Adam Michael Packer
@adammpacker.bsky.social
Research Fellow in Future Flight @SchoolofEng_UoB @unibirmingham.bsky.social | DPhil @ox.ac.uk | interested in technology, innovation & society | 🏳️🌈 he/him
I know there are already conversations about this in various groups and lists, but the eye-watering $1117 non-member registration fee for AAG 2026 is completely unjustifiable and unreachable for ECRs like me. Even worse seeing such interesting sessions announced that I would want to contribute to.
October 23, 2025 at 8:57 AM
I know there are already conversations about this in various groups and lists, but the eye-watering $1117 non-member registration fee for AAG 2026 is completely unjustifiable and unreachable for ECRs like me. Even worse seeing such interesting sessions announced that I would want to contribute to.
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📣Deadline tomorrow!
We're a welcoming and active research group. If you're looking to meet new people, get involved in digital geographies activities, learn about Geography research groups, and much more make sure you apply
Applications open to geographers and those in similar disciplines
Info⬇️
We're a welcoming and active research group. If you're looking to meet new people, get involved in digital geographies activities, learn about Geography research groups, and much more make sure you apply
Applications open to geographers and those in similar disciplines
Info⬇️
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.
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.
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September 23, 2025 at 10:11 AM
📣Deadline tomorrow!
We're a welcoming and active research group. If you're looking to meet new people, get involved in digital geographies activities, learn about Geography research groups, and much more make sure you apply
Applications open to geographers and those in similar disciplines
Info⬇️
We're a welcoming and active research group. If you're looking to meet new people, get involved in digital geographies activities, learn about Geography research groups, and much more make sure you apply
Applications open to geographers and those in similar disciplines
Info⬇️
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There is also a Pin the Tale workshop you can take part in TOMORROW as part of the @dgrgrgs.bsky.social pre-conference event, 'Exploring place-based creativity in a digitally-mediated world', 12pm - 5.30pm.
www.rgs.org/research/ann...
www.rgs.org/research/ann...
Pre-conference activities - RGS
Find out more about activities taking place in the run-up to the conference.
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August 25, 2025 at 11:48 AM
There is also a Pin the Tale workshop you can take part in TOMORROW as part of the @dgrgrgs.bsky.social pre-conference event, 'Exploring place-based creativity in a digitally-mediated world', 12pm - 5.30pm.
www.rgs.org/research/ann...
www.rgs.org/research/ann...
V excited for this!
We warmly invite you to the Digital Geographies Research Group Annual Lecture at @rgsibg.bsky.social AC25 at @unibirmingham.bsky.social
Our inaugural lecture will be given by @ahjackman.bsky.social (@uniofreading.bsky.social) on ‘Feminist digital geographies in flight: Diversifying drone stories’
Our inaugural lecture will be given by @ahjackman.bsky.social (@uniofreading.bsky.social) on ‘Feminist digital geographies in flight: Diversifying drone stories’
August 21, 2025 at 11:06 AM
V excited for this!
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Planning your RGS annual conference itinerary? Don't miss our pre-conference event!
Join to explore placed-based creative practices of researchers, content creators & game designers
🔹AI in the Street
🔹Pin the Tale
🔹Sounds of Birmingham
🔹Keynote by Oli Mould
digitalgeographiesrg.org/rgs-ibg-inte...
Join to explore placed-based creative practices of researchers, content creators & game designers
🔹AI in the Street
🔹Pin the Tale
🔹Sounds of Birmingham
🔹Keynote by Oli Mould
digitalgeographiesrg.org/rgs-ibg-inte...
RGS-IBG International Annual Conference 2025: DGRG Pre-Conference Event
Exploring Place-based Creativity in a Digitally-Mediated World Tuesday 26th August 2025 – 12pm – 5pm Organisers: Dr Adam Michael Packer (University of Birmingham), Dr Nina Willment (Uni…
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August 15, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Planning your RGS annual conference itinerary? Don't miss our pre-conference event!
Join to explore placed-based creative practices of researchers, content creators & game designers
🔹AI in the Street
🔹Pin the Tale
🔹Sounds of Birmingham
🔹Keynote by Oli Mould
digitalgeographiesrg.org/rgs-ibg-inte...
Join to explore placed-based creative practices of researchers, content creators & game designers
🔹AI in the Street
🔹Pin the Tale
🔹Sounds of Birmingham
🔹Keynote by Oli Mould
digitalgeographiesrg.org/rgs-ibg-inte...
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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
Register here: www.rgs.org/research/ann...
@rgsibg.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social
Pre-conference activities - RGS
Find out more about activities taking place in the run-up to the conference.
www.rgs.org
August 11, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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
Register here: www.rgs.org/research/ann...
@rgsibg.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social
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really interesting special issue of New Media & Society on digital twins now out: journals.sagepub.com/toc/NMS/curr...
gives me an excuse to reshare my own (feminist) take on city digital twins, accompanied by some excellent commentaries: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
gives me an excuse to reshare my own (feminist) take on city digital twins, accompanied by some excellent commentaries: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
August 5, 2025 at 1:45 PM
really interesting special issue of New Media & Society on digital twins now out: journals.sagepub.com/toc/NMS/curr...
gives me an excuse to reshare my own (feminist) take on city digital twins, accompanied by some excellent commentaries: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
gives me an excuse to reshare my own (feminist) take on city digital twins, accompanied by some excellent commentaries: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Very excited for UoB to host the RGS conference this year and looking forward to welcoming everyone to our very beautiful campus!
Our Annual International Conference is coming up! 🌍
On 26-29 August, we'll welcome 2,000+ geography professionals to the University of Birmingham for 400+ sessions, talks and events covering all types of geographical science. Learn more: http://bit.ly/4lgkPnk
📷: University of Birmingham
On 26-29 August, we'll welcome 2,000+ geography professionals to the University of Birmingham for 400+ sessions, talks and events covering all types of geographical science. Learn more: http://bit.ly/4lgkPnk
📷: University of Birmingham
August 7, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Very excited for UoB to host the RGS conference this year and looking forward to welcoming everyone to our very beautiful campus!
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The FAA will now let commercial drones fly beyond the operator’s line of sight.
The move will "unleash American drone dominance," Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said.
As a result, Duffy said, " You may get a Starbucks cup of coffee from a drone."
The move will "unleash American drone dominance," Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said.
As a result, Duffy said, " You may get a Starbucks cup of coffee from a drone."
August 6, 2025 at 2:28 PM
The FAA will now let commercial drones fly beyond the operator’s line of sight.
The move will "unleash American drone dominance," Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said.
As a result, Duffy said, " You may get a Starbucks cup of coffee from a drone."
The move will "unleash American drone dominance," Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said.
As a result, Duffy said, " You may get a Starbucks cup of coffee from a drone."
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I talked to a journalist at the Geneva Solutions about the censorship i experienced at the AI for Good Summit 2 days ago
genevasolutions.news/science-tech...
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UN AI summit accused of censoring criticism of Israel and big tech over Gaza war - Geneva Solutions
A prominent AI scientist says she was pressured by the organisers of the UN’s flagship conference on AI to censor parts of her presentation that criticised Israel over its war in Gaza and the role of ...
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July 10, 2025 at 7:01 AM
I talked to a journalist at the Geneva Solutions about the censorship i experienced at the AI for Good Summit 2 days ago
genevasolutions.news/science-tech...
genevasolutions.news/science-tech...
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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
#DGRGSymposium2025
June 23, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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
#DGRGSymposium2025
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With Yu-Shan Tseng, I am co-editing a Special Issue (for Urban Studies, subject to full proposal acceptance) on 'Ordinary Democracy and Digital Cities'. Read the CFP details here: docs.google.com/document/d/e...
Special Issue CFP: Ordinary Democracy and Digital Cities.docx
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June 19, 2025 at 1:57 PM
With Yu-Shan Tseng, I am co-editing a Special Issue (for Urban Studies, subject to full proposal acceptance) on 'Ordinary Democracy and Digital Cities'. Read the CFP details here: docs.google.com/document/d/e...
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📢 New article - 'Techno-legal geographies: consumer drone misuse and harms'. Louise Hooper
@gardencourtlaw.bsky.social and I reflect on the legal dimensions of off-the-shelf drone incidents and the potential diversified harms accompanying them.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@gardencourtlaw.bsky.social and I reflect on the legal dimensions of off-the-shelf drone incidents and the potential diversified harms accompanying them.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Techno-legal geographies: consumer drone misuse and harms
Drones increasingly feature beyond battlefields, deployed across civil, commercial and hobbyist applications and contexts. So too are off-the-shelf consumer drones increasingly being misused. From ...
www.tandfonline.com
June 17, 2025 at 6:56 AM
📢 New article - 'Techno-legal geographies: consumer drone misuse and harms'. Louise Hooper
@gardencourtlaw.bsky.social and I reflect on the legal dimensions of off-the-shelf drone incidents and the potential diversified harms accompanying them.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@gardencourtlaw.bsky.social and I reflect on the legal dimensions of off-the-shelf drone incidents and the potential diversified harms accompanying them.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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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....
Exploring Young Trans and Non-binary People’s Strategies and Spaces for Navigating Marginality in the United Kingdom: A Novel Resilience, Resistance, and Restoration Framework
Amid recent, unprecedented sociopolitical scrutiny and hypervisibility of young trans people in the United Kingdom, this article considers how trans youth develop individual and collective mechanis...
www.tandfonline.com
April 22, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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....
Registration for the online Digital Geographies Research Group Annual Symposium on 'Global Digital Geographies: Digitalising the Territorial / Territorialising the Digital' is now open: www.rgs.org/events/upcom...
@dgrgrgs.bsky.social @rgsibg.bsky.social
@dgrgrgs.bsky.social @rgsibg.bsky.social
Digital Geographies Research Group annual symposium 2025 - RGS
Join us for the annual Digital Geographies Research Group annual symposium. This year's topic will be Global Digital Geographies: Digitalising the Territorial.
www.rgs.org
June 2, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Registration for the online Digital Geographies Research Group Annual Symposium on 'Global Digital Geographies: Digitalising the Territorial / Territorialising the Digital' is now open: www.rgs.org/events/upcom...
@dgrgrgs.bsky.social @rgsibg.bsky.social
@dgrgrgs.bsky.social @rgsibg.bsky.social
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'From 5G to drones: For a feminist geopolitics of the electromagnetic spectrum'. New in @proghumgeog.bsky.social , Daisy Curtis & I think across the spectrum, developing a feminist-inspired agenda attentive to bodies, more-than-human encounters, and living with spectrum doi.org/10.1177/0309...
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May 30, 2025 at 11:35 AM
'From 5G to drones: For a feminist geopolitics of the electromagnetic spectrum'. New in @proghumgeog.bsky.social , Daisy Curtis & I think across the spectrum, developing a feminist-inspired agenda attentive to bodies, more-than-human encounters, and living with spectrum doi.org/10.1177/0309...
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Are you interested in learning about exciting work happening in digital geographies (& aligned) research? Join us for our free online symposium 19-20th June Global Digital Geographies: Digitalising the Territorial & Territorialising the Digital
Sign up: www.rgs.org/events/upcom...
#DGRGSymposium2025
Sign up: www.rgs.org/events/upcom...
#DGRGSymposium2025
Digital Geographies Research Group annual symposium 2025 - RGS
Join us for the annual Digital Geographies Research Group annual symposium. This year's topic will be Global Digital Geographies: Digitalising the Territorial.
www.rgs.org
May 29, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Are you interested in learning about exciting work happening in digital geographies (& aligned) research? Join us for our free online symposium 19-20th June Global Digital Geographies: Digitalising the Territorial & Territorialising the Digital
Sign up: www.rgs.org/events/upcom...
#DGRGSymposium2025
Sign up: www.rgs.org/events/upcom...
#DGRGSymposium2025
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earlier this year, i had the pleasure (& the pain!) of writing a on the state of trans politics in the US with some wonderful colleagues. we conclude that these political attacks are nothing less than an effort to erase trans people from public life. open access link here:
doi.org/10.1111/geoj...
doi.org/10.1111/geoj...
The Geographical Journal | RGS Research Journal | Wiley Online Library
In this commentary, we explore the implications of the 2024 US elections for four key areas of trans lives: the body, public space, legal geographies and mobility. While we focus on the United States...
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May 2, 2025 at 2:52 PM
earlier this year, i had the pleasure (& the pain!) of writing a on the state of trans politics in the US with some wonderful colleagues. we conclude that these political attacks are nothing less than an effort to erase trans people from public life. open access link here:
doi.org/10.1111/geoj...
doi.org/10.1111/geoj...
The Digital Geographies Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society is now on BlueSky here:
@dgrgrgs.bsky.social
DGRG can also be found on LinkedIn and on its website here: digitalgeographiesrg.org
🌐
@dgrgrgs.bsky.social
DGRG can also be found on LinkedIn and on its website here: digitalgeographiesrg.org
🌐
April 24, 2025 at 10:14 AM
The Digital Geographies Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society is now on BlueSky here:
@dgrgrgs.bsky.social
DGRG can also be found on LinkedIn and on its website here: digitalgeographiesrg.org
🌐
@dgrgrgs.bsky.social
DGRG can also be found on LinkedIn and on its website here: digitalgeographiesrg.org
🌐
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🚨 NEW DATES!
If you are a UK #geographer (or have previously worked in a UK geography department) and are concerned about #precarious employment, please contribute to a focus group and help us develop a set of best-practice guidelines.
We have multiple dates open - sign up using the link below.
If you are a UK #geographer (or have previously worked in a UK geography department) and are concerned about #precarious employment, please contribute to a focus group and help us develop a set of best-practice guidelines.
We have multiple dates open - sign up using the link below.
Microsoft Forms
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April 15, 2025 at 2:03 PM
🚨 NEW DATES!
If you are a UK #geographer (or have previously worked in a UK geography department) and are concerned about #precarious employment, please contribute to a focus group and help us develop a set of best-practice guidelines.
We have multiple dates open - sign up using the link below.
If you are a UK #geographer (or have previously worked in a UK geography department) and are concerned about #precarious employment, please contribute to a focus group and help us develop a set of best-practice guidelines.
We have multiple dates open - sign up using the link below.
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🌳 My first solo article is out! Check out "Models vs infrastructures? On the role of digital twins’ hype in anticipating the governance of the UK energy industry", now out in Environmental Science and Policy
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April 11, 2025 at 8:47 AM
🌳 My first solo article is out! Check out "Models vs infrastructures? On the role of digital twins’ hype in anticipating the governance of the UK energy industry", now out in Environmental Science and Policy
doi.org/10.1016/j.en...
doi.org/10.1016/j.en...
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@purplekimchi.bsky.social and I are editing a handbook on Feminist Digital Studies/Scholarship/Humanities! If you're a feminist technologist, scholar, activist, etc., regardless of where you work or where you are in your career, we want to hear from you! CFP: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Call for Proposals - Degruyter Handbook of Feminist Digital Scholarship
Call for Proposals - De Gruyter Handbook of Feminist Digital Scholarship: DS/DH at the Kitchen Table Edited by Anne Cong-Huyen & Kim Brillante Knight Overview This collection will bring together eme...
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April 2, 2025 at 4:26 PM
@purplekimchi.bsky.social and I are editing a handbook on Feminist Digital Studies/Scholarship/Humanities! If you're a feminist technologist, scholar, activist, etc., regardless of where you work or where you are in your career, we want to hear from you! CFP: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Announcing our final webinar - 26/03, 2-3PM GMT.
@isoutar.bsky.social will give a talk on "Inevitable and enabling? Digitalisation and the UK energy system". Please register here 👇 www.energygeographies.org/event-detail...
@isoutar.bsky.social will give a talk on "Inevitable and enabling? Digitalisation and the UK energy system". Please register here 👇 www.energygeographies.org/event-detail...
Energy X Digital: Dr Iain Soutar | EnGRG
Inevitable and enabling? Digitalisation and the UK energy system
www.energygeographies.org
March 24, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Announcing our final webinar - 26/03, 2-3PM GMT.
@isoutar.bsky.social will give a talk on "Inevitable and enabling? Digitalisation and the UK energy system". Please register here 👇 www.energygeographies.org/event-detail...
@isoutar.bsky.social will give a talk on "Inevitable and enabling? Digitalisation and the UK energy system". Please register here 👇 www.energygeographies.org/event-detail...
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🚨 Calling all current UK #geography #PhD students!
We are developing best-practice guidelines for addressing #precarious employment within geography departments.
Join a focus group below to contribute your insights!
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We are developing best-practice guidelines for addressing #precarious employment within geography departments.
Join a focus group below to contribute your insights!
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March 13, 2025 at 4:37 PM
🚨 Calling all current UK #geography #PhD students!
We are developing best-practice guidelines for addressing #precarious employment within geography departments.
Join a focus group below to contribute your insights!
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We are developing best-practice guidelines for addressing #precarious employment within geography departments.
Join a focus group below to contribute your insights!
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Calling all PERMANENT colleagues working in a UK #geography department!
We are developing best-practice guidelines for addressing #precarious employment within geography departments.
Join a focus group below to contribute your insights!
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We are developing best-practice guidelines for addressing #precarious employment within geography departments.
Join a focus group below to contribute your insights!
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March 13, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Calling all PERMANENT colleagues working in a UK #geography department!
We are developing best-practice guidelines for addressing #precarious employment within geography departments.
Join a focus group below to contribute your insights!
forms.office.com/e/ec5ywgjhXm
We are developing best-practice guidelines for addressing #precarious employment within geography departments.
Join a focus group below to contribute your insights!
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