Bethan Hier
@bethanhier.bsky.social
Human geography PhD student at Swansea University, Wales🏴, UK | she/her | cultural, political and health geographies, memory, social and political effects of the Covid-19 pandemic
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Once again, we have put up our banner and updated the number of covid dead. More than a quarter of a million people in the UK have died with covid as a cause of death on their death certificate. A devastating milestone. ❤️
November 21, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Once again, we have put up our banner and updated the number of covid dead. More than a quarter of a million people in the UK have died with covid as a cause of death on their death certificate. A devastating milestone. ❤️
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The volunteers were at Parliament today to hear the government announce that our beautiful memorial is to be made permanent. It was an emotional day, as we have fought so long and hard to ensure that our beloved dead are not forgotten. We are grateful and happy. ❤️
November 13, 2025 at 3:45 PM
The volunteers were at Parliament today to hear the government announce that our beautiful memorial is to be made permanent. It was an emotional day, as we have fought so long and hard to ensure that our beloved dead are not forgotten. We are grateful and happy. ❤️
📣Is there a Covid memorial in your community?📣
I am on the lookout for Covid memorials in #Wales, so let me know if there's one near you - big or small!
This sign is from the Hafod y Bwch Commemorative Woodland near Wrexham🌳
I am on the lookout for Covid memorials in #Wales, so let me know if there's one near you - big or small!
This sign is from the Hafod y Bwch Commemorative Woodland near Wrexham🌳
October 30, 2025 at 12:11 PM
📣Is there a Covid memorial in your community?📣
I am on the lookout for Covid memorials in #Wales, so let me know if there's one near you - big or small!
This sign is from the Hafod y Bwch Commemorative Woodland near Wrexham🌳
I am on the lookout for Covid memorials in #Wales, so let me know if there's one near you - big or small!
This sign is from the Hafod y Bwch Commemorative Woodland near Wrexham🌳
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Caerphilly Senedd By-Election Result:
🌼 PLC: 47.4% (+19.0)
➡️ REF: 36.0% (+34.2)
🌹 LAB: 11.0% (-34.9)
🌳 CON: 2.0% (-15.3)
🌍 GRN: 1.5% (New)
🔶 LDM: 1.5% (-1.2)
🐉 GWL: 0.3% (New)
💷 UKIP: 0.2% (New)
Plaid Cymru GAIN from Labour.
Changes w/ 2021.
🌼 PLC: 47.4% (+19.0)
➡️ REF: 36.0% (+34.2)
🌹 LAB: 11.0% (-34.9)
🌳 CON: 2.0% (-15.3)
🌍 GRN: 1.5% (New)
🔶 LDM: 1.5% (-1.2)
🐉 GWL: 0.3% (New)
💷 UKIP: 0.2% (New)
Plaid Cymru GAIN from Labour.
Changes w/ 2021.
October 24, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Caerphilly Senedd By-Election Result:
🌼 PLC: 47.4% (+19.0)
➡️ REF: 36.0% (+34.2)
🌹 LAB: 11.0% (-34.9)
🌳 CON: 2.0% (-15.3)
🌍 GRN: 1.5% (New)
🔶 LDM: 1.5% (-1.2)
🐉 GWL: 0.3% (New)
💷 UKIP: 0.2% (New)
Plaid Cymru GAIN from Labour.
Changes w/ 2021.
🌼 PLC: 47.4% (+19.0)
➡️ REF: 36.0% (+34.2)
🌹 LAB: 11.0% (-34.9)
🌳 CON: 2.0% (-15.3)
🌍 GRN: 1.5% (New)
🔶 LDM: 1.5% (-1.2)
🐉 GWL: 0.3% (New)
💷 UKIP: 0.2% (New)
Plaid Cymru GAIN from Labour.
Changes w/ 2021.
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The advice is "there is not a reason to mention Covid" because "it makes people think of some of the worst times in our recent history." And I get that it's certainly a potential trigger. But what does it mean if authors are being advised to strip Covid out of our understanding of the world?
October 2, 2025 at 3:57 PM
The advice is "there is not a reason to mention Covid" because "it makes people think of some of the worst times in our recent history." And I get that it's certainly a potential trigger. But what does it mean if authors are being advised to strip Covid out of our understanding of the world?
📣PARTICIPANTS WANTED📣 I'm interviewing people who have been involved in creating Covid memorials in Wales or UK-wide Covid memorials for my PhD. We'll discuss the reasons for making a memorial and narratives of the pandemic. Email or message me for more info!
#phdsky #covidresearch
#phdsky #covidresearch
August 18, 2025 at 1:01 PM
📣PARTICIPANTS WANTED📣 I'm interviewing people who have been involved in creating Covid memorials in Wales or UK-wide Covid memorials for my PhD. We'll discuss the reasons for making a memorial and narratives of the pandemic. Email or message me for more info!
#phdsky #covidresearch
#phdsky #covidresearch
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The story of Welsh Patagonia is not quite the tale of settler and indigenous harmony that has always been told.
After 160 years of Welsh settlement in Patagonia, Indigenous voices are finally being heard
The story of Welsh Patagonia is not quite the tale of settler and indigenous harmony that has always been told.
tcnv.link
July 25, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The story of Welsh Patagonia is not quite the tale of settler and indigenous harmony that has always been told.
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The Inquiry has heard more disturbing evidence about a blanket 'do not resuscitate' policy for anybody over 70 in care homes.
Letters were sent by GPs, "essentially telling people that they will be left to die".
#CovidInquiry
Letters were sent by GPs, "essentially telling people that they will be left to die".
#CovidInquiry
July 3, 2025 at 2:33 PM
The Inquiry has heard more disturbing evidence about a blanket 'do not resuscitate' policy for anybody over 70 in care homes.
Letters were sent by GPs, "essentially telling people that they will be left to die".
#CovidInquiry
Letters were sent by GPs, "essentially telling people that they will be left to die".
#CovidInquiry
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1/2 In @drtedros.who.int WHO's latest media briefing:
"We cannot talk about COVID-19 in the past tense...It continues to evolve, it continues to kill, and millions of people continue to live with post COVID-19 condition, or long-COVID."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbr2...
"We cannot talk about COVID-19 in the past tense...It continues to evolve, it continues to kill, and millions of people continue to live with post COVID-19 condition, or long-COVID."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbr2...
LIVE: Media briefing on global health issues with Dr Tedros
YouTube video by World Health Organization (WHO)
www.youtube.com
June 29, 2025 at 8:12 PM
1/2 In @drtedros.who.int WHO's latest media briefing:
"We cannot talk about COVID-19 in the past tense...It continues to evolve, it continues to kill, and millions of people continue to live with post COVID-19 condition, or long-COVID."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbr2...
"We cannot talk about COVID-19 in the past tense...It continues to evolve, it continues to kill, and millions of people continue to live with post COVID-19 condition, or long-COVID."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbr2...
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The National Covid Memorial Wall is now a registered charity! ❤️🥳
June 21, 2025 at 11:01 AM
The National Covid Memorial Wall is now a registered charity! ❤️🥳
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MASS LOBBY Against Benefit Cuts💥
📅21st May
⏰12-4pm
📍Westminster Lobby, Jubilee Room
Our chance to push MPs to vote against these cuts, to show the strength of support and to take up visible space in Westminster.
Join us! www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/mass-lo...
📅21st May
⏰12-4pm
📍Westminster Lobby, Jubilee Room
Our chance to push MPs to vote against these cuts, to show the strength of support and to take up visible space in Westminster.
Join us! www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/mass-lo...
Mass Lobby Against Benefit Cuts - 21st May, Be There!
www.disabilityrightsuk.org
May 6, 2025 at 11:25 AM
MASS LOBBY Against Benefit Cuts💥
📅21st May
⏰12-4pm
📍Westminster Lobby, Jubilee Room
Our chance to push MPs to vote against these cuts, to show the strength of support and to take up visible space in Westminster.
Join us! www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/mass-lo...
📅21st May
⏰12-4pm
📍Westminster Lobby, Jubilee Room
Our chance to push MPs to vote against these cuts, to show the strength of support and to take up visible space in Westminster.
Join us! www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/mass-lo...
Fab few days at the @rgsibg.bsky.social Postgrad Forum Mid-Term Conference! Great place to present my work and I met some lovely people🌍
#geosky #phdsky
#geosky #phdsky
April 24, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Fab few days at the @rgsibg.bsky.social Postgrad Forum Mid-Term Conference! Great place to present my work and I met some lovely people🌍
#geosky #phdsky
#geosky #phdsky
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🚨DR UK's Statement Opposing the Supreme Court's Ruling on 'Biological Sex'
'We stand in solidarity with the Trans community as they experience an onslaught of rights erosions and attacks on their lives.'
Read our full statement here: www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/disabil...
'We stand in solidarity with the Trans community as they experience an onslaught of rights erosions and attacks on their lives.'
Read our full statement here: www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/disabil...
April 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
🚨DR UK's Statement Opposing the Supreme Court's Ruling on 'Biological Sex'
'We stand in solidarity with the Trans community as they experience an onslaught of rights erosions and attacks on their lives.'
Read our full statement here: www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/disabil...
'We stand in solidarity with the Trans community as they experience an onslaught of rights erosions and attacks on their lives.'
Read our full statement here: www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/disabil...
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UK people, PLEASE add your name to this open letter asking the government not to cut disability payments
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Add your name 📢
Cuts to disability benefits would be catastrophic
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March 20, 2025 at 8:15 AM
UK people, PLEASE add your name to this open letter asking the government not to cut disability payments
action.versusarthritis.org/s/7956436/6b...
action.versusarthritis.org/s/7956436/6b...
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Our lovely #TVCE member @mun-tonsi.net is looking for study participants.
#AcademicSky 🌈🎓
Check it out
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#AcademicSky 🌈🎓
Check it out
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I'm looking to recruit transgender people aged 18+ and living in Wales for my PhD study, we'll chat about your experiences of digital technologies (online or in-person). £20 gift card in return for participation.
Interested? Email me at 2004599@swansea.ac.uk! More information: mun-tonsi.net/phd.
Interested? Email me at 2004599@swansea.ac.uk! More information: mun-tonsi.net/phd.
![Study invitation graphic, there are three segments in vertical order. The first and last are black bars that cover the top and bottom, the middle is a gradient between desaturated trans pink and blue colours. The text reads in order:
Study Participants Wanted!
Transgender People's Experiences of Digital Technology in Wales
I'm looking for transgender adults living in Wales
- Interview session
- 1 hour
- In-person or online
- £20 gift card
[to the right there is a graphic of a laptop with arms, legs, and a smiley face holding a trans flag]
Genevieve Clifford
https://mun-tonsi.net/phd
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March 20, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Our lovely #TVCE member @mun-tonsi.net is looking for study participants.
#AcademicSky 🌈🎓
Check it out
⬇️⬇️
#AcademicSky 🌈🎓
Check it out
⬇️⬇️
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CW
A reminder - this has scared a lot of people. Disabled people, carers, loved ones are suffering and will suffer. Suicide hot-lines are reporting a spike in calls, lots of people are deeply re-traumatised. 💔
This does not need to happen. Austerity is a choice. And an inhumane one at that.
A reminder - this has scared a lot of people. Disabled people, carers, loved ones are suffering and will suffer. Suicide hot-lines are reporting a spike in calls, lots of people are deeply re-traumatised. 💔
This does not need to happen. Austerity is a choice. And an inhumane one at that.
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
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 19, 2025 at 6:07 PM
CW
A reminder - this has scared a lot of people. Disabled people, carers, loved ones are suffering and will suffer. Suicide hot-lines are reporting a spike in calls, lots of people are deeply re-traumatised. 💔
This does not need to happen. Austerity is a choice. And an inhumane one at that.
A reminder - this has scared a lot of people. Disabled people, carers, loved ones are suffering and will suffer. Suicide hot-lines are reporting a spike in calls, lots of people are deeply re-traumatised. 💔
This does not need to happen. Austerity is a choice. And an inhumane one at that.
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Please make it stop!
This is what the redundancy wave in British Higher Education currently looks like on the map:
‘British University Redundancy Map’ maps.app.goo.gl/yUteDm2MCXUi...
‘British University Redundancy Map’ maps.app.goo.gl/yUteDm2MCXUi...
British University Redundancy Map - Google My Maps
Mapping redundancies from 2023
maps.app.goo.gl
March 19, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Please make it stop!
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🚨 Let’s set the record straight.
Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is NOT an out-of-work benefit. It's a vital lifeline designed to support disabled people with the extra costs of disability. 1/
Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is NOT an out-of-work benefit. It's a vital lifeline designed to support disabled people with the extra costs of disability. 1/
March 18, 2025 at 10:31 AM
🚨 Let’s set the record straight.
Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is NOT an out-of-work benefit. It's a vital lifeline designed to support disabled people with the extra costs of disability. 1/
Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is NOT an out-of-work benefit. It's a vital lifeline designed to support disabled people with the extra costs of disability. 1/
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Individual pieces from our #LongCovid Support Banner are shown in a video at our event. The comments online say it all. #LongCovidAwarenessDay
I am crying already
So powerful
We are not alone
Feel seen and validated just watching this! Thank you Long Covid Support!
I am crying already
So powerful
We are not alone
Feel seen and validated just watching this! Thank you Long Covid Support!
March 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Individual pieces from our #LongCovid Support Banner are shown in a video at our event. The comments online say it all. #LongCovidAwarenessDay
I am crying already
So powerful
We are not alone
Feel seen and validated just watching this! Thank you Long Covid Support!
I am crying already
So powerful
We are not alone
Feel seen and validated just watching this! Thank you Long Covid Support!
@longcovidsupport.bsky.social your launch today has been moving to watch and the banner sections are so poignant💚 it is a wonderful archive of people's experiences of Long Covid
#longcovidawareness
#longcovidawareness
March 15, 2025 at 3:16 PM
@longcovidsupport.bsky.social your launch today has been moving to watch and the banner sections are so poignant💚 it is a wonderful archive of people's experiences of Long Covid
#longcovidawareness
#longcovidawareness
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Today, less than 48 hours before our #DayOfReflection obervance at the wall, we had the sad task of updating the number of covid dead. ❤️
March 7, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Today, less than 48 hours before our #DayOfReflection obervance at the wall, we had the sad task of updating the number of covid dead. ❤️
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On Covid-19 #DayofReflection we remember all those we have lost, we think of the millions suffering now with #LongCovid, and we remind the world that Covid Is Not Over.
March 9, 2025 at 9:07 AM
On Covid-19 #DayofReflection we remember all those we have lost, we think of the millions suffering now with #LongCovid, and we remind the world that Covid Is Not Over.
A memorial to commemorate the pandemic has been commissioned in Swansea! It's nice to see a broad remit for this memorial. This is one of the only times I've seen long covid being mentioned in a press release for a Covid memorial @longcovidsupport.bsky.social www.swansea.gov.uk/MemorialArti...
Artists set to commemorate those affected by Covid in Swansea - Swansea
Swansea Council has commissioned two renowned Welsh artists to create a permanent memorial to those affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.
www.swansea.gov.uk
March 8, 2025 at 7:13 PM
A memorial to commemorate the pandemic has been commissioned in Swansea! It's nice to see a broad remit for this memorial. This is one of the only times I've seen long covid being mentioned in a press release for a Covid memorial @longcovidsupport.bsky.social www.swansea.gov.uk/MemorialArti...
Lovely few days at Gregynog PGR Conference and Theory School! Presented my research titled 'Memories of COVID-19: Pandemic Commemoration in Wales
March 7, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Lovely few days at Gregynog PGR Conference and Theory School! Presented my research titled 'Memories of COVID-19: Pandemic Commemoration in Wales
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Call for Papers: Special issue on ‘Geographies of the good: love and hate in a polarized world’. Delighted to announce the call for Issue 3 of Agoriad: A Journal of Spatial Theory. #geosky #academicsky
agoriad.cardiffuniversitypress.org/announcement...
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Announcements | Agoriad: A Journal of Spatial Theory
agoriad.cardiffuniversitypress.org
February 27, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Call for Papers: Special issue on ‘Geographies of the good: love and hate in a polarized world’. Delighted to announce the call for Issue 3 of Agoriad: A Journal of Spatial Theory. #geosky #academicsky
agoriad.cardiffuniversitypress.org/announcement...
agoriad.cardiffuniversitypress.org/announcement...