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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

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 PetitionStop Redundancies at the University of Exeterwww.change.org

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The Reckoning • EQUATORHormuz and the end of American hegemonywww.equator.org

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 findsExclusive: War in the Middle East is draining the global carbon budget faster than 84 countries combinedwww.theguardian.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 neutralityAn 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!

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.

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

UCD BDS & UCD Justice for Palestine ask UCD students and workers to join the national Workplace Standout for Gaza on 16th Oct at 1 PM. Walk outside your workplace with a sign or flag, and if you can, join the rally organised by UCD students in front of Newman Arts at 1 PM.

If any folks from UCD would like to march together at this Saturday's big national demonstration, please join UCD Justice for Palestine (I'll be holding a sign) at 12:15 outside of the Hugh Lane Gallery. It would be great to meet other folks and share in solidarity!

Ships in the Global Sumud flotilla are being intercepted, including the Spectre. Irish-resident friends, please call and email Simon Harris now to condemn Israel's illegal abduction of peaceful citizens and demand safety for all aboard the flotilla: Phone: 016194000 Email: tanaiste@tanaiste.gov.ie

Automated template to email Irish government TDs calling on them to condemn the bombing of the Global Sumud Flotilla and ensure its safe passage to bring aid to Gaza: action.uplift.ie/campaigns/fl...

Flotilla under attackThe Global Sumud Flotilla has been bombed with Irish citizens on board. I have just emailed my TDs calling on them to condemn the bombing of the Global Sumud Flotilla and to ensure the blockade of Gaz...action.uplift.ie

The Gaza Aid flotilla organisers say they have "credible intelligence that Israel is likely to escalate violent attacks on the flotilla within the next 48 hours". All eyes on flotilla, all eyes on Gaza! www.thejournal.ie/gaza-aid-flo...

Gaza flotilla organisers say thay have 'credible intelligence' pointing to more Israeli attacksThe flotilla organisers are set to hold a press conference later today.www.thejournal.ie