Dr Jamie Arathoon
@jamiearathoon.bsky.social
Lecturer in Geography @ York St John University | human-animal relations | disability and assistance animals | #EMCA | #PetTheftReform | they/them | 🏳️🌈
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This was a brutal read. An incisive rendering of the life of ECRs and (false) promise of an academic career:
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November 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
This was a brutal read. An incisive rendering of the life of ECRs and (false) promise of an academic career:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
I have designed a 20min questionnaire looking to explore how you all teach animal geographies.
The survey aims to understand your pedagogical practices, course design, and how you translate all that animal geographies research out there to your students.
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The survey aims to understand your pedagogical practices, course design, and how you translate all that animal geographies research out there to your students.
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November 18, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I have designed a 20min questionnaire looking to explore how you all teach animal geographies.
The survey aims to understand your pedagogical practices, course design, and how you translate all that animal geographies research out there to your students.
yorksj.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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The survey aims to understand your pedagogical practices, course design, and how you translate all that animal geographies research out there to your students.
yorksj.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Save Geography at the University of Leicester.
The University of Leicester is proposing to dissolve Geography into a School of Chemical, Earth & Environmental Science. All research-active human geographers are at threat of redundancy. Add your voice to keep #Geography whole!
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The University of Leicester is proposing to dissolve Geography into a School of Chemical, Earth & Environmental Science. All research-active human geographers are at threat of redundancy. Add your voice to keep #Geography whole!
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Sign the Petition
Save Geography at the University of Leicester
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November 7, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Save Geography at the University of Leicester.
The University of Leicester is proposing to dissolve Geography into a School of Chemical, Earth & Environmental Science. All research-active human geographers are at threat of redundancy. Add your voice to keep #Geography whole!
c.org/sbYBqcwrhC
The University of Leicester is proposing to dissolve Geography into a School of Chemical, Earth & Environmental Science. All research-active human geographers are at threat of redundancy. Add your voice to keep #Geography whole!
c.org/sbYBqcwrhC
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AGWG is pleased to offer an annual prize of £100 for the best postgraduate dissertation. In addition, we will announce a Runner-Up prize!
The new deadline for submissions is 30th November 2025.
See more info here: www.rgsanimalgeographies.uk/the-blog/ani...
The new deadline for submissions is 30th November 2025.
See more info here: www.rgsanimalgeographies.uk/the-blog/ani...
Animal Geography Working Group Postgraduate Dissertation Prize — RGS Animal Geographies
The RGS-IBG Animal Geography Working Group (AGWG) is pleased to offer an annual prize of £100 for the best postgraduate dissertation. In addition, we will announce a Runner-Up prize. The new deadlin...
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November 5, 2025 at 11:31 AM
AGWG is pleased to offer an annual prize of £100 for the best postgraduate dissertation. In addition, we will announce a Runner-Up prize!
The new deadline for submissions is 30th November 2025.
See more info here: www.rgsanimalgeographies.uk/the-blog/ani...
The new deadline for submissions is 30th November 2025.
See more info here: www.rgsanimalgeographies.uk/the-blog/ani...
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Interested in learning more about corporate power and industrial chicken production? We have a new blog out from Amby Karamchedu and Ben Coles:
www.rgsanimalgeographies.uk/the-blog/who...
www.rgsanimalgeographies.uk/the-blog/who...
Who Owns Chickens? Corporate Power and Industrial Chicken Production in the Global South — RGS Animal Geographies
Ambarish Karamchedu and Ben Coles Why Chickens? In 2023, 76 billion chickens were slaughtered for meat [i] . This equates to 2,417 birds killed every second (compared to 10 cows and 47 pigs) [ii...
www.rgsanimalgeographies.uk
October 2, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Interested in learning more about corporate power and industrial chicken production? We have a new blog out from Amby Karamchedu and Ben Coles:
www.rgsanimalgeographies.uk/the-blog/who...
www.rgsanimalgeographies.uk/the-blog/who...
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New in The GJ:
'Multispecies home (un)making: Dogs and lifestyle migrants in Lijiang Ancient Town, China' by Duo Yin & Quan Gao
This paper explores how dogs co-construct and contest the making of home alongside lifestyle migrants in China.
doi.org/10.1111/geoj... #geosky
'Multispecies home (un)making: Dogs and lifestyle migrants in Lijiang Ancient Town, China' by Duo Yin & Quan Gao
This paper explores how dogs co-construct and contest the making of home alongside lifestyle migrants in China.
doi.org/10.1111/geoj... #geosky
September 22, 2025 at 9:13 AM
New in The GJ:
'Multispecies home (un)making: Dogs and lifestyle migrants in Lijiang Ancient Town, China' by Duo Yin & Quan Gao
This paper explores how dogs co-construct and contest the making of home alongside lifestyle migrants in China.
doi.org/10.1111/geoj... #geosky
'Multispecies home (un)making: Dogs and lifestyle migrants in Lijiang Ancient Town, China' by Duo Yin & Quan Gao
This paper explores how dogs co-construct and contest the making of home alongside lifestyle migrants in China.
doi.org/10.1111/geoj... #geosky
Happy to see my new article co-authored with Daniel Allen and John Walliss published Open Access in Geography Compass.
◾ The article is titled: An Exploration of Dog‐Related Policy Through a Legal Animal Geographies Lens 🐶
doi.org/10.1111/gec3...
◾ The article is titled: An Exploration of Dog‐Related Policy Through a Legal Animal Geographies Lens 🐶
doi.org/10.1111/gec3...
An Exploration of Dog‐Related Policy Through a Legal Animal Geographies Lens
This article employs a legal animal geographies lens to redefine dogs as more-than-property, focusing on the UK’s legislative shift from the Theft Act 1968 to the Pet Abduction Act 2024, recognising ...
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September 12, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Happy to see my new article co-authored with Daniel Allen and John Walliss published Open Access in Geography Compass.
◾ The article is titled: An Exploration of Dog‐Related Policy Through a Legal Animal Geographies Lens 🐶
doi.org/10.1111/gec3...
◾ The article is titled: An Exploration of Dog‐Related Policy Through a Legal Animal Geographies Lens 🐶
doi.org/10.1111/gec3...
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📣 I'M HIRING! Please spread the word 📣
🔎 Looking for a 1-year postdoctoral research associate to support @sensory-lives-prj.bsky.social & UK-wide tour of a playhouse tent communicating neurodivergent children’s experiences of Temporary Accommodation.
🛜 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOL488/p...
🔎 Looking for a 1-year postdoctoral research associate to support @sensory-lives-prj.bsky.social & UK-wide tour of a playhouse tent communicating neurodivergent children’s experiences of Temporary Accommodation.
🛜 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOL488/p...
September 1, 2025 at 10:55 AM
📣 I'M HIRING! Please spread the word 📣
🔎 Looking for a 1-year postdoctoral research associate to support @sensory-lives-prj.bsky.social & UK-wide tour of a playhouse tent communicating neurodivergent children’s experiences of Temporary Accommodation.
🛜 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOL488/p...
🔎 Looking for a 1-year postdoctoral research associate to support @sensory-lives-prj.bsky.social & UK-wide tour of a playhouse tent communicating neurodivergent children’s experiences of Temporary Accommodation.
🛜 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOL488/p...
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I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/
John Boyne says LGBTQ+ fiction prize backlash brought him ‘close to the edge’
John Boyne says LGBTQ+ fiction prize backlash brought him ‘close to the edge’
Gender critical novelist urges writers to reenter prize they boycotted and may ask judges not to shortlist his novella
The gender critical Irish novelist John Boyne has said he has been brought “very close to the edge” by the backlash to his inclusion on the longlist for a literary prize for LGBTQ+ authors.
Ten authors and two judges withdrew from the Polari prize and more than 800 writers and publishing industry workers signed a petition calling on Polari to remove Boyne’s novella Earth from its longlist. Continue reading...
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August 15, 2025 at 9:58 AM
I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/
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OnlineFirst - "Planting Palestine: Food, environment, and the arts of solidarity" by @hannahkateboast.bsky.social:
@uoe-llc.bsky.social #conservation #ecocinema #environmentalism #foraging #solidarity
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@uoe-llc.bsky.social #conservation #ecocinema #environmentalism #foraging #solidarity
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August 14, 2025 at 7:04 PM
OnlineFirst - "Planting Palestine: Food, environment, and the arts of solidarity" by @hannahkateboast.bsky.social:
@uoe-llc.bsky.social #conservation #ecocinema #environmentalism #foraging #solidarity
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
@uoe-llc.bsky.social #conservation #ecocinema #environmentalism #foraging #solidarity
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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🌍Are you attending the RGS-IBG Annual Conference in Birmingham later this month?🌏
🚌You can request free bus travel around Birmingham during the week of the conference - just complete the form below by Sunday 17th August.
Geographers please share!
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🚌You can request free bus travel around Birmingham during the week of the conference - just complete the form below by Sunday 17th August.
Geographers please share!
forms.office.com/pages/respon...
Microsoft Forms
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August 14, 2025 at 1:48 PM
🌍Are you attending the RGS-IBG Annual Conference in Birmingham later this month?🌏
🚌You can request free bus travel around Birmingham during the week of the conference - just complete the form below by Sunday 17th August.
Geographers please share!
forms.office.com/pages/respon...
🚌You can request free bus travel around Birmingham during the week of the conference - just complete the form below by Sunday 17th August.
Geographers please share!
forms.office.com/pages/respon...
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A summary of some of the headline findings from our article on recent trends in dog theft (see the full article here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...).
Our study of dog thefts during the COVID pandemic has given us insights into preventing dognapping.
Dog thefts: what really happened during the COVID pandemic
Our study of dog thefts during the COVID pandemic has given us insights into preventing dognapping.
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July 24, 2025 at 4:51 PM
A summary of some of the headline findings from our article on recent trends in dog theft (see the full article here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...).
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🚨Job Alert 🚨 🐕🦺 🐄🐎🐦⬛
Do you have project management skills & an interest in human-animal relations? We are recruiting a project manager role (5 years) for our new project (info in the 🧵) @sheffielduni.bsky.social
📆 deadline 30 June www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNO134/p...
Do you have project management skills & an interest in human-animal relations? We are recruiting a project manager role (5 years) for our new project (info in the 🧵) @sheffielduni.bsky.social
📆 deadline 30 June www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNO134/p...
June 20, 2025 at 11:57 AM
🚨Job Alert 🚨 🐕🦺 🐄🐎🐦⬛
Do you have project management skills & an interest in human-animal relations? We are recruiting a project manager role (5 years) for our new project (info in the 🧵) @sheffielduni.bsky.social
📆 deadline 30 June www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNO134/p...
Do you have project management skills & an interest in human-animal relations? We are recruiting a project manager role (5 years) for our new project (info in the 🧵) @sheffielduni.bsky.social
📆 deadline 30 June www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNO134/p...
28 amateur footballers who are transgender can no longer play in women's football as the FA ban starts.
The FA have offered "online talking therapy" & said they could go down a route to be a referee.
It's giving 'how do you feel all though we don't give a fuck and won't do anything about it'.
The FA have offered "online talking therapy" & said they could go down a route to be a referee.
It's giving 'how do you feel all though we don't give a fuck and won't do anything about it'.
June 1, 2025 at 2:59 PM
28 amateur footballers who are transgender can no longer play in women's football as the FA ban starts.
The FA have offered "online talking therapy" & said they could go down a route to be a referee.
It's giving 'how do you feel all though we don't give a fuck and won't do anything about it'.
The FA have offered "online talking therapy" & said they could go down a route to be a referee.
It's giving 'how do you feel all though we don't give a fuck and won't do anything about it'.
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Powerful open letter from Liverpool Hope #DisabilityStudies students/grads in response to proposed redundancy of the ENTIRE DS team: DS "is not just an academic discipline but a lifeline. [Tutors] bring lived expertise, intellectual leadership, and care that cannot be replicated elsewhere"
An Open Letter from Disabled Students Regarding Proposed Redundancies at Liverpool Hope University
An Open Letter from Disabled Students Regarding Proposed Redundancies at Liverpool Hope University To the Leadership of Liverpool Hope University, We are writing to express our disappointment regardi...
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May 30, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Powerful open letter from Liverpool Hope #DisabilityStudies students/grads in response to proposed redundancy of the ENTIRE DS team: DS "is not just an academic discipline but a lifeline. [Tutors] bring lived expertise, intellectual leadership, and care that cannot be replicated elsewhere"
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We have another exciting research seminar coming up – this time with Dr Muhammad Kavesh on ‘Hospitality and Hostility: Arrival and Intrusion of Foreign Pigeons in Pakistan and India’! Please see more info and QR code for registration below:
May 1, 2025 at 1:41 PM
We have another exciting research seminar coming up – this time with Dr Muhammad Kavesh on ‘Hospitality and Hostility: Arrival and Intrusion of Foreign Pigeons in Pakistan and India’! Please see more info and QR code for registration below:
Sometimes I forget other cats have two back legs. Makes her circle mode much smaller!
May 12, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Sometimes I forget other cats have two back legs. Makes her circle mode much smaller!
Whenever I click on the news at the moment there just seems to be constant transphobia and hate. So depressing.
May 10, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Whenever I click on the news at the moment there just seems to be constant transphobia and hate. So depressing.
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And Course Team of the Year 2025 is...Geography!!🎈🎉
All good fun at the YSJ SU Awards last night, with one of the geographers also getting Inspirational Staff Member Award. 👏🏼
All good fun at the YSJ SU Awards last night, with one of the geographers also getting Inspirational Staff Member Award. 👏🏼
May 8, 2025 at 8:39 AM
And Course Team of the Year 2025 is...Geography!!🎈🎉
All good fun at the YSJ SU Awards last night, with one of the geographers also getting Inspirational Staff Member Award. 👏🏼
All good fun at the YSJ SU Awards last night, with one of the geographers also getting Inspirational Staff Member Award. 👏🏼
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Geographers! Please join 300 of us — at every career stage — who are urging the Royal Geographical Society to reaffirm its commitment to trans inclusion in the face of Supreme Court ruling, and to oppose the EHRC’s interim update. Sign by WED 30 April 1700 GMT docs.google.com/document/u/0...
April 29, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Geographers! Please join 300 of us — at every career stage — who are urging the Royal Geographical Society to reaffirm its commitment to trans inclusion in the face of Supreme Court ruling, and to oppose the EHRC’s interim update. Sign by WED 30 April 1700 GMT docs.google.com/document/u/0...
Hi #emca scholars! I'm looking for help with some lit.
I have an example I am writing up where a path is being blocked by workers, a sign, and a bollard, that a wheelchair user is trying to navigate past. On the approach they say to the workers "sorry" rather than "excuse me" to get past.
I have an example I am writing up where a path is being blocked by workers, a sign, and a bollard, that a wheelchair user is trying to navigate past. On the approach they say to the workers "sorry" rather than "excuse me" to get past.
April 15, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Hi #emca scholars! I'm looking for help with some lit.
I have an example I am writing up where a path is being blocked by workers, a sign, and a bollard, that a wheelchair user is trying to navigate past. On the approach they say to the workers "sorry" rather than "excuse me" to get past.
I have an example I am writing up where a path is being blocked by workers, a sign, and a bollard, that a wheelchair user is trying to navigate past. On the approach they say to the workers "sorry" rather than "excuse me" to get past.
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Minority students should not have to spend their time at university being harassed, mocked, shamed, and told that who they are is invalid and unworthy or a fraud
They are there to study and to learn, not to be forced to constantly defend their existence in ways others never need to
They are there to study and to learn, not to be forced to constantly defend their existence in ways others never need to
March 26, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Minority students should not have to spend their time at university being harassed, mocked, shamed, and told that who they are is invalid and unworthy or a fraud
They are there to study and to learn, not to be forced to constantly defend their existence in ways others never need to
They are there to study and to learn, not to be forced to constantly defend their existence in ways others never need to
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Funded PhD Scholarship opportunity! Come work with me and Claire Haggett in partnership with @living-rent.bsky.social on a project looking at retrofitting, housing, and tenure in Edinburgh. Please share with anyone you think might be interested, and get in touch with us if you have any questions.
March 19, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Funded PhD Scholarship opportunity! Come work with me and Claire Haggett in partnership with @living-rent.bsky.social on a project looking at retrofitting, housing, and tenure in Edinburgh. Please share with anyone you think might be interested, and get in touch with us if you have any questions.
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Hope for endangered penguins as no-fishing zones agreed off South Africa
Hope for endangered penguins as no-fishing zones agreed off South Africa
Deal will restrict fishing near colonies on Robben Island and Bird Island for 10 years, after long debate between industry and conservationists
Efforts to stop the critically endangered African penguin from going extinct took a step forward on Tuesday,…
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March 18, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Hope for endangered penguins as no-fishing zones agreed off South Africa