Huh. I guess that would be a good start.

It is absurd that universities charge fees when their own staff use meeting rooms for research activities. Funding agencies should formally exclude such fees from project budgets and make free workspace a binding condition for receiving any funds. There can't be double overheads.

Support colleagues in Exeter by signing petition c.org/yKcx6Zr29H! Reduction in staff is disproportionately focused on roles in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Affected subjects include English, History, Philosophy, Sociology of Health, and Modern Languages. c.org/TZyHCcn47V

Two of my favourite minutes of this week:

You’ve 72ed your last JJ.

What's sick is that Vance is right, which says everything about our feckless journalism and utterly corrupt Republican politics today. JD Vance says Nixon’s Watergate scandal would be ‘12-hour news story’ today www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Go raibh míle maith agat!

Two funded PhD studentships just opened at @qub.ac.uk as part of LIFELANGS: a living observatory studying shared languages and identities across Ireland and Northern Ireland. Application Deadline: 9 July. Details 👇 lifelangs.com/vacancies/ Thread 1/3

Interview with Kai Havertz on being misunderstood, a more joyful German World Cup camp, initial misgivings over Arsenal trophy parade - and those “hydration breaks”. Lots of ground covered, piece (in collaboration with Die Zeit) here: www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Yeyyyy that's us! And in open access, too! We show that gender-inclusive forms (think the point median in French or the gender star / asterisk in German) index speakers’ presumed age, gender identity, and political orientation.

Congratulations to @researchireland.ie who joined our preprint policy framework this spring! 🙌 Research Ireland's open research policy encourages posting preprints to facilitate prompt promotion of research findings. Learn more on the ASAPBio preprint policy framework website: buff.ly/6ERevCB

Climate.us is live. Built by members of the team behind Climate.gov, this new independent nonprofit website keeps trusted climate information easy to find, easy to use, and harder to erase. #ClimateForUs #ClimateUS

Delivering this, in every city, is going to be part of future public services, whether governments realise it or not.

You'll abso-freaking-lutely love this article on affixation: medium.com/language-lab... #language #Linguistics #Languagelearning #Illustration #Langsky #Writesky #WritingCommunity

*pulling up in a sinister Ford Transit van* you kids want some books?

New Lucek/Scroedler/Migge collab just dropped! Online ahead of print and open access. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Happy Father’s Day.

Good news!! We'll be back 💪🏾 Bí linn ansin for a performance night building empathy through language. #Multilingual #OpenMicNight

"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people." —The Declaration of Independence

The Scots found the Boston cop slide @everyone @edsbs.bsky.social @brianmfloyd.bsky.social @cjzero.bsky.social

Thousands have turned out for an Anti-Racism rally in Belfast city centre, organised by United Against Racism and supported by Trade Unions

Nice thing to see on my way home.

This guitar is now live on eBay ebay.io/m/e3zLR2 All proceeds will go to map.org.uk Medical Aid for Palestinians. Shares, reposts and whatever would be brilliant. Thanks in advance, folks. #Palestine #PalestineSolidarity #PalestineIreland #Guitar #ElectricGuitar #GuitaristsForPalestine

How we beat back the corporate takeover of America: 1. Break up corporate monopolies 2. Continue building union power 3. End Citizens United and get big money out of politics Let’s keep working to unrig the system.

University staff say €4.55bn research fund ignores arts and humanities. Almost 2,000 sign open letter criticising Research Ireland for favouring industry and commercial interests. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

This article has now been published: utppublishing.com/stoken/autho...

The FAI, like the Irish government, will do fuck all, because none of them have the balls. This one is up to the fans, the players and the real football people, not the sycophants, suits and bootlickers. Solidarity is a verb.

Green Party statement on strategic direction of Research Ireland. We endorse the academic Open Letter demanding a strategic pivot for Research Ireland The Green Party backs AMLÉ and Postgraduate Workers Organisation calls for full workers' rights for PhD researchers greenparty.ie/news/ministe...

Colleagues might consider signing this petition against the downgrading of AHSS research by Research Ireland openletter.earth/concern-abou...

#HigherEducation #Ireland

Morris Day and The Time responds: "Contrary to rumor, Morris Day & The Time will not be performing at the 'Great American State Fair.'"

Well, there it is.

Champions

Maith sibh. @forasnagaeilge.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social

There are days when I miss being an editor. I loved writing headlines. Whoever did this, I hope they took the rest of the day off.

How are we feeling today?!

When I say this video has taken me OUT Up there with 10/10 funniest things I’ve ever seen

CHAMPIONS 😭😭

The Arsenal. Your Premier League champions.

22 years of waiting, fretting, disappointment, bad luck, no luck… winning the league from the sitting room feels odd, but I’ll take it.

Sorry

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.   Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us.

An insane level of corruption—even for Trump. A $1.7 BILLION slush fund for Trump’s hand-picked stooges to hand money to January 6th insurrectionists and his political allies. Here’s the President’s priority as Americans sell their plasma to afford gas and groceries:

Life comes at you fast.

Exciting news! I am thrilled to see my Cambridge Element ‘Decoloniality in multilingual university spaces’ published online this week! Free to read and download for the next 10 days! #decoloniality #educationscape #multilingualism #belonging www.cambridge.org/core/element...

It was a disgusting, paternalistic betrayal of women to put the waiting period in law in the first place. It is not backed by evidence. It was put in to placate people (mostly men) who parroted imported American narratives and who understand nothing of reality. Women have always deserved better.

Are you a speaker of Irish English? If so, would you share your thoughts on “only” with me for academic research? umfragen.tu-dortmund.de/index.php/42... Thank you very much!!!!🙏🙏🙏

Amn’t I only after doing this survey about Hiberno-English usages of the word “only”, so now I can tell youse about it? Give it a lash, sure. @anteangaeile.bsky.social #speirgorm

Coming very soon — a live episode with television presenter Laura Pakenham about Irish. All patrons free and paid are welcome. Details here, so click through and sign up! @simonandschuster.bsky.social www.patreon.com/posts/live-s...

Surf-Tipp: Die neue Plattform der @ndmedienmacher.bsky.social bietet Infos und Tools zum Umgang mit hate-speech + Desinformation, zur Verantwortung von Medien und Zivilgesellschaft, Schutzmaßnahmen für Medienschaffende & Empfehlungen für mehr Diversität in Redaktionen. mmm.verdi.de/aktuelle-mel...