Geography's 'combination of STEM, social science and arts and humanities can sit uneasily within university faculty systems, heightening the risk that we are dismantled into separate components.' 1/2

Opinion: “Geography shapes how we understand and produce a more sustainable and just world. It is, by design, a holistic, systems-based approach to understanding the world.” The UK universities cutting geography have lost their bearings, write five professors #highered https://ow.ly/VI5L50YgHBe

I am excited to share that I am joining Digital Geography and Society as Co-Editor-in-Chief 🎉📚 This is a journal that feels made for the world(s) we are living in now; where the digital reshapes space, power, work and everyday life. More soon 🚀

🎉 Meet the DGRG Committee! Over the coming days, we’ll be spotlighting the brilliant humans who keep the DGRG running, including a mix of familiar faces and new members. First up (because someone has to go first)… our Chair, Tess Osborne (she/her/hers)! 👇 @tessosborne.bsky.social #DGRGCommittee

New Online 1st Commentary “Situated digital involuntary: Intersectional digital freedom and agency” by Tess Osborne doi.org/10.1177/2043...

Statement from the Digital Geographies Research Group (RGS-IBG) The Royal Geographical Society’s (RGS-IBG) Digital Geographies Research Group (DGRG) are deeply concerned about the impacts and implications of ongoing crises facing Geography departments in UK Universities. 1/6

Geography Awareness Week arrives at the same time that Geography at the University of Leicester faces closure. Please sign and share: c.org/vfDRJPwwbm #GeographyAwarenessWeek #SaveGeography #Geography #HumanGeography #PhysicalGeography #HigherEd #UKHE

Please sign and share this petition. I care deeply about geography and want to do everything I can to save our jobs and the school, and protect our students 🌍 #Geography #SchoolClosure c.org/Z2ZK6fQVgf

Please sign and share this petition. I care deeply about geography and want to do everything I can to save our jobs and the school, and protect our students 🌍 #Geography #SchoolClosure c.org/Z2ZK6fQVgf

The DGRG Dissertation Prize 2025 Winner is Levina Purewal for “‘I can’t think without ChatGPT’: A Cognitive Sociotechnical Assemblage Analysis of Student-AI Entanglement at Durham University”. Reviewers praised the contribution, multi-method approach, analysis & ambition 1/2 @geogdurham.bsky.social

We're looking for fantastic digital geographers to join our committee! A few committee roles are open, and we’d love to see new (and familiar) faces step up. It’s a chance to meet other digital geographers and help shape what we do next. Apply here: shorturl.at/kvDIv Deadline: 24th Sept.

We have a new paper in @wssjournal.bsky.social: “Caring with: positioning social support in landscapes of care.” It argues that social support is central to sustaining informal dementia care, reshaping how care is organised and experienced. Read more here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Three @dgrgrgs.bsky.social chairs, no table #RGSIBG25

Attending RGS-IBG AC25? Before the main conference kicks off, please join us for our pre-conference workshop on Tuesday 26th August, 12pm-5pm, in the School of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences. Register here: www.rgs.org/research/ann... @rgsibg.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social

Human Geography at Leicester is ranked No.1 in the UK for overall positivity in the 2025 NSS 🥇🎉 Massive thanks to our students for the feedback and the brilliant staff who made it happen. I’m proud to be part of GGE! Read more: le.ac.uk/news/2025/ju... #Geography #HumanGeography #NSS2025

Last week was our Global Digital Geographies Symposium with speakers from China, India, Brazil, Vietnam, South Africa, Iran, the US, UK & more making it our most international symposium! Thank you to everyone who presented work, attended sessions, & discussed emerging ideas 1/3 #DGRGSymposium2025

With the student grades now released, it’s the end of the academic year for me (yay!) I’m very much looking forward to getting into some writing this summer; especially a new digital geographies book with the fantastic @samkinsley.uk #newbook #watchthisspace

Clear skies for the Berlin field course 🇩🇪🌤️

Guess who has finally arrived on bluesky? Here we’ll be sharing lots of digital geography delights: conference news, new publications, spotlights on brilliant research, calls for papers, upcoming events, and the occasional musing. #digitalgeographies #blueskynewbe

It was a pleasure to be in Poznań week talking to colleagues and graduate students about VR and NeRF techniques. Thank you to @michalrzeszewski.bsky.social for the invitation!