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Human Geography at Leicester is facing closure. Staff contracts are to end in June 2026; students are to be relocated to other universities, or taught out by a maximum of two (!) teaching-only staff. Other departments and subjects are facing closure, too. Please join the demo!

Your weekly reminder that voter "concern" with immigration doesn't correspond to actual immigration levels.

It corresponds to the amount of coverage the media gives immigration.

This an entirely self-fulfilling mess, and it is entirely pointless.

Still time to apply for this Postdoc opportunity at Newcastle Uni with a great team: jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...

A blue tile announcing the 'Geographers on Trump' commentary collection published in The Geographical Journal. The GJ and Royal Geographical Society logos are at the top, a waving American flag with an outlined image of Donald Trump are in the centre, and a list of featured authors is on the right hand side: Mark Davidson LaToya E. Eaves Colin Flint Sarah Fogel Banu Gokariksel Cynthia S. Gorman Conor Harrison Peter Hopkins Eden Kinkaid Nick Koenig Solange Munoz Caroline Nagel Elizabeth Olson Danielle Purifoy Pamela Sertzen Wiley Sharp Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles Joel White Bryttani Wooten

📢 New in The GJ! 📢

We've published 12 intervention pieces in a special collection reflecting on Trump's second term in the White House, and how geographers are responding.

All pieces are free to read for the next 3 months - access them here ⬇️

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

Sign the Petition End unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University

Please sign this petition to argue against compulsory redundancies at Newcastle University.

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I am thrilled to share with you the organisation of the international workshop "Futures of Gender and Sexuality in Europe". As advances in equality and recognition face growing resistance this workshop brings together international researchers to reflect on these issues @nclpolitics.bsky.social

I wish journalists would stop framing political news as wins or losses for politicians or political parties. It’s an abrogation of our mission. Why do we keep doing this? Is the spending bill a win or loss for the American people? Who does it help? Who does it hurt? Is it sound policy? Fiscally?

Sign the Petition End unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University

Please sign and share this petition, calling on Newcastle University’s Executive Board to halt the threat of ill-considered and unnecessary redundances that are imperilling careers and the future of our institution.

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TIBG Editor Statement, 2025 As editors for TIBG we acknowledge the extremely challenging circumstances facing many of our colleagues both within and outside the UK as a result of funding cuts, institutional restructuring, and redundancies. We write in solidarity with geographers and academics experiencing emotional distress and uncertainty arising from unjust university management processes and decisions. We recognise this difficult situation may have implications for how colleagues will and can engage with TIBG. This may result in increased pressure to publish. It could also limit colleagues’ capacity to take on tasks such as journal reviewing. We are striving to do our best for both authors and reviewers; balancing our commitments to making timely decisions on papers, whilst also recognising that some reviewers may need more time. We understand too that it will not always be possible to review a paper. If you have any concerns about a paper you have submitted for consideration in TIBG, if you need additional time to undertake a review, or would like advice around publishing in the journal, please contact us at: journals@rgs.org.

A note from the Editors, in solidarity with our colleagues across the sector.

Newcastle University compulsory job cut fears grow amid £4.2m savings shortfall As industrial action continues, union bosses continue their plea with Newcastle University chiefs to reject any potential compulsory job losses

Seeing yet more stories of unis moving to compulsory redundancy, with Geography colleagues (and of course others) at risk.

Today, it's Newcastle Uni, a department that produces incredible scholarship with a vibrant culture.

Sharing in solidarity x

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Open letter to RGS on Supreme Court and EHRC events April 2025 If you are an academic geographer (broadly conceived) of any career stage, To sign the open letter please fill in this form: https://forms.gle/AmjaJh37xLt4CMwx5. Your signature will be added manually....

We've written an open letter to RGS/IBG re: Supreme Court ruling + EHRC update. If you're an academic geographer (broadly conceived) at any career stage anywhere in the world, please read, consider signing, and share (closes 1700 GMT 30 April) docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Checkpoint 300 Tracing how a notorious checkpoint shapes power, resistance, and lives in Palestine   Checkpoint 300, the highly securitized border facility between occupi...

all of a sudden, after a decade of research, this book is available to pre-order from @uminnpress.bsky.social

www.upress.umn.edu/978151791984...

‘If I die, I want a loud death’: Gaza photojournalist killed by Israeli airstrike Fatima Hassouna, who had been documenting war in Gaza for 18 months and was subject of new documentary, killed along with 10 members of her family

‘If I die, I want a loud death’ -

photojournalist Fatima Hassouna had been documenting the war, airstrikes, displacement and demolition in Gaza when she was murdered in an Israeli airstrike along with ten members of her family.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

This. An emergency recall of parliament on a weekend for British Steel. Nothing at all for UK HE which employs far more people, has already shed 10,000 academic jobs, with several institutions on the brink of collapse.

A reminder: we train all the doctors, teachers, engineers, nurses, lawyers &c &c

Job at KCL geography - join us! - Lecturer in Geopolitics (permanent post) www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/112649-...

Wonderful news! Edinburgh welcomes the Palestine Museum and I can't wait to visit. cc @edinburghminute.bsky.social

Tuesday we’ll be out again. People keep telling us how angry and upset they are, how they don’t understand that there is ZERO movement, and wonder how much management even care. People are done, students are done, management need to stop these damaging cuts NOW.

His name is Hamdan Ballal and this type of violent retaliation is exactly what his Israeli co-director, Yuval Abraham, predicted in their Oscar acceptance speech

www.huffpost.com/entry/ap-ml-...

Israeli Settler Mob Attacks “No Other Land” Co-Director Hamdan Ballal Israeli soldiers blocked the ambulance transporting Ballal after the attack and detained him.

A mob of Israeli settlers has attacked Palestinian filmmaker and activist Hamdan Ballal just three weeks after he won an Oscar. Israeli soldiers then blocked the ambulance transporting Ballal after the attack and detained him. His current condition and location is unknown.

I wrote about #Karachi's flyover geographies — an ethnography of uneven flows, liminal inhabitations in road #interstices, and experiences of #walking bodies. Fully open access as part of a special issue @CogitatioUP here:

www.cogitatiopress.com/urbanplannin...

A one-year lectureship in Political Geography @newcastleuni.bsky.social - check it out 💞
jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...

La jueza desmonta al Gobierno de Mazón: “Correspondía a las autoridades autonómicas alertar a la población” La magistrada recrimina a los responsables del Consell la tardanza en el envío de la alerta, el retraso en la reunión del Cecopi, que recibieron avisos suficientes para conocer el alcance de las riada...

Jo ha sabiem!
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ICE Arrests Pro-Palestinian Activist at Columbia Mahmoud Khalil, who recently completed a graduate program at Columbia, has legal permanent residency, his lawyer said.

The United States government just disappeared a lawful US resident because it didn't like his speech. You should care about this because it shouldn't happen to anyone, but you should also care because it could happen to you. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/n...

UCU Newcastle Teach Out: Art, Education, and Inequality - The NewBridge Project Please join us for this UCU teach-out event hosted by The Newbridge Project. We will be discussing the conditions of working life in art, culture, and education.

Shall be joining some amazing folks for this @newcastleucu.bsky.social ‘teach out’ on Wednesday 12th March at 1pm at the Newbridge Project. Join us!

thenewbridgeproject.com/news/ucu-new...

New zine drop on geoz.one! "People, Ports, and Power, 02" shares people’s experiences & thoughts around inhabiting port territories – considered as critical zones between sea & land, whose destinies are increasingly dependent on transformations in global shipping.

What a loss, trailblazer feminist scholar. 🙏🏼

This is a message from an ex colleague un a hospital I used to work as a nurse: the cutting costs mantra is decimating this country: education, health... a dis investment in people. That's why we're on strike at Newcastle University 💪🏼🙏🏼

NOISE Summer School 2025 NOISE Summer School 2025Sexual Citizenship:Bodies, Technology, and GovernanceNetherlands Research School of Gender Studies25 – 29 August 2025, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.• How is sexual citiz...

Are you a PhD or MA student interested in gender, sexuality, and biopolitics? Join us at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social for this year’s NOISE Summer School, which I’m co-coordinating. graduategenderstudies.nl/education/no...

PALESTINE repeated across six lines as the poster's background graphic. Green on white lettering alternates with white on orange, progressively fading toward the lower margin. Black text reading in capitals: SUPPORT/ Palestinian People/ to Regain/ Their/ National Rights.

I just did a little digging into the V&A poster collection.
Here are some of them that I liked, starting with this important reminder:
Palestine. Poster distributed by the Palestine Liberation Organization in New York City. USA, 1975.
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