Big let down, to be honest

Maura Adshead launched her new book, Doing Community research, with @thewheelireland.bsky.social. The book is a practical guide on how to bridge the gap between universities and communities, offering a clear path toward meaningful, collaborative research. www.borupress.ie/bookshop/doi...

It is with deep sorrow and profound love that we announce the passing of Sonny Rollins. The Saxophone Colossus died this afternoon at his home in Woodstock, NY at the age of 95. 1/2

#Chartism #C19th “Come forth in your MAJESTIC MYRIADS”.Thousands of Chartists gather on Kersal Moor near Manchester #OnThisDay 25 May 1839. The bill poster advertising the “grand moral demonstration” is amazing!

The best part is that it's included in a book titled Mortal Questions. Also that the original paper came out in 1969. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/nagel PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

On 7 May 2026, Britain ran a PR experiment: Scottish Parliament: a Mixed-Member Proportional system Welsh Senedd: a (new) Low-Magnitude Party List system Same day, same political context, different outcomes. Which version of PR would be better for Westminster? 🧵

Lovely profile of Joshua Ryan, one of our former graduates, here: www.ul.ie/news/univers...

Nearly two decades after the United Nations adopted a landmark declaration on Indigenous rights, advocates say countries still aren’t living up to their promises to uphold and respect those rights. grist.org/indigenous/n...

”Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life.” Mary Wollstonecraft, born #OTD 1759; pioneer of women's rights, author of landmark work Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792). Portrait by John Opie, c. 1790 Tate Britain

Want to know more about electoral politics in Ireland? Intrigued by the National Election and Democracy Study? Then come along to the ‘Assessing Irish Electoral Democracy’ event, part of UL’s ‘Research Week’, on Monday April 27, 4pm. Registration details: www.ul.ie/research/res...

"Who Should Be the Master of My Words? On Political Authority and Linguistic Justice" by Sergi Morales-Gálvez. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Please come to our annual Máire Ní Chrualaoich public lecture in medieval and early modern local studies on 14 April at 6pm in the People's Museum, Pery Square @cemslimerick.bsky.social @ulhistory.bsky.social @michistory.bsky.social @ulresearch.bsky.social @ullibrary.bsky.social

New paper by Bernadette Connaughton and Karl O’Connor on public administration education on the island of Ireland in Gestión y Análisis de Políticas Públicas (with Spanish abstract!) revistasonline.inap.es/index.php/GA...

Check out this newly published research note by Frank Häge, presenting a new dataset of Roll Call Votes from the German Reichstag 1867-1918

Check out this new paper in Women's Studies International Forum by Emma Dolan, El Reid-Buckley & Kellie Morrissey on their @researchireland.ie and @unioflimerick.bsky.social Citizen’s Assembly funded project on safety and the city www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Recently published paper by @andrewshorten.bsky.social on the justification of self-determination powers. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Do you like studying historical parliaments? Presenting a new dataset of Roll Call Votes from the German Reichstag 1867-1918 by Frank M Häge. Read more in a new open access research note: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

I know this has circulated with alacrity recently, so you may have already seen it, but if you haven't... WOW BOY HOWDY it's the most useful thing. Thank you cardcatalogforlife.substack.com -- this is a very very very helpful public service: cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

Schwartzman on Asymmetry of Religious Motivation in Religion Clauses Cases Micah Schwartzman (University of Virginia School of Law) has posted The Asymmetry of Religious Motivation (135 Y.L.J.F. 467 (2025)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The Supreme Court’s current approach to religious freedom…

Prof Rob Dunbar has now started as the new chair of Bòrd na Gàidhlig. An important juncture for Gaelic in Scotland as the Scottish Languages Act 2025 comes into effect. Gur math thèid leat a charaid! www.gaidhlig.scot/en/new-chair...

The University of Essex has proposed to discontinue most of their undergraduate language provisions as well as the Languages for All programme as part of large-scale restructuring. Sign their petition to urge the Executive Committee to reconsider the proposal: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I'm thrilled to share my new podcast at the just-launched Liberalism.org. Now: Chandran Kukathas Next: Elizabeth Anderson and Jacob Levy Soon: Ed Glaeser, Simone Chambers, Melvin Rogers, Mikayla Novak, Theodore Schatzki Listen: pod.link/aHR0cHM6Ly9h...

Along with @ulceuros.bsky.social, we look forward to welcoming Nils Ringe (Wisconsin–Madison) to talk on "Coping with Europe: EU Membership and Party System Change". Wednesday Feb 25, 2pm, CG-054.

**PPA Seminar** Dr Sinead Walsh from @odi.global, talking on “10 Lessons in Localisation”. Wednesday, February 18, 14:00 Main Building, room CG-054. All Welcome!

‘Hurry for justice’: Windrush victims dying without redress, commissioner says

A book of English firsts, this book explores hawking, hunting and heraldry. 🦅🏹🛡️ By Juliana Berners, this is the first English printed work authored by a woman. It also contains the first images printed in colour in England. 📕 Boke of St Albans, 1486 (10001)

Immigrants in USA: Paid more in taxes than received in benefits every year 1994-2023. Generated ~$10.6 trillion more federal/state/local taxes than the gov spending they induced. Saved $14.5 trillion in debt over 30y period (accounting for savings on interest payments on the national debt).

New publication alert! 🚨 Universal design for learning as emancipatory education?: politics, disagreement, discomfort By Emma Dolan www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #HigherEducation #UniversalDesign #UniversalDesignForLearning #UDL

🔔 We're launching our Bluesky account today! Can you help us spread the word by retweeting this post? 😀 #Theoria #diamondopenaccessjournal

Jan. 9, 1776: A 47-page pamphlet is published in Philadelphia that will alter the course of history. “Common Sense” by an anonymous writer calling himself “An Englishman”—Thomas Paine—takes up the once-unthinkable idea of American independence and concludes: “ 'TIS TIME TO PART.” 1/10

Texas A&M actually tells a philosophy professor he may not teach Plato.

Caleb Williams (1794), William Godwin's timely exposé of fake news, dirty tricks, and all the truth-twisting deceptions by which authoritarian governments maintain power, is now trending on Bluesky. (Image from 19c. reprint)

'If a vegetarian hotdog is to be ruled out ... on the grounds that it contains no meat, the meat version should be ruled out on the grounds that it contains no dog'. Highly recommend @georgemonbiot.bsky.social's hilarious column on the livestock lobby's perverse efforts to stop vegan products.

I love this letter from a reader on why “we’re not doing presents this year!” is often a miserable, middle class pursuit. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Kant's moral philosophy

The Court Service pays €40/hour for interpreting and I cannot stress enough how poor that money is for the level of skill involved and the high stakes. Also the right to interpretation is a basic requirement of the right to a fair trial. jrnl.ie/6848629

First PPA Research Seminar of 2025/26! @philip-warncke.bsky.social (UL Psychology / Freie Universität Berlin) presenting on “Boundless but Bundled: Modelling Quasi-infinite Dimensions in Ideological Space”. Wednesday, September 24, 2pm in ERB006 (Engineering Research Building). All welcome!

New chapter by Bernadette Connaughton on developing optimal policy advisory systems in The Routledge Handbook of Policy Advisory Systems.

New chapter on Cultural Rights as Human Rights by @andrewshorten.bsky.social in The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Human Rights

Happy #jazzsky birthday to Sonny Rollins. (The sole survivor of “Great Day in Harlem” photo.) 95 years young! Sonny Rollins: 'You Can't Think And Play At The Same Time' www.npr.org/2014/05/03/3...

While this might seem like a low number of acceptances, it is justified by the overwhelming danger posed by publishing even a single bad or wrong philosophy paper

UNSR on Minority Issues launches new network with a call for student-led research www.eurac.edu/en/blogs/und...

"You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail..." Remembering Charlie Parker, one of the 20th century's greatest musical innovators, born on this day 1920. Wail on Bird X #jazzsky

Déclaration des Droits de l'Homme et du Citoyen French Declaration of Rights, landmark of democracy, approved #OTD 1789.

*Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Human Rights* - now published! Hurrah! Very proud of this and immensely grateful to my co-editor, Jesse Tomalty, and to all the contributors. www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...