We had an incredible day at @radhumslab.bsky.social yesterday, thinking through the pragmatics and politics of critical humanities research. We talked through problems, methods and futures - and at the risk of linkedin-posting, it's really something to share a research centre with people like this.

Our @uccwomenstudies.bsky.social MA students recently were taught the ins & outs of queer/ing geography & migration studies in our Gender & Society module by the wonderful Dr Mei Meng, who is currently a @radhumslab.bsky.social postdoc on the "Orders and Borders of Global Inequality" ERC project.

The 3rd Symposium on Digital Art in Ireland takes place on 22nd April in collaboration with Sample Studios at the Digital Humanities Dept. @ucc.ie It will be marked by the opening of Basil Al-Rawi’s 'House of Memory' at the Lord Mayor’s Pavilion. Registration & information: bit.ly/DigiArt3

If you're at the BSA, I'll be among the speakers at this special event on climate affects and liveable futures, organised by the brilliant @angelaofthenorth.bsky.social.

Congratulations to our brilliant lab member and colleagues, Dr Sarah Bezan, as she joins the Young Ireland Academy today! www.ria.ie/2026/03/12/y...

Here is my piece about the fire in Glasgow’s Central Station and why the loss of built heirtage is felt so deeply in the city and elsewhere

New OA publication from our lab member, Dr Kheira Arrouche, "Afterlives of decolonisation: the racialisation of West and Central African migrants in contemporary Algeria." www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

Go check this out, folks! Also might benof interest to our @uccwomenstudies.bsky.social students & folks at the @radhumslab.bsky.social

Antiquity Vol. 100, No. 409 (2026) www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @antiquity.ac.uk @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org @sarahkerr.bsky.social @radhumslab.bsky.social @royvanbeek.bsky.social @mpdavies.bsky.social @waltros.bsky.social

This is a great reflective discussion on #archaeology that also is proactive. Delighted to have been able to join the conversation on this! @ucc.ie @radhumslab.bsky.social

For the Cork crowd, the @irishexaminer.bsky.social has a big supplement on the future of the city today, and I have an article in it about how much I hate the southside in general, Douglas in particular. #speirgorm

A fearless rocket engineer, groundbreaking artist and communist ‘traitor’ Dr @stephenroddy.bsky.social shares the life and legacy of Frank Malina in a new series dedicated to unsung heroes of science on @theconversation.com.

Article on the Sonification of Synthetic Virology data with colleagues from the School of Medicine at @ucc.ie is out today in Leonardo. It spans music, media engineering and the biosciences doi.org/10.1162/LEON... @leonardoisast.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social @uccresearch.bsky.social

I’m talking to Martin on Shush this coming Monday at 11am on UCC98.3FM. We’ll be chatting music, research and libraries with a nice playlist lined up. Tune in! www.ucc.ie/en/983fm/

Genuinely sorry to do a "delighted to announce" while the world is in such a state, but anyway, @lauramca.bsky.social are now the co-directors of @radhumslab.bsky.social and I'm actually delighted about it. Lots of very cool stuff incoming. Look out for more vomit-inducing announcements in 2026! 🥳🤮

Looks like a very interesting @posthumanresinst.bsky.social online event on conceptualization of the #Anthropocene! @maggieoneill.bsky.social @desfitzgerald.bsky.social @radhumslab.bsky.social @uccphilosophy.bsky.social @uccwomenstudies.bsky.social please share!

'the heart is sick with hoping and hoping before books reach Ireland' Maria Edgeworth in 1816 Publication day for @universitypress.cambridge.org Irish Romanticism was yesterday but no sign of any books in Cork yet! www.cambridge.org/core/books/i...

We could not be more thrilled at UCC @radhumslab.bsky.social that our brilliant colleague, Dr Eugene Costello, has been awarded a €2m European Research Council Consolidator Grant for his project, "DeepCattle." www.ucc.ie/en/news/2025...

Hi all. We’ve got two calls open. A new book on Irish Digital Art edited by, McCarthy, Yip & myself: www.blackwaterpublishing.com/digital-art-... And calls for the 3rd Symposium on Digital Art in Ireland: www.ucc.ie/en/dah/news/... #irishart #newmedia #mediaart #opencall #digitalart

My favourite image of our excellent @radhumslab.bsky.social roundtable this week, "The medical humanities in a new biological age" - with @ciarab.bsky.social, @felicitycallard.bsky.social and @dyutic.bsky.social (Thanks @egeertsphd.bsky.social for taking it!!)

UCC researchers receive €1.1m to address national and global societal challenges UCC has been awarded funding for five interdisciplinary projects in @researchireland.ie's COALESCE 2025 programme. For more, see: www.ucc.ie/en/news/2025... @uccresearch.bsky.social

Cork people, I will be doing a guest lecture, ;The Biopolitics of Urban Green Space' at the Cork Centre for Architectural Education, Monday the 10th, from 1 to 2. Open to all comers as far as I know.

Are cities bad for us, or are we just telling the wrong story about urban life?🌆 Join us for @desfitzgerald.bsky.social’s public lecture, The City of Today is a Dying Thing, exploring the complex relationship between cities, health + the environment. 📆 Mon 3 Nov 📍 @york.ac.uk 🎟 buff.ly/z4D0Jv4

📣 I am hiring a postdoc! aial.ie/hiring/postd... applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome pls share with your networks

Nice shot of the debut performance of ‘Noise for Waves and Grains’ from the IEEE concerts for the ElettroAQustica 10 festival in L’Aquila this week.

Tomorrow (w ISS21 & @radhumslab.bsky.social)! Come join us!

Looking forward to this RHL, @uccwomenstudies.bsky.social & ISS21 event with Prof Elizabeth Bernstein!

This weekend I'll be at the Utopian Hours festival in Turin, to talk about the politics of green urbanism: www.archdaily.com/1034043/utop...

Applications for our digital artist in residence pilot close this Friday at 5:30. More info at the link: artscouncil.ie/funding-oppo...

🏙️✨ The City of Today is a Dying Thing Join us for a public lecture by @desfitzgerald.bsky.social (@ucc.ie ), exploring how cities, health + the environment intertwine — and what “green urbanism” really means. 📅 Mon 3 Nov | 🕔5–7pm 📍 @york.ac.uk 🎟️ Book here➡️https://buff.ly/RvbkKuw

Putting finishing touches on a performance and a paper for the IEEE Internet of Sounds Symposium at L'Aquila later this month. @comsoc.bsky.social www.ucc.ie/en/dah/news/...

I spoke to the Irish Times for this very good and rounded piece on the real-world effects of C***GPT in the humanities classroom: www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

Join the @radhumslab.bsky.social on Friday September 5th at @ucc.ie for (Un)Silencing, our one-day symposium exploring exciting work from the fields of sound studies and sound art, in collaboration with Resonance: the Journal of Sound & Culture.

I wrote about saviour trees and manly super-nature for the Evening Standard: www.standard.co.uk/comment/lond...

Our (@bridgesbb.bsky.social) piece developing a Musical Cybernetics as an antidote to gen-AI slop music goes online this week. DM for pre-print access: doi.org/10.1007/978-...

Performed a new musical piece for AM.ICAD this month sonifying synthetic virology data provided by colleagues at @ucc.ie's MVDRL. Our paper on the process will be published in @leonardoisast.bsky.social's in early 2026. Art-science collaborations are one of the more exciting aspects of this job.

Happy to have some news on the UCC website @ucc.ie @uccresearch.bsky.social @radhumslab.bsky.social - read more about my work here; www.ucc.ie/en/future-hu...

Debuting a new piece at AM.ICAD 2025 in Coimbra soon. More details from @ucc.ie's Future Humanities Institute here: www.ucc.ie/en/future-hu...

What happens when reading books gets positioned as a health intervention? And what does this case tell us about the wider landscape of austerity therapeutics? I'm glad to have contributed to a new paper addressing these questions, led by Hayley Redman. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Dr @stephenroddy.bsky.social from @radhumslab.bsky.social and @ucc.ie School of English and Digital Humanities speaks to us about his Corpus/Mimesis project exploring the relationship between body & sound. All part of @CACSSS research showcase day.

Pieces from my Signal to Noise Loops series turning Dublin's urban sensor data into music are on the @dublindigitalradio.bsky.social radio programme for the 2025 Alternating Current: Urban Scores. The festival launches tonight with more info here: bit.ly/AC-US-25

The new issue of the Journal of War & Culture Studies is a special issue on cold war visual legacies, co-edited by our lab colleague, Dr Kylie Thomas: Cold War Visual Legacies: www.tandfonline.com/toc/ywac20/1...

Oisín Wall’s new book, Prisoner’s Bodies, is available free online or as a PDF here: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK609... Or you can buy a paperback here: www.mqup.ca/prisoners---...

Corpus/Mimesis is out today. There's a nice overview of the project on Industrial Complexx: industrialcomplexx.com/stephen-rodd... Digital downloads here: stephenroddy.bandcamp.com/album/corpus... Order Cassettes through @fiadh.bsky.social here: fiadh.bandcamp.com/album/corpus...

Next week I'l be in Sheffield for two free events. One is a workshop on public-facing scholarship (www.sheffield.ac.uk/socstudies/e...) and the author is an author-meets-critics book panel on green urbanism, with some brilliant folks from Sheffield Uni. Tickets: www.sheffield.ac.uk/socstudies/e...

The RHL zine-making workshop on feminist visual activism is underway, led by Dr Kylie Thomas.

The dark side of the green cities movement @desfitzgerald.bsky.social, Professor of Medical Humanities at UCC Radical Humanities Laboratory, explores the history and politics of green urbanism on Late Night Live with David Marr.

Join us Thurs Mar 20th 3:30- 5:00 PM (PDT) an IN PERSON talk in SWH 9152: Dr. Laura McAtackney ( @lauramca.bsky.social ) “Ways of Knowing Difficult and Contested Pasts: Researching the ‘Troubles' and Peace Process in the North of Ireland” with the Dept of History, SFU. Also on Zoom: buff.ly/F2xUzHC

What a wonderful experience with amazing colleagues and such hospitality at UVA in Charlottesville! So many connections and such rich conversations. Looking forward to keeping those connections going! #difficulthistories