Saw this last night and was like an antidote - written with such humour and soul. Tells story of five queer people connected through Cara-Friend – a phone service set up in 1970’s to support LGBTQ+ individuals across the north. Go see it. Kabosh projectartscentre.ie/events/calling…

Three Lebanese citizens have been killed in an Israeli strike on the outskirts of Sidon. Five UNIFIL peacekeepers and three Lebanese soldiers were also wounded. 🔴 LIVE updates ⤵️ aje.io/uxsg1p

Horrifying scenes of Palestinians being forcibly displaced from their homes in northern Gaza by the Israeli army in November 2024—under the watchful eyes of the world.

This statue just appeared at a park in Philadelphia

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To decrease the size of the university, we need a dean of university efficiency. We’ll fix everything by creating a new dean!

We need to find something for our biggest donor to do. So please join me in welcoming our new Dean for Efficiency and Innovation. See we told we would stay committed to DEI!

So what’s the collective noun for Deans/VPs, I wonder…

Our postgraduate symposium will take place this Friday in University College Cork. All welcome. You can register on our website: iaas.ie/iaas-postgradu…

Just to be clear, you are defending a Heil Hitler salute that was performed and repeated for emphasis and clarity. People can officially stop listening to you as any sort of reputable source of information now. You work for them. Thank you for making that crystal clear to all.

I wonder what tiny percentage of the cost of a new runway at Heathrow it would take to stabilise UK universities, which are actual engines of economic growth and societal progress? theguardian.com/education/2025…

God bless 90% of humanity.

This is terrible, but I guess for some in university management provoking massive mental distress in the university staff, who actually do the work the university exists to do, is taken as a sign of "leadership". nation.cymru/news/cardiff-u…

"Last decade has seen growth of a powerful managerial class in Universities which has little scrutiny It is often disconnected from the Statutes that govern University institutions". Sounds familiar, no?

FYI : This is happening in Gaza!

BREAKING: MIT just completed the first brain scan study of ChatGPT users & the results are terrifying. Turns out, AI isn't making us more productive. It's making us cognitively bankrupt. Here's what 4 months of data revealed: (hint: we've been measuring productivity all wrong)

Irelands wins only 2 ERC advanced awards this year, it was zero last year. The run down of the national research system, as well as chronic underfunding of HE in general, is really showing.

Beloved, visionary Fanny Howe, a beacon of ferocity, honesty & integrity—a fighter in all senses of the term—has moved on. Read her. The powerful voice does not depart. It only grows louder…. 1940-2025 A Hymn | The Poetry Foundation poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine…

This one goes out to all the academics who are parents—especially the mothers—trying desperately to get some writing done while entertaining their kids and paying through the nose for sporadic “summer camps” that run for less than 4 hours a day.