Geographical Research @geogresearch.bsky.social The journal of the Institute of Australian Geographers
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/17455871
Social Movement Studies Journal @socmovstudies.bsky.social Social Movement Studies is the leading international academic journal of social movements. RT ≠ endorsement. We tweet about movements and research on movements.
Follow our publications: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/csms20/current
Rachael Ballard @rachaelballard.bsky.social Editorial Director • Transdisciplinary Social Science books team • Springer Nature • Acquires books in Geography and STS • Trail runner • Slightly cat obsessed • Views my own
LIVINGMAPS @livingmaps.bsky.social Exploring new directions in critical and creative cartography.
We use participatory mapping to help communities drive social change.
Find us at livingmaps.org.uk
Anson Mackay (they/them) @ans.bsky.social non-binary || geographer || ultra runner || managed by @davidadger.bsky.social || cancer blog
https://ansmackay.wixsite.com/uclgeography/blog
Mats Widgren @matswidgren.bsky.social Professor emeritus of Geography, esp. human at Stockholm University. Historical geography. landscape history, recent landscape change. Local to global. Political ecology. Royal Swedish Academy of Letters and Antiquities.
https://www.su.se/profiles/widgren
Dr Helena Hastie @helenahastie.bsky.social Lecturer at the University of Exeter, focusing on renewable energy transitions and electricity access in southern Africa.
Jamie Lorimer @jlorimer.bsky.social Geographer at the University of Oxford. Nature recovery, agriculture, beavers, microbes amongst other interests.
Olivia Mason @oliviamason.bsky.social I'm a geographer researching mobility politics + resource colonialism. PI ESRC NI Grant 'Cultural politics of nature reserves in Jordan'. Views my own. She/Her.
Joni Vainikka @jonivainikka.bsky.social Human geographer at Uni Helsinki working on decarbonisation, climate, time, identities & regions. Ex-president for the Geographical Society of Finland and an Athletics enthusiast (esp. ViipU). 🏡 🇫🇮🇬🇧🇩🇰
Hayden Lorimer @slipshodspeller.bsky.social Geographer. Runner. Sometimes both.
Pip Thornton @pipt.bsky.social Chancellor’s Fellow & BRAID Fellow @EdinburghUni. Critic of Linguistic Capitalism. @Braid_UK 'Writing the Wrongs of AI' (with @edbookfest) http://www.wwai.info #PATM
www.pipthornton.com
Laurie Parsons @laurieparsons.bsky.social Reader @ Royal Holloway Geography
Climate change in a globalised world // Cambodia
Chair, RGS Climate Change Research Group
Editor at Geo
Gail Davies @gailfdavies.bsky.social Prof in Human Geography at University of Exeter researching spaces of science & technology, human & animal health, research involvement & responsibility. Currently works on animal research & its replacements. Unexpected interest in chronic pain & FND.
Dr. Christina E. Hoicka 🌈 @christinahoicka.bsky.social they/she/riot grrrl 🏳️🌈 professor + researcher of energy justice, renewable energy transitions, 🟢 hydrogen, diversifying energy sector workforce, ethics=relationship & reciprocity, views = my own. https://www.socialexergy.com/
Elaine Stratford @elainestratford.bsky.social Person, partner, parent, and pal. Writer, editor, and scholar. Ever curious about what it means to flourish in place and on the move over the life course. Gardener, cook, reader. Into being fit and well. Life’s a gift.
Rachel Colls @rachelcolls.bsky.social Feminist geographer, interested in all things fatness, bodies, and weight discrimination.
Southerner living up North. Mummy to mega humans. Fan of The Cure 🖤 and advocate for crochet and all things wool. 🧶
Ayona Datta @ayonadatta.bsky.social Prof of Human Geography, FAcSS, University College London, UK
PI: ERC Adv Grant https://www.regionalfutures.org
Researching #digitalisation #urbanisation #futures #globalsouth
Editor: urbangeography.bsky.social
Web: https://ayonadatta.com
Tim Schwanen @timschwanen.bsky.social Professor of Transport Geography | Director of @tsuoxford.bsky.social | University of Oxford | Transport, mobilities, cities, climate, inequality | he/him | 333 CO2 ppm
Dr Elisa Perego @elisaperego78.bsky.social #LongCovid | researcher | Covid | infectious disease | health, disability, inequality in present and past | human-environment interactions | big data | medicine history | patient-led research | MA PHD| ≠ MD |- S Sarah Knuth @saraheknuth.bsky.social Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Durham University, UK
Dr Imogen Rattle @imogenrattle.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow in industrial decarbonisation strategy at the Sustainability Research Institute, University of Leeds, UK
Presently based in Birmingham.
Climate. Energy. Policy. Industry. Place.
Views own
Marcus Power @marcusjpower.bsky.social Professor of Human Geography @ Durham University. The geopolitics-development nexus | China-Africa relations | South-South flows | energy & infrastructural geographies
https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/marcus-power/
Juliet J. Fall @julietjfall.bsky.social Prof (she/her) political geography, University of Geneva🇨🇭 Borders/territories/infrastructure/visual methods/comics. Books: "Along the Line: Writing with Comics & Graphic Narrative" 2025, "Bornées: une histoire illustrée de la frontière", MétisPresses 2024
Mike Honey @mikehoney.bsky.social Data Visualisation and Data Integration specialist - Melbourne, Australia
https://linktr.ee/mike_honey_
Support my projects by sponsoring me on Github: https://github.com/sponsors/Mike-Honey
Mark Graham @geoplace.bsky.social Prof at the Oxford Internet Institute
Director of @towardsfairwork.bsky.social
Publications: www.markgraham.space
Studies: Digital Economies, Digital Geographies, Economic Geography, Gig Economy, Data Work, AI Production Networks, Cities
Eat the rich
Kurt Iveson @kurtiveson.bsky.social Sydney-based urban geographer + unionist
Sebastian Koa @sebastiankoa.bsky.social PHDing in Geography at the University of Exeter | Studying nuclear energy and temporalities
Morag Rose @thelrm.bsky.social Walking artist-academic-activist The LRM (Loiterers Resistance Movement). #Psychogeography, Vegan, Crip, #OurIrwell. Maker of Creative Mischief. Lover of public space, sad songs, DIY maps + Doctor Who. She/they The Feminist Art of Walking 20/10/25 (Pluto)
Cecilia Alda Vidal @alda-vidal.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher at IMAGINE Adaptation BC3 - Basque Centre for Climate Change
Urban geographer | Climate adaptation | Everyday practices | Urban infrastructure
Allan Watson @allanwatson1.bsky.social Reader in Economic Geography, Loughborough University. Creative industries, music, tech and platforms. Associate Editor, Geoforum.
Laura Pottinger @laurajpottinger.bsky.social Research Fellow in Geography @ University of Manchester
Currently researching #MakingSlowColour (slowness, activism, growing, crafting, seeds, textiles & creative methods). She/her.
Naama Blatman 🍉 @blatmannaama.bsky.social Scientia fellow #UNSW Sydney. From Israel/Palestine, living on Wangal land. Cities, settler colonialism, prisons.
Editor, EPD: Society and Space
Vanessa Lamb @drvanessalamb.bsky.social Geographer. Associate Professor @ York University, Toronto. previously University of Melbourne. Political Ecology. Rivers, Borders, Sand, Dams, Climate, Justice, Southeast Asia. https://www.yorku.ca/professor/vanessa-lamb/
OpenSpace Research Centre @openspaceou.bsky.social Situated within Geography & Environmental Studies at the Open University, OpenSpace Research Centre is committed to thinking spatially in turbulent times. Posts by @colinlorne.bsky.social
https://www5.open.ac.uk/centres/openspace- S Saska Petrova @saskapetrova.bsky.social Professor of Human Geography at the University of Manchester. PI of #UKRI #ERC Consolidator grant GENERATE. Interested in socio-ecological justice, intersectionality, energy, activism
Rob Bellamy @drrobbellamy.bsky.social Climate change, technology and society. Senior Lecturer in Geography at University of Manchester. Editor-in-Chief @dialoguescc.bsky.social. Associate Fellow at University of Oxford. Co-I CO2RE. Co-I MAR-CO2. Co-I REFLECT. Co-I Co-CREATE
Joe Blakey @joeblakey.bsky.social Lecturer, Geography UoM. Political Geographer interested in environmental knowledge politics, post-foundational political theories and aesthetics. Runner.
Website: https://joeblakey.com
Research: https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/joe.blakey
Peter Newell @peternewell.bsky.social Academic, activist, lover of nature, football, drums & dogs
Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) @rgs.org We are the UK’s learned society and professional body for geography, supporting geography and geographers across the world.
Environment and Planning D: Society & Space @societyandspace.bsky.social We publish articles, essays, interviews, forums, and book reviews that examine social struggles over access to and control of space, place, territory, region, and resources.
https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/EPD/current
Sherilyn MacGregor @sherilynmacgregor.bsky.social Professor of Environmental Politics & Director of the ESRC-funded JUST Centre, University of Manchester. Intersectional justice, just transition, ecofeminism. She/her/immigrant 🇨🇦🇬🇧
Prof Katherine Brickell FBA @kbrickell.bsky.social Prof Urban Studies + Associate Dean (Impact & Innovation) KCL | Author Debt Trap Nation: Family Homelessness in a Failing State (2025) | Housing/Home/Law | UK & Cambodia | Editor TIBG | Views own | https://www.debt-trap-nation.org/book
EPC Politics & Space @politicsandspace.bsky.social Critical, heterodox, interdisciplinary, international. A journal of research on the relations between the political and the spatial.
Dr Poppy Budworth @poppybudworth.bsky.social Social researcher interested in disability, youth, belonging, and everyday life 📖 coffee and cat lover 🐈⬛ all views my own ☕️
Dr Sally Beckenham @sallybeckenham.bsky.social Political geography lecturer at U of York, UK. Environmental justice, indigeneity, development, critical pedagogy. Prolific punner and eater of biscuits. Mostly here for whimsy.
Elizabeth (Libby) Straughan @lstraughan.bsky.social Research Fellow in Human Geography at the University of Melbourne. Cultural geographer interested in the politics and ethics of embodied experience researching geographies of home and work, human-environment relations and mobilities.
Dr Jamie Arathoon @jamiearathoon.bsky.social Lecturer in Geography @ York St John University | human-animal relations | disability and assistance animals | #EMCA | #PetTheftReform | they/them | 🏳️🌈
Adriana Soaita @adrianasoaita.bsky.social Researcher | Author | Writer | Honorary at the University of Glasgow and Bucharest | MSCA fellow | AFFECTIVE-PRS
Joshua Kirshner @joshkirshner.bsky.social Geographer/planner and Co-Director @igdc.bsky.social • energy transitions, urban climate responses, landscape interpretation, extraction frontiers • known to frequent the Uni of York
Sarah M. Hughes @sarahhughes90.bsky.social Political Geographer.
Resistance, Asylum Politics, Creativity. Loves cats 😺
Edited book 'Critical Geographies of Resistance' available from www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/critical-geographies-of-resistance-9781800882874.html
Ruth Machen @ruthmachen.bsky.social Geographer researching environmental knowledge politics, science-policy and theorising values.
Lecturer at Newcastle APL. Learning how to exist in academia with long Covid.
Peter Forman @pjforman.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Human Geography at Northumbria University (UK). Researches energy transitions, security and infrastructural politics. Specialises in natural gas and hydrogen. He/Him
https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/our-staff/f/peter-forman/
Wendy Jepson @wendyjepson.bsky.social Geographer. Wanderer. Water Scholar. AAAS & AAG Fellow. University Professor @TAMU. Director, TAMU Environmental Program. Own Views. Proud Co-Founder of the Water Insecurity Experiences Community of Practice (formerly HWISE-RCN)
Aija Lulle @aijalulle.bsky.social Associate professor, Human geography, University of Eastern Finland
social and cultural geography, gender, diversity, activism, feminisms, health, power of small communities
PI of the RCF project "Menopausing: exploring diversity, awareness and activism"
Julie Cupples @juliecupples79.bsky.social Geography, media and cultural studies, Latin American studies. Co-author of Transmedia Geographies: Decoloniality, Democratization, Cultural Citizenship, and Media Convergence (Rutgers University Press). Witness to the destruction of the UK university 🏳️⚧️
Development Geographies Research Group (RGS-IBG) @devgeogsrg.bsky.social Development Geographies Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG).
https://developmentgeographiesrg.org/
Dr Emily Cooper @criminographer.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at the University of Lancashire. Geographer. Mum of four (two live in my heart). Tweets child loss, SUDC, PPA2 deficiency, sex work, sextortion/FMSE, fraud, policing, VAWG. #WIASN
Mimi Sheller @mimisheller.bsky.social Mobility Justice. Caribbean Studies. Climate Mobilities. Social Theory. Urban Infrastructuring. Mobile Commons. NOAA-CAP Caribbean Climate Adaptation Network https://ccan-upr.org Dean of The Global School @WPI https://www.wpi.edu/people/faculty/Msheller
Harriet Thomson @harrimus.bsky.social Professor of Energy, Sustainability & Inequality at the University of Glasgow, Associate Director of the Glasgow Centre for Sustainable Energy | #EnergyPoverty #NetZero #JustTransitions #ClimateJustice #CommunityEnergy 🚲🏳️🌈🏴🇪🇺
Prof Lucie Middlemiss @luciemidd.bsky.social Environmental social scientist from University of Leeds
sustainable consumption, community, energy poverty, social relations of retrofit, just transitions, inclusion
Professor Carolyn Snell @prof-carolynsnell.bsky.social Professor in Social Policy at the University of York. Net Zero. Climate justice. Fuel poverty. Also cats, dogs and van life.
Helen Kara @drhelenkara.bsky.social Independent researcher, author, teacher, speaker. For hire worldwide. https://linktr.ee/helenkara She/her. 🌈 #ActuallyAutistic
Professor Narelle Lemon @rellypops.bsky.social Researcher, educator, writer + creative #selfcare
Wellbeing Whisperer https://www.exploreandcreateco.com/the-wellbeing-whisperer
Citizen Wellbeing Scientist https://www.citizenwellbeingscientist.com
She SPEAKS Podcast https://www.shespeakswellbeing.com
Pat Thomson @patthomson.bsky.social Academic, educator, silversmith. Researching arts ed, school change, leaders work. Patter academic writing blog - Patthomson.net. Semi-retired. Working part-time @ U Nottingham & U South Australia. #FAcSS
Professor Kieran Fenby-Hulse @kieranfenbyhulse.bsky.social ⚡️Turning imagination into action
✍️ Professor, Writer, and Founder of One Little Spark
🌊 North East Coast
🏳️🌈 Husband & Papa
Tseen Khoo @tseenster.bsky.social Researcher developer at #DeakinRDA | 1/2 of @TheRealRW | Critical university studies, research culture, academic identities | Creator #SadChairsOfAcademia and #TiredBagsOfMelbourne | tseenster.com
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5447-061X
Jo VanEvery @jovanevery.bsky.social I help academics protect time for writing and resist overwork. Meaningfulness matters. You are more than your job. I also make things with textiles, read romances, sing alto in a choir. Subscribe to my newsletter: JoVanEvery.co.uk/newsletter
Thom van Dooren @thomvandooren.bsky.social Field philosopher and writer. Professor of Environmental Humanities at the University of Sydney. Author of "Flight Ways," "The Wake of Crows," and "A World in a Shell."
www.thomvandooren.org
Prof Lizzie Rushton @rushtondr.bsky.social Professor of Education & Head of Education, University of Stirling 🏴|Geography | Education | Curriculum | Environmental & Sustainability Education 🌍| Teacher Education | BERA Blog Editor| Crochet fan 🧶https://www.stir.ac.uk/people/1924129
Nancy Worth @nancyworth.bsky.social Associate Professor, Geography, University of Waterloo
Aaron Padgett @apadgett.bsky.social Lecturer in Sociology and Affiliate Faculty in Appalachian Studies at the University of Kentucky
Geopolitics Journal @geopoliticsjournal.bsky.social An international and interdisciplinary journal on geopolitics
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/fgeo20
Jen Bagelman @bagelwoman.bsky.social Political Geography Prof @NCL_Geography. Passionate about: surf, feminism, anti-colonial environmental migrant justice. Deputy Director @NCLsocsciences
Aurora Fredriksen @aurorafredriksen.bsky.social Human Geography at University of Manchester. More-than-human geographies, animal geographies, crisis, affect, the Anthropocene.
Hester Parr @hesterparr.bsky.social Professor of Human Geography in Scotland.
Research = mental health/missing people/seasonal affective disorder/geohumanities/CC.
Not travelling to USA anytime soon.
Human 🦋
https://www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/livingwithsad/winteringwell/resources/
Helen Holmes @helenholmes.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Sociology/Deputy Director of Sustainable Futures at university of Manchester. Interested in sustainable consumption, diverse economies, waste & disposal.
Alex Hope @drsustainable.bsky.social Associate Pro Vice-Chancellor @northumbriauni.bsky.social. UN PRME Board Member, Co-Chair PRME Climate Change working group. PFHEA. CMBE. Dad, Cyclist, Hippy.
Hélène Blaszkiewicz @hblaszki.bsky.social PhD in geography : logistics, trade, infrastructure and industrialization in African contexts.
Beekeeper
Philip R. Conway @prconway.bsky.social
@Planographer @planographer.bsky.social Director - UWA Public Policy Institute
🌏 #Belfast #London #Perth
🎓 #UrbanPolicy | #Cities | #Suburbanisms | #PeripheralCentralities | #PublicPolicy | #Retail | #SexIndustry | #RocknRoll
Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social Always in the Corner
Jack @jack513.bsky.social Irish City Planner 🏙
BSc Gography & MSc Planning & City Resilience
Climate and natural environment enthusiant!
Dr. Susmita Rishi (Sush) @susmitarishi.bsky.social Lover of Cities | Engaged Critical Urban Scholar | Planner, Urban Designer, Architect | Associate Professor | Focus: Urban global South, Informality, making Home, Urban Design Equity, and Justice
Julian Dobson @juliandobson.bsky.social Place, poetry, a dash of policy. Books on civic universities, urban nature, town centre futures and urban policy. Poems on anything. Imposter geographer. Also at juliandobson.net
Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social Socialist, antifascist, writer in various places, geriatric millennial, GQ's 9th Worst Dressed Man in 2016. He/him. YouTube channel http://bit.ly/33iARb3 🏳️🌈
Jamie Doucette @jamiedoucette.bsky.social Reader in Human Geography @ University of Manchester. Author of The Postdevelopmental State: Dilemmas of Economic Democratization in Contemporary South Korea (Michigan: 2024, OA). Co-Editor: Developmentalist Cities? (Brill/Haymarket 2019). North sea surfer
Kristian Ruming @kristianruming.bsky.social Professor of urban geography & ARC Future Fellow @ Macquarie University
Paul Griffin @paulgriffin1.bsky.social Human Geographer at Northumbria Uni. Research interests include: histories from below, labour, unemployment and credit unions. https://researchportal.northumbria.ac.uk/en/persons/paul-griffin/
Paul Munro @paulmunro.bsky.social Geographer; Political Ecologist; Environmental Historian; Energy Justice Research; Scientia Associate Professor
@UNSW; @sydneyswans Fan
Jean-Paul Addie @jpaddie.bsky.social Associate Prof of Urban Studies @ Georgia State University
| Editor of UAA's 'Rights to the City' book series
Roger Keil @rkeil.bsky.social Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus |
Environmental and Urban Change | York University
Cities | Football | Music
Susan J. Smith @sjs1869.bsky.social President,The British Academy.
Writes about housing and economic inequality.
Life Fellow at Girton College, Emerita Honorary Professor in the Dept of Geography, Cambridge University, UK.
(Views my own).
Sophia Maalsen @sophiamaalsen.bsky.social Urban and digital geographer interested in all things urbanism, digital, gender, housing and ‘smart’.- S Shaun Wilson @shaunwilson.bsky.social Sociology prof, Macquarie University, Sydney.
Planning Theory & Practice @planningtheory.bsky.social The official feed of Planning Theory & Practice, academic journal about urban space and place.
Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org We provide grant funding for innovative research projects that advance the frontiers of urban knowledge. Follow for news & updates. Read more on our website: https://urbanstudiesfoundation.org
Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social Geographer at Simon Fraser University. Policy mobilities; urban politics; harm reduction; social movements. Managing editor, EPC: Politics & Space (journals.sagepub.com/home/epc). Host, 'Minor Revisions' podcast (http://bit.ly/3suN9ur). Views my own.