Minister James Lawless today announced €3.5 million for 16 research projects under Research Ireland’s COALESCE 2025 programme. Two of the projects are funded by Cuan: The Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Agency. Read here: www.researchireland.ie/news/ministe...

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

Many thanks to @publicanthropologist for publishing my poem #airmailfortherevolution publicanthropologist.cmi.no/2025/09/26/a... #publicanthro #anthrosky @dcuresearch.bsky.social #archives

66 000 people have been killed & almost 170 000 have been injured in #Gaza. @who.int estimates that at least 1/4 of those have life-changing injuries that require immediate & ongoing rehabilitation. I call on all parties to this conflict to choose peace, now.

Thousands take part in pro-Palestine march in Dublin, calling for sanctions

When you drag a woman by the hair, beat her and force her to kiss your flag, that’s how you tell the world you are the Good Guys

At a recent gathering, there were calls for progress on returning African relics held at the National Museum of Ireland. Most are weapons, taken as souvenirs of colonial wars, said Olusegun Morakinyo, Africologist and former visiting scholar at the TCD.

British surgeon Nick Maynard, who has just returned from volunteering in Gaza, explains to #GMB viewers how Israel confiscates all baby formula that doctors like him try to take with them. Why does Israel do this? Because they want to starve Palestinian babies to death.

Gaza is now single deadliest conflict for journalists in history. This is not only an attempt to extinguish a whole people, it is also an attempt to extinguish the story of their genocide. “One day, everyone will have always been against this.” - Egyptian-Canadian writer, Omar El Akkad. #Gaza

🚨BREAKING: The last journalists working for AFP in Gaza have said they can no longer work for the news agency. They are out of energy and they are starving to death. I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it. 🧵

Our hearts are heavy for the grieving family of Jaime Alanis, who died from injuries sustained during a chaotic raid on Thursday. We will do everything we can to support them. We continue to work with the hundreds of farm worker families navigating the aftermath of this violent raid.

I have nothing but bafflement at how English politicans and English media can talk as if terror flags, hate directed against ethnic groups and yes, death threats to politicians, under the guise of state and establishment condoned culture, isn’t just what in Northern Ireland is known as ‘Summer’.

📣 Public keynote by @pinheiromachado.bsky.social, @ucddublin.bsky.social From streets to screen: The Digital Disembedding of Informal Economies and the Road to Fascism in Brazil 📍 @ucc.ie + online 🗓️ 27 June Organised by the European Network for #DigitalAnthropology (ENDA) 🔗 buff.ly/jMCAfOZ

Congratulations to Dr Gordon Ogutu who passed his PhD viva without any corrections at all at @dublincityuni.bsky.social‬ today. Many thanks to my fellow examiner Dr Rachel Hoare, and congratulations also to supervisors Dr Agnes Maillot and @fionamur.bsky.social‬

To mark a decade of Dublin Inquirer, we’re launching a collection of tote bags featuring headlines from the last 10 years. Have a look! And if there's a different one of our headlines you'd like on a bag let us know and we can probably do that for you. www.dublininquirer.c...

Rebecca Solnit on compromise: "If I think the world is round and you think the world is flat, I don't really make the world better by saying it's kind of a squashed oblong."

Small Boat: this slim, devastating novel about a real migrant shipwreck reminds us of the cruelty of indifference. Piece by DCU's Dr Fiona Murphy @fionamur.bsky.social for @uk.theconversation.com. Read more here: launch.dcu.ie/3Fs65mu

From a longlist of 13, six novels have been shortlisted for the 2025 International Booker prize. DCU's Dr Fiona Murphy @fionamur.bsky.social reviews 'Small Boat' by Vincent Delecroix ahead of the announcement of the winner later today. Read the @uk.theconversation.com piece: launch.dcu.ie/43DimxQ

Why Wouldn’t You? A 12-minute film about solidarity, displacement & everyday acts of care across Ireland www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qDs... Explore the free Solidarity Toolkit: solidaritymanual.my.canva.site/why-wouldn-t... #WhyWouldntYou #DCU #RefugeesWelcome #Solidarity #PublicAnthropology

Join us for the launch of Why Wouldn’t You? – a powerful 12-min film on solidarity & displacement in Ireland. Created by @DublinCityUni IRIN & Sanctuary 📅 Mon 19 May | ⏰ 10:30AM | 📍 DCU • Manual launch & activist roundtableRegister here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/launch-of-...

Join us for the launch of Why Wouldn’t You? – a powerful 12-min film on solidarity & displacement in Ireland. Created by @DublinCityUni IRIN & Sanctuary 📅 Mon 19 May | ⏰ 10:30AM | 📍 DCU • Manual launch & activist roundtableRegister here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/launch-of-...

I still think the stressfulness of Zoom direct messaging is an evil genius UI design feature that intentionally reproduces the anxiety of whispering to someone during an in-person meeting

"May Day belongs not only to the land, but to those who labour upon it, and beyond it. To the ones who rise up when the land is hoarded, when care is undervalued, when work is invisibilised" @fionamur.bsky.social

This is what precarity looks like... and it's grim. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/hous...

Happy #Bealtaine / #MayDay! I wrote a short piece for @thejournal_ie on the radical roots, seasonal thresholds, and fiery possibilities of this time of year.Read here: www.thejournal.ie/readme/bealt... #FireAndResistance#IrishCulture @dublincityuni.bsky.social

Happy #Bealtaine / #MayDay! I wrote a short piece for @thejournal_ie on the radical roots, seasonal thresholds, and fiery possibilities of this time of year.Read here: www.thejournal.ie/readme/bealt... #FireAndResistance#IrishCulture @dublincityuni.bsky.social

"The built environment is never neutral. Cities are designed, and design is power. Who gets to shape a city? Who benefits from its architecture, its transport, its housing? Who is displaced, erased, pushed to the margins?" @fionamur.bsky.social @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

How design justice could transform Dublin. Design Justice is a fundamentally different way of understanding who and what a city is for. Piece by DCU's Dr Fiona Murphy @fionamur.bsky.social for @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social. Read here: launch.dcu.ie/4j9uf47 #RTEBrainstorm

The Atlantic Anthropological Workshop is kicking off later today, my favourite time of year, stunning weather for it too. Www.atlanthro.org @fionamur.bsky.social @alissecc.bsky.social

One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.

My reflection on #motherhood and #mothering on this #mothersday www.thejournal.ie/readme/mothe... @thejournal.ie @dcuresearch.bsky.social #care #anthrobluesky

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

Extraordinary, packed out event at the Irish centre for human right with Francesca Albanese and Omar barghouti, hosted by Anita Ferrara

Ireland is one of few European countries to take action against Israel but more is needed, Francesca Albanese says

It’s too complicated they say - a poem on silence, complicity and blame . Thanks to @publicanthropologist for publishing publicanthropologist.cmi.no/2025/03/14/i... #anthrobluesky #publicanthropology #poetry

Lovely day had at @ucc.ie anthropology day ! Thanks to @jamescuffe.bsky.social for the invitation down to show our @DCU short film Ordinary treasures : objects from home !

Join @anaivas.bsky.social @fionamur.bsky.social @saraorke.bsky.social, Nasrin Khandoker, Abayomi Ogunsanya, Chiara Magliacane, Ernesto Vásquez del Águila and myself on Anthropologies and Solidarities. #EuropeanAnthropologyDays Link to register: ucd-ie.zoom.us/webinar/regi... @easainfo.bsky.social

#Corkcity welcomes Anthropology on the 28th Feb for a free public event celebrating World #Anthropology Day, a little late but we got there. Details here www.ucc.ie/en/cacsss/ne...

‘Stamp out paper mills’ — science sleuths on how to fight fake research By Anna Abalkina, René Aquarius, Elisabeth Bik, David Bimler, Dorothy Bishop, Jennifer Byrne, Guillaume Cabanac, Adam Day, Cyril Labbé & Nick Wise @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

#ERSNew #ERSSpecialIssue🐣🔓 Uncover new perspectives on inclusive policies, social entrepreneurship, and community-led initiatives that challenge colonial legacies. Article by @fionamur.bsky.social and Ulrike Vieten: https://buff.ly/3EJ9sVF

"... people are slowly becoming tools, machines in sync, bodies in motion, but rarely minds." @jamescuffe.bsky.social & @fionamur.bsky.social in @allegralab.bsky.social on the emergence of the 'fungible subject' under the drive for automation allegralaboratory.net/being-fungib...

#ValentinesDay: Is true love possible in the age of algorithms? DCU's Dr Fiona Murphy @fionamur.bsky.social says technology is simply another way humans have tried to manipulate love. The question is, does it work? Read more in @thejournal.ie: launch.dcu.ie/3X1Y1yJ

Nothing says happy Valentine’s like @fionamur.bsky.social ‘s take on algorithms!

This Valentine’s Day, I explore how online dating fosters artificial intimacy—swipes, matches, and fleeting connections that mimic closeness but often deepen disconnection @thejournal.ie www.thejournal.ie/readme/valen... @dcuresearch.bsky.social @dublincityuni.bsky.social #ArtificialIntimacy

Lovely writing with @fionamur.bsky.social to get these piece out, articulating the experience of transformation of the self under societal digital transition towards AI and automation, thanks @allegralab.bsky.social

Out today: 'Being #fungible: they only want us from the neck down', a thought-provoking piece by @jamescuffe.bsky.social and @fionamur.bsky.social allegralaboratory.net/being-fungib... (and good to reconnect in this space, too!)

Loved writing Being Fungible: They Only Want Us from the Neck Down with my brilliant colleague @jamescuffe.bsky.social for @Allegra @ucc.ie @dcuresearch.bsky.social allegralaboratory.net/being-fungib... #Anthropology #Labour #Fungibility #Precarity #Neoliberalism #Academia #AnthroThinking

#ERSNew🐣🔓 Refugee students in Germany face exclusion despite policies of inclusion. A study (2019–2021) reveals how institutional ‘Othering’ shapes their university experiences, reinforcing colonial distinctions within higher education. Article: https://buff.ly/3Eyso9x