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@profgillian.bsky.social has been awarded the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Victoria Medal for conspicuous merit in #research in #geography. The medals and awards recognise people or organisations for their outstanding contributions to geographical research. Read more: bit.ly/4324JGQ

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‘The image of foreign students coming here and taking our college places misrepresents the reality of university recruitment. In 2023-24, 75 per cent of students who started new degrees were from the UK.’ Ed Kiely on university finances: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Lighting up a rainy Glasgow day.

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You can add your support to the thousands contesting the threat of compulsory redundancies at Newcastle University - www.change.org/p/end-unnece...

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Please sign and share this petition, calling on Newcastle University’s Executive Board to halt the threat of ill-considered and unnecessary redundances that are imperilling careers and the future of our institution. www.change.org/p/end-unnece...

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Today

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Social & Cultural Geography is seeking a new Editor. We hope that you might be keen to join our lovely team! 🙏 ⏰ Closing date for applications is Friday 20 June 2025 📬 Applications should be sent to the journal’s editorial office at [email protected] 📄 Full details: go.unimelb.edu.au/uy8p

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Remember to register for next week's online-only seminar: a panel discussion of 'Adorno and the Antifascist Geographical Imagination,' by Chris Philo. Featuring @milesogborn.bsky.social, @stuartelden.bsky.social, and @feli-k.bsky.social. ‬Details here: www.history.ac.uk/events/a-pan...

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What is Dùthchas? Dùthchas is a millennia-old Gaelic concept that highlights the interconnectedness of people, land, culture, and an ecological balance among all entities, human and more than human. paulmeighan.com/f/d%C3%B9thc...

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14000 babies in danger of starving to death in less than 48 hours.

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And on 10th July 2025 with Dr Raven Cretney, exploring opportunities for disability-led climate adaptation, the possibilities for learning from past events and the need for careful navigation of crisis politics in building solidarity across and within communities: sensing-climate.com/events/raven...

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Excited to share the sign up forms for our next two 'Disability & Climate: In Conversation with' sessions... Join us on Tuesday 20th May 2025 with Dr Angela Frederick, discussing, ‘Disabled Power: A Storm, A Grid, and Embodied Harm in the Age of Disaster’: sensing-climate.com/events/angel...

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Excited to be joining @sensing-climate.bsky.social advisory group this afternoon - such an exciting programme ☀️🔥 - ‘placing disabled people at the forefront of the climate crisis’

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Amazing PhD opp with Dr Cheryl McGeachan & @hesterparr.bsky.social PhD in Human Geography - Where have you been? Exploring the historical geographies of The Art in Healthcare Collection www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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May

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We have a Human geography PhD place available via an AHRC studentship. Fast deadline May 29th, 2025! A wonderful project on the Art in Healthcare collection -supervised by Cheryl McGeachan and myself www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships... HGRG @uofgges.bsky.social welcome applications for the JMS scholarship fund. 2 PGR fully funded scholarships are available for Black UK domiciled students - deadline for competition is 30th May - see deets below

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Finally, publishing in December from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social open access: 'Art and the Critical Medical Humanities, which makes a forceful case for the contribution that art can make to debates and developments in critical medical humanities today. www.bloomsbury.com/art-and-the-...

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My sisters and l are celebrating our mum - Victoria - on her 80th birthday today. She was born in a tiny room with a window open to the sound of singing and dancing from the street in Nottingham. Annie-Ellen (known as Nellie), our grandma, always told alternative #VEday stories ...

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#ClimateChange 🌡️ is exceptional and caused by human greenhouse gas emissions 🏭 We are causing #globalwarming 10 times faster than past natural changes We are taking Earth’s 🌎 climate beyond natural limits, with carbon dioxide & temperatures levels not seen for 3 million years

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Niche post. Partick Thistle fans on edge. Those on iplayer regretting not being physically present. Where are the fans? Seems empty from the slight odd camera angles. Niche post ends.

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Walking home in central Glasgow 🍃☀️

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“I carried stories of pollution and ancestral neglect with me.” In @uk.theconversation.com Prof Alice Mah @uofgussp.bsky.social shares how an ancestral journey to China unearthed climate grief - and inspired her to write ‘Red Pockets’ @penguinukbooks.bsky.social bit.ly/4jU4YL4

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www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships... HGRG @uofgges.bsky.social welcome applications for the JMS scholarship fund. 2 PGR fully funded scholarships are available for Black UK domiciled students - deadline for competition is 30th May - see deets below

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An early celebration of Beltane with the Wintering Well collective - who continue to meet and mark the year via festivals of fire and light following our research programme #livingwithSAD

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Friday

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Amidst the bleakness, I've just published an article exploring how young trans people are dealing with life in the UK @geographers.bsky.social. Do read to understand more about how trans youth are navigating & thriving in these times. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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The spring bringing beauty to Glasgow’s parks

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Walking this morning with ‘shame’ - so nuanced and helpful.Thinking about arts, health and humanities. open.spotify.com/episode/31ab...

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Glasgow

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Treading old paths #asylumgeographies

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Saturday

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10 days left to apply for a Bridging Fellowship in Medical Humanities! Find out more about all the job opportunities in the Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities here medhumsplatform.org/work-with-us/

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The park.

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NEW insights 📝 Prof Charlotte Pearson and Prof Nicholas Watson @uofgussp.bsky.social share their expertise into the impact of the proposed withdrawal of Employment Support Allowance (ESA) on young disabled people in the UK. Read 🔗 www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...

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‘Many of the people Pring writes about were in touch with an array of government agencies until they died. But these encounters were characterised by indifference, hostility and suspicion.’ Ed Kiely on an account of UK disability benefit failures: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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We are sorry to learn of the death of Elspeth Probyn, Professor of Gender & Cultural Studies at @sydney.edu.au and author of "Eating the Ocean" (2016). Our thoughts are with her family, friends, colleagues and students.

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Call out to all heritage professionals, students, and academics that the closing date for securing tickets to the Scotland and Medicine Conference: From Artefacts to Insights: Unpacking the meaning of medical museum objects, is 18th April.

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MPs being (rightly) recalled over the 2,700 jobs at risk in British steel, while 5,000 university jobs are actively being cut this year with a further 5,000 jobs under threat and very little intervention is... interesting. Academia is also an industry in collapse. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1393...

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Job at KCL geography - join us! - Lecturer in Geopolitics (permanent post) www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/112649-...

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🌎 Join @ucl.ac.uk Geography: Lecturer in Geographies of Health 🌎 We're looking for a Lecturer to help us explore the intersections of health, environment, cities, and development. Apply by May 5, 2025 🔗 Full details: tinyurl.com/ucl-hea #GeographyJobs #HealthResearch #UCLCareers #HybridWork

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