@WhatIsRobShaw

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

Joined October 2008
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🔊New paper published in Area by Robert Shaw @WhatIsRobShaw (@NCL_Geography) 🔊 'What does geography look like?' #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1111/area.70025
Title and abstract for 'What does geography look like?' by Robert Shaw in Area.

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Beautiful day for fieldwork teaching with @UniofNewcastle Geography students at Seaburn
The coast at Seaburn on a sunny day

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The coast at Seaburn on a sunny day

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🌍 New paper published in Progress in Human Geography 🌍 'Children’s geographies II: Adults' by Matej Blazek journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.… @NCL_Geography

Children’s geographies II: Adults - Matej Blazek, 2025

In this second report on children’s geographies, I ask what geographical research on children and childhood can tell us about adults and adulthood. Discussing t...

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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
BBC News story with headline: Kate has been amazing, Prince William says

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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/o…

Israeli parliament votes to ban Unrwa from Israel within 90 days

Lawmakers also voted to declare UN relief agency a terror group, banning any direct interaction with Israeli state

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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/degre…

Global Sustainable Futures MA

Join Newcastle University’s Global Sustainable Futures MA and learn how to create place-based solutions for a more sustainable future.

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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.
Text from Wikipedia: Jenrick owns three homes, including two in London, one of which is a £2.5m townhouse less than a mile from the Houses of Parliament. He also owns Eye Manor, a Grade I listed building in Herefordshire which he purchased for £1.1 million in 2009. His constituency of Newark is 150 miles (240 km) from his family home in Herefordshire. He rents a £2,000-per-month property in his Newark constituency, which is paid for by the MPs' second homes allowance.

ALT Text from Wikipedia: Jenrick owns three homes, including two in London, one of which is a £2.5m townhouse less than a mile from the Houses of Parliament. He also owns Eye Manor, a Grade I listed building in Herefordshire which he purchased for £1.1 million in 2009. His constituency of Newark is 150 miles (240 km) from his family home in Herefordshire. He rents a £2,000-per-month property in his Newark constituency, which is paid for by the MPs' second homes allowance.

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Rob Shaw 🌆 retweeted
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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/careersecti…
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Rob Shaw 🌆 retweeted
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@JosimarFotball12 Sep 2024
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/…

Fly another day - josimarfootball.com

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,...

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The Taliban has banned Afghan women from showing their faces or speaking out loud in public under strict new laws.
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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.
The Man in Seat 61@seatsixtyone20 Aug 2024
Unfortunately, for travel from 1 October onwards, LNER are extending their 'fares trial', and discontinuing affordable/flexible/refundable Off-Peak fares on ALL their longer-distance flows.
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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.
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Seemed like an appropriate way to start the day
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Because no-one reads book chapters nowadays, a short thread about my chapter "Time Journeys Through the Night Sky". 👇 It's in Stanley Brunn's Geography of Time, Place, Movements and Networks collection (link.springer.com/book/10.10…). The chapter was fun to write and I hope to read!
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As time journeys through the night sky become ever more threatened from light pollution and low-orbit satellites - hello @elonmusk - responses need to re-create everyday engagements with darkness, rather than relying on spectacular events or sites
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That's a whistle-stop tour! The full chapter is at link.springer.com/chapter/10…, if your institution subscribes to Springer's book chapters then you should be able to access it. Or dm me for a pre-published authors' version.

Time Journeys Through the Night Sky

When looking into the sky at night, we engage in journeys across multiple temporalities. These time journeys can be measured in time varying from millennia to fractions of a second. Humans have long...

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