I am delighted to share details of the 2026 Intersectional Humanities Summer School at Maynooth. Featuring scholars, artists and researchers working across crip, feminist, queer, posthuman, decolonial & intersectional humanities. More information here: www.maynoothuniversity.ie/arts-and-hum...

Go check this out, folks! Also might benof interest to our @uccwomenstudies.bsky.social students & folks at the @radhumslab.bsky.social

✨ Intersectional Humanities Summer School! June 22nd–July 3rd, 2026 at the Arts & Humanities Institute, Maynooth. Whether you’re a postgraduate student, early career researcher or established scholar, this is a space to create hopeful futures. 📩 Register interest: [email protected] #Intersectional

Have you tried the @ec.europa.eu 's EU Funding & Me app yet? It makes it easier to find and explore EU funding and grants on the go. Download it now: link.europa.eu/YY947y

@hunterwriters.bsky.social I am delighted to be part of this new public engagement initiative at Hunter Writer’s Centre #womenwhowrite #ECO #ecocriticism #ecofiction

‘Is this really happening?’: Bad Bridgets book to become Margot Robbie film. So excited for this, many congrats to history colleagues Leanne McCormick & Elaine Farrell -as Elaine said Bad Bridget is not ‘big boy history’, it’s much interesting than that! #speirgorm www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

Amazon just announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year. UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year. Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

It’s getting spooky around here!

Vote, vote, vote #connolly4president #aras2025 #speirgorm

The singles charts may have been a bit crappy then, but plenty of good albums for us indie kids came out in October 1993, such as Mazzy Star's So Tonight That I May See: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReGM...

Here’s Jenny Maguire, the first trans woman elected to be President of the Student’s Union at Trinity College, Dublin, recommending voting for Catherine Connolly, the inclusive president we need! Jen is sound! #Aras25

A Brazilian sailor says she encountered "very little" sea ice on a solo sail through the Northwest Passage - a rare feat that would have been impossible without an icebreaker ship three decades ago.

The #MMEAwards2026 celebrate the emerging artists shaping Europe’s diverse music scene! Meet the 15 nominees for the 2026 edition, revealed yesterday with Commissioner @GlennMicallef So Alive Music Conference in Sofia. 🗳️ Listen, discover & vote your favourite culture.ec.europa.eu/news/music-m...

Why do rustbelts vote radical right? Studying the German Ruhr area, @nilsblossey.bsky.social, @lstoetze.bsky.social and I show: it’s not just about deindustrialization, but also about the original industrialization. Where coal is buried deeper and mining started later, the AfD is stronger today 1/12

Monday 13 October: European Heritage Awards Ceremony 2025 But, what do the prizes mean? Swipe to find out — and join us live 13 Oct | 20:00 CEST Co-hosted by Commissioner @GlennMicallef. Don’t miss it! 🏛️🏆

🔈 We’ve just published a new report that explores how the EU can grow carbon dioxide removal markets, attract investment, and remove more CO₂ through carbon farming. 📄: op.europa.eu/en/publicati... #CarbonFarming #EUGreenDeal #SustainableAgriculture

Our planet is calling us to take action! 🌍 Step up as an #EUClimatePact Ambassador or Partner and join 1,000+ changemakers shaping a climate-neutral Europe by 2050. ⏰ Apply by 15 October👉 climate-pact.europa.eu/get-involved... #MyWorldOurPlanet

Call for Papers - Citizenship Challenges for Children and Young People: Barriers, Borders, and Bureaucracy in Historical and Contemporary Perspectives 📅 Submission deadline: October 20, 2025 🔗 More information available at: lnkd.in/db3F3jHH

If the EU won't speak up collectively and strongly for its own citizens, what hope for Palestinians?

📍Barna Woods, Galway. Trees damaged during Storm Éowyn transformed into these beautiful pieces.

Is there any news of Tadhg Hickey from the #globalsumudflotilla? I know the Zionists really don't like him as he's been so vocal about the genocide they are committing. #speirghorm

These governments are making a lot of work for the compilers of the Oxford dictionary - the definition of terrorism now has to include “delivering food to children” and “sitting quietly”

The most telling argument I have against private school is that I’ve met several people over the years who’ve been to private school who somehow never heard arguments against private school.

IS agus an Ghaeilge sa @irishtimes.com www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

Another huge crowd out in Dublin today to protest against Israel’s genocide. We had young kids with us, and as ever, it was a peaceful, well organized and good-natured crowd. #FreePalestine #SanctionsNow #SpeirGorm

Rest in Power Manchán Mangan! May your kids live to see the Irish language be as spoken and our mythology be as beloved as it once was.

Tá lúcháir orm faoin bhfoilseachán seo Le @Manchán Mangan www.mayobooks.ie/Focail-na-mB...

He also wrote this beautiful article about the intersections between Indigenous peoples in Canada and Ireland Manchán Mangan: Indigenous people, Ireland and guardians of old lore – The Irish Times share.google/8BIzSYjuaMrX...

"We are in nature, and then we are humans in nature connected" Manchán Mangan - may he rest in nature - sad to part with both Jane Goodall and Manchán (far too young) this week - both powerful voices for our human relationship to nature and the environment www.rte.ie/news/2025/10...

For my first ever BlueSky post, I want to announce my first ever board book. It's called Irish Words For Nature I wish all my books were wipe-able. Illustrations: Steve Doogan Video thanks to Rebecca Roche In all bookshops. Signed copies from www.manchansbooks.com

and was such a positive presence. He has left such a wonderful legacy to the country, but for me I will just miss his sporadic phone calls, emails and visits, all of which inevitably left me in a better place than before. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam. Tomás Kenny

“… at home, people are tired—tired of being unheard, unseen, uncertain. Tired of promises broken, of a social fabric fraying. And yet, I have never believed more in the spirit of this country. I have seen it in every corner of Ireland…” #spéirghorm #Áras25 #IrishPol www.youtube.com/watch?v=y53c...

Denmark and the rest of Europe are waking up to potential attacks that could be directed against hundreds if not thousands of targets in each country on.ft.com/3VDScpZ

Gen Alpha are mad about the Words on the Wave exhibition @nmireland.bsky.social. Visit while you can. Only one month left!

'Ireland: Land of 1,000 Welcomes?' will take place this Friday, 19th Sept. as part of Culture Night 2025 activities. It will be held in the AHI Seminar Rm 1.33, First floor of Iontas from 5:30 - 7pm. For any further information please contact [email protected]

Yesterday was the big day: The team of the Glasgow-Maynooth OG(H)AM project celebrated the end of four years of intensive work (2021-5) with the launch - in the venerable rooms of the Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie - of the new, revised and hugely updated 𝕆𝕘𝕙𝕒𝕞 𝕚𝕟 𝟛𝔻 database and website. /1

Go raibh míle maith agat, a Aonghuis!

A new scholarship fund for Palestinian students, led by university faculty and staff here in the U.S. Please share widely and encourage colleagues to give generously 🇵🇸 leonardeducation.org/the-palestin...

We are not going ANYWHERE ! Anti-Zionist Jews set the Israeli flag on fire. "Israel Is a - TERROR STATE!"

Are you a cultural theorist who is looking for postdoctoral research project? Research Ireland have a funding scheme opening. If you are interested in the politics of popular culture and intersectional theory, drop me an email at [email protected]

New publication out today with @marissawillcox.bsky.social : “Feminist fabulation as refusal: Christine Yahya’s @pink_bits”. We examine how her illustrations reclaim space for bodies often censored www.frontiersin.org/journals/com... #mediastudies #algorithm #feminism #fabulation #digitalmedia

Call for Papers! "Technology and Inequality in Culture, Media, and the Arts"-a special issue of Poetics, coedited with @jticona.bsky.social + Angèle Christin www.ias.edu/stsv-lab/pla...

'"Europe will find it very difficult to repair the damage that has been done by a lethargic response that has tolerated impunity.' Aontaím. www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

Israel gave final approval to a settlement project in the heart of the occupied West Bank that supporters and critics alike say will deal a major blow to the contiguity of territory that Palestinians hope will be part of a future independent state.

With no other European nation coming to Ukraine's aid, Russia is calmly continuing its war of extermination against the Ukrainian nation and its culture. On Monday 18th, Russian Soldiers used drones to attack a university building in Sumy, destroying 15,000 books and expensive research equipment.

In case you're wondering why a youth sex ed site would create something like this—a leading cause of youth homelessness is coming out as LGBTQ to your parents. I'm a big fan of Scarleteen & you should throw them a donation if you can.