'A little to the left' walks itself over to better spot... 😍

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Congratulations to @lorrainegrimes.bsky.social on the publication of her first book which is now available with Bloomsbury www.bloomsbury.com/uk/single-mo...

We're excited to join our colleagues in the Royal Irish Academy for a research programmes showcase in Academy House for @culturenightdub.bsky.social 2025! Drop by and say hi, learn more about what we do and explore this beautiful historic space✨🏛️

Are you interested in learning more about the DRI Community Archive Scheme for 2026? Join us for an online session on 16 Sept @ 2pm with feedback from our 2025 winner, Frank Donaldson. We will also launch the Frank Donaldson "Tidy Towns" collection on the day! Register: dri.ie/events/dri-c...

‘Inspirational’ human rights lawyer Conor Gearty dies aged 67

We’re Hiring: Director of the RHA 📍 Dublin, Ireland | Full-time | €90,000 📅 Apply by: 30th September 2025 The Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts is seeking a visionary director to lead one of Ireland’s leading visual arts institutions. 🧵 🔗 rhagallery.ie/news/rha-is-seeking-a-visionary-director

Asian hornets: 24 verified sightings in Cork and Dublin with two nests seized

Poll: Have You Formally Ruled Yourself Out Of The Presidential Race? https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2025/09/11/poll-have-you-formally-ruled-yourself-out-of-the-presidential-race/

THE HOUSE ARCHIVES BUILT AND OTHER THOUGHTS ON BLACK ARCHIVAL POSSIBILITIES BY @dorothyjberry.bsky.social COMING OCTOBER 14 LETS GO ❤️‍🔥 www.weherepress.org

Thanks to everyone who helped to make today’s Arqus Alliance Libraries of the Future Community of Practice seminar @mulibrary.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie such a success. Delighted that over 50 participants from 8 countries participated.

I was delighted to speak to the Arqus seminar this morning. Thanks to @mulibrary.bsky.social for the invitation.

The 2025 round of the @ec.europa.eu-funded Biodiversity Information for Development (BID) programme is open for concept notes from eligible organizations in sub-Saharan African countries. ⏰Deadline: 3 November 2025, 15:59 CET (UTC+1) Read more:🔗 gbif.link/BID-Africa #BIDAfrica #Biodiversity

A French parliamentary commission probing the psychological effects of TikTok recommends banning social media for children under 15 and adopting a "digital curfew" for 15- to 18-year-olds, according to a report.

Join the Irish Humanities Alliance and @sahavoice.bsky.social at @ria.ie for a half day event - Irish-Scottish cultural diplomacy and relations. Tickets are booking fast and can be secured 👇 www.tickettailor.com/events/royal...

🎉 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

DARIAH will give a workshop with Europeana & GLAM Labs at #DigitalHeritage2025 in Siena: "Publishing & Reusing Collections as Data across GLAM Labs & Infrastructures: From Principles to Practice" 🔹 Hosted by Alba Irollo, Gustavo Candela, Sally Chambers 📆 8 Sept 17:00 ➡️ digitalheritage2025.unisi.it

The National HIV Story Trust has an exciting opportunity for someone to join the HIVstory project based at #TheLondonArchives on a paid archives placement. Full details on the role and how to apply are below 👇 #NHST #HIVstory #Archives www.nhst.org.uk/archive-plac...

#OpenFest2025 is happening this week @sheffielduni.bsky.social with a focus on #EEDI in #OpenResearch! DRI's Beth Knazook and RDA Ambassador Francis Crawley share in "Building diverse open research networks & communities" on Sep 4 @10:00 UTC+1 dri.ie/events/openf... @researchdataall.bsky.social

Close it down. It shows no regard for anyone or anything or the environment. The levels of pollution being discharged are several times the limit. It’s not the first time either, see further down the thread.

I am grateful to the Women's History Association of Ireland @whaireland.bsky.social for having accepted my book review. It is now available online. History Revolutionary Women of Tipperary (1914-1923) by Noreen Higgins McHugh

Thousands turned out today to back our school secretaries and caretakers in their fight for pension parity. Support the workers. Contact your TDs to demand the government concedes and drop by pickets to support. #PensionParityNow #JoinAUnion #FightForYourRights

The DRAFT release of the Research Data Management Terminology (RDMT) (new 2025 edition) is now open for comment by COB 5 Sep 2025. Information on the terminology + link, please visit this page: codata.org/initiatives/... Thank you! #RDM #datascience #digipres

We are delighted that @iqda-mu.bsky.social have ingested a new collection into the Repository! Societās: Empirical Insight into the Lived Experience of Associations comprises 26 semi-structured interviews exploring the human right to freedom of association. Find out more: dri.ie/news/new-col...

Hello Saturday. #Caturday

We take it so for granted here that there's no tax on books, that they're an essential like food and children's shoes. One of the things to point to to define "what is 'Irish'" www.rte.ie/news/world/2...

Thanks so much to @dri.ie colleagues and Sharon Healy (Web Archive historian) for a really fab #HeritageWeek event that not only covered the history of web archives (with special mention of the Alternative Miss Ireland websites), but showed people how to archive their own websites as well 🕸️🔗

It's that time of year again where we are thrilled to announce our call for the 2026 Community Archive Scheme! Key dates: 🗓️ Scheme opens: 27 August ❓ Information session: 2.00pm, 16 September 📩 Closing date: 7 November For more information visit dri.ie/community-ar... and watch the video below.

Oh my! Look what we had delivered today 😍 We can’t wait to share it with you! #OS200 #IrelandMapped @ukri.org @researchireland.ie @unioflimerick.bsky.social @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social @rialibrary.bsky.social @dri.ie @tailteeireann.bsky.social #OSNI #PRONI @natlibscot.bsky.social

Really looking forward to hearing Dr Sharon Healy speaking @dri.ie 's #HeritageWeek event tomorrow.

I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/

As we would say in Yiddish, this is a shande (shameful, disgraceful, dishonorable) I can’t even express how deeply wrong this is. Many many of my rabbinic colleagues are speaking out against this action

What was it like growing up on O'Connell Street? www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dubl...

TV aerial in Daniel O’Connell stamp is a ‘visual signal’ to the modern age, not AI, says An Post www.irishtimes.com/culture/art/...

Heading into the bank holiday weekend, DRI staff caught the 195th annual exhibition @rha-arts.bsky.social We were particularly taken by the USB sculpture by Redmond Herrity, "Connection to the Past." The persistence of stone contrasted with the fragility of the digital. Message received! 🙌

We are delighted to announce Eimear Hanahoe has been appointed as Senior Programme and Communications Manager as part of the DRI team based at @ria.ie. Eimear brings a wealth of experience in project management, strategic planning, and social media engagement. Find out more: dri.ie/news/dri-wel...

Drop-In Manuscript Makers! 📍 National Museum of Ireland – Kildare Street 📅 Wed 30 July| 13:30–15:30 🎟️ Free | No booking needed Step into the world of early medieval scribes! Try calligraphy, explore ancient pigments & learn how treasures like the Book of Kells were made www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...

DRI is participating in OpenFest 2025 @sheffielduni.bsky.social! We'll be talking about @researchdataall.bsky.social RDA Ambassadors Coordination Group and building networks to support #OpenResearch activities. Join us in Sept online! 🔗 dri.ie/events/openf...

July 16 is International #SnakeDay! 🐍 This drawing from the Artists' Campaign to Repeal the 8th shows a woman standing on snake in the shape of an 8. Discover more art history in the Artists' Campaign to Repeal the 8th Archive deposited in DRI by NCAD! Read more: repository.dri.ie/catalog/7p88...

Digitised today at DBN Herbarium was this 1863 specimen of Ranunculus repens accompanied by a lovely note. 1st ever plant specimen collected by R.M. Barrington, one of Ireland's great naturalists @injournal.bsky.social @colinkelleher.bsky.social @nigelmonaghan-nh.bsky.social @ria.ie @dri.ie

The Research Data Alliance @researchdataall.bsky.social is a neutral, global, and volunteer-led organisation evolving best practice in #RDM #OpenResearch #FAIRdata On the DRI blog, we share what membership in RDA has meant to us. ❤️ We'd love to hear your stories too! dri.ie/news/data-wi...

We are delighted to share that @tcddublin.bsky.social have ingested a new collection into the Repository - the William Molyneux Moses Pitt "Failed Atlas" project. Find out more (with additional content from @virtualtreasury.bsky.social @historydib.bsky.social): ➡️ dri.ie/news/new-col...

Insects in 17th-century still lifes were not just uninvited guests. Look closely at those lush canvases and you’ll spot tiny intruders: bees, beetles, caterpillars… 🐝🪲🐛 👁️ https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection

#CILIP raises concerns for the sector about misinformation, political pressure & the vital need for fact-based decision-making in public libraries following conflicting reports about the removal or relocation of "trans-ideological" books in Kent libraries: www.cilip.org.uk/news/705344/...

Irish Cancer Society calls for breast cancer screening to be lowered to 45

Almost every hospital offering life-cancer treatement missed the HSE’s target to treat 90% of patients within 15 working days of diagnosis. Read @mariadelaney.ie investigation ⬇️ https://www.thejournal.ie/investigates-chemo-delays-6751362-Jul2025/?utm_source=shortlink&jrnl_lg=1

🚨One of the most terrifying elements of the Trump budget bill is NOT getting enough attention. The Bill will make ICE the biggest policing and incarceration agency in the US. Bigger than the FBI, with more jail space than the Federal Prison Bureau. It’s a budget for a police state.