Applications are invited for the 2026 CISS Scottish Writing Fellowship at the University of Otago in Aotearoa New Zealand. Flights, accommodation & stipend for 2 months at the Caselberg House near Dunedin. Apply at the link below by 31 October. Good luck…! www.otago.ac.nz/ciss

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

Well called. If we want to move forward, we need to respect all traditions. Border lives are complicated. And reporters need to understand that better, and ensure their reportage does not look like bias.

maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/ca… call for papers for the 35th Conference of Irish Historians in Maynooth on 12 and 13 September 2025. Theme is Inner Lives and Outer Realities. @MaynoothHist @historians_ie

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CFP. 35th Irish Conference of Historians, 'Inner lives and outer realities', 12-13 September, Maynooth University www.historians.ie/cfp-35th-iri...

PASSAGE is recruiting for two fixed-term posts to join me working on 18thC records of enslavement 1) Collections Researcher (Transatlantic Slavery) shorturl.at/aZwqn 2) Project Cataloguer (Transatlantic Slavery) shorturl.at/6aSpz If you have questions, please let me know & please circulate widely!

Really looking forward to this ISAANZ conference and delighted to be asked to do one of the keynotes. Join us! Cfp open for another few days .

Interested in history if science, technology, medicine, maths? Come and join us in Belfast for our 2025 conference!

Women’s day is great. And we need it. But wouldn’t it be lovely to live in a world where we didn’t need it! That would be the ultimate success of the day.

CFP: Public History in an Age of Anxiety, QUB, 9-11 Sept. 2025

#OtD 5 Mar 1943 a strike broke out at the Fiat Mirafiori plant in Turin. The strike spread and, within a week, 100k workers were out. Authorities arrested 850 workers but were forced to concede. Learn more about the Italian resistance to fascism here: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e77-80-it...

Great to see this in our @hstmnetworkireland.bsky.social series!

Good morning all! 🇺🇦 Please share everywhere. 🙏🏻

It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)

Bird food. Fascinating to watch in the early morning. I reckon my hedge is one of the best avian restaurants in town.

“MaYbe shE’s goiNg to be in TroUble nOw” Maybe he can learn to read. The Constitution would be a good place to start

Hearts of stone, for the day that’s in it!

It's staggering to consider the number of people who will become gravely ill or die because of RFK Jr.'s appointment to HHS Secretary.

Call for papers for our annual History of Science, Medicine and Technology Ireland network conference is open! 9/10 may 2025 in Belfast campus, Ulster university.

On Wednesday next, 12 February 5-7pm, I'll be holding another #AldiWineClinic both here and on Twitter simultaneously. All your questions answered, just use the hashtag (this is important) and if you repost too you could win a €100 voucher.

Looking forward to hearing the responses to this…I think!

The latest #ARINS podcast is now available! Listen to Ian d’Alton and Ida Milne on the lives of Southern Irish Protestants now: 🎙️Spotify: spoti.fi/3WL3hqk 🎙️Soundcloud: bit.ly/3WRqkQ9 arinsproject.com

More than 64,000 Palestinians may have been killed by traumatic injury in the first nine months of the war in Gaza, according to a new study. It suggests that the Hamas health ministry tally, a figure the UN relies on, is a significant undercount. nyti.ms/4fZxCIv

Three wonderful days of student dissertation presentations in Carlow College. Really struck by the support they give each other, and the many trials they individually have endured to get this far. Such background stories!

On December 9th, 1979, the World Health Organization officially declared smallpox eradicated. This historic achievement, marking the end of a disease that had plagued humanity for centuries, remains one of the greatest successes in global public health. #StayCurious #Skystorians #DiveIntoDiscovery

Today’s IPT judgement must mean a different approach and a renewed committed to press freedom. I am pususing this and related issues through the NI Affairs Committee at Westminster.

Volodymyr Zelenskiy said he told the Ukrainian government to set up supply mechanisms to deliver food to Syria after the fall of President Bashar al-Assad reut.rs/3ZRFzdP

WE ARE STILL IN THIS. Wipe your tears. This is the difficult business of hope and defying expectation. We do not give up. We run through the tape. Y’all aren’t allowed to throw in the towel until I do. 😉 Big breath. Locked in. Let’s do this.

A very important reminder for all of us.

Brilliant opportunity, well done to those who organised.

Robert Kennedy seems to think that big pharma is bad, and vitamins are good, and that the two industries are... different. Or something. As a historian of the pharmaceutical industry all I can say is... uh, no. Not really. [thread] #histmed #history 🗃️

Check out "The history of Christmas in Ireland: Switzer’s, pantos and crane for dinner" from our colleagues in the Dictionary of Irish Biography, posted on @thejournal.ie this weekend #Christmas #Christmas2024 jrnl.ie/6563953

Marking my students' public health history research essays is a joy. It's a new module and I was a little apprehensive, but they're strong researchers with good control of the research essay form. And let's say the work could inform those querying need for child vaccination.

Sadly, it’s a good time to once again share this amazing infographic that we ran at @science.org more than 7 years ago 🧪 #IDsky www.science.org/content/arti...

Love the Centers for Disease Control Museum in Atlanta. Important exhibition there on polio treatments and prevention. I hope it’s still there in four years time.

This is genius. Shout out to those academics marking on a Saturday before Christmas…

The Revolution Starts Here, says Comrade Freyne

It’s a joy to be reading assessments from my new public health history module this Sunday am. They are just inspiring. Well up to PG level, most of the 26 of them. And full of enthusiasm!

I kinda go full Grinch mode at this time of the year but occasionally fall off that particular wagon. Let’s say, I’m open to persuasion!

Word of the morning is ‘williwaw’ (19th century): a sudden violent squall or a toppling gust of wind. Goes well with ‘thunderplump’: a sudden downpour that soaks you to the skin in seconds.

Nikita Hand’s lawyers ask judge to order Irish martial arts fighter, Conor McGregor to pay highest level of legal costs www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...

This is a great Christmas read. And not just because I have a piece in it!

Four scenarios for Trumpomuskovia, the musko-trumpified America snyder.substack.com/p/trumpomusk...

It’s damp, breezy and feeling cool this Thursday evening and have we some rain crossing the country tomorrow Friday for polling but please get out and vote tomorrow. Let’s get turnout higher than ever. The rain will clear so don’t let that put you off. #GE24 #GE2024