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Kaya Tatjana Barry
@kayatbarry.bsky.social
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Interested in mobilities – geography – art – migration – tourism – air travel – birds – weather // DECRA Research Fellow, Griffith Uni, AU. she/her
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curlewaction.bsky.social
New blog post.

This week, @marycolwell1 gave the eulogy to the Slender-billed Curlew at the AEWA meeting of parties in Bonn.

You can now read the eulogy on our new blog post.

www.curlewaction.org/the-bird-wit...
November 13, 2025 at 7:00 AM
kayatbarry.bsky.social
aannddd it is — saw the 1000th bus too!
October 14, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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off to a good start with the rainbow cityglider arriving for the morning commute 🌈🚌
October 14, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Photos from the amazing "Yield" exhibition at Caboolture Regional Gallery, where a selection of my "Seasonal" photographs are showing. On until March 2026, do check out this amazing exhibition on colonial agricultural legacies!
www.moretonbay.qld.gov.au/Galleries-Mu...
October 14, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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arc-tracker.bsky.social
Today's the last day to complete this short survey for the ARC about the use of AI in grant assessment.

Survey link: www.surveymonkey.com/r/X7PY5GL
arc-tracker.bsky.social ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · Sep 8
Once again, ARC hits the 🎯 with their comms strategy:

8pm on Sunday night. When the eyeballs of researchers are glued to … twitter?

They've not posted this anywhere else. I can't think of a better way to _not_ "engage stakeholders". Almost uncanny.
Screenshot of tweet from the ARC about a survey they want "stakeholders" to complete. Black text on white background above a rather outsized picture of dark blue smudges on a light-blue background. One smudge says "Survey" … you know, to catch your eye?
October 9, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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arc-tracker.bsky.social
Here's the link to their "stakeholder survey on the use of AI in grant assessment":

www.surveymonkey.com/r/X7PY5GL
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/X7PY5GL
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September 8, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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an 8 hour round trip to Gayndah on Monday, to install the next version of the "Seasonal" exhibition. Stay tuned for more photos after the opening this Saturday at 6pm!
July 9, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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hello Newcastle! chasing the tail of this "bomb cyclone", ready for the Institute of australian geographer's conference! ‼️🌀⛈️✈️
July 2, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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next week I'm showing a selection of weather warning diagrams (artworks) at University of Newcastle gallery. Maybe I've jinxed it, looking at the weather forecast... 🫣⛈️🌀
June 28, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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NEW: "Seasonal excess: Moving with place and produce through creative fieldwork" out now, with my amazing collaborators Emily House and Willow Ross
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June 27, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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brisbane's bus network will be overhauled next week! At major stations, extra staff at the platforms are announcing the changes, with calls like: "LAST CHANCE! to ride the 170, it will cease to exist next week!" 🚍
June 25, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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tibg.bsky.social
#OpenAccess in Transactions:

'Unseasonable seasons: Shifting geographies of weather and migration mobilities' by @kayatbarry.bsky.social

This paper examines the experiences of seasonal migrants in horticultural communities in Queensland, Australia.

doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky
Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Kaya Barry (2025) entitled 'Unseasonable seasons: Shifting geographies of weather and migration mobilities' with a red banner at the top.
June 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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8pm tomorrow night!! - listen to ABC Radio National Big Ideas for our public panel discussion: "We asked for workers and got people — inside the temporary visa scheme putting food on your plate" with @natashamitchell.bsky.social
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
We asked for workers and got people — inside the temporary visa scheme putting food on your plate - ABC listen
Who picks and processes those yummy strawberries you're about to put in your shopping trolley, or the crisp veggies you might stir-fry tonight? Did you know it could be a nurse or a police officer fro...
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June 3, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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Listen in at 8pm tomorrow night! Our Canberra panel discussion: "We asked for workers and got people—inside the temporary visa scheme putting food on your plate."

Listen to ABC Radio National's Big Ideas with
@natashamitchell.bsky.social
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
We asked for workers and got people — inside the temporary visa scheme putting food on your plate - ABC listen
Who picks and processes those yummy strawberries you're about to put in your shopping trolley, or the crisp veggies you might stir-fry tonight? Did you know it could be a nurse or a police officer fro...
www.abc.net.au
June 3, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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More from Livingmaps Review 17!
In Mapworks, Debbie Kent gives focus to the You Are Here maps that populate urban centres. At once, both mundane street furniture and a portal into understanding our location on the earth.
www.livingmaps.org/you-are-here...
May 29, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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culturalgeogaus.bsky.social
Check out this new paper out by @kayatbarry.bsky.social and Rafael Azeredo:
May 28, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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How did we become so reliant on backpackers for farm labour? Rafael Azeredo and I trace the evolution of the Aus Working Holiday Maker visa and the political push to repurpose rural tourism as essential labour. Out now in @tourismgeographies.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The tourism-migration nexus: working holiday visa politics and repurposing tourists as labour
The ‘working holiday’ model of youth mobility has evolved alongside backpacking in recent decades. Increasingly, backpackers on working holidays are seen as a potential labour source in many nation...
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May 28, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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arijerrems.bsky.social
Great to see Beryl Pong's article 'Volumetric mediations' is out in Area. It is the first article in an SI on 'Atmospheric Borders' edited by @kayatbarry.bsky.social @umutozguc.bsky.social Andrew Burridge and I @acbsnetwork.bsky.social rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Area | RGS Geography Journal | Wiley Online Library
This paper contributes to scholarship on drones’ more-than-military realms as they pertain to the atmospheres they create in visual culture. Focusing on two humanitarian drone documentaries, Ai Weiwe...
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May 13, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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after three years of tramping around Queensland, having to move office coincides with the end of my fellowship project! Dismantling the postcard collection today... 🚅🍌🍊🍍🫐🐑🧳✈️
April 2, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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As Australian Critical Border Studies Network @acbsnetwork.bsky.social, we are pleased to have Henk van Houtum present his new book Free the Map. Join us on the 16th of April. @henkvanhoutum.bsky.social @arijerrems.bsky.social @kayatbarry.bsky.social events.humanitix.com/free-the-map...
Free the Map. From Atlas to Hermes, towards a new cartography of borders and migration
Get tickets on Humanitix - Free the Map. From Atlas to Hermes, towards a new cartography of borders and migration . Online. Wednesday 16th April 2025. Find event information.
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March 31, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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koala encounters! remember to slow down in the wet and during joey season! @griffith.edu.au
March 28, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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NEW: The bohemian imaginary — my brilliant co-conspirator Peter Varley & I dreamt up this paper about how tourism is imagined, practiced, and fetishised in contemporary consumerist culture. #Debord #spectacle #tourism #mobilties #subcultures
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The bohemian imaginary in the society of the spectacle
The emancipatory promise of bohemia as a realm of free expression is inextricably woven into the desires and dreams of tourism. The bohemian drive for…
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March 25, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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interested in weather, seasons, or climate mobilities? in this paper I unpack assumptions about Western, colonialist weather ideals that underpin seasonal employment and migration
March 24, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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NEW: "Unseasonable seasons: Shifting geographies of weather and migration mobilities" out now in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library
Among growing attention to weather in geography, the seasons have been largely overlooked. Seasonal concerns underpin not only the weather, but also migration flows, tourism and trade, farming, and a...
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March 20, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Here’s a report by John Ross in @timeshighered.bsky.social on ARC Board’s proposal to change grant schemes ▶️

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Both @scienceau.bsky.social's & I am worried about opportunities & unintended consequences for early-career researchers👇
Excerpt from the article. Black text on white background with a few links in blue text. Excerpt as follows: “Under the ARC board’s proposals, most stand-alone fellowships would be replaced by “embedded fellowships” funded through other grant schemes and capped at two years. “Traditional four-year fellowships concentrate a significant amount of funds on a small number of individual researchers,” a discussion paper explains. Observers fear this could inadvertently deny many ECRs a toehold in academia because current fellowship schemes such as the Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (Decra) and the mid-career Future Fellowships are available to researchers without positions at universities. This could change under the proposals. The discussion paper implies that recipients of embedded fellowships must already be in “the university workforce” – suggesting that ECRs must obtain employment in the sector before gaining eligibility for ARC grants. That is an “unrealistic” expectation, according to Sharath Sriram, president of Science and Technology Australia. “The assumption is all those who apply are already…in academic roles. That might have been true in the 1990s. It’s not the case anymore. “There’s no stability of employment for people until they are six, seven years out of their PhDs. Universities often use success in grants and fellowships to determine who to employ.” A researcher who monitors grant schemes, using the social media handle “ARC Tracker”, was unconvinced that the proposals would improve opportunities for ECRs. They said changes to fellowship schemes needed to avoid closing “pathways” for young researchers and leaving them “overshadowed by the established group leaders”. ARC Board chair Peter Shergold acknowledged the fellowship changes as one of the “stings in the tail” of his proposals, but said a primary goal of his reforms was “contributing to the development of the next generation of researchers”.
March 16, 2025 at 11:00 PM