CfP The Social Movements Research Network of the Council for European Studies invites papers for the conference: 'Precarious Lives: Resistance, Solidarity, and Research during Catastrophes' at DCU (@dublincityuni.bsky.social) in 2026 More info: councilforeuropeanstudies.org/announcement...

CfP The Social Movements Research Network of the Council for European Studies invites papers for the conference: 'Precarious Lives: Resistance, Solidarity, and Research during Catastrophes' at DCU (@dublincityuni.bsky.social) in 2026 More info: councilforeuropeanstudies.org/announcement...

What a great day 🙌 #BolsonaroNaCadeia #GrandeDia

“We don’t want them to grow on that fear. It is not right.” >> Rising hostility sparks fear in Ireland’s Bangladeshi community www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

'The idea that X (Twitter) is some kind of counterpoint to consensus or a place for any kind of useful discourse or a spot to hang out in which is to be challenged healthily, is a complete nonsense' via @unamullally.bsky.social That's why we are leavin X en masse www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

When the Headline “Did Women Ruin the Workplace? And if So, Can Conservative Feminism Fix It?” Gets It Wrong: Feminism Isn’t the Problem—Patriarchy Is. 👇👇👇 msmagazine.com/2025/11/08/c...

Simon Harris is deliberately spreading disinformation on immigration 'For Fine Gael, the small number awaiting deportation is proof inward migration has become ‘too high’, It just wants to point and shout, “Over there! Don’t look at us! Look at them!' >> www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Fire at Drogheda Ipas centre was ‘started deliberately’ The minister of justice comments made it ‘seem like an accident. It’s very important that the people in that position give the correct information’ Khmabule said. jrnl.ie/6862570

I took part in this interview with @seanmoncrieff.bsky.social and it was great to speak the new research on challenges of residential licensees in Ireland The full report can be read here: threshold.ie/wp-content/u...

On the show today: @valescal.bsky.social on unprotected renters; What do horror films tell us?; @mhallsworth.bsky.social on hypocrisy; Dating markets; The autism myth; World news; Translating Plato..

The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Venezuela's activist Maria Corina Machado, 'for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy" www.rte.ie/news/world/2...

Call for the 6th Conference of the German Network for Forced Migration Studies @fluchtforschung.bsky.social : "Eroding Solidarity? Forced Migration, Protection, and Inclusion in a World Beyond Order", September 28 – 30, 2026 | University of Hildesheim | Germany www.uni-hildesheim.de/en/zbi/nwff2...

Today I launched with Threshold Charity a new report on Ireland’s Residential Licence Sector — a hidden part of the rental market 🟠 Licencees = renters without RTA protections 🟠 Vulnerable to eviction with little/no notice 🟠 No deposit protection Full report here: threshold.ie/wp-content/u...

Extreme deregulation of the energy sector means electricity companies can increase prices as much as they want. Ireland’s free-market approach to energy companies is clearly not working: prices are going up and not down and there’s no real competition www.dublininquirer.com/as-profitabl...

📢 The International Review of Public Policy is now on Bluesky! A huge thank you to our editors, authors, reviewers, and the IPPA community for helping IRPP grow. 🌏All our issues are available online in open access: bit.ly/3VS9iQW We’d love to connect with fellow #PublicPolicy scholars — join us!

UNITED NATIONS INVESTIGATORS have concluded that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza, becoming the latest in a growing group of experts, scholars, states and NGOs to accuse Benjamin Netanyahu’s government of committing the crime of crimes jrnl.ie/6818101

'Somewhere along the way, the real human needs of home, family, and community, and the government imperatives of sustainable development and value for money have been lost to the unreal demands of real estate' www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Brilliant news: Brazil's ex-president Jair Bolsonaro found guilty of plotting coup. Sentence to be decide by the STF soon “Grande dia! 👍” www.bbc.com/news/article...

If you have a platform, use it to speak for those whose voices are not heard. Society is a better place when we stand up to be counted. It is heartening, in these days of wall-to-wall televised breathlessness for the politics of hate, to see ordinary folk voting for inclusion #GaryLineker

Every year I see several of my students making HUGE efforts to attend lecture and university events, commuting long distance at least 4 days a week. It is so unfair to anyone in this situation The student housing needs to be addressed properly www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci...

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

Constraints in the construction labour market significantly impact Ireland’s ability to meet housing demand targets. Policymakers can ease these through targeted measures aimed at increasing the construction workforce and adding to the existing housing stock www.oireachtas.ie/en/how-parli...

No one likes to live in arrangements like this, but vulnerable tenants are often unaware of their rights and lack of options so they are easily coerced into stressful and precarious situations. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/hous... #housing #Ireland #eviction

"The destruction of Gaza is Israeli policy" @irishtimes.com : Slaughtered journalists, medics and starving children will not sway public opinion here in Israel 👉 www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

🌎 #JavierMilei is not merely shifting Argentina's foreign policy but dismantling it's diplomatic institutions, argues @consuelothiers.bsky.social. 💭 As ideology replaces expertise, #Argentina is a stark example of how personalist leadership can upend international relations. 👉 buff.ly/oJPgD5y

Why are bosses turning against remote work? Short answer: it’s easier to control, monitor and perhaps exploit workers in the physical office The Explainer - @thejournal.ie 👉 www.thejournal.ie/podcasts/66f...

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” It costs a lot less to house people.

The UN Statistics Division published the annual 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development report - According to the section about Goal #11 More than 1 billion individuals live in slums or informal settlements, experiencing homelessness & lacking basic services 👉 webtv.un.org/en/asset/k13...

‘Revenge is not a policy’: dissenting Israeli voices begin to penetrate silence over Gaza

On predatory academic journals and conferences patthomson.net/2025/07/16/o... via @patthomson Combatting Predatory Academic Journals and Conferences (Full Report in English): www.interacademies.org/sites/defaul...

Congratulations to SHINE's Dr @valescal.bsky.social for this feature at the Housing Agency's Spotlight on Housing Research. More info here: www.linkedin.com/posts/housin...

I was reading this new report on housing, political parties & the far right in Ireland It brings together some things already known about the anti-migration rhetoric fueling racism, but it's interesting to see the analysis of how political parties have responded to it 👉 www.ui.se/globalassets...

Announcing the 2025 USF Seminar Series Awards www.urbanstudiesfoundation.org/2025/07/09/a...

Woman left ‘shaken’ and ‘in tears’ after alleged racist incident on Bus Éireann bus Bus Éireann says it is taking the complaint ‘very seriously’ and has launched an investigation - let's see what will come out of this www.irishtimes.com/transport/20...

Israeli newspaper's reveals IDF' shoot-to-kill policy in Gaza - Investigation by left-leaning 'Haaretz' journalists revealed both soldiers and army officers were, in their words, 'ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near food distribution sites in Gaza' www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

🚨 Exciting news! The SHINE project’s extended abstract about IAQ in Irish social housing is now published in the Data for Policy 2025 Conference book! The conference was held at Leiden University in The Hague on June 12-13. Read more about it here (pp. 104-107): zenodo.org/records/1573... 📚✨

If those split deals or similar practices are common, then the officially reported housing prices might indeed be lower than the true prices buyers are actually paying www.irishtimes.com/ireland/hous...

New Irish housing legislation wants to tackle a problem that doesn't exist. No evidence of social housing going to those without rights, and existing policy already covers this (Cir.41). This risks worsening homelessness and distracts from real issues www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

📢📢 I'm recruiting for my project “Diaspora Diplomacy and the Migration-Development Nexus” here in DCU. Both positions are four years, from September. Postdoc (Brazilian diaspora focus): ⏱️ 9th June www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42... PhD (Indian diaspora focus): ⏱️ 12th June www.dcu.ie/historygeogr...

From less than a dozen marchers to tens of thousands: A history of Dublin Pride jrnl.ie/6742433 #DublinPride #PrideWeek

Just published #OpenAccess: "Knowledge production and learning in housing struggles" I examine how knowledge is produced and learned within housing struggles, particularly how non-housing issues spill over into housing movements. Full paper here 👉 doi.org/10.1007/s435...

Fintan O'Toole: Nuclear weapons have been in the Middle East for decades – not in Iran, but in Israel www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Just a reminder that tomorrow's (Wed 25th, 1 pm) webinar is with Germany's leading expert on the PRS Prof Stefan Kofner. He'll take a critical look at Germany's reference rent system, especially topical in Ireland right now 👉 Register now: xn--ucdhttps-2m3d//lnkd.in/dcx...

"Green Social Housing: Lessons from Vienna" a report by Daniel Aldana Cohen, Aaryaman “Sunny” Singhal, Ruthy Gourevitch and Gianpaolo Baiocchi. climateandcommunity.org/research/vie... #urban #sociology

In this week's post CATU look at the nature of evictions in Ireland using RTB dispute data. Great example of activist research @valescal.bsky.social @javigil.bsky.social theweekinhousing.substack.com/p/eviction-n...

Issue 7.1 is live! 🥁 "Housing disputes, struggles, art and resistance in a time of violence" edited by Camila Cociña, @elaraks.bsky.social Melissa García-Lamarca & Solange Muñoz radicalhousingjournal.org/issue/issue-... #housingstruggles #tenants #transnationalsolidarity #vacancy #resistance

Of course, the moment Ireland gets good weather, my hay fever decides to go full Godzilla The irony is absolutely brutal 😭

‘This is about how we as a community stand together & resist the injustice that’s happening. Hard-working ppl, & members of our family & our community are being treated like criminals. We all collectively have to object to this madness because this is not justice’ www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

Dr Valesca Lima @valescal.bsky.social received the #DCUPresidentAward for Research this year, in the ‘Early Career Researcher’ category, in recognition of her research and work on housing policy and participatory governance. #DCUResearch

#DCUPresidentAwards Profile: Dr Valesca Lima @valescal.bsky.social is an Assistant Professor of Politics at DCU. Dr Lima researches policymaking and governance with three main areas of interest: citizen participation, housing policy, and social mobilisation. #DCUResearch