Dear all, especially those attending the RGS-IBG 2026 conference. You are welcome to join us on Thursday, 3rd September 2026 at 19:30 for the SCGRG Social. Our location will be at Zetland Arms Kensington (2 Bute Street, Kensington, SW7 3EX)! SCGRG Committee.

We are excited to launch a new postgraduate community group on LinkedIn, for those studying geography or a related discipline 🌎 Please share with anyone you think might be interested in joining! Join the group 👉https://www.linkedin.com/groups/26140040/

We have a writing workshop with visiting scholar Esmé Kaplan-Kinsey scheduled for 1 June: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/events_conf_.... Esmé will take us to the world of fiction writing, focusing on place as more than just setting, but as character. #creativewriting #place #environment

📢From now, reference lists will no longer be counted in the 10,000 word limit for papers submitted to TIBG In our latest editorial, we lay out the reasons behind this decision & encourage prospective authors to reflect on their citational practices. Available to read here ⬇️ doi.org/10.1111/tran...

Marking an excellent dissertation at the moment? Departments are encouraged to submit outstanding undergraduate dissertations for this year's Research Group and Society prizes. Deadline: Wednesday 22 July.

📢 The Department of Geography and Environmental Science @uniofreading.bsky.social are looking to hire two Lecturers in Human Geography. Info on each post in thread below. Please share widely! ⭐ You can read more about our Human Geography Research Cluster here: www.reading.ac.uk/ges/research...

Geopolitics is looking for two new co-editors-in-chief. Apply here: think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...

We're hiring! 🌿 The Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities at the University of Stavanger invites applications for a 3-year postdoc in Environmental History. See thread for more details. #envhist #envhum

My colleagues Annie Tindley and @drhick.bsky.social have funding 📣 for a Collaborative Doctoral Award with Museums Northern Ireland for a PhD on "Reawakening the Living Landscape: Integrating Heritage and Sustainability at the Ulster Folk Museum" - www.ncl.ac.uk/hca/study/hi... Deadline 20 April.

We are advertising a fully-funded PhD studentship for the computational study of vernacular cultures of weather and climate modification at the University of Manchester. More details here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #DH

Climate change’s rising seas may threaten tens of millions more people than scientists and government planners originally thought because of mistaken research assumptions on how high coastal waters already are. By @borenbears.bsky.social & Annika Hammerschlag @apnews.com apnews.com/article/sea-...

i shared this a few months ago but it is certainly worth a second read!!

The UK universities cutting geography have lost their bearings www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/uk-u... With @jennypickerill.bsky.social @peterhopkins.bsky.social Beth Greenhough & Jamie Woodward

Phd Position: Art and Soil Ecologies, Environmental Humanities Center Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Closes 15 March 2026 ehc-amsterdam.nl/phd-position... #envhum

Session on The Geographies of Intensity at RGS-IBG 2026, with @amyrobson.bsky.social & @dannymcnally.bsky.social Themes include theorising intensity, cultures and economies of intensity, and the politics of intensity. Abstracts due to me for 20th feb

Very pleased to share details of a new permanent academic job opportunity in Creative & Cultural Industries at University College Dublin. We are seeking candidates with a PhD whose work engages with the commercial creative industries. Deadline: 6 March 2026 universityvacancies.com/university-c....

@benandersongeog.bsky.social @amyrobson.bsky.social and I are running a session on intensity and geography at the RGS-IBG this year - cfp details below

2 year Postdoctoral Research Fellow opportunity at the University of St Andrews on my project "Aesthetic Values and the Social Dimensions of Science" www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... #philosophy #philsci

SCGRG Early career event series: 4 February Get your first article published! 12.00 - 12.50 online. Register at forms.office.com/r/eJiSqMyHkp Dr Rebecca Collins will share practical advice to help ECRs navigate the journey from manuscript to publication.

register now for the Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies conference, 2-3 Feb 2026 in Oxford! with keynotes @joannazylinska.bsky.social and Daisy Ginsberg www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-visual... 🌳 📹 🦫 🛰️

Cuts, mergers, and redundancies risk hollowing out the discipline and eroding its interdisciplinary core. Geography’s future depends on confronting precarity head-on. Join us for our launch event on Wednesday! www.rgs.org/events/upcom...

DIGITAL ECOLOGIES is available for just £15 in paperback until the end of January; discount applied automatically unless you're in North America, where you need to type "JAN40" at payment this also applies to ALL @manchesterup.bsky.social books!!! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526188601/

Latest e-Special issue - Painting / Knowledge - is now available with articles from the archives of TCS and BOD positioned across four thematic strands: Painting and the Political; Affect, Body, Gesture; Word, Image, Mediation; and Memory, Trauma, Image. journals.sagepub.com/page/tcs/sun...

MoMA is seeking a Research and Development Fellow (a two-year position) to support its R&D Salons! recruiting.ultipro.com/MUS1002MOMA/...

Are you a physical geographer looking for an editorial opportunity? Join the wonderful team at The Geographical Journal - details below⬇️

'Participatory Historical Geographies' Special Section - out now in Area! This collection, guest edited by @ruthslatter.bsky.social & @ed-brookes.bsky.social, reflects on the increasing use of participatory methods in historical geography. Read here⬇️ rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

We are running this tomorrow!

We are running this next Friday!

My colleague Marie-Theres Fojuth has advertised a fully funded 3-year PhD Fellowship in Museum Education @unistavanger.bsky.social with the «Into the Fjords: Blue Museums as Arenas of Learning about Vulnerable Ecosystems (FJORDS)» project. Perfect for Scandinavian-speaking #envhum #envhist people!

JOB: Lecturer in #geography, expertise in #geomorphology & #hydrology. Full-time, permanent. Deadline 04 Nov. Come and join a small, highly collegial team! #academicsky #HEjobs #UKHE jobs.yorksj.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Apply now for a free week-long PhD course on Energy Humanities organized by the Greenhouse and the project Energy Lives! project run by @melinabuns.bsky.social Takes place in Stavanger, Norway, 1-5 December 2025 www.uis.no/en/research/... #envhum #envhist #energy

Stuart Hall Essay Prize. Please disseminate: www.stuarthallfoundation.org/foundation/s...

Come work with us! The University of Nevada, Reno is hiring an Assistant Professor in Human-Environment Geography, with a focus on energy and/or water sustainability, and environmental justice. Details at this link nshe.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UNR-ex...

Attractive job offer at the University of Zurich: Lecturer Teaching position in Digital Methods for the Study of Visual Cultural Data, 100%, permanent position Please share widely! #DigitalHumanitie #JobAlert jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

Hey @geographers.bsky.social and #geographers please pass this great opportunity on in your networks!

Took some time out from writing my book to review Edges of Care by @noamleshem.bsky.social - an important intervention into the idea of no man’s land. antipodeonline.org/2025/07/31/e...

Important news for the #envhist crowd: We are hiring an Associate Professor of Environmental History! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... Application deadline is August 7. Some tips for those interested from abroad in thread 👇

Good to see Durham Geography's Helen F Wilson on urban kittiwakes and coexistence in today's Guardian! @geogdurham.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Water as Method: Space, Place & the Hydrological Gaze in Moving Images is a two-day symposium (19–20 June, 2025, Glasgow School of Art) exploring the poetics and politics of water in contemporary artist moving image (AMI) practices and methods. waterasmethod.cargo.site

New in Area: 'The "creative thesis" in the academic "anxiety machine"' by @mutablematter.bsky.social This paper highlights the possibilities of supporting 'creative' PhD theses within an increasingly challenging institutional environment. doi.org/10.1111/area... #geosky

Call for participants! Have you camped in an urban area in the UK for leisure, fun, wellbeing, or adventure? In a bivvy, tent, van, car…? In your garden, a park, side street…? Please complete my survey: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/edinburgh/... (anon., 10-15 mins). Please share. Thank you!

“GeoHumanities” is AAG’s newest journal for publishing #interdisciplinary scholarship, featuring scholarly articles and shorter creative pieces that cross between the academy and creative practice. Learn more about how to submit to this journal and access our latest articles: buff.ly/pEpGtOH #GeoSky

Antipode Volume 57, Number 2 -- our March 2025 issue -- out now, with 11 of the 15 articles #OpenAccess antipodeonline.org/2025/03/14/v...

Uppsala University is hiring a fixed term lecturer in aesthetics. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Antipode Foundation "Right to the Discipline" grants, Call for Proposals, due date 31 March 2025 antipodeonline.org/a-right-to-t...

Please join me, if you can/want to, for my (in-person) inaugural lecture—"The archive in the armoire: rediscovering the global lives of William Macintosh"—on Tuesday, 20 May, at Royal Holloway, University of London. www.royalholloway.ac.uk/about-us/eve... #C18

~ Upcoming event for Postgraduates ~ PUBLISHING YOUR FIRST JOURNAL ARTICLE, open to all postgraduates, online, with @rgsibg.bsky.social 📆 March 26th 2025, 1pm - 2pm Book your place here: www.rgs.org/events/upcom...

Four takes on what's currently going on in UK universities, with jobs - and institutions - at risk: www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/uks-re...