Mary Gilmartin
Geographer, Sligo Rovers fan, writes books, union member
- Reposted by Mary GilmartinNew: meet ELITE, the Palantir app ICE is using to find neighborhoods to raid. Map interface; officers search for immigrants; click person to bring up individual dossier. This is clearest link between what Palantir is building and ICE's activities on the ground yet www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...
- Reposted by Mary GilmartinAnother day in the archive, reading the diaries of a 19th-century doctor at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London. This Irish migrant's story was, I thought, heartbreaking: May 30 1877, "Yesterday I was called into a ward to interpret for an old man who had been knocked down by an omnibus. ... 1/2
- Reposted by Mary GilmartinIn solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice and border abolition. We’ve also added a list of additional recommended reading:
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- Reposted by Mary GilmartinGeographers, in case you missed this detail, Alex Pretti graduated from the Minnesota Geography department in 2011.
- Our book is out in paperback shortly, and the publishers have made Ch 1 available. Have a read. www.wiley.com/en-gb/Migrat...
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- Reposted by Mary GilmartinBe our colleague… Hiring an Assistant Prof of Urban Geography & Climate Crisis. www.sfu.ca/geography/ab...
- Reposted by Mary GilmartinIn what could plausibly represent a Christmas miracle* SFU Geography has two (2) new tenure track hires. One is urban/climate, which I will repost below. The other is a Landscape Ecologist. Please share ... #academicsky *actually just the good decisions of our new Dean www.sfu.ca/geography/ab...
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- Reposted by Mary GilmartinReally interesting CFP for #IrishinBritain scholars here from @museumofthehome.bsky.social . museumofthehome.org.uk/our-work/res...
- Finally. Our book is on its way to the printer. Looking forward to seeing it in the flesh in early 2026. Order online at www.wiley.com/en-ie/Migrat... or through your local bookshop.
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- A movie that takes place where you're from.
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- Reposted by Mary GilmartinThe demand for geography and GIS skills has never been greater, and the intellectual approaches and conceptual tools of the discipline are more relevant than ever. Now, community college #geography programs are growing fast and changing the landscape of geography #education: buff.ly/GLo0tWP #GeoWeek
- Love finding out what people with Geography degrees do next. Like Liam Scales, now a professional footballer (with Ireland and Celtic)
- Solidarity with all colleagues under threat in Dundee.
- Day 2 of our strike action.Heres some photos from yesterday’s action. Come and join us if you value jobs at the University of Dundee. #SaveDundeeUni #SaveHE
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- Shocking how academic staff in Leicester are being scapegoated for management failures. Human Geography at Leicester has always been an exceptional department. Any decent university management would be fighting to keep them.
- Solidarity with the brilliant geographers and all other staff at risk in Leicester and elsewhere. The willful destruction of livelihoods and cultures of knowledge is shameful.
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- Can anyone make Alan's dream come true?
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- Reposted by Mary GilmartinJust arrived: Debt Trap Nation by @kbrickell.bsky.social & Mel Nowicki “A compelling call to action... shows how reimagining policy could deliver economic justice.” - @nicolajanesharp.bsky.social Author royalties will be donated to @seacharity.bsky.social www.agendapub.com/page/detail/...
- I spoke to Dublin Inquirer about this issue, which seems to have been going on since May.
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- A thoughtful and considered article; worth a read.
- For my latest dispatch from Ireland for America Magazine, I talked to 2 bone fide legends, Sr Lena Deevy and Michael O'Sullivan, to investigate how, if you start to scratch, Irish attitudes to immigration aren't that far away from MAGAland. www.americamagazine.org/dispatches/2...
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- Reposted by Mary Gilmartin"When the first of August came round, the Professor realized he had pleasantly trifled away nearly two months at a task which should have taken little more than a week." --Willa Cather, 1925 and timeless
- Reposted by Mary GilmartinThe Trump administration’s deportation machine has made women invisible targets. If you’ve ever wondered, like me, what happens to all the women ICE detains:
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- 'Feminist City' by Leslie Kern is a great read: accessible, political, provocative. Ideal for showing why geography matters and, if you're in Ireland, available in public libraries around the country.
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- My department (Geography, Maynooth University) is looking to appoint an Assistant Lecturer in Human Geography for a 25-month contract starting Jan 2026. Apply by 17 August 2025. Details here: my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr...
- Reposted by Mary GilmartinNew redundancies in Higher Education at: *Anglia Ruskin *Birmingham City *Bristol *De Montfort *Derby *Goldsmiths (yet again) *Greenwich *Hertfordshire *Lancaster *Leicester Every single day in HE is like this. Nothing will be done.
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- Solidarity with colleagues and friends in Newcastle, some of the best academics I know
- Please sign and share this petition to support geographers and others at Newcastle University whose jobs are under threat chng.it/m8nnFHtHsR
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- May be of interest? @donalh.bsky.social @lsarsfieldcollins.bsky.social
- This May Day, I am grateful for trade union members, past and present, who have fought for better conditions for us all. And I am proud to be a union member @ifut.bsky.social
- See @neasahogan.bsky.social, totally ordinary and acceptable
- Look what all those racegoers missed today. #GY234 in the sun (thanks to official photographer Lauren)
- This is a shocking read. Solidarity with everyone affected. qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...
- Solidarity with colleagues in Dundee fighting to save their jobs @ducuuo.bsky.social
