As the History Representative for ACIS, I have the distinct privilege to chair the Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book. If you, or someone you know, has a book copyrighted in 2025 in Irish Studies please do consider submitting! Details here. 🗃️ #speirgorm

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Looking at this fascinating example of a dual-language Scottish headstone makes me reflect upon how few Irish-language headstones I've seen in the many & various old graveyards I've explored in Ireland over the years. And how the absence of material culture can be as telling as its presence...

wake up babe, a new (old) paper on "artificial intelligence" just dropped! it's got that extra tasty vintage typography too (1976) fulltext: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Connery looks like you just said something mean about Cher

"She's the Rt Revd and Rt Hon Dame Sarah Mullally DBE, Archbishop of Canterbury, but she's Mrs Mullally to you."

RIP Manchán Magan This was my first introduction to him. I recommend giving it a listen before you go home today. shows.acast.com/blindboy/epi...

Our horror at the genocide in Gaza, at the mass murder of civilians on Oct 7 2023, and at today's atrocity in Manchester, comes in each case from the same, inherent part of our shared humanity. We need to assert that shared humanity as loudly as possible, and in as many practical ways as we can.

Today I am full of sadness, in a manner intimately and immanently bound to my politics, something that only becomes more constant (which I cannot stand), but I am tired of having my belief in the sanctity of all human life exploited at whim by a politics which violently refuses that same sanctity.

Our president is an international punchline, and so are we.

Horrified by the news about the violent attack at a Manchester synagogue on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. Thinking about the people who have lost loved ones or are injured and Jewish communities across the country.

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

Published this month: 'Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940', by Gareth Roddy bit.ly/48Hkjfu The next in the Society's 'New Historical Perspectives' book series, available from 30 October: Open Access and paperback print @uolpress.bsky.social #Skystorians

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere. Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself. Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj

Pope Leo in remarks to journalists tonight: "Someone who says I am against abortion but I am in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States, I don't know if that's pro-life.” www.reuters.com/world/pope-l...

I'm skimming, but this paragraph stood out:

Wonderful to receive the hard copies from @edinburghup.bsky.social today! Long in the making and so many people to thank in #cyprus, the #diaspora, @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social, @edinburghup.bsky.social and more!

The military cares about climate change because they understand it's setting the ground for more conflicts, and because their bases are underwater. Seems like having your bases underwater might affect military readiness.

actually it's ok to look things up in the dictionary instead of blaming the author for using a word you didn't know learning is good

These generals are going to be so happy to be summoned from serious work around the globe to be told they’re fat and useless.

The Taliban’s internet blackout silences women and girls, cutting off their access to education & connection with the outside world. This grave abuse of human rights threatens the prospect of peace & stability. We must intensify pressure on the Taliban to lift these oppressive measures.

Delaying ILR/settlement/citizenship for this group would very likely leave them to the mercy of a future Reform/Tory govt -and to policies which Starmer and Mahmood have (rightly) explicitly described as racist. A real litmus test for Labour.

It’s wonderful to see Kieran’s book on multicultural Britain getting the plaudits it deserves… you will not find a more humane and beautifully written book on this complex topic. Unfortunately, it is also both timely and essential reading for the moment in which we find ourselves.

WE WON!! Best children’s audiobook!!!! @emmasouthon.bsky.social

Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

Such brilliant work being done by @leannecalvert.bsky.social, finding the sorts of surprising everyday stories about sex, love and romance that don’t often appear in histories of religious Ulster! AND even without the 20% discount her book is a bargain!

Very glad to have (finally) bought the catalogue book for the @ulstermuseum.org Akihiko Okamura exhibition, The Memories of Others, especially after we got a tour of the exhibition last week @historylabplus.bsky.social. Gorgeously produced and the photos are wonderful!

Our first seminar will be Seán Ó Hoireabhárd (Maynooth University), When Ulster became Ulster and Meath became Meath: The divorce of the Northern and Southern Uí Néill in the Central Middle Ages. Sign up here! www.eventbrite.ie/e/usihs-semi... @hoireabhard.bsky.social @irishhistsoc.bsky.social

This semester's seminar series will begin in a few weeks! All are very welcome to join us in person (27 University Square, QUB) or online. For more information, stay tuned to the USIHS Bluesky or head to our website usihs36.com

RHS First Book and Early Career Article Prizes, 2026. We invite submissions for the Society's book and article prizes: for eligible titles published in 2025. Further details and how to apply: bit.ly/3KnR47v Submissions are by self-nomination by an author. Closing date: 15 December #Skystorians

Got nowhere with this - so if you know of a (bio)med or health journal that has OA now but subscription-only archives - or that is somehow still entirely paywalled - please drop a reply. I’ll make me own list! ✍️

Religion in the U.S.

Sadiq Khan says he loves visiting Liverpool for its food and culture and people, joking: “It also means I can take a break from the sharia lot in London.”

Half the population of Gaza is children not yet born when Hamas came to power. They had no idea, no information, no involvement that Oct was about to unfold. They are being bombed, targeted, burned, orphaned, left without limbs, starved, traumatized, homeless. Do all you can to stop this.

Know someone doing one of the GCSE History modules about Whitechapel & migration? Check out @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy online event for schools Mon 13 Oct - I'll be talking about Irish migration & the 1888 Matchwomen's Strike #IrishLondonHistory☘️ www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/se...

I will start teaching my students how to use AI when my colleagues in computer science start to teach Homer, Dante, Langston Hughes, Borges, Foucault, Audre Lord, Spivak, and Donna Haraway in their classes

“At one point the narrator compares critics of Israel to former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke.”

Incredible street art by RBS Crew in Ouakam, Dakar. 'Palestine is an African cause! '

Followed by a lunch buffet...

A reminder that you don’t have to do this. You don’t have to do things that you know are wrong.

Happy #InternationalLaceDay! Did you know we have 430 lace patterns in our collection? For centuries, lacemaking gave both rural and urban women some economic independence and was an important aspect of society. Which of these historic laces is your favourite? Let us know! #CrawfordArtGallery

Would be nice to send this article to all the generals and admirals gathering at Quantico next week to hear from Pete Hegseth….

One easy way to see that those were labor issues was the fact that many of your colleagues with a different employment status didn't have those rights and protections. Instead of seeing that as a problem to be fixed for the good of all, too many saw it as a sad fate they'd avoid because of ✨merit✨

For anyone who is #teaching #18thcentury politics and/or electoral culture, or is doing #localhistory or #familyhistory, do check out our ECPPEC web resource : it's chock-full of short informative essays, polling data, and artefacts #skystorians ecppec.ncl.ac.uk

Sister Bernadette is my hero

Non-Irish people should be told that Ireland is creased with national hilarity because the Catholic conservative candidate who failed to get enough support did a presser to talk about how Ireland had been cheated out of having a real 'people's candidate' while holding a €20K+ Hermes handbag.

This resonates for me - both my kids have been following the Charlie Kirk and Jimmy Kimmel stories blow by blow, while knowing next to nothing about what is happening in British politics. TikTok is the reason.

Our next FREE #HL+DocsCom event is TODAY! Join Co-Chairs @drmichaelreeve.bsky.social & @northumbriauni.bsky.social's Kathy Davies in the McMordie Room @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social from 11:30 for tea & inspiration: the amazing @sophcocooper.bsky.social will be talking 'From ECR to Senior Lecturer'!

Well, if it’s 23 September... YES, THAT’S RIGHT! It’s the 71st anniversary of the hunt for the Gorbals Vampire, in which hundreds of children aged from four to 14, armed with dogs, knives and sharpened sticks went looking for an urban myth