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UC Berkeley Geography @ucbgeography.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Students in Seth Lunine’s Urban Field Study spend each Friday in the field from 9-5, exploring the Bay Area by foot and learning to read urban landscapes. Last week, students walked through downtown SF and SoMa, looking for layers of history in the city’s streets, buildings, and waterfront.
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UC Berkeley Geography @ucbgeography.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Associate Professor Clancy Wilmott has been in the international spotlight this week following the UN General Assembly’s adoption of a resolution supporting the wider use of the Equal Earth projection. 🗺️ Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ0D.... Listen here: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr....
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UN votes to adopt new world map to reflect Africa's true size | BBC News
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UC Berkeley Geography @ucbgeography.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
We are hiring for a tenure-track position in Impacts of Global Environmental Change at the rank of Assistant Professor to begin July 1, 2027. Check out the job description and apply here: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05449
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Assistant Professor - Impacts of Global Environmental Change - Department of Geography
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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UC Berkeley Geography @ucbgeography.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
We are honored to announce the installation of the Donald S. Moore Geography Library in 583 Seminar Room. This collection of several hundred volumes is Don’s gift to our community—a living archive of Marxist, anti-colonial, and anti-racist thought. 📚
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UC Berkeley Geography @ucbgeography.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
What can a map tell us about a language, a landscape, and a family history? 🗺️ Christina Carasis is using mapping and community-based research to explore Arvanitika, an endangered language in Greece that is part of her own family history. Read her student spotlight here: tinyurl.com/besfsckh
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Institute for the Study of Societal Issues @ucberkeleyissi.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Seven Berkeley grad students joined ISSI's Graduate Fellows Program: Alexa Kurmanov, Edward Martin, Jesús Nazario, Coryna Ogunseitan, Natasha Shannon, Deibi Sibrian, & Derek Wu! The Fellows come from a range of fields, including @ucbgeography.bsky.social & @natureatcal.bsky.social. Learn more below!
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Graduate Fellows | Institute for the Study of Societal Issues
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Institute for the Study of Societal Issues @ucberkeleyissi.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
ISSI grad student and @ucbgeography.bsky.social PhD candidate Clara Pérez Medina recently published a paper, "Framing Displacement, Forcing Perspective: Black Visual Geographies and the Crisis of Homelessness in Oakland." Read it here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #homelessness #blackness
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Framing Displacement, Forcing Perspective: Black Visual Geographies and the Crisis of Homelessness in Oakland
While Black and visual geographies have examined the image's racial and spatial power, more work is needed to analyze how racial frames of view become spatially embedded. This paper advances such a p...
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UC Berkeley Geography @ucbgeography.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The geographic community mourn the loss of one of its most beloved alumni, Dr. Sarah E. Knuth. Her wide-reaching and impactful scholarly work covered both theoretical and practical approaches to energy transitions. Sarah is remembered as an extraordinarily bright, warm, and welcoming presence
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UC Berkeley Geography @ucbgeography.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
#UCUES is a biennial survey of undergraduates across the University of California, providing insights into student experiences from basic needs insecurities to campus climate to advising experiences. Share your feedback and win gift cards! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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UC Berkeley Geography @ucbgeography.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Berkeley Space Station is the first Geography dept radio station in the country, giving students portfolio-ready examples of professional media production that lead directly to internships and jobs in broadcasting, journalism, and production. Tune in to check out our new programs: spacestation.fm!
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UC Berkeley Geography @ucbgeography.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Congrats to PhD candidate Alex Chow on receiving a dissertation fellowship from the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation to examine how competing economic and political systems shaped understandings of freedom, democracy, and sovereignty in Hong Kong from the postwar era through 2019.
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UC Berkeley Geography @ucbgeography.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Congrats to @geografiando.bsky.social, who has been awarded the Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Excellence Award! The PBK Northern California Association is one of the largest PBK alumni associations in the country, and the Teaching Excellence Award is given to teachers nominated by their students 💛
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UC Berkeley Geography @ucbgeography.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
“Swept Off The Map,” created by Maria Toldi & Cole Haddock (Geography Senior) for Street Spirit, is an investigative series that documents the scope, scale, and consequences of encampment sweeps in Richmond, Berkeley, and Oakland. Funded by the Judith Lee Stronach Prize. sweptoffthemap.com
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Swept Off The Map
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UC Berkeley Geography @ucbgeography.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
We are pleased to announce @clancywilmott.bsky.social's tenure promotion to Associate Professor! Professor Wilmott's work and generosity have done so much for the department and for so many in and beyond it. Congrats on this much deserved milestone!
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UC Berkeley Geography @ucbgeography.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
UC Berkeley’s Hope Scholars program is celebrating 20 years of transforming lives for students who experienced foster care. Geography PhD student Alexis Wood, who overcame her own barriers, is now paying it forward as a peer mentor for the program. news.berkeley.edu/2025/12/16/f...
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For 20 years, this UC Berkeley program has helped students who’ve been in foster care succeed - Berkeley News
Hope Scholars started with one employee and one student. It has since grown to offer hundreds of students holistic support, including mentorship, emergency funds and move-in day supplies.
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UC Berkeley Geography @ucbgeography.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Geography Professor Jeff Chambers discusses the 'hypertropical' climate threatening the Amazon in a new article published by Nature. Co-authors include Geography PhD student Anna Weber. Watch a video about the project here: vimeo.com/1144476859
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Hot droughts in the Amazon: A window to a future hypertropical climate
Hot droughts in the Amazon offer a rare glimpse into a future tropical climate that hasn’t existed on Earth for millions of years—the “hypertropics.”  The…
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UC Berkeley Geography @ucbgeography.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Check out "Fear of a Dead White Planet," co-edited by Geography Associate Professor Jake Kosek, now available to read for free! read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/3...
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Fear of a Dead White Planet
Fear of a Dead White Planet asks: How does one study when the planet is on fire? The More Worlds Collective challenges the contemporary rush to planetary t
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UC Berkeley Geography @ucbgeography.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Clancy Wilmott talks with Berkeley Social Sciences about the promise and pitfalls of AI tools ls.berkeley.edu/news/berkele...
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Berkeley Social Sciences explores the promise and pitfalls of AI tools | Letters & Science
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UC Berkeley Geography @ucbgeography.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
As California grapples with conflictual views of fire, Annabelle Law’s (BA '24) essay offers a powerful reframe: fire, when guided by Indigenous knowledge, can be a source of healing and abundance, renewing both ecosystems and communities. terralingua.org/stories/cult...
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Cultivating (Bio)Culture with Fire - Terralingua
Annabelle Law joins the Fork Mono Tribe's cultural burns in California to learn how fire can promote biocultural abundance and community.
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UC Berkeley Geography @ucbgeography.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Glaciers are more than stunning landscapes—they hold vital clues about our planet’s past and future climate. Professor Kurt Cuffey explains how glaciology reveals critical insights into global warming, from polar amplification to rising sea levels. Read the whole story: bit.ly/41MI01U
Geography Professor Kurt Cuffey with Geography student Char Tomlinson in the Kanchenjunga Himalaya of Nepal
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UC Berkeley Geography @ucbgeography.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
BAMPFA's Elaine Yau took faculty, staff, & students on a special tour of "Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California," an exhibition that speaks to many of the themes within Black geographies.
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UC Berkeley Geography @ucbgeography.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
New students, new picnic tables, new beginnings! Today’s new student orientations were full of community — lunch on the balcony at picnic tables hand-built by Dr. Jake Kosek and transfer students connecting with alumni who’ve been exactly where they are now. Here’s to the start of a new journey! 💛🐻💙
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UC Berkeley Geography @ucbgeography.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
🌎 Coming Fall 2025! Dive into powerful global narratives with GEOG 170: Writing the World — a brand new course that explores how influential written stories shape and challenge our views on identity, culture, and power. Register NOW! #ucberkeleygeography classes.berkeley.edu/content/2025...
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UC Berkeley Geography @ucbgeography.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Congratulations to the Class of 2025🎓 We're so proud of everything you’ve achieved and we can't wait to see what you do in the world! 🌎💙💛 #BerkeleyGrad #ClassOf2025 #Geography
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UC Berkeley Geography @ucbgeography.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Join us Friday, May 2 @ 3pm for a powerful convo w/ sexuality educator Ericka Hart + cultural preservationist Ebony Donnley aka Deep East Oakland’s own DJ Sure Love to Ball — hosts of the Hoodrat to Headwrap Podcast! We'll see you there! Click here to RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/sinners-bl...
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UC Berkeley Geography @ucbgeography.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Learn more about the Golden State with GEOG N50AC! Explore the truth about California this summer during Summer Session D. Secure your spot now! geography.berkeley.edu/courses/geog...
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UC Berkeley Geography @ucbgeography.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Interested in Social, Spatial, Ecological, and Racial Fixes in New Deal South Carolina? Listen to Ph.D. ‘24 Graduate Morgan P. Vickers’s podcast episode with the Social Science Matrix! Available now on matrix.berkeley.edu/research-art... or Apple Podcasts!
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Social, Spatial, Ecological, and Racial Fixes in New Deal South Carolina: Interview with Morgan Vickers - Social Science Matrix
This episode of the Matrix Podcast features an interview with Morgan P. Vickers, an Assistant Professor of Race/Racialization in the Department of Law, Societies & Justice at the University of Washing...
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UC Berkeley Geography @ucbgeography.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Phd candidate Andrea Lara-Garcia has been awarded the Mentored Research Award for the 2025-2026 academic year! This fellowship supports diverse doctoral students in developing advanced research skills through faculty-guided pre-dissertation research. Congrats, Andrea!
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UC Berkeley Geography @ucbgeography.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Huge congrats to Kendrick Manymules for receiving the UC Dissertation-Year Fellowship for the 2025-2026 academic year! This fellowship provides financial support to help diverse doctoral students focus on completing their dissertations. We’re so proud of you, Kendrick!
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Kendrick Manymules | Berkeley Geography
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UC Berkeley Geography @ucbgeography.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Join us for our final Colloquium event of the year! We’re finishing off strong with Sarah Elwood of @uofwa.bsky.social THIS WEDNESDAY, April 23, @ 3:30. She will be discussing ‘Stop the Sweeps: Computational Urbanisms & Insurgent Mediations of the City.’ events.berkeley.edu/geog/event/2...
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UC Berkeley Geography @ucbgeography.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Huge congrats to students Cole Haddock and Maria Toldi for winning The Judith Lee Stronach Baccalaureate Prize for their project Swept off the Map. This project will be published by #StreetSpirit. For more information: research.berkeley.edu/stronach-pri...
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Stronach Prize – Undergraduate Research & Scholarships
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UC Berkeley Geography @ucbgeography.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
We are proud to announce that april l. graham-jackson, Geography PhD alum ‘24 has been awarded a 2025 ACLS Fellowship from @acls1919.bsky.social! graham-jackson has been recognized as one of 62 outstanding scholars from a pool of over 2,300 applicants through a multi-stage process! #ACLS
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UC Berkeley Geography @ucbgeography.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Interest in theories of alienation, value, and agency in archeology? Join the weekly Colloquium with Andrew Sanchez to learn more! We’ll see you today @ 3:30!
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Provenance: The Value of People and Things
In an Indian scrap-metal yard, anxieties about stolen materials compel traders to interrogate the biographies and social relations of people that t...
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UC Berkeley Geography @ucbgeography.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Geography Ph.D. Candidate Andrea Lara-Garcia won the Legal Geographies Specialty Group award for Best Graduate Student Presentation for "Who Owns the Border?: Contested Territorialities in the Arizona and Texas Borderlands.” Way to go, Andrea! #AAG2025
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UC Berkeley Geography @ucbgeography.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Ph.D. Candidate Lee Crandall won the Digital Geographies Specialty group award for Best Graduate Student Paper Award for their paper "Plotting cryptoeconomic imaginaries and counterplotting the network state." Congrats, Lee! #AAG2025
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UC Berkeley Geography @ucbgeography.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Huge congratulations to Geography Ph.D. Candidate Jimena Perez for winning the AAG Latinx Geographies Speciality Group's 2025 LxG Graduate Student Paper Award for her paper "Restorying the L.A. River." #AAG2025
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UC Berkeley Geography @ucbgeography.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
BUGs (Berkeley United Geographers) is hosting an event TODAY with professors from our very own department, Sociology, City Planning, Media Studies, Ethnic Studies, and Italian Studies. Join us for snacks and panels today April 9th at 6pm in McCone Hall 575 or Zoom rb.gy/ehi9xv! See you there!
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UC Berkeley Geography @ucbgeography.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Our Colloquia Series is so thrilled to host Hannah Fair of @unisouthampton.bsky.social TODAY at 3:30 as she reveals an unexpected and unalienated ‘joy of pests’ that is grounded in symbiotic more-than-human autonomy. See you there! For more information: events.berkeley.edu/geog/event/2...
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The Joy of Pests: encountering autonomy, passion, and death in UK professional pest management
Professional pest management - the deliberate exclusion and removal of unwanted nonhuman life - is a form of overlooked and undervalued ‘dirty wo...
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UC Berkeley Geography @ucbgeography.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Join us March 19 @ 3:30 to discuss “‘Sounding’ Celebration and Reparatory Justice Through Spaces of Feeling: the Case of Jamaica” with Dr. Sonjah Stanley Niaah of the University of West Indies, Mona. See you there! events.berkeley.edu/geog/event/2...
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UC Berkeley Geography @ucbgeography.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
By donating to Geography during #CalBigGive, you'll provide critical funding for undergraduate research, enabling students like Tatiana Butte to explore their passions, gain hands-on experience, and create work that drives meaningful change. givingday.berkeley.edu/giving-day/9...
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UC Berkeley Geography @ucbgeography.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Your donation during #CalBigGive supports students like Andrea Lara Garcia, a Geography Ph.D. student who conducts critical borderlands scholarship focused on the Southwest United States. givingday.berkeley.edu/giving-day/9...
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UC Berkeley Geography @ucbgeography.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
It's here! #CalBigGive, the annual, online fundraising event uniting the Cal community to support our remarkable students, groundbreaking research, and transformative programs that make our university shine 🌟 Support Geography student research by donating here: givingday.berkeley.edu/giving-day/9...
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UC Berkeley Geography @ucbgeography.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
We are thrilled to host @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social PhD alum Dr. Morgan Williams on March 12 @ 3:30 to discuss “The Morphology and Mythology of Nuclear Waste Containment in the American West.” More detail here [events.berkeley.edu/geog/event/2836…]. See you there!
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UC Berkeley Geography @ucbgeography.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Join the Social Science Matrix on March 6 @ 12pm to discuss "Mainstreaming Psychedelics." The panel features Diana Negrin, David Presti, and more! Co-sponsored by the Center for Research on Social Change, the English Department, and @scipsychedelics.bsky.social Register now rb.gy/93njn7 !
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REGISTRATION: 3/6/25, 12pm: Matrix on Point: Mainstreaming Psychedelics
Psychedelics are steadily moving from the fringes of counterculture to the heart of mainstream society, driven by a growing body of research and shifting public perception. Once relegated to undergrou...
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UC Berkeley Geography @ucbgeography.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
We are excited to host Farzin Lotfi-Jam, Asst. Prof. of Architecture from Cornell next Wednesday for our Geography Colloquium series. More details here: events.berkeley.edu/geog/event/2...
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UC Berkeley Geography @ucbgeography.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Interested in Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean? Join us on March 4 from 12:00pm-1:00pm to hear from speaker Christina Gerhardt (Clark University). See you there! Co-sponsored by @ucberkeleyies.bsky.social and the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies. Register now!
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Christina Gerhardt | Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean
Based on her book, Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean, Christina Gerhardt (Clark University) will present the impacts of sea le...
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