Nan and Grandad having left their homes in County Mayo and photo captured in their new home Coventry 💚

Super excited to have been selected as one of UCD's Earth Institutes Climate Fellows for academic year 2025/26. Typically, I am standing out fashion colour palette wise in the collective photo 😅

Today I am on the train to Galway to present at my funders symposium, The Marine Institute, to discuss the field work and community energy narratives we have gathered the past year in coastal Ireland (Co. Cork & Co. Clare) 🌊💚

Some snaps from today’s launch - I had such a nice time with a lot of dear friends and colleagues, thank you so much everyone 💖 Get on your libraries to get you access to LIVING WITH GHOSTS!

I have left my hermit den (my incredibly over priced Dublin studio flat) and entered the sunshine in Iveagh Gardens, which is by far my fave green space in central Dublin

Autumnal Dublin 🍂🍁

Thou saw’st the locked lovers when leaping from their flaming ship; heart to heart they sank beneath the exulting wave

Spielberg and Bill Butler turned fear into art 🎥 Jaws (1975) redefined cinematography with its haunting underwater shots, masterful use of perspective, and tension built through what isn’t shown. Proof that sometimes, the scariest monster is just below the surface.

Additionally, it was completely overshadowed by the counter protest which me be worth mentioning. #Spéirghorm

Cork County Council seeks facilitator for Rainbow Library Project which amplifies the voices of LGBTQIA+ young people aged 14-23 through workshops, mentorship & publication opportunities. Deadline 31 Oct. We're proud to present a Rainbow showcase during WCLF each July www.corkcoco.ie/en/news/cork...

Myself and my colleague John Miller are collaborating on a book project Crude Tunes: Histories and Cultures of Petroleum in Popular Music. Check out our cfps and consider sending us an abstract: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/10/...

Three of the kidnapped Irish participants on the Global Sumud Flotilla arrived home to a huge welcome last night. They talk about why they tried to break apartheid Israel's illegal siege of Gaza, acting because our governments refuse to. #FreePalestine #LiftTheSiege Video RTÉ News

Back in Ireland and reunited with the best 🙏🥰

This morning's run on Brighton seafront

How do you know your city is a healthy habitat for people? A decent place to start is whether children can play freely in their neighbourhoods and get around independently. This is an excellent introduction to Tim’s work and the benefits of shifting away from car centric urban spaces.

In Brighton on Monday 29 Sept? Join us for this. actionnetwork.org/ticketed_eve... @ayoub.bsky.social @naamoduk.bsky.social

Sally Rooney won the Sky Arts award for literature for Intermezzo. Her editor collected it for her as she couldn't travel in case of arrest for her support for Palestine Action. "to reiterate... and my solidarity with the people of Palestine." We are proud of her always. #BDS #SolidarityIsAVerb

Very cool new reading!

Learn more about this latest addition to our Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Ireland book series here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.... #IrishHistory #C19

@tg4.bsky.social coverage of Kneecap at EP is now available on the player. 🔥 👉 www.tg4.ie/ga/player/ca...

Art therapy paintings and sketches up on the wall 🎨

Just reposting this as the half marathon gets closer. This non profit mental health service was a lifeline for me during manic and psychotic episodes at times of financial insecurity. Please donate if you can

Very excited for this today. Co-leading a participant led roundtable on storytelling and arts and humanities methods for energy transition with @giuliachampion.bsky.social

What a morning 🌄

We’re building something special and we’re going to change British politics forever. Join us: yourparty.uk

A reminder to ask your institution library to buy my first monograph: LIVING WITH GHOSTS!

Sally Rooney: I support Palestine Action. If this makes me a ‘supporter of terror’ under UK law, so be it www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

I am running a half marathon for PTP-Usemi on 21 September 2025, raising funds to provide essential mental health support for individuals and groups who experience psychosis and complex trauma. If you can donate anything at all that would be amazing: gofund.me/4e8784a6

apolitical nature writers suck

🌳 Ash for Future workshop with Dheeraj Rathore (Teagasc) and Sophia Meeres (UCD), Thursday, July 31st, 10.30am - 12.30pm, UCD James Joyce Library Link 3 for presentation, followed by an ‘ash walk’ on UCD campus. 🥐 Refreshments provided 📝 Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

“According to Audre Lorde, when she finally began to speak at five years old, she only spoke in poetry.” Alexis Pauline Gumbs, @alexispauline.bsky.social, reads from her book, Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde, at the New York Public Library in September 2024. 📚💙

"While Western media debates what was said on stage at Glastonbury, more than 200 lives have been lost in Gaza this week alone. Kneecap are holding up a mirror to Britain’s hypocrisies — and that reflection is making a lot of powerful people very uncomfortable." plinth.uk.com/blogs/magazi...

Stockholm University has launched a network for marine research. The network aims to strengthen collaboration, knowledge exchange and the visibility of marine research across the university. @balticseacentre.bsky.social @sthlmresilience.bsky.social @bolincentre.bsky.social www.su.se/english/news...

Kneecap at Glastonbury: ‘I’m a free man’ Mo Chara says to crowd of 30,000; group have dig at Keir Starmer and Rod Stewart during set www.independent.ie/entertainmen...

From less than a dozen marchers to tens of thousands: A history of Dublin Pride - i was delighted to be interviewed for this article #pride2025 #queerhistories #speirgorm jrnl.ie/6742433

predictably brilliant by @sharaerua.bsky.social podcast on The Warwick Research Collective and its later formations. open.spotify.com/episode/6ZPF... This work hasn't really been given a fair consideration by US-based scholars overall. @manuelaboatca.bsky.social

🎙️A new podcast from UCD Earth Institute Journalist-in-Residence Janine Kennedy explores the past, present and future of Irish food & agriculture! In Ep.1, Assoc Profs Meriel McClatchie & Jessica Smyth bring prehistoric diets and farming practices to life. shows.acast.com/65f99769d324...

🚨Job Alert 🚨 🐕‍🦺 🐄🐎🐦‍⬛ Do you have project management skills & an interest in human-animal relations? We are recruiting a project manager role (5 years) for our new project (info in the 🧵) @sheffielduni.bsky.social 📆 deadline 30 June www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNO134/p...

Sally Rooney in The Guardian Israel kills innocent Palestinians. Activists spray-paint a plane. Guess which the UK government calls terrorism | www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Fair play to Sally Rooney for this, brave and to the point www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

You know what's "not appropriate" Keir?! Arming a fucking genocide... Fuck The Sun and solidarity with Palestine Action. 🇵🇸

The current fad for putting AI in everything reminds me of the 19th-century fad for adding electricity to everything, without thinking about why. Electric girdles! Electric garters! Electric hairpins! Electric tea cups!

I got this for planning a presentation on Charli xcx music, crude oil and gender - and the authors bio is fabulous

Che Guevara born on this day 1928 (with Irish roots, of course, in County Galway).

My approach to life

People in the West Bank were afraid that this was coming - that once Gaza had been sufficiently subdued, they'd be next. Please don't miss this because of all the noise about Iran.

Brian Wilson: Death of towering figure closes a chapter in music history

Here's the CfP for the Critical Minerals Symposium (7 Nov '25, Dublin). Organised by @gigitang.bsky.social & Katie Donnelly (both in the UCD School of English, Drama & Film; Resident Scholars @ucdhumanities.bsky.social; and researchers on the Research Ireland @imperialminerals.bsky.social project)

Glorious sun on campus 😎

speaking with such moral clarity, exposing the deep moral and political failure of mainstream media and politics and their dehumanizing disregard in the face of what is happening in Gaza m.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk1W...