Anna Jackman
@ahjackman.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Human Geography at the University of Reading. Feminist political geographer and drone researcher interested in technological visibilities, volumes, and futures.
‘The current structure…survived the month-long occupation by Russian forces in early 2022. But earlier this year, a drone strike blew a hole in the multi-layered structure…A new report.. states that the structure has lost its “primary safety functions”’
www.popularmechanics.com/science/a696...
www.popularmechanics.com/science/a696...
A Drone Strike Has Broken Chernobyl's Containment Dome
The New Safe Confinement dome protects the surrounding environment from leaking radiation, but a recent drone strike on the structure has impaired that protection.
www.popularmechanics.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:23 AM
‘The current structure…survived the month-long occupation by Russian forces in early 2022. But earlier this year, a drone strike blew a hole in the multi-layered structure…A new report.. states that the structure has lost its “primary safety functions”’
www.popularmechanics.com/science/a696...
www.popularmechanics.com/science/a696...
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Departments can make a difference to experiences of academic #precarity.
Transparency in contract use, clear mentoring structures, workload mapping, and inclusion of FTC staff in decision-making are key first steps.
Download our Action Plans to reduce precarity here:
www.rgs.org/research/hig...
Transparency in contract use, clear mentoring structures, workload mapping, and inclusion of FTC staff in decision-making are key first steps.
Download our Action Plans to reduce precarity here:
www.rgs.org/research/hig...
States of precarity in UK Higher Education geography
Findings from a discipline-focused research project exploring the lived realities of precarious academic work within UK Higher Education geography.
www.rgs.org
December 11, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Departments can make a difference to experiences of academic #precarity.
Transparency in contract use, clear mentoring structures, workload mapping, and inclusion of FTC staff in decision-making are key first steps.
Download our Action Plans to reduce precarity here:
www.rgs.org/research/hig...
Transparency in contract use, clear mentoring structures, workload mapping, and inclusion of FTC staff in decision-making are key first steps.
Download our Action Plans to reduce precarity here:
www.rgs.org/research/hig...
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This is one of the most depressing, but important papers I've read in recent times. It's focus is Awaab Ishak, the 2 year old who died because of squalid housing, but brilliantly links this wider necropolitics enacted by neoliberalism. Please read.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
A Licence to Kill: Necroeconomic Suffocation by Stealth and the Fight for Life
Three decades of austerity in the UK have seen the deterioration of the elemental infrastructures, those that provided a basic level of security for the population. In this article, we analyse the ca...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:04 PM
This is one of the most depressing, but important papers I've read in recent times. It's focus is Awaab Ishak, the 2 year old who died because of squalid housing, but brilliantly links this wider necropolitics enacted by neoliberalism. Please read.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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"GIS, Policing and Us" -- a brilliant resource (partly funded by the Antipode Foundation) for investigating the entanglement of Geographic Information Systems and urban policing in North America gispolicingandus.com
GIS, Policing and Us
gispolicingandus.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:41 PM
"GIS, Policing and Us" -- a brilliant resource (partly funded by the Antipode Foundation) for investigating the entanglement of Geographic Information Systems and urban policing in North America gispolicingandus.com
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We'll be joined by amazing respondents from different career stages who'll be offering critical reflections on the report its findings. Fruther details soon but please do save the date and register if you can.
📣Join the States of Precarity team for the launch of the States of Precarity in UK Higher Education Geography report.
📅 Wednesday 14 January
🎦 Online
👉 Sign up to attend: https://bit.ly/4rvQgP2
Check out the report before the launch: https://bit.ly/44HTUvg
📅 Wednesday 14 January
🎦 Online
👉 Sign up to attend: https://bit.ly/4rvQgP2
Check out the report before the launch: https://bit.ly/44HTUvg
December 11, 2025 at 7:44 AM
We'll be joined by amazing respondents from different career stages who'll be offering critical reflections on the report its findings. Fruther details soon but please do save the date and register if you can.
Thank you for your ongoing support of the @statesofprecarity.bsky.social project, @profgillian.bsky.social.
Project report & action plans: www.rgs.org/research/hig...
Project launch event, online (14 Jan): www.rgs.org/events/upcom...
Project blog post: blog.geographydirections.com/2025/11/21/s...
Project report & action plans: www.rgs.org/research/hig...
Project launch event, online (14 Jan): www.rgs.org/events/upcom...
Project blog post: blog.geographydirections.com/2025/11/21/s...
December 9, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Thank you for your ongoing support of the @statesofprecarity.bsky.social project, @profgillian.bsky.social.
Project report & action plans: www.rgs.org/research/hig...
Project launch event, online (14 Jan): www.rgs.org/events/upcom...
Project blog post: blog.geographydirections.com/2025/11/21/s...
Project report & action plans: www.rgs.org/research/hig...
Project launch event, online (14 Jan): www.rgs.org/events/upcom...
Project blog post: blog.geographydirections.com/2025/11/21/s...
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🎉 Meet the DGRG Committee!
Over the coming days, we’ll be spotlighting the brilliant humans who keep the DGRG running, including a mix of familiar faces and new members.
First up (because someone has to go first)… our Chair, Tess Osborne (she/her/hers)! 👇 @tessosborne.bsky.social
#DGRGCommittee
Over the coming days, we’ll be spotlighting the brilliant humans who keep the DGRG running, including a mix of familiar faces and new members.
First up (because someone has to go first)… our Chair, Tess Osborne (she/her/hers)! 👇 @tessosborne.bsky.social
#DGRGCommittee
December 5, 2025 at 9:35 AM
🎉 Meet the DGRG Committee!
Over the coming days, we’ll be spotlighting the brilliant humans who keep the DGRG running, including a mix of familiar faces and new members.
First up (because someone has to go first)… our Chair, Tess Osborne (she/her/hers)! 👇 @tessosborne.bsky.social
#DGRGCommittee
Over the coming days, we’ll be spotlighting the brilliant humans who keep the DGRG running, including a mix of familiar faces and new members.
First up (because someone has to go first)… our Chair, Tess Osborne (she/her/hers)! 👇 @tessosborne.bsky.social
#DGRGCommittee
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To read more about our vision for the Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life - and to explore & apply for our 7 research fellow positions, see leverhulmecal.webspace.durham.ac.uk/call-for-fel... and get in touch if you have questions #MachineLearning #Algorithms #Interdisciplinary #postdoctoral
Call for fellows - Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life
leverhulmecal.webspace.durham.ac.uk
December 4, 2025 at 2:40 PM
To read more about our vision for the Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life - and to explore & apply for our 7 research fellow positions, see leverhulmecal.webspace.durham.ac.uk/call-for-fel... and get in touch if you have questions #MachineLearning #Algorithms #Interdisciplinary #postdoctoral
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Statement from the Digital Geographies Research Group (RGS-IBG)
The Royal Geographical Society’s (RGS-IBG) Digital Geographies Research Group (DGRG) are deeply concerned about the impacts and implications of ongoing crises facing Geography departments in UK Universities. 1/6
The Royal Geographical Society’s (RGS-IBG) Digital Geographies Research Group (DGRG) are deeply concerned about the impacts and implications of ongoing crises facing Geography departments in UK Universities. 1/6
DGRG
A Research Group of the RGS-IBG
digitalgeographiesrg.org
December 1, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Statement from the Digital Geographies Research Group (RGS-IBG)
The Royal Geographical Society’s (RGS-IBG) Digital Geographies Research Group (DGRG) are deeply concerned about the impacts and implications of ongoing crises facing Geography departments in UK Universities. 1/6
The Royal Geographical Society’s (RGS-IBG) Digital Geographies Research Group (DGRG) are deeply concerned about the impacts and implications of ongoing crises facing Geography departments in UK Universities. 1/6
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If anyone missed the launch event last week for our guidance on more inclusive workplaces for academics with ELC, the recording is now available on our website (along with the guidance) exhaustioneconomy.uk/guidance/ @alisonallam.bsky.social @catherinehale.bsky.social @equihealthfutures.bsky.social
December 1, 2025 at 12:32 PM
If anyone missed the launch event last week for our guidance on more inclusive workplaces for academics with ELC, the recording is now available on our website (along with the guidance) exhaustioneconomy.uk/guidance/ @alisonallam.bsky.social @catherinehale.bsky.social @equihealthfutures.bsky.social
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it was a real pleasure to listen to @ahjackman.bsky.social and @adammpacker.bsky.social discuss their work on #dronegeographies #volumetricair - thanks so much for coming to @oxfordgeography.bsky.social!
Pleasure to speak at @oxfordgeography.bsky.social about 'stories of future flight: urban life and design in the drone age' as part of the tech life seminar series. Thank you to @profgillian.bsky.social for the kind invitation, to @adammpacker.bsky.social as discussant, and to all who came along!
November 28, 2025 at 9:08 AM
it was a real pleasure to listen to @ahjackman.bsky.social and @adammpacker.bsky.social discuss their work on #dronegeographies #volumetricair - thanks so much for coming to @oxfordgeography.bsky.social!
Pleasure to speak at @oxfordgeography.bsky.social about 'stories of future flight: urban life and design in the drone age' as part of the tech life seminar series. Thank you to @profgillian.bsky.social for the kind invitation, to @adammpacker.bsky.social as discussant, and to all who came along!
November 28, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Pleasure to speak at @oxfordgeography.bsky.social about 'stories of future flight: urban life and design in the drone age' as part of the tech life seminar series. Thank you to @profgillian.bsky.social for the kind invitation, to @adammpacker.bsky.social as discussant, and to all who came along!
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When Nottingham's School of Geography is closed as part of managerial restructuring, and we find ourselves in a "School of Earth Sciences" next year, where will that leave cultural, historical, political, social, – etc. – geographers who don't fit the new model, when management ask for redundancies?
Precarity is often presented as something that only effects early career researchers or people on fixed term contracts.
Our report found that 45% of geographers on permanent contracts feel precarious.
The implications for the discipline are wide ranging. Read more 👇
www.rgs.org/research/hig...
Our report found that 45% of geographers on permanent contracts feel precarious.
The implications for the discipline are wide ranging. Read more 👇
www.rgs.org/research/hig...
November 26, 2025 at 9:49 AM
When Nottingham's School of Geography is closed as part of managerial restructuring, and we find ourselves in a "School of Earth Sciences" next year, where will that leave cultural, historical, political, social, – etc. – geographers who don't fit the new model, when management ask for redundancies?
💡 Had fun yesterday evening sharing my research with the Hampshire Skeptics Society - a non-profit organisation promoting critical thinking. Thank you to David and the team for a kind welcome and to the audience for great questions! www.hampshireskeptics.org/26th-nov-202...
November 27, 2025 at 10:21 AM
💡 Had fun yesterday evening sharing my research with the Hampshire Skeptics Society - a non-profit organisation promoting critical thinking. Thank you to David and the team for a kind welcome and to the audience for great questions! www.hampshireskeptics.org/26th-nov-202...
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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👉
This event was really important and informative. If you have not done so, please check out the 'creating more inclusive workplaces for academics with energy limiting conditions' guidance. The webinar was recorded and will be posted on the project website soon
exhaustioneconomy.uk/guidance/
exhaustioneconomy.uk/guidance/
November 24, 2025 at 4:23 PM
This event was really important and informative. If you have not done so, please check out the 'creating more inclusive workplaces for academics with energy limiting conditions' guidance. The webinar was recorded and will be posted on the project website soon
exhaustioneconomy.uk/guidance/
exhaustioneconomy.uk/guidance/
🚨 New @rgsibg.bsky.social report & action plans from the @statesofprecarity.bsky.social team. Shares findings from our research on the long & short term effects of precarity in UK HEI Geography & includes action plans designed to support more equitable working cultures
➡️ www.rgs.org/research/hig...
➡️ www.rgs.org/research/hig...
November 21, 2025 at 8:57 AM
🚨 New @rgsibg.bsky.social report & action plans from the @statesofprecarity.bsky.social team. Shares findings from our research on the long & short term effects of precarity in UK HEI Geography & includes action plans designed to support more equitable working cultures
➡️ www.rgs.org/research/hig...
➡️ www.rgs.org/research/hig...
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Crafting the Ocean: The Geographies of Environmental World-Making - a new paper by Kim Peters and I in @tibg.bsky.social. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Huge thanks to the team at Transactions for such a constructive process.
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library
The paper departs from existing analyses of ‘world making’, bringing cultural and environmental geographies into further conversation through linking theories of crafting and world-making together, t....
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Crafting the Ocean: The Geographies of Environmental World-Making - a new paper by Kim Peters and I in @tibg.bsky.social. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Huge thanks to the team at Transactions for such a constructive process.
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Call for proposals -- Antipode Foundation "Right to the Discipline" grants -- submit your application by 10 April 2026 antipodeonline.org/a-right-to-t...
“Right to the Discipline” grants - Antipode Online
Call for Proposals, November 2025 Last year we received 169 strong applications with a success rate of 5.9%. We anticipate funding a similar number of 10-12 grants in the next application year. Antipo...
antipodeonline.org
November 12, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Call for proposals -- Antipode Foundation "Right to the Discipline" grants -- submit your application by 10 April 2026 antipodeonline.org/a-right-to-t...
Can't wait to get stuck into Sydney Calkin & @cordyf.bsky.social's De Gruyter Handbook of Feminist Political Geography. Thank you for featuring my chapter on Geographies of technology.
➡️Handbook: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
➡️My chapter: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
➡️Handbook: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
➡️My chapter: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
18 Geographies Of Technology
18 Geographies Of Technology was published in De Gruyter Handbook of Feminist Political Geography on page 227.
www.degruyterbrill.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Can't wait to get stuck into Sydney Calkin & @cordyf.bsky.social's De Gruyter Handbook of Feminist Political Geography. Thank you for featuring my chapter on Geographies of technology.
➡️Handbook: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
➡️My chapter: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
➡️Handbook: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
➡️My chapter: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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Reminder: Join me today, 6th of November, to explore the semiotics of drone visuals at a seminar hosted by the Centre for Drones and Culture at the University of Cambridge. Register here: www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...
#drone #visualculture #aesthetics #semiotics
#drone #visualculture #aesthetics #semiotics
November 6, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Reminder: Join me today, 6th of November, to explore the semiotics of drone visuals at a seminar hosted by the Centre for Drones and Culture at the University of Cambridge. Register here: www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...
#drone #visualculture #aesthetics #semiotics
#drone #visualculture #aesthetics #semiotics
Thank you to Daniela Ferreira and Mário Vale for organising the 4th Digital Geographies Conference (lnkd.in/eYeFD6P4) at IGOT-ULisboa. Great to engage with diverse international digital geographies research, and to share my research on 'Feminist digital geographies in flight: Everyday drone stories'
November 5, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Thank you to Daniela Ferreira and Mário Vale for organising the 4th Digital Geographies Conference (lnkd.in/eYeFD6P4) at IGOT-ULisboa. Great to engage with diverse international digital geographies research, and to share my research on 'Feminist digital geographies in flight: Everyday drone stories'
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To mark #BlackHistoryMonth, @yorkstjohn.bsky.social has shared a series of blogs celebrating Black geographers.
The latest piece is by our Geography for All Coordinator, Jasmine Roberts. Read her blog, and the other brilliant contributions the series, here 👇
bit.ly/3WZIHBZ
The latest piece is by our Geography for All Coordinator, Jasmine Roberts. Read her blog, and the other brilliant contributions the series, here 👇
bit.ly/3WZIHBZ
October 30, 2025 at 10:03 AM
To mark #BlackHistoryMonth, @yorkstjohn.bsky.social has shared a series of blogs celebrating Black geographers.
The latest piece is by our Geography for All Coordinator, Jasmine Roberts. Read her blog, and the other brilliant contributions the series, here 👇
bit.ly/3WZIHBZ
The latest piece is by our Geography for All Coordinator, Jasmine Roberts. Read her blog, and the other brilliant contributions the series, here 👇
bit.ly/3WZIHBZ
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New in Area:
'Friendship in academia: A radically ordinary praxis?' by @smhall.bsky.social
This piece is part of an ongoing Special Section: 'Dialogues in Radical Geography'.
doi.org/10.1111/area... #geosky
'Friendship in academia: A radically ordinary praxis?' by @smhall.bsky.social
This piece is part of an ongoing Special Section: 'Dialogues in Radical Geography'.
doi.org/10.1111/area... #geosky
October 15, 2025 at 11:10 AM
New in Area:
'Friendship in academia: A radically ordinary praxis?' by @smhall.bsky.social
This piece is part of an ongoing Special Section: 'Dialogues in Radical Geography'.
doi.org/10.1111/area... #geosky
'Friendship in academia: A radically ordinary praxis?' by @smhall.bsky.social
This piece is part of an ongoing Special Section: 'Dialogues in Radical Geography'.
doi.org/10.1111/area... #geosky
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Join me 6 Nov, 12–1pm for “Reimagining the World from Above: The Semiotics of Drone Visuals”, hosted by the Centre for Drones and Culture,
@Cambridge_Uni
#DroneCulture #VisualCulture #AIandSociety #DigitalMedia #VisualStudies #MachineVision
@Cambridge_Uni
#DroneCulture #VisualCulture #AIandSociety #DigitalMedia #VisualStudies #MachineVision
October 10, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Join me 6 Nov, 12–1pm for “Reimagining the World from Above: The Semiotics of Drone Visuals”, hosted by the Centre for Drones and Culture,
@Cambridge_Uni
#DroneCulture #VisualCulture #AIandSociety #DigitalMedia #VisualStudies #MachineVision
@Cambridge_Uni
#DroneCulture #VisualCulture #AIandSociety #DigitalMedia #VisualStudies #MachineVision