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Laura Pottinger @laurajpottinger.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

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'. @poppybudworth.bsky.social @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.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

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/...

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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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Laura Pottinger @laurajpottinger.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

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/... @uomcreativemcr.bsky.social (1/3)

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.

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Laura Pottinger @laurajpottinger.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

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! @poppybudworth.bsky.social @alisonjeffers.bsky.social

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.

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Laura Pottinger @laurajpottinger.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

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

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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

"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."

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Ella Hubbard @ella-hubbard.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

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

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MobileWorlds @mobileworlds.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

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

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Sana Murrani @sanamurrani.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

This was so much fun! Making was a creative act of selfcare today and here is my square/map. Thank you Laura and co.

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Tilly Robinson-Miles @tillyrobinsonmiles.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

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.

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Tilly Robinson-Miles @tillyrobinsonmiles.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

@rgsibg.bsky.social #RGSStitchAssembly Loving the creativity theme of this years conference. Encouraging us all to pause, reflect & challenge ourselves.

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Dr Kate Carruthers Thomas @drkcarrutherst.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Not a natural stitcher but loved participating in #StitchAssemblyRGS25 this morning!

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Dr Poppy Budworth @poppybudworth.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

✨ 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.

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MobileWorlds @mobileworlds.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

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

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Juliet J. Fall @julietjfall.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

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

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Dr Poppy Budworth @poppybudworth.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

✨ 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

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Laura Pottinger @laurajpottinger.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

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! @poppybudworth.bsky.social @alisonjeffers.bsky.social

scraps of fabric and threads in a variety of colours

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Area @areajournal.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

🌍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...

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Erin Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

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.

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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.

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Amy @amzomac.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

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🇵🇸

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Laura Pottinger @laurajpottinger.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

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 👇😊🧵 docs.google.com/forms/d/1ytd... @poppybudworth.bsky.social @rgsibg.bsky.social

A selection of plant-dyed fabrics squares and scraps in different colours, and threads wound onto cardboard thread winders, arranged in a grid formation

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