Nothing sums up what’s wrong with our property system more than landscapes pockmarked with decay across #DerelictIreland. What many see as failure, Trinity’s Cian O’Callaghan shows can function as strategy.

Looking forward to see this on Sunday

Solidarity with striking colleagues in the UK www.ucu.org.uk/article/14401

We out here.

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Every one needs to watch and hear this testimony especially in the UK where the leaders of both far right parties have plans to introduce a version of ICE to the streets of Britain.

Regardless of what you think of the Triple Lock, the Government's efforts to remove it without a referendum is anti-democratic and flies in the face of any claims about 'reclaiming sovereignty' over foreign policy. h/t Louth Neutrality Network

We're recruiting 2 PhD candidates in human geography here in Uppsala, one position focused on urban/housing issues and one in political ecology. Please spread the word/repost etc. Being a PhD student in Sweden is a good gig.

Very good overview. This is starting to look like it could get messy.

I finished watching The Lowdown recently, which id recommend. One of the enjoyable things about it is a great soundtrack, featuring a lot of Oklahoma musicians - I got introduced to this lovely piece of strangeness from Lee Hazlewood from a record I hadn’t heard before youtube.com/watch?v=MhAW...

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

"today, all politics is about real estate"

My book is out on Friday in print and ebook. Get a 40% discount wit this code: MIB26 @robkitchin.bsky.social @maedhbhlikedave.bsky.social @maoiliosarey.bsky.social @codyhochstenbach.bsky.social @javigil.bsky.social @fingalpimpernel.bsky.social @adrianasoaita.bsky.social tinyurl.com/kxunfkb4

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

If one third of the housing stock was social housing we probably wouldn’t have half the housing problem we have. But it suits the far right (for obvious reasons) and the government (to detract from their policy failures) to inflate migration figures & their impact on housing. Fuelling misinformation

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Great new paper which examines the somewhat ambiguous role that Approved Housing Bodies increasingly play in the Irish housing system

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The protestors in Nepal were flying Straw Hit Pirates flags. Fandom is a much more powerful motivator than political theory these days because we exist in a realm of politics that is essentially a form of fandom. Sorry but Marx and Lenin are dead; long live Luffy and Luthen.

what you clearly see, CLEARLY, is a driver who is spooked by the agents grabbing her door, takes steps to drive away, and is immediately shot as moves her vehicle *away* from the agents.

My mother was a refugee of the Salvadoran civil war. The Americans backed the fascists that took over the country. Now Salvador is run by a pro yankee crypto dictator who has built the largest concentration camp in the western hemisphere. That, is American intervention.

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