🔊New paper published in Area by Robert Shaw @WhatIsRobShaw (@NCL_Geography) 🔊 'What does geography look like?' #OpenAccess https://t.co/cykvnnDdVb

Beautiful day for fieldwork teaching with @UniofNewcastle Geography students at Seaburn

🌍 New paper published in Progress in Human Geography 🌍 'Children’s geographies II: Adults' by Matej Blazek https://t.co/kqe129e7fb @NCL_Geography

The BBC's "top story" right now is 'Man likes wife'. This sort of story undermines anybsens of balance on the monarchy, and reveals a lack of editorial independence from the state #AbolishTheMonarchy

A UN-member intensifies genocide vs a people that a UN agency protects. Then it declares said UN agency 'terrorist' (along with its internal 'liberal' opposition). Can there be a more open&shut case for sanctions/expulsion of said rogue UN member-state? https://t.co/DvpbKpE44J

After a lot of planning and prep, I'm so happy to see our new MA programme - Global Sustainable Futures - here at @NCL_Geography finally go live online for a 2025-26 start! 🙌 If you or someone you know are interested, do get in touch, happy to chat!

While Starmer has been what policy wonks call "a twat" in accepting gifts, it's worth remembering that Tory leadership candidate #RobertJenrick gets £2k in expenses a month from the tax payer to rent in his constituency, despite owning properties worth at least £3.6 million.

https://t.co/78kD509vqZ

Link for a 3 year postdoctoral research associate position on our Leverhulme Trust ‘Unfeeling climate change’ project - on how disaffected feelings relate to the climate crisis. Please forward/retweet etc. Questions by email, not DM. https://t.co/9QKGQdaG3G

New. Gianni Infantino has flown more than 600,000 kilometres on a private jet owned by Qatar the past three years. He defied the pandemic and principles of good governance to become an elite polluter. By @samindrakunti https://t.co/iY4JJj1iPl

The Taliban has banned Afghan women from showing their faces or speaking out loud in public under strict new laws.

We now have a universal workaround for LNER fares. For travel London <> all stations Newcastle-Edinburgh inclusive, DO NOT book to/from London: 1. Book to/from Finsbury Park 2. In the search results, click 'Filters' then 'Route options'. Under 'Go via ' enter Kings Cross.

Despite having seen the term in dozens of texts over the years, I still don't really understand what "ethnology" is, and how it differs from any of social-cultural anthropology, cultural studies or cultural geography.

Seemed like an appropriate way to start the day

@elonmusk That's a whistle-stop tour! The full chapter is at https://t.co/joMM7ZZfBJ, if your institution subscribes to Springer's book chapters then you should be able to access it. Or dm me for a pre-published authors' version.

As time journeys through the night sky become ever more threatened from light pollution and low-orbit satellites - hello @elonmusk - responses need to re-create everyday engagements with darkness, rather than relying on spectacular events or sites

When #darkskies activists try to combat this alienation, they often rely on the spectacular: images and experiences of vast, star-filled skies. This often fails, though, because it uses awe to fill a gap left by the mundane. In the chapter I call this "the inadequacy of awe"

Crucially, these stories are stories of everyday life and planet. As we lose them through light pollution, we increase our alienation from the planet around us.

I argue that narratives of the night sky have a long history in helping people understand the planet around them. The Milky Way reminds Eurasians of the centrality of dairy to life, the Emu in the Sky reminds Indigenous Australians of their relationship with the land and animals