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Des Fitzgerald
@desfitzgerald.bsky.social
This guy was professor of sociology at the University of Bristol as recently as 2021, and before that (up to 2018) was professor of sociology at the University of Bath.
January 10, 2026 at 6:59 PM
There's dolphins in the river!
January 10, 2026 at 11:43 AM
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Delighted to share the CFP for the Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies Postgraduate and ECR Study Day, happening on Friday 12th June at @frenchdeptucc.bsky.social. This year we are also opening the call up to final-year UG students and MA students. Please share widely!
January 9, 2026 at 10:23 AM
Love to come home and crack open a nice cool can of
January 8, 2026 at 5:32 PM
I think this is my first marking seasons where co-pilot - i.e. a university provided tool that basically insists on giving shitty AI summaries of saved pdfs - is a bigger problem than chatgpt.
January 8, 2026 at 9:47 AM
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📆 This Friday at 10am! If you're interested in our Medical Humanities In Practice Fellowships, join us to get some insights into how to develop your research idea for your application.

Register your free spot 👇
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/medical-hu...
Medical Humanities in Practice Research Fellowships: Developing your idea
An opportunity to find out more about developing your research idea for your application to the scheme.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
January 7, 2026 at 2:39 PM
Marty Supreme was great! The people who think you have to sympathise with a film's lead character are obviously dead inside but also.... Marty is in fact a very sympathetic lead character?! The score is extraordinary. Some minus points for criminal underuse of Sandra Bernhard and Fran Drescher.
January 7, 2026 at 10:59 AM
No school till 11 because of ice = marking papers with p*ppa p*g in the background 🙂‍↕️🔫
January 6, 2026 at 9:21 AM
Begging the blue sky americans to read one (1) history of the twentieth century.
January 6, 2026 at 7:24 AM
Reposted by Des Fitzgerald
Join us for a thought-provoking PRI event!
"Competing and Contrasting Conceptions of the Anthropocene: In Search of Unity"
📅 Monday, January 26, 2026. 2:00 pm ET
💻 Attend virtually: live.lifesizecloud.com/extension/22...
For more details, please visit our website: brocku.ca/pri/2025/12/...
January 5, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Congratulations to Micheál Martin as he becomes the first Coláiste Chríost Rí past pupil to have a one-on-one with the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party. www.independent.ie/irish-news/p...
Taoiseach hails ‘indispensable role’ of China as he meets president Xi Jinping in Beijing
China’s “indispensable role” in the world has been praised by Taoiseach Micheál Martin during a face-to-face meeting with president Xi Jinping this morning in the capital Beijing.
www.independent.ie
January 5, 2026 at 5:25 PM
I'm sure this fear is sincere, but please let's not have more takes that centre Americans as imaginary victims over the actual people being killed by the US, while also constituting those people or their descendants as somehow always terrorists in waiting.
January 4, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Me: and where will you tell your teacher you went over Christmas break?
Children, in unison: to the pub!
January 4, 2026 at 2:53 PM
I'm so glad they invented bluesky, the app for quantifying your reading for some reason.
January 4, 2026 at 10:41 AM
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Thanks to @martindoyle.bsky.social and Mary Miniham @irishtimes.com for taking my piece on heavy coats and ragged people for today’s paper - with a shoutout for new @universitypress.cambridge.org book on #IrishRomanticism #speirgorm
January 3, 2026 at 7:21 PM
Kaja Kallas, six months ago, lecturing Ireland about Ukraine policy: "I do want to address our Irish colleagues... If, you know, you surrender and you have the aggressor and you say okay take all that you want, it doesn't mean that the human suffering will stop."
I have spoken with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and our Ambassador in Caracas. The EU is closely monitoring the situation in Venezuela.

The EU has repeatedly stated that Mr Maduro lacks legitimacy and has defended a peaceful transition. (1/2)
January 3, 2026 at 1:15 PM
How we are entering 2026
January 1, 2026 at 4:45 PM
Just as it's govennment policy in Ireland to make homeless to protect developers and house prices, it's also policy to allow pedestrians and cyclicts to be killed over imposing the most minor constraint on drivers. #speirgorm www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dubl...
Plan for cameras to catch motorists breaking red lights in Dublin is shelved
However, red light cameras will come into operation at the Merrion Gates level crossings in south Dublin by the end of January
www.irishtimes.com
January 1, 2026 at 11:35 AM
In fairness, we've been generating shite text at scale on our own for centuries.
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
Fewer Irish people using ChatGPT than in other countries, OpenAI told Taoiseach
Micheál Martin was told application had been rolled out to all secondary school students in Estonia ‘to complement the curriculum’
www.irishtimes.com
December 31, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Imagine you get a phone call where someone asks, "would you like to be a member of the order of the British empire?" and you're like, "oh yeah, that sounds like a normal thing for an artist/intellectual to be part of, count me in."
December 30, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Oh. "According to the findings, there is no generally valid coupling between the oxygen content measured by MRI and neuronal activity." www.tum.de/en/news-and-...
40 percent of MRI signals misinterpreted
Interpretation of numerous MRI data may be incorrect: blood flow is not a reliable indicator of brain activity.
www.tum.de
December 28, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Am I in a state of cognitive decline or did transformers not used to be so insanely complicated?
December 28, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Updating the list of things that terrify our 5yo to include: the dance of the sugar plum fairy.
December 27, 2025 at 10:20 AM
An academic system run by pensioners? I, uh, I wonder what that would be like. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
‘Keeps your mind alert’: older Swedes reap the benefits of learning for pleasure
Retirees with ‘fantastic hunger for education’ taking part in university organised events in record numbers
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2025 at 1:55 PM