Mathieu Bokestael

Sharing this again for #Irishbookweek

my thesis in a nutshell:

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UCD #standoutforgaza - call out for all research collaborations with and funding of Israeli institutions at EU level to be stopped #speirgorm

Poster of event with Prof Bernstein

Looking forward to this RHL, @uccwomenstudies.bsky.social & ISS21 event with Prof Elizabeth Bernstein!

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

Three Irish citizens among activists detained as Israeli forces seize flotilla ships, organisers say The Global Sumud Flotilla is now just 45km from Gaza, but over a dozen Israeli warships are approaching.

Three Irish citizens among activists detained as Israeli forces seize flotilla ships, organisers say. Thinking of Sarah Clancy - all eyes on the flotilla #speirgorm jrnl.ie/6832196

Tomorrow in Dublin, delighted to be introducing this event with @sahavoice.bsky.social in collaboration with the Irish Humanities Alliance at the Royal Irish Academy to mark the completion of the first phase of the Bilateral Framework between the Irish and Scottish governments

@groenbot.bsky.social might be interesting?

Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Creative Writing - 5 years at University College Dublin Recruiting now: Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Creative Writing - 5 years on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board

Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Creative Writing - 5 years
University College Dublin

Full time, temporary

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PhD Scholarship in Environmental Humanities at Ghent University Discover a PhD Scholarship in Environmental Humanities on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other PhD opportunities.

🌱 Fully funded PhD scholarship in Environmental Humanities at Ghent University!

A unique opportunity to collaborate with Marco Caracciolo, Elly McCausland, and me on innovative research connecting literature, culture, and ecology.

stay floppy, pals

Hodges Figgis is indeed a lovely shop, but that doesn't matter a fuck when they discipline staff for showing solidarity during a genocide.

Thankfully Dublin has plenty of indy & Irish owned chains to buy books from, like the ones mentioned below as well as Gutter, Dubray, Easons etc
#Speirgorm

Assistant Professor, Disability Studies The College of Arts and Sciences at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, invites applications for two tenure-track Assistant Professor positions in the humanities and qualitati...

TWO tenure track jobs in #DisabilityStudies at the University of Buffalo! Teaching and research interests in gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, or Indigenous cultures or methodologies preferred. www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/57847

24 month, 0.16 post at Glasgow University to cover my teaching while I'm leading a Leverhulme Project Grant. Desirable: Up-to-date knowledge and specialist understanding in science fiction, literature and medicine, and/or post-war literature.
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24 month 1.0FTE RA post on Leverhulme Project, ‘A Mutual Fascination: British horror and the psy disciplines, c.1955-present’ with me and co-I Dr Timothy Jones (University of Stirling). Open to range of humanities disciplines. @leverhulme.ac.uk
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In case you missed it, you can now catch @kathunfeld.bsky.social and Andreas Malm discussing *Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature* with author Alyssa Battistoni on the Historical Materialism YouTube channel.

extract from article: 'Then he brightened: “That’s about the buffer in years that I’m going to need to get to the moon.” He mentioned one more seminal book, Robert Heinlein’s sci-fi collection “The Man Who Sold the Moon.” The man in question, D. D. Harriman, longs to go to the moon, but his vision and salesmanship are so vital to the moon-colonization program that his colleagues maneuver to keep him on Earth. “Anyway,” Diamandis explained, “Harriman finally sneaks up to the moon on an illegal flight and dies there.” He laughed. “I don’t want to die on the moon, exactly. But I’d love to start a city there, a base we could mine asteroids from! The last time something like this happened is when the lungfish crawled out of the ocean onto land.” Diamandis looked off, somewhere between ahead and above. “The equation of humanity moving into the cosmos is complicated,” he admitted. He knew that it might not happen, or be optimal for all of us if it did. “But it still gives me permission to dream.'

@jordanscarroll.bsky.social is right, technofascists really don't know how to read sci-fi

extract from article: Implicit in this narrative is the belief that technocrats aren’t hogging resources for vanity projects; they’re fixing the world. One XPrize Healthspan donor, Daniel Krizek, a biotech-fund manager who plans to invest a billion dollars in longevity, espouses the values of effective altruism. That principle, popular in Silicon Valley, holds that philanthropists should save the most lives they can, including the billions of future lives that might be enabled by a particular action. “You could put a trillion dollars into Africa and feed the continent forever,” Krizek told me, “but I believe it’s better to spend the trillion on going to space, because all the scientific advances that come from that will save many more lives in the future.” Bryan Johnson’s movement aligns with this belief: his ultimate goal is “species maximization—trying to get life in this part of the galaxy to flourish.”

Yikes, we really are fucked aren't we?
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UK to evacuate nine Gaza students with university scholarships Move follows months of pressure from MPs, academics and campaigners, with dozens of other students still stranded

The UK government will evacuate nine of the 40+ students in Gaza with scholarship at UK universities. My PhD student Shaimaa isn't included. We must now make sure they help the other students - email your MP today. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

📣The deadline for abstract submissions for the Critical Minerals symposium has been extended to 31 August 2025.

Still time to send yours to the organisers @gigitang.bsky.social
and Katie Donnelly.

CFP below.

AGAINST AI

teachers!

excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.

take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com

Episode 28 - Queer Medical Humanities /w Ben Dalton and John Gilmore Conversations about Arts, Humanities and Health · Episode

Listen to me and @benbgdalton.bsky.social discuss Queer Medical Humanities and different issues and approaches in queering health, healthcare and health futures

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Irish artists/ supporters of the arts, please check out and fill in this short survey. The Gript/ far right dudes are already sharing it on X and I'd be worried it'll get brigaded.

If we want it to be retained and expanded we gotta drown them out.

One of the less known aspects about the Easter Rising is that Indian students at UCD also took part & were then deported by the British authorities for it. Among those students was V.V. Giri who became president of India and said “when I am not an Indian, I am an Irishman”

Loving every “PhD-level intelligence” joke on here, but, just to be clear, all it is really meant to signal is what level of employee organizations are now supposed to fire/replace with the tool.

📢CFP -- "Mediating Medicine: Health and Illness in the Victorian Age", 5 December 2025, Online Workshop

Send us your proposals for 15min papers or 5min flashlight talks by 30 Sept!⚕️💉👨‍⚕️🚑📖📰

PGR, ERC & NeoVictorian contributions very welcome 🫶

#MedHum #19Century #Victorian

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One month being off is whatever, I figure after 3 in a row and a downward trend I should say something!

I’d like Little Deer to be here next summer. If you would also like that consider shopping with us! And bringing others to shop with us! Tell friends and strangers about
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A barnstorming essay - was rereading this yesterday with a view to teaching next semester

We undervalue the languages children of immigrants speak. We should be teaching languages like Polish, Urdu, Mandarin at school.

Health Communism is finally out in paperback on 7/29! If you’re planning to order a copy online, please get it from the @workshops4gaza.bsky.social bookstore & add an additional donation to Sameer Project if you can! 👇