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!

Scamp Media@scampmedia.bsky.social · 15h ago

Great to see Displace: The Battle for Dublin opening this year's Féile film programme in Derry. The line up is incredible, and I'm gutted to be missing things like a workshop with the likes of Emma Warren who writes about dancefloors as sites of community care. There's SO MUCH ON over the festival!

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

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?

my.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...

The New Urban Ruins

The New Urban Ruins - Vacancy, Urban Politics and International Experiments in the Post-Crisis City; This book provides an innovative perspective to consider contemporary urban challenges through the ...

policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk

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...

It's not immigration. Full stop.

Dispelling housing myths with facts and figures

shanefitzsimons.substack.com

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

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.

bbc.co.uk

How it started / how it’s going

Lauri Donahue@lauridonahue.bsky.social · last mo.

futurism.com/future-socie... lol

www.independent.ie/irish-news/e...

‘Sad day for Ireland’s future’: Academics and Research Ireland row over how to spend €4.55bn of taxpayers’ money

In a letter to Higher Education Minister, 2,300 academics criticise state agency’s strategy, saying it was an assault on Ireland’s research ecosystem, with too much focus on industry interests

independent.ie

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.

Ben Phillips@benphillips1989.bsky.social · last mo.

A statement from Exeter UCU branch @ucu.org.uk - please share far and wide.

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...

From data collection to direct action: » Radical Housing Journal

This paper examines the role of research in supporting tenant organising through reflecting on a collaborative project undertaken with the Community Action Tenants Union (CATU) in the Cromcastle Court...

radicalhousingjournal.org

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...

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.

theconversation.com

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".

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

Mary Gilmartin@marygilmartin.bsky.social · 3mo ago

And @ciantocallaghan.bsky.social might be interested in the starring role of the Museum Building

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

Rob Kitchin@robkitchin.bsky.social · 2mo ago

My letter to Minister Lawless about Research Ireland's decision to devolve the awarding of doctoral scholarships & postdoctoral fellowships to universities. A disastrous move. Please consider raising this issue in your own institutions and with elected representatives and the media.

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

Patrick Bresnihan@pbresnihan.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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

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...

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

Letter to Min Higher Ed

irishtimes.com

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...

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

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

slate.com

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.

Sam Tranum@samtranum.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I've always felt the best way to get people subscribe to @dublininquirer.com, is just to publish good articles and wait and hope. But I'm told, that people are busy and might have other things on their minds than us, so I'd better make a pitch, better ask. So here goes. 1/

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...

Beyond Generation Rent, RSVP

Beyond Generation Rent: Author and housing researcher Michael Byrne in conversation with Rory Hearne TD. Facilitated by Irish Times journalist Kitty Holland.

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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.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3mo ago

Thousands of University of Nottingham staff told they are at risk of redundancy

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

Very interesting

Los Campesinos!@loscampesinos.bsky.social · 3mo ago

📈 Los Camp! Present Their Tour Accounts 🔍 lnk.to/LCAccounts A breakdown of every penny spent and earned on our sold out 2024 North American tour. In our continued pursuit of a transparent and honest Music Biz, here’s EXACTLY what the situation is for Los Camp!.

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