@whatisrobshaw
Geography Reader @ Newcastle Uni. Researches urban senses & night. Leverhulme Research Project 'Urban Sensory Pollution' at http://bit.ly/4dM8iWH. 2018 book: 'The Nocturnal City'. Posts ≠ employer endorsed. Shaw in professional life, Lawshaw in personal
1. The European Parliament’s attempt to ban plant-based foods from being sold as “sausages”, “burgers” etc is a direct response to livestock industry lobbying. This is a short thread on how utterly bleeding ridiculous it is. 🧵1/6
I really appreciate this TikToker with Tourette syndrome, Shay, for taking the time to educate so many of us (including me) about her disability and coprolalia in light of what happened at the BAFTAs with John Davidson when Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo were on stage.
I learned a lot.
With thanks to the editors and reviewers @proghumgeog.bsky.social, as well as my thesis supervisors @whatisrobshaw.bsky.social, @jonpughislands.bsky.social, and Matt Davies. Once again really pleased my first article is out. It can be found here:
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Precarity is often presented as something that only effects early career researchers or people on fixed term contracts.
Our report found that 45% of geographers on permanent contracts feel precarious.
The implications for the discipline are wide ranging. Read more 👇
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Worth bearing in mind here that we conducted the survey two years ago - much has changed and as the report acknowledges, the figure is now likely much higher.
Read more here: www.rgs.org/research/hig...
Students and staff at our first Student Staff Committee of the new academic year
As a positive start to our feed, here is our brand new student-led Student Staff Committee, working this year to make sure our programmes run smoothly and successfully.
A bumper year for members, across all three years and human & physical, representing our almost 700 undergraduate students.
Green average only fell by 0.6% after YourParty launch (& is now +1.9%), while Lab have lost 2.3% of vote. Suggests some have gone Labour > YourParty > Green? Perhaps Lab loyalists felt 'permission' to break with the party for Corbyn/Sultana & are now more willing to change their vote generally.
The ONS has updated its disposable income data, including a revision to older figures.
It now reveals that living standards fell between Dec 2019 and Jun 2024 - the first time that disposable income has been lower at the end of a parliament than the start
Book cover with open book and quill sculpture on a college campus.
One more month until "All Geographers should be Feminist Geographers!" Published by @ugapress.bsky.social
The Royal Geographical Society @rgsibg.bsky.social is hosting a discussion (in person & online) on the far right and climate policy on Tues 30th Sept. Details here -
www.rgs.org/events/upcom...
Excited to be hosting a knowledge exchange conference 'Good Lighting - from Polution to Solution' with DarkSkyUK at Newcastle Uni this September. Register for free at darksky.uk/conference/. This is all about how academics, professionals & policy makers can share best practice to light *better*
Excited to be hosting a knowledge exchange conference 'Good Lighting - from Polution to Solution' with DarkSkyUK at Newcastle Uni this September. Register for free at darksky.uk/conference/. This is all about how academics, professionals & policy makers can share best practice to light *better*
That moment when I have to download one of my own papers to read, in order to remember what I think about something 😆😆😆
Tweets saying: "Been looking at various geog department websites for work, and am getting increasingly entertained by attempts to illustrate students doing human geography New favourite is @GeographyUOM - where a student is forced to share a quite small desk with an unnecessarily huge globe..(...there's definitely an Area paper in a discourse analysis of all of these)
From Tweet to published paper! This germ of an idea is now published as "What does geography look like?" with @areajournal.bsky.social, hopefully of interest to geographers thinking about the politics of how our discipline is presented to the world #geography #highereducation #visualmethods
A sticker saying "I am reversible"
Hey @teamlabouruk.bsky.social, spotted on a street in Newcastle, Keir Starmer seems to have lost his badge?
The coast at Seaburn on a sunny day
The coast at Seaburn on a sunny day
Beautiful day for fieldwork teaching with @newcastleuni.bsky.social #geography students at Seaburn
You know, just because he's not Trump or Farage doesn't mean we have to start cheerleading for the banker
And in answer to the original question, a lot of Elton John fits into this for me. Don't Let the Sun Go Down On Me, Are You Ready For Love, etc.
I like playing with the intonation of the chorus when I hear it, turning it into an actual conversation.
"I *think* I remember the film? Y...es, I recall we both *kinda* liked it?" Etc...
A movie that takes place where you're from
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This is a very encouraging write up of a project that we should all be looking to follow
UK, Japan and Canada are full democracies are they? So when are they electing their heads of state?
In the UK, hereditary peers and bishops get to vote on our legislation. This is not a full democracy.
Job at KCL geography - join us! - Lecturer in Geopolitics (permanent post) www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/112649-...
Extract from email to members threatening disciplinary action if they mention strikes in future out of office replies.
It gets worse…
Members back at work today after taking lawful strike action are now being threaten with disciplinary procedures if their auto-replies mention the reason for their absence during future strikes.
In what trade union world is this acceptable?
My thruppence on the current crisis across the UK university sector: THREE cheap easy wins that the government could implement to solve the short term issue, thereby helping us discuss the long term ones.
tacity.co.uk/2025/03/26/t...
Don't Mention the Children - a poem by Michael Rosen ('Israel bans radio advert listing names of children killed in Gaza.' Guardian, 24 July 2014) Don't mention the children. Don't name the dead children. The people must not know the names of the dead children. The names of the children must be hidden. The children must be nameless. The children must leave this world having no names. No one must know the names of the dead children. No one must say the names of the dead children. No one must even think that the children have names. People must understand that it would be dangerous to know the names of the children. The people must be protected from knowing the names of the children. The names of the children could spread like wildfire. The people would not be safe if they knew the names of the children. Don't name the dead children. Don't remember the dead children. Don't think of the dead children. Don't say: 'dead children'.
„Don't Mention the Children“ - A poem by Michael Rosen
Don't mention the children.
Don't name the dead children.
The people must not know the names of the dead children.
The names of the children must be hidden.
The children must…
Drawing
Drawing
Ran a taster session for our new MA Global Sustainable Futures (@newcastleuni.bsky.social), and asked students how they imagined their global sustainable future. And their responses were wonderful! Sharing a couple of drawings below - and sincerely hope some of their visions come true 🙏💫
New paper out in cultural geographies. It is an attempt to evaluate how geographers were implicated in their own non-representational theories and serves as a reminder that geographical thought is also a distinctive type of spatial phenomenon.
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Google Scholar's "Time to Update Your Articles" emails are always laughably ambitious
