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

Before your weird uncle starts going on about how there is no housing crisis at Christmas dinner, you can read my report on how he could be right in a few years if we used our resources correctly 👇 www.jcfj.ie/research/usi...

‘There are young people dying in ­British jails again’ — Kneecap say what the world is ignoring m.independent.ie/opinion/naoi...

She’s a cheesy chick

Article w/ Rory Rowan & Pat Brodie now online in the excellent SI of the Journal of Labor and Society edited by @kaiheron.bsky.social, @alejopedregal.bsky.social & Nemanja Lukić. 'Militarising FDI: Geopolitical Ecology, Dependency, and Ireland’s Twin Transition.' brill.com/view/journal...

7: @pbresnihan.bsky.social, Patrick Brodie and Rory Rowan's timely piece argues that southern Ireland's "twin transition" of digitalization and decarbonization is predicated on the militarization of Irish society and its deeper integration into the imperialist order. brill.com/view/journal...

Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people

My great grandfather was killed two weeks before the end of WWI. His youngest daughter, my nanny, couldn’t remember him because he left for the war when she was a baby. Do not give an inch to anyone championing a repeat of this. Not an inch.

A surprising result, given the recent full throated attack on access to justice from the government and media. Perhaps people are protective of their rights and don't want them diluted at the behest of developers?

BREAKING: At least 373 Palestinians have been killed and 970 wounded since the start of the ceasefire in October, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/ro90fr

So it seems the claim of 30% increase in judicial review in 2025 was based on the number to 26 June & *a guess* at a number for July to Dec (which wasn’t fact checked & is wrong) .. & that erroneous claim is the entire justification for govt plan to limit access to the courts #Speirgorm #Planning

I wrote about The Complex’s first experience of eviction in this paper. In the years since they have clearly embedded themselves in this area of the city and contributed to its vibrancy. We need to protect cultural institutions onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Tomorrow 24 humanitarian volunteers face 20 years in prison in a Greek court for saving lives at sea. One, Seán Binder, grew up in my local town, Castlegregory, Kerry. #SolidarityIsNotACrime #StandWithSeán #DropTheCharges #FreeHumanitarians #NotMyEurope #speirgorm www.politico.eu/article/sean...

I’ve enjoyed getting dvds out of Dublin City libraries over the last few years. And streaming is not at all a functional way to see film. I still miss Laser that was on George’s street; I discovered so many good films from there.

You know, someday I think I’m going to decide I’m too human to pick out all the bicycles in a grid of pictures in order to prove I’m human just so I can look up an article on google scholar

Are any of them in the room with you now, Simon?

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Exciting opportunity to join @ucddublin.bsky.social Regional and Urban Planning team. We wish to appoint a Lecturer/Asst Prof to strengthen research and teaching in (1) urban design and planning, AND/OR (2) transport and planning. Closing 03/12/25. Details: universityvacancies.com/university-c...

In the study’s results summary, the researchers wrote that “suicidality significantly declined". Read 👉 buff.ly/aD9EOjP #GCNnews

I am looking for a Senior Researcher (at least 2 years postdoctoral exp.) for the LivePlatforms project into how people make livelihoods in the platform economy; a 5-year FT post based in the School of Info and Communication Studies at UCD. Do share widely! universityvacancies.com/university-c...

what a surprise, majority of fash "Ireland is full" posts on shitter are from outside Ireland

Absolutely. Reading the testimonies of the students from this course, they express a better pedagogy of teaching and learning than those ‘delivering’ the modules. Despite the ever present time pressures, I think we must hold onto the ideal that education has a value beyond a qualification

I am advertising a funded PhD scholarship on my new project LivePlatforms: Livelihoods in the Platform Economy Ecosystem. More details here: www.ucd.ie/ics/vacancie...

I am organising a session with @kathleenstokes.bsky.social Suraya Scheba and Judith Lehner on “Vacancy, occupation and communing in global conversation” at RC21 in Vienna 2026 - see call for abstracts here rc21-vienna2026.org/call-for-abs...

Article with @dondeniamh.bsky.social & Rory Rowan in today's Irish Times - a response to the relentless media commentary deriding Ireland's neutrality. As Catherine Connolly, and the movement behind her, has shown, neutrality remains popular. Something to build on, not abandon.

“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938 zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context

This is pretty spot on i think open.substack.com/pub/theweeki...

I’ve yet to get my head around the details of housing plan. But - and in the context of recent anti-planning discourse - is the infrastructure fund. Infrastructure is supposed to be delivered thru strategic spatial planning objectives, which is undermined by following where private development goes.

It’s a Gob Bluth magic show

lol she got his ass and he knows it

c.org/WBKZkqBmrC please sign and share

This is awful. Solidarity with UK colleagues against this cruel and stupid gutting of university education and disciplinary knowledge

Another example of the same elevating an issue of minor importance

Cheney's "decades-long struggle to consolidate the unparalleled might of U.S. warmaking within the White House has succeeded... Trump now walks a red carpet of lawlessness, plutocracy and bloodshed woven by Cheney" @attackerman.bsky.social @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Great thread. I heard earlier this week that about 0.2% of planning applications are caught up by judicial review, which seems like a fairly reasonable number that can't really explain the housing crisis after all... ?

Catching up a few days late here. But was very pleased and proud to see @alexiacobrien.bsky.social graduate with her PhD in geography on a very rainy Thursday in Trinity

Wow! This looks amazing!

Imagine reading “Surgeon General wanted, detailed knowledge of anatomy is helpful but is not a requirement where candidate can quickly acquire an understanding of surgery, anaesthetics, pharmacology & acute hospital management” #Housing Tsar job description:

This article, which is essentially free advertising by the Irish Times for a tech company, contains their boast that their new legal AI has a "zero error rate" when answering questions about Irish law. Be afraid - be very afraid. www.irishtimes.com/business/inn...

Stephen Collins actually wrote the exact same piece in February. Aren't we lucky to have such sharp and rigorous journalists.

"The deadliest day since the ceasefire began" is a hell of a concept tbh. 🤔

As an alumni of Syracuse University, it's appalling that they are capitulating against a right-wing campaign against Professor Farhana Sultana for exercising her first amendment rights. Do consider signing this letter calling on Syracuse University to reinstate her docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

North Strand box: 168 CC, 23 JG, 35 HH, 53 spoiled Write in votes included several Maria Steens, one each of Gerry Hutch, Alfie Byrne, and Father Ted #aras25

Voted this morning, not many people there. Find some time to get out and vote today

Polling station absolutely dead this morning. Get out and vote folks!

Very interesting paper by @robkitchin.bsky.social on data debates in urban planning in Ireland, focusing on longtunning disputes around the veracity and reliability of residential vacancy and housing completions data. doi.org/10.1080/1753...

In Saggart tonight there's a large group of masked men who just want to protect women and children who also happened to be determined to murder a hotel full of women and children

When she’s allowed to speak, it’s clear that Catherine Connolly is informed about and concerned with policy issues relating to inequality, justice and uneven development. Equally, it is clear that Heather Humphries is classic parish pump politician.

Pls share: Applications open for Summer Institute in Economic Geography, Toronto, 5-10 July 2026 Featuring: Lars Coenen, Karen Lai, Devika Narayan and Stefan Ouma Early career economic geographers (broadly defined) are welcome to apply. Stipends available. www.econgeog.net/Toronto2026