Des Fitzgerald

Scholarly orgs based in the U.S. that purport to be "international" are going to need to come to terms with what it means to continue holding their in-person gatherings in a country many people cannot travel to or no longer feel safe visiting for all kinds of reasons.

Oh, worse if anything.

Haha, wait, I'm actually kind of into that.

"see how he spins sweeping historical theory from tiny ethnographic details" - yeah they all do that. And it's bad!

An unfortunate thing about David Graeber being basically the only widely-read anthropologist now is that his admirers often take Graeber's use of very basic anthropological tools and stances as evidence of his idiosyncratic & puckish genius.

A hand holding a copy of the book "inishkillane: change and decline in the west of Ireland' by Hugh Brody

Prepping for the mandatory west cork holiday (I'm reliably informed that "Inishkillane" = Allihies).

A hand holding a copy of the book "inishkillane: change and decline in the west of Ireland' by Hugh Brody

Prepping for the mandatory west cork holiday (I'm reliably informed that "Inishkillane" is Allihies).

Me: <makes the tiniest crinkling noise while trying to silently extract a plain cracker>
My children [not even in the same building]: WHAT WAS THAT

Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal

It is once again not nothing - and not dismissible as convenience or bad faith - that this fascist seizure of grant infrastructure narrates itself as a contribution to the reproducibility crisis. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Ah amazing - so glad the central argument (architecture: bad) comes through so clearly!

A vinyl copy of Stephen O'Malleys "but remember what you have had" sitting on a small orange shelf in the show of letters spelling out "now playing."

Few things in my life have brought me as much pleasure as this stupid 3D printed "now playing" shelf I got on Etsy.

Doge meme on feminist pedagogies

@uccwomenstudies.bsky.social is getting ready for the 2025-26 academic year!

A comment under a newspaper article (by me). One 'JeffB' writes: "so Des has published a book, has he?"

I have, JeffB, yeah. Have you?

Manchester University Press - Electric wind Electric wind - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Electric wind by Marianna Dudley

If you would like to review my book for a publication, get in touch! The book is a history of wind energy and I’m trying to get it out to as wide an audience as possible.

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182968/

I would one day like to be as convinced of *anything* as much as this app is convinced I want to see posts about jockstraps and Scottish independence.

London commuters, a tree is 'on its way'. Can it save you? ‘Tree on its way.’ Commuters between London Bridge and the Monument may have seen this rather startling message, stencilled on the pavement in stark black and white, at regular intervals in recent wee...

Re-sharing this piece I wrote yesterday evening for the evening standard, on those 'tree on its way' signs in the square mile, and the problems of nature as superhero: www.standard.co.uk/comment/lond...

An as for a signed copy of a record by Michael d Higgins (Irish president) plus a competition for tickets to a celebratory concert.

Lads, is it possible the whole miggeldy thing went too far. #speirgorm

Definitely. The security hall (in T3 anyway) is about 25% of the space they actually need.

Serious contender the worst regional airport in the UK IMO - and that's saying something.

London commuters, a tree is 'on its way'. Can it save you? ‘Tree on its way.’ Commuters between London Bridge and the Monument may have seen this rather startling message, stencilled on the pavement in stark black and white, at regular intervals in recent wee...

I wrote about saviour trees and manly super-nature for the Evening Standard: www.standard.co.uk/comment/lond...

Just tried to end a heated domestic discussion with "yes, well I have a PhD and you're 3" AMA

<whispers> the shitness of nature memoir, as a genre, has nothing to do with truth or accuracy.

Congrats!!

His hair is extremely impressive, if it helps.

Oh maybe it is. I recognize that this undercuts my claim - but we really did play it!

I won't share my sneaky photo - because decorum - but I need you all to know that I sat behind academy -award winner™ Cillian Murphy on a London to Cork flight last night. We vaguely bumped heads getting our bags out at the end and he said "sorry man" so I think legally we're friends now.

Yes! In school, where there was even a court (or at least access to one).

Absolutely.

The problem the "metascience" community has is that Trump understands something they don't, i.e. that the sociology of science really matters. This is why he/maga can clearly see open science as a usable infrastructure of surveillance, discipline etc. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Wellcome-funded 'Between Deception and Dissent' project is recruiting a postdoc working at the interface of medical STS and socio-legal studies, supervised by Martyn Pickersgill @ Edinburgh #STS www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNY639/r...