As a positive start to our feed, here is our brand new student-led Student Staff Committee, working this year to make sure our programmes run smoothly and successfully. A bumper year for members, across all three years and human & physical, representing our almost 700 undergraduate students.

The ONS has updated its disposable income data, including a revision to older figures. It now reveals that living standards fell between Dec 2019 and Jun 2024 - the first time that disposable income has been lower at the end of a parliament than the start

One more month until "All Geographers should be Feminist Geographers!" Published by @ugapress.bsky.social

The Royal Geographical Society @rgsibg.bsky.social is hosting a discussion (in person & online) on the far right and climate policy on Tues 30th Sept. Details here - www.rgs.org/events/upcom...

Excited to be hosting a knowledge exchange conference 'Good Lighting - from Polution to Solution' with DarkSkyUK at Newcastle Uni this September. Register for free at darksky.uk/conference/. This is all about how academics, professionals & policy makers can share best practice to light *better*

Excited to be hosting a knowledge exchange conference 'Good Lighting - from Polution to Solution' with DarkSkyUK at Newcastle Uni this September. Register for free at darksky.uk/conference/. This is all about how academics, professionals & policy makers can share best practice to light *better*

That moment when I have to download one of my own papers to read, in order to remember what I think about something 😆😆😆

From Tweet to published paper! This germ of an idea is now published as "What does geography look like?" with @areajournal.bsky.social, hopefully of interest to geographers thinking about the politics of how our discipline is presented to the world #geography #highereducation #visualmethods

Hey @teamlabouruk.bsky.social, spotted on a street in Newcastle, Keir Starmer seems to have lost his badge?

Beautiful day for fieldwork teaching with @newcastleuni.bsky.social #geography students at Seaburn

You know, just because he's not Trump or Farage doesn't mean we have to start cheerleading for the banker

A movie that takes place where you're from

wonkhe.com/blogs/trusti... This is a very encouraging write up of a project that we should all be looking to follow

Job at KCL geography - join us! - Lecturer in Geopolitics (permanent post) www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/112649-...

It gets worse… Members back at work today after taking lawful strike action are now being threaten with disciplinary procedures if their auto-replies mention the reason for their absence during future strikes. In what trade union world is this acceptable?

My thruppence on the current crisis across the UK university sector: THREE cheap easy wins that the government could implement to solve the short term issue, thereby helping us discuss the long term ones. tacity.co.uk/2025/03/26/t...

„Don't Mention the Children“ - A poem by Michael Rosen Don't mention the children. Don't name the dead children. The people must not know the names of the dead children. The names of the children must be hidden. The children must…

Ran a taster session for our new MA Global Sustainable Futures (@newcastleuni.bsky.social), and asked students how they imagined their global sustainable future. And their responses were wonderful! Sharing a couple of drawings below - and sincerely hope some of their visions come true 🙏💫

New paper out in cultural geographies. It is an attempt to evaluate how geographers were implicated in their own non-representational theories and serves as a reminder that geographical thought is also a distinctive type of spatial phenomenon. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Google Scholar's "Time to Update Your Articles" emails are always laughably ambitious

“Sudan is seen as ‘low priority’ area & refracted through the lens of allies, of the US, Russia, etc, in the region. Sudan is not seen on its own terms. The humanitarian catastrophe doesn’t move political decisions.” Any meaning left in “international community”? www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgFW...

Arctic state identity by @ingridagnete.bsky.social is out next week! 🎧 Listen to Ingrid discuss her research, the value of carrying the title of one of the eight 'Arctic states', and the fluidity of identity, in ep. 62 of the Polar Geopolitics pod:

So happy to share that my first ever paper has been published! This paper explores maternal geographies and is based on the work I did with Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art 👶✨

Our analysis of the geography of GE2024 is now out in @politicalquarterly.bsky.social. This offers an important update of The Changing Electoral Map of England and Wales by @jwfurlong.bsky.social and me, published by OUP just ahead of the election. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I find this pretty irritating as a reviewer. And the author must be pissed off as well. If the journal didn't want to publish an article, they could have desk rejected it instead of wasting everyone's time and effort.

The 7YO: "I'm not getting up until after half 7 on Christmas Day, because I don't know when Santa will come and I'm *not* seeing Santa". We have wholeheartedly congratulated her on her sound logic and encouraged her to see through on her very clever plan.

Open access link to download PDF of the book is live. New book - Critical Data Studies: An A to Z Guide to Concepts and Methods. Published by Polity Books. Also details on pbk & hbk purchase. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

I tried capturing light pollution in Paris last wk, but it was too high for my phone to believe! Light reflected off clouds & my phone wouldn't accept the sky colour. My phone whitened the image to correct it (pic 1). Pic 2 uses "golden" which slightly overdoes it, but is *much* closer to accurate.

My UCU-HEC take: I don't think a vote for IA is right action now, but I'm irritated by claims that it's an easy or necessarily partisan chocie. Jobs v pay is an old story. Employers use crisis to implement pay cuts. Staff agitating for IA can put pressure on gov to for a better & quicker solution.

NEW on Wonkhe: Non-continuation in some franchised partnerships is unacceptably high

Oh apparently YouTube did their wrapped equivalent weeks ago. My 2024. English Teacher are awesome

Our survey of experiences of #precarity within UK higher education #geography departments was completed by 11.4% of geographers working in the UK today. For a more detailed break down of our sample, check out the survey page on our website www.statesofprecarity.co.uk/the-survey

A #map of the world in the #Spilhaus projection with the global #ocean as the main focus. It includes arrows of the global currents (@oceanandice.bsky.social) and sea surface temperature & velocity (Niklas Röber). It shows the interconnectedness of the world's oceans with #Antarctica at the centre!

www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/n... Good piece

🚨Employer ignores dispute to rush restructure🚨 Instead of focusing on resolving our long-standing dispute over a racist, dysfunctional & toxic workplace, our employer yesterday announced a significant restructure that will impact nearly a quarter of staff, some significantly.

Here’s geography

Writing a bio thing for an application today and realised I have been in geography departments, as a student or academic, for over 20 years now and therefore for over half my life (!)

Job alert! Montana State is hiring a human-environment geographer! 👉 jobs.montana.edu/postings/43861 #geosky

Nugget from recent reading: Engels, in Condition of the Working Class, argued that "carbonic acid gas", aka carbon dioxide, was one of capitalism's worst pollutants.

“A night-time cycling trend that started with four Chinese students riding 50km for dumplings blew out to a reported 100,000 people on Friday, jamming major roads…”

It’s Islamophobia awareness month - seems even more important now that we pay attention this … youtu.be/2pFJarUuI-k?...

GEOGRAPHERS for JUSTICE in PALESTINE a pre-AAG workshop Sunday, March 23, 2025 - Detroit, MI Please share widely, and sign up for further information below. #geosky docs.google.com/document/d/e...

📢New #Area Editors sought!📢 Are you a geographer with a broad research interest & experience of supporting early-career researchers? Apply to be an Editor of #Area! We are looking for 3 new Editors - more information below ⬇️ 🗓️Deadline: 22 November www.rgs.org/about-us/our... #geo #geosky

The curse of sitting on various Faculty and University committees is to see the same update on the same strategic project on an agenda for the fourth time in a fortnight...

Overheard driving daughter and friends (all 6) to a birthday party: "I have a secret... geography is the best subject". The kids are all right

First bluesky reflection: there are so many interesting people here who I had forgotten had slowly slipped off my Twitter/X timeline. Hoping to rediscover the content and people I'd enjoyed following until the last 12 months