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Claire McGing

@clairemcging.bsky.social

Work in EDI & Sexual Violence Prevention in Irish HE. Research & write about gender politics & electoral geography. Book worm & podcast enthusiast.

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Dean Buckley@deanbuckley.bsky.social · 7h ago

btw both those measures would stimulate the economy more than what Harris is proposing. disabled people spend more of our money than non-disabled people and spend it more locally. whereas Harris is giving a tax cut to encourage investment that will almost exclusively go to non-Irish companies.

Dean Buckley@deanbuckley.bsky.social · 8h ago

the myth of Simon Harris as some champion for disabled people was always nonsense, but it should be well and truly dead now. he gets his hands on the purse strings and it's not long-promised cost of disability payments he prioritises, or scrapping means tests, it's tax cuts and investment incentives

RTÉ News@news.rte.ie · 8h ago

Tánaiste and Minister for Finance Simon Harris has said this year's Budget will support people "who get up early every morning and go to work".

Peter Thorne@peterthorne.bsky.social · yesterday

It feels a little like the editorial team at the Irish mail on Sunday may have gone rogue on the owners as this is the second one they’ve asked for. Note the headlines are theirs obviously. My view is you have to talk to everyone before folks pile on here.

A comment piece in the irish mail on Sunday on the unep overshoot report, Ireland’s carbon tax and the upcoming ets2.
Emmaq@betaburns.bsky.social · 2d ago

About a month ago, Kathleen Stock was baffled by the existence of young disabled women using mobility aids in public. Watch now as the brave press begins sallying forth with attacks on disabled people, especially young women and trans people. Transphobia is the blueprint for targetted dehumanisation

Emmaq@betaburns.bsky.social · 2d ago

⚠️ Warning to all disabled people, anyone living with a chronic condition - take care if reading that Telegraph article on "How disability became cool". Seriously. It's a full on misogynist, transphobic and ableist attack by Coburn. 2 paragraphs in, the hate and sneeriness is hard to stomach.

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 3d ago

It was never going to stop with Jason Arday. Our resident Bluesky creeper Ben Ryan is now turning his attacks onto Jason Arday's students--no doubt the fact that the student is a Black woman has nothing to do with Ryan and Wright's apparent concern for "academic rigor"

Post See new posts Conversation Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter Cambridge Said Jason Arday Was an ‘Aberration.’ So Why Was the Shaky PhD Thesis He Approved Sealed Until 2031? Substack link: https://benryan.substack.com/p/cambridge-says-jason-arday-was-an @SwipeWright and I obtained a Cambridge PhD thesis—one of questionable academic rigor—that Dr. Arday examined and that was put under a new, five-year embargo just after the scandal about Dr. Arday broke. The PhD thesis of a student in Cambridge’s Faculty of Education—in which the late Jason Arday held a professorial chair, in the sociology of education, until he resigned hours after Cambridge on Aug. 5 announced it was investigating him—has been put under what British and Canadian academics have told Colin Wright and me is a remarkably long embargo, shielding it from public view until 2031. Crucially, among the panelists who reviewed the thesis was Dr. Arday himself. The thesis, which we have obtained and which we review in this Substack, raises important questions about whether the Faculty of Education, including Dr. Arday’s own contributions, let down the basic standards of higher education.Written by Damilola Folayan, the thesis is entitled Of, but not in: A poetic exploration of how Black women students respond to the coloniality of Oxbridge—referring to the portmanteau of Oxford and Cambridge. It garnered her a coveted Cambridge PhD in 2025. Following what’s known as an autoethnographic style, it is in essence an epic poetry-slam interpretation of the plight of Dr. Folayan and three other black women at Oxbridge and their experiences navigating, with considerable ambivalence, these historically, and still overwhelmingly, white elite institutions. The sprawling thesis unabashedly thumbs its nose at the rigors and demands of academia even as it demands in return an elite PhD and all the rights and privileges pertaining thereto.
Prof Ian Hall@ianhall.bsky.social · 3d ago

The geographer in me loves this. Africa is ~14× larger than Greenland, yet on the Mercator map they can look almost the same size. Serious implications for perception, representation and equity, as maps don’t just show the world… they shape how we see it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

UN votes to adopt new world map to reflect Africa's true size

The Togo-sponsored resolution was backed by 164 nations - the US the only nation to vote against it.

bbc.co.uk

Niko Stratis@nikostratis.com · 2w ago

The reason why people think Dolly was “politically neutral” is because they don’t understand being political as a series of actions born of commitment to an idea. Being political as defined by the pundit class is to be in front of a microphone delivering sound bytes, it’s something to be devoured

Luke O'Neil@lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 2w ago

By almost any measure Dolly embodied "the American Dream." Some people will come from nothing and make it big and consider the problem now solved. Others will remember that there are still others with nothing and use what they have to help.

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2w ago

"We hired you to research modern liberalism and you spend all day associating us with debunked race science" I dunno, feels pretty firable

roterote@roterote.bsky.social · 2w ago

Here is the full suspension letter from UGent that was sent to Nathan Cofnas, it shows ample reason for his suspension and potential termination. Including breach of contract, using the University of Ghent’s name and legitimacy to promote his racial supremacist views and causing reputational damage.