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Negotiating Openness under Authoritarian Risk: Feminist Open Data Sharing in Hong Kong Open data has become increasingly common in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine (STEMM) in recent years, but its promise falters when the “data” are people’s stories, such as i...

Negotiating Openness under Authoritarian Risk: Feminist Open Data Sharing in Hong Kong by Lucas Wong & Tak-Yin Yumi Wong in The Journal of Electronic Publishing 29(1). Charts the tension between visibility and vulnerability in open data. doi: doi.org/10.3998/jep....

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12 month postdoc post working on my ERC funded Data Stories project. The role is to undertake a comprehensive data audit of the data terrain of housing, property and planning in Northern Ireland & compare to Republic of Ireland. Closing date 31 March 2026. Job details: my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr...

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Geogames: The Future’s Language of Urban and Regional Planning Thematic Issue, Vol 11 (2026)

Geogames: The Future’s Language of Urban and Regional Planning. Special issue of 11 papers in the journal 'Urban Planning' edited by Bruno Andrade, Alenka Poplin, Marta Dodig and David Schwartz. doi.org/10.17645/up....

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The digital turn in planning and the production of ‘good enough’ planning systems The digitalization of planning has taken place in a context where planning work is on-going and cannot be halted, and in which there are embedded institutional and technical systems and practices, ...

The digital turn in planning and the production of ‘good enough’ planning systems by Carla Kayanan, @juliettedavret.bsky.social, Sam Mutter & @robkitchin.bsky.social, now published in issue 34(4) of European Planning Studies. Access PDF at www.tandfonline.com/eprint/2CZIS...

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The data politics of estimating housing need and demand: evidence-informed policy, data debates, and data valences How many housing units need to be built to meet demand is a perennial question that governments in market economies must grapple with and act on. Build too few units and excess demand will drive up...

The data politics of estimating housing need and demand: Evidence-informed policy, data debates, and data valences. New paper in International Journal of Housing Policy about Ireland's HNDA process by Carla Kayanan and Rob Kitchin. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Digital Geographies of Hope: The Transformative Power of Media Thematic Issue, Vol 14 (2026)

Digital Geographies of Hope: The Transformative Power of Media. Special issue of Media and Communication edited by Cornelia Brantner, Kaarina Nikunen and Georgia Aitaki. doi.org/10.17645/mac...

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12 month postdoc post working on my ERC funded Data Stories project. The role: undertake a data audit of the data terrain of housing, property and planning in Northern Ireland + interviews with key stakeholders. Closing date 31 March 2026. Details: my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr...

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Democracy and Digital Citizenship

Conference on Democracy & Digital Citizenship, 27-28 August 2026, Aarhus, Denmark. conferences.au.dk/democracy-di... Pre-conference, 26 August: Social Media Influence: Understanding digital influence infrastructures

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Counter Data Mapping as Communicative Practices of Resistance Thematic Issue, Vol 14 (2026)

Counter Data Mapping as Communicative Practices of Resistance, 12 open access papers in the journal, Media and Communication. www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcomm...

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The Politics of Counting Homelessness: The Case of Ireland - MURAL - Maynooth University Research Archive Library

New paper by @juliettedavret.bsky.social The politics of counting homelessness: The case of Ireland. Housing Policy Debate, doi: 10.1080/10511482.2025.2599125. OA postprint: mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/20...

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Research Ireland Public Service Fellowship - Research Ireland The Research Ireland Public Service Fellowship offers researchers a unique opportunity to be temporarily seconded to Government Departments and Agencies (Host Organisations) to work on specific projec...

Research Ireland Public Service Fellowship. These like a good opportunity to work with state agencies on projects www.researchireland.ie/funding/publ...

72 projects listed. Shame none of them relate to housing or planning. But then why would we need any research about those ...

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Beyond Generation Rent: Political Economy, Inequality, and the Private Rental Sector Beyond Generation Rent: Political Economy, Inequality, and the Private Rental Sector, As societies struggle to respond to the revival of private renting, this book offers the first comprehensive and c...

My book is out on Friday in print and ebook. Get a 40% discount wit this code: MIB26

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Thanks to @mickbyrne.bsky.social, Lorcan Sirr & Richard Waldron for sharing their reference libraries to aid the database construction, and to Lorena Borges Dias, Kerry-Ann D’Arcy and Elina Micah Musa for working on compiling the hub.

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Zotero | Your personal research assistant

New housing and planning resource for Ireland – a publications hub. >1,800 academic, policy and sector publications relating to housing, property and planning in Ireland. Access at www.zotero.org/groups/55867... if there are pubs missing you want us to add, please send them to us and we will do so

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John & Pat Hume Doctoral Awards at Maynooth University John & Pat Hume Doctoral Awards 2026-2027 The call for student applications for the John & Pat Hume Doctoral Scholarship Awards opens on Monday 1st December 2025 at 12 noon and closes on Friday 23rd

John & Pat Hume Doctoral Awards 2026-2027 at Maynooth University. 4 year scholarship (€25,000 stipend, €2,000 research expenses plus fees). Applicants can find more details and identify potential supervisors and the topics they are willing to supervise at www.maynoothuniversity.ie/graduate-res...

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Dialogues on Digital Society - Volume 1, Number 3 Table of contents for Dialogues on Digital Society, 1, 3

Special issue on Authoritarianism in the Digital Age, vol 1(3) in @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social, edited by @kylzjarrett.bsky.social, Jing Hiah, @robkitchin.bsky.social & @steelecat717.bsky.social y.social. All 49 pieces open access. journals.sagepub.com/toc/ddsa/1/3

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Situating automated infrastructure: (Dis)continuities, contingencies and spatialities by Weiqiang Lin, Peter Adey, Tina Harris and Dylan Brady. Intro to special section on automated infrastructure. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Themed intervention: Geographies of Responsibility, Care and Repair in Digital Worlds of AI. Papers appearing in online first list rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14755661...

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Engaging Publics in Media, Cities and Space - Online Conference 2025

Engaging Publics in Media, Cities and Space – and Boosting the Impact of Your Research. An online one-day Conference by the ECREA Media, Cities and Space (MCS) section. Tuesday, 25 November 2025, 10:00–17:00 GMT. Register at docs.google.com/document/d/e...

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Authoritarianism in the digital age - Kylie Jarrett, Rob Kitchin, Jing Hiah, Catherine Knight Steele, 2025

Authoritarianism in the digital age by @kylzjarrett.bsky.social, @robkitchin.bsky.social, Jing Hiah and @steelecat717.bsky.social in @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social. Intro to special issue with 48 papers on the topic. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Trans data epistemologies: Transgender ways of knowing with data - Nikko Stevens, Amelia Lee Doğan, 2025 Amidst proliferating threats to trans rights, transgender activists are using data and data activism to advocate for and to protect trans communities. This tran...

Trans data epistemologies: Transgender ways of knowing with data by @drnikko.bsky.social and @ameliadogan.bsky.social in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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On method, and the present and future of “doing” urban geography Based on a survey of research articles published in Urban Geography between 2020 and 2024, I identify a tepidness in qualitative urban geographers’ relationship with method. This tepidness is marke...

On method, and the present and future of “doing” urban geography by Agnieszka Leszczynski in Urban Geography. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Data debates in urban development: the data politics of facts and counter-facts Data relating to urban development are often accepted and used at face value, treated as impartial, objective, incontrovertible facts. However, the validity and veracity of official datasets can be...

New paper on housing data debates that traces arguments in news media between 2010 & 2025 about the number of #vacant dwellings & housing #completions in Ireland & examining the data politics of facts and counter-facts. In @journalurp.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/eprint/6UCGN...

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Call for papers. Workshop: Data Migration and Mobilities: Towards a New Research Agenda. Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech), Tallinn, Estonia, 8-9 April 2026. Organised by Anu Masso & @robkitchin.bsky.social. Deadline for submissions 15 Oct.

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Daft.ie for Noobs: Gaming Ireland's property market by spoofing property websites by @virt-arch.bsky.social, Ella Harris, Carla Kayanan, Hannah Mumby. Session as part of Research Week at MU, October 23, 2025, 13:00 to 14:00 www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/...

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Can AI Help Build Cities Better? – Communications of the ACM

Can AI Help Build Cities Better? Advancing urban planning with algorithmic urbanism by Samuel Greengard in Communications of the ACM, cacm.acm.org/news/can-ai-...

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Navigating digital geographies: Black boxes, geospatial narratives, and the art of constructing location data by Thomas Cooke, @dancohen.bsky.social & @marxist.af
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New resource: Directory of longitudinal datasets about property & planning in Ireland (>350 datasets)

New report: ‘The property and planning data ecosystem in Ireland: Gaps, silences and issues’

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Based on workshops held by Data Stories project and CSO

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New report: ‘The property and planning data ecosystem in Ireland: Gaps, silences and issues’

New resource: Directory of longitudinal datasets about property & planning in Ireland (>350 datasets)

mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/20...

Based on workshops held by Data Stories project and CSO

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