Sarah Comyn
@sarahcomyn.bsky.social
Associate Professor in UCD School of English, Drama, Film & Creative Writing.
Research Ireland, Starting Laureate: Imperial Minerals. She/her. Views mine.
Research Ireland, Starting Laureate: Imperial Minerals. She/her. Views mine.
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"Every critical ecosystem is on a pathway to collapse" - wow, the wording in this isn't pulling its punches
🚨 BREAKING 🚨
The UK Govt has quietly published - without announcement - the Joint Intelligence Committee/DEFRA report it suppressed last October. They tried to sneak it out in the midst of crisis. Read and share:
“Global Biodiversity Loss, Ecosystem Collapse & National Security.”
(link below)
The UK Govt has quietly published - without announcement - the Joint Intelligence Committee/DEFRA report it suppressed last October. They tried to sneak it out in the midst of crisis. Read and share:
“Global Biodiversity Loss, Ecosystem Collapse & National Security.”
(link below)
January 20, 2026 at 6:08 PM
"Every critical ecosystem is on a pathway to collapse" - wow, the wording in this isn't pulling its punches
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Please do join me if you can for these events #IrishRomanticism @universitypress.cambridge.org
UCC 19 February 5.30pm Hub Atrium
Cambridge 2 March 5.30pm Emmanuel College
Boston College 11 March 5pm Connolly House
NYU 12 March 6pm Glucksman House
Royal Irish Academy 25 March 6pm Academy House
UCC 19 February 5.30pm Hub Atrium
Cambridge 2 March 5.30pm Emmanuel College
Boston College 11 March 5pm Connolly House
NYU 12 March 6pm Glucksman House
Royal Irish Academy 25 March 6pm Academy House
Irish Romanticism | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
www.cambridge.org
January 21, 2026 at 9:31 AM
Please do join me if you can for these events #IrishRomanticism @universitypress.cambridge.org
UCC 19 February 5.30pm Hub Atrium
Cambridge 2 March 5.30pm Emmanuel College
Boston College 11 March 5pm Connolly House
NYU 12 March 6pm Glucksman House
Royal Irish Academy 25 March 6pm Academy House
UCC 19 February 5.30pm Hub Atrium
Cambridge 2 March 5.30pm Emmanuel College
Boston College 11 March 5pm Connolly House
NYU 12 March 6pm Glucksman House
Royal Irish Academy 25 March 6pm Academy House
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I was funded by the minerals project to visit Museum Africa to consult its fascinating postcard collections on SA’s extractive histories. The postcards discussed in this article offer a glimpse into how this highly commercial medium shaped global perceptions of mining capitalism and abstract labor.
You can read @gigitang.bsky.social excellent article in full here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
And find out more about Gigi's broader case study for the Imperial Minerals project here: imperialminerals.ie/team/ge-tang/
And find out more about Gigi's broader case study for the Imperial Minerals project here: imperialminerals.ie/team/ge-tang/
January 20, 2026 at 3:11 PM
I was funded by the minerals project to visit Museum Africa to consult its fascinating postcard collections on SA’s extractive histories. The postcards discussed in this article offer a glimpse into how this highly commercial medium shaped global perceptions of mining capitalism and abstract labor.
You can read @gigitang.bsky.social excellent article in full here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
And find out more about Gigi's broader case study for the Imperial Minerals project here: imperialminerals.ie/team/ge-tang/
And find out more about Gigi's broader case study for the Imperial Minerals project here: imperialminerals.ie/team/ge-tang/
January 20, 2026 at 1:41 PM
You can read @gigitang.bsky.social excellent article in full here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
And find out more about Gigi's broader case study for the Imperial Minerals project here: imperialminerals.ie/team/ge-tang/
And find out more about Gigi's broader case study for the Imperial Minerals project here: imperialminerals.ie/team/ge-tang/
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It's not good enough to blame users for the horrifying images being produced by Grok AI.
This tool is doing exactly what it is designed to do.
We need a criminal investigation into X and Grok - because there have been clear breaches of the law.
The laws are in place – the govt must enforce them.
This tool is doing exactly what it is designed to do.
We need a criminal investigation into X and Grok - because there have been clear breaches of the law.
The laws are in place – the govt must enforce them.
January 14, 2026 at 1:01 PM
It's not good enough to blame users for the horrifying images being produced by Grok AI.
This tool is doing exactly what it is designed to do.
We need a criminal investigation into X and Grok - because there have been clear breaches of the law.
The laws are in place – the govt must enforce them.
This tool is doing exactly what it is designed to do.
We need a criminal investigation into X and Grok - because there have been clear breaches of the law.
The laws are in place – the govt must enforce them.
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ive seen more articles this week about how the phrase “abolish ice” could hurt dems in the midterms than ive seen articles about how paramilitary death squads terrorizing cities will hurt republicans in the midterms
January 14, 2026 at 1:09 PM
ive seen more articles this week about how the phrase “abolish ice” could hurt dems in the midterms than ive seen articles about how paramilitary death squads terrorizing cities will hurt republicans in the midterms
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Members of Congress: stop posting online and APPEAR, PHYSICALLY on the steps of the Capitol to decry this unconstitutional violation of domestic & international law. SHOW THE PEOPLE the level of danger we are facing as a country.
@housedemocrats.bsky.social
@senatedemocrats.bsky.social
@housedemocrats.bsky.social
@senatedemocrats.bsky.social
January 3, 2026 at 5:17 PM
Members of Congress: stop posting online and APPEAR, PHYSICALLY on the steps of the Capitol to decry this unconstitutional violation of domestic & international law. SHOW THE PEOPLE the level of danger we are facing as a country.
@housedemocrats.bsky.social
@senatedemocrats.bsky.social
@housedemocrats.bsky.social
@senatedemocrats.bsky.social
'Refusing is actually the more hopeful, expansive vision of the future'. 'Just say no!'
Amazing, powerful statements.
Amazing, powerful statements.
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 1:55 PM
'Refusing is actually the more hopeful, expansive vision of the future'. 'Just say no!'
Amazing, powerful statements.
Amazing, powerful statements.
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You can also listen to Assoc. Prof Tom Nurmi's brilliant keynote which opened the symposium. In his paper, Tom engages closely with previous Minerals roundtables and provides a philosophical exploration of minerals in our contemporary era through Emerson's poetry
imperialminerals.ie/podcasts/qua...
imperialminerals.ie/podcasts/qua...
December 19, 2025 at 10:17 AM
You can also listen to Assoc. Prof Tom Nurmi's brilliant keynote which opened the symposium. In his paper, Tom engages closely with previous Minerals roundtables and provides a philosophical exploration of minerals in our contemporary era through Emerson's poetry
imperialminerals.ie/podcasts/qua...
imperialminerals.ie/podcasts/qua...
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Read @gigitang.bsky.social reflection on the brilliant Critical Minerals symposium she & Katie Donnelly organised for the Minerals project. The symposium was generously supported by UCD College of Arts & Humanities seed funding & @ucdhumanities.bsky.social imperialminerals.ie/2025/12/19/c...
Imperial Minerals — Critical Minerals Symposium Reflections
imperialminerals.ie
December 19, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Read @gigitang.bsky.social reflection on the brilliant Critical Minerals symposium she & Katie Donnelly organised for the Minerals project. The symposium was generously supported by UCD College of Arts & Humanities seed funding & @ucdhumanities.bsky.social imperialminerals.ie/2025/12/19/c...
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💪🏽💪🏽
we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
December 16, 2025 at 6:52 PM
💪🏽💪🏽
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Later this morning if anybody’s free + interested. One thesis: sustained acts of creative attention are deeply countersystemic. Spaces for such activity are tiny + under attack, which means that thinking is itself political & spaces for doing it must be defended together &slowly, tactically expanded
Very excited and honored to be doing an online book conversation about *Action without Hope* at @greenhouseuis.net next Monday, December 8th, at 10 am Eastern / 4 pm Central European — Zoom link below. Would be so psyched to see people there, if you can make it 🌿
newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...
newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...
![Book cover, Action without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse, Nathan K Hensley [Detail of Turner watercolor showing wash of gray, blue, orange, yellow, and red]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:m52czdgn43hqqylkdhrwxs5e/bafkreiehmynodhyolkh3xfywdfjpqukr7ymjbtbt5qyl4ce3ldzdiujcby@jpeg)
December 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Later this morning if anybody’s free + interested. One thesis: sustained acts of creative attention are deeply countersystemic. Spaces for such activity are tiny + under attack, which means that thinking is itself political & spaces for doing it must be defended together &slowly, tactically expanded
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We're hosting a zoom info session today at noon ET! Registration info in the doc below!
Apps are open for our spring session of the Cross-Reference Coalition! We're exploring Search & Discovery! "Our journey will encompass the history of exploration + cartography, legacies of inquiry, tools of discovery, theories of curiosity, and counter-algorithmic means of 'finding things out.'"
December 8, 2025 at 6:23 AM
We're hosting a zoom info session today at noon ET! Registration info in the doc below!
I'm giving a public talk at Universistät Konztanz's ZKF on Wednesday at 5:30pm. I'll be talking about my @researchireland.ie Imperial Minerals project, Illicit Diamond Buyers, Zama Zama, Koleka Putuma, William Kentridge, and more. You can join online! 👇
www.uni-konstanz.de/forschen/for...
www.uni-konstanz.de/forschen/for...
ZKF Public Talk: The Carceral and Geopower Logics of South Africa’s Mining Imaginary
www.uni-konstanz.de
December 8, 2025 at 10:28 AM
I'm giving a public talk at Universistät Konztanz's ZKF on Wednesday at 5:30pm. I'll be talking about my @researchireland.ie Imperial Minerals project, Illicit Diamond Buyers, Zama Zama, Koleka Putuma, William Kentridge, and more. You can join online! 👇
www.uni-konstanz.de/forschen/for...
www.uni-konstanz.de/forschen/for...
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Not doing Black Friday because I'm against the creeping Americanisation of Irish life and can't afford to as a small artist, but WILL be doing Vengeful Hag Friday where for every piece of art you purchase from www.ciaraioch.com/artprints I will fervently wish bad cess to your enemies
November 28, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Not doing Black Friday because I'm against the creeping Americanisation of Irish life and can't afford to as a small artist, but WILL be doing Vengeful Hag Friday where for every piece of art you purchase from www.ciaraioch.com/artprints I will fervently wish bad cess to your enemies
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Just ordered! At $20.97 this works out to LESS THAN $1 AN ESSAY for, e.g. @asheeshksi.bsky.social on "Board of Trustees"; @cnewf.bsky.social on "Degree"; @dennismhogan.bsky.social on "Endowment": & (one I read in draft) @andyhines.bsky.social, @kaibosworth.bsky.social et al on "Sustainability" 💥
everyone is talking about getting copies of University Keywords (or other JHU Press books) for all their friends, students, and comrades for the holidays, especially when it is 40% off with the code HHOL25.
November 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Just ordered! At $20.97 this works out to LESS THAN $1 AN ESSAY for, e.g. @asheeshksi.bsky.social on "Board of Trustees"; @cnewf.bsky.social on "Degree"; @dennismhogan.bsky.social on "Endowment": & (one I read in draft) @andyhines.bsky.social, @kaibosworth.bsky.social et al on "Sustainability" 💥
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I am looking for a Senior Researcher (at least 2 years postdoctoral exp.) for the LivePlatforms project into how people make livelihoods in the platform economy; a 5-year FT post based in the School of Info and Communication Studies at UCD. Do share widely!
universityvacancies.com/university-c...
universityvacancies.com/university-c...
Senior Researcher, UCD Information&Comms Studies,Temp 56 months | University Vacancies Ireland
universityvacancies.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:12 PM
I am looking for a Senior Researcher (at least 2 years postdoctoral exp.) for the LivePlatforms project into how people make livelihoods in the platform economy; a 5-year FT post based in the School of Info and Communication Studies at UCD. Do share widely!
universityvacancies.com/university-c...
universityvacancies.com/university-c...
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Jobs 👇in English/Film!
Some more job listings!
Assistant Professor in Film Studies, Trinity College Dublin my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...
Early-Career Research Fellow (Fixed Term), Cambridge (Faculty of Divinity) www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/53175/
Lecturer in Creative Writing, Kent jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Assistant Professor in Film Studies, Trinity College Dublin my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...
Early-Career Research Fellow (Fixed Term), Cambridge (Faculty of Divinity) www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/53175/
Lecturer in Creative Writing, Kent jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
November 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Jobs 👇in English/Film!
My shadow CV is working overtime this month 😅
November 17, 2025 at 3:15 PM
My shadow CV is working overtime this month 😅
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Same #Planning narrative in UK (& other places), to remove citizens & democratic participation from environmental decisions
“to put ministers “in the driving seat” & allow them to force through developments quickly even with local opposition.. council leaders said it would erode local democracy”
“to put ministers “in the driving seat” & allow them to force through developments quickly even with local opposition.. council leaders said it would erode local democracy”
The housing secretary will take the ability to veto local objections and speed up planning delays, but councils see it as an attack on local democracy ⬇️
Councils to lose power to block large housing developments
www.thetimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Same #Planning narrative in UK (& other places), to remove citizens & democratic participation from environmental decisions
“to put ministers “in the driving seat” & allow them to force through developments quickly even with local opposition.. council leaders said it would erode local democracy”
“to put ministers “in the driving seat” & allow them to force through developments quickly even with local opposition.. council leaders said it would erode local democracy”
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Do they mean white straight Anglo American masculinity?
2020 Scottish gay man
2021 South African man
2022 Sri Lankan man
2023 Irish man
2024 Woman
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
2020 Scottish gay man
2021 South African man
2022 Sri Lankan man
2023 Irish man
2024 Woman
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Guardian view on the Booker prize winner: putting masculinity back at the centre of literary fiction | Editorial
Editorial: David Szalay’s Flesh breaks from a decade of female-centred interiors and reopens a genre many thought closed to men
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Do they mean white straight Anglo American masculinity?
2020 Scottish gay man
2021 South African man
2022 Sri Lankan man
2023 Irish man
2024 Woman
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
2020 Scottish gay man
2021 South African man
2022 Sri Lankan man
2023 Irish man
2024 Woman
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
5 Academy in Exile Fellowships-Deadline Extended, 30 November 2025. Eligibility: scholars with PhD in the humanities, social sciences, law, who are at risk because of their academic work/civic engagement in human rights, democracy, & the pursuit of academic freedom. www.academy-in-exile.eu
Academy in Exile
www.academy-in-exile.eu
November 14, 2025 at 9:13 AM
5 Academy in Exile Fellowships-Deadline Extended, 30 November 2025. Eligibility: scholars with PhD in the humanities, social sciences, law, who are at risk because of their academic work/civic engagement in human rights, democracy, & the pursuit of academic freedom. www.academy-in-exile.eu
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"There was Bovino with the grenade. Pulls the pin."
Agents pepper sprayed a 1-year-old. She was taken to a hospital. But reps said it didn't happen.
abc7chicago.com/post/immigra...
Agents pepper sprayed a 1-year-old. She was taken to a hospital. But reps said it didn't happen.
abc7chicago.com/post/immigra...
Federal agents pepper spray 1-year-old girl in Cicero after Little Village clashes, dad says: VIDEO
DHS says Border Patrol agents entered a Cicero parking lot shortly after deploying crowd control measures on Little Village residents. However, there was no explanation as to why video showed a 1-year...
abc7chicago.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:47 AM
"There was Bovino with the grenade. Pulls the pin."
Agents pepper sprayed a 1-year-old. She was taken to a hospital. But reps said it didn't happen.
abc7chicago.com/post/immigra...
Agents pepper sprayed a 1-year-old. She was taken to a hospital. But reps said it didn't happen.
abc7chicago.com/post/immigra...
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Have an op-ed bubbling up about yesterday's results or an essay on Eugene Debs or a blog post on the concept of "hope" that you just have to write but don't know where to pitch it?
Head over to our Pitchables page to find over 50 public publications, sites, and podcasts open to pitches:
Head over to our Pitchables page to find over 50 public publications, sites, and podcasts open to pitches:
Pitchables - Black and White and Read All Over
Resource list of sites, blogs, magazines, and podcasts open to accepting pitches for public scholarship, essays, reviews, and expertise.
blackwhiteandread.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Have an op-ed bubbling up about yesterday's results or an essay on Eugene Debs or a blog post on the concept of "hope" that you just have to write but don't know where to pitch it?
Head over to our Pitchables page to find over 50 public publications, sites, and podcasts open to pitches:
Head over to our Pitchables page to find over 50 public publications, sites, and podcasts open to pitches:
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disregulated oligarch power got a resounding rebuke last night, from Silicon Valley to Conyers, Georgia to NYC!
to learn more about our political+economic conditions, join InterCcECT for a miniseminar with guest Prof Matt Seybold on the "neofeudal hypothesis." interccect.com/2025/11/02/s...
to learn more about our political+economic conditions, join InterCcECT for a miniseminar with guest Prof Matt Seybold on the "neofeudal hypothesis." interccect.com/2025/11/02/s...
Serfs Up
Is too-late capitalism evolving a new mode of production? A new mode of accumulation? Or just a new political and ideological dispensation of the main forces and relations that have defined moderni…
interccect.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:53 PM
disregulated oligarch power got a resounding rebuke last night, from Silicon Valley to Conyers, Georgia to NYC!
to learn more about our political+economic conditions, join InterCcECT for a miniseminar with guest Prof Matt Seybold on the "neofeudal hypothesis." interccect.com/2025/11/02/s...
to learn more about our political+economic conditions, join InterCcECT for a miniseminar with guest Prof Matt Seybold on the "neofeudal hypothesis." interccect.com/2025/11/02/s...