I am #PhDone after a wonderful viva with LifeGeographies and Emmanouil Tranos (and Dr Patchett on Zoom duty)! Fantastic way to end the year. Major thanks to supervisory trio Dr Fannin, Spatially variable (Prof Rich Harris) 🌍🌎🌏, and ljw. Also to Isabelle and @HNickdorward for supplying the beer!

Remembering Philip Lowe, Relu Director, 29 March 1950 - 17 February 2020. Led our large scale experiment in interdisciplinary working with boundless energy, vision and great intellectual authority. See Economic and Social Research Council Relu evaluation at esrc.ukri.org/files/research… Centre for Rural Economy UK Research and Innovation

Great workshop and facilitating of breakout rooms by Gail Davies , Beth Greenhough (she/her) and Hayley. Feedback from #iatcongress2021 Institute of Animal Technology from those who attended will help further the development of the pilot training resources. Well done! 👏👏👏

Delighted to see this non-profit OA journal launched. Truly cross-disciplinary and international. Submit your articles now!

🐓 NEW BLOG POST 🐓 catherine oliver on "#OurChickenLife: Byproductive labour in the digital flock," which examines Twitch streaming platforms and the affective economies of digital galline ecology, conceptually developing byproductive labour for the digital digicologies.com/2021/05/06/cat…

Important and sensible set of suggestions from Jaideep Gupte if you are engaging with India's current Covid crisis. This is going to be a long haul.

Excited to share our new article in Progress in Human Geography. Prof Katherine Brickell & I approach the drone through the lens of the home, developing the idea of 'everyday droning' as a honing & homing of military tech & drone capitalism. Pleasure working with you Katherine🙂 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Fab new book in the Routledge Human Animal book series routledge.com/Routledge-Huma….

Consultation now open on NEW Geography ⁦QAA⁩ Subject Benchmark Statement. Please do read statement linked below and respond via survey by 9th Dec. New sections on fieldclass teaching + EDI among other important improvements #GeographyHE qaa.ac.uk/quality-code/s…

“Territories which insist on being sung’”. A fabulous and enlightening read.

Success using toilet roll tube handling method to separate this mouse (with the biggest black beady eyes) from the watchful eye of Lizzie cat. They even sniffed noses at one point- normal? Hoping all goes well for it, back outdoors.

Remembering Clive Barnett (1968-2021) - Noel Castree, 2022 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… in #ProgressinHumanGeography

A rare day when 2papers get formal acceptance on the same day. One on masculinities and food protein practices in @QRJCardiff with Paul Hurley and the other on laboratory mice strain mobilities in History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences with @saramiperes. Feel emotional - v different animal geographies.

Our new article is out in ACME Journal, w/ @levanpatter! @levanpatter and I reflect on our use of 'kitchen table reflexivity' to talk through ethical moments we faced during fieldwork involving nonhuman animals. acme-journal.org/index.php/acme…

We’re so excited to share the programme for CREATURELY FEAR: ANIMALITY AND HORROR CINEMA We have a fantastic schedule of talks over the afternoons (BST) of 21-22 July. Registration is free and open to all, and can be found at the eventbrite linked below:

Laboratory animal strain mobilities: handling with care for animal sentience and biosecurity link.springer.com/article/10.100… It is becoming increasingly common for non-sentient – embryos and gametes - to replace live sentient animals when being moved.AnimalResearchNexus #AnimalWelfare #mice

Photo credit Dunia H. Urrego 👌

Buzzing poster session! Thanks to our judges Mark Holmes @NicStoesser Chris Dowson Catrin Moore Matthew Avison Charis and Andy Bailey who have a huge task! Excellent posters from everyone attending 👏👏👏

Thank you Henry, for bring joyful life and academic generosity to everything you did. Our deepest condolences to family, to friends, to colleagues, and to everyone whose lives he touched.