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Really pleased that my new paper on electricity generation in Southern Africa has been published: doi.org/10.1088/2753...

Great to have a chance to present my new paper on peripheral electricity generation in Southern Africa at the @rgsibg.bsky.social conference. In this paper I look specifically at electricity generation in Namibia and Eswatini 🌍

Right now #wind is meeting 60% of the National Grid's electricity demand. https://winderful.uk

“Svalbard is at the front line of the climate crisis, warming at six to seven times the global average rate" www.404media.co/scientists-r...

Graduation!

Just got back from a fantastic research trip to Limpopo Province, South Africa. Our team is investigating solar power being constructed on tribal land, identifying challenges and best practice @exeter.ac.uk #ExeterGeography #Solar #Energy

What a fantastic two days sharing my paper and listening to so many fascinating speakers. Thank you to the organisers of @earlymodern2025.bsky.social for such an excellent conference!

@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social are advertising its AI+ Academic Fellowships: three years of 80% ‘protected’ research time (i.e. minimal teaching and admin) with a view to a permanent academic position. www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/role/ki... Love to see feminist geographical research represented!

At @cardiffuniversity.bsky.social leadership are slashing jobs while opening a new campus in Kazakhstan @drjogrady.bsky.social tells the Education Select Committee what universities are spending on while making staff redundant #StopTheCuts

Our rising seas. This is only going to get harder to ignore. This NASA visualization was created by svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5520/

I'm recruiting women in farming for my PhD research! Please share with any farming contacts living/working near Okehampton, London, Wisbech, Market Rasen, Stokesley, and Penrith! #PhDbyBike

Reminder that Exeter are currently advertising a 1 year post for an #EarlyModern #History lecturer to cover teaching while my colleague and I are on research leave during year 3 of our Leverhulme project:

PGR paper prize from the Energy Geographies research group of the RGS #AcademicSky #Energy #Geography @aag-energy.bsky.social

The @uniofexeternews.bsky.social press release for my upcoming #PhDbyBike is live! news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e...

100,000+ people marched at the #HandsOff rally in New York!

Excellent news and proper justice for once! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

📢 NEW activism award from the EnGRG. Please do share with your networks 📢

Fantastic day in Avignon on our Exeter Geography field course, learning about sustainable food production in the city. #AcademicSky #Avignon #ExeterGeography

Taking our final year @exeter.ac.uk students on the first fieldtrip to Avignon, France. The whole trip is via rail, as #ExeterGeography decarbonises field courses. Led by the fantastic Dr @rebeccasandover.bsky.social

Announcing our final webinar - 26/03, 2-3PM GMT. @isoutar.bsky.social will give a talk on "Inevitable and enabling? Digitalisation and the UK energy system". Please register here 👇 www.energygeographies.org/event-detail...

It was great to get the opportunity to present at the Geog dept seminar on the topic of motherhood and fieldwork, leading to interesting discussions on barriers to fieldwork #exetergeography #academicsky #geography

Last week, we caught up with @mcbrisbois.bsky.social from @sussexnrggroup.bsky.social for #IWD! 🚨 We talked motivation, her impactful work with @edrc-uk.bsky.social, and the two must-read papers topping her list right now.📚 www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS8R...

“We have seen an absolutely astonishing rise of solar installations in Britain and also globally. That’s because the cost of solar has plummeted. It has become so cheap that some solar panels are now cheaper than roof tiles or fence panels.” Me in the ipaper inews.co.uk/news/environ...

“Copenhagen reported that 62% of its residents are now commuting to work or school by bike — an increase from 52% in 2015 & 36% in 2012, when the City Council launched a 14-year-plan to improve the quality, safety & comfort of cycling.” #Copenhagen chose. They keep choosing even better every year.

If even Germany is embracing higher spending, why on earth can’t Labour? | William Keegan

Very happy to share a new paper on energy poverty, co-authored with Dr Leila Dawney and @drcatbutler.bsky.social

Our webinar series begins next week! Dr Ralitsa Hiteva presents "Digital and energy landscapes in independent living: the case of digital technologies for health and wellbeing in England" 2-3PM GMT 26/02. Register here👇 www.energygeographies.org/event-detail...

Around 400,000 people work in universities across the UK, and more then 200,000 of them are academics. The closures and job losses we’re seeing in the sector just now are a major industrial crises affecting the key workplaces and economic drivers of hundreds of towns and cities.

Finished the week by submitting a grant application and resubmitting two papers. Plus all the teaching of course! Trying to celebrate the wins #ExeterGeography #AcademicSky @exeter.ac.uk

From 17 to 28 February, #HISS2025 will bring together 18 researchers from 17 institutions worldwide. Meet Leah Shackman @leahshackman.bsky.social, a PhD researcher from the University of Exeter. Leah is excited to visit Sydney and to connect with sexuality researchers from around the world.

Heard a version of this from a source earlier today: Everyone from USAID working abroad forced to uproot their lives, let alone abandon their work, on three days notice. Uprooting thousands of families on no notice, in an intentionally humiliating and harrowing way.

This article underestimates the number of job losses (already reported elsewhere to have exceeded 10,000) and employs the misleading adjective 'leading' universities (meaning what, to whom?), but if you've been living under a rock and need a quick introduction to the topic, you could start here.

Great to be at the AAG Energy conference online, learning from incredible scholars and getting the chance to present my research 🌍 @aag-energy.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk #AcademicSky

Delighted to announce a special online panel event 3-4 PM (GMT), 28/01. It addresses the question – how can we decolonise energy research? Speakers @ankitkumar.bsky.social , @cymene.bsky.social , @idalinabaptista.bsky.social & William Monteith. Register: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/1a0bb9...

Got my certificate today to prove I'm officially Dr Helena Hastie 💪🏻🎓

New #vacancy 🚨 ➡️ Do you know how to find, process and analyse data? ➡️ Can you spot opportunities to use data to inform topical talking points? ➡️ Do you want to contribute to accurate reporting of climate change and energy? Apply for the data analyst position here ⬇️

The implications of this extend far beyond geography departments, as do the practical suggestions for what can be done at the level of the everyday

National Trust to restore nature across area bigger than Greater London #Climate

I'm honoured to be up to 1.5k followers on here, so thought I'd do a little intro.. I'm a geographer looking at the transitions to renewable energy in Southern Africa. Currently teaching at the University of Exeter @exeter.ac.uk

Re-upping this opportunity. Please do share with your networks... www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

Check out this fantastic PhD project, with an interesting methodology including cycling across the UK to visit farms. By the amazing Veronica White at @exeter.ac.uk #ExeterGeography #AcademicSky #PhD

How the UK plans to clean up its power system by 2030

Forcing myself to relax with some geography knitting 🧶

Mood.

Congratulations to all of those graduating from Exeter today 🎓

“God rest ye merry billionaires” Full Martin Kerr track on Spotify: open.spotify.com/track/0cyptM...

Last lecture of term done! Wrapping up the module 'in/visible spaces of modern life' #ExeterGeography #AcademicSky