Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪 Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students. I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:

Other Voices dates just announced, earlier than some expected, 28th -30th Nov. The clever ones booked 2 weekends just in case. The rest are now scrambling around for rooms. It'll be a busy day on the phones and emails for accomodation in Dingle. #OtherVoices25 #OV25

The reason all these elites are not just condemning violence but actively lionizing Kirk is because Charlie was in their class and this is just class solidarity. Any “political differences” are not more important than their class alignment 🤷🏻‍♀️

German national airline Lufthansa has been illegally transporting missile components through Dublin Airport to the Thales arms factory in Belfast for the past year. www.ontheditch.com/missile-part...

Thousands of people came out in Dublin yesterday for our demonstration to show the government we have not gone away and we demand an end to Ireland’s complicity in Israel’s genocide of Palestinians and immediate sanctions on the apartheid state. #SanctionsNow #FreePalestine Video RTÉ News

Global appeal: Gaza’s journalists need urgent protection Joining over 250 media organizations, +972 calls on international actors to defend Palestinian journalists and force Israel to open Gaza to foreign press. www.972mag.com/global-appea...

🚨Breaking🚨 Israeli war bonds won’t be sold in Ireland from tomorrow. Israel today moved its bond prospectus approval process to Luxembourg. It has also not included Ireland as one of the member states where it will sell its war bonds.

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Israel’s defence ministry just announced a contract to buy drones from Xtend. Its SKYLORD drone system was developed with €50,000 in EU Horizon money, which is not supposed to fund military applications. The EU grant page links to the current Xtend website, advertising its “military grade” drones

I dug into the Israeli entities that have received EU funding. Here’s what I found - www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...

“We are convinced that your existing EU law powers provide ample opportunity to refuse to authorise the sale of Israel Bonds. Purchase of Israel Bonds raises significant investor protection concerns, including potential responsibility” Signatory list: academicsforpalestine.org/wp-content/u...

Early this morning, the Israeli military began intensifying attacks on Gaza City, just days after Israeli officials announced plans to fully seize the city as part of what Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich calls the “total annihilation” of Palestinians in Gaza.

Israel bombed northern Gaza and parts of Gaza City last night, but there are no journalists alive who are on the ground in those areas to cover the bombings or their aftermath.

Israeli army database suggests at least 83% of Gaza dead were civilians Classified intelligence from May reveals Israel believed it had killed ~8,900 militants in Gaza, indicating a proportion of civilian slaughter with few parallels in modern warfare. www.972mag.com/israeli-inte...

BBC From among the broken remains of Brahim Hamaiel's olive trees, in the occupied West Bank, we saw the masked men approach. A dozen settlers, charging down from the illegal outpost above his farm and across the field towards us, moving fast and carrying large sticks. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Igo has made newsfeed for #Áras25 and a few other relevant hashtags for the Irish Presidential Race Pin to your newsfeed so you can have all the Áras craic together Spread the word #SpeirGorm #Ireland #IrishPol Grma @igo107.bsky.social

An entire news crew working for Al Jazeera was killed by Israel as they sought to bring the world firsthand reporting from #Gaza. Among them was prominent journalist Anas Al-Sharif, who had been previously smeared and threatened by the IDF. #NotATarget Full statement: cpj.org/2025/08/isra...

Ireland Sunday Independent: Most support Occupied Territories Bill even if it sparks retaliation from pro-Israel forces.

if anyone’s looking to add to their tbr for women in translation month, here are some latinx books written by women and translated by women

My University has opened a virtual scholar scheme for scholars from Gaza. Please share widely and help stop scholasticide. www.exeter.ac.uk/faculties/ha...

You cannot address the starvation in Gaza without addressing the fact that Israel also destroyed all agriculture and fishing as part of this engineered famine. It's not just cutting off food aid, it is destroying all internal capability to feed people.

Hi, I worked at USAID. 👋 Airdrops are universally acknowledged as probably the worst and least efficient way to get aid to people. You airdrop when you a) want to want to so something but can’t, or b) you don’t want to do anything but want to look like you are.

🇵🇸 We are proud to see all our brilliant artists standing up for Palestine and against genocide. If you are an Irish or Ireland based artist please join 2,303 of your peers, sign our Irish Artists' Pledge to Boycott Israel. Sign up ➡️ www.ipsc.ie/cultural-boy... #FreePalestine #SolidarityIsAVerb 🇵🇸

Israeli forces illegally boarded ‘Handala’ in international waters, abducting 21 unarmed civilians. Demand your government end its complicity in Israeli war crimes, ensure the unhindered delivery of humanitarian aid, and call for the immediate release of all crew members.

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Adeeb. Adeeb is only 17 and wants to be a doctor and study in America. He was hoping to raise for that but now is also just struggling to stay alive with his family. He deserves to have a bright future and not just survive- but he needs help.

Global powers will not end Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Only our actions can make them - https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/global-powers-not-end-israel-genocide-gaza-only-actions-make-them

6000 @UNRWA trucks waiting at the border to feed those hungry babies, those hungry mamas and babas, those hungry kittens on the street. 6000 trucks could feed them for three months. But your tax dollars won’t let that happen.

Hundreds of starving, aid-seeking Palestinians in Gaza have lost their lives to Israeli aggression or starvation.

BREAKING: At least 116 Palestinians, including 38 people near Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid sites, have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza today, according to medical sources in the enclave. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/f6uvdq

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Farrah. Farrah was engaged to Muhanad when the war started and they had just bought a small apartment to start their lives together. It was destroyed before they could move in. They married despite the chaos and are now just trying to survive

For anyone now looking for alternatives to WeTransfer (cos of price and AI badness), we are currently using Smash. Strong GDPR adherence, has a carbon emissions plan, good free transfers offer and good value plans.

For the people of Gaza 🇵🇸 secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...

UN office reports 757 settler attacks since January, up 13 percent from 2024, as deaths since January near 1,000.

What these companies don't get or seem to care about is those of us who are professionals in post-production and rely on tools like WeTransfer to send materials to clients have also signed NDAs that are complete conflict with their new TOS. Legally we CAN'T use WeTransfer now.

Israeli forces continue to pound Gaza, killing dozens of Palestinians, as the UN again warns that humanitarian operations are on the brink of collapse due to fuel shortages caused by Israel’s blockade. 🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: aje.io/ta93e0

Always read the T&Cs! I've used WeTransfer for sending large design files in the past, so this is utterly ridiculous, and is it legal in Europe? Why aren't the creative industries, eg design, fashion, art, music, film, not fighting this on all fronts?

At least 13 civilians, mostly children, killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/least-13-civilians-mostly-children-killed-israeli-strikes-gaza

As members of Ireland’s voting public, you can literally choose your own adventure option by contacting you TDs of all stripes and explaining why they should swap knee jerks for nuance, for the sake of votes and a healthy, unsurveilled, public sphere

Signed and shared. Will you? 🇵🇸 #FreePalestine sign.myvoice-mychoice.org/forms/stop_g...

Sign. & share!! 🇵🇸 my.uplift.ie/petitions/le...

Francesca Albanese has been a consistent and clear voice drawing attention to Israel's crimes and genocide in Gaza and fulfilling her mandate as a UN Special Rapporteur. She needs to be protected at all costs.

Finally !!!!! www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

Tuesday! Every day apartheid Israel commits brutal crimes against Palestinians all while starving the entire population of Gaza. Our Central Bank is fundraising for this genocide and we will not stop protesting until it ends this shameful practice. Join us 8th 12.30 to 2pm. #StopFundingGenocide

🇵🇸 Events in solidarity with the Palestinian people around the country this weekend. All out for Palestine! #SolidarityIsAVerb #FreePalestine 🇵🇸

Anyone who cares about the future of our ocean should contact their local TDs to tell them to do their job and pass the law for MPAs that they said they would do! www.contactyourtd.ie