Ricki O'Rawe

With Palestine conspicuously absent from the front pages of some major outlets and bombs still falling on Gaza, let’s make sure to look a little further for our news.

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En breve se abrirá la convocatoria FPI (Formación de Personal Investigador) del Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia para la contratación de un/a investigador/a predoctoral asociado/a al proyecto:

Brexit Britain

Sounds class - Comhghairdeas!

You almost never see/hear/read a person-on-the-street quote in which that person is saying "Yeah, immigrants are great." If it hates it rates just like if it bleeds it leads, and we get a disproportionate number of right-wingers sharing their hate and disinformation about immigration from msm.

JOB: Lecturer/Assistant Lecturer in Spanish (Global and Area Studies) - jobs.hku.hk/en/job/53267...

Sally Rooney: I support Palestine Action. If this makes me a ‘supporter of terror’ under UK law, so be it I would happily publish this statement in a UK newspaper – but that would now be illegal

Sally Rooney on the hypocrisy of the proscription of Palestine Action : www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Come join us for a special event to honour Ted Hickey (my father in law) on the 20th anniversary of his passing in the hometown of his close friend and musical comrade, Seán Corcoran. seancorcoranseries.com/requiem-for-...

Yep. Scaremongering about splitting the vote doesn’t really land when the so-called centre ground feels so morally far from decency.

I wonder will UK politics go the way of post-agreement NI, when voters fled the middle ground towards Sinn Féin and the DUP.

The embedding of AI into a platform some teaching staff are required to use raises all sorts of ethical quandaries, not least ecological ones.

Three stunning and shaming paragraphs, by Rachel Wolf of Public First, in @theobserveruk.bsky.social

YES

Something the establishment is trying so hard to censor will always be worth seeing

Assistant Professor in Spanish of Gonville & Caius College and Emmanuel College at University of Cambridge Apply for the Assistant Professor in Spanish of Gonville & Caius College and Emmanuel College role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply n...

Job! Assistant Professor of Spanish @caiuscollege.bsky.social and Emmanuel College. Nine months from 1 October 2025 to cover my teaching while I’m on leave. Latin American literature, cinema or thought.

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‘Musk apparently did not anticipate that it would be bad P.R. for the world’s richest man to take food and medicine from the world’s poorest children.’ What a dangerous, sociopathic, idiot Musk is.

That is just the privilege of the 1% that you are seeing. They knew all along they were untouchable.

💬 What can primary school French and Spanish teachers learn from Irish-Medium classrooms?

Thomas Rogan explores how immersion-style techniques used in Irish-Medium Education could transform modern foreign language teaching in mainstream primary schools.

📖: www.lspjournal.com/post/languag...

It is wise to make the more desirable bakes more difficult to access.

Playing tonight in Belfast at Skronk Fest. Bank holiday skronk for those that celebrate.

Local UCU meetings in coming weeks. Come along/join up:

Read this again MAGAs.
19 households owned more Money than the bottom 50% of 208.5 million working ppl. 19 households made more than 104 million working ppl.

Oooof. A sucker punch of a poem.

I’ve only just read William Carlos Williams’ Asphodel for the first time. I feel jimmyed open.

And still the online day to go tomorrow!

Had a wonderful few days in Edinburgh at the @hispanists-ahgbi.bsky.social conference. Old friends, new friends, inspiring research, and I even managed to see a @remediosvaro.bsky.social painting in the flesh.

Lo espero con ganas!

🔴FINAL COUNTDOWN – REGISTRATION CLOSES THIS FRIDAY 4th! (link below)

👉 Please note: all speakers must register by the deadline.

🔗 Register now before it’s too late: www.epay.ed.ac.uk/conferences-...

Looking forward to presenting on @remediosvaro.bsky.social at this year's AHGBI conference in Edinburgh. Follow @hispanists-ahgbi.bsky.social for the programme and updates.

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