🎆Job Klaxon!!🎆 Full-time, permanent lectureship in Old and Middle Irish at Maynooth University @maynoothuniversity.ie. Application deadline 26 July 2026. Tar ag obair linn i Roinn na Sean-Ghaeilge @ceilteachomn.bsky.social! my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr...

“This is censorship... This is a demonstration that some of the worst abuses in our time are not confined to kings, emperors, governments … but to a class of companies that have assumed the sovereign affect, and seek to assert their power the same way that some of those despotic nation states do.”

Today is the anniversary of the Gordon Riots, where "legitimate concerns" by bigoted Londoners led to hundreds of deaths in London and the British army had to quell the city-wide violence and destruction.

A date for your diaries... www.eventbrite.ie/e/solar-ecli...

Lá Saoire i mí Mheitheamh As well as being Lá Saoire i mí Mheitheamh, today is also the start of Pride Month, so let me take the opportunity to say Bród sona daoibh a chairde!

Interested in women's & gender studies w a critical theoretical & feminist pedagogical twist? Apply now & join our cohort at @ucc.ie (non-EU internationals deadline is 15/6). Use the QR code or find out more via www.ucc.ie/en/cke03/. #UCC #womensstudies #genderstudies #Ireland #postgraduate #MA

Paying a Sunday visit to a countryman. Who dismissed his own work in the French Resistance as ‘boy-scout stuff’, wrote Godot in French so as to compose ‘without style’, and then insisted this gravestone in the cimetière du Montparnasse be ‘any colour, so long as it's grey’.

Job Losses at Universities, Huge Profits at Elsevier The wave of job losses at UK universities is spreading. I recently mentioned Nottingham University and just this week saw an announcement from Sussex University that 200 jobs are on the line (this in addition to 528 already lost in the past…

Today's new #HoPWaG episode looks at the delightfully cynical and quotable aphorisms of La Rochefoucauld: we explore the profound ethical theory underlying his "maxims" and writings of other French Moralists: historyofphilosophy.net/french-moral... #philosophy #podcast #earlymodern #philsky

Treat education as a public good. (We also need to improve and push the case for treating public goods as public goods.)

So good, it needs an ALT. #CSLewis

Just under a week left to register for our 'Women in Revolution' webinar. All are welcome but registration is essential. Register 👇 events.teams.microsoft.com/event/d2a073...

Great to finally see this manuscript up online. Thanks so much to Anne Marie in ISOS, @kate-manning.bsky.social & UCD Archives, Professor Mícheál Mac Craith OFM, and all the Franciscans who preserved this ms over the centuries. Looking forward to researching these texts further! #hagiographyiscool

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16thC outfit courtesy of Melissa Shiels, the roll is surprisingly heavy, but mantle ideal for working from home! @whaireland.bsky.social

#eliza Joseph Weizenbaum argued that the most important issues were “neither technological nor even mathematical; they are ethical. They cannot be settled by asking questions beginning with ‘can’. The limits of the applicability of computers are ultimately statable only in terms of oughts.”

From George Washington’s elite guard to the printing of the Declaration of Independence itself — a new exhibition by Cullybackey Community Partnership reveals the village’s surprising role in shaping America. More below.

75% of Harvard’s NSF grants were illegally terminated. The NSF stalled 33 research proposals from the four universities or their collaborators. Top American universities continue to be targeted. One more addition to the list of assaults on science. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Panel Spotlight: Planetary Boundaries From climate adaptation to science fiction, this panel explores how we understand and respond to the limits of our planet – and imagine what’s beyond. View full programme and book your ticket now: www.tickettailor.com/events/royal...

As you can see, Newtonian Mechanics is very simple...

"This recreation and commodification of the past is a kind of haunting. The novel is run through with the different ways in which the dead are inescapable. Ann-Marie’s son was shot by a British soldier, his image now endlessly reproduced on book covers and “bloody tea-towels”." #Spéirghorm

Tar ag obair linn! | Come work with us!

The big success of the likes of Altman etc, is that they've bamboozled everyone into using AI as this big blanket term. I wish journalists and politicians would start to get more specific, and ask which aspects of AI we can do without.

What would be cool about talking to any of these people (with the aid of a working time machine, say) would be getting their thoughts on ideas or objects or events they never encountered. New things. Not just, "here is Churchill doing his V". We are not okay. We are drowning in the superficial.

King Billy in the shadows by Godfried Schalcken, ca. 1692 - ca. 1697 (Rijksmuseum)

Me and my co-collaborators, @michalwieczorek.bsky.social and Eoin Cummins, embodying the traffic light system. 🚦 #esai26 (Photo by @gravesle.bsky.social)

📣 Apply now for the Quentin Skinner Lectureship 2027 The Lectureship will suit an early career scholar who is able to visit Cambridge in Spring 2027, and hold a lecture on a subject in the broad field of intellectual history since 1500 https://bit.ly/3js4P7Z ⏳ 15 June @camhistory.bsky.social

📺Watch back: Prof Peter Thorne @icarus-maynooth.bsky.social was on CNN this morning discussing the current European heatwave 🌡️ video.snapstream.net/Play/8OW4EGh...

An unusual request in the name of archaeological science: Would anyone happen to have a Shetland or Exmoor pony that wouldn’t mind sending some fur samples to me? We’re trying to compare a potentially preserved fur specimen but there’s (perhaps unsurprisingly) few sources on fur fibre diameters!

Read Lia Marcal Alves Araujo Meirelles' article in the Irish Studies in International affairs journal, which explores the persistent under-representation of women in international politics through feminist perspectives in international relations: muse.jhu.edu/pub/423/arti...

Understanding the place of colonialism and empire in the history of 'the West' (whatever that might be) isn't about choosing a 'negative' or 'positive' lens. That suggests you're seeing the whole picture but choosing to skew the optics. What he's talking about is wilful blindness.

We have to make extensive use of the bullshitting plagiarism machine in order to combat the effects of people using the bullshitting plagiarism machine.

As if this wasn't dangerous enough in its own right, this offer includes Pevsners.

Freely available intro to/translation of the 'Historia' of St Melangell via @librarywales.bsky.social's, if anyone's interested! (by Huw Pryce) I do wish there was a bit more detail about what miracles exactly her hares did and the precise mechanics of hare-related miracles, but there we go

📚 Celebrate #Bloomsday at the National Library of Ireland on June 16! Enjoy theatrical readings from #Ulysses, performances by the Fingal Mummers, Bloomsday Passport stamps, and photo opportunities across our Kildare Street and College Green locations. https://ow.ly/wqVb50Z51HE

They expect AI to create time itself? Ambitious.

The trolley problem: the REAL victims.

Do not let the White House convince you that they are dictating what happens for the 250th. They're doing a bunch of stuff, but it's all fleeting spectacle. There is genuine, thoughtful, history-focused programming happening all over the United States. Get offline and go find it.

Looking forward to listening to this. Really important movement for the evolution of religious toleration, and critique of the "elite-driven" world of their time.

MU congratulates Prof Delia Ferri on her election to the @ria.ie. At a ceremony held on May 22, Prof Ferri was formally admitted in recognition of their contributions to the sciences, humanities, social sciences & public service. @maynoothlaw.bsky.social www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/...

If you're a university researcher in Ireland, especially in humanities or social sciences, please consider signing this open letter: openletter.earth/concern-abou...

"Most surprisingly, the Norman Conquest of 1066 appears to have been largely an elite process." Scientists once again riding to the rescue of historians, who had previously assumed 1066 was a largely peasant-driven enterprise. theconversation.com/beyond-anglo...

This is a brilliant and really friendly regular pub night - I've met so many great people over the years (and discovered so many great historic pubs). Do message Anna if you're interested in dropping in, now or in the future 👇

The secret history of Medieval Ireland's laws for bees. www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

getting ready for “demanding accurate footnotes is popery” discourse

A great thread exploring the wooo mystery of AI wooo. There isn't one. We know how they work, and LLMs playing out a scenario when they have been trained on such scenarios is to be expected.

Get on with it, Frodo!

Nearly there with exams (phew). Seamus is already mourning the soon-to-be lack of pets but also loving the weather so, y'know, conflicted etc. #Summer #ExamTime #MaynoothUni #LibraryCat

#OTD 26 May 1819, Dr Jaspar Robert Joly was born in Co. Offaly. 🎂 📚 A passionate book collector, he donated 20,000+ books, manuscripts, maps & music to the Royal Dublin Society, on condition they pass to a public library if one was established — forming one of our foundational collections.

Continue to think the core problem with “ban the under 16s from social media” is it treats “online harms” as similar to a bottle of Grey Goose when they are far more akin to bathtub moonshine: