📢 Rewilding the animal who lives with the city: belonging through growing The article begun life as a simple request, became an experiment & ended up coalescing several of my thoughts on belonging, community, the violent oppression of neoliberalism, and gardening. urban-eidos.com/rewilding-th...

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The RGS-IBG research and higher education team are now on Bluesky! Give them a follow for all things #Geography! :)

RGS-IBG Higher Ed@rgs-ibghe.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Welcome to our research and higher education Bluesky! 👋 Follow us to stay up to date with our work in geographical research, including events, funding opportunities, new publications and more. Learn more about how we promote geography in higher education and beyond: https://ow.ly/CMgN50YI795

Episode 83 of the Full Stop podcast features Byddi Lee, author of Barren, a dual-timeline story that weaves together a contemporary experience of childlessness and baby loss with a breathtaking journey to Neolithic Ireland. Listen on your favourite channel right now or on our website.

Right now big pesticide companies are trying to stop the UK government from banning a whole host of toxic chemicals. We can’t let them win. Will you urge the Nature Minister to resist? act.greenpeace.org/page/186687/...

Emma Hardy: Ban toxic pesticides.

Right now big pesticide companies are trying to stop the UK government from banning a whole host of toxic chemicals. We can’t let them win. Will you urge the Nature Minister to resist?

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I've called on the UK Government to license gamebird shooting in England and give Hen Harriers the protection they deserve. Please help spread the word - contact your MP today and help stop the illegal killing of these incredible birds! action.rspb.org.uk/page/185536/...

Save Our Hen Harriers!

It’s time for the UK Government to license gamebird shooting in England and give Hen Harriers the protection they deserve. Contact your MP today and help stop the illegal killing of these incredible ...

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I'm excited to announce the launch of a podcast series with @healthgeographyrgs.bsky.social and @rgsibg.bsky.social: 'Emerging Research Journeys'! We speak to @sabrinalyli.bsky.social about 5 objects that have been influential to her ECR journey. Listen here: ghwrg.wordpress.com/emerging-res...

Emerging Research Journeys Podcast

GHWRG is excited to announce the launch of a limited series exploring early-career researcher (ECR) career trajectories and journeys in health geography ! This series follows on from the highly suc…

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We are delighted to invite papers for the 22nd ENRGHI Conference, a two-day event organised by & for postgraduate & ECRs Showcasing the breadth of health & wellbeing research, with a focus on Blue Bodies - human, animal & ecological connections to blue spaces 👉 ghwrg.wordpress.com/enrghi-2025-...

ENRGHI 2025: Embodiment and water – blue bodies

We are delighted to invite papers for the 22nd Emerging Researchers in Geographies of Health and Impairment (ENRGHI) Conference, a two-day event organised by and for postgraduate and early career r…

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UK Government promised to protect nature. But it’s breaking that promise. Demand they scrap the part of the new Planning and Infrastructure Bill which threatens important wildlife protections. Take action 👇 https://action.wildlifetrusts.org/page/171483/action/1 #Cumbria #BrokenPromises

Save the date! We'll be hosting a ‘Creativity in Food Geographies’ event in Bristol on 19-20 June. The event is open to ECRs and people of all career stages, including those who already use creative methods/creativity and those are curious about it. foodgeographies.wordpress.com/creativity-i...

Save the date & Open Call: ‘Creativity in Food Geographies’ event

Please save the date for the ‘Creativity in Food Geographies’ event, being hosted by the Food Geographies Research Group in Bristol on 19-20 June 2025. Background Bu…

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Applications for our 2025 Paper Writing Retreat are open! Trying to find the time, space & energy to work on that #mentalhealth and/or #addiction #research paper? Apply for our fully-funded retreat with dedicated writing time, tasty food & the chance to network!👇 mentalhealthresearch.org.uk/pwr25/

WE WON! The Supreme Court has upheld the right to wild camp on Dartmoor. This is a huge win for access to nature. But we're just getting started. It was never just about Dartmoor. We’re fighting to extend the right to roam, swim, and sleep under the stars - across all of England.

Join us in opposing the Gov's plans that will needlessly criminalise those in need action.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/page/170942/...

STOP THE CRIMINALISATION OF POVERTY

Poverty is not a crime.

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Sign this petition and stand up for oil & gas workers. Climate Justice = Worker Justice! act.gp/3ZgaoIg

Stand with oil & gas workers

Oil and gas workers can’t wait any longer for secure energy jobs to materialise. We need action now. Stand with unions to demand the UK government invests in communities, green energy and our planet. ...

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🚨 Join us, Hugh, @domipalmer.bsky.social, @georgemcgavin.bsky.social—and campaigners across the UK—calling for #REALChange for a better Britain. ✊ Tell Keir Starmer to give the Climate and Nature Bill an emergency debate in Parliament. ✍️ Sign the open letter today 👉 action.zerohour.uk 🐝 #CANBill

🚨 Tell Keir Starmer to give the CAN Bill an emergency debate in Parliament. #REALChange

YouTube video by Zero Hour: Climate and Nature Bill

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"Ordinary people are allowed into democratic politics, until they are difficult or popular – or, heaven forbid, both – and then ways will be found to discredit them; it’s actually a pretty good sign for his campaign that it’s begun." www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

‘I thought politics was a dirty thing’ – Zack Polanski on his ‘eco-populist’ vision for the Green party

He’s worked as an actor and a hypnotherapist – and has even been arrested. The Greens’ leadership challenger has had an unconventional route into politics and he’s ready to take on Labour and Reform

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Fifty years ago, Junko Tabei became the first woman to summit Everest – why do so few people know her story?

Despite the extraordinary feats of Tabei and many other adventurous women, sexism and misogyny in mountaineering have persisted for decades.

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You should sign this! banleadnow.com/get-involved...

Ban Lead Now | Sign Our Petition

Demand the end of lead poisoning. Lead ammunition and fishing weights must not pose a risk to European citizens, environment and wildlife.

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📚 On May 20, Dr. Gisela Carrasco-Miró will present at ICTA-UAB her new book Decolonizing Feminist Economics – Possibilities for Just Futures at ICTA-UAB. A powerful exploration of how feminist and decolonial thought can shape just economic futures. www.uab.cat/web/sala-de-...

This arrived the other day! Paperback! Available from 20th of this month and much more affordable at £28.99. 30 brilliant chapters on contemporary economic geographies, and all written by female and non-binary authors.

Just 10 days left to get 100,000 signatures on this petition to ban fossil fuel ads and sponsorships – please sign and share govpetition.uk/700024

Petition: Ban fossil fuel advertising and sponsorship

Advertisements encourage the use of products and sponsorship promotes a positive reputation & creates a social licence of trust & acceptability. In 2003 a ban on all tobacco advertising was introduced...

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"I zoomed closer and saw a place called Hope, and I determined that I’d walk through the glorious place I’m from and try to channel hope throughout." Beauty in the face of hate www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Walking the Pennine Way put everything into perspective for me, including my right to be here | Anita Sethi

Inspired by the Manchester Ramblers, who campaigned on exclusion and the countryside, I’m also taking a stand

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We are looking for bloggers for Voices of Academia to help change the narrative around mental health/ mental illness in academia. If you are interested in writing for us, you can submit a pitch at www.voicesofacademia.com/contact-2 and learn more about our submissions process

Share if you agree! Follow the campaign to @endbirdshooting.bsky.social

No one should be forced to choose between rent, heating and food. ❌ Yet the UK Government has frozen housing benefits — even as rents skyrocket. This isn't right. 📢 Email your MP: restore housing benefits to reflect the true cost of rent bit.ly/42qWC7J

WIN! - A Vinyl Copy of 'SABLE, fABLE' by Bon Iver Bon Iver's anticipated fifth album drops next week, and we're giving away a 2LP black/salmon to one winner. Simply like, share, and follow us to be entered. @jagjaguwar.bsky.social www.normanrecords.com/records/2077...

I'm currently a little bit obsessed with Nina Simone's Sinnerman. Reminds me of how I got lost in Wilco's Spider (Kidsmoke). Good writing music, both of them

4.5 million children are already living in poverty in the UK. Labour had a choice. They could have rebalanced our economy by taxing the super-rich fairly. Instead they CHOSE to remove vital support from ill and disabled people. We won't let them forget it.

🤬 The private water companies have failed and they want us to pay the bill. 💩 Raw sewage was discharged into English rivers and seas for 3,614,428 hours last year - and now our bills are getting hiked by £123. 💚 It's time to take back control of our water.

Wish you were here? Tell us what you like about your local parks, and what you'd like to see to make them better! Complete the Bradford and Leeds Access to Parks and Green Spaces Survey for a chance to win a £100 voucher! bit.ly/m/GreenAWARE