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Geraldine Parsons @gparsons.bsky.social · 16h

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Geraldine Parsons @gparsons.bsky.social · 1d

I presume that the game wouldn't work if this said 'draw four CATS' but could you consider that alteration please @matthewcreasy.bsky.social ?

Matthew Creasy @matthewcreasy.bsky.social · 1d

It's like we made our card game just for you!

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Geraldine Parsons @gparsons.bsky.social · 3d

So sorry to miss this medieval Ireland-themed event at @uofglasgow.bsky.social; a beautiful film, a brilliant talk by @dimitrafimi.bsky.social & an excellent new Book of Kells-inspired card-game from @matthewcreasy.bsky.social ... surely no better way to spend the evening on Thursday 9 October!

Prof. Dimitra Fimi @dimitrafimi.bsky.social · 4d

Join us this Thursday, 9 October, at @uofglasgow.bsky.social ARC to watch the beautifully animated film The Secret of Kells, with a talk on things Celtic and children’s fantasy by me, and a new card game devised by @matthewcreasy.bsky.social!
Book your free ticket👇
www.eventbrite.com/e/cinemarc-t...

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Anglesey History @angleseyhistory.bsky.social · 9d

Help save local Welsh placenames on new digital map.
Helpu i achub enwau lleoedd lleol Cymru ar fap digidol newydd.
datamap.gov.wales/survey/wpnc/...

Record Welsh Place Names | DataMapWales

datamap.gov.wales

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Geraldine Parsons @gparsons.bsky.social · 9d

I'm delighted to be moderating this discussion tomorrow evening - hope to see you there!

Joshua Byron Smith @joshuabyronsmith.bsky.social · Aug 26

Tuesday, Sept. 30 at 1:00 (EDT) / 6:00 (BST). Registration is free. Come and join us for a great discussion:

uark.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Clare Kelly @clarekelly.bsky.social · 14d

Yes! This... gemAI violates almost every element of academic and scientific integrity we claim to uphold. I don't know how people square this circle.

Jed Brown @jedbrown.org · 14d

Yes. So much of this would be clear academic misconduct or negligence if only people hadn't been led to believe investor money is a foolproof loophole for laws, norms, and accountability.

Either we have copyright law or we don’t. Either plagiarism and the theft of intellectual property are anathema to higher education or they aren’t. We’re either modeling academic honesty and integrity to our students or we aren’t. And in the rush to incorporate GenAI into every nook and cranny of the institution — from the classroom to the finance office — what gets repeatedly ignored is this fundamental paradox: GenAI’s architecture absolutely depends on consciously taken actions that would stand in violation of any of our institutions’ academic-integrity policies.

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Matthew Creasy @matthewcreasy.bsky.social · 13d

Exciting opportunity to work on a PhD with me in Glasgow & Bénédicte Coste in France, on Decadence and Translation in Periodicals. Become part of 'Decadocs' - a Marie-Curie Joint Doctoral group. (Feel free to share with anyone you think would be interested).

euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/375577

Joint doctoral studentship as part of the DECADOCS project

‘Decadence in Translations: Translating for, and in French and British Periodicals, 1880-1914. Corpora, Translators, and Translational Aesthetics’ 🇫🇷 &🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

euraxess.ec.europa.eu

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Geraldine Parsons @gparsons.bsky.social · 20d

An dòchas gum faic mi ann an Glaschu sibh!

Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig 2026 @rannsachadh2026.bsky.social · 22d

Cumaibh 14mh–16mh Iuchar 2026 airson Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig aig Oilthigh Ghlaschu.
Gairm phàipearan & fiosrachadh clàraidh uile ri thighinn.

Hold 14th–16th July 2026 for the Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig conference at the University of Glasgow.
Call for Papers & Registration information all to follow.

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Geraldine Parsons @gparsons.bsky.social · Sep 5

I missed it at the time, but was looking for the soundtrack for some travel later today - thanks!

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Geraldine Parsons @gparsons.bsky.social · Sep 4

I'm glad to read this (thank you @downham.bsky.social) - I've been disturbed by the lack of interest in the environmental cost of Generative AI in my own institution (or at least in the conversations that I've been in), even when the focus is supposedly on responsible and ethical adoption of GenAI

Clare Kelly @clarekelly.bsky.social · Sep 4

Academics are under unrelenting pressure to accept the narrative of the inevitability of #generativeAI & to embrace it in teaching & learning. We resist - because it is ecologically destructive, ethically corrupt, & because it undermines the thinking abilities that make us both human & intelligent.

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · Sep 4

Opinion: We are lecturers in Trinity College Dublin. It is our responsibility to resist AI

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Geraldine Parsons @gparsons.bsky.social · Aug 31

Really looking forward to this event! Can't wait to hear three wonderful critics of early Irish/Gaelic literature in conversation.

Joshua Byron Smith @joshuabyronsmith.bsky.social · Aug 26

Tuesday, Sept. 30 at 1:00 (EDT) / 6:00 (BST). Registration is free. Come and join us for a great discussion:

uark.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · Aug 29

News from the European Celtic Congress Bonn 2025:

After a very long gestation process, the proceedings of the 5th Conference on the Ulster Cycle of Tales (𝐔𝐥𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝟓) has now appeared in printed form.

You cannot imagine what relief this means for my fellow editors and me, and for the authors.

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Geraldine Parsons @gparsons.bsky.social · Aug 28

Absolutely - but it's our turn to treat you!

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Geraldine Parsons @gparsons.bsky.social · Aug 28

Hurrah - what a fantastic achievement! We'll have to celebrate on the 10th!

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Geraldine Parsons @gparsons.bsky.social · Aug 20

Obair Manaidsear Leasachaidh na Gàidhlig, Oilthigh Ghlaschu @uofglasgow.bsky.social
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/gaelic-d...
#gaelic #gaidhlig

Gaelic Development Manager/Manaidsear Leasachaidh na Gàidhlig

This job description is also available in Gaelic by clicking here. Job Purpose To develop and deliver policy in line with the University’s ambitions to secure a more prosperous and sustainable fut...

www.jobs.gla.ac.uk

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Geraldine Parsons @gparsons.bsky.social · Aug 14

Congratulations!!

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · Aug 13

One month to go.

The completely revised 𝓞𝓰𝓱𝓪𝓶 𝓲𝓷 3𝓓 website, created by the Glasgow-Maynooth OG(H)AM project, will be launched on 12 Sept. as part of the Teangeolaíocht na Gaeilge (Linguistics of the Gaelic Languages) conference in @ria.ie @rialibrary.bsky.social.

@researchireland.ie @ukri.org
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Celtic at Oxford @oxfordceltic.bsky.social · Aug 12

Come and join us in Oxford! We're advertising for a two-year full-time departmental lecturer in Medieval Irish Language and Literature. Full details here: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

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my.corehr.com

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Fiona Campbell-Howes @fortrenn.bsky.social · Aug 11

Re-posting my upcoming lecture details - plus I am now reasonably confident that it will include a newly-identified early medieval source for the Moray Firthlands, which is quite exciting.

Fiona Campbell-Howes @fortrenn.bsky.social · Aug 9

I'm giving an online lecture later this month on the eighth-century church in the Moray Firthlands - featuring brand new research on the 'shadowy' St Curetán (fl. 697), among other things. Booking link in the reply.

Flyer for my upcoming Groam House Museum lecture. The title is 'Rosemarkie and Ross in the time of Curetán: Bishops, abbots and churches in the early medieval Moray Firthlands'. The speaker is me, Fiona Campbell-Howes, PhD researcher at the University of Glasgow. The lecture is on Zoom at 7.30pm on Tuesday 26th of August. The online booking link is at https://groam-house-museum.arttickets.org.uk.

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Geraldine Parsons @gparsons.bsky.social · Aug 9

That's very kind! Thanks so much Ciaran.

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Geraldine Parsons @gparsons.bsky.social · Aug 9

GRMMA Brendan a chara!!

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… @pomuirch.bsky.social · Aug 7

'Diasporic documents from the Gaelic Atlantic' - a one-day, in-person workshop at the University of Edinburgh on 5 September. Tuilleadh fiosrachaidh | More information 👇

Poster advertising an event to take place on 5 September 2025 at 50 George Square, the University of Edinburgh, on the topic of 'Diasporic documents from the Gaelic Atlantic'. The event will run from 10am to 5pm.

10.00
Introduction and welcome

10.30-12.00
Ken Ó Donnchú (UCC): Spanish-Irish translation 1593-1706

Aonghas MacCoinnich (Glasgow): Gaelic perspectives on ‘state formation’ and Atlantic plantation. The case of Lewis, c.1610-c.1640

Silke Stroh (Koblenz): Re-fitting ‘The Garb of Old Gaul’: Circum-Atlantic warfare and intercultural mobility in re-writings and translations of a popular 18th-century song

12.00-13.00
Lunch

13.00-14.30
Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh (Edinburgh): Viewing Inveraray from St Lucia: The case of Dugald MacNicol’s manuscripts

Kathleen Reddy (Glasgow): The Bàrd na Ceapaich manuscript at the University of Glasgow

Brendan Kane (UConn & Edinburgh): Political thought and politicization from New York to Cork: Reading the early modern through a 19th-century commonplace book

14.30-15.00
Coffee

15.00-16.00
Rob Dunbar (Edinburgh): Johnathon Mackinnon and Mac-Talla

Síobhra Aiken (QUB): Gaeltacht communities in North America: Real or Imagined?

16.00-17.00
Round table
Enda Delaney (Edinburgh), Désha Osborne (Edinburgh)
Pádraig Fhia Ó Mathúna (Galway)

17.00
Close

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Faclair na Gàidhlig @faclair.bsky.social · Aug 7

Thig a dh’obair còmhla rinn!

Tha Faclair na Gàidhlig a’ sireadh Oifigear Conaltraidh:
www.obraichean.co.uk/job/faclair-...

Le taic bho @bordnagaidhlig.bsky.social

a yellow sign that says we 're hiring

ALT: a yellow sign that says we 're hiring

media.tenor.com

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Geraldine Parsons @gparsons.bsky.social · Aug 6

So glad to see these - from my colleague Dr Simon Taylor - are now available online ...

Society of Antiquaries of Scotland @socantscot.bsky.social · Aug 6

NEW RECORDINGS: Rhind Lectures 2025: Scotland's Place-Names

Covering language, archaeology, the church and more, all six recordings from the Rhind Lectures 2025 with Dr Simon Taylor are now available on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Sponsored by Ordnance Survey

Old map with overlaid text: New Recordings

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Boydell & Brewer @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social · Jul 21

Publishing this month, Storytelling in Gaelic from AD 700 to the Present, edited by Alice R Taylor-Griffiths and Seosamh Mac Cárthaigh, examines common themes and connections in #Gaelic storytelling from the #MiddleAges to present day. Learn more: buff.ly/o4MbAC8 #medievalsky

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