What a weird-ass Rapture. Only the Constitution disappeared.

#news Prof @irisvdt.bsky.social from @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social and I were awarded a SATLE grant for our @ucc.ie's @uccwomenstudies.bsky.social-led #interdisciplinary project, "Diffract/ing Positionalities Through Critical and Feminist Pedagogies". More info to follow soon! @cirtl.bsky.social

📢 The Denis Donoghue Award 2025 is now open for applications! 🎓 For NUI undergrads (FT/PT) from under-represented groups 💶 €2,000–€5,000 available ⏰ Deadline: 24 Oct 2025 Generously funded by author Emma Donoghue in memory of her father, Denis. Apply now 👉 www.nui.ie/awards/Grant...

I am really excited to announce the call for the PhD Course in Energy Humanities! Held at the @greenhouseuis.net from 1-5 December. Applications are welcome until 24 October. #envhum #envhist #energyhistory

Had a great time at Brock University today - loved meeting Prof @cdaigle.bsky.social’s Philosophy students while talking about all things #criticalposthumanist, #cartographies & #diffraction! Thanks again for the invite! @uccphilosophy.bsky.social @uccwomenstudies.bsky.social

Please join us tomorrow at 5pm Cork time for this research paper by Professor Arthur Bradley: 'Genet's dying words: forty years in Shatila'. @maybenansi.bsky.social @egeertsphd.bsky.social @frenchdeptucc.bsky.social @uccresearch.bsky.social

This looks like an amazing seminar series: newuniversityinexileconsortium.org/news/consort...

Delighted to co-announce this fabulous Political Technologies seminar series with the co-conveners, Prof @oliverjdavis.bsky.social & Dr @maybenansi.bsky.social. Do check out the poster below! @uccphilosophy.bsky.social @uccwomenstudies.bsky.social

Welcome to @ucc.ie’s 2025-26 MA in Women’s Studies cohort! We were joined by UCCFemSoc & UCCGlobalJustice during the intro session taught by program director @egeertsphd.bsky.social, which focused on the discipline’s politico-epistemological origins. Looking forward to this academic year!

The first, “Crafting Between Maps, Powders, Pigments, and the Specter of Modern Science: Handmade Relief Models as Ontological Operations and Experiments” (published in @sthv.bsky.social), unfolds their making. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

International Symposium-Workshop “Critical Ecologies: Crisis, Grief, and Resilience in Philosophy, Art, and Science”, 2-3 October 2025 Dear all - we finally have a pleasure to open the registration for the International Symposium-Workshop “Critical Ecologies: Crisis, Grief, and Resilience in…

📣General registration for4th joint annual conference 'A feminist Politics of Radical Hope in a Time of Oppression' is now open. Details: www.lexnetwork.org/radical-hope... LEX now reviewing membership applications Details: lexnetwork.org @sharronfitz.bsky.social @genderandjustice.bsky.social

Back in the country of eternal humidity, self-deprecating humor & good craic!

Free Disability Research zines, all made by the Disability Action Research Kollective (DARK) Find them and subscribe to new releases here : linktr.ee/disabilityark

I just saw someone refer to rfk jr as microwaved mel gibson & i can’t unsee it.

Preorder now!! Ghosts Behind Glass: Encountering Extinction in Museums Coming out with @uchicagopress.bsky.social in October 2025. Only $20 in paperback for a full color book with 80 pictures of dead things. It’s beautiful! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Stavanger is lovely!

Had a great time as a PhD opponent at @unistavanger.bsky.social’s Gender Studies Centre, re/meeting fantastic colleagues - inc the now Dr Klitgard! Congratulations again! Thx to @lenemyong.bsky.social & @finnarne.me for the pics & coffee tips) @uccphilosophy.bsky.social @uccwomenstudies.bsky.social

there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...

5 days left to send your abstracts! #envhum #petrocultures #histtech #oceanhist

Fantastic volume - Beyond SanctuaryThe Humanism of a World in Motion: read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/3...

Cybernetic Capitalism is out now! It offers a social philosophy for the current age, detailing the cybernetic logic of neoliberal capitalism and radical-right reaction. www.fordhampress.com/978153150893...

Public Events on Memory & Responsibility 🌍 Roundtable: Practising Memory in Times of Crisis — Amani El Haddad, Manoeuvre vzw, Pieter Lagrou, Ann Rigney & Michael Rothberg 🎓 Keynotes: Carlos Fonseca · Sara Dybris McQuaid · Hanna Meretoja Info and registration: event.ugent.be/registration...

e-Special issue featuring Judith Butler: Mariam Fraser, 'Classing Queer: Politics in Competition' - considers how distinctions of gender, sexuality, race and class are drawn, and explores their implications for different forms of identity politics. (1999) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Very excited for this book talk with @alybatt.bsky.social , Andreas Malm and myself hosted by @histmat.bsky.social - sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/free-gifts...

Interesting article (and special issue) by Chiara Bonfiglioli & colleague: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🍀 Ecokritike's call for articles, book reviews, commentaries and special issues 🍀 💻🖋 You are welcome to submit your work as we accept submissions on a rolling basis.

We are looking for multidisciplinary panels to be presented at our upcoming conference "Beyond Dualism—Thinking Creatively Across Worlds," which takes place in July next year. The full call can be found in the news section on our website: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_ev... (1/?)

From the Archive: Bruno Latour, 'Why Gaia is not a God of Totality' - maps out why it is so difficult for natural as well as social scientists not to confuse Gaia with some sort of Providence. (2016) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

🍉 ☀️ Make your summer fruitful by publishing your teaching ideas with JSTOR! Imagine becoming a featured author on the #JSTORBlog or @jstordaily.bsky.social and boosting your publication portfolio. Find collaboration work examples and submission guidelines here: bit.ly/4idCqLE

#fromthearchive Came across this piece on #Haraway, #newmaterialisms, #historicalmaterialisms & #hope today when cleaning up my archive, published in Methods and Genealogies of New Materialisms. See shorturl.at/73Zpy

This amazing edited volume is still available OA online: imbricate.press/book/capacit...

Our Graduates' Successes: What the Data Tells Us About the Value of Women's and Gender Studies Degrees msmagazine.com/2025/07/20/c...

@uccwomenstudies.bsky.social is getting ready for the 2025-26 academic year!

Vandaag verschijnt een opinie van ism collega's v Hart Boven Hard, Labo vzw en @vredesactie.bsky.social waarin we waarschuwen voor een nieuwe wet die de regering toelaat organisaties te verbieden zonder rechterlijke toetsing - een volgende stap naar autoritair bestuur www.demorgen.be/meningen/een...

"I don't know where all my money goes" Also me:

Excellent piece on #Fanon by Nadia Fadil: www.kifkif.be/bijdragen/de...

And yet another fab announcement by @ecobioartlab.bsky.social - check the details for this thought-provoking symposium below!

Interesting postdoc/research call: www.forum-transregionale-studien.de/fileadmin/bi...

Can highly recommend this wonderful PhD course - do check it out!

I had a blast at @maynoothuniversity.ie’s inaugural Intersectional Humanities summer school today, curated by the wonderful @annahm.bsky.social & her team! It was a pretty intense philosophy session, in which we explored multiple onto-epistemological identity paradigms & interferential thought.

As we received more applications this week, note that Irish & EU citizens can still apply for our MA in Women's Studies for 2025-26. Non-EU international applicants can also still shoot us a message to find out more about the scholarship opportunities for 2026-27. See the poster below for details.

CFP: Haitian Feminism(s): Theoretical & Practical Contours | Global Black Thought | Guest Editors: Drs. Sabine Lamour, Célia Romulus, and Grace Sanders Johnson | Extended Deadline: August 30, 2025

ALL CAPS THIS IS CATASTROPHIC FOR SPACE SCIENCE AND ASTROPHYSICS ... GLOBALLY CATASTROPHIC, NOT JUST FOR AMERICANS 🔭🧪 www.politico.com/news/2025/07...