Urgent appeal to get Gaza Students on the Evacuation List: academiaforpalestine.org/support-for-...

Urgent: Get the Gaza Students on the Evacuation List

We urgently need your help to get students added to evacuation lists before the deadline on October 15th. As part of our support for students from Palestine seeking to continue their education in I…

academiaforpalestine.org

Solidarity with all the students across Ireland today protesting fees, the high cost of living and the lack of accommodation as part of the Fund Our Future national protest organised by AMLÉ. These pressures affect every class I teach!

This is TODAY! Please come to the UCD lake at noon to demand the right to study for all the Gazan students granted places and scholarships but denied visas!

Sharae Deckard@sharaerua.bsky.social · last mo.

UCD folks: Join us Thurs 17 Sept at 12 for a "Let Them Study" Stand Out at the lake by Tierney, to protest the DOJ's denial of student visas to Palestinians and to support the Gazan students' hunger strike. Organised by UCD Academia for Palestine, UCD SU and UCD BDS. #letthemstudy #freepalestine

UCD folks: Join us Thurs 17 Sept at 12 for a "Let Them Study" Stand Out at the lake by Tierney, to protest the DOJ's denial of student visas to Palestinians and to support the Gazan students' hunger strike. Organised by UCD Academia for Palestine, UCD SU and UCD BDS. #letthemstudy #freepalestine

"With the Irish state, for the first time in a decade, refusing more Palestinian visa applications than it grants, as well widespread refusals for student visas for Palestinians, a group of international academics call off a gathering at Maynooth University." www.ontheditch.com/internationa...

International academics protest Palestinian visa refusals

The impact on the capacity for Palestinians to engage freely in intellectual exchange is grave

ontheditch.com

Urgent! If you work in an Irish HEI, please sign and share this open letter asking the Dept of Justice to overturn its refusal of visas to Palestinian students who were supposed to be evacuated from Gaza to take up fully funded places and scholarships at Irish HEIs: openletter.earth/refusal-of-v...

TODAY: Protest at the Dept of Justice Friday 31st 11am, demanding that the government reverse their decision to refuse 33 Gazan students' visa applications and allow them to take up the places and scholarships they have been awarded because of their academic excellence

Absolutely outrageous from our government, the reasons for refusal are a disgrace and the appeals process is impossible. Concern over study visa refusal rate for Gazan students www.rte.ie/news/educati...

Concern over study visa refusal rate for Gazan students

Concern is growing in Irish universities over a high rate of refusal of study visas to students in Gaza who are due to take up college scholarships in Ireland this September.

rte.ie

Congratulations to the fantastic Dr. Teddy Power, who successfully defended their thesis, "Queer and Subversive Adaptation Theory in Contemporary Fantasy Television" yesterday, and many thanks to Teddy's examiners and chair, @mjrsangster.bsky.social @marthashearer.bsky.social & Emilie Pine!

Congratulations to the brilliant Dr. Poulomi Choudhury @choudhup.bsky.social, who successfully defended her thesis, "Abatthorror: Tracking the Animal-Industrial Complex in Cannibal Literature" on Wed, and many thanks to her examiners and chair, John Miller, Sarah Comyn, and Treasa De Loughry!

STOP THE CUTS at Exeter! Absolutely outrageous mismanagement; proposed redundances would decimate AHSS disciplines. A reckless attack on an institution which is not even in deficit. Please sign the petition below #defendexeteruni #stopthecuts www.change.org/p/stop-redun...

Sign the Petition

Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter

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British universities paid to spy on students. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/...

British universities paid security firm to ‘spy’ on pro-Palestine students

Investigation reveals how Horus, a company led by ex-military intelligence officials, was hired during protest movement.

aljazeera.com

"Microsoft and DigitalEurope, a lobby group whose members include Amazon, Google and Meta, secured a secrecy provision in EU law to block public access to critical information on data centres’ environmental impact."

How Big Tech wrote secrecy into EU law to hide data centres’ environmental toll

Environmental footprint of Europe's data centres kept secret after industry lobbying in a move legal experts warn could violate transparency rules.

investigate-europe.eu

here.

Puff the Magic Hater@mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6mo ago

My latest is a reflection on the cycle of dread, disaster, and temporary reprieves we’re all navigating, what that cycle is doing to us, and how we can avoid losing ourselves to it. This edition also includes a roundup of must-read pieces that have helped me think about this moment.

Short version of letter sent to the Taoiseach urging him to retain the triple lock and defend international law and the UN. Signed by 400+ academics & university workers. The handful of academics we read and hear from all the time in the media are outliers. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Our leaders must show courage in commitment to peace by keeping the triple lock

We urge the government to use this moment of heightened conflict to retain the triple lock and speak out against obvious breaches of international law and efforts to undermine the UN

irishexaminer.com

www.equator.org/articles/the...

The Reckoning • EQUATOR

Hormuz and the end of American hegemony

equator.org

obsessed with this article

Dr. Heather Leslie@heatherleslie.bsky.social · 9mo ago

One of the best AI critiques I’ve seen read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...

Dark clouds, black rain, flaming skies, a whole region turned sacrifice zone, climate war. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

5m tonnes of CO2 emitted in just 14 days of US war on Iran, analysis finds

Exclusive: War in the Middle East is draining the global carbon budget faster than 84 countries combined

theguardian.com

Ice flight stopped at Shannon on Patrick’s Day while deporting Ukrainians So we are facilitating deportations by the brutish, murderous ICE-here deporting Ukrainians back to war zone. On top of the delivery of the bowl of shamrock this is just shameful #spéirghorm www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

Ice flight stopped at Shannon Airport on St Patrick’s Day while deporting Ukrainians

Private jet hired by Ice agency also stopped on its return journey to Arizona

irishtimes.com

Ireland-based academics and university workers, please sign this letter urging the Irish govt to maintain the 'triple lock' and Irish neutrality, and to promote the values enshrined in the UN Charter and our constitution at this time of escalating militarisation: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Open letter from Irish academics on the Triple Lock and Irish neutrality

An Taoiseach, Mr. Micheál Martin TD Department of the Taoiseach Government Buildings Merrion Street Dublin 2 A Thaoisigh, On behalf of the undersigned academics and university workers we write to rei...

docs.google.com

TODAY! Wed 12:30 outside O'Reilly Hall. Join staff and students "calling for systemic change in how UCD responds to sexual violence and gender-based harm...and to call for survivor-centred practices, institutional accountability, and cultural reform." universityobserver.ie/not-in-our-u...

For UCD colleagues who are on campus tomorrow (Wed 4th March), please join this call to action put out by members of the Student's Union, asking for staff and students to mobilize outside O'Reilly Hall in protest of UCD's treatment of a sexual assault survivor and to call for accountability:

Today at 1 PM outside Tierney by the lake! UCD Standout for Palestine!

Sharae Deckard@sharaerua.bsky.social · 11mo ago

TOMORROW: UCD Stand Out for Palestine as part of ICTU's National Day of Workplace Actions in solidarity with Palestine! UCD Justice for Palestine and student organisers from BDS, SNF and SU ask UCD students and workers to join the rally by Tierney at 1 PM, Fri 28 Nov.

TOMORROW: UCD Stand Out for Palestine as part of ICTU's National Day of Workplace Actions in solidarity with Palestine! UCD Justice for Palestine and student organisers from BDS, SNF and SU ask UCD students and workers to join the rally by Tierney at 1 PM, Fri 28 Nov.

www.thecanary.co/global/world...

Tom Hanks on mask wearing: "I’ve had COVID enough in my life”

Tom Hanks has joined a growing movement of COVID-conscious artists who are openly speaking up about the threats of the disease

thecanary.co

Congratulations to Dr. Clare Kelly @clarenicheall.bsky.social l who passed her viva yesterday, defending her thesis on "Orality and Authorship: African Storyteller-Authors in the Literary Marketplace" with poise and articulacy. It was a pleasure to read and examine her work alongside Madhu Krishnan!

TOMORROW: UCD Walk Out for Gaza, Thurs 16 Oct! UCD BDS & UCD Justice for Palestine ask UCD students and workers to join the rally by Tierney at 1 PM and help gear up for a renewed campaign for full boycott of Israeli universities and research partnerships #standoutforgaza1610

Congratulations Dr. Deborah Schrijvers who passed her viva with flying colours on Monday with her thesis on "Against Imperial Extinction Narratives", and many thanks to her examiners Robert McKay and Patrick Brodie, and chair Niamh Pattwell! w/ @marthashearer.bsky.social