Dr Jamie Arathoon

A summary of some of the headline findings from our article on recent trends in dog theft (see the full article here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...).

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Also FA basically practicing Tory post-covid vibes of the ad of a sports person saying "Fatima's next job could be in cyber, she just doesn't know it yet".

Expect forcing a select small minority into this.

28 amateur footballers who are transgender can no longer play in women's football as the FA ban starts.

The FA have offered "online talking therapy" & said they could go down a route to be a referee.

It's giving 'how do you feel all though we don't give a fuck and won't do anything about it'.

An Open Letter from Disabled Students Regarding Proposed Redundancies at Liverpool Hope University An Open Letter from Disabled Students Regarding Proposed Redundancies at Liverpool Hope University To the Leadership of Liverpool Hope University, We are writing to express our disappointment regardi...

Powerful open letter from Liverpool Hope #DisabilityStudies students/grads in response to proposed redundancy of the ENTIRE DS team: DS "is not just an academic discipline but a lifeline. [Tutors] bring lived expertise, intellectual leadership, and care that cannot be replicated elsewhere"

We have another exciting research seminar coming up – this time with Dr Muhammad Kavesh on ‘Hospitality and Hostility: Arrival and Intrusion of Foreign Pigeons in Pakistan and India’! Please see more info and QR code for registration below:

Shira the grey and white cat rolled up in a ball on my lap

Sometimes I forget other cats have two back legs. Makes her circle mode much smaller!

Whenever I click on the news at the moment there just seems to be constant transphobia and hate. So depressing.

Four of the geographers in a row for a celebratory photograph. Left to right: Olalekan Adekola, Pauline Couper (with cycle helmet hair), Abby Mycroft (inspirational staff member), Jude Parks.

Certificate for Course Team of the Year, YSJ Awards 2025.

Abby on stage receiving her award from the Vice Chancellor and the SU President: Education. Behind them are the letter YSJ in lights.

And Course Team of the Year 2025 is...Geography!!🎈🎉
All good fun at the YSJ SU Awards last night, with one of the geographers also getting Inspirational Staff Member Award. 👏🏼

Geographers! Please join 300 of us — at every career stage — who are urging the Royal Geographical Society to reaffirm its commitment to trans inclusion in the face of Supreme Court ruling, and to oppose the EHRC’s interim update. Sign by WED 30 April 1700 GMT docs.google.com/document/u/0...

Can you recommend any lit on use of sorry in this way?

Hi #emca scholars! I'm looking for help with some lit.

I have an example I am writing up where a path is being blocked by workers, a sign, and a bollard, that a wheelchair user is trying to navigate past. On the approach they say to the workers "sorry" rather than "excuse me" to get past.

Congratulations, I enjoyed reading Absolution and going to your reading and signing in Glasgow!

Minority students should not have to spend their time at university being harassed, mocked, shamed, and told that who they are is invalid and unworthy or a fraud

They are there to study and to learn, not to be forced to constantly defend their existence in ways others never need to

Funded PhD Scholarship opportunity! Come work with me and Claire Haggett in partnership with @living-rent.bsky.social on a project looking at retrofitting, housing, and tenure in Edinburgh. Please share with anyone you think might be interested, and get in touch with us if you have any questions.

Hope for endangered penguins as no-fishing zones agreed off South Africa Deal will restrict fishing near colonies on Robben Island and Bird Island for 10 years, after long debate between industry and conservationists Efforts to stop the critically endangered African penguin from going extinct took a step forward on Tuesday,…

Hope for endangered penguins as no-fishing zones agreed off South Africa

A reminder that the next 'Globalising Animal Geographies' seminar from is happening this Friday at 4pm.
We will hear from @annaguasco.bsky.social and her research on 'reimagining whales' geographies'!
Sign up using the QR code :)

Photo of From r-l Alasdair Cochrane Rosaleen Duffy Bob McKay and Eva Haifa Giraud

1/ 📣 Big news! For the next 5 years I’ll be working with this amazing team @evahaifa.bsky.social Alasdair Cochrane & Bob McKay on the @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded Multispecies Mutualisms project wellcome.org/grant-fundin...

Still time to register for this Wednesday's Globalising Animal Geographies seminar series! And we have another exciting seminar coming up in March:

Staff of NSF’s Human-Environment & Geographical Sciences program terminated.

Anti-intellectual vengeance against geographers.

And, perhaps, against Tim Walz, high school geography teacher & advocate, in particular.

Our session on 'Teaching Animal Geography' at the RGS is still open and closes on Friday! If you want to submit but need more time, give us an email! 👩🏻‍🏫🐄🌍

More information below 👇🏻

Four seals die on Norfolk coast after contracting bird flu Experts raise fears for England’s largest colony at Blakeney Point as they conduct tests to identify source of infection Experts have raised fears for the seals at England’s largest colony after four were found to have died after having been infected…

Four seals die on Norfolk coast after contracting bird flu

When Frogs Fall Silent: the possibility and challenge of ‘voice’ as a method — RGS Animal Geographies Shutian Li Tadpoles are one of the most commonly observed ‘animals’ during childhood in my home country, China, often serving as a gateway for early engagement with the natural world. Children are e...

New blog alert - Shutian Li reflects on her work with frogs and using ‘voice’ (and silence!) as a method:

www.rgsanimalgeographies.uk/the-blog/ubg...

Newcastle University staff to strike for 14 days in March It follows the approval of plans to cut about £20m from its salary bill, affecting some 300 jobs.

Newcastle University staff to strike for 14 days in March over 200 redundancies. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🐾📢 CALL FOR PAPERS📢🐾 “Research Ethics for Animal Geographies” at the RGS Annual Conference 2025. Session sponsored by the Animal Geography Working Group 🐕🐨🦋🪼

Abstract submissions to Kate.goldie@bristol.ac.uk by Feb 21st!

Details below

Ekaterina Gladkova and I are running this session on Teaching Animal Geographies! If you are interested, take a look at the link, and consider submitting an abstract!

Seminar series event alert! Details and registration below 👇

I have been writing part of a collaborative project which draws on work that explicitly challenges this narrative of disability benefits as 'taking the mickey'/'scrounging'. Whether it's benefits or assistance dogs, disabled people are having their disabilities, and their very existence challenged.

The last fragments of ancient Irish rainforests may face a new threat … trees As commercial monocultures increase, ecologists are calling for the remaining splinters of native woodland to be identified, protected - and expanded * Photographs by Rob Stothard “This could almost be part of Lapland, up here,” says retired…

The last fragments of ancient Irish rainforests may face a new threat … trees

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00420980241311728

📢 New article from me

Autoethnography of disability and active travel in Greater Manchester: Encountering (non)citizenship through access controls on traffic-free paths

Open access here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Part of 'Infrastructural Encounters: Disability in Urban Lives' SI