The US is no longer a liberal democracy, according to the top global watchdog on freedom and democracy. We're falling fast, and are now classed the same as Guatemala, Colombia, and Peru
www.v-dem.net/documents/75...
It is part-time and online and we are now recruiting for September 20. For more info: www.glos.ac.uk/courses/cour....
Our new @uniofglos.bsky.social Masters in #Sustainable #GlobalFutures which combines teaching by @glosgeog.bsky.social and #sustainability colleagues with @unitar.bsky.social has made the local press: www.soglos.com/news/busines...
1/5 Chagos Options:
Any British government would find it difficult at the moment to maintain its relationship with the USA and respect international law at the same time. This tension is what the Chagos deal is all about,
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Health risks have no borders. The US’s withdrawal from @who.int threatens the country’s national security.
Last week on Wonkhe: Jim Dickinson traces how a student loans system once sold as cost-sharing has become one where graduates fund everything – and where Labour has quietly reversed promises to make things fairer
Newly unsealed evidence makes it even clearer that Rubio and Noem knew they were targeting students based solely on their political speech and that they knew this policy was unconstitutional. They just didn’t care. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...
8 people dressed in colourful academic robes outside a graduation, with a sunny hillside scene behind them.
Here’s to building stronger communities and shaping sustainable futures together in 2026! 💡
#FutureReady #Inspiration
A group of students in yellow hard hats with a sunny mountainous scene behind them.
A group playing a simulated crisis game in a colourful room.
A snowy night-time scene of a traditional college building with a warm glow from the windows and a Christmas tree. Decorations on both the building and the tree, and the caption 'Season's Greetings' above.
From hands-on fieldwork to dynamic classroom discussions, 2025 has been a year of growth, learning, and impact. 🌱
#EndOfYear #Geography #HumanGeography #Fieldwork #AuthenticLearning #CommunityDevelopment
@uniofglos.bsky.social @glosgeog.bsky.social
Some reflections after returning back from a conference at which I and 20,000 colleagues learned that the Trump administration intends to dismantle #NCAR. This outrage should not happen. deepconvection.substack.com/p/save-ncar
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/... BBC, AFP, AP & Reuters launch a short film calling on #Israel to allow independent journalists into #Gaza. It is a reasonable argument that previous conflicts have been reported by independent journalists. This should be no different.
@bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social
I am so pleased I had the opportunity to provide this commentary in @dialogueshg.bsky.social about why I think that #energygeographies are so important to understanding the drivers and dynamics of #energytransitions and #energyjustice
doi.org/10.1177/2043... @aag-energy.bsky.social
Looking forward to this event coming up in Cheltenham in November:
interclimate.org/gloucestersh... #COP30
Share this : I don't know if anyone's aware of this? Wired tracked every visitor to Epstein Island. They uncovered the data from 200 mobile phones. The data is so precise they were able to track within centimeters and their neighborhoods.
youtu.be/PjPHq-Ez0nc?...
Publish it again. Every journalist who has published Epstein stuff before should just publish it again.
He doesn’t remember nominating Jerome Powell.
@geographicalassoc.bsky.social one for your Geographical humour collection.
📱 You can use our QR code feature to embed your Humap project in physical spaces, like gallery labels or plaques
The Islington's Pride project team put plaques up all over Islington linking into a walking trail!
Take a look islingtonspride.com/humap/
#MappyMonday!
This week we're highlighting the iconic Charles Booth map of poverty in Victorian London, preserved and shared online by the London School of Economics @lselibrary.bsky.social
Check out the map, and Booth's notes in stunning IIIF, at booth.lse.ac.uk/
Jan Schakowsky, the incumbent in my race, will reportedly not seek re-election. So it seems like a good time to reintroduce myself —
I’m Kat Abughazaleh and I’m running for Congress.
Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.
💥 BREAKING: Goldman Sachs shareholders voted today to reject two anti-DEI proposals, both by 98-2 percent. GS Board urged shareholders to vote to reject proposals. "We believe that diversity, including diversity of thought, experience and perspectives, is important to our commercial success."
'About 350 staff at the University of Edinburgh have accepted voluntary redundancy as part of a cost-saving effort.
In a letter to staff, principal Sir Peter Mathieson also confirmed academic promotions would be frozen for the 2025-26 period.' 1/3
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#books #authors #booksky #writing #marketing #writingcommunity #bookchallenge #bookreview #bookpodcast #writer #resist #poetrymonth
Obviously things have got dramatically worse in the US recently, and I don't want to diminish that, but I've been at *so many* conferences in the UK on topics like empire, humanitarianism and development where multiple speakers from the Global South have been denied visas or held at the border
The Israeli state’s barbarism against Palestinians has been normalised to such an extent that this atrocity is met with barely a ripple of Western governmental concern.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Ignore the third term talk - it’s meant to distract you, and it’s working.
“No person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.”
Post from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard that reads: Any unauthorized release of classified information is a violation of the law and will be treated as such.
Circling back on this…
