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Peter Rees @peternrees.bsky.social · 22d

📣 Important Launch Today 📣

A new organisation has officially launched to defend the rights of people crossing the Channel and to develop life-saving technology that keeps them safe. 🌊✨

👉 Please support them by sharing this post and giving them a follow. Your voice helps amplify theirs.

The Channel Monitoring Project @channelmonitoring.bsky.social · 22d

We are excited to announce the launch of The Channel Monitoring Project.
A new initiative to change reality on the ground and at sea. For the #safety, #dignity and #humanrights of those crossing the border in #smallboats. Counter the toxicity to tell the real story.

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Meredith DeBoom @meredeboom.bsky.social · May 16

Thank you for your inspiration and encouragement! Publishing with @politicsandspace.bsky.social was a fantastic experience. ✨

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Thom Davies @thomdavies.bsky.social · May 16

Green hydrogen is hailed as a climate & development "win"—but in Namibia, a $10B project reveals another story. Instead of benefits, local people face extractive harms masked as progress. #ClimateJustice demands we rethink who pays for “green” futures.

#ClimateNecropolitics

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Thom Davies @thomdavies.bsky.social · May 16

Great to see this article published in @politicsandspace.bsky.social:

'Displaced decarbonization: Climate necropolitics and the contested spatialities of green hydrogen in Namibia'

By @meredeboom.bsky.social 📝

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Thom Davies @thomdavies.bsky.social · May 12

the real enemy arrives in a private jet, not a small boat

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Dr. Lucy Mayblin @mayblin.bsky.social · May 1

New work from the www.channelcrossings.org team!

We have been gathering a dataset of contracts that the government has with private companies related to Channel crossings. We are calling this the ‘border economy’. We have identified over £3billion worth of contracts...

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Visit the post for more.

www.channelcrossings.org

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Dr Ella Cockbain @drellac.bsky.social · Apr 30

Incredible piece of work on the spending on border securitisation in the UK channel.

opendemocracy.net @opendemocracy.net · Apr 30

Exclusive: Government hands private firms £3bn in bid to ‘stop the boats’

Research reveals the business of Channel security is booming, as companies profit off asylum seekers’ desperation

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Thom Davies @thomdavies.bsky.social · Apr 30

I've written an article with @mayblin.bsky.social, @isakjee.bsky.social and team revealing the MASSIVE amount of money being given to private companies to "stop the boats".

Who is really profitting from the UK border regime?

www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr...

Government hands firms £3bn in bid to ‘stop the boats’

Research reveals the business of Channel security is booming, as companies profit off asylum seekers’ desperation

www.opendemocracy.net

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Thom Davies @thomdavies.bsky.social · Apr 29

Our academic research about 'small boat' Channel crossings has been published in the @the-independent.com

"Obsession with tough borders creating a ‘booming £2bn industry for private companies’ ministers warned"
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home... @uniofnottingham.bsky.social @mayblin.bsky.social

Obsession with tough borders creating a ‘booming £2bn industry for private companies’

UK border security industry worth billions and expanding, academics suggest

www.independent.co.uk

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Thom Davies @thomdavies.bsky.social · Apr 13

"The #exhaustion is constant – one study shows stress levels in parents of #autistic individuals are similar to those of combat soldiers and Holocaust survivors – and the lack of sleep leads to caregiver burnout."

www.theguardian.com/society/2025... #austism #parenting

‘It can break you’: life for parents of autistic children can be exhausting. One podcast is offering hope. Is it real?

A podcast claims to show that autistic children with limited speech may be able to communicate via telepathy. What does the science say about the idea?

www.theguardian.com

Thom Davies @thomdavies.bsky.social · Feb 12

There are some (far too few) corners of UK higher education that still give me hope. This is one of them:

Dr Ruby (she/her) @paperwhispers.bsky.social · Nov 21

Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students.

**Tell Everyone**

www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...

Gazan Humanitarian Scholarship

We offer scholarships for citizens of Gaza who have been displaced as a result of the ongoing conflict in the region and are living in a different country (outside of the UK).

www.leeds.ac.uk

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Peter R. Martin @peterrmartin.bsky.social · Feb 5

Come work with us!

A wonderfully welcoming and supportive School who have been great in helping me find my feet as an ECR Geographer!

Very happy to chat to anyone interested in applying!

Thom Davies @thomdavies.bsky.social · Feb 4

NEW JOB 🚨: Assistant Professor in Human Geography at @uniofnottingham.bsky.social:

💰£41,421 to £56,921 per annum

Any of these research areas very welcome:

🔹Cultural and Historical Geography
🔹Economic and #Political Worlds
🔹Environment, Health and Society.

jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Job Vacancy at the University of Nottingham: Assistant Professor in Human Geography

Applications are invited for the post of Assistant Professor in the School of Geography. We are seeking to appoint an academic to make a significant impact within the broad research and teaching area ...

jobs.nottingham.ac.uk

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Thom Davies @thomdavies.bsky.social · Feb 4

NEW JOB 🚨: Assistant Professor in Human Geography at @uniofnottingham.bsky.social:

💰£41,421 to £56,921 per annum

Any of these research areas very welcome:

🔹Cultural and Historical Geography
🔹Economic and #Political Worlds
🔹Environment, Health and Society.

jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Job Vacancy at the University of Nottingham: Assistant Professor in Human Geography

Applications are invited for the post of Assistant Professor in the School of Geography. We are seeking to appoint an academic to make a significant impact within the broad research and teaching area ...

jobs.nottingham.ac.uk

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · Jan 1

Happy Birthday to all refugees arbitrarily assigned 1st January as their date of birth.

Congratulations on your perseverance despite the despicable treatment seeking asylum entails in the richest countries of the world.

Celebrate your persistence in ensuring your rights.

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Thom Davies @thomdavies.bsky.social · Dec 4

A tiny yellow digger next to the massive Ever Given container ship with the caption "Workload model" next to the digger, and "My Actual Workload" next to the ship.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · Nov 22

I feel like videogames actually do provide a pretty accurate representation of real life right now because a lot of videogames are like “THE WORLD IS ENDING” and then you just collect herbs and pretend nothing is wrong

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Dr Ruby (she/her) @paperwhispers.bsky.social · Nov 21

Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students.

**Tell Everyone**

www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...

Gazan Humanitarian Scholarship

We offer scholarships for citizens of Gaza who have been displaced as a result of the ongoing conflict in the region and are living in a different country (outside of the UK).

www.leeds.ac.uk

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Corporate Watch @corporatewatch.bsky.social · Nov 20

⭐️NEW EXPLAINER: Labour on immigration: 5 things you need to know
👉 the key policy developments
👉 companies who benefit
... with links to groups mobilising against them.

Summarised below for those who are short on time
corporatewatch.org/labour-on-im...
#starmer #homeoffice #immigration #noborders

Labour on immigration: 5 things you need to know - Corporate Watch

The Tories’ 14-year run is over, but migrant solidarity campaigners are doubtful whether things look much brighter under Labour. How much has Keir Starmer’s government departed from the Conservatives’...

corporatewatch.org

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Peter Rees @peternrees.bsky.social · Nov 14

First Post!

I am a migration and citizenship scholar and activist. In January I will be starting a new project at the Univeristy of Geneva titled "A Theory of Maritime Migration: Examining the intersection of mobile people and territory".

Below is a selection of work published this year.

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Thom Davies @thomdavies.bsky.social · Nov 14

Article in @politicalquarterly.bsky.social about the political economy of the UK border. We argue that both private and political actors are directly profitting from people seeking asylum (not just the "people smugglers")

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #OpenAccess

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Thom Davies @thomdavies.bsky.social · Oct 4

in the marking bunker today

a woman is sitting at a desk writing on a piece of paper with a pen

ALT: a woman is sitting at a desk writing on a piece of paper with a pen

media.tenor.com

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.bsky.social · Sep 29

While reactionaries may use women's rights to attack other minorities (Muslim communities, trans people, immigrants etc), you really don't have to scratch the surface much to realise that they are not attached to said rights, but to the exclusion of others (including women)

Guardian headlines:

‘Not all cultures equally valid’ when it comes to immigration, says Badenoch

Kemi Badenoch says UK maternity pay benefits are ‘excessive’

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Thom Davies @thomdavies.bsky.social · Sep 28

New article in @societyandspace.bsky.social:

"Eco-coloniality" and the violent environmentalism of the UK–France border.

What's at stake by converting a #refugee camp into a nature reserve? How's the #environment used to harm racialised #migrants at borders?
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Eco-coloniality and the violent environmentalism of the UK–France border - Thom Davies, Tesfalem H Yemane, Joe Turner, Lucy Mayblin, Arshad Isakjee, 2024

This article examines the eco-coloniality of the UK–France border by tracing the transformation of the notorious Calais “jungle” refugee camp into a nature rese...

journals.sagepub.com

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Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social · Jan 9

After a hiatus, Ep 4 of the Minor Revisions podcast is here! Gabriel Silvestre (Newcastle Univ) & Guillermo Jajamovich (Univ of Buenos Aires) discuss the 'behind the scenes' story of publishing "The afterlives of urban megaprojects" journals.sagepub.com/page/epc/col... #geosky #academicsky

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Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social · Jan 19

Politics & Space has some new editors. Joining Luiza Bialasiewicz & me are:

-Thom Davies (www.nottingham.ac.uk/Geography/Pe... )
-Rachel Hughes (findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/3808... )
-Sarah Hunt (www.uvic.ca/socialscienc... )

Submit your paper: journals.sagepub.com/home/epc #Geosky

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