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eileen chengyin chow@chowleen.bsky.social · 4d ago

"When the first of August came round, the Professor realized he had pleasantly trifled away nearly two months at a task which should have taken little more than a week." -Willa Cather (from The Professor's House, 1925)

Glen Hansard - Rest in Peace Ballymun Bred. A Revelation Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam www.patreon.com/tortoiseshac...

Glen Hansard - Rest in Peace | The Tortoise Shack

I’m so incredibly sad to hear about untimely death of Glen Hansard. Beyond the music (and the music is amazing) Glen was a real activist. Fr

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From District Magazine. Grim.

PwC (like, among others, KPMG before it) found to be producing 'thought leadership' advice promoting agentic AI use that is larded with AI hallucinations. Worth bearing in mind if they are, for example, one of your university's consultants.

PwC published ‘thought leadership’ reports marred by AI hallucinations

Big Four consultant is latest firm found to have produced slapdash work while marketing expertise on the technology

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“‘Cultural sensitivity concerning the Gaeltacht people of Ireland – A concept analysis’ is teideal don taighde úr.” Más maith is mithid.

‘Níor thuig mé i gceart riachtanais mhuintir na Gaeltachta sa tseirbhís sláinte go dtí go bhfaca mé féin iad’

Léiríonn taighde úr gur féidir cúram níos fearr a thabhairt do mhuintir na Gaeltachta nuair a thuigtear a gcultúr agus a dteanga dhúchais

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If anyone is considering editing something from our collections, we will happily supply a digital copy at no cost. Please contact Kate (archives at ucd dot ie).

Irish Manuscripts Commission@irishmanuscripts.bsky.social · 2w ago

Closing date: Wed 29 July The IMC student prize of €1,000 is awarded to a postgraduate student for editing a short historical document, which will also be considered for publication in Analecta Hibernica. Learn more at: irishmanuscripts.ie/imc-student-prize-2026/

the other editors can't make it so it'll be just me but I'll try and adequately perform some magnetism for y'all next week

Kristof Smeyers@kristofsmeyers.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Anyone in London on 22 July, why not join us @treadwells-books.bsky.social for a soirée about 'performing magnetism'? www.treadwells-london.com/events-1/mag...

🚨We are hiring a two-year postdoctoral researcher (80%) at the University of Zurich within the new Horizon Europe project WELFAIR on the political implications of technological change, demographic ageing and rising inequality. The full job ad is here: tinyurl.com/3b6ddm25 Apply by August 9, 2026.

If art critics talked like football pundits.

Queen Medb of Connacht, famed for her role in the Táin Bó Cúailnge and flanked by bulls Finnbhennach and Donn Cúailnge - formidable warrior queen, shrewd leader, seductive beauty, and one of Ireland's most powerful, strong-willed, and legendary women 🐂 Prints: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...

New book from me & @littletollerbooks.bsky.social! Marking the centenary of the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England, a pacy (I hope) history of one of UK’s most important environmental pressure groups. An avatar of the Great Acceleration… www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/books/l...

Talks coming up peeps if anyone has an interest in witches and banshees? Cork on 13 July - the banshee - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-banshe... Dublin on 26 July - witches - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-histor... Cork on 17 August - witches - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-histor...

EThOS platform restored! 'Following restoration work, all metadata records previously available on EThOS have now been restored, along with an additional 14,000 records added since the service was taken offline' - more to come https://www.bl.uk/stories/news/ethos-records-restored

EThOS records restored

We are pleased to share that EThOS (E-Theses Online Service) is now available again following restoration work after the cyber-attack.

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If you’re concerned about the loss of digital historical materials over time, you can write a letter to your dean or president about the necessity of funding and sustaining archival labor. There are people who work towards mitigating digital ephemerality and they’re being laid off left and right.

I am delighted to report that 'Making, Spending and Saving: Women and Money in Australasia', a special issue of the Asia-Pacific Economic History Review, is now live. Guest editor Cath Bishop organized the collection, which has six original research articles and a substantial introduction.

Special Issue: Making, Spending and Saving: Women and Money in Australasia: Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review: Vol 66, No 2

Click on the title to browse this issue

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History of Medicine at UMN is hiring a one year Teaching Fellow for the upcoming academic year. Please share with anyone who may be interested! #histmed #histsci hr.myu.umn.edu/psc/hrprd/EM...

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This position is based on campus. Per UMN policy, work may be done remotely when appropriate and approved by your manager.  All UMN employees are expected to follow applicable public health and safety procedures.

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***Take action against NARA closure*** The federal government recently announced that it will be closing the National Archives and Records Administration branches in San Bruno, CA and Chicago, IL and move all their historical records to a site with no research. Write a letter! Thread - 1/2

A crucial report into gendered institutional abuse in Northern Ireland will be published today. Well worth reading for myriad reasons, not least because the independent panel was tasked with developing the kind of human-rights-centred approach survivors in the Republic have been denied.

@uk-news.bsky.social · 4w ago

Report into Mother and Baby homes to be published today https://www.europesays.com/uk/1073005/ An extensive report into mother and baby Institutions, Magdelene Laundries and Workhouses in Northern Ireland will be published…#uk #news #uknews

Fussballspielergebnisschadenfreude

In this era, I feel like I need to re-up this every few months.

Dr Lindsey Fitzharris@drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I posted a 1912 photo of a man with smallpox and someone asked if it was AI. That says something about the moment we’re living in: because of vaccination, we’re now so far removed from this virus that real images of it look fake. #medicalhistory #vaccines #vaccineswork #skystorians

Delighted to see this OA output from @thegreatleap22116.bsky.social with @rachelmurphy.bsky.social Prof Tiziana Margaria and our talented PhDs Marco, Sami (Daniel) and Sebastian. Thanks to all hlcs.nl/article/view... @uccresearch.bsky.social @unioflimerick.bsky.social @researchireland.ie

Better rehire all those profs

Lauri Donahue@lauridonahue.bsky.social · last mo.

futurism.com/future-socie... lol

Times are terribly tough for historians at the moment, but this is a wonderful scheme, a ray of light. #Skystorians

History Workshop@historyworkshop.org.uk · last mo.

📣 Call for Applications 📣 History Workshop is seeking to appoint one Editorial Fellow in 2026, with specialism in pre-1800 CE history from any part of the globe. This is a part-time, paid role. Application deadline: 7 August 2026. Please share widely!

This is the way

So this was a nice surprise to wake up to, thanks to all Cambridge University Press & Assessment and series editor @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social Delighted that it is Open Access doi.org/10.1017/9781... @researchireland.ie @ucc.ie

Absence in the Archives

Cambridge Core - Global History - Absence in the Archives

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Really helpful stuff from the brilliant @rachelmurphy.bsky.social on tracing your ancestry. #spéirghorm

Dr Rachel Murphy@rachelmurphy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Here's a short article I wrote for @uk.theconversation.com : Four top tips for tracing your ancestry theconversation.com/four-top-tip... #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #Genealogists

❗TOMORROW❗ Join Liverpool University Centre for Archive Studies and us for a talk by Dr Elizabeth Mullins on "Preserving the records of a Travelling Community" 🗓️6:15 pm, 20 May 🧭Central Teaching Hub @liverpooluni.bsky.social FREE: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/preserving... #SkyStorians

Preserving the records of a Travelling Community

Exploring the role of place, faith, and social justice in an Irish archive - LUCAS Annual Lecture by Dr Elizabeth Mullins (UCD)

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Irish Studies@LivUni@irishinstitute.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Delighted to join the Liverpool University Centre for Archive Studies for the LUCAS Annual Lecture: "Preserving the records of a Travelling Community" by Dr Elizabeth Mullins @ucddublin.bsky.social 🗓️6:15pm, 20 May 🧭CTH @liverpooluni.bsky.social FREE: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1986317761... #HistorySky

A reminder that our new funding programme for Fellows & Associate Fellows of the Society resident outside the UK & Ireland closes a week on Friday bit.ly/3PtDQZu Grants support research in UK/Irish archives for international historians. Deadline 8 May to allow research from summer 2026 #Skystorians

Society launches new funding programme for International Fellows and Associate Fellows - RHS

The Royal Historical Society is pleased to launch a new programme, from today, to support the work of International Fellows and Associate Fellows. Recipients will be members of the Society, resident o...

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An updated version of Emma Diduch's WP is now available on CWPESH 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐁𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟏𝟗𝟏𝟏 𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐬 𝐅𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐒𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐲

Cambridge Working Papers in Economic and Social History@cwpeconhist.bsky.social · last yr.

❕New WP from Emma Diduch❕ 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐁𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟏𝟗𝟏𝟏 𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐬 𝐅𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐒𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐲 ⬇️

A world where alcohol was good for you and dung was medicine… open.substack.com/pub/medieval...

What the Doctor Ordered

Herbs, humours and a bit of dung - a look at some of the odder corners of the medieval Irish medicine cabinet

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