History has many painful lessons.

#OpenAccess in Area: 'Confluences of art and research: Reflections on curating an art exhibition as interdisciplinary method' by Helen Underhill & Cat Button This paper reflects on 'curation-as-method' in relation to the 2024 'Confluences: Water and People' exhibition. doi.org/10.1111/area...

Just received my copy of the open access Promise of Cultural Geography edited by @vickiezhang.bsky.social & @benandersongeog.bsky.social. Happy to have contributed!! Honestly, I'm surprised it survived the post, though: they saved me the trouble of opening anything 😄!

We're hiring! Join us at Landscape Research Group as our new Director of Communications & Membership (3 days/week, remote). Lead strategy, comms, membership, events & much more. Apply by 22 Sept.   Learn more and download the full pack here: landscaperesearch.org/comms-vacanc...

Mae'r gwaith yn iawn araf.

#OpenAccess in Area: 'Participatory collaborations between geographers and performance artists: Taking urban renewal histories to the street' by @aledsingleton.bsky.social et al. This paper is part of an ongoing Special Section on 'Participatory Historical Geography'. doi.org/10.1111/area...

These are precedented times and the precedent is a loud ass warning www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

I've spent the past two days tracing the last remaining elements of Amgueddfa Cymru's presence in Caernarfon Harbour while they owned and contributed labor, material, and financial resources towards the operation of the Seiont II and Nantlys ships @amgueddfacymru.bsky.social

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...

Looking forward to jumping back into another TICCIH Congress tomorrow in Kiruna. In the meantime, tracing Kiruna's historical links to Narvik has been thrilling! #TICCIH #TICCIH25

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

Love to see the @michigantech.bsky.social shout out for our key role in this year's conference!

The line from people impersonating ICE [to kidnap immigrants] to impersonating a cop [to assassinate democratic officials] is a short one.

Former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman was killed Saturday in a politically motivated assassination along with her husband, Mark, in their home. Minnesota lawmaker Sen. John Hoffman and his wife were also shot and wounded at their home nearby.

*Revoicing Intangible Cultural Heritage: Perspectives from the Margins of Europe* is out today! Using data from the JPICH Re:voice project, it explores the dynamics and ethics of participation in European national minority cultures’ intangible cultural heritage www.routledge.com/Revoicing-In...

When you log in to CITI, not remembering if your training has expired and whether you need to spend 3 hours mashing buttons about how to most ethically extract bodily samples from people... . . . Today was my lucky day...expiration 2027. IRB now in.

As I'm putting the finishing touches on my Wales program this year, I've turned to more Planet articles. Shorter, better written, and punchier, they make me hope for a return of the journal. #Wales #WelshStudies #Publishing

The protests at #KentState started on May 1st against the expansion of the Vietnam War into Cambodia. By May 3rd, 1000 National Guard were on campus. On May 4th, 1970, during protests against the use of the #NationalGuard to supress the freedom of assembly, 4 students were murdered, 9 more shot.

First Duolingo stopped servicing Welsh, now they're "AI-first". I've always loved DuoLingo Classroom for my regional and Study Abroad courses, but this is beyond the pale. I'd rather turn to a (Welsh) company like SaySomethingIn and just have students send in screenshots.

The closure of factories, steelworks and mines has pivotally shaped how we imagine national economies. I wrote on Deindustrialization and Nationhood for the new bumper Routledge International Handbook of Deindustrialization Studies. Get it for your library if you're interested!

My writing process in a gif

Graves’ dedicated diligence as a researcher has led to an illuminating book about the shaping of Wales and how we can revive our landscapes ✍️ Jon Gower

An 85-year old protest of the privatization of public services. Sargent Johnson laid down his saw as soon as the Federal and San Francisco city governments sold out to turn the publically-funded Aquatic Park into a private casino. Glad to see it now in the care of the NPS.

I'm joining @drrossgarner.bsky.social and @direjackalope.bsky.social for an edited collection on the Pokémon franchise. We already have many great chapters but are seeking some more in specific areas. Check out the targeted CFP below & pls share widely! rebeccawilliams.org/2025/05/17/1...

"Act like universities, not like businesses. Spend your endowments. Accept more, not fewer students. Open up your campuses and expand your reach not by buying real estate but by bringing education to communities. Create a base. Become a movement." From M. Gessen: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...

"Every artist, every scientist, must decide NOW where they stand. They have no alternative. There is no standing above the conflict on Olympian heights. There are no impartial observers...

”Miyazaki said, 'I am utterly disgusted. If you really want to make creepy stuff you can go ahead and do it. I would never wish to incorporate this technology into my work at all.' He also said, 'I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.'"

Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying. They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks. From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY

Hope to see many people here this afternoon! #AAG2025

As hundreds of my university colleagues across Wales lose their jobs, I wrote this for @nation.cymru - do please share nation.cymru/opinion/yes-...

Welcome to Michigan, #AAG2025! I'll be right over; just a 9-hour drive across our beautiful state. @geographers.bsky.social

The father of a young woman held for almost three weeks in a US detention facility has warned tourists to double-check visa rules to avoid the “trauma” his daughter faced

New paper in Area: 'Mapping entangled mobilities: Using participatory historical geography to explore the migration of objects and people across (neo)colonial spatialities' by Sarah Linn et al. This paper is part of a Special Section on 'Participatory Historical Geography' doi.org/10.1111/area...

Open access article in @tibg.bsky.social. Industrial disarticulations, labour unrest, and the green transition at a Whirlpool factory in Naples. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

In a time when ancient forests are being felled for profit; when language and culture are still being erased in insidious ways; a book like this is more than poetry – it is a record, a warning, and a call to arms

A teacher in Idaho has been told to remove posters reading "Everyone is welcome here" - specifically because it features different skin tones. As I wrote last week, this is a global political movement that has explicitly set the goal of eradicating the very concept of equality.

Might just be me but chopping down rainforest to build infrastructure to host the climate change COP 30 summit seems quite counterproductive 😒

I know I am terrible at posting regularly on social media, but I have set up an Instagram account for my side project where I'll post images of what remains in public spaces from the lockdown era before they slowly disappear! Feel free to send any that you have found too that you want to share

Very excited to see this work from 2022 finally out in the Annals @geographers.bsky.social! Managing the Imagined Spatialities of Protected Sites: (Un)Bounding Industrial #WorldHeritage via #MentalMaps. Happy to share a copy if anyone needs access. #geography www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Happy St. David's Day! If you know of anyone looking for more UG or Grad credits and an opportunity to visit Wales, put them in touch with me, as I still have a few spots on my study abroad this summer! The application deadline is Friday. #StDavidsDay #DyddGŵylDewi

We're very excited to announce the slate of keynotes for this summer's NAASWCH International Welsh Studies Conference! Dr. Valerie Hill-Jackson, @jerryhunter.bsky.social (@bangormodlangs.bsky.social), and @richardwynjones.bsky.social (@culawandpolitics.bsky.social). #WelshStudies #Wales #Welsh

How do you transition from extractive industrial agriculture to a non-extractive tourism industry? Very carefully and through collective resilience. Love having these conversations with our students in the Yucatán. #SpringBreak @michigantech.bsky.social

Lots of great working coming our way from Historical Geography! If you've let your HGSG @geographers.bsky.social membership lapse, make sure you re-up by Tuesday when I send our early access information to @univnebpress.bsky.social.

If you're working with any students doing historical geography research of any kind, please encourage them to apply for our research awards ($700 and $300).

Come out for this Friday!! The only geographer I’ve seen recently in LARB here talking about bad urbanism 🔥

Recently, while trying to discern if the research I was reading was sound I wished that there was a list of known predatory journals I could check as a first pass to save (enormous amounts of) time. Today, I learned that there is one. @predatoryjournals.org predatoryjournals.org/about