Rob Shaw 🌆 @WhatIsRobShaw

Geography Reader @ Newcastle Uni. Researcher of 'night'. Account semi-decativated: now at https://t.co/rOf8053a4x Joined October 2008

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RGS-IBG Higher Ed @RGS_IBGhe

2 months ago

🔊New paper published in Area by Robert Shaw @WhatIsRobShaw (@NCL_Geography) 🔊 'What does geography look like?' #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1111/area.7…

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Rob Shaw 🌆 @WhatIsRobShaw

4 months ago

Beautiful day for fieldwork teaching with @UniofNewcastle Geography students at Seaburn

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Progress in Human Geography @ProgHumGeog

10 months ago

🌍 New paper published in Progress in Human Geography 🌍 'Children’s geographies II: Adults' by Matej Blazek journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03… @NCL_Geography

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Rob Shaw 🌆 @WhatIsRobShaw

10 months ago

The BBC's "top story" right now is 'Man likes wife'. This sort of story undermines anybsens of balance on the monarchy, and reveals a lack of editorial independence from the state #AbolishTheMonarchy

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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis

10 months ago

A UN-member intensifies genocide vs a people that a UN agency protects. Then it declares said UN agency 'terrorist' (along with its internal 'liberal' opposition). Can there be a more open&shut case for sanctions/expulsion of said rogue UN member-state? theguardian.com/world/2024/oct…

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Dr Ingrid Agnete Medby @IngridAgnete

11 months ago

After a lot of planning and prep, I'm so happy to see our new MA programme - Global Sustainable Futures - here at @NCL_Geography finally go live online for a 2025-26 start! 🙌 If you or someone you know are interested, do get in touch, happy to chat! ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate/d…

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Rob Shaw 🌆 @WhatIsRobShaw

11 months ago

While Starmer has been what policy wonks call "a twat" in accepting gifts, it's worth remembering that Tory leadership candidate #RobertJenrick gets £2k in expenses a month from the tax payer to rent in his constituency, despite owning properties worth at least £3.6 million.

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Jay Todd @jaytoddgla

12 months ago

Earlier in 2024 I shared my article on young trans people's experiences feeling like 'out-of-place' bodies in the UK - exploring how trans youth become positioned as 'out-of-place' in society, their experiences of misgendering & dysphoria. Resharing today. tinyurl.com/ys9y83t8

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Johnny Marr @Johnny_Marr

12 months ago

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Ben Anderson @BenAndersonGeog

12 months ago

Link for a 3 year postdoctoral research associate position on our Leverhulme Trust ‘Unfeeling climate change’ project - on how disaffected feelings relate to the climate crisis. Please forward/retweet etc. Questions by email, not DM. durham.taleo.net/careersection/…

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Josimar @JosimarFotball

12 months ago

New. Gianni Infantino has flown more than 600,000 kilometres on a private jet owned by Qatar the past three years. He defied the pandemic and principles of good governance to become an elite polluter. By @samindrakunti josimarfootball.com/2024/09/12/fly…

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Channel 4 News @Channel4News

a year ago

The Taliban has banned Afghan women from showing their faces or speaking out loud in public under strict new laws.

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The Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone

a year ago

We now have a universal workaround for LNER fares. For travel London <> all stations Newcastle-Edinburgh inclusive, DO NOT book to/from London: 1. Book to/from Finsbury Park 2. In the search results, click 'Filters' then 'Route options'. Under 'Go via ' enter Kings Cross.

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Rob Shaw 🌆 @WhatIsRobShaw

a year ago

Despite having seen the term in dozens of texts over the years, I still don't really understand what "ethnology" is, and how it differs from any of social-cultural anthropology, cultural studies or cultural geography.