Dublin small press fair on 28 & 29 November at Pearse St library. Free and open to the public. dublinsmallpressfair.com

With yet another university hosted event closed to 'non academics' (aka those not employed by a university)* I'm just going to leave this piece by @drhelenkara.bsky.social and myself here blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... * yes I know it's utter nonsense and academics/researchers exist outside unis

Did you miss the LIS Research seminar on "Obstacles to Open Access publishing for researchers with weak institutional ties"? If so, never fear, the recording is now out! I'd really recommend giving it a listen. doi.org/10.52843/cas... #Library #openaccess #LISResearch #Librarian

Back to the actual and current Presidential candidates -with all the Jim Gavin shenanigans of the last 24 hours it may have not grabbed people’s attention that Heather Humphreys just threw trans people under the bus in response to a Grift dot ie reporters question!So there’s that! #aras25 #speirgorm

Worth suggesting maybe abandoning tedious TV debates and instead do a keepy uppies competition between the two candidates. Which I would watch. #Aras25

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Budget 2026: Basic income for artists to become permanent www.rte.ie/news/budget-...

If we're not careful, this will put landlords off seeking office in the future #Áras25

"from hard experience, I and others working in scholarly communications have learned that the term “institutional repository” often elicits blank expressions from faculty. It is much more efficient to emphasize prestige, visibility, impact, legacy, flexibility—whatever resonates." buff.ly/UsQhdNA

More than muses: The Women at the Centre of Surrealism Often idealized, portrayed as mysterious creature, goddess, she-devil, fetish and muse, objects of both fear and erotic desire, women joining the Surrealist circles started questioning their own reflection #Surrealism artuk.org/discover/sto...

Open Access = impact 💡 The #HSEOAAwards25 shine a light on Irish researchers who share knowledge freely to improve care and advance science. Deadline: Oct 24 — enter here 👉 https://bit.ly/HSEOA25#HSEOAAwards25 #hselibrary #OAirishresearch #ResearchAwards #IrishResearch #OpenAccess #HSEIreland

As the Taliban erases Afghan women, the world looks away The internet blackout has shut down the last hope of education for women in Afghanistan 🌎 Faye Curran

Sorry, but this is some old baloney. But also, I have GDPR questions about the emergance of this story.

Really looking forward to giving these institutions the power to break encrypted private messages at will.

💥New: Open educational resources should be central to the public mission of universities ✍️ @niamhtumelty.bsky.social & @heroicendeavour.bsky.social #OpenResearch #AcademicSky #HigherEducation (@lsepress.bsky.social)

The Irish language is a joy not a burden: in what other tongue is a penis a wild carrot? | Una Mullally

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“An archive sponsored by Saint Heron, Knowles’ ‘multidisciplinary institution reverencing the spiritual act of creation,’ will house and lend a rare collection of Black and Brown intellectual, literary, and art works.”

"The danger is that the field is too narrow to facilitate the kind of future-focused conversation that any country, including Ireland, needs at such a time." A. The UK head of state is a monarchy B. They already listed all those who didn't get nominations, who were either nutters or melts.

“The paracetamol theory is only the latest chapter in a long history of misogyny and blame dressed up as science. Before this it was vaccines. Before that it was the poisonous 'refrigerator mother' theory” www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Eh, I can personally attest to the fact that you can’t actually say “whatever the fuck your want” on RTE 🤷🏼‍♀️

Participation in museums: a complex and challenging topic expertly taken up by @helengraham.bsky.social 🙌 Open access: uclpress.co.uk/book/deconst...

Sorry FT, I’m going to need something stronger than coffee.

Yet another demonstration that AI is not a labor-saving device; it merely displaces the cleanup and mitigation (in realms where care, caution, accuracy, etc., actually matter) onto other people

Amid everything else, I just found out that Westlife is marking their 25th anniversary & the Irish postal service is releasing a commemorative stamp. So it's also time to reshare this article & my campaign for them to tour Africa: www.irishtimes.com/culture/musi...

Arts and humanities cold spots ‘depriving whole areas of courses’. Shape subjects are a “bellwether” for financial pressures on higher education, British Academy warns. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

Hot off the press, the British Academy's Cold Spots: Mapping Inequality in SHAPE Provision in UK Higher Education report. Read it if you care about universities or access to the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences for the rising generation. 1/5

a single billionaire is asking for the same amount of money it costs the irish state annually to fund 2000 artists on its basic income pilot scheme so that he can host a golf event *turns slowly to look at camera* www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

🎉 Congrats to the CONUL Research Group on the successful publication of the 'Navigating Open Research: A Guide for Early Career Researchers' in Ireland, an easy-to-adapt, jargon-free passport to #OpenResearch made by the community, for the community. doi.org/10.33178/104... #RDM #OpenScience #OER

Making scientific knowledge freely available is essential, but not always easy. This new #RSOS study examines the barriers that prevent researchers from publishing #OpenAccess: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @nataliiak.bsky.social

As anti-immigrant Dubliners hang more and more Irish flags, immigrant Dubliners exhibit objects that embody their Irishness. Read more here www.dublininquirer.com/as-anti-immi...

Very much wish I could go to this. If you’re in Cork, it looks like a lovely event to remember Eibhear Walshe.

EIR-SAT-1 will de-orbit in the next day or two following its successful mission. http://jrnl.ie/6806180

Leonard Bernstein Introduces the Moog Synthesizer to the World in 1969, Playing an Electrified Version of Bach’s “Little Fugue in G”

CMAT relasing Euro-Country "was the end of Bertie's chances. By making the financial crash a culturally live issue again, she channelled 1.21Gws of raw artistic power directly into Bertie's campaign and sent it like a DeLorean, back into all those futures lost. " www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...

📣 Save the date! Join us to explore the future of community-led #OA books at #CopimConference2026 🗓️ 26–27 February 2026 📍 Loughborough University, London (plus online) 📲 More info, including registration details, to follow next month!

“Olusegun Morakinyo will investigate the Provenance and curatorial history research of the Royal Irish Academy Museum collections”

A piece by the head of Rock En Siene today. "...the Kneecap concert at Rock en Seine took place without the slightest incident. No tension, no violence. Nothing but artists, music, audience. Proof, if any were needed, that what some elected officials fear is not disorder, but freedom." 👏👏👏👏👏

“In this way, museums themselves become a weapon, he said. “What it does is it subjugates you. ‘I conquered you, this is the evidence of it.’””

✨ Culture Night at the Royal Irish Academy ✨ Step inside this Georgian gem and explore the Library Reading Room, where the earliest example of Irish writing, the 6th century Cathach will be on display 📜. Find out more: https://culturenight.ie/event/culture-night-at-the-royal-irish-academy/

📣Upcoming webinar! Want to navigate #OpenAccess publishing with confidence? Join our webinar on @doabooks.bsky.social, @oapenbooks.bsky.social, & @doaj.bsky.social Learn from experts how to support & sustain OA books & journals 16 Sep | 13:00 GST 🔗Register now: shorturl.at/GgpLB #OpenScience

In Phibsborough Tower, an artist reflects on her family’s past and the city’s future. Maeve Brennan and the other artists of Richmond Road Studios, evicted once in 2022, are now facing an uncertain future again.

Harper's Bazaar January 1937 (cover by Man Ray) (featuring Man Ray / Horst / Louise Dahl-Wolfe / Munkacsi Carmel Snow (editor) #ManRay #Photography #HarpersBazaar #Surrealism

As the university year starts, lecturers are changing how they teach in response to the student accommodation crisis and long commutes. Some are turning to longer, less frequent, classes – but there’s a pedagogical trade-off, says UCD lecturer Keith Wilson.

ANALYSIS: Beyond Classification: The Human Cost of Library & Information Labor Under Digital Capitalism - scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/08/26/g... "OCLC asserts proprietary control over this collaboratively created resource [WorldCat]"

Peggy Guggenheim, photographed by Man Ray, circa 1930 #PeggyGuggenheim #BOTD #ManRay #Photography

Can predictive text suffer? That’s one of several ridiculous questions I’ll be ignoring this morning.

New open access book out from our MORPHSS project lead @samuelmoore.org: "By deploying theoretical literature on science & technology studies, care ethics, & the commons, the book critically interrogates open access & reimagines a more ethical future for researcher-led publishing." #OA #AHSS

Manmade famine in an area that is a few kms away from every fast food franchise the world has to offer. Barbarous Dystopia isn’t a strong enough term.