Had a wonderful time up in beautiful Arran last week, cooking up what will hopefully be a new research project…
Austin Read
@austinread.bsky.social
Lecturer in Environmental Geography at the University of Oxford
“In effect: most of us gravely underestimate how much other people worry about the effects of climate change, and the public remains more climate-minded than the political class, the media – even we ourselves – believe, or seem willing to admit” magazine.newstatesman.com/2026/08/01/d...
“Don’t say climate change”
France, Spain and England are burning. Where is the climate movement to resist this catastrophe?
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Alongside our new short film *Rainforest Regeneration in Scotland: Communities and Technologies* (featured in this post), discover four new Smart Forests Atlas Stories written by people working on community-led rainforest regeneration projects across western Scotland🧵 vimeo.com/1186677471?s...
Rainforest Regeneration in Scotland: Communities and Technologies
Rainforest Regeneration in Scotland visits four projects in western Scotland to learn about the role of digital technologies in facilitating temperate rainforest regeneration. A more in-depth discussi...
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i love the Hitchcock mosaics at Leytonstone tube station !
Summer procrastination of a geographer… a (very rough) sketch of the 6 different land categories used in the upcoming DEFRA England Land Use framework
"City relieved" = Burnham's government won't challenge the power of the bankers, or tax their wealth. Who is choosing our politicians - the people or the banking sector?
England’s new 30x30 plan was published yesterday on how we get to 30% of land being protected for nature by 2030. But almost immediately, one of the country’s biggest institutional landowners, the Church of England, rejects a measurable 30% restoration target for its own estate. 🧵
Enjoying the Land Use Framework Story Map that's been published today. A great, visual exposition of how land is used in England currently, and how it needs to change to address the nature and climate crises over the next 25 years: storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/5e18...
Land Use in England
Building a vision for land use change using the Land Use Framework
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had a fantastic few days in wales at a research symposium organised by Naomi Millner and the PEATSENSE team, exploring blanket bogs and collaging - among other things!
Arrived in Barcelona for #POLLEN2026. First stop: Piscines Municipals Montjüic (aka the Kylie Minogue pool). Imagine if a British council owned things like this!!
This Thursday, England’s largest landowners are meeting to discuss their plans for restoring nature on their estates. Yet the Government Estate Nature Plan is nowhere to be seen! We're asking Minister @marycreagh.bsky.social to publish the plan - add your voice: actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...
Bad Bunny beginning his incredible Super Bowl performance in a sugar cane plantation – perfect timing for my undergrad class on plantation geographies and the plantationocene this friday ...
An exciting early Christmas present has just arrived !! The New Routledge Handbook of Political Ecology - featuring a chapter I co-authored on queer political ecology - is out in 2026. Can’t wait to read through all the other chapters…
🚨new paper🚨 excited to publish this paper on salmon, archives & more-than-human historical geography in geographical research!! the article will appear in a special issue on nature in/and/of the archive that has been put together by @ayanassar.bsky.social & Jessica Lehman. doi.org/10.1111/1745...
Assemblage, archive, and ancestor: Developing more‐than‐human historical geography with salmon
This paper interrogates recent geographic literature on the more-than-human archive and argues that there needs to be more specificity when conceptualising and researching the more-than-human. It the...
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new naomi klein in equator magazine is great - and making me rethink my tepid response to this surrealism exhibition ! www.equator.org/articles/sur...
Surrealism Against Fascism • EQUATOR
A century ago, artists who survived the trenches captured humanity’s capacity for destruction. What can they teach us about confronting the far-right in a new age of genocide?
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amazingly produced zine from queer patch - group of sinophone queer / feminist researchers. look out for launches in various cities across 2026
