Listening to Martha Nussbaum talk about the neglect of the humanities/arts leading to ‘nations of docile engineers’ unable to interrogate the world around them, or their states, or understand power/politics.
It might be Monday morning blues, but I think we’re too far along on this path to go back.

We're hiring for a Digital Artist in Residence with
@artscouncilireland.bsky.social at Digital Humanities @ucc.ie.
Applications are open right now.
Please drop me a line if you're interested or have any questions.

I have to say the term “beneficiary of racism” is much more effective than white privilege!

Universities around the world cut ties with Israeli academia over Gaza war Educational bodies from Europe to South America are boycotting Israeli institutions, though Universities UK said it did not support the action

I usually signpost Maya Wind's fantastic book titled "Towers of Ivory and Steel" every time I hear liberal academics say Israeli academia is the wrong target for a boycott. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Whole world: “it’s a genocide”

Starmer and Lammy “shut up terrorists or face jail”

I don't know 🤣🤣 it was regular, but without the disco this time!

Hahahahaha I received the same email and I just saw some of these guys less than a week ago for such a needy email 🤣

And that’s a wrap for #MedSoc25. It has been wonderful meeting researchers working on such exciting projects in SRH!

The relentless contempt, disgust, even hate that successive UK governments exhibit for the country's (hitherto) wildly successful HE sector remains one of the most baffling sub-plots of a generally insane age.

This is so bizarre!

We had an LRB subscription for years post-Brexit and didn’t get charged customs. Is this a new regulation?

UK has ‘not concluded’ Israel carrying out genocide in Gaza, Lammy says Government position set out in letter to select committee as No 10 prepares for visit by Israeli president

There's lots that's extraordinary about the british labour government obviously, but a foreign policy guided by a desire to humiliatingly abase their nation before genocidaires and fascists feels like it should generate more heat?! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

📢 New research!
We analysed 20+ years of pregnancy & birth data in 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇬🇧
👩‍🍼 Mothers are older
📈 C-section & diabetes rates rising
⚖️ Inequities persist for Indigenous & minority women
Time for equity-driven maternity care 💡
🔗https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/14/16/5841 #MaternalHealth #Equity #Pregnancy

Hello .. i am Fedaa a pediatrician from Gaza.. I am deeply gratefull to any one supported me by anything even if you see it small it means alot to me and my family ..
please keep me and my family in your heart and help us rebuild our life ❤️❤️🙏🌺

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The Labour Government is a complete shit-show!

Beyond trucks and tariffs: What might a feminist analysis of the UK/Irish border * offer? - Theresa O’Keefe, Niall Gilmartin, Dyuti Chakravarty, 2025 In the wake of Brexit, the border on the island of Ireland has received unprecedented scholarly and journalistic attention. A quick search using Google Scholar ...

New article with Niall Gilmartin, @dyutic.bsky.social yours truly which calls for feminist sociology to pay more attention to the border on the island of Ireland. @sociologyireland.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Both your back garden and the book are great btw :)

Hahaha my exact thoughts on seeing this photo and having finished reading your book!

“These young people want to develop shared horizons, while evolving their sense of particular situatedness.”

Jennifer Todd, @dyutic.bsky.social and Joanne McEvoy @ucddublin.bsky.social on youth in a divided Ireland, identity and universal values.

#OpenAccess in the journal buff.ly/CBFWW5y

Call for participants: As part of my @researchireland.ie funded project, I am looking to speak to women/people from non-EU migrant background, who have experienced pregnancy in Ireland over the last 15 years. Please feel free to amplify this call for participants.

#maternalhealth #migranthealth

Last chance to be part of an essential networking event for medical sociology academics and professionals – Call for papers by TODAY, Friday 2 May, for the BSA Medical Sociology Annual Conference 2025, 10-12 September, Northumbria University https://tinyurl.com/mpk8y5yy @BSAMedsoc #cfp

Last chance to be part of an essential networking event for medical sociology academics and professionals – Call for papers by TODAY, Friday 2 May, for the BSA Medical Sociology Annual Conference 2025, 10-12 September, Northumbria University tinyurl.com/mpk8y5yy @BSAMedsoc #cfp

Tile with a screenshot of the front page of the journal article with the PLRG teardrop logo & a QR code to access the publication (https://imj.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Mapping-perinatal-bereavement-care-education-and-training-for-maternity-staff-3.pdf)

🆕📄 Mapping perinatal #BereavementCare education & training for maternity staff (in Ireland)

✍️ @maritahennessy.bsky.social @keelinodonoghue.bsky.social

🔗 imj.ie/wp-content/u...

@infantcentreucc.bsky.social @uccresearch.bsky.social @hselive.bsky.social

#PregnancyLoss #PerinatalDeath

Woman's arrest after miscarriage in Georgia draws fear and anger Experts say the arrest is part of a pattern of criminalizing pregnancy that has accelerated since the fall of Roe v. Wade.

"...the arrest is part of a pattern of criminalizing pregnancy that has accelerated since the fall of Roe v. Wade... Women of color, lower-income women & women struggling with substance use are particularly vulnerable in interactions with authorities"

@nbcnews.com

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Sociology of Health & Illness Call for Abstracts — Urban Experiences of Health and Illness: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Care and Wellbeing in the City Abstract Submission Deadline: 30 April 2025Full Paper Submission Deadline: 30 November 2025

Let me take this low-news days to say that colleagues and I are now soliciting abstracts for a special issue of the Sociology of Health and Illness: 'Urban Experiences of Health and Illness: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Care and Wellbeing in the City.' onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

Quote tweeting (do we call it tweets on Bluesky?) for later.

BOYCOTT COLUMBIA

I’ve signed onto this renewed boycott of Columbia in light of their horrific abdication of their responsibility towards their faculty, staff and students, as well as their participation in the destruction of academic life, all by weaponizing anti Palestinian racism —please join me!

Wendy Sigle, @lsenderowicz.bsky.social & I will be in conversation with Mary Borrowman (CGD) about the Si, and why we think this is a critical moment for engaging with these questions of FE & RJ.

Date: 1st April 2025, 1500-1615 (UK) Spanish interpretation available. us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

A friend drove two hours today for her breast cancer chemotherapy only to learn it was canceled due to NIH cuts. Clinical trial ended midstream. No treatment, no restart, no plan, no information. Her bro-in-law's chemo was also canceled.

UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese at Maynooth University this evening. The level of moral and intellectual clarity that she brings to discussions is so rare in the time of a live-streamed genocide!

Congratulations @sumingkhoo.bsky.social!! You are absolutely amazing 🔥🔥🌸🌸🌸