Seriously though, who wants to go in on a fully functional, 2-screen, 1930s cinema in Youghal? www.hegartyproperties.ie/property/reg...

The nation that invented a drink called the "Irish car bomb" has something it wants to tell us about culturally sensitive naming practices apparently.

Definitely I want to hear about the future of the university from a man currently running yet another round of layoffs and who has - once again - been subject to an overwhelming vote of no confidence from his staff.

Why in the name of sweet christ is the Irish state funding a chair at *the university of cambridge*?! www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Spring has sprung lads

TIL there's a 1982 edited collection called "Against Sadomasochism: A Radical Feminist Analysis" which features essays by, among others, Susan Leigh Star and one "Judy Butler."

is any nice person able to bung me a pdf of this by any chance?? read.dukeupress.edu/boundary-2/a...

Okay, but it's hard to see how "you should buy this product, says man selling product" is a news story. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Why are the UCD profs like this

Aside from anything else, this seems to fundamentally misunderstand that antagonism, disparagement, refusal etc are both positions in a "debate" *and* active political strategies vis-a-vis technological development.

We are at the point in our head lice journey of softly accepting that it's a lice-world now, and *we* are the parasite.

Oh good, it's sickly ball of batter day again

<once again holding up a tiny sign that says we actually have good evidence about the complex reasons people don't vaccinate, and how to talk to them about it, and, believe it or not, yelling about how stupid/irresponsible they are, while possibly cathartic, has the opposite of the desired effect>

I like how the driver theory test in Ireland is like, "just get the bus."

I'm increasingly of the view that "ANT" basically killed off European STS.

Michel Foucault, you lovable scamp

Suing your university because of changes to teaching during Covid is grim. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Wuthering Heights was generally terrible, though the music was good, and some of the sets and costumes were pretty great. At times, it was best experienced as oddball sci-fi. I feel like Emerald Fennel really does know to make an arresting image, just not how to make films particularly well.

You can't even buy slim fit jeans in h&m any more. Nice one zoomers. I hope you all enjoy looking completely ridiculous.

One lesson here I think is that "x" has become a liability for the far right. Sustaining a big account on that platform, and spending all day talking to creeps, racists, bots etc, means you lose all sense of what a normal person cares about - or even sounds like. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Every six weeks or so I listen to the BBC 'today' programme - and is there ever any actual news on there, or is it just three hours of organised transphobia?

I know we're all done for in the long run - but it's at least a bit funny that, of all possible fields, *geographers* somehow made the list of most screwed professions.

<me lecturing on literally any topic> our story begins in the second half of the nineteenth century

There's lots to hate about REF but the idea it damages the open and free-wheeling intellectual culture of, uh, business schools, is for the birds.

It's been great to have this post discovered by american bluesky and its famously keen, self-deprecating sense of humour.

We've had a significant office upgrade.

Sucks that we have to sit through endless commentary on American football on this app but there's no community to tell me I'm a total moron for triple captaining Gyökeres in the fpl team.

<spins the giant wheel of infant malady> it's headlice lads

(The funniest thing about the Isabel Oakeshott/Bangor tweet is that Oakeshott herself is a graduate of *Bristol*)

We're looking for a new editor for @histhum.bsky.social's para-site histhum.com (founding editor @desfitzgerald.bsky.social; subsequent editors @sarahvmarks.bsky.social @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social), who will also be the journal's social media editor Honorarium Deadline: 9 March 2026 Please circulate

I'm happy for the individuals here, but the (by far) most popular political party in Austria is more or less fascist. The idea that the country is a "safe haven" for anything is bananas. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I replaced midweek alcohol with shin ramyun, and I think it might actually be worse?

Genuinely could not have gone worse

The absolute shame of a Cork person describing the UK as "our great country." Fascinating, too, to so blithely erase your own immigrant positionality while spearheading anti-immigrant rhetoric and policy. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

<haha yes sickos meme>

The architecture profession genuinely doesn't get anything like the hate it deserves.

I very much look forward to welcoming Dr. Peter Hession to @unioflimerick.bsky.social as our inaugural O'Malley Fellow! www.ul.ie/news/inaugur...

Is it wrong that I really want to buy this

As a committed Ireland rugby hater, and someone who kept the flame alive through the long, hard years when Ireland were good at rugby, I'm struggling to process the fact that Ireland appear to be, once again... shit at rugby?!

#SpéirGhorm #SpeirGorm

The spatial problem here is that we are governed by ideological suburbanites.

It really is like a particle accelerator for all the absolute worst shit of the last 25 years.

Yeah, it'd be brilliant though if the "US Congress" could just mind its own fucking business 👍

A must-read paper for UK and international social scientists: the Sullivan Review "(re)installs.. a hygienically patrolled division between ‘sex’ and ‘gender’, where a certain model of sex is ‘reality’, and ‘gender identity’ is cast merely as an individual's (psychological) ‘self-understanding.'"

📣 Today @felicitycallard.bsky.social and I have published the first peer-reviewed response to the 'Sullivan Review' of research and data on sex and gender. doi.org/10.1111/tran... The Review could threaten trans rights and inclusion, erode academic freedom, and undermine research quality.

By those whom we love are we made. That education and practices of pedagogy have come to have such a central place in my life is unimaginable without my dear uncle, Andrew Carruthers Garrod. I miss you fas.dartmouth.edu/news/2026/02...

So I went to the blarney stone and it's actually a terrifying experience?! New respect for our US tourist friends.

Anyway, we put on the Guillermo Del Toro Pinnochio and the 5yo started balling because of the death of a child in the opening scene, then the 3yo started screaming at the sinister little wooden creep who replaced him. Overall: two stars, possibly not suitable for young kids.