Please sign and share - this is where my geography journey started. It would be a tragedy for all concerned.

“The researchers aim to show that the ‘inevitability’ of AI is just a marketing frame perpetrated by the industry and that pushback is a lot more possible than we often see.” Yes!

Belgian AI scientists are advocating *against* the use of AI in academia. “If independent thinking is no longer encouraged at university, where would it?” apache.be/2025/10/24/b...

I am honoured to be a finalist in the DCAD (Durham Centre for Academic Development) 2025 poster competition! My entry outlines the aims and intentions for my PhD research, grounding the importance of research surrounding queer experiences of prison spaces.

✊🥂Huge congratulations to the whole @newcastleucu.bsky.social membership and team. Compulsory redundancies withdrawn. Sends a message to university management everywhere. Just shows what you can do with organisation, solidarity, and right on your side.

#OpenAccess in The GJ: 'Constructing citizenship & indigeneity in Jordan: The politics of Bedouin rights & identities in cultural heritage sites' by Taraf Abu Hamdan & @oliviamason.bsky.social This piece is part of a Special Section entitled 'Glimpses beyond citizenship'. doi.org/10.1111/geoj...

Excited to read Kahina Meziant's new paper, 'Glitches, geopoetics, and the matter of migration: Regrounding beyond citizenship' at @thegj.bsky.social: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

SHANDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!! 🎩 1-0 🔵 (90)

Very short visit to Manchester this week for the #britsoc25 conference sharing our decade long work on ‘hate relationships’. Some great questions and discussion!

Happy to share our latest article on our ‘hate relationships’ research. This one uses geotrauma and haunting as lenses to make sense of the absences and presences involved in hate relationships. eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

A new paper by my wonderful colleague Joanna Allan and her co-author Moiti Mohamed Azrouk, "Poetry, citizenship and diplomacy: The case of Western Sahara," looks fascinating! rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Three sessions on "The Critical Urban Lives of Ruins" here at the #AAG tomorrow (Wed) and Thursday am. What work do ruins do? And what might they reveal that's new?

This is very good and if you work in a UK university you should read it.

This is what the redundancy wave in British Higher Education currently looks like on the map: ‘British University Redundancy Map’ maps.app.goo.gl/yUteDm2MCXUi...

Current vibes

6 months on from the worst instance of racist riots in living memory, I visited Middlesbrough to speak to Muslims about their experiences. It's clear that the atmosphere of hate that fuelled the violence is far from over. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/...

📢 Call for abstracts! 'Creating Carceral Atmospheres: Affect, Embodiment and Enclosure' at the RGS-IBG AC2025. Please get in touch with any abstracts or questions! 😄 @rgsibg.bsky.social

Jacob Miller and I wrote a short thing on the violent ruination of Trump's America. @gregseigworth.bsky.social was gracious enough to include it along with many other short pieces in this 'Capacities to: Affect up Against Fascism' collection, which is open access: imbricate.press/book/capacit...

Wrote this in another place on 6 November and thought it worth sharing here today. Just a note to remember that fascists are scared of you.

Vauxhall workers will hold a two-day protest and a rally over the company’s plans to shut its profitable electric van factory. 🗓Tuesday 17 Dec & Wednesday 18 Dec ⏰️ 8am to 4pm 📣 Rally 12 noon on Tue 17 Dec 📍 Gate 1, Vauxhall (IBC Luton), Kimpton Road, Luton, LU2 0JX

We have two NBC PhD studentships advertised for 2025 starts! Projects around working class identity/Sunderland and gender just transitions/food supply chains. Opportunities to work with @jsclayton.bsky.social and @katyjenkins.bsky.social. More info: northernbridge.ac.uk/applyforastu...

Street art? Graffiti? Northumbria BA Geography student getting involved in Amsterdam

That’s not good news for Luton. Thoughts with all those affected.

📢New Issue of TIBG!📢 This December's Issue is themed around migration, asylum, and ethnic diversity. It also features @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social & Harriet Bulkeley's collection on climate geographies. Read the papers using the link below ⬇️ rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14755661... #geosky

Let our Amsterdam trip commence…

Advertising a fully-funded PHD at Northumbria University looking at how Urban Social Infrastructures (USIs) can be better-provided in UK cities to improve (holistic) Gen-Z Mens' Health and Wellbeing. Get in touch if interested, deadline January. Details here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

If you or someone you know might be interested in doing a PhD or Masters+PhD, you can apply for funded opportunities within the NINE DTP Human Geography & Environment, Climate and Sustainability pathways with colleagues at Northumbria. There is more info here: www.findaphd.com/phds/program...

Overheard comment by passer-bye on Northumberland Street: "there's a hell of a lot you can do with Human Geography". Indeed, kind pedestrian.

Glad to be here