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Sarah Marie Hall
@smhall.bsky.social
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Professor in Human Geography+UKRI FLF @austerityalters.bsky.social 🍞🌹 Into everyday feminist economic geography, pizza+tap dancing. My views. She/Her
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Gorgeous Galway, we will be back! X
A picture of Galway port, with colourful buildings in the background and Max posing in the foreground. It's a lovely, sunny day.
October 22, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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I bloody love Dublin ☺️❤️
EVERYTHING should come with a handful of crisps 🥔🥔
Me walking with Max towards a water fountain in the park. The photo is taken from behind and I am is looking over my shoulder. A plate from O'Brien's sandwich shop, with a bagel, cup of soup and some crisps.
October 13, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Join us for 'Imagining our Working Lives: A Creative Exploration' 💭🖍🪛🧤🥄🖱

1st Nov, Central Manchester. Part of ESRC Festival of Social Science 2025.

Free to attend, places limited. Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/imagining-...

P.s. There'll be cake!🍰
With @amycbarron.bsky.social + @clarecourtney
Poster for the event: Imagining our working lives: a creative exploration. The poster features a picture of a woman sat at a desk looking at a screen, surrounded by colourful pots and books. The poster contains a qr code to the event (see post)
October 6, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Look at that smile! Look at those bobby dazzlers! Cheer-up guaranteed 😁🦷🐕
A small sandy-coloured terrier facing the camera. He is sat down on a red patterned rug. His ears are back and pulling a big smile that shows his teeth.
August 10, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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Is it just me or is LinkedIn in a bit... gross?? I can't engage with it properly for all the performance. Plus I haven't seen a single dog picture on there for the 3 WHOLE WEEKS since I joined!!!
Academic social media needs light and shades, folks!!
P.s. here's Max looking especially dashing.
A photograph of a sandy coloured terrier facing the camera. His back half is sat in his bed, the front half out, with his front legs poised in a fancy stance. He wears a red collar with bone-shaped tag, a cocked ear and curious hazel eyes.
August 6, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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Huge congratulations to Amy and Joe on this excellent collection on Aesthetics and the City, so carefully edited and thoughtfully crafted.

It's already got rave reviews from Max ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
A photograph of small sandy-coloured terrier dog reading this book. He is enthralled!
July 25, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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Two things that have made me smile this week:
1. Managing to grow aubergines for the first time from seed (and indoors!)
2. Max's new tag, which makes him look even more dashing.

If you thought my content would be academic only, I'm afraid it just isn't my priority 😂
A close up photograph of an aubergine plant withe two aubergines growing. They are very small and cute. A cut-out photo of Max with his new bone-shaped tag on a red collar. He looks adorable.
July 19, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Taste tested by Max!
Photo of a sandy coloured terrier with his right front paw up and both ears pricked, looking excited to receive his giant bean treat
July 2, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Away for <30 hours and returned to find massive beans!!!
A photo of a spoon next to two long green beans. The beans are the same length!
July 2, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Woodland themed No!
Photo of a new saying no reward card, with numbers 1 to 10 and stickers of ladybirds, a woodpecker, toadstool, frog, bees and butterflies.
June 10, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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Been soaking up the amazing talks and ideas shared at the Centre for Culture and Disability Studies 15yr anniversary symposium today 💡
Solidarity with these incredible scholars - save Disability Studies @ Liverpool Hope ✊️
A photograph of a black tote bag with white writing that reads "Knowledge not Needs".
May 30, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Thanks so much again to Miriam Williams for visiting us here in Geography at Manchester this week @cperguom.bsky.social - we were lucky enough to hear a wonderful talk and have a reading group exploring her work on cities and care 🤩
A photograph of a PowerPoint slide entitled Conclusion: Provoking Care-full Cities, with a city scape ad an image.
May 28, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Guilt trips abound this morning! Wish I could explain that I'll be back later on today 😂
Sandy coloured terrier leans up on a grey sofa and has big brown eyes that say "don't leave me!"
May 28, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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SOMEONE 👀 has been chasing pigeons again today...
Photo of a sandy coloured dog laid on a flower-patterned blanket with big eyes. He looks guilty.
May 22, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Had a great few days with @cperguom.bsky.social + just got home to this! Yes, I did share! 🍓🐕🙌
A photograph of a hand holding a strawberry in the foreground, with a small sandy coloured dog in the background - who is looking at the strawberry!
May 21, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Submitted, finally.

Chippy tea to celebrate.

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A photograph of a laptop screen, showing the first page of a document that reads "Lives and Afterlives: Everyday Geographies of Economic Change. By Sarah Marie Hall".
May 16, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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This arrived the other day! Paperback! Available from 20th of this month and much more affordable at £28.99. 30 brilliant chapters on contemporary economic geographies, and all written by female and non-binary authors.
Sarah's hand holding a copy of the co-edited book 'Contemporary Economic Geographies' in paperback. With Jennifer Johns.
May 2, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Missing Ireland a lot, but nice to be back for spring 🌷
A photo of a red plant pot blooming with purple, blue and pink flowers. In the background you can see a lawn with a small dog running across.
April 19, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Thanks to all the lovely Dubliners who made this trip so memorable. We'll be back! X
A photograph of a pier ahead with a double rainbow arched across the skyline.
April 14, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Sláinte!
Hand holding ice cream sundae in a cup, with a spoon and a chocolate flake sticking out. Behind is a view of the sea and clear blue sky and the sun is shining. Bliss!
April 9, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Huge congratulations to Dr Sania Dzalbe at Umeå University who defended her thesis today!! Cheers!
A picture with Sania's thesis nailed to the library wall! Hers is the top one in the middle, and there are 6 others nailed too. Flowers displayed at the viva and afterparty. They are brightly coloured and in a white pot.
April 4, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Great to be at this report launch from CATU on evictions across Ireland. ✊️
Poster showing a snake wrapped around a house with the words "Report Launch" - advertising the CATU anti-evicton report on 29th March at Connolly Books
March 29, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Sabbatical Max does Dublin x
Small sandy coloured terrier dog facing the camera side on, wearing a red coat, with his ear flapping in the wind. He looks very wise.
March 28, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Today's vibe:
A photo of a "saying no reward card". It had a blue background with boxes labelled 1 to 10, and Easter/spring themed stickers (rabbit, chick, egg, flowers and carrots). A sandy coloured dog stretched on his tummy ("supermaning") across the width of a bed
March 24, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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We should be looking to WHY increasing numbers of people are disabled, not scaremongering about overdiagnosis.

Austerity, a global pandemic and the highest rates of inequality in Europe may be a clue...

Another clip from my LBC News interview by the fab @neonuk.bsky.social lot x
March 18, 2025 at 6:55 PM