Des Fitzgerald
@desfitzgerald.bsky.social
Radical Humanities, Medical Humanities, Urban Studies, Science & Tech Studies - https://linktr.ee/des_fitzgerald
This is a remarkable list of retracted papers involving a professor at Trinity College business school. To quote from one retraction: "Review of this submission was overseen, and the final decision was made, by the Receiving Editor Brian Lucey, despite his role as a co-author of the manuscript."
Editor published 7 of his own:
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RETRACTED: The role of feature importance in predicting corporate financial distress in pre and post COVID periods: Evidence from China
This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier policy on article withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies-and-standards/article-withd…
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December 26, 2025 at 2:26 PM
This is a remarkable list of retracted papers involving a professor at Trinity College business school. To quote from one retraction: "Review of this submission was overseen, and the final decision was made, by the Receiving Editor Brian Lucey, despite his role as a co-author of the manuscript."
An academic system run by pensioners? I, uh, I wonder what that would be like. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
‘Keeps your mind alert’: older Swedes reap the benefits of learning for pleasure
Retirees with ‘fantastic hunger for education’ taking part in university organised events in record numbers
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December 26, 2025 at 1:55 PM
An academic system run by pensioners? I, uh, I wonder what that would be like. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
The true spirit of Irish Christmas is chatting to an older female relative, and she casually tells you a random family anecdote, and it's the darkest thing you've heard in your life.
December 25, 2025 at 7:05 PM
The true spirit of Irish Christmas is chatting to an older female relative, and she casually tells you a random family anecdote, and it's the darkest thing you've heard in your life.
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My friend the writer and geographer Clive Barnett died four years ago today. I am thinking of his daughters, his partner, all those dear to him, for whom 24 December is so painful. I miss you Clive. I tried to write about your early writings earlier this year eprints.gla.ac.uk/359789/2/359...
December 24, 2025 at 8:05 PM
My friend the writer and geographer Clive Barnett died four years ago today. I am thinking of his daughters, his partner, all those dear to him, for whom 24 December is so painful. I miss you Clive. I tried to write about your early writings earlier this year eprints.gla.ac.uk/359789/2/359...
Shout-out to the Italians, I guess, for convincing people that expensive stale bread in a box is a Christmas must-have for some reason.
December 24, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Shout-out to the Italians, I guess, for convincing people that expensive stale bread in a box is a Christmas must-have for some reason.
The most telling thing here is that she won't even name the state that is threatening Denmark. The EU elites are completely inadequate to this moment.
We continue to stand in solidarity with Denmark and Greenland.
Greenland is an autonomous territory in the Kingdom of Denmark. Any changes to that status are for Greenlanders and Danes alone to decide. (1/2)
Greenland is an autonomous territory in the Kingdom of Denmark. Any changes to that status are for Greenlanders and Danes alone to decide. (1/2)
December 24, 2025 at 12:12 PM
The most telling thing here is that she won't even name the state that is threatening Denmark. The EU elites are completely inadequate to this moment.
Dire article obviously, but it's worth noticing how much we've all moved in about 20 years, such that one of the few outlets friendly to Irish social conservatives - who have no traction at home - is *the guardian.*
‘For the first time, she could tell people who she was’: Ireland’s gender recognition decade
‘For the first time, she could tell people who she was’: Ireland’s gender recognition decade
Ireland’s 2015 Gender Recognition Act was born in an era of optimism and consensus, but as gender-critical activism grows so does debate whether it can hold
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December 23, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Dire article obviously, but it's worth noticing how much we've all moved in about 20 years, such that one of the few outlets friendly to Irish social conservatives - who have no traction at home - is *the guardian.*
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Letting hunger strikers die, arresting Greta Thunberg — this is not incompetence or even indifference. The UK state is deliberately making examples of people to ramp up the crushing of basic civil liberties and silence opposition to genocide
December 23, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Letting hunger strikers die, arresting Greta Thunberg — this is not incompetence or even indifference. The UK state is deliberately making examples of people to ramp up the crushing of basic civil liberties and silence opposition to genocide
Fond memories of the time Banksy did a mural on a house in our neighborhood in Bristol, and within ~48 hours the owner/landlord had dismantled half the house with heavy construction equipment so he could sell it on. Really makes you think!
December 23, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Fond memories of the time Banksy did a mural on a house in our neighborhood in Bristol, and within ~48 hours the owner/landlord had dismantled half the house with heavy construction equipment so he could sell it on. Really makes you think!
We need a position that's extremely anti AI but also very anti academics making a fetish out of 19th/20th century knowledge infrastructures & practices.
December 22, 2025 at 9:14 PM
We need a position that's extremely anti AI but also very anti academics making a fetish out of 19th/20th century knowledge infrastructures & practices.
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Important to realise that one of Alice Sullivan's demands in her legal letter to University of Bristol is for the university to withdraw its Trans Inclusion Policy profalices.co.uk/wp-content/u... (the policy is already listed as under review by the university www.bristol.ac.uk/inclusion/lg...)
December 22, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Important to realise that one of Alice Sullivan's demands in her legal letter to University of Bristol is for the university to withdraw its Trans Inclusion Policy profalices.co.uk/wp-content/u... (the policy is already listed as under review by the university www.bristol.ac.uk/inclusion/lg...)
Still waiting for the account that situates the ongoing role of sociology in the UK anti-gender movement as a major moral and epistemic crisis for the discipline. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
University threatened with legal action after protest at event
Prof Alice Sullivan says her talk at the University of Bristol became like a
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December 22, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Still waiting for the account that situates the ongoing role of sociology in the UK anti-gender movement as a major moral and epistemic crisis for the discipline. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Lol. I mean I know it's the imperial war museum, but come on. Have some respect for yourselves if nothing else.
December 21, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Lol. I mean I know it's the imperial war museum, but come on. Have some respect for yourselves if nothing else.
Strong start to the solstice
December 21, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Strong start to the solstice
Anyway, if you were thinking of taking two under-6s to hamleys on regent st, on the last Saturday before Christmas, my advice would be don't.
December 20, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Anyway, if you were thinking of taking two under-6s to hamleys on regent st, on the last Saturday before Christmas, my advice would be don't.
I genuinely think these schemes are worse than useless. The tiny scale, and the temporary nature of what's offered, make them look opportunistic more to hang anything. Also why specify the USA of all places where academic freedom is challenged? uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...
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December 20, 2025 at 9:14 AM
I genuinely think these schemes are worse than useless. The tiny scale, and the temporary nature of what's offered, make them look opportunistic more to hang anything. Also why specify the USA of all places where academic freedom is challenged? uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...
Folks, I've been in London for 24 hours and can confirm that Guinness is indeed now the drink of choice for your standard-issue London corporate gobshite. Choose your stout accordingly. #speirgorm
December 18, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Folks, I've been in London for 24 hours and can confirm that Guinness is indeed now the drink of choice for your standard-issue London corporate gobshite. Choose your stout accordingly. #speirgorm
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Very delighted to announce this news as one of the biggest pleasures I’ve had in moving to UCC has been working with Des and everyone else at the Lab, it’s a very special group of people!
Genuinely sorry to do a "delighted to announce" while the world is in such a state, but anyway, @lauramca.bsky.social are now the co-directors of @radhumslab.bsky.social and I'm actually delighted about it. Lots of very cool stuff incoming. Look out for more vomit-inducing announcements in 2026! 🥳🤮
December 18, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Very delighted to announce this news as one of the biggest pleasures I’ve had in moving to UCC has been working with Des and everyone else at the Lab, it’s a very special group of people!
Genuinely sorry to do a "delighted to announce" while the world is in such a state, but anyway, @lauramca.bsky.social are now the co-directors of @radhumslab.bsky.social and I'm actually delighted about it. Lots of very cool stuff incoming. Look out for more vomit-inducing announcements in 2026! 🥳🤮
December 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Genuinely sorry to do a "delighted to announce" while the world is in such a state, but anyway, @lauramca.bsky.social are now the co-directors of @radhumslab.bsky.social and I'm actually delighted about it. Lots of very cool stuff incoming. Look out for more vomit-inducing announcements in 2026! 🥳🤮
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People in Britain marched in support of Irish hunger strikers. Least we could do...
Political prisoners on remand in British prisons, on hunger strike and near death, and it hardly features in the news. You'd think the Irish media would be all over this. #SpeirGhorm
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Palestine Action-linked hunger strikers ‘may die without Lammy’s intervention’
Justice secretary criticised for refusing to meet lawyers who say health of their jailed clients is ‘rapidly deteriorating’
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December 17, 2025 at 5:53 PM
People in Britain marched in support of Irish hunger strikers. Least we could do...
Every UK academic has an out of office on that's like, I'm on strike and I'm dying of lurgy, piss off [paraphrase]
December 17, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Every UK academic has an out of office on that's like, I'm on strike and I'm dying of lurgy, piss off [paraphrase]
Personally I prefer to work through my sense of professional underachievement the old-fashioned way, ie with a slim, cruelly revelatory memoir of my early childhood.
December 17, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Personally I prefer to work through my sense of professional underachievement the old-fashioned way, ie with a slim, cruelly revelatory memoir of my early childhood.
The holiday reading for xmas trip to the big smoke (London obvs, not "Dublin").
December 17, 2025 at 8:37 AM
The holiday reading for xmas trip to the big smoke (London obvs, not "Dublin").
Hashtag Judith Butler obviously, but I'm really struck by the dynamics of public/collective grief around celebrity death atm, and what these outpourings are actually doing in an age of reinvigorated mass public killing.
December 16, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Hashtag Judith Butler obviously, but I'm really struck by the dynamics of public/collective grief around celebrity death atm, and what these outpourings are actually doing in an age of reinvigorated mass public killing.
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Let's all keep each other accountable, ok? And if you are a researcher at UCC and you observe or are encouraged to engage in such activities, there are process in place for confidentially reporting violations of academic integrity and research misconduct.
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December 16, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Let's all keep each other accountable, ok? And if you are a researcher at UCC and you observe or are encouraged to engage in such activities, there are process in place for confidentially reporting violations of academic integrity and research misconduct.
www.ucc.ie/en/research/...
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