Ellen O’Gorman

Activists take over the British Museum after it removed “Palestine” from its exhibit displays following constant pressure from Israeli lobby group.

Ditto the untranslated French and German. I used to write translations in the margins…

Agree. Stock tips and golf clubs are the apparatus of homosociality which naturalises the exclusion of women and fosters attitudes which dehumanise us.

UK folks: if we care about what is happening in the US with ICE, we must take steps to push back against anti-immigrant and refugee policy by our own government.

Fill out this consultation. It really doesn't take long. Amnesty have put together a super clear and helpful guide to follow.

My mother was a huge Chomsky fan her whole life, so he was for me personally part of a matrilineal intellectual tradition. I’m glad she didn’t live to see this.

#notallhobbits

Was convinced I saw a former colleague across the road so shrieked “Keith!” He turned around. He was indeed my former colleague. His name is Kenneth.

From a good thread of caveats to another post.

This point about universities' "public" status seems worth unpicking, because after two years on a university court I think it's key to understanding how university management sees the world.

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”

I have a lot of experience looking at these things and promise not to hold back, if you need a reader.

Open letter from UK university staff: Request for biometric deferral and safe evacuation of incoming Palestinian students and scholars from Gaza to UK Universities More than 40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study. We, the academic community hoping to welcome these scholars, ca...

An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Our final piece of news for the week - the IGRCT is thrilled to announce that Professor Stephen Bann CBE FBA will be joining our Vice Presidents.

Stephen Bann is Professor Emeritus of History of Art at the University of Bristol, and his career as an art critic spans six decades.

Pioneering project releases more lost Irish records spanning 700 years Newly restored material from vast archive destroyed in civil war takes in Anglo-Norman conquest and 1798 rebellion

A new memory palace for Ireland.

This whole thread is full of truth. ECRs are the single-use plastic of the UKHE sector and no-one is doing a damn thing about it.

Fitting for today’s cat fight.

I came up with keywords for my research which were Wordsmithery, Antiquities, Narrative, Kinesis.

Here's something lovely for your Saturday morning (well, the text isn't lovely, it's about domestic violence, adultery, and imprisonment). It's the model for the extremely weird 3vv mass in the Biffoli-Sostegni manuscript, Antoine de Févin's Je le lerray puisqu'il me bat. #earlymodern #nuntastic 1/

Sign the Petition Overturn the UK's New Legal Definition of a Woman

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Excellent sausage!

This is fantastic!

Rhetoric about "ivorye toweres" ys most often throwne arounde by those high up on gilded thrones

I’m sorry. That’s never easy.

As another caseworker, I completely agree. And that point in the Thread about focussing on worker representation instead of protest is spot on.

It has been hours and still no kittens? SHOW KITTENS.

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6 weeks ago we brought home Miss Ebby, due to celebrate her 14th birthday in the Spring. Her sweet little chirrups are making my day, every day.

This looks amazing!

Here is a statement by my colleague Katherine Franke about the end of her time teaching at Columbia. Please read it. drive.google.com/file/d/1i4cO...