Many others will understand themselves as trans, & never speak a word. Too afraid. The category of 'gender questioning children', as though this is a group we can identify in a trans hostile society, is a transphobic false category. Please use the term with extreme caution.

We also know, as academics & researchers, that the period in which any child is 'gender questioning' is very often on their own, in silence, months or even years before they speak the words to a single other person. We do not know which children around us are 'questioning' their gender.

There is a wholescale concerted effort to rebrand trans children as gender questioning children. If the whole group are re-labelled, then they cannot claim rights as a minority group. If they are all re-labelled, then conversion efforts can just about helping them 'explore their gender'.

Okay but Zack Polanski has been coming out with bangers

Once again: if these LLMs could actually do all the things their owners claim, they wouldn’t be selling access. They would be building and selling all the things they claim their software can do.

Our study of three of the 2024 anti-asylum-seeker riots now accepted for publication at J of Community & Applied Social Psych. Link to pre-print below. www.qeios.com/read/17ASAP

Rereading @susanstryker.bsky.social ‘s Words to Victor Frankenstein and this excerpt of a letter in a 1986 Gay/Lesbian rag, I’m struck by how unchanged the emotional bedrock of gender critical ‘feminism’ remains. The rhetoric of threat (to women; to lesbians) is a thin pretext for disgusted affront

This is a welcome move from Sussex University. OfS massively overstepped its role here; what’s more, the 3-year ‘enquiry’ spoke to no students, staff, or management at Sussex. Clearly, it was the OfS fine that was designed to have the chilling effect www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This piece has been covered in the Times Higher Education - read more here below ⬇️ www.timeshighereducation.com/news/trans-r...

New Intervention in TIBG: 'A critical response to the UK's "Sullivan Review" into sex and gender in research and data' by @jaytoddgla.bsky.social & @felicitycallard.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/tran...

📣 Today @felicitycallard.bsky.social and I have published the first peer-reviewed response to the 'Sullivan Review' of research and data on sex and gender. doi.org/10.1111/tran... The Review could threaten trans rights and inclusion, erode academic freedom, and undermine research quality.

Pleased to see our response to the Sullivan Review covered in @scotnational.bsky.social. Important to build awareness of the review’s potential harms.

Strange to speaking of those times as the good old days…

Reflecting back on research trip with Holly Argent to Blast Beach. We listened to fulmars and with scores inspired by Pauline Oliveros. Later I recalled this poem, by Kathleen Jamie (full text in alt)

It’s always a joy to see my art being a part of people’s homes and lives. With international wetland day just round the corner, this photo of ‘Wild narcissi’ from Annie Lee is timely If you have my artwork on your walls, do send me a photo to brighten my day!

Monday and the start of a second week of being prevented from working by my employer, the University of Sheffield. Management has decided that massive damage to staff morale, student experience and the university’s reputation is worth it in a futile attempt to break the union. Shame on them.

Our kids nymag.com/intelligence...

It sucks how the world generally forces unwaged disabled people into the shittiest and oldest available houses. It *literally* needs to be the other way around, lol. Even something as basic as cleaning a counter becomes so much easier when you live in a newly built, moderately resourced apartment...

How about immersing yourself in this truly remarkable, clever & visually stunning piece of work by @sagebrice.bsky.social? She has crafted a superb call for the liberatory promise of queer/trans ecological sensibilities for critical social science, using comics. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Hard to catch them at it, though

A joint Political Ecologies and Centre for Environmental Humanities symposium, joined by 3 excellent speakers! @uobrisceh.bsky.social

Received official notice today that my employer will be withholding 100% of pay for the next three weeks, to myself and all other members of @sheffielducu.bsky.social who refuse (as is our legal right, and our solidaristic duty) to reschedule classes cancelled due to strike action. Outrageous.

TIL it’s #penguin awareness day, and that this is considered a valid excuse for posting penguin themed things, such as the following article (which is, ultimately, not about penguins): doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2025.2504375

This should be a great event! ‘Nature Bites Back': Monstrous & Speculative Ecologies Symposium www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nature-bit... @uobrisceh.bsky.social @uobgeogpgce.bsky.social

Please to see the pre-print of my graphic article has had has nearly 2,000 unique views. 🐧 It’s out now in print, vol 33 issue 2, and remains open access onine! @tandfresearch.bsky.social @geogdurham.bsky.social @durhamuniversity.bsky.social

There’s plenty of extra content to be found in the image notes, and in the pregnant space between these, the drawings themselves, and the main text. For example, this behavioural diagram of wolves expands on a discussion of competition, cooperation, and ‘natural values’ (Image note in alt text)

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Academics - we should be very worried about and acting to avoid this language becoming adopted by funders, universities, our institutions.

The ferocity with which the vile phrase “a biological male who identifies as a woman” is being embedded across multiple media in Britain is horrifying. It shows how quickly support for eliminationist attacks against trans and gender diverse people is being solidified

FOI reveals that within the first week in office, Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson requested a meeting with Sex Matters to discuss "mutual priorities and ways to work together going forward"

Enjoying the book? Why not ask your library/university/school to acquire a copy? The easiest way to order is via sagebriceprints.co.uk

There’s plenty of extra content to be found in the image notes, and in the pregnant space between these, the drawings themselves, and the main text. For example, this behavioural diagram of wolves expands on a discussion of competition, cooperation, and ‘natural values’ (Image note in alt text)

'“Embedded precarity” in higher education is diminishing research quality as staff on short-term contracts favour “safer” work to secure future employment, according to the author of a new report.' Royal Geographical Society maps important connections between precarity and research topics. 1/3

Looking northwards from the Dyfi near Pennal

Double rainbow to loft the spirits at the end of an intensive weekend of planning/facilitation

You fasten all the triggers For the others to fire Then you sit back & watch When the death count gets higher You hide in your mansion While the young people's blood Flows out of their bodies And is buried in the mud Dylan, Masters Of War Every verse an indictment www.bobdylan.com/songs/master...

Useful reporting from Translucent. When we’ve suggested that trans women don’t pose a risk, people have argued that’s because of under reporting. These FOI requests suggest that might not be the case www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/almo...

My piece in a review forum on @julietjfall.bsky.social remarkable Along the Line: Writing with Comics and Graphic Narrative in Geography (EPFL) is now online first in @dialogueshg.bsky.social Stuart Elden, "Visuality and Vocabulary in Political Geography". journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

The most powerful country in the world has announced it is stealing billions of dollars worth of oil from a weaker and poorer nation. Expert opinion is heavily divided on this complex matter. Is it thievery, piracy or gangsterism?

Silvia Hassouna provides a fascinating, critical and moving accompaniment to the works by Theo Panagopoulos and Henna Asikainen. Lintukoto and The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing were on show at The NewBridge Project in Newcastle from 1-29 November 2025.

They’re finally here…! I also seem to have resolved the PayPal integration issue, at least for now. And I’ve found a cheaper postage option. Order today and I will dispatch tomorrow. After that there may be a delay while I’m on a retreat in Wales. Available now from sagebriceprints.co.uk

PAYPAL INTEGRATION ON MY PRINTS SHOP IS TEMPORARILY DOWN. Thanks to those who let me know. I’m working to restore integration but this may take a few days to verify. In the meantime, it is possible to pay by bank transfer. Thank you for your understanding!

AI may not have achieved sentience but it has somehow achieved the capacity to meme in IRL

kinda miss the times when people asked me why the study of colonialism / imperialism was relevant tbh

(Cryptically) seeding all the good things for 2026

(Cryptically) seeding all the good things for 2026

Yesterday’s stomp to celebrate the turning of the year. A very special place to be

I’ve written entire chapters for publishers who wouldn’t deign to send me a copy of the book, so it’s very touching to receive a hard copy - and a thank you note - for the inclusion of my artwork in this Handbook ‘Visualising Qualitative Geographies’ from Westfälisches Dampfboot