The dangers of running an LGBTQ+ health clinic in Uganda theguardian.com/global-develop…

🚨Nina Laurie, Jessica Hope & Grace H were awarded Geographical Association 'Leading Geography' #Award for 'Creating stories of #educational #change in & for geography: what can we learn from #Bolivia & #Peru ?' discussing school resources developed from #community expertise
geography.org.uk/get-connected/…

Thandeka Ndlela walks us through Eswatini’s largest nature reserve in a virtual field experience of Malolotja Peatland that teaches us and other citizen scientists sampling techniques to measure greenhouse gas emissions (thanking her mentor Jo Sharp 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈)

🚨Come & work with us!
#Vacancy for #Lecturer w/ expertise in #population , #space / #place , & #inequalities
Enquiries to Nissa Finney ([email protected]), Hill Kulu ([email protected]) & Dan Clayton ([email protected])
vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/58…

💡SGSD were delighted yesterday to support our very own Nissa Finney at her inaugural professorial lecture titled “Race, place & home” w/ the Principal taking the chair alongside Nissa’s family & friends, colleagues & leadership staff at University of St Andrews. Congratulations 🎉

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We've had a busy week at the Fair Maid's House... Hosting our Young Geographers planning their next magazine, an expedition night for students heading to Nepal with World Challenge, students from Kinnoull Primary, staff from Education Scotland, and a brass band!

This is part of what we call reproductive geopolitics… the deliberate letting die of children is denying the future of a population! #CeasefireNOW

I asked public health colleagues about starvation in Gaza. They say there is no precedent for what is happening theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

I don’t want tax cuts. I want the ambulance to arrive. I want good schools, public transport and town centres. I want investment in jobs, education and people. An extra tenner a week is no good to me when society is falling to bits.

More prep for #WhoOwnstheClyde The Empire Cafe podcast with Jude Barber How would it be if Glasgow had a working river again?

If you want a #Geographical #ValentinesDay

How #geographer Jo Sharp 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 met writer Val McDermid

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theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

Now Open!

Celebrate Glasgow Women’s Library’s recent acquisition of Maud Joachim’s hunger strike medal, with a rare opportunity to see two other special medals in this exhibition of militant suffrage memorabilia.

womenslibrary.org.uk/event/we-deser…

'You have a former Prime Minister [Boris Johnson], who was heading up a culture of partying, law breaking, corruption, cronyism, and has not submitted a single WhatsApp with the most ridiculous excuses'

#bbcqt #questiontime

The distaste we feel for these outrageous attacks is because we remember the integrity & compassion she showed on a daily basis while leading us through the dark time of the pandemic. She’s also an outstanding politician with a global reputation in our struggle for independence

Thank God she was in charge.

Think you know Lady Macbeth? Think again.

Coming this May, the brand new novel in our Darkland Tales series of novels retelling Scottish history and legend. Queen Macbeth is a propulsive new novel by Val McDermid, available to pre-order now.
birlinn.co.uk/product/queen-…

🗣️ Geo-Sounds: What are we listening to this week from geography and related disciplines?

Laurie Parsons #UCU RISING (@RHULGeography) discusses rising global emissions and carbon colonialism in recent #BeyondtheMap podcast with Jo Sharp 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈.👇

orlo.uk/H6qZ0

Current NHS starting salaries:

Junior doctor £32.4k
Nurse £28.4k
Paramedic £28.4k
Midwife £28.4k
Radiographer £28.4k
Healthcare assistant £22.8k
Physiotherapist £28.4k
Dietician £28.4k
Occupational therapist £28.4k

Are you actually *trying* to destroy the NHS, James Cleverly🇬🇧?

Actually, I found them clear, calm, honest and delivered with empathy. Quite the contrast from the flailing buffoons of Westminster.