*chef's kiss*

Evergreen political meme

Wait, what...

This scenario must have come up somewhere in a horizon scanning exercise 30+ years ago! BBC News - Hovercraft engines seen smoking in Southsea as passengers evacuated - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Odds on the next general election being in 2029 looking increasingly thin...

*Statement in regard to recent racist protests in Northern Ireland* We are shocked and appalled at the racist carnage that took place in pockets of Belfast last night, as well as in other towns and cities across Northern Ireland.

It's an absolute farce for any journalist to discuss what's happening in Belfast as seriously being about immigration 'concerns'

This #WorldEnvironmentDay, we've been finding out more about Belfast Climate Stripes, a visual installation representing the change in Belfast’s temperature from 1850 to 2025. Keep an eye out today, as the Climate Stripes will be appearing on screens across campus. More ➡️ ow.ly/FYux50Z7Wns

I am knee-deep in marking, so a weird post but... I'm intrigued as to why SO MANY students' (across v. different institutions) default position seems to be to put full-stops after their references: "end of sentence. (Author, date) Next sentence...". Such a weird thing, makes no sense. Anyway...

Jonathan Hinder inadvertently making a very strong case for keeping Starmer as leader on #Newsnight.

"The CEO of QatarEnergy, the state-owned oil and gas company, told Reuters that strikes had taken out 17 percent [!!!!] of its capacity for the next five years...". W. T. F. www.wired.com/story/iran-w...

There's a lot going on but... I hate this. BBC News - Afcon 2025: Morocco declared the winners after CAF overturns final defeat to Senegal - BBC Sport www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Has anyone checked in on Tim Marshall?

Osulaaaaaaa #nufc

Former academic and unsuccessful candidate for the Gorton and Denton parliamentary by-election, Matt Goodwin.

Job losses at UK research-intensive universities double in two years. Exclusive: Scale of redundancies branded a “disaster”. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

The year is 2090. The Lib Dems are proposing a third Department for Growth in the semi-arid city of Crawley, with a promise to get Britain growing again, and to update the Thameslink trains.

Audible wow at the sight of blue sky this morning 🌄

I mean, yeah.

"AI skills" 🫩

New in TIBG: 'The life of events: Exception and everyday life in Acapulco, Mexico' by Hector Becerril, @benandersongeog.bsky.social & @alejandrodecoss.bsky.social This paper draws on Berlant to consider how certain events, such as storms, become exceptions to ordinary life. doi.org/10.1111/tran...

I don't envy news editors trying to figure out what Trump is actually banging on about here!?

"Thank you!"

Maybe the most bizarre 30 mins of a football match I've ever seen #AFCON #gamesgone

So bold!!!! 🤣🤣🤣

Excited to announce @leverhulmecal.bsky.social posts - we are looking for 7 interdisciplinary fellows to join our Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life, closing date 30 January 2026 (1/3) durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

New job! Today is my last day working as a post-doc at KCL on the MH-Prep project. I'll be joining Queen's University Belfast as Lecturer in Human Geography. Excited to get started and to move to Belfast after 7-8 years living in London! Too few characters available for a King's> Queen's pun!

Sharing our new preprint: an analysis of the literature on multi-hazards and household preparedness. We find quite limited engagement with compound, cascading and interrelated hazards in the literature on household preparedness planning. #DRR #geosky egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...

I'd like to see the response to this if the question added "if that that means universities have less money to spend on UK students".

States of Precarity in UK HE Geography: A new report on the long and short term effects of precarity across career stages, with a series of best practice resources to support more equitable working cultures. www.rgs.org/research/hig... @rgsibg.bsky.social @antipodeonline.bsky.social

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...

Trump at Windsor, Farage at 30% What does the rise of far right politics in Europe + the US means for climate policy? Upcoming CCRG/ RGS event: 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐦 September 30th @ 7pm 👇 www.rgs.org/events/upcom...

Great project from my teams World Risk Poll Into Action grants Disaster Risk Reduction for households when there are multiple hazards 1) multi hazard thinking getting clearer definitions & integration 2) lived experience + data = better & inclusive planning 3) scale needs tools + capacity

First outputs from our current project are starting to emerge. More to come! #drr #resilience

"Manchester United battered in Grimsby"

It was a pleasure to review Adam Bobbette's book "The Pulse of the Earth: Political Geology in Java" for The Journal of Development Studies. Will be of particular interest to those who work on/think with "the Anthropocene", but certainly not exclusively! www.tandfonline.com/eprint/QHGPM... #geosky

🚨 Last chance! 🚨 Today’s the final day to register for the UKADR Annual Conference 2025 at Durham (4–5 Sept). 👉 durham.ac.uk/UKADR-2025 #UKADR2025 #DisasterResearch

Using AI for your Fantasy Football team is crazy.

Announcing my book, Techno-Negative! It will be out in Spring 2026, published with @uminnpress.bsky.social.

I can't quite believe it, but, it appears that the person responsible for this at the University of Warwick has had a Vogue photoshoot about the rebrand, explaining his 'journey from the world of luxury [goods marketing] into higher education' vogue.sg/university-o...

Sharing a new paper written with Dr Ellen Robson at the @ihrr.bsky.social and several other amazing co-authors! It summarises discussions from an interdisciplinary workshop on roads, resilience, and development and situates the key themes in the wider literature. Open Access! doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...

Teachers don't need more tech. They need smaller classes and more (paid) time for prep and instruction. But alas, the tech option means more profit for billionaires, while the latter would cost billionaires more in taxes. And so, in our current kleptocracy, tech is what teachers are going to get...

Windows 11 includes this new game called "Find the Power Button", very fun!

Always remember that Britain chose to make things this hard. It ejected itself from the EU, left the Single Market, bodged up a rubbish trade deal, cancelled HS2 and told paying students they weren't wanted. The country has chosen the steepest, rockiest, most difficult path. 🇬🇧

A massive statue of Dan Burn, please!!!! 🤩 #nufc

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