Brexit Britain

You almost never see/hear/read a person-on-the-street quote in which that person is saying "Yeah, immigrants are great." If it hates it rates just like if it bleeds it leads, and we get a disproportionate number of right-wingers sharing their hate and disinformation about immigration from msm.

JOB: Lecturer/Assistant Lecturer in Spanish (Global and Area Studies) - jobs.hku.hk/en/job/53267...

Sally Rooney on the hypocrisy of the proscription of Palestine Action : www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Come join us for a special event to honour Ted Hickey (my father in law) on the 20th anniversary of his passing in the hometown of his close friend and musical comrade, Seán Corcoran. seancorcoranseries.com/requiem-for-...

I wonder will UK politics go the way of post-agreement NI, when voters fled the middle ground towards Sinn Féin and the DUP.

The embedding of AI into a platform some teaching staff are required to use raises all sorts of ethical quandaries, not least ecological ones.

Three stunning and shaming paragraphs, by Rachel Wolf of Public First, in @theobserveruk.bsky.social

YES

Something the establishment is trying so hard to censor will always be worth seeing

Job! Assistant Professor of Spanish @caiuscollege.bsky.social and Emmanuel College. Nine months from 1 October 2025 to cover my teaching while I’m on leave. Latin American literature, cinema or thought. Details here: tinyurl.com/33m6d389.

‘Musk apparently did not anticipate that it would be bad P.R. for the world’s richest man to take food and medicine from the world’s poorest children.’ What a dangerous, sociopathic, idiot Musk is.

💬 What can primary school French and Spanish teachers learn from Irish-Medium classrooms? Thomas Rogan explores how immersion-style techniques used in Irish-Medium Education could transform modern foreign language teaching in mainstream primary schools. 📖: www.lspjournal.com/post/languag...

Playing tonight in Belfast at Skronk Fest. Bank holiday skronk for those that celebrate.

Local UCU meetings in coming weeks. Come along/join up:

Read this again MAGAs. 19 households owned more Money than the bottom 50% of 208.5 million working ppl. 19 households made more than 104 million working ppl.

Oooof. A sucker punch of a poem.

I’ve only just read William Carlos Williams’ Asphodel for the first time. I feel jimmyed open.

Had a wonderful few days in Edinburgh at the @hispanists-ahgbi.bsky.social conference. Old friends, new friends, inspiring research, and I even managed to see a @remediosvaro.bsky.social painting in the flesh.

🔴FINAL COUNTDOWN – REGISTRATION CLOSES THIS FRIDAY 4th! (link below) 👉 Please note: all speakers must register by the deadline. 🔗 Register now before it’s too late: www.epay.ed.ac.uk/conferences-...

Looking forward to presenting on @remediosvaro.bsky.social at this year's AHGBI conference in Edinburgh. Follow @hispanists-ahgbi.bsky.social for the programme and updates.

Endless grief and outrage for these atrocities

Israel resumed its relentless bombing of Gaza overnight on Tuesday, killing more than 400 Palestinians and sowing terror. Here's what we know about why Israel broke the ceasefire in the enclave ⤵️

Such a privilege to have Luciana de Mello at the QUB Modern Languages seminar series today to talk about Brazilian marginal literature, its origins and its dialogue with recent Afro-Indigenous cultural activism in Argentina. Inspiring stuff.

Assistant Professorship at Trinity College Dublin-- looking for a strong research background in Postcolonial and Global Literatures, with a particular interest in scholars with 'training and expertise in literatures of the Americas': www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMD087/a...

Please reach out if you have seen Yecid

Spotted in the wild! @tristansturm.bsky.social

Cool post-doc job opportunity "Language Practices in Media Cultures" at the European University Viadrina @viadrina.bsky.social www.europa-uni.de/de/universit...

We're thrilled to share the CFP for our 2025 hybrid conference, 'Unquiet Shores', in collaboration with @macabredanse.bsky.social 🌊Send us your abstracts on the spooky acoustics of the coast, and please share widely. Details: haunted-shores.com/unquiet-shor...

“The global examination of culture is not possible without languages at degree level” www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/card...

A petition in support of Modern Languages at Cardiff, which the university wishes to axe. I know this department very well and their staff and students deserve better.

Rings true

Playing (as Many Souls) with The Messthetics (feat. Members of Fugazi) in Black Box on Feb 8th in Black Box in Belfast. Mon’ down.

Ones to watch in 2025 👁️

The Jesus Lizard. Unbelievable. A model for how to age disgracefully.

🚨BOYCOTT STARBUCKS🚨 Union baristas are calling on EVERYONE to NOT buy from ANY Starbucks store between Dec. 20 -Dec. 24 while the workers are on strike! Here’s how to support: x.com/sbworkersuni...

en 2012 ya lo apuntó david graeber y es una idea que, a poco que se busca en internet, tiene ya establecido cierto recorrido: los superhéroes no sólo son defensores del status quo (que nada cambie), sino que creen que su visión de lo bueno o lo malo está por encima de la ley

UK WRITERS: You need to fill in this consulation. Govt is very clearly looking to an opt-out model of rights licensing that puts all the burden on creators instead of profiteers. It's long and boring but this is important. www.gov.uk/government/c...

Please keep an eye out

Im feeling this dedication by Alberto Laiseca.

QUB branch of UCU, now on BSKY.

Been really looking forward to this one

Is this a quote from the Statue of Liberty?

Bankersin Action https://www.wikiart.org/en/remedios-varo/bankersin-action

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A masterclass is gently, sensitively, destroying a book by Rowan Williams: www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...

Today’s task is to think over the clash of worlds that occurs in a fantastic text. In search of cuentos were this plays out in interesting ways.

Depressing: Fossil fuel emissions projected to be almost 8% higher in 2024 than in 2015, the year the Paris climate agreement was signed. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This tends to be the kind of thing I am up to these days: 'La política espeluznante en Distancia de rescate (2014) de Samanta Schweblin' doi.org/10.3828/bchs... [Eerie Politics in Distancia de rescate (2014) by Samanta Schweblin]