Galway Bay FM on that Arts in Galway story - www.galwaybayfm.ie/galway-bay-f...

The King is mad

There's so much great (peer-reviewed!) data hanging out at @post45data.bsky.social for people to explore and play with! 100 years of major prizes (and the judges)! Everyone who went to Iowa Writers' Workshop (and who they studied with)! All NEA lit awardees! The Canon of Asian Am Lit! So much more!

Pushed out my London visit to take in Tracey Emin @tatemodern.bsky.social and Unveiled Desires (Fetish & the Erotic in Surrealism) at Richard Saltoun gallery. Definitely worth it.

Happy 30th birthday to Pokémon. Without it, the greatest Werner Herzog quote of all time would not exist.

As a member of the WHAI, and as someone who was part of the advisory committee who recommended a women’s museum - I am delighted with this response from my WHAI colleagues #womensmuseumireland

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The scholarly commons is a shared enterprise as much as a shared resource - open research has to be seen beyond compliance as a recipe for decolonisation #CopimConference

Siddharth Soni speaks to AI & Data colonialism: Big Tech companies grabbing our data exploiting our labour & connections, & repackaging our information to control our views, track our movements, record our conversations and discriminate against us. cf. www.lse.ac.uk/lse-player/w... #CopimConference

So pleased to see Siddarth Soni referencing Brian Friel in his discussion of the commons and data colonialism. Absolutely fascinating keynote at #CopimConference

Closing keynote: Scholarly Book and the Digital Commons - Dr Siddharth Soni of @unisouthampton.bsky.social considers the future of the scholarly book amid new digital cultures of writing and reading, and the role of the librarian #CopimConference

The WHAI has issued a response to the proposal to host a permanent women's exhibition space in Limerick. See below for full statement. womenshistoryassociation.com

The 2026 Archaeology Research Grant Scheme is now open until 25 March. Apply for around €5,000 in funding. In 2025, RIA ARG grantee Kate Lavender-Duncan mapped and surveyed sites across the Burren, revealing a whole class of monuments missing from official records. www.ria.ie/grants/archa...

If you missed Monday’s seminar by Dr Paddy Gleeson on ‘Landscapes of kingship: governance, rule and territory in early Medieval Ireland’, there’s a recording at: m.youtube.com/watch?v=5Wpl...

Why the census is integral to Ireland's past, present and future. Census records remind us that behind every statistic is a household, a family and a life carefully recorded, write Zoe Reid National Archives & Eileen Murphy @csoireland.bsky.social www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Introducing: Words in the Air, a new literary podcast! The first episode features Irish Writers Centre Ambassador Joseph O'Connor in conversation with Madeleine Keane, Literary Editor of the Sunday Independent. Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3a00... Apple: podcasts.apple.com/do/podcast/w...

Over the course of a year, @engagedroadmap.bsky.social (ENGAGED project) convened over 150 participants across Collective Intelligence Workshops, culminating in 5 public destinations for open research in Ireland by 2030. Read more on what's next for open research in Ireland: norf.ie/whats-next-f...

⏰Less than one week left to submit your proposal for the @fiatifta.bsky.social (FIAT/IFTA) Preservation and Migration Seminar taking place in Dublin this June! Find out more: fiatifta.org/pmc-seminar-... #DigiPres #CallForProposals #DigitalPreservation #DigiPresNews

#DIBLives 'There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold.' Music promoter 'Gentleman Jim' Aiken (d. #OTD 2007) lured international bands to play in the north even while the Troubles raged. In 1971 Led Zeppelin debuted 'Stairway to Heaven' in Belfast. www.dib.ie/biography/ai...

The 2026 Michel Déon Prize for non-fiction is officially open for nominations. The €10,000 prize will be awarded in Oct 2026 to the author of the best non-fiction book by a writer living in Ireland. The winning author will give the 'Michel Déon Lecture' in France in 2027. www.ria.ie/grants-award...

Genuinely shocked to read about proposals at Galway (an amazing university with world-class humanities departments) to axe the broad-based arts degree. Really grim reading. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

But just to say, a more accurate headline would have been that the University plans to end and replace arts course with other, new Arts courses.

I imagine Galway is simply be first to fall University of Galway plans to end and replace arts course amid fall-off in interest www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

Red-eye to London for #CopimConference. Worth it for the accessibility panel alone! Super first day.

Open access means that nobody can tell you you can't read something. Always true, but so very, essentially, bulldozingly important here in the US right now. #copimconference

DORA has launched an introductory course on responsible research assessment! 🤩 🤓 What is it? A free online self-paced course ❓ Who is it for? Anyone who wants to learn more about the basics of research assessment, regardless of career level or discipline 🌐 Explore the course 👉 bit.ly/DORA-Intro-C...

Good news: after 390 years of manels, single-gender events are officially forbidden at Harvard. Oh. Never mind. Single-gender events are fine as long as all participants are men and occur "accidentally".

The RIA has an exciting lineup of free public lectures, panel discussions and cultural events you won’t want to miss. Whether you’re passionate about science, the humanities or Ireland’s heritage, there’s something on the calendar for everyone Find out all the events at https://www.ria.ie/events/

"Despite broad agreement that arts and culture have intrinsic value in public life, the general consensus is that cultural institutions need to rethink how they articulate and communicate that value." bit.ly/4qJb4Rq

Innit. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Next week, the RIA will open the call for nominations for the 2026 Michel Déon Prize, a €10,000 award, funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Ireland, which recognises exceptional non-fiction by writers living in Ireland 📚 Find out more: www.ria.ie/grants-award...

📣 New report says a broader definition of “open research" is needed to include arts, humanities and social science practices. Discover more about this landmark report by @morphss.bsky.social: https://loom.ly/7msI5RU

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes! "Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

“Nobody in Ireland should be exposed to hate speech, bullying, or child sexual abuse images on X just to find out if their train is delayed” www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

POSITIVE: the advantages outweighs the challenges in running a library based publishing program according to this article insights.uksg.org/articles/10....

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Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY. There was also a 71% drop in air pollution. Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople

New #RSOS paper: ‘Don’t hate the players, hate the game’: qualitative insights from education researchers on questionable and open research practices. Read more: doi.org/10.1098/rsos... @mattmakel.bsky.social @sarahcaroleo.bsky.social @jesse-fleming.bsky.social @bryancook.bsky.social

If a plagiarized paper by an author who claims he didn’t write it disappears from a journal’s website with no notice, did it ever exist in the first place?

"The humanities respond by inviting essential insight about what matters in life, how to sustain civic culture and safeguard democracy, and what it will take to build a secure, free, and prosperous future for the planet." bit.ly/3ZiKWSb

Happy St Brigid’s Day! This is a depiction of her from Harry Clarke’s Geneva Window.

A bill to abolish the three-day waiting clause in abortion legislation has received the green light in the Dáil

Open Journals Collective Launches Global Investment Campaign to Provide #Libraries an “Exit Ramp” From Commercial Big Deals (via @ojcollective.bsky.social) drive.google.com/file/d/10Hgf... #oa #diamond #publishers #funding

Take a look at this post from @katievernon.bsky.social, one of our Graduate Engagement Leads 👇 "Open research and digital accessibility are both a means of making information available and understandable to a range of audiences, especially those who might face institutional and societal barriers."

"Never before in the history of humanity have children seen their right to privacy so violated, & by the adults who are supposed to care for & protect them. And anyone who watches or engages with this kind of mass content is complicit." #spéirghorm #Brooklyn www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"The capture and warehousing of humans is now at the centre of an institutional transformation of federal police power" - among many other insights here www.equator.org/articles/hom...

Somehow the idea of people being nice and supportive to each other, and society being supportive in general, has been dismissed as fantasy politics for babies. Whereas making difficult decisions like driving children into poverty while swimming in record tax receipts is good realistic politics

Luis Buñuel & Salvador Dalí’s Un Chien Andalou: The Short Surrealist Film That Revolutionized Cinema (1929)