Someone told me the other day they missed late eighties Ireland because there wasn't so much immigration. I couldn't really share this nostalgic viewpoint as I was in England at the time.

"It was considered unlucky to dust the house" in May: an early workers' protest? Happy May Day/Lá Bealtaine shona daoibh go léir. May your houses remain happily undusted.

A fantastic piece by Denis Linehan. This is why #GeographyMatters - careful, critical analysis of the differences between places that matter

IF WE TOLERATE THIS is out today! These are worrying times politically but if there's one thing I want to get across, it's that the slide into far-right nationalism is not inevitable. Please help me spread the word. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/if-w...

I loved 'Home Economics' by Caitriona Lally - read it in a day. It's observant, clear-sighted, insightful, and really funny. Get it from New Island, the publisher, or from your local bookshop or library.

Amazing how they find an extra €100 million or so when they need it. www.dublincity.ie/sites/defaul...

This, by @oliviamason.bsky.social, is powerful and insightful. Our places of work are exploiting people, and work is worse for all of us as a consequence. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Applications are invited from excellent candidates to pursue a PhD project in Geography with the School of History and Geography @unioflimerick.bsky.social #StudyAtUL Deadline: 29th May 2026. For more information, please see: www.ul.ie/artsoc/histo...

Please support our colleagues in Ulster University, facing 450 redundancies

Happening in Ireland too.

It's kind of cool to see your work with your favorite co-author show up in a newspaper!

What the average person thinks HR is supposed to do for them at a job is what unions are actually for.

Reviewing yet another academic paper full of hallucinated references, odd citation practices, and improperly attributed material. To all academic colleagues out there, literally ruining our profession: thanks for nothing.

Another @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social picket line today. We never stop!

Job losses at UK research-intensive universities double in two years. Exclusive: Scale of redundancies branded a “disaster”. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

Migration: A Critical Introduction, by @marygilmartin.bsky.social, Malene Jacobsen and Anna-Kaisa Kuusisto, 'offers a fresh and accessible framework for understanding migration through a distinctly geographical lens': www.wiley.com/en-us/Migrat...

Our new piece out today in Times Higher Education about the threats to Geography in the UK - particularly fieldwork - please do share. It links to a recent snapshot survey on the challenges being faced in UK HE, which highlights the inequities of the challenges, but also fears of what is yet to come

On February 22nd the Verso Book Club will be hosting an online reading group with the legendary Marxist scholar @davidharvey.org to discuss his latest work, The Story of Capital: What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works.

Even Pats' fans can be right on occasion 😉

Finding hard to swallow some Irish people saying politics should be kept out of sport when the British Army massacred players and spectators in the largest sporting ground in the country... It was political when IRFU refused to boycott apartheid SA, it is political when FAI refuses to do so for 🇮🇱

Solidarity

Refugees waiting on citizenship decisions find the rules have quietly changed. While they heard about harsher policies brought in last year, this change wasn't announced, and affects people who applied before then www.dublininquirer.com/refugees-app...

Outside does take a bit of getting used to - but what doesn't?? So damp.

In addition to the urgent need to remediate, are we sure that similar levels of non-compliance with building standards can't happen again? www.rte.ie/news/2026/02...

Social media would be healthier if it fully shut down every evening after playing this, the Touch Grass video (Irish Edition)

New: meet ELITE, the Palantir app ICE is using to find neighborhoods to raid. Map interface; officers search for immigrants; click person to bring up individual dossier. This is clearest link between what Palantir is building and ICE's activities on the ground yet www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...

Another day in the archive, reading the diaries of a 19th-century doctor at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London. This Irish migrant's story was, I thought, heartbreaking: May 30 1877, "Yesterday I was called into a ward to interpret for an old man who had been knocked down by an omnibus. ... 1/2

In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice and border abolition. We’ve also added a list of additional recommended reading:

A thread on the Irish triple lock. What is it/where did it come from/can it be repealed constitutionally?

Geographers, in case you missed this detail, Alex Pretti graduated from the Minnesota Geography department in 2011.

Our book is out in paperback shortly, and the publishers have made Ch 1 available. Have a read. www.wiley.com/en-gb/Migrat...

@marygilmartin.bsky.social, Malene H. Jacobsen, Anna-Kaisa Kuusisto, Migration: A Critical Introduction - Wiley, January 2026 www.wiley.com/en-ie/Migrat...

It was a joke. It was not a joke.

Having just received an excellent proposal, I am reminded that I should do more to advertise the Bloomsbury book series I co-edit: Geopolitical Worlds, Material Bodies www.bloomsbury.com/ca/series/ge... We would value some more excellent proposals to go with the one I just got! #AcademicSky

Be our colleague… Hiring an Assistant Prof of Urban Geography & Climate Crisis. www.sfu.ca/geography/ab...

In what could plausibly represent a Christmas miracle* SFU Geography has two (2) new tenure track hires. One is urban/climate, which I will repost below. The other is a Landscape Ecologist. Please share ... #academicsky *actually just the good decisions of our new Dean www.sfu.ca/geography/ab...

Every day is a new day. Every day you are a new person.

Mourning the loss of Bill Abom, lifelong champion of justice for overlooked immigrant workers. Read more here: www.dublininquirer.com/mourning-the...

Really interesting CFP for #IrishinBritain scholars here from @museumofthehome.bsky.social . museumofthehome.org.uk/our-work/res...

Finally. Our book is on its way to the printer. Looking forward to seeing it in the flesh in early 2026. Order online at www.wiley.com/en-ie/Migrat... or through your local bookshop.

It is cold and dark outside, and everything has gone out of me except misery.

A movie that takes place where you're from.

This was published in the Irish Times a week ago but re-sharing because it might be a while before there is another article supporting neutrality in the broadsheets.

The demand for geography and GIS skills has never been greater, and the intellectual approaches and conceptual tools of the discipline are more relevant than ever. Now, community college #geography programs are growing fast and changing the landscape of geography #education: buff.ly/GLo0tWP #GeoWeek

Love finding out what people with Geography degrees do next. Like Liam Scales, now a professional footballer (with Ireland and Celtic)

Solidarity with all colleagues under threat in Dundee.

Irish house, winter edition

Amazing how different Sean Bean looks in real life to the movies (A joke that I accept will baffle many)