The defunct railway network - Belfast and County Railway. All but the line between Belfast and Bangor was closed in the 1950s, although some of it has been restored near Downpatrick by a heritage line, the Downpatrick and County Down Railway. #CountyDown #SpéirGhorm

"Egypt's geographical tradition: The post-independence moment and shifting regional imaginations " a short intervention, part of a set, out and open access in case of use. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

"Killing members of a group, causing them serious bodily and mental harm, deliberately inflicting conditions calculated to destroy the group, and preventing births" This is the daily horror being inflicted on Palestinians through this war, and arguably long before it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Identity, patriotism, symbolism @domsball.bsky.social placing flags in context @theconversation.com theconversation.com/ive-research...

🚨JOB Alert🚨 We are looking for another postdoctoral researcher to cover the history of veterans in the British colonies of Southern and/or East Africa in the interwar period. 24 month contract, deadline October 03. Please share widely. universityvacancies.com/maynooth-uni...

Lough Neagh and its system of peripheral waterways on course to record worst year of algal blooms to date. While rescue plans for Ireland's largest inland waterbody stall, the fallout from this pollution crisis deepens. My story in today's @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“Over the past 20 years, Paris has undergone a major physical transformation, trading automotive arteries for bike lanes, adding green spaces and eliminating 50,000 parking spaces. Part of the payoff has been invisible — in the air itself.” Leadership, strategy, real action, common sense. #Paris

A thoughtful and considered article; worth a read.

"I have to play it by ear as I have no money. God has always come through, so I'll see what God sets up next" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I did this a couple of years ago and really benefitted from it! Great to get feedback but even better to read exciting new work from other ECRs before it’s published… 🤓🥰

Ah here. Half of Belfast has signs up supporting various proscribed organisations. I can walk out my door and go find some proscribed organisation flags quite handy. This is about suppressing the right to protest. BBC News - Woman released after Belfast protest arrest www.bbc.com/news/article...

80 years ago today WW2 reached its cataclysmic conclusion in the bombing of Hiroshima. But as I write here, the extraordinary but virtually-unknown story of the Aka island truce is a sliver of hope. Other outcomes are possible. @spaceforpeace.bsky.social theconversation.com/when-us-and-...

Abu Dhabi owned provider of special schools and children's homes sees profits rise by 28% to £44 million due to strong demand. That's all taxpayer money that could be spent on improving state provision. schoolsweek.co.uk/abu-dhabi-ow...

Je suis tout fier de pouvoir partager mon premier article à sortir en francais! Avec Rodrigue Tassé, nous examinons la formation des diplomates à l’Institut des Relations Internationales du Cameroun depuis 1971. Ce lien donne accès à l'article gratuitement pour un mois shs.cairn.info/tap-xue6pwfw...

'A woman who refused to be silenced in fight for republican independence' Thanks to the @irish_examiner for this wonderful exposure of our new biography on Mary MacSwiney in last Saturday's paper. Mary MacSwiney will have it's Cork launch at City Hall this Friday All welcome RSVP [email protected]

Irish-Scottish Cultural Diplomacy and Relations event in Dublin (and online) this September @ria.ie Programme and registration information can be found here: www.tickettailor.com/events/royal...

Geopolitical football: The cold war match that never happened www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Warm congratulations to our colleagues @benandersongeog.bsky.social and @ajsecor.bsky.social on the publication of their new book 'The Politics of Feeling: Populism, Progressivism, Liberalism'. www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p...

Listening on my lunch break… Great to hear the work of my colleague @lloislanel.bsky.social on Mary MacSwiney name-checked during a @theresthistory.bsky.social episode on 'The Irish War of Independence (Part 2)'. 🙌 👇 www.connollybooks.org/product/mary...

My research over the next four years at @dublincityuni.bsky.social is generously funded by @researchireland.ie! 🥳🙏😇 ‘Diaspora Diplomacy and the Migration-Development Nexus’ will work with #Indian, #Brazilian and #Algerian communities across the island of #Ireland. 👇 www.dcu.ie/research/new...

The decimation of life in Gaza is a reproductive genocide. It was a privilege to work with Hala Shoman on our commentary 'No justice in a genocide: sexual and reproductive health and rights in Gaza' in Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Vol. 88 is out! It is our 50th anniversary issue, and includes a special issue on ‘Archives as Worldmaking’ edited by @jakehodder.bsky.social and @snehakrishnan.bsky.social sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-historical-geography/vol/88/suppl/C Take a look at the contents below 🧵 1/31

Next Wednesday, June 25th! Join us at the Royal Irish Academy for “The 2024 Northern Ireland General Election Survey” with Professors Peter Shirlow & @jontonge.bsky.social The event is free, but registration is required🎟️ Still some tickets left: www.ria.ie/events/arins...

📢📢 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...

CFP: Pius XII and Decolonization: Catholicism in North Africa and the Levant, 1939-1958 10–11 Nov. 2025 Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo Organizers: Erica Moretti, Jacopo Pili, Simon Unger Deadline: June 10, 2025 For details: newdiplomatichistory.org/calls-for-pa...

Once again, @nsousanis.bsky.social demonstrates how to make a clear, multi-layered argument using the language and power of comics. Share widely!

25 grad students will have accommodation provided (deadline June 9) for this fee-free Summer School, University of Bologna, Italy, Sept 8-12, "Dissonant memories: geographies of migration, colonialism and trauma". centri.unibo.it/memorylab/it... #unibo

There is so much... but this snapshot especially sobering as that (fired) advisory committee was such a terrific group of experts--as are the state dept. historians.

Great job opportunity here to do some fascinating research with the wonderful @emorier.bsky.social 👇

Yes, it took a genocide for our government to finally act & yes, it is disappointingly watered down. Yet this is still historic. Thanks to relentless campaign pressure, Ireland is now poised to be the first Western country to ban trade with illegal Israeli settlements www.rte.ie/news/2025/05...

📢📢 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...

So pleased to be back in Aix-en-Provence for the 6th @ndh-network.bsky.social hosted by Sciences-Po - sharing outcomes from www.diplotraining.org research over the past few years in our session on Saturday. So many fascinating papers to hear myself before then!

Remember to register for next week's online-only seminar: a panel discussion of 'Adorno and the Antifascist Geographical Imagination,' by Chris Philo. Featuring @milesogborn.bsky.social, @stuartelden.bsky.social, and @feli-k.bsky.social. ‬Details here: www.history.ac.uk/events/a-pan...

A reminder that this funded PhD closes this week (21st May)!

We sent @hooks.bsky.social to Greenland and he came back with a story about imperial folly, the return of the 19th century, and just what Donald Trump and his cronies are really up to there. It's the best thing I've read about Trump's second term newrepublic.com/article/1947...

Great to see - political geographers continuing to advance our thinking on what 'popular geopolitics' looks like in the digital, social, AI-generated media age...

When we discuss the genocide in Gaza, we must choose our words carefully. My letter in today's edition of the @irishtimes.com

Joy to spend the afternoon at @tcddublin.bsky.social to hear @ashleyscottharris.bsky.social deliver the final public lecture on French Studies, focused on her forthcoming book… on the écrivain médiatique in contemporary French literature

Attention ECR/HDR Political Geographers: our 2025 paper award deadline is fast approaching (23 May). Please see the guidelines in the link below and let us know if you have any questions: politicalgeographyaus.wordpress.com/2025/03/03/i... @acbsnetwork.bsky.social

Not since the final years of the Cold War has the Kremlin wielded the concept of colonialism as a tool of its foreign policy as aggressively as it does today. @opolianichev.bsky.social challenges this growing political mythology, for @newlinesmag.bsky.social

Great article by @peadarheaney.bsky.social on the impact of climate change on GBV belfastmedia.com/climate-chan...

After an amazing three days the Conference of Irish Geographers draws to a close. Thanks to all who participated in an incredible programme of presentations, roundtables, posters and two fantastic keynotes. #CIG2025

Now out in issue 30(3): The Many Semantic Lives of Geopolitics: Evidence from the New York Times Archive 1900-2023 by Gerard Toal & Derya Ipek Eroglu @critgeopolitics.bsky.social Read more here:

🎉Finally published OA: My article on the white appropriation of decolonization

📢March Issue of Area📢 The latest Issue of Area brings together a 'Thinking with Methods' Special Section - 'Inside the Notebook' - alongside 6 standard papers. 11 of the 15 papers are #OpenAccess and available to read here ⬇️ rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14754762... #geosky

Just one week to go! www.conferenceofirishgeographers.ie/programme.ht...

My colleagues are all frantically trying to write their ‘justification’ document for compulsory redundancies at the same time as finish up teaching semesters & do fantastic research, as well as parent, live lives, and carry on regardless. This is an unnecessary cruelty. Brutal.

Now out: 'Drawing China: Negotiating Geopolitics in Online Communities', @geopoliticsjournal.bsky.social prize winner at last summer's #Belfast IGU pre-conference. Congratulations to Simon Wellisch and Songmin Liang! Thanks @reecejones.bsky.social for sponsoring. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Today, the ESRI has published 'Comparative Analysis of Economies of Ireland and Northern Ireland', commissioned as part of the Institute’s research programme with the Shared Island Unit, Department of the Taoiseach. 💡 Read the key findings: www.esri.ie/news/compara...

The ERC have given me 5 years to figure out what Europeans really think about democracy. If you would like to come and join me in the endeavour, then I am currently hiring a postdoc @sotonpolitics.bsky.social. Deadline: 30 April | Details here: jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... #polisky