Really interesting.

"New surveys by Sayer’s team have revealed that 22 of the ghost ponds restored since 2022 now support 136 species of wetland plant. This represents 70% of the wetland flora found in more than 400 ponds on ... an internationally important nature reserve whose ponds have survived since the ice age."

Started to read and seems very important.

Tonicha Upham, Death Rituals: The Rūs and 'Vikings' in Arabic and Persian, is available #OpenAccess until 2 October. #MedievalSky www.cambridge.org/core/element...

This beautiful object is a fragment from the base of a 13th-century Syrian bowl. It is decorated with a hare in an ‘arrested’ stance, that is with one of their front paws raised, and their head turned to the rear. Their two back legs are usually unnaturally lengthened. EA1978.2398

Portal tonight at Whelan's, Dublin, supported by Impetuous Ritual.

Print publication day is next week, Friday 26 September! There will be a VIRTUAL BOOK LAUNCH that day from 3:30-5:30pm Eastern US time via Zoom. The event will recognize everyone who helped make the project a success, & other insider info on the book. All are welcome. Just DM me for the Zoom link!

"Last week, the V&A East Storehouse, an outpost of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, opened the David Bowie Center, which will display about 200 items from the collection at a time. Fans and scholars can also place advance orders to view, and potentially handle, any of the 90,000 items."

"The whole concept of writing lyrics for me has always been to work myself through different subjects and to try to find my own standpoint, to not be guided by already fixed ideas." www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

Early Irish & Celtic Studies Research Seminars this semester at Maynooth. In person only, but everyone is welcome. @ceilteachomn.bsky.social

Conference announcement: Group for the Study of Irish Historic Settlement, 3-5 Oct. Maynooth University. Full programme and registration details👇

This is remarkable and significant. Photography lies, yes, but it also tells truths. Trump Orders National Park to Remove Famed Photograph of Formerly Enslaved Man @artnews.com.web.brid.gy www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

"Flournoy has written a book that attests to the phenomenology and psycho-geography of haunting — the ways a person’s mind can become a haunted house, its private ghosts compounding with time and a changing external landscape." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/b...

fascists: don’t speak ill of our hero or we’ll fire, arrest and deport you fascists: actually, mourn our hero or we’ll fire, arrest and deport you fascists: but don’t quote anything our hero actually said, or we’ll — well, you know the drill centrists: *this* is the kind of civil debate we need!!

So saddened by the news of the death of Tomas "Tompa" Lindberg (At The Gates, Lock Up, etc). One of the greatest extreme vocalists of all time. Thoughts with all his family, bandmates and loved ones. 📸 credit: Andy Hayball www.decibelmagazine.com/2025/09/16/t...

What if history could be 'weightless'? Lola Olufemi and Agnes Cameron expand on their collaboration, This is a Temporal Landscape You Will Find No Direction Here, a digital assemblage for reimagining our relationship to the radical histories before us: www.historyworkshop.org.uk/practice-his...

"... what used to be political discourse on the conflict is giving way to a mythical language of victimization. It is a story in which 7 October 2023 is the continuation of the Holocaust, Hamas are the new Nazis, and the current war is our biblical retribution." www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

I hosted a Syrian refugee in my home for two years (via the Irish Red Cross) & it's one of the best decisions I ever made - I gained another little brother! Here's an article about people doing the same in the UK. If you have a spare bedroom, do think about it. 👇🏻 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

"We live in exceptional times, facing challenges we feel powerless to do anything about. ... Metal offers an alternative to the saccharine messaging of social media and banging one’s head against a wall by endlessly revisiting the horrors of our time on our feeds."

Calling all Indian creative writers - apply now for the 2026 Charles Wallace Indian Trust Fellowship. The successful applicant will be hosted by the School of Humanities to work on their creative project for 12 weeks next Spring. For more details: research.kent.ac.uk/colonialandp... @kent.ac.uk

I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Can't wait to read this, by my friend @rorynaismith.bsky.social , on one of medieval England's most interesting kings. Coming in 2026 📚👇🏻

Patricia Lockwood is one of the best humorists writing today and I can't wait to read her latest! 📚 www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

I can definitely recommend it. (some parts reminded me of parts of my youth but I'm not saying which on here!)

Congratulations to Dr Ben Guy, who has been awarded an AHRC standard grant to fund a major collaborative project on the early Welsh charters and their boundaries! www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/news/2025/09...

Wales has 'cold spots' in higher education, with many students unable to study subjects like Modern Languages, Classics and Anthropology close to home. ITV Wales covers our report today. https://bit.ly/4nmZf21

The link to the book is here: 79e4f91e-c118-482b-bfce-721c7bfd6dea.usrfiles.com/ugd/bc5e7a_d... This seems to me like an unprecedented action by refugees themselves to hold the agency mandated to protect & safeguard their rights to account & it really deserves coverage.

Nice potted history here from climate scientist Kate Marvel on how science and policy action for the public good, with some help from market forces, have helped us solve some environmental problems in the past. A call to be optimistic that we can do what it takes - even in these difficult times. 🌎

While this is interestin, it seems a bit much to go from "metal production continued in one former urban centre" to (as is being suggested here) "there was no major economic shock after Roman rule," in the face of all the other archaeological evidence suggesting that there was, of whatever rapidity.

On advance access: "Failure to Drain: Expert Resistance and Environmental Thought in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic" by @annalunapost.bsky.social (Utrecht) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

Can share this again now that the paper has been published: www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

For the first time, scientists have quantified the causal links between worsening heat waves and global warming pollution from individual fossil fuel and cement companies, pushing the boundaries of extreme weather event research in multiple surprising ways.

"... the Wainwright children’s book of the year prize went to Lanisha Butterfield for Flower Block ... The story ... is set in a city tower block, and finds a young boy ... planting a packet of sunflower seeds in memory of his father. The seeds sprout overnight, taking over the apartment block."

"These people over here locking us up and throwing shadows at us, or these people over here coming in here telling us we’re free now, just come along with us even though your eyes are burning from the bright light? Who are these motherfuckers, anyway?"

Not exactly a hangover but more like the long-term effects of alcoholism, the Old English "Fortunes of Man" basically describes it as slowly killing oneself. See the section beginning "One at the mead-bench ..." and the section after that too. mdrout.webspace.wheatoncollege.edu/category/for...

Feels like something @thecelticist.bsky.social would know about

"This remarkable debut by a 20-year-old Palestinian, born and raised in Gaza, stands out among poetry of witness on the genocide there." www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

This was behind a pay wall but no longer is

Loads of wonderful books to look forward to in the coming months! 📚 www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

Can people who've lost their grip on reality from being too online and have turned to hate-based movements ever be healed? Here are two widely-admired examples of people apologising for cruel things they've said from a platform. But could such circumstances ever be replicated in an online space?

Join us for a two-day conference on the Book of Lecan. A collaboration between RIA, @maynoothuniversity.ie and the @dias.ie this is a wonderful opportunity to explore one of the the great treasures of Ireland's literary heritage. Book your tickets now shop.maynoothuniversity.ie/index.php?ap...

A bit about our upcoming conference on the Book of Lecan. 📚 @scs-dias.bsky.social @ria.ie @maynoothuniversity.ie www.ria.ie/2025/09/03/e...

This sounds like it’s worth a watch “Featuring contributions from leading Irish historians and prominent First Nations voices, the documentary sheds light on how Irish emigrants were both the oppressed and the oppressors.” 🗃️ donegalnews.com/irish-settle...

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

On publication day for The First King of England, enormous thanks to @princetonupress.bsky.social and Doug Young of PEW Literary for making it possible

Teangeolaíocht na Gaeilge/Cananachas na Gàidhlig 11-12 Meán Fómhair, 2025 Acadamh Ríoga na hÉireann Comhdháil ina gcuirfear Teangeolaíocht na Gaeilge/Cananachas na Gàidhlig faoi chaibidil. Is féidir clárú agus tuilleadh eolais a fháil anseo: www.tickettailor.com/events/royal...

"De Valera’s New York state birth certificate, dated 10 November 1882, names Vivion as the father, whose name is spelt De Valero. ... Scholars have never found a church or state record of the marriage, nor of Vivion’s entry to the US or death." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

"We wanted people to feel like they were stepping into a Somali cultural space, as if you’re stepping back home,” says Intisar. “We don’t want to be visible in a textbook, but in a place that people can visit and connect with." www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

📢Cynhadledd GORWELION Conference 🗓 17-19/09/2025 📍Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru @librarywales.bsky.social 🗣Prif siaradwyr / Plenaries: Mererid Hopwood, Barry Lewis, & Ian Stewart. 🔗Rhagor o fanylion / Further information: www.wales.ac.uk/cy/canolfan/...