I've just signed this petition calling on the council to trial a Strand Road cycle path for 12 months. Will you sign too? my.uplift.ie/petitions/tr... @uplift-ireland.bsky.social

Tomorrow 4:15pm! Ive Marx presenting "Zero Poverty Society" - co-hosted by CUNY Graduate Center ARC and the Stone Center. @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @stone-lis.bsky.social Zoom link below. 👇 👇 👇

📢𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗵 𝗜𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝘀 𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮 𝗖𝗘𝗢!📢 This is a unique opportunity to drive change & grow a movement for a just world where people and nature thrive.✊🌍 📆Applications close Sun 13th April More details👇 www.friendsoftheearth.ie/jobs/chief-e...

New👇post summarizes main arguments from our Sociology paper (w. @mikesavagelse.bsky.social, @marentoft.bsky.social): how different strands of #class analysis can be easily mobilized to study #wealth and #asset inequalities in its various forms & shapes.💰🏰💸 Original paper: doi.org/10.1177/0038...

New @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social blog on local welfare as part of our @safety-nets.bsky.social research. In workstream 3 we're exploring discretionary & local welfare & asking questions about spatial inequalities & poverty reduction. blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

Why we don’t need Westminster to tackle destitution in Scotland. I'm delighted to have co-written this piece in today's Herald with my @i-sphere.bsky.social colleague Rhiannon Sims... www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...

I was on the Pat Kenny Show this morning on Newstalk discussing various government schemes to bring vacant and derelict property back into use. Listen back here podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t...

There are comparatively few social protection enhancements that build on the experience of the temporary covid schemes. But Ireland's new earnings-related unemployment benefit, which begins today, counts as one, paying up to €450 per week for 3 months. www.rte.ie/news/busines...

Timo Wiesner's new publication challenges the idea that there is a lack of public response to rising inequality, as in an increase in support for redistribution. doi.org/10.1093/ser/...

Women put off cycling by safety fears and intimidating drivers – study www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ma...

There remains a significant gender pay gap in Ireland and Jen Keane has built a portal based on available reporting & data where you can check your employer www.paygap.ie #speirgorm #genderpaygap #inequalitypersists #closethegenderpaygap

While to topic was about the value of research, the panel discussion was around research impact. Helen Dixon (UCD) was the only person on the panel to defend fundamental research as the driver of innovation in our knowledge economy. Also I fear AHSS will have it hard in the new RI structure 3/3

In monetary terms, @researchireland.bsky.social wasted about €50k in research money (our research time), simply because 200 academics were in room with aim to be consulted, without being consulted, and not progressing on their research. In your upcoming regional town halls, listen to us. 2/3

The Irish research community really needs a success from the merger of SFI and IRC @researchireland.bsky.social, but today's consultation event with senior academics was a farce. For an entire morning we were invited to a panel discussion, but had no chance for consultation. @kosull.bsky.social 1/3

10 Years Since the Paris Agreement: What do the climate data show? I show the key data that everyone should know about in 15 minutes, in my talk at the ITB Berlin on Thursday. youtu.be/xOYbDRHQF7k?...

📢I am looking for someone to join the team to work on an exciting multidisciplinary team project to examine transport planning in small towns in Ireland universityvacancies.com/trinity-coll...

My latest column for the Irish Times: How President Trump's administration is systematically dismantling US climate action. www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

We're now faced with the dangerous prospect of being locked into polluting LNG in Ireland, with statements from the new Govt supporting an LNG terminal in Ireland. Will you act now to demand the Government rejects polluting LNG?👇 www.friendsoftheearth.ie/act/make-sur...

We are looking for your submissions to our ESPAnet 2025 stream: www.espanetmilano2025.it/en-US/stream... The more submissions, the more paper slots. And great team of convenors! @petroleuse-sbd.bsky.social P. Schober @cassandraengeman.bsky.social @heejungchung.bsky.social @hannahzagel.bsky.social

As happened in the 1920s and 1950s, the UK is once again heading into a period of public debate about pylons being built through rural areas. The Science Museum has a great archive of those earlier public information campaigns collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/documents/aa...

Meet with our staff and students and find out about full-time and part time postgraduate options, including programmes in Equality Studies, Gender Studies, Public Policy and Professional Masters in Social Work. Register now! www.ucd.ie/graduateadmi...

I'm listening to 'Ghost buses' partly due to mechanics shortage, says operator on RTÉ Radio 1 rteradioapp.page.link/TBmBXuSYpnV4...

If you're interested in post-growth economic thinking, this newly published article will be right up your street. It was a big pleasure to work on it with such a fantastic group of co-authors. Check it out here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Come and work with us!

It is expected that Ireland will generate more electricity from utility-scale solar PV than from coal this year 🌞 And PV installations are growing so quickly (from such a low base) that similar solar power was generated in October this year than June 2023. SEAI's "Energy in Ireland" is out today.

Read the final report of the group of experts: www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...

Made my first starter pack! These are the climate journalists I know and love and highly recommend following on BlueSky so far. Please tell me who I'm missing (and apologies in advance if I've missed you, I swear it's not intentional!) go.bsky.app/1ivUnG

Tomorrow at 12.00 at UCD

And here is my starter pack for comparative housing policy. Suggestions welcome. go.bsky.app/3Ckew3b

Had a first go at creating a starter pack for social policy research. I’m new here and have surely missed lots so please say if you’d like added or removed!

School of Sociology University College Dublin has just advertised a new 4 yr PhD scholarship. Applications in these broad areas particularly welcome: ● Diversities & Inequalities ● Quantitative & Computational Social Science ● Organised Violence, Peace & Nationalism See www.ucd.ie/sociology/st...

I have worked on the slowing and the tipping point of the #AMOC since 1991. Here is what we know now - the short 15 minute summary. AMOC slowing is already affecting our weather. The AMOC tipping point may change your childrens' life. /5 🌊 youtu.be/mm_YZ2juQL4?...

Vacancy at @ Trinity College Dublin, Dep. of Sociology: #tenuretrack Assistant Professor in Quantitative Sociology! Fantastic opportunity for a quant. social scientist. Feel free to get in touch if you have questions. 🗓️Deadline: Dec 2 Apply 👉: jobs.ac.uk/job/DKG430/a...