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NEW BOOK with a 20% discount code 👇
#JustPublished in 'New Directions in Islam': The Pivot 'Muslim Youth in Southeast Asia', ed. by Mohd Al Adib Samuri and @peterhopkins.bsky.social . Read, download or purchase the e-book/hardcopy here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... 20% off with discount code PALAUT. @hss.springernature.com
December 8, 2025 at 7:26 AM
NEW BOOK with a 20% discount code 👇
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📢 PhD opportunity at Newcastle University!
👉"Reconstructing past ice-sheet retreat and ice-ocean interactions from marine sediment cores".
This project will use new marine sediment cores to constrain the timing and drivers of past ice-sheet retreat.
More details: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
👉"Reconstructing past ice-sheet retreat and ice-ocean interactions from marine sediment cores".
This project will use new marine sediment cores to constrain the timing and drivers of past ice-sheet retreat.
More details: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
December 3, 2025 at 10:34 AM
📢 PhD opportunity at Newcastle University!
👉"Reconstructing past ice-sheet retreat and ice-ocean interactions from marine sediment cores".
This project will use new marine sediment cores to constrain the timing and drivers of past ice-sheet retreat.
More details: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
👉"Reconstructing past ice-sheet retreat and ice-ocean interactions from marine sediment cores".
This project will use new marine sediment cores to constrain the timing and drivers of past ice-sheet retreat.
More details: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
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It's been an excellent and very exciting week, planning the next IPCC report, meeting my new IPCC co-authors and talking climate science! #IPCC #IPCCAR7 @ipcc.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 3:44 PM
It's been an excellent and very exciting week, planning the next IPCC report, meeting my new IPCC co-authors and talking climate science! #IPCC #IPCCAR7 @ipcc.bsky.social
🌟Exciting news from Dr James Riding in Sarajevo!
Vijećnica is full of maps and alternative flags and is ready for our exhibition and launch of the Subjektivni Atlas Bosne i Hercegovine this evening and the exhibition will continue over the weekend for anyone in Sarajevo who would like to see it!
Vijećnica is full of maps and alternative flags and is ready for our exhibition and launch of the Subjektivni Atlas Bosne i Hercegovine this evening and the exhibition will continue over the weekend for anyone in Sarajevo who would like to see it!
December 3, 2025 at 1:45 PM
🌟Exciting news from Dr James Riding in Sarajevo!
Vijećnica is full of maps and alternative flags and is ready for our exhibition and launch of the Subjektivni Atlas Bosne i Hercegovine this evening and the exhibition will continue over the weekend for anyone in Sarajevo who would like to see it!
Vijećnica is full of maps and alternative flags and is ready for our exhibition and launch of the Subjektivni Atlas Bosne i Hercegovine this evening and the exhibition will continue over the weekend for anyone in Sarajevo who would like to see it!
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New in TIBG:
'Geopower, Geos and the colonisation of Palestine' by @casesofyou.bsky.social
This paper draws on Grosz, Povinelli & Yusoff to examine how geopower underpins the conceptualisation of Palestinian space as either life-sustaining or life-threatening.
doi.org/10.1111/tran...
'Geopower, Geos and the colonisation of Palestine' by @casesofyou.bsky.social
This paper draws on Grosz, Povinelli & Yusoff to examine how geopower underpins the conceptualisation of Palestinian space as either life-sustaining or life-threatening.
doi.org/10.1111/tran...
December 2, 2025 at 2:15 PM
New in TIBG:
'Geopower, Geos and the colonisation of Palestine' by @casesofyou.bsky.social
This paper draws on Grosz, Povinelli & Yusoff to examine how geopower underpins the conceptualisation of Palestinian space as either life-sustaining or life-threatening.
doi.org/10.1111/tran...
'Geopower, Geos and the colonisation of Palestine' by @casesofyou.bsky.social
This paper draws on Grosz, Povinelli & Yusoff to examine how geopower underpins the conceptualisation of Palestinian space as either life-sustaining or life-threatening.
doi.org/10.1111/tran...
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Out now in International Journal of Play, our reflections on Leeds City Council's play streets enablement project, explored from the perspectives of social, spatial and environmental justice, and calling for (even more) political, advocacy and policy work at all scales to support play on streets.
Enabling play streets in Leeds’ priority neighbourhoods: questions of social, spatial and environmental justice
The Leeds Play Streets Enablement project was established in 2021 to support the development of play streets in the city’s priority neighbourhoods, where poverty intersects with a range of other ch...
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December 2, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Out now in International Journal of Play, our reflections on Leeds City Council's play streets enablement project, explored from the perspectives of social, spatial and environmental justice, and calling for (even more) political, advocacy and policy work at all scales to support play on streets.
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📢Professor Bethan Davies(@iceybethan.bsky.social )’s Juneau Icefield impact work is featured in the Global Tipping Points Report 2025 and in her invited UNESCO book chapter. Please check it out!
global-tipping-points.org
unesco.org.uk/resources/gl...
global-tipping-points.org
unesco.org.uk/resources/gl...
November 24, 2025 at 10:36 AM
📢Professor Bethan Davies(@iceybethan.bsky.social )’s Juneau Icefield impact work is featured in the Global Tipping Points Report 2025 and in her invited UNESCO book chapter. Please check it out!
global-tipping-points.org
unesco.org.uk/resources/gl...
global-tipping-points.org
unesco.org.uk/resources/gl...
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Precarity is not a niche issue.
One-third of academic Geographers in the UK are on fixed-term contracts.
Our report shows the profound personal, professional, and disciplinary impacts of this. #StatesofPrecarity
Full report: www.rgs.org/research/hig...
One-third of academic Geographers in the UK are on fixed-term contracts.
Our report shows the profound personal, professional, and disciplinary impacts of this. #StatesofPrecarity
Full report: www.rgs.org/research/hig...
States of precarity in UK Higher Education geography
Findings from a discipline-focused research project exploring the lived realities of precarious academic work within UK Higher Education geography.
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November 25, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Precarity is not a niche issue.
One-third of academic Geographers in the UK are on fixed-term contracts.
Our report shows the profound personal, professional, and disciplinary impacts of this. #StatesofPrecarity
Full report: www.rgs.org/research/hig...
One-third of academic Geographers in the UK are on fixed-term contracts.
Our report shows the profound personal, professional, and disciplinary impacts of this. #StatesofPrecarity
Full report: www.rgs.org/research/hig...
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Precarity is often presented as something that only effects early career researchers or people on fixed term contracts.
Our report found that 45% of geographers on permanent contracts feel precarious.
The implications for the discipline are wide ranging. Read more 👇
www.rgs.org/research/hig...
Our report found that 45% of geographers on permanent contracts feel precarious.
The implications for the discipline are wide ranging. Read more 👇
www.rgs.org/research/hig...
November 26, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Precarity is often presented as something that only effects early career researchers or people on fixed term contracts.
Our report found that 45% of geographers on permanent contracts feel precarious.
The implications for the discipline are wide ranging. Read more 👇
www.rgs.org/research/hig...
Our report found that 45% of geographers on permanent contracts feel precarious.
The implications for the discipline are wide ranging. Read more 👇
www.rgs.org/research/hig...
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My thoughts on the politics of Remembrance in the UK, written for John Heathershaw's excellent Substack blog 'Security After Christendom.'
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’The two worst days of the year to go to church’
In a guest post, Nick Megoran, Professor of Geography at Newcastle Universty, contrasts the way churches sacralise the nation on Remembrance Sunday with the biblical call to be a 'holy nation'.
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November 28, 2025 at 8:39 AM
My thoughts on the politics of Remembrance in the UK, written for John Heathershaw's excellent Substack blog 'Security After Christendom.'
johnheathershaw.substack.com/p/the-two-wo...
johnheathershaw.substack.com/p/the-two-wo...
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Beautiful and urgent publication on alternative mappings of Bosnia and Herzegovina by James Riding: www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articl... @ncl-geography.bsky.social
Subjective Atlas presents alternative view of Bosnia and Herzegovina
A new book conceived by Newcastle University academic offers a contemporary view of life for young people in Bosnia and Herzegovina following the war that ravaged the Balkans in the 1990s.
www.ncl.ac.uk
December 1, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Beautiful and urgent publication on alternative mappings of Bosnia and Herzegovina by James Riding: www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articl... @ncl-geography.bsky.social
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for anyone interested, here's a new article (open-access) on geopower and Palestine:
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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While the majority of geographical work on colonialism in Palestine centres on territory and land, this article foregrounds geopower and geos in the making of spatial relations. It shows how geopower....
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:10 AM
for anyone interested, here's a new article (open-access) on geopower and Palestine:
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We would like to share that Dr James Riding’s new book, the Subjective Atlas of Bosnia and Herzegovina, is launching in Sarajevo on 3 December. We’re very excited to share this incredible atlas. More details coming soon—stay tuned!
Read more here 👇
www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articl...
Read more here 👇
www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articl...
November 24, 2025 at 10:52 AM
We would like to share that Dr James Riding’s new book, the Subjective Atlas of Bosnia and Herzegovina, is launching in Sarajevo on 3 December. We’re very excited to share this incredible atlas. More details coming soon—stay tuned!
Read more here 👇
www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articl...
Read more here 👇
www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articl...
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📢Professor Bethan Davies(@iceybethan.bsky.social )’s Juneau Icefield impact work is featured in the Global Tipping Points Report 2025 and in her invited UNESCO book chapter. Please check it out!
global-tipping-points.org
unesco.org.uk/resources/gl...
global-tipping-points.org
unesco.org.uk/resources/gl...
November 24, 2025 at 10:36 AM
📢Professor Bethan Davies(@iceybethan.bsky.social )’s Juneau Icefield impact work is featured in the Global Tipping Points Report 2025 and in her invited UNESCO book chapter. Please check it out!
global-tipping-points.org
unesco.org.uk/resources/gl...
global-tipping-points.org
unesco.org.uk/resources/gl...
Congratulations to colleague Merrill Hopper (@pruswieckowska.bsky.social) on her first publication!
First post and first publication!🚨
In this paper, I consider how we can reimagine border walls beyond the narratives of securitisation and sovereignty, using evidence from the peace walls in Belfast.
Published open access in @geopoliticsjournal.bsky.social: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
In this paper, I consider how we can reimagine border walls beyond the narratives of securitisation and sovereignty, using evidence from the peace walls in Belfast.
Published open access in @geopoliticsjournal.bsky.social: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Congratulations to colleague Merrill Hopper (@pruswieckowska.bsky.social) on her first publication!
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Happy #PolarPride 2025! Celebrate diversity and the contributions of LGBTQIA+ people to polar science!
November 18, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Happy #PolarPride 2025! Celebrate diversity and the contributions of LGBTQIA+ people to polar science!
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Contrasting the visibility of playful art installations with a decline in funding for public infrastructures, @alisonstenning.bsky.social discusses how playability of ordinary urban environments is often ignored, devalued and undermined in urban planning.
When Cities Aren’t Playable: Placing Children’s Play in Urban Environments
Contrasting the visibility of playful art installations with a decline in funding for public infrastructures, Alison Stenning discusses how playability of ordinary urban environments is often ignored,...
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November 15, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Contrasting the visibility of playful art installations with a decline in funding for public infrastructures, @alisonstenning.bsky.social discusses how playability of ordinary urban environments is often ignored, devalued and undermined in urban planning.
Important work here from @drchrishackney.bsky.social and colleagues -
A study co-led by our experts highlights how sand mining is endangering the normal functioning of the Tonle Sap Lake, the largest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia, potentially affecting 23 million people.
Read more here. ⬇
https://bit.ly/47V2Eza
#WeAreNCL
Read more here. ⬇
https://bit.ly/47V2Eza
#WeAreNCL
November 17, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Important work here from @drchrishackney.bsky.social and colleagues -
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It’s been wonderful to collaborate with Gazua Eluan on this book project and share her passion for preserving Bedouin cultural heritage.
We’re having a book launch in Amman later this month:
www.cbrl.ac.uk/event/book-l...
We’re having a book launch in Amman later this month:
www.cbrl.ac.uk/event/book-l...
November 16, 2025 at 8:22 PM
It’s been wonderful to collaborate with Gazua Eluan on this book project and share her passion for preserving Bedouin cultural heritage.
We’re having a book launch in Amman later this month:
www.cbrl.ac.uk/event/book-l...
We’re having a book launch in Amman later this month:
www.cbrl.ac.uk/event/book-l...
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Excellent time learning to model compound flood events at @deltares.bsky.social today. Hugely grateful for @ncl-geography.bsky.social Impact Funding, meaning we can now incorporate this work into the Durham Heritage Coast plans over the coming years!
November 14, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Excellent time learning to model compound flood events at @deltares.bsky.social today. Hugely grateful for @ncl-geography.bsky.social Impact Funding, meaning we can now incorporate this work into the Durham Heritage Coast plans over the coming years!
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Join us on Monday 17th at 10 am uk time for our live streamed COP30 talk on tipping points in the Cryosphere! We’re talking at the Cryosphere Pavilion, Blue Zone.
November 12, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Join us on Monday 17th at 10 am uk time for our live streamed COP30 talk on tipping points in the Cryosphere! We’re talking at the Cryosphere Pavilion, Blue Zone.
We’re delighted to share that Bethan Davies (@iceybethan.bsky.social) has been invited to give a talk at COP30 this year. On 17 November, she'll deliver an online talk at the Cryosphere Pavilion about 𝘵𝘪𝘱𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘈𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘬𝘢𝘯 𝘨𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘳𝘴.
🛑LIVE @iccinet
🛑LIVE @iccinet
November 12, 2025 at 12:39 PM
We’re delighted to share that Bethan Davies (@iceybethan.bsky.social) has been invited to give a talk at COP30 this year. On 17 November, she'll deliver an online talk at the Cryosphere Pavilion about 𝘵𝘪𝘱𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘈𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘬𝘢𝘯 𝘨𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘳𝘴.
🛑LIVE @iccinet
🛑LIVE @iccinet
Fantastic to see our colleagues Professor Bethan Davies @iceybethan.bsky.social and Dr Owen King contributing to UNESCO & WMO’s new volume Glaciers and Ice Sheets in a Warming World: Impacts and Outcomes!
www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articl...
www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articl...
Newcastle scientists contribute to UNESCO glacier loss report
Scientists from Newcastle University have contributed to a major new international report highlighting accelerating decline of glaciers and ice sheets and the consequences for people and the planet.
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November 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Fantastic to see our colleagues Professor Bethan Davies @iceybethan.bsky.social and Dr Owen King contributing to UNESCO & WMO’s new volume Glaciers and Ice Sheets in a Warming World: Impacts and Outcomes!
www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articl...
www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articl...
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NCL press release: www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articl...
November 10, 2025 at 6:22 PM
NCL press release: www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articl...