Clearly no-one from the US Department of War anyway...
12.03.2026 09:39
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Clearly no-one from the US Department of War anyway...
Has anyone checked in on Tim Marshall?
Osulaaaaaaa #nufc
Former academic and unsuccessful candidate for the Gorton and Denton parliamentary by-election, Matt Goodwin.
Job losses at UK research-intensive universities double in two years.
Exclusive: Scale of redundancies branded a โdisasterโ.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
The year is 2090. The Lib Dems are proposing a third Department for Growth in the semi-arid city of Crawley, with a promise to get Britain growing again, and to update the Thameslink trains.
Audible wow at the sight of blue sky this morning ๐
I mean, yeah.
"AI skills" ๐ซฉ
Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Hector Becerril, Ben Anderson & Alejandro de Coss Corzo (2026) entitled: 'The Life of Events: Exception and Everyday Life in Acapulco, Mexico' with a red banner at the top. The paper focuses on the event of โIngrid-and-Manuelโโa Hurricane and Tropical Storm that hit Acapulco, Mexico in 2013. It traces what this event was and how it remains for people in and beyond Acapulco. It does so in the context of a place where the lines between events and everyday life are often blurred, and yet the event was still named and felt as an exception to ordinary life. By focusing on how exceptionality was and is produced, the paper supplements how human geography understands and relates to events, arguing for an approach that focuses on the โlife of eventsโ: following how events begin, happen, change, end and live on. This approach sits between social constructivist and realist approaches to events, orientating inquiry to the ongoing mediation of impactive experience, via Lauren Berlant's work. Through this approach, the paper tracks the affective-material variations through which Ingrid-and-Manuel became and remains an exception: excess, (dis)connection, loss and damage, recovery.
New in TIBG:
'The life of events: Exception and everyday life in Acapulco, Mexico' by Hector Becerril, @benandersongeog.bsky.social & @alejandrodecoss.bsky.social
This paper draws on Berlant to consider how certain events, such as storms, become exceptions to ordinary life.
doi.org/10.1111/tran...
Wait, Iceland!? ๐คฃ
I don't envy news editors trying to figure out what Trump is actually banging on about here!?
"Thank you!"
Maybe the most bizarre 30 mins of a football match I've ever seen #AFCON
#gamesgone
So bold!!!! ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ
Excited to announce @leverhulmecal.bsky.social posts - we are looking for 7 interdisciplinary fellows to join our Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life, closing date 30 January 2026 (1/3) durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
Thanks, Ben ๐! Hope the book launch went well the other day, couldn't escape project wrap-up work to get along to it...
New job! Today is my last day working as a post-doc at KCL on the MH-Prep project. I'll be joining Queen's University Belfast as Lecturer in Human Geography. Excited to get started and to move to Belfast after 7-8 years living in London!
Too few characters available for a King's> Queen's pun!
This emerged from and continues to inform our on-going project on "improving household preparedness in multi-hazard contexts (MH-Prep) - www.lrfoundation.org.uk/news/explori...
Sharing our new preprint: an analysis of the literature on multi-hazards and household preparedness. We find quite limited engagement with compound, cascading and interrelated hazards in the literature on household preparedness planning.
#DRR #geosky
egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...
I'd like to see the response to this if the question added "if that that means universities have less money to spend on UK students".
States of Precarity in UK HE Geography: A new report on the long and short term effects of precarity across career stages, with a series of best practice resources to support more equitable working cultures.
www.rgs.org/research/hig... @rgsibg.bsky.social @antipodeonline.bsky.social
SAVE GEOGRAPHY at Leicester University (UK) - We call on the University of Leicester to urgently reconsider the proposal to dissolve Geography. This is direct attack on the discipline of Geography at Leicester with likely loss of Geography staff. Please sign + share
www.change.org/p/save-geogr...
Trump at Windsor, Farage at 30%
What does the rise of far right politics in Europe + the US means for climate policy?
Upcoming CCRG/ RGS event:
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Great project from my teams World Risk Poll Into Action grants
Disaster Risk Reduction for households when there are multiple hazards
1) multi hazard thinking getting clearer definitions & integration
2) lived experience + data = better & inclusive planning
3) scale needs tools + capacity
First outputs from our current project are starting to emerge. More to come!
#drr #resilience
"Manchester United battered in Grimsby"
It was a pleasure to review Adam Bobbette's book "The Pulse of the Earth: Political Geology in Java" for The Journal of Development Studies. Will be of particular interest to those who work on/think with "the Anthropocene", but certainly not exclusively!
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/QHGPM...
#geosky
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Todayโs the final day to register for the UKADR Annual Conference 2025 at Durham (4โ5 Sept).
๐ durham.ac.uk/UKADR-2025
#UKADR2025 #DisasterResearch
Using AI for your Fantasy Football team is crazy.