Cian O’Callaghan

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

We invite applications for a permanent Assistant Professor in Physical Geography with expertise in geoinformatics, remote sensing, computational modelling, machine learning, and/or landscape assessment Closing: 12 noon, 18th Nov Visit www.ul.ie/vacancies to find out more

SIPTU has a clear message for public servants scheduled to work from home on Wednesday. Don't do it. Don't open your laptop. Don't check your emails. Don't teach online. Don't answer your phone. A strike only works when the work stops. Remote work is work. #UnionStrike

Making Time for Student Life Last week’s #LTHEchat sparked lots of interest in how we make protected Student Life Hours work at Marino. I’m hosting an informal chat this Wednesday at 7pm to talk through the practicalities and hear what others are trying. We’ll finish by 7:45, before #LTHEchat.

Members of my union, IFUT, will have a one hour work stoppage today, from 12-1, as part of the broader public sector union dispute. Read about it here: www.ifut.ie/content/ifut... - solidarity welcome on World Teachers Day

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.

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-...

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."

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

Chat Pile were great tonight. Another good one from @foggynotions.bsky.social

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

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 😡

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...

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....

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!

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

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

50% off everything in policy press with the summer sale policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-new-urba...

Great piece on immigration and housing, well worth a look @tonygroves.bsky.social @davidmurphyrte.bsky.social @shamimmalekmian.eurosky.social @samtranum.bsky.social shanefitzsimons.substack.com/p/its-not-im...

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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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.

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...

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...

Looking forward to taking a proper read through this based on research and campaigning from the Just Housing team @pbresnihan.bsky.social and @catuireland.bsky.social radicalhousingjournal.org/2026/from-da...

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...

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".

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

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...

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

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

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

RIP Sonny Rollins. Always one of my favourites

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...

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.

Sometimes it snows in April, sometimes it hailstones in May

Launching my book on May 26th. Join me in conversation with Rory Hearne, hosted by Kitty Holland. Should be a great discussion of housing politics and the PRS @maoiliosarey.bsky.social @fingalpimpernel.bsky.social @pbresnihan.bsky.social @ciantocallaghan.bsky.social docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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.

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

Very interesting

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

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)

Fresh as a sweet Sunday morning, indeed

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...

This is very good