John Clayton
@jsclayton.bsky.social
Human (geographer) at Northumbria University, dad, hatter.
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Today, we’re starting a countdown to the launch event for our States of Precarity in UK HE Geography report. Based on 364 responses from across the discipline, it maps how precarity is shaping academic lives. #StatesofPrecarity
Follow along as we share the findings week by week.
Register below👉
Follow along as we share the findings week by week.
Register below👉
States of precarity in UK geography report launch
We're invitomh all geographers to the launch of the States of Precarity in UK Higher Education Geography report.
www.rgs.org
November 24, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Today, we’re starting a countdown to the launch event for our States of Precarity in UK HE Geography report. Based on 364 responses from across the discipline, it maps how precarity is shaping academic lives. #StatesofPrecarity
Follow along as we share the findings week by week.
Register below👉
Follow along as we share the findings week by week.
Register below👉
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Please sign and share: www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...
November 24, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Please sign and share: www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...
Please sign and share - this is where my geography journey started. It would be a tragedy for all concerned.
SAVE GEOGRAPHY at Leicester University (UK) - We call on the University of Leicester to urgently reconsider the proposal to dissolve Geography. This is direct attack on the discipline of Geography at Leicester with likely loss of Geography staff. Please sign + share
www.change.org/p/save-geogr...
www.change.org/p/save-geogr...
November 8, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Please sign and share - this is where my geography journey started. It would be a tragedy for all concerned.
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“The researchers aim to show that the ‘inevitability’ of AI is just a marketing frame perpetrated by the industry and that pushback is a lot more possible than we often see.” Yes!
‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University
Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...
www.ru.nl
November 2, 2025 at 8:07 AM
“The researchers aim to show that the ‘inevitability’ of AI is just a marketing frame perpetrated by the industry and that pushback is a lot more possible than we often see.” Yes!
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Belgian AI scientists are advocating *against* the use of AI in academia. “If independent thinking is no longer encouraged at university, where would it?” apache.be/2025/10/24/b...
Belgian AI scientists resist the use of AI in academia
Several AI scientists have published an open letter calling for a ban on AI use by students.
apache.be
October 24, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Belgian AI scientists are advocating *against* the use of AI in academia. “If independent thinking is no longer encouraged at university, where would it?” apache.be/2025/10/24/b...
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I am honoured to be a finalist in the DCAD (Durham Centre for Academic Development) 2025 poster competition!
My entry outlines the aims and intentions for my PhD research, grounding the importance of research surrounding queer experiences of prison spaces.
My entry outlines the aims and intentions for my PhD research, grounding the importance of research surrounding queer experiences of prison spaces.
June 20, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I am honoured to be a finalist in the DCAD (Durham Centre for Academic Development) 2025 poster competition!
My entry outlines the aims and intentions for my PhD research, grounding the importance of research surrounding queer experiences of prison spaces.
My entry outlines the aims and intentions for my PhD research, grounding the importance of research surrounding queer experiences of prison spaces.
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✊🥂Huge congratulations to the whole @newcastleucu.bsky.social membership and team. Compulsory redundancies withdrawn. Sends a message to university management everywhere. Just shows what you can do with organisation, solidarity, and right on your side.
June 20, 2025 at 3:24 PM
✊🥂Huge congratulations to the whole @newcastleucu.bsky.social membership and team. Compulsory redundancies withdrawn. Sends a message to university management everywhere. Just shows what you can do with organisation, solidarity, and right on your side.
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#OpenAccess in The GJ:
'Constructing citizenship & indigeneity in Jordan: The politics of Bedouin rights & identities in cultural heritage sites' by Taraf Abu Hamdan & @oliviamason.bsky.social
This piece is part of a Special Section entitled 'Glimpses beyond citizenship'.
doi.org/10.1111/geoj...
'Constructing citizenship & indigeneity in Jordan: The politics of Bedouin rights & identities in cultural heritage sites' by Taraf Abu Hamdan & @oliviamason.bsky.social
This piece is part of a Special Section entitled 'Glimpses beyond citizenship'.
doi.org/10.1111/geoj...
June 16, 2025 at 9:00 AM
#OpenAccess in The GJ:
'Constructing citizenship & indigeneity in Jordan: The politics of Bedouin rights & identities in cultural heritage sites' by Taraf Abu Hamdan & @oliviamason.bsky.social
This piece is part of a Special Section entitled 'Glimpses beyond citizenship'.
doi.org/10.1111/geoj...
'Constructing citizenship & indigeneity in Jordan: The politics of Bedouin rights & identities in cultural heritage sites' by Taraf Abu Hamdan & @oliviamason.bsky.social
This piece is part of a Special Section entitled 'Glimpses beyond citizenship'.
doi.org/10.1111/geoj...
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Excited to read Kahina Meziant's new paper, 'Glitches, geopoetics, and the matter of migration: Regrounding beyond citizenship' at @thegj.bsky.social: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The Geographical Journal | RGS Research Journal | Wiley Online Library
This paper introduces regrounding as a form of poetic justice that challenges national citizenship by centring material and affective practices—like sharing tea, tending soil, and planting seeds—as m...
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
June 4, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Excited to read Kahina Meziant's new paper, 'Glitches, geopoetics, and the matter of migration: Regrounding beyond citizenship' at @thegj.bsky.social: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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SHANDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!!
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April 26, 2025 at 1:25 PM
SHANDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!!
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Very short visit to Manchester this week for the #britsoc25 conference sharing our decade long work on ‘hate relationships’. Some great questions and discussion!
April 25, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Very short visit to Manchester this week for the #britsoc25 conference sharing our decade long work on ‘hate relationships’. Some great questions and discussion!
Happy to share our latest article on our ‘hate relationships’ research. This one uses geotrauma and haunting as lenses to make sense of the absences and presences involved in hate relationships.
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April 8, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Happy to share our latest article on our ‘hate relationships’ research. This one uses geotrauma and haunting as lenses to make sense of the absences and presences involved in hate relationships.
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A new paper by my wonderful colleague Joanna Allan and her co-author Moiti Mohamed Azrouk, "Poetry, citizenship and diplomacy: The case of Western Sahara," looks fascinating!
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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The Geographical Journal | RGS Research Journal | Wiley Online Library
This article argues for greater consideration of the role of poetry and poets in diplomacy and as a medium for the recognition of contested citizenships. We take Western Sahara, the site of an ongoin....
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 3, 2025 at 2:29 PM
A new paper by my wonderful colleague Joanna Allan and her co-author Moiti Mohamed Azrouk, "Poetry, citizenship and diplomacy: The case of Western Sahara," looks fascinating!
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Three sessions on "The Critical Urban Lives of Ruins" here at the #AAG tomorrow (Wed) and Thursday am. What work do ruins do? And what might they reveal that's new?
March 25, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Three sessions on "The Critical Urban Lives of Ruins" here at the #AAG tomorrow (Wed) and Thursday am. What work do ruins do? And what might they reveal that's new?
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This is very good and if you work in a UK university you should read it.
The latest from our Joint Unions Finance Working Group looks at the 'logic' behind the huge cuts being proposed at the University of Edinburgh
www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/tlwewp3...
www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/tlwewp3...
Reckless downsizing: the “logics” of management’s cuts — UCU Edinburgh
Unpacking the “business model” behind the UoE cuts
www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk
March 22, 2025 at 7:49 AM
This is very good and if you work in a UK university you should read it.
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This is what the redundancy wave in British Higher Education currently looks like on the map:
‘British University Redundancy Map’ maps.app.goo.gl/yUteDm2MCXUi...
‘British University Redundancy Map’ maps.app.goo.gl/yUteDm2MCXUi...
British University Redundancy Map - Google My Maps
Mapping redundancies from 2023
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March 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
This is what the redundancy wave in British Higher Education currently looks like on the map:
‘British University Redundancy Map’ maps.app.goo.gl/yUteDm2MCXUi...
‘British University Redundancy Map’ maps.app.goo.gl/yUteDm2MCXUi...
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6 months on from the worst instance of racist riots in living memory, I visited Middlesbrough to speak to Muslims about their experiences. It's clear that the atmosphere of hate that fuelled the violence is far from over.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/...
Fears, anguish and frustration in a northern UK town hit by racist riots
Middlesbrough, which has witnessed several episodes of discriminatory violence, is far from healed, say residents.
www.aljazeera.com
February 5, 2025 at 6:35 PM
6 months on from the worst instance of racist riots in living memory, I visited Middlesbrough to speak to Muslims about their experiences. It's clear that the atmosphere of hate that fuelled the violence is far from over.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/...
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📢 Call for abstracts!
'Creating Carceral Atmospheres: Affect, Embodiment and Enclosure' at the RGS-IBG AC2025.
Please get in touch with any abstracts or questions! 😄
@rgsibg.bsky.social
'Creating Carceral Atmospheres: Affect, Embodiment and Enclosure' at the RGS-IBG AC2025.
Please get in touch with any abstracts or questions! 😄
@rgsibg.bsky.social
February 5, 2025 at 1:51 PM
📢 Call for abstracts!
'Creating Carceral Atmospheres: Affect, Embodiment and Enclosure' at the RGS-IBG AC2025.
Please get in touch with any abstracts or questions! 😄
@rgsibg.bsky.social
'Creating Carceral Atmospheres: Affect, Embodiment and Enclosure' at the RGS-IBG AC2025.
Please get in touch with any abstracts or questions! 😄
@rgsibg.bsky.social
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Jacob Miller and I wrote a short thing on the violent ruination of Trump's America. @gregseigworth.bsky.social was gracious enough to include it along with many other short pieces in this 'Capacities to: Affect up Against Fascism' collection, which is open access: imbricate.press/book/capacit...
Capacities To: Affect Up Against Fascism
<p>Capacities To: Affect Up Against Fascism is a collection of more than forty essays, poems, and visual works that convey myriad approaches for understanding, surviving, and creating counter-movement...
imbricate.press
January 20, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Jacob Miller and I wrote a short thing on the violent ruination of Trump's America. @gregseigworth.bsky.social was gracious enough to include it along with many other short pieces in this 'Capacities to: Affect up Against Fascism' collection, which is open access: imbricate.press/book/capacit...
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Wrote this in another place on 6 November and thought it worth sharing here today. Just a note to remember that fascists are scared of you.
January 20, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Wrote this in another place on 6 November and thought it worth sharing here today. Just a note to remember that fascists are scared of you.
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Vauxhall workers will hold a two-day protest and a rally over the company’s plans to shut its profitable electric van factory.
🗓Tuesday 17 Dec & Wednesday 18 Dec
⏰️ 8am to 4pm
📣 Rally 12 noon on Tue 17 Dec
📍 Gate 1, Vauxhall (IBC Luton), Kimpton Road, Luton, LU2 0JX
🗓Tuesday 17 Dec & Wednesday 18 Dec
⏰️ 8am to 4pm
📣 Rally 12 noon on Tue 17 Dec
📍 Gate 1, Vauxhall (IBC Luton), Kimpton Road, Luton, LU2 0JX
December 16, 2024 at 7:42 PM
Vauxhall workers will hold a two-day protest and a rally over the company’s plans to shut its profitable electric van factory.
🗓Tuesday 17 Dec & Wednesday 18 Dec
⏰️ 8am to 4pm
📣 Rally 12 noon on Tue 17 Dec
📍 Gate 1, Vauxhall (IBC Luton), Kimpton Road, Luton, LU2 0JX
🗓Tuesday 17 Dec & Wednesday 18 Dec
⏰️ 8am to 4pm
📣 Rally 12 noon on Tue 17 Dec
📍 Gate 1, Vauxhall (IBC Luton), Kimpton Road, Luton, LU2 0JX
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We have two NBC PhD studentships advertised for 2025 starts! Projects around working class identity/Sunderland and gender just transitions/food supply chains. Opportunities to work with @jsclayton.bsky.social and @katyjenkins.bsky.social. More info: northernbridge.ac.uk/applyforastu...
Collaborative Doctoral Awards (Staff-led) | Northern Bridge Consortium | Newcastle University
northernbridge.ac.uk
December 11, 2024 at 1:52 PM
We have two NBC PhD studentships advertised for 2025 starts! Projects around working class identity/Sunderland and gender just transitions/food supply chains. Opportunities to work with @jsclayton.bsky.social and @katyjenkins.bsky.social. More info: northernbridge.ac.uk/applyforastu...
Street art? Graffiti?
Northumbria BA Geography student getting involved in Amsterdam
Northumbria BA Geography student getting involved in Amsterdam
November 27, 2024 at 4:52 PM
Street art? Graffiti?
Northumbria BA Geography student getting involved in Amsterdam
Northumbria BA Geography student getting involved in Amsterdam
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That’s not good news for Luton.
Thoughts with all those affected.
Thoughts with all those affected.
November 26, 2024 at 4:10 PM
That’s not good news for Luton.
Thoughts with all those affected.
Thoughts with all those affected.