Today at 1 PM outside Tierney by the lake! UCD Standout for Palestine!

TOMORROW: UCD Stand Out for Palestine as part of ICTU's National Day of Workplace Actions in solidarity with Palestine! UCD Justice for Palestine and student organisers from BDS, SNF and SU ask UCD students and workers to join the rally by Tierney at 1 PM, Fri 28 Nov.

Congratulations to Dr. Clare Kelly @clarenicheall.bsky.social l who passed her viva yesterday, defending her thesis on "Orality and Authorship: African Storyteller-Authors in the Literary Marketplace" with poise and articulacy. It was a pleasure to read and examine her work alongside Madhu Krishnan!

TOMORROW: UCD Walk Out for Gaza, Thurs 16 Oct! UCD BDS & UCD Justice for Palestine ask UCD students and workers to join the rally by Tierney at 1 PM and help gear up for a renewed campaign for full boycott of Israeli universities and research partnerships #standoutforgaza1610

Congratulations Dr. Deborah Schrijvers who passed her viva with flying colours on Monday with her thesis on "Against Imperial Extinction Narratives", and many thanks to her examiners Robert McKay and Patrick Brodie, and chair Niamh Pattwell! w/ @marthashearer.bsky.social

If you can, please read Naoise Dolan writing about her treatment after being illegally abducted by Israel from the Thousand Madleens flotilla. It's pretty chilling, and it's a drop in the ocean compared to what they subject Palestinians to. #spéirgorm

UCD BDS & UCD Justice for Palestine ask UCD students and workers to join the national Workplace Standout for Gaza on 16th Oct at 1 PM. Walk outside your workplace with a sign or flag, and if you can, join the rally organised by UCD students in front of Newman Arts at 1 PM.

If any folks from UCD would like to march together at this Saturday's big national demonstration, please join UCD Justice for Palestine (I'll be holding a sign) at 12:15 outside of the Hugh Lane Gallery. It would be great to meet other folks and share in solidarity!

Eyes on Gaza where apartheid Israel is carpet bombing and now threatening with mass murder the people in Gaza City. This must end. #GazaGenocide Israeli Defense Minister: Palestinians in Gaza City will be considered ‘terrorists’ if they don’t evacuate mondoweiss.net/2025/10/isra...

There are emergency protests in solidarity with the Global Sumud Flotilla called around the country tomorrow, keep an eye on social media. This is at the Dáil, 12.30pm. #LiftTheSiege #GazaGenocide

Ships in the Global Sumud flotilla are being intercepted, including the Spectre. Irish-resident friends, please call and email Simon Harris now to condemn Israel's illegal abduction of peaceful citizens and demand safety for all aboard the flotilla: Phone: 016194000 Email: [email protected]

Automated template to email Irish government TDs calling on them to condemn the bombing of the Global Sumud Flotilla and ensure its safe passage to bring aid to Gaza: action.uplift.ie/campaigns/fl...

The Gaza Aid flotilla organisers say they have "credible intelligence that Israel is likely to escalate violent attacks on the flotilla within the next 48 hours". All eyes on flotilla, all eyes on Gaza! www.thejournal.ie/gaza-aid-flo...

"We repeat our demands that UCD end its current partnerships with Israeli universities, commit to refusing any future such partnerships, and to join efforts that seek to exclude Israeli universities from European funding initiatives." academicsforpalestine.org/2025/09/19/u...

“The Onion stands at the ready to act as a mouthpiece of the world’s elite, using its distinguished reportage to parrot whatever the party line happens to be. Genocide, eugenics, incest—no topic is too taboo to find support in our paper so long as it has been approved by a trustworthy establishment”

Please sign! "No academia as usual during Israeli occupation, apartheid and genocide in Palestine. Faculty and staff in European higher education and research call on our academic leaders to end bilateral agreements with Israeli institutions" uppsaladeclaration.se/european-dec...

Nuanced investigation from Bellingcat confirming that the #globalsumudflotilla was indeed struck by incendiary munitions dropped by drones. Up the flotilla, solidarity with all the courageous folks sailing to break the siege and bring aid to Gaza! #FreePalestine www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/09...

Academics are under unrelenting pressure to accept the narrative of the inevitability of #generativeAI & to embrace it in teaching & learning. We resist - because it is ecologically destructive, ethically corrupt, & because it undermines the thinking abilities that make us both human & intelligent.

We take the win and we keep pushing, Occupied Territories Bill with services included is next. #StopFundingGenocide IPSC chair Zoë Lawlor: “today is a huge victory for the people of Ireland who stand resolutely in solidarity with the people of Palestine”. www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

Since the genocide began the EU has given Israeli tech start-ups run by ex-IDF soldiers nearly half a billion euros in research grants designed to support civilian projects. Some of this tech has been used in Gaza. Some of the founders have even served in Gaza www.donotpanic.news/p/eu-science...

"The vast gap between the calories Gaza needs, and the food that has entered since March makes clear that Israeli officials are doing different maths today. They cannot pass responsibility for this human-made famine to anyone else, and nor can their allies" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.

I'm seeing an uptick in journal editors inquiring about @openlibhums.bsky.social and scholar-led, non-profit diamond #OpenAccess as a direct result of the Trump administration's crackdown on EDI and academic freedom. If we want research integrity, we need an independent academic publishing sector.

'Earlier Jewish leftists built a Jewish left-and a critique of Zionism-out of the terrain autochthonous to the United States: one in which racial oppression, a rapacious bourgeoisie, a bloated military budget...are the norm rather than the exception' portside.org/2025-07-22/l...

New review of Oil Fictions! stm.cairn.info/revue-revue-... (The full text is also freely accessible! directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.50...) #energy #oilfictions @amitav.bsky.social @sharaerua.bsky.social @wordbird20.bsky.social @imreszeman.bsky.social @chiday.bsky.social @ashdawson.bsky.social

Greatly enjoyed the chance to discuss 'World-Literature as Research and Form' with the excellent Michael Boog as part of the Rethinking the Global podcast series at UniBe open.spotify.com/episode/6ZPF...

"But, Governor of the Central Bank Gabriel Makhlouf today defended its offerings, telling TDs at an Oireachtas Committee that the UN’s Genocide Convention applies only to the Irish State, not the country’s banking regulator." What an incredible argument to give in your own defense

Now we need to call on UCD to follow TCD's example and commitment to total divestment: from existing ties and in the future!

Looking forward to speaking on social reproduction and resistance in Itamar Vieira Junior's Crooked Plow at this symposium on "Gendered Precarity and Literary Form" tomorrow, org. by Josh Jewell & Iris Gioti. 6 Jun, 9:30-5:30 in @ucdhumanities.bsky.social . All welcome, no reg. required!

A huge well done to the Trinity students and staff who did worked so hard to get this over the line. We need total divestment from, and boycott of, apartheid Israel until Palestinian liberation. #BDS #FreePalestine TCD votes to cut ties with Israel www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

Article with Pat Brodie in Examiner today. Important to be clear about Ireland's economic dependency on the US if we are to understand - and challenge - Government inaction on Gaza. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Audrey Watters is a legend. You should sign up for her newsletter. 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/ai-slop-educ...

Today! Demand again that RTÉ withdraw from the Eurovision in solidarity with the Palestinian call to boycott the contest. our national broadcaster should not be part of artwashing apartheid Israel's genocidal crimes against Palestinians. Protest and music. #BoycottEurovision2025 #GazaGenocide

I've signed this: forms.gle/oDYgnobrMiSc...

Students going to the United States on J1 visas have been warned of the "potential risks" of being involved in activism while abroad. http://jrnl.ie/6678380

The UK Supreme Court endorsed segregating trans people entirely out of public life. They can exclude trans women from single sex spaces on the basis of sex and then exclude trans men on the basis of gender reassignment. Effectively, it allows the legal exclusion of trans people from public life.

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Full text of the email that a software engineer sent to “hundreds of thousands” of Microsoft employees.

And congratulations to my own PhD supervisee, Dr. Jacob Miller, who successfully passed his viva this week on his project, 'Hauntology: Neoliberalism, State-Keynesianism, and Repressed Contradictions in Post-1980 Anglo-American Fiction', w/ many thanks to his examiners & chair, Myka, John and Kate.

Félicitations to @maikanguyen.bsky.social who passed her viva yesterday, speaking with great clarity and sensitivity about her doctoral thesis, 'Writing Home: Haiti and Vietnam in the Autofiction of Dany Laferrière and Anna Moï'. It was a pleasure and honour to examine the work. Bravo, Docteur!

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: my.uplift.ie/petitions/st...

Two posts this week on the *technical* issues for OA scholarly publishers having their websites absolutely HAMMERED by AI harvesting bots for training: Eric Hellman (@gluejar.com): go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2025/03/ai-b... Ian Mulvany (@ianmulvany.bsky.social): world.hey.com/ian.mulvany/...

Webinar on 'Racial Capitalism and Palestine', with Ronit Lentin, Sai Englert, Greg Burris in conversation, chaired by Bana Abu Zuluf & Eman Abboud, organised by Academics for Palestine (Ireland) @afp-ire.bsky.social Thurs 17 April 10 AM (UTC+1). Register: dcu-ie.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

'In 2025, long Covid is the public health crisis no one wants to talk about, taking a wrecking ball to people’s lives, the economy and the health service while those with power pretend there’s nothing to see here' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

turns out the liberal democratic order relied upon a gentleman’s agreement and there are no more gentlemen standing reconstruction gonna require a metalaw: that there be law “The constitution doesn’t mean anything if no one enforces and defends it.”

Opinion: My heart sank when I saw the laughter in the Oval Office about our housing crisis #speirgorm jrnl.ie/6649185