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Laura Pottinger
@laurajpottinger.bsky.social
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Research Fellow in Geography @ University of Manchester
Currently researching #MakingSlowColour (slowness, activism, growing, crafting, seeds, textiles & creative methods). She/her.
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Beautiful square for #StitchAssemblyRGS25 featuring detail of key moments across the #RGS-IBG conference.

'The back with dangling “spiralling” threads signifies the invisible interconnections and on-going (future) weaving of seen and unseen'.

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@alisonjeffers.bsky.social
Embroidery on a deep orange square of cotton fabric. In the centre, a circle of pattered yellow and white fabric; from top left clockwise there are embroidered stitched in the shape of a bird, a blue feathery plant, a curling wave, a broken leaf, a white flower and a star A deep orange coloured square of cotton fabric showing the back of embroidered stitches and long tails of cotton threads arranged in a spiralling formation around the square.
September 12, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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A massive, dangerous and disgusting scandal, of which far too few people are yet aware. At @fightingdirty.bsky.social we'll keep pushing to stop it. Congrats to @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social for continuing to shine the light:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Thousands of tonnes of toxic landfill liquid added to sewage and spread on English farms
Exclusive: Leachate is tankered to treatment works where it mixes with sewage and industrial effluent
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September 12, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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How might stitching help us get to know mosses on more intimate terms?

New coauthored paper from the MossWorlds project on stitching sphagnum moss and doing creative, interdisciplinary work in geography labs: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Embroidered moss made from a selection of textural green fabrics attached to plain cotton fabric stretched across an embroidery hoop. A brown label with the handwritten words 'laboratory incident' is attached to the fabric.
September 11, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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More stitched squares shared by remote participants in our #StitchAssemblyRGS25 session at #RGS-IBG conference last month. Big thank you to all who took part & shared their reflections!
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Two overlapping stitched squares. The bottom has dark grey and yellow small shapes stitched onto a salmon pink background, and the top features an embroidered raised fist with the text AC2025 RGS Black Teacher. A small yellow flower sits alongside the stitched piece.
September 8, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Excited to see our new M4C paper out in a brand new journal #JCRM

'Creative reflections on research practice: insights from the Methods Zoo'

Exploring methods-as-animals with @amycbarron.bsky.social @msrodekirchen.bsky.social @drallyb.bsky.social @smhall.bsky.social @profalibrowne.bsky.social
September 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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"The destruction of Palestine’s seed banks reveals ecocide as a weapon of temporal control — a strategy for extending genocide beyond the present moment into an undeterminable future."
truthout.org Truthout @truthout.org · Sep 3
This summer, Israeli bulldozers rolled through the West Bank city of Hebron with ruthless efficiency, targeting Palestine’s only surviving national seed bank. What happened in Hebron fits the legal definition of ecocide — the deliberate destruction of ecosystems to undermine human survival.
Israel’s Attacks on Seed Banks Destroy Millenia of Palestinian Cultural Heritage
When Israel targets Palestinian seed banks, it’s not just destroying buildings. It’s attacking the future itself.
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September 3, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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My RGS highlight was the Stich Assembly workshop. This was my attempt to kick off the Watershed Moments project with @riverdonproject.bsky.social. Can you tell what it is?
#StitchAssemblyRGS25
September 1, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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mobileworlds.bsky.social
Huge thanks to the #StitchAssemblyRGS25, this was so inspiring! Some short keywords this piece embodies:
#unfinished
#together
#outofthebox
#(un)directionality
#heartening
#multiplepaths

I look forward to seeing the joined quilt!❤️Hoping to reflect a bit of this spirit in the MobileWorlds Festival
August 29, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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This was so much fun! Making was a creative act of selfcare today and here is my square/map. Thank you Laura and co.
August 28, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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My output inspired by what I believe the vision & values of my work in creating a #GoodFoodNation to 'build a long table not a higher wall'

A table with people connecting and eating around it together. A space of equity.
August 28, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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@rgsibg.bsky.social #RGSStitchAssembly

Loving the creativity theme of this years conference.

Encouraging us all to pause, reflect & challenge ourselves.
August 28, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Not a natural stitcher but loved participating in #StitchAssemblyRGS25 this morning!
August 28, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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✨ The Stitch Assembly is live at #RGSIBG2025 in Birmingham!

Whether you’re here in person or joining from afar, we want you to feel part of our creative community.

Find your moment to stitch & share! #StitchAssemblyRGS25 💫

🧵 A few snapshots so far 👇
Birmingham campus tower in the sun. No people are around and the green trees and plants look peaceful. Hands reaching for differently dyed and shaped material which are scattered across a white table, holding scissors. Hands holding differently dyed and shaped material which are scattered across a white table. There is also some thread and a needle on the table, and a small pair of scissors.
August 28, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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Just getting started on my stitched contribution to RGS 2025. Is this another way of connecting #arts and #research, #PhysicalMobility and #DigitalMibility? Thank you for this beautiful initiative! #RGSIBG2025 #StitchAssemblyRGS25 🧵🪡

#mobileworlds #thirdcultures
August 28, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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#StitchAssemblyRGS25 ❤️
August 28, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Creative stitching workshop at the RGS. Geography meets craft in a fabulous moment of sharing time & space. #StitchAssemblyRGS25
What our table produced in an hour: five little stitched squares Little map-style stitched square
August 28, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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✨ Looking forward to the #RGSIBG2025!

Join us for the Stitch Assembly 🧵
⏰ Thursday, 11:10 - 12:50 (BST)
📍 Muirhead Building, Room 109

A creative space to stitch, reflect & connect - in Birmingham and beyond! 💫 #Creativity #StitchAssemblyRGS25
August 27, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Prepping materials 🧵🏵️🧶for Stitch Assembly at #RGS-IBG

Follow #StitchAssemblyRGS25 for updates, reflections & stitched quilt squares from remote participants & our in-person session.

If you’re in Birmingham we’d love to see you there!
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scraps of fabric and threads in a variety of colours
August 21, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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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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August 14, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Israel destroyed a Palestinian seed bank today. This is such a specific kind of evil, targeting literal hope for the future. Attempting to further alienate Palestinians from their home and land. So much destroyed just for the sake of destroying. It's awful.
agrowingculture 3 hours ago 2/5 This morning, Israeli forces raided and demolished the Seed Multiplication Unit of the Union of Agricultural Work Committees' (UAWC) national seed bank in Hebron. Using bulldozers and heavy machinery, the Israeli army destroyed the storage warehouses and infrastructure where essential equipment, seed materials, and tools for indigenous seed reproduction were kept. This is not just an attack on a building-its an attack on Palestinian food sovereignty, biodiversity and cultural memory.
August 1, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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amzomac.bsky.social
More. Of. This.

Solidarity with Greek dock workers.

This is EXACTLY what we need more of.

It's us, the working class of the world, that will stop this genocide. No one else.

Keep going! ✊🏽🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

#FreePalestine🇵🇸
July 18, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Are you heading to #RGS-IBG AC2025 as an online-only delegate? We’re organising a hands-on creative workshop for you! Sign up to Stitch Assembly & we’ll post you a pack 👇😊🧵
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A selection of plant-dyed fabrics squares and scraps in different colours, and threads wound onto cardboard thread winders, arranged in a grid formation
July 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM