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.
My article on reading mining and degrowth in South African literature for a special issue of Textual Practice is now online 🎉 And I think there are a few free eprint links available: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
White ants and mining: reading degrowth in South Africa
South Africa has an abandoned mines problem. These mines pose serious risks to lives and the environment and raise questions of what degrowth may look like in parts of the Global South that are con...
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Two junior research fellowships @kingscollege.bsky.social opening soon due on Oct 1st. The theme is REPLICATION conceived broadly to encompass different research projects in humanities and social sciences. As a philosopher of science I am esp hoping for applications in #philsci #metascience #hps
Current research opportunities
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Visible mobility aids are the last refuge of the invisibly ill and she’s undermining even that for us
Nick Barlow@nickbwalking.bsky.social · 3w agoIn a move that will surprise absolutely no one who's been paying attention, Stock has decided that women with disabilities are suffering from "social contagion"
#RSVP2026 #PrintInMotion Roundtable on settler periodicals and southern latitudes: Porscha Fermanis introduces the session. British empire was a 'paper empire' (Richard), where paper 'made dominance at a distance feasible' (Ballantyne).
#RSVP2026 #PrintInMotion Sarah Comyn @sarahcomyn.bsky.social on the Sydney press, using a cartoon from the Melbourne Punch, mocking the press of New South Wales, a separate colony at the time before Australian federation -- when Germany threatened to take New Guinea
#RSVP2026 #PrintInMotion Ge Tang: From Johannesburg to London and Sydney: Photographic circulation and Chinese indenture n the empire's periodicals, case study: photos by GA Watson of Chinese indentured labourers in S Africa, after Anglo-Boer War (1898-1902)
🚨 JOB KLAXON #skystorians #envhist #envhums Cover for some of my teaching next year - 0.5 FTE at University of Liverpool. Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSE899/l...
Lecturer in Environmental History (Teaching & Scholarship) (0.5 FTE)- Grade 7 at University of Liverpool
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The complete elimination of Meta would yield unambiguous, far reaching benefits for global society.
PLEASE SIGN to support Prof Tiffany Willoughby-Herard! 2 yrs ago Prof W-H stood up to protect students, rightly declaring “we cannot have a genocidal foreign policy in a democracy” while being violently arrested. Tell UCI to DROP all disciplinary charges against her! sites.google.com/view/withdra...
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On May 15, 2024, several hundred heavily armed police were called in to break up a peaceful encampment at UC Irvine in solidarity with the people of Gaza. Among those arrested that day was UC Irvine G...
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"... educational questions survive only as shadows cast by financial projections." 🔥
Peter Whitewood@pwhitewood.bsky.social · 2mo agoGreat letter in the LRB on the managerial university and its consequences.
Solidarity with all the colleagues across the water and up North who are facing the uncertainty and potential devastation of redundancy. The amount of emotional damage wrought by university administrations on scholars and support staff is unconscionable.
Laleh Khalili@lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe joys of British higher education:
'About 150 academic roles are set to go at the south-west institution, which said it was targeting areas that are “no longer sustainable” or have seen changes in student demand.' History and English are name-checked. 1/3
University of Exeter cuts an ‘existential threat to humanities’
Russell Group institution cites changing student demand as it puts 500 staff at risk of redundancy, with 150 jobs set to go
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My letter to Minister Lawless about Research Ireland's decision to devolve the awarding of doctoral scholarships & postdoctoral fellowships to universities. A disastrous move. Please consider raising this issue in your own institutions and with elected representatives and the media.
Green Party statement on strategic direction of Research Ireland. We endorse the academic Open Letter demanding a strategic pivot for Research Ireland The Green Party backs AMLÉ and Postgraduate Workers Organisation calls for full workers' rights for PhD researchers greenparty.ie/news/ministe...
Minister must intervene: Research Ireland strategy threatens Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Blue Sky research | Green Party
- Green Party endorses the academic Open Letter demanding a strategic pivot for Research Ireland - -Green Party backs AMLÉ and Postgraduate Workers Organisation calls for full workers' rights for PhD ...
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I have been told that certain celebrity girlboss influencers have issued a social media fatwa on this column. Therefore, I’m sharing it again because I’m just that kind of contrary.
Churchill@lost-in-surreality.bsky.social · 4mo agoYES!!! “My hypothesis is that women will use AI to do more work. Men will use AI to get out of doing more work. And, every argument that is not dealing with the preconditions of this gendered inequality is not thinking seriously about AI” @tressiemcphd.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/o...
Are you a grad student working on Victorian periodicals and newspapers? Submit your essay for @rs4vp.org's VanArsdel Prize, deadline June 15, 2026. The winner receives $500 and publication in VPR. rs4vp.org/awards/vanar... #VictorianStudies
If anyone in government has a few minutes to run the country in between plotting leadership challenges, could they please cast their eye over the devastation of Higher Education in the UK. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Thousands of University of Nottingham staff told they are at risk of redundancy
Institution says it could run out of money by 2031 and wants to cut more than 600 academic and support posts
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It was on the evening of May 12, 1862 that Robert Smalls gathered all the families on "The Planter." He donned the captain's uniform and in the early morning would steal the Confederate ship to sail past the blockade to freedom and safe waters with the United States Navy
Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle@dytsras.bsky.social · 5mo agoThere was once an enslaved man who stole a Confederate ship and sailed his a bunch of families to Union controlled waters & got everyone free. Then he fought as a soldier in the Union Army. Then he was elected to US House of Representatives. Robert Smalls was born 187 years ago today
In completely unexpected news: my first monograph, 'Political Economy and the Novel', is being translated into Chinese Simplified by Shanghai University of Finance & Economy Press. Hopefully published within a year.
We’re very pleased to share news of this research fellowship position, working with our wonderful CECS / English Literature colleague Prof Mary Fairclough @maryfairclough.bsky.social on the collected works of Mary Wollstonecraft: 🔗 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRL782/r...
Research Fellowship: The Collected Works of Mary Wollstonecraft at University of York
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Hey, pals in #18thc lit studies, this story is made for us, esp those of us who write about "forgers" like Thomas Chatterton & William Henry Ireland. 👋to @jacklynch000.bsky.social "As the genuine philology medal does not exist, his medal cannot be a forgery." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
French professor accused of ‘gigantic hoax’ after inventing Nobel-style prize
Authorities investigate Florent Montaclair over award given to himself and others including Noam Chomsky
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An on-again, off-again ceasefire at the same time as a blockade, makes perfect sense if you see it for what it is: MARKET MANIPULATION
We've just been told of the loss of another wonderful history colleague. This time because they've voluntarily left for somewhere more secure. Out of morbid curiosity, I looked at an archived version of our staff list from five years ago: 12 of the historians on it have left/been forced out.
Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.
Abby@arobertswrites.com · 5mo agoL to the M to the A to the O
Absolutely- as someone with access to a very small allotment space - we neighbours developed it over the last decade from waste ground - I love the process of growing, especially cherry tomatoes which taste so much better than shop bought ones.
RTÉ News@news.rte.ie · 5mo agoA group representing allotment growers has called for a significant increase in the number of plots nationwide, saying some existing facilities are reporting waiting times of over ten years
We are hiring! 📢 An Assistant Librarian (permanent) position is now available. This role is focused on printed material from UCD Special Collections but will also encompass print from across our repositories. universityvacancies.com/university-c... for full details & apply by 7th May. ✨ #LISjobsIE
Interesting new article about the "illicit diamond buyer" in c19th South Africa by @imperialminerals.bsky.social. A lot to learn in it. I've seen this map of claims before without fully noticing it is decorated with caricatures of African miners being chased by police. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
