Flying back from an #AAG2024 packed with planetary inhabitations and fabulations. Thanks to all our speakers and discussants, Wiktor Hansson Andrew Lapworth Tom Roberts Tara Elisabeth Jeyasingh Michele Lobo Oliver Belcher Arun Saldanha Chris Lawer & Keith Harris American Association of Geographers Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol

Preparing to head home from the #AAG2024 . Really enjoyed the cultural geog sessions on Friday, including sessions on 'Planetary Inhabitations and Connections ', convened by Tara Elisabeth Jeyasingh and Michele Lobo, with joe gerlach and Thomas Jellis as discussants.

Stoked to be presenting new collaboration with Andrew Lapworth and Richard Carter-White today on the imaginative fabulations of AI as part of this exciting day of cultural geography at #AAG2024 !

Cultural geography day in 308B. American Association of Geographers #AAG2024 Tara Elisabeth Jeyasingh Thomas Jellis Michele Lobo Cultural Geography

Planetary thinking American Association of Geographers #AAG2024 Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol Thomas Jellis

Thomas Jellis joe gerlach American Association of Geographers Michele Lobo a big Cultural Geography Friday !!!

Thomas Jellis joe gerlach American Association of Geographers followed by joe gerlach & Thomas Jellis’s 2 sessions on Fabulations (which Michele Lobo and I will be offering discussant pieces for!) #AAG2024 American Association of Geographers

#AAG2024 mine and Michele Lobo’s sessions on Planetary Inhabitations, Connections & Futures are tomorrow morning (7:20-8:40, 9:00-10:20, 10:40-12:00) American Association of Geographers

You travel oceans and continents for #AAG2024 and this shit still turns up in the middle of the Pacific American Association of Geographers

📢New paper published in #TIBG by Derek McCormack (@oxfordgeography) exploring the geographies of exposure in relation to envelopment:

'Insurgent envelopment: The emergency blanket and scenes of exposure at border zones'. #openaccess

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Happy birthday to Félix Guattari, a bona fide philosopher of chaos and veritable magician of the body without organs.

The cover-up/secrecy from Bristol City Council over signing up to this special needs Govt 'Safety Valve' went on for months.
The Schools Forum, where this would've been discussed, is usually open to the public & livestreamed, but from Sept it wasn't because of 'technical difficulties'

'They highlighted an occasion where they tried to contact the department over the phone every hour during the working day, only to finally get through to someone who dealt with Clean Air Zone enquiries.'
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

SEND crisis: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… BBC Bristol Clifton Diocese

Our policy manager Catriona Moore was on BBC Radio Bristol this morning explaining why the Govt's safety valve programme isn't good news for children & young people with SEND. Listen from 9.10am. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/li…

Headteachers facing 'impossible task' question government bailout bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-n…

Looking forward to talking with Joe Sims and Pete Simson about SEND provision in Bristol schools, around 7.35 this morning BBC Bristol

Six books unified by an originality of voice, accessible, insightful, each one a masterpiece. May we present the first ever #WomensPrize for #NonFiction shortlist sponsored by Findmypast.

Huge congratulations to the shortlisted authors and our heartfelt thanks to the judges!

VCs are responsible for what has happened to UK unis. They made the decision to borrow and spend vastly more than sustainable projections would justify, relied on wildly optimistic trends, and ignored the risks of policy change and obvious long term threats.