A very good day for Napoleon’s nose
28.02.2026 12:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A very good day for Napoleon’s nose
28.02.2026 12:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“the actual number of staff leaving their posts is likely to be higher because most institutions did not include in their figures staff who completed fixed-term or temporary contracts.”
25.02.2026 07:38 — 👍 17 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 09,600 redundancies at just 24 universities. Imagine what the picture is for the sector as a whole. This is the other half of the student loan scandal picture, which has been national news lately. Nothing at all from the government on a key sector effectively in freefall…
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The first ISTR webinar of the year is this Sunday 1st March at 6pm, discussing the topic
'Is it time to bring back the Irish Theatre Awards?'
Our panel – Esosa Ighodaro, Anne Clarke and Luke Casserly – will be in conversation with Dr Miriam Haughton.
Free registration: tinyurl.com/ynnpc6he
After a trial over the last few years, Ireland has launched a permanent scheme giving a basic income of €325 a week for artists.
2,000 will be eligible, and successful recipients will be chosen at random from applicants, who must be "professional artists" (definition tbc).
"we cannot begin to talk about freedom and justice in any culture if we are not talking about mass based literacy movements."
bell hooks 1997
we cannot begin to talk about freedom+justice in any culture now if we are not talking about mass de-literacy cognitive-incapacitating industries.
IWW IU 520 (Railroad Workers) PRESENTS: TROLLEY PROBLEM SOLUTION "Slip the switch" by flipping it while the trolley's front wheels have passed through, but before the back wheels do. This will cause a controlled derailment bringing the trolley to a safe halt.
Union workers solved the trolley problem, you're welcome
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I'm excited to be presenting on the late, great Edna O'Brien in her adopted home city later this month.
Also looking forward to hearing from @mikelyn.bsky.social on Pádraic Ó Conaire
🎧 weekend listening 🎧
Waiting for Godot, Slow Horses and why all TV actors should work on stage - listen to an exclusive interview with Lucian Msamati about his new book 'The Godot Diaries' via the WhatsOnStage podcast ⬇️
https://bit.ly/4r5dGdw
Lecturer in English and Writing Studies
University of Waikato
Permanent
Writing and literature of the English
speaking world with a focus on Māori and Pacific writing and literature.
www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/list...
One of several scholarships for Palestinian students available at the University of Liverpool. This one is for the MRes in Irish Studies. Please share to relevant circles.
www.liverpool.ac.uk/study/fees-a...
Wonderful news from Birkbeck's School of Historical Studies. We're hiring not one but TWO open-ended, full-time roles: Medieval Studies, and History of Art! cis7.bbk.ac.uk/home.html#fi...
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A reminder that our Postgraduate Essay and Bursary prizes are now open for applications! Deadline for submissions 17 March 2026
See the BAIS website for details on how to enter and eligibility:
irishstudies.co.uk/prizes-and-f...
📢Lectureship in Politics and Public Administration
Shared with @livunipol.bsky.social
3-year fixed-term
£47,389 - £59,966 pa
Help teach + develop the new MA in Public Administration and Policy, teach UG + PG students + carry out high-quality research
ℹ️ tinyurl.com/3fcyrn24
#academicsky
The Tory dismantling of high education structures inevitably meant the decimation of local universities and campuses, sooner or later.
The Labour government decided to continue Tory policies, so it happens on their watch.
Our Annual MacCurtain/Cullen prize is now open for entries. The competition is open to current or recent BA or MA/MPhil students. closing date for entries is 1 March 2026.
womenshistoryassociation.com/grants-prizes/
A 3 year JRF at Magdalene and Notre Dame in Irish Studies – sounds like a pretty great opportunity for someone.
24.01.2026 13:48 — 👍 11 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 0I’ve seen little panic about the thousands of jobs being lost in HE thanks to the broken and unfair funding system. One “blue Labour”MP (from Liverpool!) even wrote in the Daily Mail that half of Universities should be allowed to fail…
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ISTR Conference CFP reminder - proposals are due by Saturday 31 January
TU Dublin Grangegorman, 4-5 June
Full details via our website:
istr.ie/istr-confere...
Incredible article which points out that it often collectively costs more to apply for scarce research funding than the funds awarded to the successful proposals.
What an absurd system we've built in the service of efficiency and competition.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
“When I speak about making our city more affordable, my vision is not limited to the homes that we live in or the child care that we’re making universal — it’s also a vision where we make it possible for working people to afford lives of joy, of art, of rest, of expression.”
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New and expanded Trade Union starter pack as more people leave X
go.bsky.app/LLUZ4bx
Our good friends at the Irish Cultural Centre in Paris are advertising a short-term research fellowship in their old library and historical archives. Check it out at portail.centreculturelirlandais.com/index.php?lv...
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New year in the North Pennines
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Join and help to lead the Constitution Unit!
@uclspp.bsky.social is looking for a Lecturer in British and Comparative Politics who will also join our senior team and contribute to our research and impact activities.
Applicants must have, or be near to finishing, a PhD.
Apply 👇
@quinnslobodian.com: “While the MAGA grouping uses its power to stage a Gramscism from the right…the response of its targets is simply to ask for something softer; to try to meet them halfway in a foggy and nebulous language of community, storytelling, and place.”
lpeproject.org/blog/post-ne...
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
A representation of entrenched inequality not just between generations but families. The politics which follows is a vast ideological effort to justify that inequality as natural & necessary, to ridicule critics & distract opposition while ignoring the fraying of society that is its consequence.
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