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Nethmi Bathige (@nethmisachy.bsky.social) @nethmisachy

PhD Student @psugeography โ€ข research on agrarian debt // climate adaptation // political ecology // Sri Lanka

Joined December 2019
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David McKinnon@McKinnonDavid
3 Dec 2025
If you're not in #SriLanka and looking to contribute to #CycloneDitwah relief, @WFP is taking donations to support its great work there. donate.wfp.org/1244/donationโ€ฆ

World Food Programme
@WFP
2 Dec 2025
๐ŸšจOver 1 million people are estimated to be impacted so far by #CycloneDitwah in Sri Lanka. Working with the government and partners, @WFPSriLanka is scaling up assistance to reach disaster-hit communities.
A young child walks through floodwaters after heavy rains from Cyclone Ditwah cause widespread flooding in Sri Lanka on November 30, 2025. Photo: Krishan Kariyawasam/NurPhoto v

ALT A young child walks through floodwaters after heavy rains from Cyclone Ditwah cause widespread flooding in Sri Lanka on November 30, 2025. Photo: Krishan Kariyawasam/NurPhoto v

Photo: WFP Sri Lanka

ALT Photo: WFP Sri Lanka

Photo: WFP/Rasalingam Nagarajah

ALT Photo: WFP/Rasalingam Nagarajah

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Congratulations Dr. Zeitler! @LillyZeitler ๐Ÿฅณ
Dr. Powell@PowellBronwen
26 Aug 2025
A big congratulations to @LillyZeitler who successfully defended her PhD Dissertation this morning! It has been a huge pleasure and honour to walk this path with you Lilly! I cannot wait to see what new and exciting things you do next!
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Centre for a Smart Future (CSF)@CSFasia
3 Jul 2025
New Policy Brief by @colombourbanlab of CSF tackles a critical, but under-explored, issue - rising heat stress in Colombo and impacts for outdoor workers. It draws on extensive interviews that reveal impacts pathways to address climate change in Colombo csf-asia.org/heat-stress-in-โ€ฆ

Heat stress in Colombo: understanding impacts and planning for the future

2024 was the warmest year on record. A recent report by the World Bank revealed that Sri Lanka is among a few South Asian countries identified with a temperature level that is considered too hot for...

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College of EMS@PSUEMS
23 May 2025
As an undergraduate student in @psugeography, Harman Singh found research mentoring. Now, as a graduate student, she's helping others get the same. psu.edu/news/earth-and-minerโ€ฆ

Graduate student mentorship helps undergraduates build research skills | Penn State University

Penn State geography doctoral student Harman Singh is giving back to the program that shaped her academic journey by mentoring undergraduates through the Department of Geographyโ€™s Undergraduate...

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SSA_Lanka@ssa_lanka
7 May 2025
(๐‘๐ž-)๐๐จ๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐œ๐ข๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Œ๐š๐ก๐š๐ฐ๐ž๐ฅ๐ข ๐ƒ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ฅ๐จ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฃ๐ž๐œ๐ญ by ๐๐š๐ฌ๐š๐ง ๐‰๐š๐ฒ๐š๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ก๐ž Critical Agrarian Studies Seminar 2025:02 Date: 28 May 2025 Time: 5PM-6.30PM Location: Social Scientists' Association 380/86, Sarana Road Colombo 07
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SSA_Lanka@ssa_lanka
15 May 2025
๐Œ๐ข๐ฌ๐œ๐ก๐ข๐ž๐Ÿ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐…๐ซ๐š๐ง๐œ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ๐ž: ๐’๐ฎ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐š๐ ๐ž ๐„๐ฑ๐ฉ๐š๐ง๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ฌ๐ก ๐„๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ข๐ซ๐ž, ๐‚๐ž๐ฒ๐ฅ๐จ๐ง ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ—๐Ÿ๐Ÿ•-๐Ÿ๐Ÿ—๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ by Prof Dan Slater Date: 21 May 2025 Time: 5PM-6.30PM Location: Social Scientists' Association 380/86, Sarana Rd, Colombo 7
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AAG Development Geographies Specialty Group@AAG_DGSG
5 Mar 2025
Plz welcome the new DGSG Board for 2025-27. The elected members look forward to serving our membership! Chair @PronoyRai Vice-Chair @kimberleyanh Directors I-Chun Catherine Chang, @jenniferlangil2 , Paul O'Keefe Treasurer Aaron Malone Student Reps @nethmisachy, @MonicaNunez___
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Harry Quealy@HarryMQuealy
16 Jan 2025
1/ Really excited to share our paper, "Making modern water: The contents, actors, and processes of embedding the Mahaweli Development Project in Sri Lanka (1963-2010)." sciencedirect.com/science/arโ€ฆ
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American Association of Geographers@theAAG
18 Dec 2024
Replying to @WilliamGMoseley
@WilliamGMoseley, Professor @Mac_Geography & VP of the AAG, highlights the urgent need for a transformative shift from conventional agriculture to agroecology, which leverages farmer knowledge and natural ecological processes. Read in the @ConversationUS: bit.ly/4g8uU48
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Melani Gunathilaka@melanirgk
17 Dec 2024
"As such, climate adaptation projects which engage with women farmers & expect them to carry on with farming activities do not account for the gendered labour burdens placed upon them. ." #SriLanka #lka #UnpaidCareLabour #ClimateJustice
PolityLK
@Polity_LK
12 Dec 2024
Analysing #climateadaptation interventions in #SriLanka's dry zone in #PolityLK this week @nethmisachy turns a #feministpoliticalecology lens to expose the nuances these projects miss. polity.lk/victims-or-saviourโ€ฆ
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UK Geography@ukgeog
17 Dec 2024
Check out this article by @ukgeog alumni @nethmisachy
Nethmi Bathige (@nethmisachy.bsky.social)@nethmisachy
12 Dec 2024
See my article on @Polity_LK my research looking at climate resilient agriculture through a feminist political ecology lens!
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William Moseley@WilliamGMoseley
16 Dec 2024
I found this is to be a very problematic article. For starters, Grunwald misrepresents the situation in Sri Lanka and their so-called organic experiment. See @nethmisachy & I's article for a different perspective: news.mongabay.com/2022/08/drโ€ฆ

Drawing the wrong lessons from Sri Lankaโ€™s organic farming experience (commentary)

Since the downfall of Sri Lankaโ€™s former president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, in mid-July, some commentators have blamed the economic crisis and social unrest that precipitated his departure on his nominal...

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Geoffrey Kabat@GeoKabat
15 Dec 2024
Sorry, but This Is the Future of Food nytimes.com/2024/12/13/opiniโ€ฆ
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See my article on @Polity_LK my research looking at climate resilient agriculture through a feminist political ecology lens!
PolityLK
@Polity_LK
12 Dec 2024
Analysing #climateadaptation interventions in #SriLanka's dry zone in #PolityLK this week @nethmisachy turns a #feministpoliticalecology lens to expose the nuances these projects miss. polity.lk/victims-or-saviourโ€ฆ
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UK Geography@ukgeog
26 Nov 2024
@ukgeog took home the WGB trophy at #SEDAAG2024 for the first time in 25 years! ๐Ÿ†Congratulations!๐Ÿ† @SEDAAG4 @theAAG @UKarts_sciences
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Alice Rudge@Alice__Rudge
14 Nov 2024
@MythriJega follows the linguistic and conceptual slippage between tranches and trenches, as oil debts are paid off in tea equivalents through tea pickersโ€™ labor in Sri Lankaโ€™s tea trenches. culanth.org/fieldsights/trenโ€ฆ

Trenches Equivalent: Waging Sri Lankaโ€™s โ€œWar of Positionโ€

In 2018, I sat with Vijeyeletchumi, a Hill Country Tamil plucker in her tea estate line-room home. Lifting her skirt, she revealed a trail of fou...

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Nice job Harry, really excited to read this work! @HarryMQuealy
Harry Quealy@HarryMQuealy
30 Oct 2024
So very excited to finally share this open access paper in Geoforum, co-authored with my good (and very patient!) friend Kavindra (Ravi) Paranage ๐Ÿ˜ƒ๐Ÿ˜ƒ @SERG_Geog_UoM @PolEcoNet @DevGeogsRG @Polity_LK @GeographyUOM sciencedirect.com/science/arโ€ฆ
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Harry Quealy@HarryMQuealy
30 Oct 2024
So very excited to finally share this open access paper in Geoforum, co-authored with my good (and very patient!) friend Kavindra (Ravi) Paranage ๐Ÿ˜ƒ๐Ÿ˜ƒ @SERG_Geog_UoM @PolEcoNet @DevGeogsRG @Polity_LK @GeographyUOM sciencedirect.com/science/arโ€ฆ
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Penn State Geography@psugeography
15 Oct 2024
โ€ผ๏ธ We are recruiting graduate students for 2025! โ€ผ๏ธ Sign up at the link below to connect with our graduate program. ๐Ÿ”—redcap.ctsi.psu.edu/surveys/โ€ฆ
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Dr Jamie Wang @drjamiew.bsky.social@jamieywang
24 Sep 2024
Just received the author copies from @mitpress ๐Ÿฅฐ๐Ÿชทโ˜€๏ธ. โ€œReimagining the more-than-human cityโ€ explores the multifaceted urban environmental issues in Singapore through a more-than-human lens, calling for new ways to think of & story cities. I cant wait for it to meet the world!
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Penn State Geography@psugeography
24 Sep 2024
Interested in grad school at Penn State Geography? ๐ŸŒ Join our virtual info session on Oct. 22 from 5-6 PM EDT! Learn about our programs and application process. ๐Ÿ“… Tuesday, Oct. 22 ๐Ÿ•” 5:00-6:00 PM EDT Register here: tinyurl.com/psugeoginfo or use the QR code in the image!
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