingham during the week of the conference - just complete the form below by Sunday 17th August. Geographers please share! forms.office.com/pages/respon...

For the UK context: things are difficult for so many people right now. Here are some contact details. Please share if you are in the UK.

Hey @geographers.bsky.social and #geographers please pass this great opportunity on in your networks!

Look at that smile! Look at those bobby dazzlers! Cheer-up guaranteed 😁🦷🐕

I have a new paper out in Social & Cultural Geography titled: Making sense of ‘middle-age’: thinking from and through the middle. It presents a research agenda on the geographies of middle-age, and the value of thinking around the middle more generally. 🔗https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2025.2537686

Is it just me or is LinkedIn in a bit... gross?? I can't engage with it properly for all the performance. Plus I haven't seen a single dog picture on there for the 3 WHOLE WEEKS since I joined!!! Academic social media needs light and shades, folks!! P.s. here's Max looking especially dashing.

Notice this headline over the weekend? Here's what irked me: 1. Women bear an uneven load - so do w/c + ppl of colour (intersectional!) 2. This labour goes beyond services to workplaces, homes etc 3. Enough with the fat-phobia 4. How are you going to fix it?! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

These are enormously confronting, disturbing, distressing times & if you're feeling overwhelmed or exhausted, seems sensible to remember that's pretty realistic in this context. Find connection where you can, & rest. And have faith there are many many good people out there.

How does inequality affect our lot in life? Aini Gauhar of @equalitytrust.bsky.social looks at how household wealth shapes children’s health, education and future work prospects. But which countries offer clues to a more equitable way forward? #LSEInequalitiesBlog

Just published this article 🥳. Research on food aid is always important but there is more to food aid thank food banks. As seen in this paper. Please share my article 🙏 or give it a 👍. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

R.e. recent EHRC news, I want to be v clear that my politics have always been trans-inclusive.I was proud to be a member of the Women's Budget Group management committee but left in 2022 because there was no desire to engage in trans-inclusive activism, which IMO is vital.Trans rights=human rights.x

Seeking contributors to a zine to hand out at Labour Party conference, about disability and current state of things. 120-350 words per topic.

#OpenAccess in The GJ: 'Racialised violence: Riots, space and temporality' by @paulgriffin1.bsky.social et al. This piece forms part of a collection of commentaries reflecting on the UK riots which followed last July's Southport attack. doi.org/10.1111/geoj... #geosky

Huge congratulations to Amy and Joe on this excellent collection on Aesthetics and the City, so carefully edited and thoughtfully crafted. It's already got rave reviews from Max ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Dead chuffed to say that @austerityalters.bsky.social has been funded for another 3yrs (2026-29) with a focus on co-creating spaces, stories & solidarities. Think creative sharing, collective future-making, solidarity infrastructure and more. Will share further details soon x

#AcademicSky please amplify this is a new feminist social science journal focused o. #equality & #justice THANK YOU!

Yesterday we held the 2nd Collective Care workshop "Transnational solidarities" Huge thanks to all participants for their beautifully crafted talks. ✨🙏 While this was a closed event to allow for open discussion among participants, our website will be updated soon with reports and details.

Two things that have made me smile this week: 1. Managing to grow aubergines for the first time from seed (and indoors!) 2. Max's new tag, which makes him look even more dashing. If you thought my content would be academic only, I'm afraid it just isn't my priority 😂

📻 🎧Just wrapped a great 2-hour workshop with Athens activists: primary teachers & housing activists! 🎙️ We talked podcasting for collective/activist action, consent, resources (or lack of them) (time, funding), and cool ideas for collective podcasts + how unis/researchers can back them.

Are you heading to #RGS-IBG AC2025 as an online-only delegate? We’re organising a hands-on creative workshop for you! Sign up to Stitch Assembly & we’ll post you a pack 👇😊🧵 docs.google.com/forms/d/1ytd... @poppybudworth.bsky.social @rgsibg.bsky.social

Announcing a new research project! In partnership with the University of Manchester’s ‬ new PGR Placement scheme, we’ll be welcoming a PhD researcher, Arielle Lawson, to the Working Class Movement Library archives this summer. bsky.app/profile/manc... bsky.app/profile/uom-...

Will be interested to see how UK universities respond to this: www.theguardian.com/law/2025/jul...

Our first project bulletin can be downloaded here: static1.squarespace.com/static/6762d...

I'm still only at one box ticked off here. Explains a lot...

Centring joy, connection and dignity in anti-poverty activism. 🪧 📢 😁 @smhall.bsky.social is a champion for tackling the causes and consequences of poverty with and for communities and grassroots organisations. #healthierfuturesuom #fairerhealthforall #healthinequalities

Taste tested by Max!

Away for <30 hours and returned to find massive beans!!!

'The reason we have PIP is because it costs Disabled people £1,000 more each month to live to the same standard as non-disabled people, because of decisions Governments have made to not address that.' Kill the Welfare Reform Bill! 🎙️DR UK's Mikey Erhardt on LBC News today

Labour MP Rachael Maskell close to tears as she 'pleads' with the government to abandon planned welfare cuts 'These Dickensian cuts belong to a different era and a different party', she said How on earth has it come to this?

Mundane Methods Vol 1 currently available for £12.50 with SUN50 code 🤩 @helenholmes.bsky.social @manchesterup.bsky.social manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526139719/

Last week we had our Anti-Poverty Chats for Change, a lunch event bringing together community, policy+uni folk in Manchester. Together we explored how to galvanise A-P change, working collectively+creatively. Here's our winning create plate by Terri Lucas! If you want to know more, get in touch! 🍽🖍

Local shop has stopped selling Freddos!!!! What a disaster!

Big up @healthierfutures.bsky.social platform for their ongoing support of our co-creative anti-poverty research and activism. University resources with flexibility are vital if collaborations are to flourish!

What worlds emerge with/in imaginaries of anthropogenic planetary crisis?

Interesting FemCareer postdoc call: www.uibk.ac.at/en/research/...

Tomorrow we'll be in Neuchâtel presenting some emerging ideas on young people, migration and housing in the context of austerity. Looking forward to the other talks and generating new ideas 💡

Woodland themed No!