Sharon Witt

Photo taken by one of my key note speakers at the Geographical Association conference in April. Anyone know the location?

Great to see @anjanakhatwa.bsky.social on antiques roadshow just now. You can hear her speak at the Geographical Association conference on the 15th of april at Oxford Brookes!

#RememberingRuth today

Absolutely perfect ….. ✨🧡✨🩵✨🧡✨🩵✨

frost magic

Every geographer on Bluesky! 🌍🌏🌎

In the middle of a particularly difficult week, 2 hours of absolute delight: the Network of Women Doing Fieldwork asked me to speak as part of an online seminar. Such a collegiate, collaborative network, trying to envision a different future for academia. 🙏
womendoingfieldwork.org

I am a witch. I'll never apologise for my slow navigations across the land. For each hedge offers wonders. Each path has it spirits, its talkative trees. I shall get to where I need to be at the pace of my curiosity and the nature's desire to hold me in its splendour. – #EmilyCanting #WitchSky

It’s the leaving of Liverpool… #liverpool

One Monday evening in December #Liverpool

One of my many complaints about AI is that when I write my books I am *thinking*. It's how I process my ideas. To hand that over would be to hand over my thinking. Another example of this is lesson planning - it encourages us to *think through* a classroom situation ahead of time. #EduSky

Always wonderful to pay attention and engage in playful pedagogies with the the amazing @attention2place.bsky.social - thank you for a brilliant session!

It's a tree gargoyle!

Final proofs have been signed off. Excited that this edited book will be out in April 2025. A book which really looks at what we need for Early Childhood. #EarlyYearsSky @ruthswailes.bsky.social

Gift Thinking - Orion Magazine The relationships, abundance, and reciprocity of nature’s economy

Gift Thinking

Robin Wall Kimmerer (author of my all-time favourite book Braiding Sweetgrass) talks with Jenny Odel about her new book 'The Service Tree' - and the relationships, abundance, and reciprocity of nature’s economy

#books #nature 🌿

orionmagazine.org/article/gift...

Outdoor Learning & Play with Juliet Robertson: VideoCast I am so grateful that Juliet Robertson was able to join me for this conversation about outdoor learning and play. I hope you enjoy listening to it as much as I enjoyed being with her in our virtual

The Early Learning Cafe. Delighted to be able to share this podcast with you. A conversation between myself and Susan Ramsay. Enjoy. earlylearningcafe.com/outdoor-lear... #EYFS #EYoutdoors #forestschool #childrennature #EduSky #ECE #outdoorplay #earlyyears #earlylearning

Why value trees? So many reasons but here’s a few ideas to get you started using a local tree for inspiration. One of 10 online teaching supports from the Geographical Association ‘Landmarks Landscapes & Loss’ #NationalTreeWeek geography.org.uk/resources/sy...

We can't have an understanding of the collective until we have healed (or heal along with) our separation from the rest of the living world, from which our collectivity emerges and on on which our collective health and life depends.

GAs response to the Review of Curriculum and Assessment - Geographical Association The GA has released a response to the Review of Curriculum and Assessment, highlighting geography’s unique curriculum contribution.

We will share a summary of the @rgsibg.bsky.social response to the curriculum and assessment review next week - here is the GA’s summary - nicely done geography.org.uk/gas-response...

Excellent talk from Mackenzie Crook at the Cambridge Union earlier - Nick Drake, Detectorists, Brittania, The Office and this banger all getting a mention …

‘Beech Tree Fairy’.
“Some see nature all ridicule and deformity, and by these I shall not regulate my proportions; and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. As a man is, so he sees”. William Blake #Imagination #Art #CreativeNature

Delighted to share our #whispersofchalkstream project adventures with Bishop’s Sutton WI last night #women’sinstitute Wonderful participation, crafts and river making and lovely company. Thank you for making us so welcome 🤗 #WatercressandWinterbournes

❤️this What a lovely idea to communicate significant landmarks in local places #children’sgeographies #placeresponses #primarygeography

Playing in mud can be a beneficial activity for children.
Brain development: The sensory stimulation and increased input from mud play helps form pathways in the brain.
Motor skills: Children use their smaller muscles by squishing, squeezing, scooping, mixing, and pouring mud. #EarlyYearsSky

The late composer Ryuichi Sakamoto once said "The world is filled with profound beauty and tragedy, and it is through art that we can reconcile these contradictions." I think about that a lot these days.

This is one of my books of 2024. Delighted that it captures Tim and his legacy. @crownhousepub.bsky.social #edusky #UKed #UKedchat

Ginko leaves @gilbertwhites.bsky.social

Cover of the book, Sounds Wild and Broken, an image in three layers: humpback whales at the bottom, then treefrogs, then an American robin singing against a background of the mountains.

Take your ears and imagination on a journey with me into the sonic riches and brokenness of our world. Music, nature, listening. A Pulitzer and PEN finalist. Now out in paperback.
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Sign in foreground with river behind. Wording on sign says: "Connection to Country: Noongar Occupation Datings from excavations at open artefact sites and rock shelters in the South West at Bunbury, Margaret River, Quindalup, Dunsborough and Albany, indicate the area has been occupied by Aboriginal people from 47,000 years ago to recent times. Numerous artefact scatters in the coastal area of Bunbury confirm the area was used for long and short term camping, social gatherings and ceremonial purposes. Eaton was a favoured location because of the rich food resources offered by the estuary, river and inland and also as it was protected by the Quindalup Dunes west of Leschenault Estuary. Silcrete, dolerite, quartz and granite were obtained via trade from the Darling Scarp and used to manufacture stone tools and implements such as flakes, scrapers, backed blades and grinding stones. Fossiliferous chert collected from offshore sources or traded from the south coast was also used to produce artefacts. These stone tools were used to form wooden implements, weapons and to process food."

This sign reminds us that Aboriginal people have lived in this place for 47,000 years.
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Woodcock, nestling on the ground, with large silver moon and silver birch in the background. Painted on a large round pebble.

The final Supermoon of 2024 - Woodcock Moon - rises tonight

This gorgeous painted stone is the work of Kerrie Ann Gardner
@kerriedoodles.bsky.social ... whose art is an absolute delight

#moon #supermoon #woodcock #birds #birdart #art