Rob Shaw 🌆

Geography Reader @ Newcastle Uni. Researcher of 'night'.

Account semi-decativated: now at

[RGS-IBG Higher Ed @RGS_IBGhe]

🔊New paper published in Area by Robert Shaw @WhatIsRobShaw (@NCL_Geography) 🔊

'What does geography look like?' #OpenAccess

https://t.co/cykvnnDdVb

[Rob Shaw 🌆 @WhatIsRobShaw]

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

[Progress in Human Geography @ProgHumGeog]

🌍 New paper published in Progress in Human Geography 🌍

'Children’s geographies II: Adults' by Matej Blazek

https://t.co/kqe129e7fb @NCL_Geography

[Rob Shaw 🌆 @WhatIsRobShaw]

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

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

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?
https://t.co/DvpbKpE44J

[Dr Ingrid Agnete Medby @IngridAgnete]

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! https://t.co/PiZgLKUGQ4

[Rob Shaw 🌆 @WhatIsRobShaw]

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.

[Ben Anderson @BenAndersonGeog]

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.

https://t.co/9QKGQdaG3G

[Josimar @JosimarFotball]

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

https://t.co/iY4JJj1iPl

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

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

[The Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone]

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.

[Rob Shaw 🌆 @WhatIsRobShaw]

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.

[Rob Shaw 🌆 @WhatIsRobShaw]

Seemed like an appropriate way to start the day

[Rob Shaw 🌆 @WhatIsRobShaw]

@elonmusk That's a whistle-stop tour! The full chapter is at https://t.co/joMM7ZZfBJ, 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.

[Rob Shaw 🌆 @WhatIsRobShaw]

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 (https://t.co/v8lK9Tr0gS). The chapter was fun to write and I hope to read!

[Rob Shaw 🌆 @WhatIsRobShaw]

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