We are a rich enough country to be funding 37% of all basic research proposals, not just considering "the best" 37% and then maybe only funding 12% in the end.
Kaya Tatjana Barry
@kayatbarry.bsky.social
Interested in mobilities – geography – art – migration – tourism – air travel – birds – weather // DECRA Research Fellow, Griffith Uni, AU. she/her
⁉️The ARC has delayed outcomes of ALL grants 1–4 months & increased scheduled outcome windows from 2 weeks to 3 months! This reverses 4 years of progress in providing greater certainty & ability to plan for researchers, their families & unis. Their excuse? Security checks under new ARC legislation👇
📢December Issue of TIBG📢 Our latest issue gathers papers around 3 broad themes: the more-than-human, borders, and working from home. It also features the third collection in our 'Geography in the World' series. 23/24 papers are #OpenAccess ⬇️ rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14755661...
This is an important report by @kayatbarry.bsky.social & colleagues on just some of the issues faced by workers who come to Australia on the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme. Much room for improvement and government needs to take action. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
Thousands have left Pacific worker scheme and are stuck in visa limbo
Pacific Islanders have been leaving Australia's guest worker scheme, a decision that breaches their visa conditions and leaves them "extremely vulnerable".
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New blog post. This week, @marycolwell1 gave the eulogy to the Slender-billed Curlew at the AEWA meeting of parties in Bonn. You can now read the eulogy on our new blog post. www.curlewaction.org/the-bird-wit...
off to a good start with the rainbow cityglider arriving for the morning commute 🌈🚌
Photos from the amazing "Yield" exhibition at Caboolture Regional Gallery, where a selection of my "Seasonal" photographs are showing. On until March 2026, do check out this amazing exhibition on colonial agricultural legacies! www.moretonbay.qld.gov.au/Galleries-Mu...
Today's the last day to complete this short survey for the ARC about the use of AI in grant assessment. Survey link: www.surveymonkey.com/r/X7PY5GL
ARC Tracker@arc-tracker.bsky.social · 11mo agoOnce again, ARC hits the 🎯 with their comms strategy: 8pm on Sunday night. When the eyeballs of researchers are glued to … twitter? They've not posted this anywhere else. I can't think of a better way to _not_ "engage stakeholders". Almost uncanny.
Here's the link to their "stakeholder survey on the use of AI in grant assessment": www.surveymonkey.com/r/X7PY5GL
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/X7PY5GL
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an 8 hour round trip to Gayndah on Monday, to install the next version of the "Seasonal" exhibition. Stay tuned for more photos after the opening this Saturday at 6pm!
hello Newcastle! chasing the tail of this "bomb cyclone", ready for the Institute of australian geographer's conference! ‼️🌀⛈️✈️
next week I'm showing a selection of weather warning diagrams (artworks) at University of Newcastle gallery. Maybe I've jinxed it, looking at the weather forecast... 🫣⛈️🌀
NEW: "Seasonal excess: Moving with place and produce through creative fieldwork" out now, with my amazing collaborators Emily House and Willow Ross onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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brisbane's bus network will be overhauled next week! At major stations, extra staff at the platforms are announcing the changes, with calls like: "LAST CHANCE! to ride the 170, it will cease to exist next week!" 🚍
#OpenAccess in Transactions: 'Unseasonable seasons: Shifting geographies of weather and migration mobilities' by @kayatbarry.bsky.social This paper examines the experiences of seasonal migrants in horticultural communities in Queensland, Australia. doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky
8pm tomorrow night!! - listen to ABC Radio National Big Ideas for our public panel discussion: "We asked for workers and got people — inside the temporary visa scheme putting food on your plate" with @natashamitchell.bsky.social www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
We asked for workers and got people — inside the temporary visa scheme putting food on your plate - ABC listen
Who picks and processes those yummy strawberries you're about to put in your shopping trolley, or the crisp veggies you might stir-fry tonight? Did you know it could be a nurse or a police officer fro...
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Listen in at 8pm tomorrow night! Our Canberra panel discussion: "We asked for workers and got people—inside the temporary visa scheme putting food on your plate." Listen to ABC Radio National's Big Ideas with @natashamitchell.bsky.social www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
We asked for workers and got people — inside the temporary visa scheme putting food on your plate - ABC listen
Who picks and processes those yummy strawberries you're about to put in your shopping trolley, or the crisp veggies you might stir-fry tonight? Did you know it could be a nurse or a police officer fro...
abc.net.au
More from Livingmaps Review 17! In Mapworks, Debbie Kent gives focus to the You Are Here maps that populate urban centres. At once, both mundane street furniture and a portal into understanding our location on the earth. www.livingmaps.org/you-are-here...
Check out this new paper out by @kayatbarry.bsky.social and Rafael Azeredo:
Kaya Tatjana Barry@kayatbarry.bsky.social · last yr.How did we become so reliant on backpackers for farm labour? Rafael Azeredo and I trace the evolution of the Aus Working Holiday Maker visa and the political push to repurpose rural tourism as essential labour. Out now in @tourismgeographies.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
How did we become so reliant on backpackers for farm labour? Rafael Azeredo and I trace the evolution of the Aus Working Holiday Maker visa and the political push to repurpose rural tourism as essential labour. Out now in @tourismgeographies.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The tourism-migration nexus: working holiday visa politics and repurposing tourists as labour
The ‘working holiday’ model of youth mobility has evolved alongside backpacking in recent decades. Increasingly, backpackers on working holidays are seen as a potential labour source in many nation...
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Great to see Beryl Pong's article 'Volumetric mediations' is out in Area. It is the first article in an SI on 'Atmospheric Borders' edited by @kayatbarry.bsky.social @umutozguc.bsky.social Andrew Burridge and I @acbsnetwork.bsky.social rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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This paper contributes to scholarship on drones’ more-than-military realms as they pertain to the atmospheres they create in visual culture. Focusing on two humanitarian drone documentaries, Ai Weiwe...
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after three years of tramping around Queensland, having to move office coincides with the end of my fellowship project! Dismantling the postcard collection today... 🚅🍌🍊🍍🫐🐑🧳✈️
As Australian Critical Border Studies Network @acbsnetwork.bsky.social, we are pleased to have Henk van Houtum present his new book Free the Map. Join us on the 16th of April. @henkvanhoutum.bsky.social @arijerrems.bsky.social @kayatbarry.bsky.social events.humanitix.com/free-the-map...
Free the Map. From Atlas to Hermes, towards a new cartography of borders and migration
Get tickets on Humanitix - Free the Map. From Atlas to Hermes, towards a new cartography of borders and migration . Online. Wednesday 16th April 2025. Find event information.
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koala encounters! remember to slow down in the wet and during joey season! @griffith.edu.au
NEW: The bohemian imaginary — my brilliant co-conspirator Peter Varley & I dreamt up this paper about how tourism is imagined, practiced, and fetishised in contemporary consumerist culture. #Debord #spectacle #tourism #mobilties #subcultures www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The bohemian imaginary in the society of the spectacle
The emancipatory promise of bohemia as a realm of free expression is inextricably woven into the desires and dreams of tourism. The bohemian drive for…
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interested in weather, seasons, or climate mobilities? in this paper I unpack assumptions about Western, colonialist weather ideals that underpin seasonal employment and migration
Kaya Tatjana Barry@kayatbarry.bsky.social · last yr.NEW: "Unseasonable seasons: Shifting geographies of weather and migration mobilities" out now in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
NEW: "Unseasonable seasons: Shifting geographies of weather and migration mobilities" out now in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library
Among growing attention to weather in geography, the seasons have been largely overlooked. Seasonal concerns underpin not only the weather, but also migration flows, tourism and trade, farming, and a...
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Here’s a report by John Ross in @timeshighered.bsky.social on ARC Board’s proposal to change grant schemes ▶️ www.timeshighereducation.com/news/arc-gra... [Free login required] Both @scienceau.bsky.social's & I am worried about opportunities & unintended consequences for early-career researchers👇
Join us Thurs 13 March for a public panel discussion hosted by ABC Radio National's @natashamitchell.bsky.social about the experiences of workers from the Pacific in Australia. Details and registration here: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/temporary-...
Temporary: We wanted workers but we got people
Images and stories of temporary labour migration from the Pacific.
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