Gaurav and I are looking forward to your abstracts on the geographies of dignity:

Anna Plyushteva@plyushteva.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Are you attending the RGS Annual Conference in London in September? Consider submitting an abstract to the session Negotiating Dignity: Rethinking Justice in Geographical Research organised by Gaurav Mittal and myself Details of all CfPs here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Deadline 20 February

I wrote something about HS2 at Euston. It's a rant, pretending to be a theoretical piece about infrastructural reversibility rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The Geographical Journal | RGS Research Journal | Wiley Online Library

This commentary discusses the idea of reversibility in relation to large infrastructure projects, using the example of the Euston train station redevelopment in London, UK. I suggest that there shoul....

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Are you attending the RGS Annual Conference in London in September? Consider submitting an abstract to the session Negotiating Dignity: Rethinking Justice in Geographical Research organised by Gaurav Mittal and myself Details of all CfPs here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Deadline 20 February

A moment many years in the making – it's time to check proofs of my forthcoming book, Power Plants, due out in June with @manchesterup.bsky.social! Somehow, this has snuck on to the AAG's Winter 2025 books list – which looks great (www.aag.org/new-books-fo...). Preorder by end of Jan for 40% off 🌿🌲🌳

New TSU Seminar Series for 2026! Dr Abdal Hamid al Masri (Homs University) kicks off with a talk that examines challenges of transport, mobility, and traffic in and around Homs, a central Syrian city in the post-war and reconstruction era. 25th Feb - 12pm online only us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Heading to @bertsbooks.bsky.social this afternoon to treat a young reader to a new book of their choice. Spoiler, it's going to be another Grimwood!

Come work with me on a new DUT-funded project on young carers and urban mobility! 2-year postdoc at @tsuoxford.bsky.social : my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

CfP special issue on "Decolonising Research in Transport Geography", in JTG. Please help us spread the word! Deadline 30 Sep 2026 More info www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... Guest editors: Qiyang Liu, Peking Zihao An, U. Leeds Rafael H. M. Pereira, Ipea Zahara Batool, Leeds Tim Schwanen, Oxford

Please sign @asthmaandlung.org.uk's petition calling for stronger #AirPollution limits in the UK. The UK's legal levels for NO2 are four times higher than the safe level recommended by the World Health Organization. If the EU can come into line with interim @who.int levels, surely the UK can?

Adopt Ambitious Air Quality Standards into UK Law

🫁 Support our call for urgent clean air action Toxic air isn’t just an environmental issue — it’s a health emergency. It contributes to lung cancer, worsens asthma and COPD, and harms children’s…

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The Orwell Society Prize for Dystopian Fiction 2026 is now open for submissions from people studying at a UK university: orwellsociety.com/charitable-a... If you work in UK HE, please publicize widely! I’ve been a judge since the prize’s inception; it’s such a privilege to read the submissions.

Dystopian Fiction Prize

The Orwell Society organises an annual short story competition for current students (both BA and MA) at British universities. We look for dystopian narratives of 3,000 words, following the dedicated t...

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Who would you plan urban mobility for? Historically, cities have prioritised white collar commuters As part of a new DUT-backed project, we suggest that starting with young carers and their (im)mobilities can inform inclusive transport planning. We set out the case here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jt...

www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives... Fantastic article on AI and why it will let you down. Passage below is my favourite.

Join us for our seminar series ‘Mobility and Urbanisation in Palestine.’ Starting Wed 29 Oct, 3pm online Dr Zahraa Zawawi, An-Najah National University in Nablus, will discuss ‘Sustainable Urban Planning for Urban Expansion/ Development in the West Bank, Palestine’ Register: tinyurl.com/3n8kxn6s

📢 Applications are now open for the Joint BME Small Grants scheme, supporting research, events & activities by BME historians or on BME histories. 💸 Grants up to £1000. ⏰Deadline: 27 Nov 2025. #history #apply #funding #opportunity socialhistory.org.uk/funding/bme-...

Joint BME Small Grants

The Social History Society administers a Small Grants Fund to support research, events and activities undertaken by BME historians or focused on the histories of BME people The scheme was launched …

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So we want more people to have the skills to engage critically with the ambiguous stuff circulating in a post-truth online world? Turns out, those History of Art degrees were not such a bad idea after all. en.ara.cat/culture/the-...

The viral statue attributed to Jaume Plensa and located in Barcelona that doesn't actually exist

A fake AI-generated image sparks thousands of reactions: How to stop the lie?

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This has been my favourite episode of the Antisocial Economics podcast so far - but they are all excellent.

LSE Inequalities@lseinequalities.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Episode three of Antisocial Economics is out now! @wealtherty.bsky.social talks to Professor Gurminder Bhambra about the colonial history of wealth and its implications in the contemporary racial wealth divide. Who actually paid for the things we think of as ‘ours’ like the NHS?

Looking forward to the annual conference of the @rgsibg.bsky.social and rediscovering Birmingham after too many years of only being there long enough to transfer between trains.

Using DuckDuckGo for web searches is great - not missing the ads, not missing the (frequently inaccurate) AI summaries.

The consultants who worked on Warwick have done a few others it seems (but not "Beyonder"!): mammoth.tv/education/

Mammoth Education – Global Brand Consultancy for Education

Brand Thinking for Education Marketing. UK's leading brand consultants for universities, trusted to deliver large-scale transformation programmes that redefine institutional identity and reputation.

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🚨 Today we publish State of the North 2025 🚨 The North gets just half as much arts and culture funding per person as London. We reveal the impact this & other regional divides have on young people, and what must change 👇 www.ippr.org/articles/the...

Ash Sarkar's book 'Minority Rule' is brilliant - incisive, funny, depressing, but also strangely empowering account of the last few years in UK politics www.bloomsbury.com/uk/minority-...

Minority Rule

**A Guardian Book of the Summer 2025**** The instant top 5 Sunday Times bestseller from political commentator Ash Sarkar **'One of the boldest and most exciting…

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New drawing: Hire bike Notes on this cartoon: open.substack.com/pub/diagramc...

Great to see outputs from the NİHR LTNs in London project starting to be published. Huge public health benefits of LTNs. 'Across the LTNs as a whole, the authors said, an estimated 613 injuries were prevented, including 100 deaths or serious injuries' www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

London’s low-traffic zones ‘cut deaths and injuries by more than a third’

Exclusive: Study also finds no change in number of casualties on roads just outside low-traffic neighbourhoods

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Are we leaving parts of the country behind in the EV transition? Labib Azzouz & Hannah Budnitz @tsuoxford.bsky.social explore the uneven rollout of electric vehicle charging points across the UK.

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Government investment in neighbourhood EV chargers cannot replace investment at motorway services.

Where I am with AI

Devastated to learn that EVERY SINGLE ONE of my former #DisabilityStudies colleagues at Liverpool Hope are at risk of redundancy. Lovely people and a brilliant team that has transformed the lives of so many students. If you know them please do reach out - things are very tough right now.

Union vows to fight cuts at Liverpool Hope

Liverpool Hope University intends to axe 39 staff before the end of the year, announced the University and College Union (UCU) today

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Job vacancy: Research Associate in Road Safety Inequalities (24 months; full-time; based @tsuoxford.bsky.social ) Come and work with Xiao Li @xiaoli-transport.bsky.social (PI) and myself on a new project on road safety and children with SEND my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

On Walk to Work Day, @valenmontoya.bsky.social highlights an example of commuting that isn't so straightforward. #walktoworkday @oxfordgeography.bsky.social www.tsu.ox.ac.uk/news/good-on...

"The good ones cross over the bridge, and the bad ones go underneath."

On Walk to Work Day, Valentina Montoya Robledo highlights the story of women who cross the Colombia-Venezuela border every day to work.

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Interested in making government more effective? Applications for our 2025–26 research internship programme, starting in September 2025, are now open. Closing date: Tuesday 29 April, 11:00 ⏰ Find out more: www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/about-us/car...