Our new piece out today in Times Higher Education about the threats to Geography in the UK - particularly fieldwork - please do share. It links to a recent snapshot survey on the challenges being faced in UK HE, which highlights the inequities of the challenges, but also fears of what is yet to come

🌍 NEW in our Special issue "Infrastructural encounters: Disability in urban lives" Take a look 🧵👇 #UrbanStudies

Daniel Allen and I are organising an @rgsibg.bsky.social conference (hybrid) session on legal animal geographies. We invite papers that not only highlight current multispecies injustice, but seek to challenge, resist, and contest these systems to create more just multispecies worlds and futures. 1

We would love for @jaytoddgla.bsky.social’s and my critical response to be read widely, given the Sullivan Review’s potential for far-reaching implications across the social and health sciences — and indeed well beyond the academy

Animals Are Climate Allies. So Why Are We Leaving Them Out of Climate Policy? https://therevelator.org/animals-climate-allies/

Myself & many colleagues are facing this at Sheffield Uni - double punishment for strike action. In the midst of this, yesterday many departments got an email announcing imminent structural reviews (ie redundancies). @sheffielducu.bsky.social

The University of Sheffield has stopped paying staff. Not for striking but for refusing to work unpaid to make up for strike days they were already docked for. This is punishment, not negotiation. And it’s completely reckless. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1438...

CfP: Attuning to More-than-human Seas: Negotiating Multispecies Justice in the Anthropocene Ocean 🌊🦐🐳🪸🦈🐠🌊 Please share! @rgsibg.bsky.social @rgs-agwg.bsky.social @marsocsci.bsky.social @marineconservation.bsky.social

Resharing my survey about teaching animal geographies. This is for anyone who has taught, or is teaching, animal geographies in higher education. This can be in the UK or world wide and your teaching could be individual lectures to whole modules! Link here: yorksj.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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/

Resharing my survey about teaching animal geographies. This is for anyone who has taught, or is teaching, animal geographies in higher education. This can be in the UK or world wide and your teaching could be individual lectures to whole modules! Link here: yorksj.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

The British honours system is corrupt and disgusting and any educated person who accepts one goes down in my estimation - especially if it's a VC who is closing a geography department, and who was born in a country subjugated by the British empire. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/new-yea...

I have designed a 20min questionnaire looking to explore how you all teach animal geographies. The survey aims to understand your pedagogical practices, course design, and how you translate all that animal geographies research out there to your students. yorksj.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... 1/

🚨 Job opportunity🚨 We are looking for an editorial assistant to work with me on the RGS journals (TIBG, The GJ, Area & Geo) as we move online systems. 🗓6 months fixed term 🕑0.4 FTE 📍Remote working option ❗️Closing date 11th Dec Please share & apply! Happy to answer Qs. www.rgs.org/about-us/wor...

Looking for responses to my teaching animal geographies survey! If you teach any form of animal geographies in Higher education whether single lectures to full modules I'll be grateful for your response!

This was a brutal read. An incisive rendering of the life of ECRs and (false) promise of an academic career: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

I have designed a 20min questionnaire looking to explore how you all teach animal geographies. The survey aims to understand your pedagogical practices, course design, and how you translate all that animal geographies research out there to your students. yorksj.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... 1/

Save Geography at the University of Leicester. The University of Leicester is proposing to dissolve Geography into a School of Chemical, Earth & Environmental Science. All research-active human geographers are at threat of redundancy. Add your voice to keep #Geography whole! c.org/sbYBqcwrhC

AGWG is pleased to offer an annual prize of £100 for the best postgraduate dissertation. In addition, we will announce a Runner-Up prize! The new deadline for submissions is 30th November 2025. See more info here: www.rgsanimalgeographies.uk/the-blog/ani...

Interested in learning more about corporate power and industrial chicken production? We have a new blog out from Amby Karamchedu and Ben Coles: www.rgsanimalgeographies.uk/the-blog/who...

New in The GJ: 'Multispecies home (un)making: Dogs and lifestyle migrants in Lijiang Ancient Town, China' by Duo Yin & Quan Gao This paper explores how dogs co-construct and contest the making of home alongside lifestyle migrants in China. doi.org/10.1111/geoj... #geosky

Happy to see my new article co-authored with Daniel Allen and John Walliss published Open Access in Geography Compass. ◾ The article is titled: An Exploration of Dog‐Related Policy Through a Legal Animal Geographies Lens 🐶 doi.org/10.1111/gec3...

📣 I'M HIRING! Please spread the word 📣 🔎 Looking for a 1-year postdoctoral research associate to support @sensory-lives-prj.bsky.social & UK-wide tour of a playhouse tent communicating neurodivergent children’s experiences of Temporary Accommodation. 🛜 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOL488/p...

I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/

OnlineFirst - "Planting Palestine: Food, environment, and the arts of solidarity" by @hannahkateboast.bsky.social: @uoe-llc.bsky.social #conservation #ecocinema #environmentalism #foraging #solidarity journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

🌍Are you attending the RGS-IBG Annual Conference in Birmingham later this month?🌏 🚌You can request free bus travel around Birmingham during the week of the conference - just complete the form below by Sunday 17th August. Geographers please share! forms.office.com/pages/respon...

A summary of some of the headline findings from our article on recent trends in dog theft (see the full article here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...).

🚨Job Alert 🚨 🐕‍🦺 🐄🐎🐦‍⬛ Do you have project management skills & an interest in human-animal relations? We are recruiting a project manager role (5 years) for our new project (info in the 🧵) @sheffielduni.bsky.social 📆 deadline 30 June www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNO134/p...

28 amateur footballers who are transgender can no longer play in women's football as the FA ban starts. The FA have offered "online talking therapy" & said they could go down a route to be a referee. It's giving 'how do you feel all though we don't give a fuck and won't do anything about it'.

Powerful open letter from Liverpool Hope #DisabilityStudies students/grads in response to proposed redundancy of the ENTIRE DS team: DS "is not just an academic discipline but a lifeline. [Tutors] bring lived expertise, intellectual leadership, and care that cannot be replicated elsewhere"

We have another exciting research seminar coming up – this time with Dr Muhammad Kavesh on ‘Hospitality and Hostility: Arrival and Intrusion of Foreign Pigeons in Pakistan and India’! Please see more info and QR code for registration below:

Sometimes I forget other cats have two back legs. Makes her circle mode much smaller!

Whenever I click on the news at the moment there just seems to be constant transphobia and hate. So depressing.

And Course Team of the Year 2025 is...Geography!!🎈🎉 All good fun at the YSJ SU Awards last night, with one of the geographers also getting Inspirational Staff Member Award. 👏🏼

Geographers! Please join 300 of us — at every career stage — who are urging the Royal Geographical Society to reaffirm its commitment to trans inclusion in the face of Supreme Court ruling, and to oppose the EHRC’s interim update. Sign by WED 30 April 1700 GMT docs.google.com/document/u/0...

Hi #emca scholars! I'm looking for help with some lit. I have an example I am writing up where a path is being blocked by workers, a sign, and a bollard, that a wheelchair user is trying to navigate past. On the approach they say to the workers "sorry" rather than "excuse me" to get past.

Minority students should not have to spend their time at university being harassed, mocked, shamed, and told that who they are is invalid and unworthy or a fraud They are there to study and to learn, not to be forced to constantly defend their existence in ways others never need to

Funded PhD Scholarship opportunity! Come work with me and Claire Haggett in partnership with @living-rent.bsky.social on a project looking at retrofitting, housing, and tenure in Edinburgh. Please share with anyone you think might be interested, and get in touch with us if you have any questions.

Hope for endangered penguins as no-fishing zones agreed off South Africa

A reminder that the next 'Globalising Animal Geographies' seminar from is happening this Friday at 4pm. We will hear from @annaguasco.bsky.social and her research on 'reimagining whales' geographies'! Sign up using the QR code :)

1/ 📣 Big news! For the next 5 years I’ll be working with this amazing team @evahaifa.bsky.social Alasdair Cochrane & Bob McKay on the @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded Multispecies Mutualisms project wellcome.org/grant-fundin...

Still time to register for this Wednesday's Globalising Animal Geographies seminar series! And we have another exciting seminar coming up in March:

Our session on 'Teaching Animal Geography' at the RGS is still open and closes on Friday! If you want to submit but need more time, give us an email! 👩🏻‍🏫🐄🌍 More information below 👇🏻

Four seals die on Norfolk coast after contracting bird flu

New blog alert - Shutian Li reflects on her work with frogs and using ‘voice’ (and silence!) as a method: www.rgsanimalgeographies.uk/the-blog/ubg...

Newcastle University staff to strike for 14 days in March over 200 redundancies. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🐾📢 CALL FOR PAPERS📢🐾 “Research Ethics for Animal Geographies” at the RGS Annual Conference 2025. Session sponsored by the Animal Geography Working Group 🐕🐨🦋🪼 Abstract submissions to [email protected] by Feb 21st! Details below

Ekaterina Gladkova and I are running this session on Teaching Animal Geographies! If you are interested, take a look at the link, and consider submitting an abstract!