Andrew Shorten

Interpreters' bill for the Courts Service set to exceed last year's This year’s bill is on track to be much larger than last year, with €2.09 million spent in the six-month period between January and June.

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.

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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!

The Routledge Handbook of Policy Advisory Systems This handbook comprehensively reflects, presents and summarises both first and second wave scholarship into policy advisory systems (PAS). Bringing together leading scholars to engage persistent as we...

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

The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Human Rights | Jesse Tomal The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Human Rights is an outstanding resource covering key questions, problems, and debates in scholarship on the nature,

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

Sonny Rollins: 'You Can't Think And Play At The Same Time' "Jazz improvisation is supposed to be the highest form of communication," says the 83-year-old sax legend, who is about to release the third volume in his prized Road Shows series.

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'

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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 The UN Special Rapporteur on minority issues Nicolas Levrat has launched a new academic network to identify and elevate student-directed research. The network is currently running the first edition of...

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.

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

The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Human Rights The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Human Rights is an outstanding resource covering key questions, problems, and debates in scholarship on the nature, justification, authority and relevance o...

*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...

Opinion: Kneecap trial spotlights challenges for Irish speakers in British and Irish courts Many would rather use the language they know best to answer questions on which their liberty or livelihood could depend

Opinion: Kneecap trial spotlights challenges for Irish speakers in British and Irish courts

Manchester University Press - What went wrong with Britain? What went wrong with Britain? - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of What went wrong with Britain? by Steven Kettell

New book on What went wrong with Britain? featuring a chapter by Owen Worth about 'Covid, Brexit and the emergence of national populism' manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526170392/

Policy advisory systems and crisis governance: the advisory committee architecture within different politicization settings Purpose. An Advisory Committee (AC) is a particular type of crisis governance device that provides evidence to inform government decision-making. This article explores AC architecture and how it may d...

And another recent paper from Bernadette Connaughton on policy advisory systems and crisis governance: www.emerald.com/ijpsm/articl...

Change is inevitable, quality is optional, and context matters: dynamics influencing the development of an optimal policy advisory system Abstract. Developments in the policy advisory systems (PAS) literature demonstrate how the traditional models designating key roles for internal public ser

New paper about policy advisory systems by Bernadette Connaughton: academic.oup.com/policyandsoc...

A three-panel Cyanide & Happiness comic. Panel 1 shows a person telling another they couldn’t access their CV. Panel 2 offers to sell the CV for $39.99 or $10 for 24-hour access. Panel 3 shows the first person entering the Elsevier building

Hey, this is not even a joke #AcademicWriting #AcademicChatter

Assistant Professor in Politics at University of Limerick Discover an exciting academic career path as a Assistant Professor in Politics at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!

A few days remaining to apply for this temporary post. Open to specialisms in Irish Politics, EU Politics, International Relations or Political Theory:

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNN443/a...

"The most violent element in society is ignorance." - Happy Birthday to Emma Goldman, once known as 'the most dangerous woman in America', who passionately devoted her thought to issues such as the law, labor, feminism, sexuality - to only name but a few.

#womeninphilosophy #anarchism #polphil

Assistant Professor in Politics at University of Limerick Discover Assistant Professor in Politics jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.

We are hiring an Assistant Professor in Politics at Limerick, on a specific purpose contract, open to candidates with expertise in *any* of the following: Irish Politics, EU Politics, International Relations, Political Theory www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNN443/a...

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Thanks, the job description on the UL vacancies page gives an approximate end date of 31/7/27, though in principle the contract could continue beyond that. Not sure why jobs.ac.uk list it as permanent - it isn't listed that way elsewhere, will look into it.

Assistant Professor in Politics at University of Limerick Discover Assistant Professor in Politics jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.

We are hiring an Assistant Professor in Politics at Limerick, on a specific purpose contract, open to candidates with expertise in *any* of the following: Irish Politics, EU Politics, International Relations, Political Theory www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNN443/a...

Le Monde has a livestream of the national philosophy exam 😆 commentator "can we say that these exam questions are difficult this year?" ; expert "no, they are perfectly doable". The breaking news is that RAWLS makes its first appearance in the history of the exam LETSGO

The launch of ChatGPT polluted the world forever, like the first atomic weapons tests Academics mull the need for the digital equivalent of low-background steel Feature  For artificial intelligence researchers, the launch of OpenAI's ChatGPT on November 30, 2022, changed the world in a way similar to the detonation of the first atomic bomb.…

The launch of ChatGPT polluted the world forever, like the first atomic weapons tests

Does the United States Need an Official Language? Donald Trump’s executive order succeeds where decades of right-wing efforts have failed.

Donald Trump has declared English the official language of the U.S. But there is no evidence suggesting that English is under threat; a large majority of immigrants learn English, and more than 90 per cent of Americans speak it very well.

'These are the times that try men’s souls … Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered: yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.' – Thomas Paine, The American Crisis, No. 1 (19 Dec. 1776)

Diabolus Ex Machina This Is Not An Essay

I... oh my god.
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Spain seeks EU recognition for regional languages Spain has revived a push for Basque, Catalan and Galician to be made official EU languages, despite a less-than-enthusiastic response from fellow European countries fearing a domino effect.

Spain has revived a push for Basque, Catalan and Galician to be made official EU languages, despite a less-than-enthusiastic response from fellow European countries fearing a domino effect

Twenty-one Skytte Prize winner in a joint letter in today's @financialtimes.com : “President Donald Trump and his administration are on a spectacularly dangerous path”

Read more here : www.skytteprize.com/news/twenty-...

In restricting the movement of people today we have been too little aware of what it means for the way we live. We have trained our focus on the immigrant and have dwelt on the perceived dangers of bringing foreigners into the state, but have not given much attention to what it means to create a society that tries to close itself off (if only to a degree) from the outside world. Even advocates of open borders have given relatively little consideration to this matter. Joseph Carens famously opened his defence of freedom of movement with the observation that ‘borders have guards and guards have

guns’. His point was that violence is threatened or inflicted upon would-be immigrants, and that the power of the state when exercised to keep out ‘ordinary, peaceful people seeking only the opportunity to build secure, decent lives for themselves and their families’, is a brutal and frightening thing. The presumption behind this observation, however, is that the guards sit at the border and that they and their guns face outwards. The truth of the matter is very different: the guns face inwards more often than they face out, and the guards are to be found not merely well within the boundaries of the state but in every part of society.8 As we have tried to erect a fortress, so have we managed to build a prison. We have become used to living under surveillance, just as we are also getting used to monitoring each other in a panopticon of the people. Whether or not we fully realize it, we are no longer at ease, and rely upon a policy and a system that threatens

rather than secures our freedom. For some, it might mean living in fear, even as for others it means becoming complicit in a system of policing that contributes to this outcome.

Chandran Kukathas, Immigration and Freedom.

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The UL Sanctuary Programme supports and promotes access to education for refugees & asylum seekers in Ireland

Applications are now open to for the 2025/26 academic year

Find out more information & apply online here: www.ul.ie/courses/univ...

Deadline: 4pm, 31st May 2025
#StudyatUL #Education

Say it with Respect: A Journalists' Guide - First Peoples Cultural Council Say it with Respect: A Journalists' Guide to Reporting on Indigenous & Minoritized Languages by ELP and FPCC.

The Endangered Languages Project (@e-l-p.bsky.social), in partnership with the First People's Cultural Council, recently released a guide for journalists who are writing about Indigenous and minority languages. It's great. Let me show you.
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