The fourth talk in the Urban Multiplicities Seminar Series will be delivered by @princeguma.bsky.social (@campolis.bsky.social) in collaboration with @infrastructuralgeo.bsky.social
Tuesday 10th March, 16:30–18:00, Small Lecture Theatre. All welcome!
Year 12s at UK state schools: Apply for the FREE @suttontrust.bsky.social UK Summer School at Cambridge!
Experience life at Cambridge & dive into Geography—all for free.
Deadline: 12 Feb (Midday)
Apply: summerschools.suttontrust.com/course/university-of-cambridge/geography-4/
Huge congratulations to all the winners! Especially to our student Chloe King! 🎉
The second talk in the Urban Multiplicities Seminar Series will be delivered by @ayonadatta.bsky.social (@uclgeography.bsky.social)
Tuesday 10th February, 16:30–18:00, Small Lecture Theatre. All welcome!
The joint Early Career Researcher winner for 2025 is Chloe King (Department of Geography, School of Physical Sciences) www.cam.ac.uk/public-engag... via
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Made by MA students @nftsfilmtv.bsky.social, this film features volcanologist Clive Oppenheimer exploring the links between volcanoes and the beginning of life on Earth.
@camunigeography.bsky.social
Very excited to be hosting 6 amazing speakers over the coming year as part of the urban multiplicities seminar series - with funding from the @camunigeography.bsky.social strategic research initiative!
Please do come along if you can! We will also host a workshop in May - further details to come!
Tree rings -> volcanic eruption -> Black Death ☠️
Clues in tree rings have showed researchers that a volcanic eruption, or a several, sparked a sequence of events that led to the Black Death in Europe. Find out how they worked it out: https://bit.ly/3KqSGOg 🧪
#Climate #Skystorians
It was a real pleasure to write a chapter in the Handbook of Labour Geography. The editor, Andy Herod, was a joy to work with and the collection itself looks great.
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@geographicalassoc.bsky.social @rgsibg.bsky.social @rgs-ibghe.bsky.social @camunigeography.bsky.social
We really hope to see this inspiring series aired in the UK very soon!
Read Bhaskar's insights on LinkedIn: tinyurl.com/mh8nhhhu
A special shout-out to #ZeenatAman, #PradipBurman (Mobius Foundation), and award-winning film maker #RobinRoy for this visually stunning work. Watch Trailer here: tinyurl.com/4eu2khcm
Premieres this Sunday, Nov 16th, 7:30 PM (IST) on
the Discovery Channel India and Animal Planet India.
Congratulations to our colleague, PVC Prof Bhaskar Vira, and the production team on the launch of the powerful new documentary, Embers of Hope: The Fight for Our Future! What an incredible achievement exploring India's environmental journey and innovative solutions. www.cam.ac.uk/news/cambrid...
Our Ask the Geographer podcast is running a series on climate change + sustainability, coinciding with #COP30.
We're starting with Prof Mark Maslin, focusing on 21st-century challenges, including climate change, environmental degradation, inequality and global security: https://bit.ly/4p7ZcrF
Cambridge Tephra Lab paper hot off the press: read how (2022-23 masters student) @elowilkinsonrowe.bsky.social used tephra layers in lakes to reconstruct Holocene explosive eruptions from the Main Ethiopian Rift. #tephratastic
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Two people in lab coats in the foreground looking at a microscope screen with an image of a gastropod on it.
Fun finds in our sediment labs today. @camunigeography.bsky.social
Two pairs of hands, palm up, brown with mud. One has a tap measure hanging on their wrist. The ground below is covered in autumn leaf litter and walking boots can be seen.
Signs of a good day in the field with the Quaternary students from
@camunigeography.bsky.social
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A leading voice in political ecology, Prof. Sandbrook focuses on the critical role people play in nature's future, bringing a vital interdisciplinary approach to conservation.
He is also Director of the Cambridge Masters in Conservation Leadership www.postgraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/courses/dire...
Professor Chris Sandbrook photographed in front of a lush backdrop of large, dark green tropical foliage.
Thrilled to announce that our colleague, Professor Chris Sandbrook @csandbrook.bsky.social, is the new Director of the Cambridge Conservation Research Institute (CRI)
@conservation.cam.ac.uk!
Read full story here: www.cam.ac.uk/stories/chan...
The surface of a split sediment core, with a cm scale along each edge. You can see about 8 cm of the core. The surface shows fine mm-scale to cm-scale laminations, which for the most are alternating light-dark couplets. There is a cocktail stick marking a ~1 cm grey layer, which is a volcanic ash deposit.
This week with our 2nd year @camunigeography.bsky.social students we’ve been learning about varve lake sediments and what they’ve revealed about abrupt climate change. It’s been fun! Here is a peek at some diatomaceous varves in the Lake Chala cores from Kenya/Tanzania. Enjoy…
"Friedrich Engels 'took creative liberties' with descriptions of class divides in Manchester": @camunicampop.bsky.social PhD student Emily Chung's work featured in @theguardian.com today
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Public write up of our recent @consletters.bsky.social paper.
"Our results were clear: across both countries, our experts judged that #political will and #law enforcement were by far the most important factors for protecting #forests...
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Excellent collaboration! Thrilled to see the new paper on urban metabolism from colleague @benaplatt.bsky.social and PhD student @zuhrijames.bsky.social now published in
@ijurresearch.bsky.social!
Seminar poster: Beth Greenhough presenting "Visualizing Post-Viral Lives: Body Mapping Women's Lived Experiences of Long COVID." University of Cambridge, Dept of Geography, 29 OCT 2025, 16:00-17:30. Abstract image of a virus particle.
TOMORROW: Next talk in the Infrastructural Geographies Michaelmas Term 2025 Seminar Series will be delivered by Beth Greenhough @oxfordgeography.bsky.social 16:00-17:30 in the Large Lecture Theatre. All welcome!
Thank you @chslane.bsky.social Great start to the term for our first-year Geography students! Hope the data collection went smoothly!
An open lowland heath landscape with clumps of heather growing amongst hummocky grassland. There are a few nearby trees (including some tall Scott’s pines), a swathe of dried bracken, and forests in the distance. Sun has broken through the clouds. A few scattered backpacks can be seen in the foreground.
Thank goodness for the @camunigeography.bsky.social first-year trip to Breckland. The best place to escape my avalanching inbox at this point in the term. Heading back happily tomorrow for round three…
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Wednesday 22nd October, 16:00-17:30 in the Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography. All welcome!
Debt Trap Nation: Family Homelessness in a Failing State: @kbrickell.bsky.social (@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social) & Mel Nowicki (Oxford Brookes University) will be delivering the first talk for the Infrastructural Geographies Michaelmas 2025 Seminar Series.
The second talk will be delivered by Beth Greenhough (@oxfordgeography.bsky.social). The third talk will be delivered by @penelopeanthias.bsky.social (@geogdurham.bsky.social). The final talk will be given by Pratyush Shankar (Navrachana University).
All welcome!
