National day of action on campuses across the island of Ireland academicsforpalestine.org/2024/04/08/aca…

Solidarity from a distance with my colleagues in Maynooth

Important letter from Iris Moeller of TCD Geography expressing the collective bafflement of geographers about the proposed 'new' leaving cert subject that replicates what Geography already does but risks losing hundreds of years of knowledge + approaches irishtimes.com/ireland/educat…

Issue 2 is out! 3 new articles to remind us that whatever happens in one place is never isolated, nor should it be.

Global finance & Dublin housing; translocal struggles against mining; & the myopia of mainstream environmentalism.

Repositioning elsewhere rundale.org/2024/03/28/rep…

Funded PhD Opportunity - EuroBorderWalks

Join maggie oneill #CeaseFireNow on an IrishResearchCouncil funded project investigating the challenges associated with three borders at the edges of the European Union.

bit.ly/UCCEBW24

Toddler Anhar from north Gaza had puffy cheeks & bright eyes. 4.5 months of Israel assault turned him into skin & bones. He died of starvation on Tuesday.
I can’t even begin to process the horror his parents may have gone through being unable to feed him.
(via Muhammad Shehada)

Last year, the High Court found that the State’s failure to provide accommodation, food and basic hygiene facilities was unlawful and breached the right to dignity under the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU. The situation on the ground is even worse now than it was then.

There is still time to apply to join us! #postdoc #jobs in #environmental and #social science.

A huge win at Oxford Uni in the fight against the gig-economy 👇

Oxford is one of the richest institutions in the world, yet keeps thousands of academics in low paid insecure jobs.

These employment contracts are a sham and need to go.

Oxford UCU

theguardian.com/education/2024…

FAO Early-career Irish Geographers, it's worth applying by 29th for the 2 Geographical Society of Ireland ECR awards (Postgrad Travel/Fieldwork and Doctoral Research)
DMs open to questions about what it was like applying for these. And supervisors, pls share with your (probably fabulous) students...

Thought I was in plenty of time when I went to get a ticket tonight, but I am too late. Gutted.

I’m obviously biased, but the new Leaving Cert subject is looking suspiciously like Geography to me…

After Dublin Inquirer published an article on councillors' efforts to get Dublin City Council to stop buying HP-branded products to support a Palestinian call to boycott, and paid Meta to boost our posts of it, Meta suspended our ad account. Coincidence? At first I assumed so 1/

Sligo Gaa strongly refute rumours about SPARkievicz Park.

'I often lay...looking up into the tree, past the trunk and up into the branches. It was particularly fine at night with the stars above the tree', - Georgia O'Keeffe, The Lawrence Tree,1929 #WomensArt

An interesting thread on opposition to the 1937 Constitution (not least because I learned that Sligo voted 'no')

🎓 Celebrating International Day of Education! 🌍 Today, we spotlight the urgent need for properly funded higher education and the fight against precarious employment. Our latest report lays bare the realities and solutions 👉tinyurl.com/IFUTREPORT

Nearly ONE HUNDRED PROFESSORS killed--not one word from Western universities. One hundred professors.

Word of the day is ‘finifugal’, from the 19th century: avoiding the end of something (a box set, an excellent book, sleep, etc.) because you want it to go on forever.

🚨📢@IFUT stands shoulder-to-shoulder with our NIC ICTU Irish Congress (ICTU) trade union colleagues in the education & public sectors in the north. Striking today against years of pay paralysis due to political gridlock! For change, for fairness, for all! #UnitedWeStrike