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...

How to get away with murder in medieval Ireland. Duinetháide murders, where the killer didn't leave a trace or a body, carry all the intrigue of a classic murder mystery, explains Viktoriia Krivoshchekova @dias.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

watch this.

Who are we? Founded in 1965, the Immigration and Ethnic History Society (IEHS) promotes the study of immigration history through the Journal of American Ethnic History and professional/educational outreach. iehs.org

If you can't vote in next month's presidential election, we want to hear from you. Are you an Irish emigrant abroad? An Irish citizen in Northern Ireland? Or a British, EU or non-EU citizen living in the Republic? We'll reflect your views in a forthcoming article. http://jrnl.ie/6828531f

Free book download of collected papers on Knowledge Commons ‘No Horns on their Helmets? essays on the Insular Viking Age’ #medievalsky #history #vikingsky #archaeology works.hcommons.org/records/xc6k...

Interesting thread 🧵 about the tech mindset.

Reason replied, “Believe me, many crucial and worthy arts and sciences have been discovered thanks to the ingenuity and cleverness of women, both in the theoretical sciences expressed through the written word, and in the technical crafts.” - Christine de Pizan, b. 1365

This is an amazing breakthrough! www.bbc.com/news/article...

I know we all hate to log into LinkedIn, but you might wanna do to opt out of this 😘

Be part of Within|Without, the archaeology conference exploring how partitions shape who we are. 🗓 Saturday 18 October 2025 🕘 9:15 AM – 5:30 PM 📍 Edmund Burke Theatre, Trinity College Dublin 🌍 In-person and online options 👉 bit.ly/Within-Without #WithinWithout2025 #NMSArchaeologyConference

The absolute joy of home grown carrots #gardening

Fed up with the fake canonisation of Charlie Kirk? Read my piece on MAGA's Reichstag Moment:https://open.substack.com/pub/mattcarr/p/murder-in-the-madhouse?r=rgmer&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

The new TOS for acad…a dot edu are a bit much. Sad to have to delete my account -it’s been a valuable resource/tool for an independent, rural-based researcher- but I simply cannot consent.

Racism isn’t innate, writes Dr Steve Taylor. It’s a sign of insecurity and poor psychological health, not a hardwired human instinct. From #TheConversation -- thanks!

16th September 2023: On this day, trans people and allies come together in a protest in Dublin against a rally featuring Posie Parker, a self-described “women's activist” with anti-trans views. #OnThisDay #Queerstory 👉 buff.ly/EjAf9qx

This is the question that runs queasily through my head when I’m very very drunk and clinging on to the floorboards.

Today, September 13, women in England march through the streets of London against racism and fascism. #AntiRacismDay #Resist #Pinks

I am looking for a multispecies archaeologist with a strong theoretical and interpretive profile to join my group (100%, 3 years): uni.koeln/2E7CR Deadline: 30.09.2025. Apply here: uni.koeln/ZQMKA ("Wiss2508-21") @nakedprimate.bsky.social @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social

Last site tour for the foreseeable. Back to the keyboard- and archives… #communityheritage

How is this not fraud? When professionals use genAI to do work that they're being paid to do themselves, and don't check it, and turn it in, and accept payment for the incorrect slop they've claimed was their own work, how is it not fraud?

Nothing like discovering your name on a programme you were not even asked to participate in to boil the blood.

Proud to say I haven’t bought anything from that online monster in over ten years - least of all books. I’m a particular fan of @kennysbookshop.bsky.social 😉

Anthony Delaney isn't on here, so here's a shout-out for his new book, Queer Georgians - published today! It looks fabulous . . . 🌈📚🗃️ www.penguin.co.uk/books/460692... @doubledaybooks.bsky.social There's an online event with AD and @thegozfather.bsky.social (The National Archives) on 17 Sept . . .

Blackberry jam on Friday, poached pears today. Bumper crops of apples and blackberries still beckoning… a busy #autumnharvest this year

Dear colleagues, some concerning news has been circulating this week in relation to the 2025 @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social Annual Meeting (Belgrade Virtual). We, the IAI Board, believe it is important to acknowledge & share this info. Please see the full statement, with links, here: buff.ly/8YG0WmV

Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere

Working on my grandfather’s biography and this is one of my favourite quotes from a letter written in 1961. I sense he too had his moments of #impostersyndrome

Objects acquired thru British colonial activities are being returned. Collections have been investigated, but there are still numbers of items where not sufficient is known to classify them. The key thing is, valid requests will be returned & efforts continue, to see if other items should also be

I’ve written lots about the problems with historical photo colourisation (which also uses forms of AI). This is an extension of this practice (an extreme one) reliant on the same logic of emotional ‘impact’ outweighing veracity, and ignoring or refusing to accept the historical limits of imagery.

This, from the Quakers, is a pretty good example of how to resist pressure from bigot lobbying groups. Effectively “we legally can allow trans people to use the loo, we morally should, and we tried it and nothing bad happened”

Anyone out there whose mother/aunt/grandmother etc was a national school teacher? #Irishteacher I know there are people out there who have studied old school buildings too…

The UK Government will test its Emergency Alert System on Sunday, 7th September at 3:00 PM. If you have a concealed phone for safety, this alert could reveal its presence. You can opt out of these alerts. Find out how here: www.gov.uk/alerts/optin... Please help share to help keep others safe.

This will be of interest to 17th century #Irishhistory researchers

No, authors aren't burnt out because "writing without AI is slow" We're burnt out because we're paid dirt so we need day jobs to survive

Anybody got any ideas as to what this is or was??? County Donegal, Ireland.

If you're in Ireland, please fill out this public consultation about the future of the Basic Income for the Arts scheme, the best thing that's happened to Irish artists in a very long time. We need it to continue. ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...

#experimentalarchaeology folk - I’ll be looking closely from now on 😜

😂I may or may not be guilty of rearranging archaeology magazine displays in the past….

How to opt out of AI summaries of your work on academia.edu

The #CommunityMonumentsFund has been an absolute game changer for sites in private ownership like the towerhouse at #Moone. Without it monuments like this are at considerable risk. Congrats to the owners who have persevered and all the experts involved in carrying out the work. #HeritageWeek

Lego in a sea of stubble @legolostatsea.bsky.social

Really enjoyed the lovely people who participated in my sweltering hot tour of #Castledermot this morning. Thanks to my son for the photo and assisting in getting everyone safely around the roads. ❤️ #HeritageWeek

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The best advice you can give students is a) that no one knows what the hot job will be by the time they graduate b) might as well learn about something they’re interested in c) while developing some advanced thinking and writing skills d) ideas about university pedigree create unfair advantages