Ian Wright saying we shouldn’t forget the way the Iranian team and the Somali referee were treated. Correct.

Never has a team more richly deserved to lose than Argentina.

Thank goodness for that! A beautiful result 👏

Extra time means I'm up for the sky to turn orange

So basically all the adverts during this match are for AI, (creepy) Meta glasses, and the military... I suppose it makes a change from gambling sites, but geez 🤦🏻‍♀️

The Catholic Historical Society's annual conference 2026 is on 19 Sep at DCU-St. Pat's. Theme 'Irish Catholic Spaces: Pasts and Futures. Details and registration here: www.eventbrite.ie/e/chsi-annua...

Do you like conferences? You might not enjoy them so much when half of attendees can't write their papers or even attent because they've been made redundant. Want to publish? Well it's going to get harder without reviewers. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/job-cut... 5/5

Northumbria's announcement (30 people to go by end of July, 10 of whom from Humanities) is maybe less egregious than Exeter's, but the pattern is the same: Humanities are disproportionately targeted for reasons that do not align with a rational look at the situation (student staff ratios) 3/?

what the actual fuck

Ok, look, what's been particularly infuriating about the redundancies at Exeter (and Nottingham and Newcastle and and and) is this weird idea that it only affects those individuals and institutions. It harms us all because we are so closely interconnected.

My students at Durham, my collaborators worldwide, anyone who reads my work... ALL of them have benefited from my time at Exeter, and the expertise of my colleagues at Exeter, because those colleagues improved my work so immeasurably. Job losses are losses for us all.

Dr @sophcocooper.bsky.social on the tension and acceptance of the sisters of the sacred heart in St Louis. Local information galore in this rich study.

I mean, this was paid for by taxpayers -- $14.2 million to paint and waterproof this pool to make it "American flag blue" -- so I guess people are getting their money back in a way

Only 10 (or so) years after I first started drafting it, I’m very excited that I have a new article out in @irishhiststudies.bsky.social! ‘He became Irish in death: the Rafferty-O’Meara murder trials and press representations of Irishness in 1870s Chicago’ is out! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

My first book, "Inspecting the home: Urban poverty and public health in nineteenth-century France", will be published by @manchesterup.bsky.social in February 2027 To find out more (or to add it to your wish lists...) see the link below: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526183149/

Hot off the press! Patrick Mahoney's @patrickjmahone1.bsky.social new book Fenian Empire, available now: lnkd.in/eW3FFERw "Teeming with individual Fenians, splits, spies, and swagger, it is a captivating read contending with ideas which are at once both historical and contemporary." Ú Ní Bhroiméil

I had the privilege to serve as the @acirishstudies.bsky.social History Rep, which meant I also chaired the Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book. We had an amazing slate of books – truly inspiring stuff – and it was such a pleasure to read. Irish Studies future is bright!

QUB’s Helen Hayes Sweeney speaking about the migration journey of Mick McGee, from Donegal to Leadville Colorado, at @acirishstudies.bsky.social . @sophcocooper.bsky.social

"women can be perfectly capable of using this technology and simply choose not to" we did in fact need data backing up this incredibly obvious claim bc a LOT of companies will insist Susan from Accounting is refusing to use AI to do the books because IT needs to come explain how it works to her

If CMAT is an affront to the male gaze and Olivia Rodrigo is indulging it, how exactly should women dress? | Laura Snapes

"You were correctly outraged by how Ben-Gvir treated your nationals. Please think of how he treats ours.”

Note: relatively stable institution; HAPP's a supportive (even harmonious) School; there's another Ancient History colleague; and pay at Queen's is now relatively high (starting salary is junior; post confirmation-in-post, lecturer starts c. £52k, SL starts c. £66k). www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRP030/l...

Finally, Burnham's speech spoke about unity, but was actually quite divisive - honest North vs wealthy South, honest apprenticeships vs posh degrees, honest local gov't vs wicked Whitehall. How does that "bring the country together"? It's just another crowbar in a different set of cracks. 6/

'The key findings were said to be “surprisingly simple”: “a good student academic experience ultimately comes down to quality teaching, access to in person interaction with teachers and a strong sense of belonging”.' 2/3

Ohhh, I really want to have the students in my digital skills class work on this text! They are French studying the English language plus the literature and history of English-speaking regions and this should be interesting for them on both counts.

⏰️ Still time to apply for our £500 research bursary! It is open to masters students, doctoral researchers, ECRs, and independent historians who research women’s and gender history, particularly for those working on Scottish themes. 🗓 Deadline 31st May 🔗 womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

Tom Hulme’s ‘Belfastmen’ launched tonight by @sophcocooper.bsky.social at No Alibis

Should be an excellent lecture by Prof. Roisín Higgins, Department of History @maynoothuniversity.ie

A reminder that this Call for Contributions to a Sourcebook for Histories of Weather & Weathering is still open teleskopos.wordpress.com/2026/02/05/c... edited by @rhiggitt.bsky.social @lottaleiwo.bsky.social and Tamara Culkins. #histSTM #envhist 🗃️📜

*stares in Northern Irish*

Those familiar with my work might spot this is (somewhat) a departure for me chronology-wise. Thanks to all who offered feedback or read drafts etc, esp. @clairelanghamer.bsky.social, @nataliethomlinson.bsky.social and @katebradleyhistory.bsky.social. Any remaining inadequacies of course mine!

This promises to be a great talk. Please join us on Thursday - in person or online!

Our annual J.C. Beckett Lecture will be held on 14 May at 6pm. Please do join us at PRONI for Prof. Roisín Higgins' lecture on 'Embodied Conflict: Sensory Histories of the Troubles'! This will be an in person event and will no doubt be fascinating! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/roisin-hig...

walkable cities strongly encourage a feeling of imagined community that helps make you a good citizen. if you experience the city only in slices it's easier to see large swathes of it as fundamentally alien or hostile.

A full recording of Saturday's Symposium on 'Peasant Movements and Land Agitation in Ireland' is now available at www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJaf... @marcmulholland.bsky.social @peelersandsheep.bsky.social @petergray47.bsky.social @sophcocooper.bsky.social

This would be a great thing for so many people! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...

An organisation’s culture is set by its leader, Starmer dislikes making an argument for anything (because he’s bad at it) and that attitude spreads all the way down the party.

‘Quite frankly absurd’ ‘I’ve met many doctors in my life & none of them have ever glowed like that’ Cardinal Timothy Radcliffe who was among the Conclave who elected Pope Leo tells #Newsnight what he thought of this image, and of Donald Trump’s claim he was portraying himself as a doctor 👇

BREAKING: the judges who dismissed high-profile cases in immigration court against two international students who have advocated for Palestinian causes, Rümeysa Öztürk and Mohsen Mahdawi, were fired yesterday, alongside four other judges. /w @haleaziz.bsky.social and @nicknehamas.bsky.social

I feel like I’m losing my mind, we’re gambling with a generation of kids so the tech bros can be emperors

"A whole civilization will die tonight" This man is the purest distillation of the American capitalist imperialist psyche, untrammeled, unconfined, and flourishing in all its evil. Pure hatred and greed. And not a single person seems able or willing to do fuck all about it.

Delighted to see that Northern Ireland is leading the way in the UK on this! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Just going to leave this here.

Huge PhD Opportunity - the Catholic Church and Environmental History in South Africa!

When the US admits that they killed any “military-aged men” who walked within 3km of a downed pilot they mean any boy lanky enough to be a teenager and any middle-aged man able to walk unaided with a cane got shot in the head for the crime of walking.

Rules and norms about war crimes are a global public good. If you or anyone in your family is between 16 & 60, male, & walks, you have a direct personal interest in it not being legitimate for them to be assinated for walking within any undeclared 3km radius around any combatant.