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Cian O’Callaghan @ciantocallaghan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I am in very good company in this collection, writing on the politics and praxis of vacancy data with @kathleenstokes.bsky.social @maedhbhlikedave.bsky.social Better still it is all open access

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Alex Dukalskis @alexdukalskis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My department - @ucdpolitics.bsky.social - is hiring two PERMANENT posts in any area of politics, international relations, theory, or development studies. Please apply if you are on the academic job market, and if you're not, please do us a solid & spread the word! Deadline NOV 9.

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Cian O’Callaghan @ciantocallaghan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Delighted to have Nathan McClintock in Trinity Geography for a few weeks. He will be giving a seminar next Thursday - open to the public if anyone would like to come www.eventbrite.com/e/geography-...

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Geography Special Guest Lecture

Geography Seminar Series - Prof. Nathan McClintock

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Ms. Rachel: "Ed Sheeran had an opportunity…Instead he caved to people who refuse to accept what the world knows." "If more than 20,000 white children were killed…everyone would be shouting…Treating some children's lives as less worthy of outrage is racist. Silence during a genocide is not neutral."

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"Ed Sheeran had an opportunity show that we won't be bullied into punishing people for supporting Palestine. Instead he caved to people who refuse to accept what the world knows. A genocide is happening in Gaza. We all need to speak out against it.

"If more than 20,000 white children were killed in another part of the world, everyone would be shouting about it at their concerts. Treating some children's lives as less worthy of outrage is racist. Silence during a genocide is not neutral."

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Cian O’Callaghan @ciantocallaghan.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

This article, featuring interviews with several Palestinian students who received scholarships from Irish institutions (including a masters programme in the school I work) but who have been denied visas, shows the inhumane conditions lived through while still succeeding academically. Let them study

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Mary Gilmartin @marygilmartin.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Announced today. Probably a month in advance. Solidarity with colleagues and students who were planning for a very different start of the academic year.

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Dr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

My uni have just withdrawn Geography, History & Geography and Politics & Geography undergrad courses run from our Penryn campus. Terrible for Cornwall. How did the staff find out? When UCAS clearing opened at 8am 😡

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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

In the name of competitiveness and defence, the EU is going backwards on climate action. €800 billion has been committed to prepare for war by 2030, far outstripping anything that is being invested in climate resilience and a green transition. This is madness. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

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Opinion: Europe needs to start treating the climate emergency as a threat to our national security

Idea that climate action is about individual responsibility is as ridiculous as suggesting everyone can equip themselves to fight in war

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Fort Evil Fruit @fortevilfruit.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

50% off all tapes & digital* today with the code FEF50 *except Merivale / Sikora - use the code to pay normal price! fortevilfruit.bandcamp.com

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Fort Evil Fruit

Irish cassette label. Time Fades Away. Hell Awaits. Kein Zurück für dich.

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Mary Gilmartin @marygilmartin.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Thanks to Social & Cultural Geography for the opportunity to write about books that are important to me. These are the books: the essay is here www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The Derry screening of Displace is taking place in The Nerve Centre tomorrow! So much good stuff happening across the whole festival fortnight and am gutted to be missing it. Emma Warren would be a huge highlight for me amongst an absolute gluttony of savage events in the city! So much on!

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Cian O’Callaghan @ciantocallaghan.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I'm calling on Jim O'Callaghan to approve visas for students from Gaza who have been granted scholarships to Irish universities. Will you add your name to the petition now? my.uplift.ie/petitions/vi... @uplift.ie

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Visa for Gaza students

I'm calling on Jim O'Callaghan to approve visas for students from Gaza who have been granted scholarships to Irish universities. Will you add your name to the petition now?

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neilgray00.bsky.social @neilgray00.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Good to see my book, 'Take Over the City: Spatial Composition in Italian Autonomy', is now published in the US with @CommonNotions (UK release August). Link below👇 Would love to hear from potential reviewers or anyone who can facilitate a talk or book launch. Neil.Gray@glasgow.ac.uk

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James Dyke @jamesgdyke.info · 30/06/2026

Can you help push the petition numbers over 20k? www.change.org/p/stop-redun... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Nearly 20K sign petition to stop University of Exeter job cuts

The university says the measures which would hit Devon and Cornwall posts were currently proposals.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

How it started / how it’s going

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

All solidarity to my brilliant former colleagues at Exeter. The careful, deliberate dismantling of british higher education by its nominal 'leaders' - focused especially on the arts & humanities - is going to be rememberd as one of the major scandals of this generally awful/scandalous age.

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Kevin Hargaden @kevinhargaden.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

I say this as a dude who knows more about religion than the average guy: This is the language of a cult. Delusional fanaticists have the global economy in a death grip of their petty dogma "Biological limits are real, but digital potential is infinite." theprint.in/feature/jeff...

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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says human water consumption is limiting AI's potential

Skipping fears of mass unemployment, Bezos used his VivaTech panel to argue that an 'artificial general engineer' just creates more tasks.

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Cian O’Callaghan @ciantocallaghan.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

We are looking to recruit for two executive officer posts for our undergraduate team within the School of Natural Sciences and with respect to Geography and Geology teaching programmes - please share with anyone who might be interested universityvacancies.com/trinity-coll...

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Executive Officer | University Vacancies Ireland

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Cian O’Callaghan @ciantocallaghan.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I always appreciate when comparison is done in a considered way and this is the case with this short reflection on how housing policy priorities from Vienna could inform South Africa theconversation.com/south-africa...

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South Africa is short of 2.6 million homes: Vienna’s approach to social housing offers useful lessons

Vienna’s experience provides a useful point of reference for reflecting on how social housing delivery might be accelerated in South Africa.

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Elaine Burke @elaineburke.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Also I feel very much like I was just at an Enterprise Ireland announcement, not a Research Ireland one. Major focus on industry, commercialisation of research, turning scientists into entrepreneurs, creating a talent pipeline for industry, and an overriding theme of fairly ill-defined "scale".

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Cian O’Callaghan @ciantocallaghan.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Took recommendation & loved this too. A pleasure to read the passages about the Museum Building (& comfort that moths more common than my office). A lot else resonated with me, on failures & frustrations of writing, on class, on parenting young kids while working, & feeling at boundary of identities

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Cian O’Callaghan @ciantocallaghan.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Good to see this important contribution. Universities in Ireland must coordinate to resist this change

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mickbyrne.bsky.social @mickbyrne.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Really thoughtful review of my book by @dukechussey93.bsky.social, addressing some of the thorniest issues in the book, i.e. the conceptualisation of home and value www.rundale.org/2026/06/03/c...

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Chasing the Tiger – Ireland’s Private Rental Sector -Rundale

A review of Michael Byrne’s Beyond Generation Rent: Political Economy, Inequality and the Private Rental Sector

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Cian O’Callaghan @ciantocallaghan.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Lots of great contributions here, including an insightful analysis by @dukechussey93.bsky.social of @mickbyrne.bsky.social book which forms a launching off point to consider value theory and housing politics

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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

The May issue of Rundale on the theme of housing is out now. Five new contributions that approach housing and inhabitation in Ireland from new angles, offering different framings of (and answers to) ‘the housing question’. Quality analysis that you just don't find elsewhere. rundale.org

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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

University staff say €4.55bn research fund ignores arts and humanities www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

irishtimes.com

University staff say €4.55bn research fund ignores arts and humanities

Letter to Min Higher Ed

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Cian O’Callaghan @ciantocallaghan.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

RIP Sonny Rollins. Always one of my favourites

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

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Cian O’Callaghan @ciantocallaghan.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

If you want to understand what’s going on in the city (and why) in relation to housing, public space, investment in infrastructure, and local community is very much recommend.

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Cian O’Callaghan @ciantocallaghan.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Sometimes it snows in April, sometimes it hailstones in May

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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

2,700 in limbo for months, with more than 600 expected to lose their jobs. Having been at risk of redundancy last year, I can’t imagine the impact of so many feeling so insecure and devalued. Cruel and destructive. Solidarity to all.

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Urban Political Podcast @urbanpolitical.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

In this episode, you will hear: Tracy Rosenthal, Jaime Palomera, Jacob Stringer, as well as the host (and guest) Michael Byrne.

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Katie Lumsden @katiejlumsden.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

I get a lot of AI slop book marketing emails, but this is the first time I have ever been . . . mistaken for Jane Austen.

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

These numbers should be amplified everywhere there is a flat surface. The 3,000 person sample size was statistically significant. The direction of travel is positive but runs directly contrary to the perception born in the echo-chamber of Twitter-brained media and politics. (H&CC is a client)

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Year-on-year datasets tracking changes in public sentiment in Ireland between 2024 and 2025 show
that 66% agree that immigrants contribute positively to Irish culture and community, which is up 2% up from 64% in 2024.
79% believe working-class people are struggling due to systemic inequality which is also up 2% from 77% in 2024.
Those who believe wealthy people are successful because they were given more opportunities than others has risen from 63% in 2024 to 69% in 2025.
The number of people who support the freedom of transgender people to live their lives is up 5% up from 70% in 2024.
80% agree that Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities face greater barriers to success than white people, up 5% up from 75% in 2024.

Research Framework
Ireland in Focus draws on multiple sources of data to provide a clearer understanding of how hate, disinformation and far-right mobilisation are evolving across Ireland in
2025. This includes H&CC's analysis of far-right developments in political organising, informal networks and far-right agitators, giving insights into how narratives, mobilisation and organising strategies are emerging and shifting.
company Dynata. The data was independently weighted by Ireland Thinks using demographic and methodological controls such as age, gender, ethnicity and voting behaviour at time of poll fielding to ensure representativeness and statistical robustness. The consistent methodology across both waves allows for reliable year-on-year comparison of sentiment and social trends and the large sample size gives high levels of statistical significance.
Ireland in Focus also draws data from 89 communities' crisis responses (49 in 2024 and 40 in 2025) supported by H&CC to capture how local communities responded in real time to moments of tension, protest and disinformation.
Ireland in Focus, assesses public attitudes through two large, nationally representative, anonymous surveys conducted in 2024 and 2025, each with approximately 3,000 respondents via independent polling
The consistency in design across both years provides a robust basis for tracking how attitudes are shifting - making this one of the first datasets of its kind in Ireland to capture changes in public sentiment over time. Finally to understand how narratives were spreading and evolving in the public sphere, narrative benchmarking was analysed using a commercial social media research tool.

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Cian O’Callaghan @ciantocallaghan.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Fresh as a sweet Sunday morning, indeed

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Cian O’Callaghan @ciantocallaghan.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Please share - Trinity Geography is hiring for a tenure track position of Assistant Professor in Human Geography with a focus on Historical/Cultural Geography Job details can be found here jobsireland.ie/en-US/job-De...

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Cian O’Callaghan @ciantocallaghan.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

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Cian O’Callaghan @ciantocallaghan.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Very interesting article by my friend @columfromcork.bsky.social reflecting on structural constraints facing college students as they juggle multiple demands and ways to build structured space/time on campus to create belonging

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Cian O’Callaghan @ciantocallaghan.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Very pleased to speak to Eithne Dodd recently for this interesting piece from the This Week show revisiting ghost estates almost 20 years after the crash www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

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Almost 60 ghost estates remain two decades on from crash

Nearly 20 years on from the financial crash, almost 60 ghost housing estates remain across Ireland.

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