Sign the Petition Stop redundancies at Ulster University

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Iran War Puts Global Energy Markets on the Brink of a Worst-Case Scenario One expert says that the continued closure of the Strait of Hormuz would be not recessionary, but depressionary.

"The CEO of QatarEnergy, the state-owned oil and gas company, told Reuters that strikes had taken out 17 percent [!!!!] of its capacity for the next five years...".

W.
T.
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www.wired.com/story/iran-w...

Afcon 2025: Morocco declared the winners after CAF overturns final defeat to Senegal Morocco declared the winners of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations after the Confederation of African Football overturns the result of their final defeat to Senegal.

There's a lot going on but...
I hate this.
BBC News - Afcon 2025: Morocco declared the winners after CAF overturns final defeat to Senegal - BBC Sport
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

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 research-intensive universities double in two years - Research Professional News Exclusive: Scale of redundancies revealed branded a “disaster” for UK research capacity

Job losses at UK research-intensive universities double in two years.

Exclusive: Scale of redundancies branded a “disaster”.

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 🌄

I mean, yeah.

"AI skills" 🫩

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 ‘Ingrid-and-Manuel’—a 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 ‘life of events’: 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!? 🤣

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!!!! 🤣🤣🤣

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 😊! 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!

Exploring household preparedness in the complex multi-hazard context of Nakuru, Kenya This year, researchers from King’s College London and Cardiff University completed data generation in Nakuru, Kenya, for the Foundation-funded project ‘Improving household preparedness in multi-hazard...

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...

Review article: Multi-Hazards and Household Preparedness Planning: Evidence, Gaps and Opportunities Abstract. This paper presents a systematic analysis of peer-reviewed evidence on household preparedness and multi-hazard interrelationships, identifying what constitutes an effective preparedness plan...

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
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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

Sign the Petition Save Geography at the University of Leicester

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

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Climate change under political extremism As far-right movements rise in Europe and the US, what’s at stake for environmental policy? Experts will discuss sustaining action amid political shifts.

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:

𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐦 September 30th @ 7pm

👇

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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"