A man standing up in a crowded room of people sitting. He is dressed in workman's clothes and has his head raised as if speaking up when not necessarily belonging there.
We are a rich enough country to be funding 37% of all basic research proposals, not just considering "the best" 37% and then maybe only funding 12% in the end.
Black text on white background. Screenshot of ARC’s Network Message regarding delays to grant announcements because of new security arrangements.
⁉️The ARC has delayed outcomes of ALL grants 1–4 months & increased scheduled outcome windows from 2 weeks to 3 months!
This reverses 4 years of progress in providing greater certainty & ability to plan for researchers, their families & unis.
Their excuse? Security checks under new ARC legislation👇
A graphic showing the title page of Transactions on a read background with TIBG in large letters on the right hand page. On the left hand page are nine tiles sharing 6 papers in a Themed Intervention and 3 standard articles, with the names of papers in the issue. 1) Worlding geography, area studies and the study of area Han Cheng, Deen Sharp 2) Egypt's geographical tradition: The post-independence moment and shifting regional imaginations Aya Nassar 3) Constructing and contesting meta-geographies in Russian area studies debates Vera Smirnova 4) Geography and area studies as critical bedfellows? The view from Singapore Brenda S. A. Yeoh 5) Global China's spatial ambition and area studies with geography Han Cheng 6) Beyond the Limpopo: Geography and the worlding of South(ern) Africa Maano Ramutsindela 7) Unseasonable seasons: Shifting geographies of weather and migration mobilities Kaya Barry 8) Staged ecologies: Aesthetics, nature and infrastructure in the late-modern metropolis Zuhri James 9) Multispecies slavery–environment nexus in resource extraction and animals' ecological politics: Coercive donkey labour in Indian river sand mining Yamini Narayanan
A graphic showing the title page of Transactions on a read background with TIBG in large letters on the right hand page. On the left hand page are nine tiles with standard articles, with the names of papers in the issue. 1) Before it's too late: The extinction script, multi-species reproductive futurism and Extinction Rebellion Amy Robson 2) Infrastructure as archive: Examining the colonial geographies of rivers Austin Read 3) Infra-culture and infrastructures: Relational placemaking at the coast Julian Clark 4) Hotels, refuge, and the rise of carceral hospitality Jonathan Darling, Andrew Burridge 5) On the natural border: A bio-geo-political reading Matteo Proto, Francesco Buscemi 6) Postimperial melancholia and the English North–South divide: Reading the life stories of Northern women of colour in London Saskia Papadakis 7) Theorising legal gaps geographically: Exploring the transition from asylum seeker to refugee in the UK Sarah M. Hughes 8) On the politics of movement: Borderscapes, choreopolicing and choreopolitics Charlotte Veal 9) High-resolution property: Drone enclosures in digital India Thomas Cowan
A graphic showing the title page of Transactions on a read background with TIBG in large letters on the right hand page. On the left hand page are six tiles with 4 standard articles, 1 commentary, and a Themed Intervention with the names of papers in the issue. 1) Post-pandemic geographies of working from home: More of the same for spatial inequalities? David McCollum 2) The place where we live: Children, families, play, neighbourhoods and spaces of care during and after the pandemic Alison Stenning, Wendy Russell 3) Living a ‘shadow life’: The disorientations of losing orientation and agency while waiting through furlough Victoria J. E. Jones 4) What does it mean to be present at work? Negotiating attention, distraction and presence in working from home David Bissell, Elisabetta Crovara, Andrew Gorman-Murray, Elizabeth Straughan 5) Subtractive, ambient and bifurcated attention at work and when working from home: Towards a geography of workplace attention 6) Crisis of imagination/(re)imaginations for a (climate) crisis Ankit Kumar, Chandni Singh, Lauren Hermanus, Lalitha Kamath, Wangui Kimari, Mark Pelling, Harriet Bulkeley
📢December Issue of TIBG📢
Our latest issue gathers papers around 3 broad themes: the more-than-human, borders, and working from home. It also features the third collection in our 'Geography in the World' series.
23/24 papers are #OpenAccess ⬇️
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14755661...
This is an important report by @kayatbarry.bsky.social & colleagues on just some of the issues faced by workers who come to Australia on the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme. Much room for improvement and government needs to take action.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
New blog post.
This week, @marycolwell1 gave the eulogy to the Slender-billed Curlew at the AEWA meeting of parties in Bonn.
You can now read the eulogy on our new blog post.
www.curlewaction.org/the-bird-wit...
aannddd it is — saw the 1000th bus too!
off to a good start with the rainbow cityglider arriving for the morning commute 🌈🚌
Photos from the amazing "Yield" exhibition at Caboolture Regional Gallery, where a selection of my "Seasonal" photographs are showing. On until March 2026, do check out this amazing exhibition on colonial agricultural legacies!
www.moretonbay.qld.gov.au/Galleries-Mu...
Today's the last day to complete this short survey for the ARC about the use of AI in grant assessment.
Survey link: www.surveymonkey.com/r/X7PY5GL
Here's the link to their "stakeholder survey on the use of AI in grant assessment":
www.surveymonkey.com/r/X7PY5GL
an 8 hour round trip to Gayndah on Monday, to install the next version of the "Seasonal" exhibition. Stay tuned for more photos after the opening this Saturday at 6pm!
hello Newcastle! chasing the tail of this "bomb cyclone", ready for the Institute of australian geographer's conference! ‼️🌀⛈️✈️
next week I'm showing a selection of weather warning diagrams (artworks) at University of Newcastle gallery. Maybe I've jinxed it, looking at the weather forecast... 🫣⛈️🌀
NEW: "Seasonal excess: Moving with place and produce through creative fieldwork" out now, with my amazing collaborators Emily House and Willow Ross
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
brisbane's bus network will be overhauled next week! At major stations, extra staff at the platforms are announcing the changes, with calls like: "LAST CHANCE! to ride the 170, it will cease to exist next week!" 🚍
Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Kaya Barry (2025) entitled 'Unseasonable seasons: Shifting geographies of weather and migration mobilities' with a red banner at the top.
#OpenAccess in Transactions:
'Unseasonable seasons: Shifting geographies of weather and migration mobilities' by @kayatbarry.bsky.social
This paper examines the experiences of seasonal migrants in horticultural communities in Queensland, Australia.
doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky
8pm tomorrow night!! - listen to ABC Radio National Big Ideas for our public panel discussion: "We asked for workers and got people — inside the temporary visa scheme putting food on your plate" with @natashamitchell.bsky.social
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Listen in at 8pm tomorrow night! Our Canberra panel discussion: "We asked for workers and got people—inside the temporary visa scheme putting food on your plate."
Listen to ABC Radio National's Big Ideas with
@natashamitchell.bsky.social
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
More from Livingmaps Review 17!
In Mapworks, Debbie Kent gives focus to the You Are Here maps that populate urban centres. At once, both mundane street furniture and a portal into understanding our location on the earth.
www.livingmaps.org/you-are-here...
Check out this new paper out by @kayatbarry.bsky.social and Rafael Azeredo:
How did we become so reliant on backpackers for farm labour? Rafael Azeredo and I trace the evolution of the Aus Working Holiday Maker visa and the political push to repurpose rural tourism as essential labour. Out now in @tourismgeographies.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Great to see Beryl Pong's article 'Volumetric mediations' is out in Area. It is the first article in an SI on 'Atmospheric Borders' edited by @kayatbarry.bsky.social @umutozguc.bsky.social Andrew Burridge and I @acbsnetwork.bsky.social rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
after three years of tramping around Queensland, having to move office coincides with the end of my fellowship project! Dismantling the postcard collection today... 🚅🍌🍊🍍🫐🐑🧳✈️
As Australian Critical Border Studies Network @acbsnetwork.bsky.social, we are pleased to have Henk van Houtum present his new book Free the Map. Join us on the 16th of April. @henkvanhoutum.bsky.social @arijerrems.bsky.social @kayatbarry.bsky.social events.humanitix.com/free-the-map...
koala encounters! remember to slow down in the wet and during joey season! @griffith.edu.au
NEW: The bohemian imaginary — my brilliant co-conspirator Peter Varley & I dreamt up this paper about how tourism is imagined, practiced, and fetishised in contemporary consumerist culture. #Debord #spectacle #tourism #mobilties #subcultures
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
interested in weather, seasons, or climate mobilities? in this paper I unpack assumptions about Western, colonialist weather ideals that underpin seasonal employment and migration
NEW: "Unseasonable seasons: Shifting geographies of weather and migration mobilities" out now in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Excerpt from the article. Black text on white background with a few links in blue text. Excerpt as follows: “Under the ARC board’s proposals, most stand-alone fellowships would be replaced by “embedded fellowships” funded through other grant schemes and capped at two years. “Traditional four-year fellowships concentrate a significant amount of funds on a small number of individual researchers,” a discussion paper explains. Observers fear this could inadvertently deny many ECRs a toehold in academia because current fellowship schemes such as the Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (Decra) and the mid-career Future Fellowships are available to researchers without positions at universities. This could change under the proposals. The discussion paper implies that recipients of embedded fellowships must already be in “the university workforce” – suggesting that ECRs must obtain employment in the sector before gaining eligibility for ARC grants. That is an “unrealistic” expectation, according to Sharath Sriram, president of Science and Technology Australia. “The assumption is all those who apply are already…in academic roles. That might have been true in the 1990s. It’s not the case anymore. “There’s no stability of employment for people until they are six, seven years out of their PhDs. Universities often use success in grants and fellowships to determine who to employ.” A researcher who monitors grant schemes, using the social media handle “ARC Tracker”, was unconvinced that the proposals would improve opportunities for ECRs. They said changes to fellowship schemes needed to avoid closing “pathways” for young researchers and leaving them “overshadowed by the established group leaders”. ARC Board chair Peter Shergold acknowledged the fellowship changes as one of the “stings in the tail” of his proposals, but said a primary goal of his reforms was “contributing to the development of the next generation of researchers”.
Here’s a report by John Ross in @timeshighered.bsky.social on ARC Board’s proposal to change grant schemes ▶️
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/arc-gra...
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Both @scienceau.bsky.social's & I am worried about opportunities & unintended consequences for early-career researchers👇
