perhaps we’ll see argument re. CJEU judgement from 13 March that recognising, recording & processing a person's gender identity is an issue of data protection and a person should be empowered to be the primary author of their own life. www.irishexaminer.com/news/courtan... @tupped.bsky.social

Climate breakdown is driven by a storm of lies. This lying is systemic, funded and coordinated, and operates across almost all media, old and new. This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Why do we forget the air that we breathe in common? What does it mean to breathe when the environment that sustains life now threatens it? How can life flourish under toxic conditions? #Philosophy with Jamison Webster Mon. Nov. 10 ~ 2pmET / 7pm UK www.thephilosopher1923.org/events/on-br...

For millions of us with #LongCovid, every day is #LongCovidAwarenessDay. As #DrAmirKhan says in this video, it’s a public health crisis. It’s not just “feeling a bit tired” or needing to exercise* more, but a debilitating condition that affects the whole body and immune system. #CovidIsntOver

The media are only talking about flu though again.

#SpéirGorm Story from Journal.ie

Don’t forget to watch this much needed and long overdue series on the British Empire. Remarkably, it’s not based on the opinions of a travelling ‘personality’, but on what historians who’ve actually researched it say! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

This monumental work is out: 63 chapters! Incredible editing by Nina Lykke, Tara Mehrabi and Marietta Radomska. Honoured to have our chapter here with Magdalena Górska & Ewa Majewska on Metamorphic Necropolitics: Deadly Othering in European East–West Power Relations www.routledge.com/Routledge-In...

Call for contributions to the Literary Encyclopedia: eighteenth-century French and Francophone philosophers  Entries on women philosophers and their works would be particularly welcome, although any male figure not currently featuring in the Literary Encyclopedia will also be considered. We are…

What the hell is going on? Urgent Symposium convened by the Faculty of Arts and Social Science, Maastricht University, sponsored by the #BSP for the #JBSP 6-7 November 2025 Braun - de Warren - Crome - Keane - Russo - Sharon - Shanley - Tava www.thebsp.org.uk/2025/11/02/w...

You can say what you like about A.J. Ayer, but he knew how to pose for a book cover.

Trans people face exclusion when rights are treated as a zero-sum game, @commissionerhr.coe.int warns the UK gov. What does this mean? My article for @humanrightsjournal.bsky.social offers an explanation that also shows the coloniality of this approach to rights. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Rainy night in Como

Le grá, ó Ghaillimh ❤️

Library-scented candles, anyone? (They did smell divine)

I had a most enjoyable wander through @marshslibrary.bsky.social during the week

Marie McGowan, 89, has died 3 years after a brutal assault during which she was put headfirst into a rubbish bin. Her attacker, Alex Bailey, believed she was "a man dressed as a woman." This is the world the transphobes are creating "to protect women." RIP Marie. share.google/PFaI5YTh9tBw...

The incredible Grace Petrie tonight at the Workman’s Club. What a show. She’s in Belfast tomorrow - don’t miss it!

love these interviews but i disagree the show lacked flash and gimmick. especially when you have Hebert Dreyfus with this fit

The BBC’s The Great Philosophers series with Bryan Magee is some of the best television ever made. It’s brilliant - no bells & whistles, no flashy gimmicks to hide a lack of substance. Just two people talking and thinking carefully. It’s being re-run on BBC4, but it’s also available online.

👇Happening tomorrow!

BBC4 is repeating Bryan Magee’s 1987 series, The Great Philosophers, and I introduce it next Monday 13th at 22.30. I remember being very impressed when it went out that my wonderful PhD supervisor, Myles Burnyeat, was in the very first episode!

no words

Pop up market outside the Students’ Centre in UCD today.

A small fire at the front of the bookshop was started last night after rubbish bags that were awaiting collection were set on fire. The guards don’t have reason at this time to believe it was a targeted attack. Thankfully the damage was limited and everyone is safe. We are open for business as usual

A few online orders or in-store book purchases would be a nice way to support Books Upstairs after this horrible attack. Who does this? To an independent book shop?

Oh no! This is awful.

Next ECSR conference will take place 15-17 June 2026 at Trinity College Dublin. Abstract deadline 11 January 2026. If you're wondering if this conference is for you, have a look at the kind of work we publish in @europeansocreview.bsky.social Submissions: col.eventsair.com/ecsr-2026/su...

Ireland has lost a mountain of libraries with the passing of Manchán Magan. A brilliant, gentle, inspiring treasure of a spirit. As a friend said last night, “He described the Irish language as potent and infinite, but that was him too.” Seol go réidh, mo chara.

Manchán 🕯️

This is fantastic: "Joyce shows that the British Empire's demand for binary selves has colonised the mind of the self-defined Irish nationalist and points to a radical and freeing alternative"🏳️‍⚧️💛🤍💜🖤

Send in your abstracts for the Sadness + Gender conference we're holding in June 2026! We have some fantastic keynote speakers and specialist panels lined up and would love to see you all in Dublin! #cfp @ucdhumanities.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social @molimuseum.bsky.social

So grateful to @sonjatiernan.bsky.social & editors of #Saothar50 for opportunity to write on Irish housewives. By mad coincidence my ma was interviewed about her everyday experiences in 1968 & that features in my new article. #familyhistory #femaleactivism dublinfestivalofhistory.ie/event/specia...

On October 2, TENI invites the community to gather, commemorate, and look ahead at the ongoing fight for trans equality 🏳️‍⚧️❤️ #GCNnews

We’re excited to host the Royal Institute of #Philosophy and UCD School of Philosophy Annual Public Lecture where Professor Alice Crary will give a talk entitled ‘If you’re not outraged about #AI, you’re not paying attention: Philosophy in the time of techno-fascism’. Further details below. #PhilSky

My new children’s book is available in bookshops from today! Join Luke and Ruby in ‘The Experimenters’ on cosy adventures where you think, test, & experiment like a real scientist. It’s been so much fun working with with illustrator Sayani Mukherjee & publisher @littleislandbooks.bsky.social

Interested in feminist approaches to age and mental health? Join our new reading group starting October 28th where we will be discussing part 2 of Simone de Beauvoir's "Old Age". Sign up and and see the schedule here: birminghamphenomenalnetwork.blogspot.com/2025/09/laun...

If you're not outraged about #AI, you're not paying attention: #Philosophy in the time of techno-fascism. Book tickets for this free public lecture by Professor Alice Crary at University College Dublin: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Go update your LinkedIn settings.

JOB: lecturer/assistant professor in global film and media studies. 5yr contract, salary scale €64,753-€102,538, closes noon (Irish time) on October 20th. pls share and lmk if you have any questions! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU194/l...

jfmresearch.com/press-releas... Justice for Magdalenes Research statement in support of the industrial school hunger strikers.

In philosophy, if you think the answer's obvious, then you haven't understood the question.

Lian is amazing. She’s also one of the people responsible for Waking the Feminists and has co-edited a new book about it, out this month with @ucdpress.bsky.social www.ucdpress.ie/page/detail/...

We're really looking forward to this Dublin Book Fair event in November with Evelyn Conlon (author and UCD Press co-editor of After the Train) and author Sinéad Gleeson in conversation with author and journalist Clodagh Finn! Saturday, 8 November 11 am IMMA, RHK 🎟️ Get your tickets: bit.ly/dbf-att

"Queer optimism is not a mood. It’s a method. It lets us imagine policy change not just as an institutional process but as a rewilding of the public imagination, reclaiming it from shame and silence."

📢NEW Vacancy📢 Assistant Professor in Sociology at @tcddublin.bsky.social Specialising in quantitative sociology ⏰Deadline: 6 October Maternity cover MORE INFO: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOP688/a... APPLY HERE: www.tcd.ie/hr/vacancies/

Delighted for Stephen Graham. He’s by far my favourite actor. ‘The Virtues’ is on the Channel 4 player - it deserves more attention.

Wow! Phenomenal - running only until tomorrow night, final few tickets left!

Remember 'The Spark'? They’ve just released a new Irish language rap created by kids in Ireland abd Scotland called "Meas Mór" (big respect). Comhgairdeas to Kabin Studio and Barr na gCnoc for this innovative work. Enjoy! youtu.be/whwQfPVOFjI?... @edusky.bsky.social

Job! Two assistant/associate professors in educational sociology with a quantitative methods focus based either in Copenhagen or Aarhus dpu.au.dk/om-dpu/ledig...