We're hiring for a Digital Artist in Residence with @artscouncilireland.bsky.social at Digital Humanities @ucc.ie. Applications are open right now. Please drop me a line if you're interested or have any questions.

I usually signpost Maya Wind's fantastic book titled "Towers of Ivory and Steel" every time I hear liberal academics say Israeli academia is the wrong target for a boycott. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Whole world: “it’s a genocide” Starmer and Lammy “shut up terrorists or face jail”

And that’s a wrap for #MedSoc25. It has been wonderful meeting researchers working on such exciting projects in SRH!

The relentless contempt, disgust, even hate that successive UK governments exhibit for the country's (hitherto) wildly successful HE sector remains one of the most baffling sub-plots of a generally insane age.

There's lots that's extraordinary about the british labour government obviously, but a foreign policy guided by a desire to humiliatingly abase their nation before genocidaires and fascists feels like it should generate more heat?! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

📢 New research! We analysed 20+ years of pregnancy & birth data in 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇬🇧 👩‍🍼 Mothers are older 📈 C-section & diabetes rates rising ⚖️ Inequities persist for Indigenous & minority women Time for equity-driven maternity care 💡 🔗https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/14/16/5841 #MaternalHealth #Equity #Pregnancy

Hello .. i am Fedaa a pediatrician from Gaza.. I am deeply gratefull to any one supported me by anything even if you see it small it means alot to me and my family .. please keep me and my family in your heart and help us rebuild our life ❤️❤️🙏🌺 chuffed.org/project/save...

The Labour Government is a complete shit-show!

New article with Niall Gilmartin, @dyutic.bsky.social yours truly which calls for feminist sociology to pay more attention to the border on the island of Ireland. @sociologyireland.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

“These young people want to develop shared horizons, while evolving their sense of particular situatedness.” Jennifer Todd, @dyutic.bsky.social and Joanne McEvoy @ucddublin.bsky.social on youth in a divided Ireland, identity and universal values. #OpenAccess in the journal buff.ly/CBFWW5y

Call for participants: As part of my @researchireland.ie funded project, I am looking to speak to women/people from non-EU migrant background, who have experienced pregnancy in Ireland over the last 15 years. Please feel free to amplify this call for participants. #maternalhealth #migranthealth

Last chance to be part of an essential networking event for medical sociology academics and professionals – Call for papers by TODAY, Friday 2 May, for the BSA Medical Sociology Annual Conference 2025, 10-12 September, Northumbria University tinyurl.com/mpk8y5yy @BSAMedsoc #cfp

🆕📄 Mapping perinatal #BereavementCare education & training for maternity staff (in Ireland) ✍️ @maritahennessy.bsky.social @keelinodonoghue.bsky.social 🔗 imj.ie/wp-content/u... @infantcentreucc.bsky.social @uccresearch.bsky.social @hselive.bsky.social #PregnancyLoss #PerinatalDeath

"...the arrest is part of a pattern of criminalizing pregnancy that has accelerated since the fall of Roe v. Wade... Women of color, lower-income women & women struggling with substance use are particularly vulnerable in interactions with authorities" @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Let me take this low-news days to say that colleagues and I are now soliciting abstracts for a special issue of the Sociology of Health and Illness: 'Urban Experiences of Health and Illness: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Care and Wellbeing in the City.' onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

Quote tweeting (do we call it tweets on Bluesky?) for later.

BOYCOTT COLUMBIA I’ve signed onto this renewed boycott of Columbia in light of their horrific abdication of their responsibility towards their faculty, staff and students, as well as their participation in the destruction of academic life, all by weaponizing anti Palestinian racism —please join me!

Wendy Sigle, @lsenderowicz.bsky.social & I will be in conversation with Mary Borrowman (CGD) about the Si, and why we think this is a critical moment for engaging with these questions of FE & RJ. Date: 1st April 2025, 1500-1615 (UK) Spanish interpretation available. us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

A friend drove two hours today for her breast cancer chemotherapy only to learn it was canceled due to NIH cuts. Clinical trial ended midstream. No treatment, no restart, no plan, no information. Her bro-in-law's chemo was also canceled.

UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese at Maynooth University this evening. The level of moral and intellectual clarity that she brings to discussions is so rare in the time of a live-streamed genocide!

Incredible statement by Mahmoud Khalil that links his incarceration to the fates of other immigrants subject to the same system, to those of Palestinians in Gaza and West Bank being killed and imprisoned for their voice. No wonder they see him as a danger to their tyranny.

“More than a human can bear”: Israel's systematic use of sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence since October 2023 www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Colleagues in Maynooth University will be welcoming Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine, to the university on Wednesday March 19th. Registration required.

Now available for those of us teaching and learning #anthropology and #reproduction. By @drtomori.bsky.social and me www.routledge.com/The-Anthropo...

The president’s address at @isanet.bsky.social was peacefully disrupted to draw institutional attention to the issue of democratisation in ISA governance and the acknowledgement of scholasticide in how we conduct research ‘as normal’ #isa2025

In the wake of race riots in the UK last summer, doctors were left feeling angry and unsupported after NHS leaders failed to take the threat of racism and Islamophobia seriously. @sosowemimo.bsky.social and @zosiak.bsky.social hear from doctors about their experiences www.bmj.com/content/388/...

📣 NEW STUDY: We are inviting parents to join a group discussion about perinatal death reviews that happen in maternity units/hospitals in Ireland More information: www.ucc.ie/en/pregnancy... @emilyoconnor.bsky.social @keelinodonoghue.bsky.social Funded by Féileacain 🦋 Pls share if you can 🙏

I wrote the chapter on abortion and contraception, and co-write the chapter on medical negligence with @ecromanis.bsky.social and @sabrinagermain.bsky.social - introducing a more critical/feminist approach to teaching these topics!

Germany offers maternity leave for women after miscarriage (after 13 weeks of pregnancy) Good to see this; hope in time they will extend to pregnancy endings <13wks In Ireland we still don't have any such leave. See #PLRG_PLACESproject: www.ucc.ie/en/pregnancy... www.dw.com/en/germany-o....

⁉️ Thinking about doing a PhD, or know someone who is? 📢 We're currently inviting applicants for a PhD scholarship 🦋 Féileacáin-funded project on second trimester pregnancy loss 📅 Closing date: 14 Feb 🔗 www.ucc.ie/en/pregnancy... 🙏 Please share if you can @keelinodonoghue.bsky.social

The true number of people who have died directly from war in Gaza is around 41% higher than the official figures reported by Palestine’s health ministry, a study published in the Lancet has found www.bmj.com/content/388/...

💜 Very grateful to the HRB for funding the #ReCurrentStudy & for highlighting its impact (so far!) in the latest edition of Health Research in Action 🔗 www.hrb.ie/wp-content/u... @keelinodonoghue.bsky.social @maritahennessy.bsky.social @uccresearch.bsky.social @infantcentreucc.bsky.social