Just saw a student wearing a barbour jacket and a mullet and don't know what to think

Who's Here? 👋 A warm welcome to: Dr Audrey Borowski (Cambridge) Dr Elizabeth Sarah Coles (Pompeu Fabra) Dr Sheila Crane (Virginia) Dr @darlingorlaith.bsky.social (UC Dublin) Dr @kareemestefan.bsky.social (Cambridge) Dr @fernandag.bsky.social (Cambridge) Dr Jan Kerkmann (Freiburg) 1/2

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/48078... I will be hosting a reading group on the work of Lauren Berlant Oct.-Nov. @crasshlive.bsky.social. Berlant's writing on sentimentality and the public sphere has lots to say to the current moment we're living through + anyone in Cambridge should please join us!

Send in your abstracts for the Sadness + Gender conference we're holding in June 2026! We have some fantastic keynote speakers and specialist panels lined up and would love to see you all in Dublin! #cfp @ucdhumanities.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social @molimuseum.bsky.social

www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/about/events... I will be a visiting fellow at @crasshlive.bsky.social and Wolfson College from Oct-Dec. Come see me talk about my new project at Wolfson Humanities Society! I believe the event will also be MS Team-ed @ucdhumanities.bsky.social

Clare Moriarty: I’ve cracked the afterschool childcare problem. It has cheap coffee, wifi and over-excited toddlers

Tune in to hear me talk about Research Ireland postdocs (formerly the IRC)

srael is no longer seeking approval for issuing bonds through Ireland's Central Bank. Despite the pathetic Irish Government refusing to formally stop authorising Israeli bonds, the concerted pressure of a popular campaign here led to this outcome. www.rte.ie/news/2025/09...

Entirely man-made famine.

Like everyone, I am listening to obscene amounts of Oasis recently and would like to have a moment of appreciation for Liam's incredible diction (a fraught topic between myself and my childhood singing teacher)

Fellowship from Bloomsbury for early career academics who are Black, Asian or Ethnically Diverse: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/...

www.litencyc.com/php/speople.... New Literary Encyclopedia entry on Sally Rooney just dropped. A real joy to think about her oeuvre, and a real challenge to fit it into concise entry!

Call out to drop me your favourite love poems🥰

Would you like to contribute to the public consultation about the Basic Income for the Arts? 💡 Fill out this survey from Minister O’Donovan at the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...

Thrilled that Fionnula and myself have been granted generous funding by @ucdhumanities.bsky.social to run this conference. Anyone interested in women's lit/mental health/disability studies keep your eyes peeled for CfP!

We're pleased to announce funding awarded to 6 projects catalysing research across the CAH Research Strands. The projects are funded by the HI Seed Funding Scheme: CAH Research Strands 2025-2026. We're delighted these projects can be realised and look forward to collaborating with the project leads.

"There is no case since WW2 of starvation that has been so minutely designed and controlled" Famine expert Alex de Waal on Israel deliberately starving an entire civilian population

Leafing through old Irish poetry anthologies to look for wedding readings is renewing my gratitude to a later generation of Irish writers, editors, and publishers for championing gender representation. Mad to think that efforts from the recent past (within my lifetime) including one woman poet...

spending a day in bed reading Brandon Taylor's Substack all day and calling it research: summer 2025 vibes

Seeing @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social win thanks to grassroots support by young activists (yay @demsocialists.bsky.social) makes this middle aged guy living on the prairie so freaking happy. Let a thousand similar flowers all over the US bloom.

Dublin and Dublin-adjacent people! If anyone knows of any nice wedding venues that can host 240-ish people, please let me know!

As has been typical for some time, the paper of global finance is to the left of the US liberal party.

F*ck the L*bour Government.

Kneecap are not the story. Gaza is the story. Genocide is the story. ✊️ www.nme.com/news/music/m...

I hope they find out who spread the false online information that the government would build 40,000 houses last year.

Posting this extract from a lecture by John Maynard Keynes, speaking on the BBC in the middle of the Second World War, to every Labour cabinet minister

i'm bringing my Arms Embargo Bill back to Seanad tomorrow! Myself & my Seanad CEG colleagues want an end to Ministerial exemptions that allow flights to carry weapons directly or indirectly through Ireland to Israel. No more 'turn a blind eye' complicity in horrific breaches of international law👇

Former trades of New Ross, Wexford

I find myself having somehow gone through a decade of education in English Literature without having read John Steinbeck. Currently finishing (and loving and weeping over) Grapes of Wrath, and would love recs on where to go next!

Feeling the pernicious effects of my (warranted, I think) over-excitement (which is to say overindulgence) in a newly discovered Gluten Free stout yesterday. No more will I gaze longingly at friends' pints 🥰🍻

Today’s mood is whimsical…

Crisis in academia: ‘I love research, but I don’t see any security or stability in it’

Anyone interested in literary narratives of social mobility and higher education in literature -- submit to my panel for Association for the Study of Arts in he Present conference 2025! asap16.exordo.com/panels/30/co...

Neuter your ex for Valentine's Day! For €30 per donation Animals in Need Donegal will name a feral cat after your ex and will give em the snip through their TNR program! They'll even send you a pic of your ex's feline namesake lol 🐕 www.idonate.ie/1552_animals... 🐈

Finally getting around to reading Richard Florida's (should have been an article not a book) The Rise of the Creative Class. Grim how much Dublin is being mentioned, in 2001/02 as an exemplar of weak-ties-based "creative" city...

Hello Bluesky! I'm new here. I am a scholar of contemporary literature, late capitalism/neoliberalism, and affect. I am interested in myths of upward mobility, critical theory, and feminist political philosophy. Here are some pictures of me posing with various texts, including my PhD!