All week, I’ve seen the best of Belfast at the Book Festival- welcoming, inclusive, creative, joyful- tonight we’re making sure all our lovely guest writers can get home safely through riots and burnt out vehicles and outpouring of hatred. It is such a shame. We are much better than this.

How to watch the Ireland v France Women’s WC qualifier outside Ireland? Anyone know? #COYGIG

A quick reminder of this Seed Talk I’ll be giving in Cork in July. It’s selling out so if anyone is around Cork and wants to chat Banshee it’d be great to see ye there Details below: The Banshee in Irish Folklore: Folklore, history, gender and belief www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-banshe...

PSA, while we’re in World Cup nostalgia mode: the BBC’s superb review of Italia 90 can be watched here: youtu.be/PW9oO3pFR78?... It was broadcast over Christmas 1990. We recorded it and I eventually wore out the tape from rewatching. Can still recite Barry Davies commentary from memory.

Play ALL the matches down the Páirc! #COYGIG

Ah, “briefly unintentionally obstructed Anthony Head in a Tube station” was always one of my two answers to this question. RIP.

Ha!

A stat for the Bluesky lovers 👀 100% win record, 10 goals scored & 0 conceded since the platform shift 📈 @bsky.app 💚 #CCFC84 🇮🇹

National teams are often portrayed as symbols of rooted national identity. Yet World Cup squads have long reflected migration histories, colonial ties and diasporic connections. www.migrationpolicy.org/article/inte...

Saw a post on LinkedIn and was reminded of @marcscully.bsky.social's posts on experimental psychology Here, a psychology professor is bemoaning the absence of the "social" in contemporary social psychology because no one brings participants into a lab anymore to study "social" phenomena...

"Deportations are not managing migration. What is managing migration is planning and thinking about how migrants will need access to housing or hospital, or education for their children" 👏👏👏

📢 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘂𝗻𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀: 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 & 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 📢 We are conducting a systematic review of qualitative social psychology studies on collective action and resistance, and we need your help!

A few years ago, one of my students did her undergrad dissertation on how young people in Munster switched between 26 and 32-county versions of Irishness in their uses of discourses of national identity. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the status of the Leaving Cert as a 'national' rite of passage came up.

😬 . Toughest draw possible for Cork.

Dance first, think later? This is a project I have been working on for a while. If you have journeyed through clubs, raves, dancefloors, sounds and crowds of 1990s/early 2000s Northern Ireland I would love to chat!

There is a barman in the bar I’m currently sitting in in Cork city centre who is explaining the GAA to Australian tourists and he is. getting. details. WRONG. I want you to imagine the *level* of restraint I am exercising not to intervene with a “well, actually”. #spéirghorm

An independent filmmaker from Birmingham is collecting stories for a short documentary about post-war Irish migration to Britain, inspired by her own grandmother, who travelled from Kildare in 1959 aboard the Princess Maud Interested in knowing more? Email [email protected]

UEFA currently trolling the @irishnumberones.bsky.social account, I see.

"Men We Seldom See - Irish Migrant Legacies and the British Construction Industry" We are looking for Irish migrants who worked in any aspect of the British construction industry for at least one year, and are willing to be interviewed. ℹ️ www.liverpool.ac.uk/irish-studie.... #oralhistory #SpéirGorm

FAO academics: a quick norm check. If you've submitted an abstract for an oral presentation at a conference, and get an offer of a poster presentation instead, do you feel obliged to accept? I've said "thanks, but no thanks" twice this summer, and wonder whether I'm coming across as precious...

"why don't you innovate assessment" because they still need to learn how to write and argue and we need to assess if their output shows that they can do it - we can't all assess process or have them fix AI and tell us how or use blind in person exams and achieve what university for!

"Girl number twenty unable to prompt ChatGPT to define a Waymo™!" said Mr. Gradgrind, for the general behoof of all the little pitchers. "Girl number twenty possessed of no prompts, in reference to one of the commonest of autonomous vehicles! Some boy’s prompt to define a Waymo™. Bitzer, yours."

Call for Interview Participants! My @researchireland.ie study exploring women’s experiences of online harassment and abuse in Irish academia is seeking insights from those impacted to help increase awareness and support. To share your story please email: [email protected]

Me, every year to my first year social psychology students: “Social facilitation is a phenomenon where the presence of others improves performance under certain circumstances” Also me: “Why am I so much more productive at the staff writing retreat? Truly a mystery. Who can say?”

I realise I’m tilting at windmills here, but I dunno, would we call Baltimore a tiny village? By the standards of rural Irish villages, like? #Spéirghorm

RIP Grizz

Ah, this is very sad.

Folks, that RTE News CMAT coverage that ye’re all cross about is Press Association copy. The Examiner, the Indo, the Belfast Telegraph and the York Press have the exact same headline.

going to become a retvrn guy, excessively for the big W of wilton shopping centre

Hopefully we get the chance to test this over the summer with Arsenal fans who are also Cork hurling supporters. Do we have a Scale of Insufferability? Or is a discursive analytic reading of social media posts a better approach?

Very sorry to hear of the recent death of Don MacRaild. Don was Professor of History at Northumbria, Wellington, Ulster, Roehampton, and London Met, where he was a PVC before his recent retirement. A leading historian of Ireland’s diaspora, he will be much missed by all who knew him.

A new publication from Psychology colleagues at @micireland.bsky.social looking at the role of educational psychologists in education and healthcare settings in Ireland: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Some extracts from Fever Pitch on the timeline today, which is understandable. This bit has always stayed with me: I thought about it after Nickie Quaid’s save in the 2018 All-Ireland semi, and again after Tony Kelly’s goal in the 2024 All-Ireland. Two iconic moments and I wish I hadn’t seen them.

Still hurt by Bertie Ahern singling out Congolese people, loss of a community member opened a fresh wound, they say. Read more here www.dublininquirer.com/still-hurt-b...

In the weeks since Psychfest, some of our final year Psychology students have been writing blogposts for @micireland.bsky.social Insights. First, we had Emma Harte on image retouching, political advertising and voter impressions: www.mic.ul.ie/mic-insights...

The Rebel Army, now on Bluesky! 👋🏼 Last week, we announced that we’re no longer posting on X. We’re still active on all of our other channels, as well as now regularly posting here on Bluesky. Repost this post so that City fans and football fans in general know where to find us ✅ 🙏🏼

Maybe next time, we can skip past the performative over-correction, and go straight to "well, this is nuanced"?

Me reading your bad takes on Bluesky.

What research would you love to carry out if only for the sheer chaos it would cause in your online spaces? I'd like to carry out a comparative study of which academics, *by discipline*, are most likely to share misinformation/disinformation online.

📢 Salon For The City #134 - Metropolitan Migration: Histories of Irish London ☘️ Thurs 28 May, 7 pm at The Horse Hospital, London WC1N 1JD Delighted to be doing a two-part talk with Dr Rosa Gilbert of @irishinbritain.bsky.social on #IrishLondonHistory ☘️ Me: 17th-19th century Rosa: 20th century 1/2

It'd be great to see them offer this for documentaries as well. I have a hearing impairment, so I need subtitles when watching TV, but it feels a bit jarring to be putting on English language subtitles on TG4 when I can understand the spoken Irish, but just can't always hear it particularly well.

Thanks so much to the @irishexaminer.bsky.social for publishing this piece on our upcoming conference on histories of infertility @unioflimerick.bsky.social on 27 May - booking required, free to attend and all are most welcome - www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

You get this quite a lot in the obituaries of Irish people who have played a prominent role in 20th Century British institutions, and it’s always reported completely matter-of-factly, without an ounce of reflection.

We’ve often used to talk about Eurovision as if it created a shared transnational public sphere of emotion: a whole continent celebrating iconic winners whose songs and personas seemed to say something about their times. Now it also has a sphere of grief, a sphere of apprehension.

Context: www.irishexaminer.com/sport/soccer... Make like the Sultans of Ping and follow Cork City.

My 7 year old has commandeered this month’s edition of @psychmag.bsky.social because Pikachu is on the cover.

I'm ethically queasy about ye all sharing, chuckling about & meme-ifying that rip dot ie comment, I'll be honest. #Spéirghorm