What's up with academic publishing?

How do so many people working for free make such expensive and inaccessible research? Our latest TikTok in our academic publishing series looks at this question buff.ly/qNzlEF9 #CDJ #AcademicPublishing #TikTok

Tariffs by any other name and we know who’s going to end up paying it 🤷

University ‘dude walls’ must fall

What's up with the dude wall? Órla O'Donovan writes on the prevalence of portraiture of former male university presidents and notaries in university buildings, and the place these structures have in contemporary public universities struggling to break historic links to elitism and extractivism #CDJ

Órla O'Donovan: ‘What’s up with the dude wall?’ Rows of portraits of men should have no place in Irish institutions The problem with academic portraiture is that it sustains the myths of meritocracy and obscures privilege

A companion piece to "University ‘dude walls’ must fall has been published in the Irish Times: excellent reading buff.ly/iCWQXYr #CDJ #IrishTimes

Punishment, communities and assemblages

[OPEN-ACCESS] Editor's Choice in our latest issue, Vincenzo Ruggiero on how punishment, as inflicted by custodial institutions, is also inflicted on "free" individuals, and how abolitionist activists could find allies in these identities buff.ly/FE184g0 #CDJ #SpecialIssue

Ah yes sorry didn’t see the megged Goals bit.

MLS vs real in the first leg!

‘I know how to live from what the hill gives’: biocultural uses, tensions and partial reconstructions around the common goods of the Cerro Caracol urban park

Editor's choice in our latest issue, Beatriz E Cid-Aguayo and co-authors write on biocultural land use in Chile, people-nature relationships in urban spaces, and partial reconstructions around common goods from natural spaces buff.ly/CxVKaEV #CDJ #InformalSettlements

Towards 60 years of CDJ

[OPEN-ACCESS] Our co-Editors Ruth Pearce and Kirsty Lohman write in the Editorial for our latest issue, on the upcoming 60th anniversary of the Journal, and on the changes in society seen in the lifetime of the journal buff.ly/iQk6qwL #CDJ #Editorial

What does community do? Reconsidering community action on the Toronto Islands using assemblage theory

Lindsay Stephens writes in our July issue on their use of assemblage theory to investigate the role of community in Toronto, Canada, how community shapes capacity and action, and how desire is transformed to action through community assemblages buff.ly/EgS53aL #CDJ

Feet don’t fail me now
Whatever my lot

What was the one thing a lot of big tech companies kept repeating a few years ago?

Disrupt.

This all looks like idiocy but it smells a bit too intentional. It’s method, not madness and method is more dangerous than madness.

Lakers going for a deep playoff run now

I don’t want to fixate on refereeing and not suggesting conspiracy or anything, but sometimes I wonder if super league would mean higher refereeing standards. Don’t like super league idea but is refereeing becoming more part of the super league “pro” column? @gunnerblog.bsky.social #arsecastextra