Niamh Dowdall

Librarians catalogue Trumpian efforts to censor National Park exhibits - Arkansas Times So far, people from across the country have uploaded more than 1,100 pictures, including some taken at Hot Springs National Park.

Librarians catalogue Trumpian efforts to censor National Park exhibits - Arkansas Times arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...

Muir Woods exhibit is first casualty of White House directive to erase history "In order to know your role in history, you need to see yourself in it."

Visiting a National Park this summer? Consider photographing the educational signs you read and upload the images to the Data Rescue Project (www.datarescueproject.org/save-our-sig...)

How the world now sees America: Display at Trinity College Dublin of words discouraged by US federal agencies in 2025.

Israel kills Al Jazeera journalists in targeted Gaza City airstrike - Committee to Protect Journalists New York, August 10, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is appalled to learn of the killing today of Al Jazeera journalist Anas Al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, camera operators Ibrahim Zaher and M...

An entire news crew working for Al Jazeera was killed by Israel as they sought to bring the world firsthand reporting from #Gaza.

Among them was prominent journalist Anas Al-Sharif, who had been previously smeared and threatened by the IDF.

#NotATarget

Full statement: cpj.org/2025/08/isra...

Anas Al-Sharif pictured with his two young children that he is holding. They are all smiling.

Anas Al-Sharif was one of the most remarkable reporters of his generation. For 673 days, he defied Israeli threats to kill him.

Al Jazeera now confirm their crew in Gaza City have all been assassinated:

RIP reporters Anas Al-Sharif & Mohammed Qareqea and cameramen Ibrahim Zaher & Mohammed Nofal

YouTube video by Meditations for the anxious mind Dear academics…

Frankie's analysis and critique of the tenured left is his best video to date.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nds...

Article: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gerg74y71o

Article: https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/immigration/exclusive-inside-the-diss-hotel-a-refugees-view-of-the-anti-refugee-crowd-outside/

How BBC presents the anti-migrant hotel protests vs how we do at @bylinesnetwork.co.uk

BBC lead with a Reform UK voter saying "We are not happy with these men in this hotel because we fear for our children”

We tell of the refugee children inside the hotel terrified by chants of “send them out!”

New report out now: Language Matters in Narrative CVs
Funded by @edicaucus.bsky.social, the study analyses the language used by researchers in narrative CVs and examines how specific linguistic features influence reviewers' evaluations. Findings and tips in the full report doi.org/10.15126/901...

Visitors stage anti-migrant march in Galway Galway city centre was especially busy last Saturday, with racegoers, summer tourists and the unusual addition of a march by far-right agitators, met by an anti-fascist counter demonstration, causing ...

If you have to write about awful people gathering and doing awful racist things, then this is absolutely the way to do it. www.advertiser.ie/galway/artic...

Image about research culture

Great to see this new resource "Good institutional practice guide" from #NHMRC & to see the value of culture right up front: "Researchers are more likely to thrive and produce high-quality research when their institution has a positive work environment and culture." www.nhmrc.gov.au/about-us/pub...

Meet the independent, fierce, proactive women of medieval Ireland Translators of medieval romances reshaped stories to portray Irish women as more independent and proactive than their English counterparts

Meet the fiercely independent women of medieval Ireland #speirgorm www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Navigating Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Heritage Organisations The question of how artificial intelligence and machine learning should be applied to data in libraries and other cultural institutions is a challenge shared by heritage professionals, computer scient...

📢📚 #OpenAccess from @uclpress.bsky.social: "Navigating #ArtificialIntelligence for Cultural Heritage Organisations". An insightful, interdisciplinary look at how #AI is shaping cultural institutions & heritage work. A must-read with relevance across fields!

uclpress.co.uk/book/navigat...

📢 Register for the Navigating Open Research launch webinar - a new national guide to support Early Career Researchers in Ireland.

📅 Sep 4 at 12–1.30PM (IST)

The webinar will introduce the guide, share insights and use cases.
Register here👉 norf.ie/launch-navig...

#OpenResearch #OpenAccess #ECR

Automated university systems ‘make administrative burden worse’ Risk-averse mindset, fervour for meetings and ‘time sink’ labour-saving ploys leave everybody overburdened, finds Melbourne study

Automated systems are “a complete and utter nightmare” for university staff, exacerbating rather than easing administrative burdens by trapping academics in a logjam of service requests, an Australian survey has found
#academicsky #bureaucracy

Exciting news from the Royal Society Publishing: our journals will be fully open access in 2026 as we move to adopt the 'Subscribe to Open' model:

At 7 PM (after 11 hours of reading) they reached the names of the murdered kids who are 6 and over

That they overturned Roe and immediately the media started a nationwide moral panic over “male loneliness” has got to be one of the least subtle moments in the long history of antifeminist backlash.

❛ As a feminist, I feel sometimes conflicted about writing about situations that are not pleasurable for women, drawing a lot of good things creatively from unpleasant experiences.

An excerpt from our interview with writer Joanna Walsh, from Issue 32: bit.ly/pastmoths

She cut the umbilical cord with scissors she had brought and wrapped the baby in her coat; she remained lying on the ground next to him as she haemorrhaged and went into shock.

www.dib.ie/biography/lo...

👀 Ireland

I’m thinking a lot about what Fobazi Ettarh called “vocational awe” in librarianship, where the mythos & idealization of the “sacred” nature of the work leads to under-compensation (“not for the money”), job creep, martyrdom & burnout, silences marginalized folks, & more.

The Role of Libraries in Mental Health Post-pandemic librarians have seen an increase in social and mental health issues impacting library patrons. Here's how library workers can play a role in mental health.

Libraries are more than just book depositories—they are vibrant community hubs, one of the last free public places where anyone is welcome.

www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/well...

Narrative CVs are rewriting academic stories and identities - Impact of Social Sciences A new study explores how narrative CVs are reshaping research evaluation and academic representation

💥 New: Narrative CVs are rewriting academic stories and identities

✍️ Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner & Judit Varga #AcademicSky #ResearchAssessment

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The latest child to starve to death in Gaza weighed less than when she was born On a sunny street in shattered Gaza, the bundle containing Zainab Abu Halib represented the latest death from starvation after 21 months of war.

The latest child to starve to death in Gaza weighed less than when she was born
https://www.thejournal.ie/child-starves-to-death-in-gaza-weighing-less-than-when-she-was-born-6774786-Jul2025/

The Open Syllabus Project Visualizes the 1,000,000+ Books Most Frequently Assigned in College Courses The Prince, The Canterbury Tales, The Communist Manifesto, The Souls of Black Folk, The Elements of Style: we've read all these, of course. Or at least we've read most of them (one or two for sure), i...

The Open Syllabus Project Visualizes the 1,000,000+ Books Most Frequently Assigned in College Courses

A third of UK universities have now ceased posting on X.

I've updated my data to see whether they are adopting Threads and/or Bluesky as a microblogging alternative.

The simple answer is that they are, slowly.
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We've been making some updates to our website and you can now see which of our books have a Manifold version, meaning they can be read online, and which have an accessible version (an EPUB which meets WCAG Level 2.2 AA).

Search away!

uolpress.co.uk/books/

“The heterosexual imagination remains tainted by the idea that female desire is either disgusting or pathological”: An interview with Lou Syrah — Cristina Politano Lou Syrah is a Paris-based writer and journalist, whose recent novella, Fuck Eat Kill, has been nominated for the Prix Sade, a prestigious literary award for transgressive literature. The granddaug…

"The heterosexual imagination remains tainted by the idea that female desire is either disgusting or pathological": An interview with Lou Syrah — @monalisavitti.bsky.social

minorliteratures.com/2025/07/24/t...