#Valerie'sLaw #speirgorm www.irishtimes.com/politics/202... (2025)

Great news from @greenpeace.org.nz as New Zealand REJECTS deep sea mining in the incredible Taranaki region! Aotearoa said no to ecosystem destruction - who's next? 🌏💚 #StopDeepSeaMining #ProtectTheOceans

Has this consent issue been addressed in #Ireland? #speirgorm www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

“The era of hiding behind servers is over”.

New documentary from RTÉ Investigates reveals the psychiatric care scandal in Ireland

As the article notes, UD removed my students' research from public access on the internet in July 2025. However, you can see a pre-deletion version of their work on the Wayback Machine: web.archive.org/web/20250612... (Of course, any further work on these projects within UD has stopped.)

Report from #Minneapolis #SocialJustice uusj.net/wp1/report-f...

I look forward to seeing this film #AnIrishAtlanticRainforest congrats Eoghan @irishrainforest.bsky.social

10 Million Names 10millionnames.org/events

Free Black Community, #Natchez #Mississippi database created by Nik Ribianszky of @qubhistory.bsky.social generationsoffreedom.com/people/

Listed buildings in your #OnePlaceStudy? This online talk should provide some fascinating insights into the listing process, its history, and inaccuracies, along with a look at new techniques enabling better dating of buildings. #OnePlaceWednesday

Welcome! We're a global, neurodivergent-led community of practice. We support Autistic & other neurodivergent people & professionals in offering affirming, ethical & effective care. We centre human dignity & the right to thrive in everything we do Training, resources & more www.thrivingautistic.org

If you missed this week's seminar by Ciara McAllister on 'A class apart: Representing the ‘Troubles’ and the working class', a recording is now available at www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o1J...

New: Together with colleagues I’ve been testing Grok. The chatbot still produces sexualized images — even when told the subjects don’t consent. even when told the photos will be used for public humiliation. even when told the subjects are survivors of abuse. www.reuters.com/business/des...

My new article, 'Selling Education in England, 1650-1715' is now out (open access) in the English Historical Review! academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

Excellent documentary by @rteradio1.bsky.social #Slavery #Daly www.rte.ie/radio/docono...

#LiamRamos is home with his mother www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

#OnThisDay, 3 Feb 1956, Autherine Lucy stepped onto the University of Alabama's campus, becoming the first African-American student to attend classes there. After being expelled, she finally graduates in 1992. [photo with Rosa Parks & Eleanor Roosevelt © Library of Congress] #WomenInHistory 🗃️

This month the @ihr.bsky.social Digital History Seminar welcomes S. Wright Kennedy to talk about 'Separate but Dead: Mapping Disease & Segregation in New Orleans, 1880-1915'. Join us 17 Feb, on Zoom, at midday (UK-time) ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/09/tues... #dhist

Join us at our 2-day oral history & digital storytelling course @ihr.bsky.social Explore the benefits of creative expression in the digital storytelling process, culminating in the opportunity to create your very own short video! shorturl.at/VHj0G vimeo.com/1121186908?f... @maxinebeuret.bsky.social

In case you missed it, watch @dmf101.bsky.social on 'Mourning, memory and politics: memorialization of the Holocaust in Britain from the 1940s to the present day' here: bit.ly/4k6OXCF @ihr.bsky.social

Looking forward to this week’s @qubhistory.bsky.social seminar with @emilybaughan.bsky.social (chaired by @kieranconnell.bsky.social). Snacks and drinks provided as usual. All welcome! www.eventbrite.com/e/qub-histor...

The Taliban’s new penal code reads like an assault on human rights. Women are now less important than animals, and they’ve legalized slavery. They’ve also implemented a caste system and empowered people to punish each other, without involving the legal system.

Our next seminar is on Mon. 9 Feb. - Niall Whelehan will speak about ‘Radicalism, colonialism and the life of an Irish doctor in Argentina at the fin de siècle’. All welcome www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...

More than 400 years of history and a decade of advocacy were torn down Thursday afternoon when National Park Service employees removed every single display at the President’s House. 🔗 What's next? We explain: www.inquirer.com/politics/nat...

Safe home #LiamRamos. May all the other children be released soon.

Beannachtaí na Féile Bríde oraibh uilig ✨ Seo clár speisialta in ómós do Naomh Bríd curtha i láthair ag Síle Ní Bhraonáin agus Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin ⬇️ https://nasc.tg4.tv/Ardoidh_Me_Mo_Sheol-La_le_Bride

After seven and a half years of weekly parenting columns for the Observer, today's will be my last. I started writing the column a few weeks before becoming a dad, so I've never parented without it. I'll miss it more than I express in words, but I had a go anyway. observer.co.uk/news/columni...

Congratulations to @lorrainegrimes.bsky.social on the launch of her first book happening this Thursday 5 February at 7pm at the Irish Film Institute Dublin. All welcome.

Larbert High School (a large non-denominational secondary school in Stenhousemuir, Falkirk, Scotland) has left X (10.577 followers) Bluesky: @larberthigh.bsky.social

Happy St Brigid's Day Lá Fhéile Bríde! A celebration of the contribution of Irish women ... and the first day of Spring!💚 Check out events and activities https://bit.ly/StBrigids2026

When mothers and babies are brutally separated. Amhráin do mo Mháthair le #PaulineScanlon #speirgorm (English subtitles) @tg4.bsky.social www.tg4.ie/ga/player/se...

Ardán (a non-profit organisation and creative development platform based in Galway, Ireland, that supports people working in the audio-visual industries — including film, TV, games, and animation) leaves X (9.401 followers) Bluesky: @ardan-ie.bsky.social

It would be great if as much attention was given to the superb film The Voice of Hind Rajab. There is a voice that needs to reach our ears.

If you are a person who works in social media, and your job requires you to manage an account on Twitter/X, please ask your boss, in writing, to verify that you are required as a responsibility of your position to be on a platform that knowingly creates and monetizes child sexual abuse material …

#speirgorm 5,188 children in Ireland without a home Dec. 2025

ICE has been holding a disabled Black man for a year! Rodney Taylor is a double amputee who was days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when ICE took him. He’s been denied his prosthetics & placed in solitary. His health is declining. Public outrage might save his life. Say his name:

Historians @marthasjones.bsky.social and @katemasur.bsky.social filed a critical brief on birthright citizenship in the circuit courts, showing how the story of free Black Americans' advocacy unravels the admin's lead justification for its executive order. www.brennancenter.org/media/14006/...

“…now what I knew then: Mental health isn’t just about talking to your friends, & the State should not be absolved of its role therein. We are often told that #mentalhealth is health & that you wouldn’t walk around on a broken leg. But you wouldn’t ask a friend to set the leg either.” #spéirghorm

With sincere respect for #EmmaDavisHamilton. In her life in the military and in the genealogy world she touched so many lives. youtu.be/GXxEsJhWYIQ?...

There are 3,800 kids in ICE custody.

On Kerry Today with @jerosullivanrk.bsky.social - - @president.ie Catherine Connolly makes her first official visit to Kerry; meanwhile Taoiseach @micheal-martin.bsky.social speaks to Jerry as he also is in the Kingdom. 1/ www.radiokerry.ie/news/preside...

Over 15,000 used and secondhand books - further reduced by 50% in our bank holiday weeend SALE, from today until Monday Feb 2nd. ( My awful pun was snowdrops, pricedrops, hence the image...) thebookshop.ie/bank-holiday...

Remembering Ann Lovett who died #Onthisday 1984 www.dib.ie/biography/lo...

Ships, sugar and #slavery by @gillianobrien.bsky.social 2023 With thanks to @livunipress.bsky.social www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...

' Historians and teachers: We cannot be silenced.' David Blight

Another day, among too many to count, when this is as true as it was in 1963, and just as important not just for racial justice but for democracy, period.

📣 We’re pleased to share the 2026 Free Issues. Each year, we make one issue from each of our journals free to read, showcasing the range of disciplines, approaches, and scholarly communities represented across the Press. Explore the free issues ⬇️ #AcademicSky

A powerful appeal from the OMAS (grannies) #speirgorm #OMAS youtu.be/Q-Z6M-LDXWg?...

In the words of James Baldwin ' The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe' youtu.be/-j6Nt4UfWg4?...