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

Australians! You can hear me having an enjoyably combative conversation on the history of green urbanism on ABC's 'Late Night Live with David Marr' tomorrow night. Includes an unexpected detour on why 'fresh air' is a cultural construct, and bad actually.

Great talk ongoing by Sarah Bezan at The Stories We Need Workshop on Storytelling Approaches to Climate Communication at @ucc.ie’s Aula Maxima.

My piece 21, 7, & 3 will be on EARS HAVE EYES tonight at 8pm MT. It re-airs on Golden Co-op Radio and @naisasoundart.bsky.social later in the week. cjsw.com/program/ears...

Ready for your next role? Brand new leadership role in @ucclibrary.bsky.social to lead our Digital Scholarship Studio & other technology-rich spaces and services embedding them into the teaching, learning and research landscape in UCC. Closing 25th March at noon! Come join our super team! #lisjobsie

Oh! The City of Today is a Dying Thing is one of the Guardian's best paberbacks for February, along with some really great other titles: www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...

Had a lovely day down in UCC. Great to catch up with old colleagues and meet some new ones. Delighted to see that both the @radhumslab.bsky.social and @frenchdeptucc.bsky.social are continuing to flourish with a good injection of new scholars doing great critical work.

A pleasure to welcome the initimable @donalh.bsky.social to the lab - presenting on how the history of colonial veterancy opens a new comparative history of empire.

Nice write-up of my new one Corpus/Mimesis from Ximo at Industrial Complex. Coming April 11th on @fiadh.bsky.social industrialcomplexx.com/stephen-rodd...

New album from lab member @stephenroddy.bsky.social coming April 4th ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

How might the spread of algae signal increasingly awkward relations between humans and non-humans? New paper from lab member Jesse Peterson: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

1. This looks like a VERY interesting event! 2. Follow UCC Radical Humanities Lab @radhumslab.bsky.social!

Please join us for Dónal's talk next week - everyone EXTREMELY welcome at the lab space, Wandesford Quay. (Also this is our first post, so hello!)