Dr Anne Marie D'Arcy
@dramdarcy.bsky.social
Dubliner, FSA, FRHistS; mostly medieval with an unhealthy interest in James Joyce.
No, just no ...
In the journal Nature, all peer review comments and responses will now be published.
The exchanges between authors and referees should be seen as a crucial part of the scientific record, just as they are a key part of doing and disseminating research.
#AcademicSky
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The exchanges between authors and referees should be seen as a crucial part of the scientific record, just as they are a key part of doing and disseminating research.
#AcademicSky
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Transparent peer review to be extended to all of Nature’s research papers
From today, all new submissions to Nature that are published will be accompanied by referees’ reports and author responses — to illuminate the process of producing rigorous science.
www.nature.com
June 21, 2025 at 1:33 AM
No, just no ...
Woo hoo!
Here's something nice.
Actually. Nicer than nice.
@scs-dias.bsky.social have made their journal Celtica open access.
Here you go.
Enjoy.
eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
Actually. Nicer than nice.
@scs-dias.bsky.social have made their journal Celtica open access.
Here you go.
Enjoy.
eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
Celtica
eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com
June 21, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Woo hoo!
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Local, middle-aged woman outside the Europa Hotel in Belfast just now: "It's called 28 Years Later but I don't know what it's about - is it the Good Friday Agreement?
June 20, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Local, middle-aged woman outside the Europa Hotel in Belfast just now: "It's called 28 Years Later but I don't know what it's about - is it the Good Friday Agreement?
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🎧 Listen: @niamhwycherley.bsky.social(Maynooth Univ.) Explores the unique exhibition Words on the Wave: Ireland & St. Gallen in Early Medieval Europe on the Medieval Irish History Podcast—joined by Dr. Diarmuid Ó Riain & Matt Seaver (NMI).
open.spotify.com/episode/3o3x...
open.spotify.com/episode/3o3x...
June 19, 2025 at 11:24 AM
🎧 Listen: @niamhwycherley.bsky.social(Maynooth Univ.) Explores the unique exhibition Words on the Wave: Ireland & St. Gallen in Early Medieval Europe on the Medieval Irish History Podcast—joined by Dr. Diarmuid Ó Riain & Matt Seaver (NMI).
open.spotify.com/episode/3o3x...
open.spotify.com/episode/3o3x...
DataHE ... the grift that keeps on giving ...
They all projected unlimited growth of undergraduates, based purely on numbers in an age group.
And huge thanks to DataHE for that thought-free graph.
And huge thanks to DataHE for that thought-free graph.
June 19, 2025 at 3:23 PM
DataHE ... the grift that keeps on giving ...
If it's Tuesday it must be ... beyond a sick Vulture Consultancy joke at this stage ...
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
University sends out redundancy information with wrong name on it - Research Professional News
Goldsmiths, University of London, sent out document with section copied from the University of Kent
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
June 19, 2025 at 3:22 PM
If it's Tuesday it must be ... beyond a sick Vulture Consultancy joke at this stage ...
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
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The Royal Historical Society is a fellowship of professional historians. We welcome applications from historians working in education and many other sectors.
Fellows make original contributions to historical understanding through research, public history and heritage bit.ly/4iOu51g #Skystorians
Fellows make original contributions to historical understanding through research, public history and heritage bit.ly/4iOu51g #Skystorians
June 19, 2025 at 8:41 AM
The Royal Historical Society is a fellowship of professional historians. We welcome applications from historians working in education and many other sectors.
Fellows make original contributions to historical understanding through research, public history and heritage bit.ly/4iOu51g #Skystorians
Fellows make original contributions to historical understanding through research, public history and heritage bit.ly/4iOu51g #Skystorians
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No seriously we call it "faculty burnout" when professors do their actual job and not the unpaid, untrained, unsupported labor of an entire team. Come the fuck on. Give generative AI my job, it will delete itself and the entire internet to escape.
"If you don't use AI you'll get replaced by it" good luck, not even an algorithm is capable of overworking themselves this hard while proclaiming loudly that they have to do it for the students and/or the mission.
May 6, 2025 at 6:49 PM
No seriously we call it "faculty burnout" when professors do their actual job and not the unpaid, untrained, unsupported labor of an entire team. Come the fuck on. Give generative AI my job, it will delete itself and the entire internet to escape.
Sounds familiar...
👇
May 7, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Sounds familiar...
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Love the point in the assessment year where the official university position on time management shifts to “simply invent more hours in the day”
May 6, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Love the point in the assessment year where the official university position on time management shifts to “simply invent more hours in the day”
Really hope this works ...
May 6, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Really hope this works ...
Features in Finnegans Wake with Malachy. Joyce is softer on Ua Tuathail than on Malachy but that's not saying much. Joyce adhered to an 1132 birthdate (rather than 1128) for Ua Tuathail: in Finnegans Wake it's the third event of 1132 leading to catastrophe in 1169
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...
Holy Irish, partly French – Frank McNally on 800 years of St Laurence O’Toole
A shrine in France credited the Irishman with 256 miracles
www.irishtimes.com
May 6, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Features in Finnegans Wake with Malachy. Joyce is softer on Ua Tuathail than on Malachy but that's not saying much. Joyce adhered to an 1132 birthdate (rather than 1128) for Ua Tuathail: in Finnegans Wake it's the third event of 1132 leading to catastrophe in 1169
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...
Woo hoo! or, Hwæt Hoo!, even ... I just scored one of the Wendy Ramshaw Sutton Hoo brooches for the British Museum, which I lusted after as a student, but couldn't afford ... It has cost me less than it would have cost me in 1990 ... Sometimes I love Ebay ... www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
brooch | British Museum
Large asymmetrical brooch; gilded metal; enamelled in red; on the front the metal is engraved beneath the enamel to suggest the foils of the Sutton Hoo pieces; the back stamped with a linear motif ech...
www.britishmuseum.org
May 2, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Woo hoo! or, Hwæt Hoo!, even ... I just scored one of the Wendy Ramshaw Sutton Hoo brooches for the British Museum, which I lusted after as a student, but couldn't afford ... It has cost me less than it would have cost me in 1990 ... Sometimes I love Ebay ... www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
This makes me so very, very sad. I still have my First Holy Communion money, quite literally, in the form of a Moorcroft ginger jar which I bought in the Dandelion Market aged 8. It's now in the hall. I have collected Moorcroft ever since, have visited the factory: www.bbc.com/news/article...
Moorcroft Pottery firm goes bust in Burslem after more than 100 years
The directors of Moorcroft Pottery in Stoke-on-Trent say they are going into voluntary liquidation.
www.bbc.com
May 2, 2025 at 1:30 PM
This makes me so very, very sad. I still have my First Holy Communion money, quite literally, in the form of a Moorcroft ginger jar which I bought in the Dandelion Market aged 8. It's now in the hall. I have collected Moorcroft ever since, have visited the factory: www.bbc.com/news/article...
Was teaching Henryson this week so this came up. Scots, of which Ulster Scots is a dialect, is a separate, sister language to English, which lost intellectual and cultural prestige to English from the early seventeenth century onward. Ulster Scots is heavily influenced by Scottish Gaelic and ...
April 10, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Was teaching Henryson this week so this came up. Scots, of which Ulster Scots is a dialect, is a separate, sister language to English, which lost intellectual and cultural prestige to English from the early seventeenth century onward. Ulster Scots is heavily influenced by Scottish Gaelic and ...
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Our second university getting deeper and deeper into the mire today is the University of Nottingham, which is going to join everyone else shedding jobs. Every single day in UK Higher Education is like this, and it will get worse and worse until someone gets a grip. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
University of Nottingham plans to cut 250 jobs
Announcing the consultation, the university said it was a
www.bbc.co.uk
April 8, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Our second university getting deeper and deeper into the mire today is the University of Nottingham, which is going to join everyone else shedding jobs. Every single day in UK Higher Education is like this, and it will get worse and worse until someone gets a grip. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Today's university getting into more and more trouble is Bolton (Greater Manchester), which seems to be in an alarming state of chaos. Every single day in UK Higher Ed is like this, and every day will be like this until someone gets a grip on it.
www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/2506899...
www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/2506899...
'No confidence' vote in Bolton university leadership
A vote of “no confidence” has been passed by staff at the University of Greater Manchester, formerly Bolton, in their leadership.
www.theboltonnews.co.uk
April 8, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Today's university getting into more and more trouble is Bolton (Greater Manchester), which seems to be in an alarming state of chaos. Every single day in UK Higher Ed is like this, and every day will be like this until someone gets a grip on it.
www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/2506899...
www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/2506899...
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Regarding the crisis of UK higher ed, there is a lot of talk about ‘sector-wide’ issues. Unfortunately, such talk overshadows the role of senior managers in and for this mess. Maybe accountability (or the lack of it) should be discussed as another ‘sector-wide’ issue.
April 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Regarding the crisis of UK higher ed, there is a lot of talk about ‘sector-wide’ issues. Unfortunately, such talk overshadows the role of senior managers in and for this mess. Maybe accountability (or the lack of it) should be discussed as another ‘sector-wide’ issue.
Big wheel keep on turnin
UK HE keep on burnin' ...
UK HE keep on burnin' ...
Another redundancy announcement.
Besides, it is not true that 'change for any organisation is a difficult and painful process'. What is 'painful' is not change in itself, but ongoing mass redundancies & the dismantling of universities as public good & critical institutions.
bbc.com/news/article...
Besides, it is not true that 'change for any organisation is a difficult and painful process'. What is 'painful' is not change in itself, but ongoing mass redundancies & the dismantling of universities as public good & critical institutions.
bbc.com/news/article...
University of Nottingham plans to cut more than 250 jobs
Announcing the consultation, the university said it was a "critical moment for universities across the UK".
bbc.com
April 8, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Big wheel keep on turnin
UK HE keep on burnin' ...
UK HE keep on burnin' ...
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Tomorrow!
This week's Ó Cléirigh seminar Fri 4 April at 4pm in UCD Belfield will be:
Clodagh Tait (MIC, Limerick):
‘Margaret Isabella and the fairy in the churn: women’s folklore and girls’ histories’.
Fáilte roimh chách/ All welcome Feel free to re-post.
Clodagh Tait (MIC, Limerick):
‘Margaret Isabella and the fairy in the churn: women’s folklore and girls’ histories’.
Fáilte roimh chách/ All welcome Feel free to re-post.
April 3, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Tomorrow!
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It’s 9am TFT time here, and citizens are already gathering to protest Tariffs by the United States. Our plain clothes Officer Penguins are attempting to maintain calm, but unfortunately we keep losing them in the crowd.
April 3, 2025 at 4:13 AM
It’s 9am TFT time here, and citizens are already gathering to protest Tariffs by the United States. Our plain clothes Officer Penguins are attempting to maintain calm, but unfortunately we keep losing them in the crowd.
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Seeing the end of US universities on the world stage is an epochal moment that might even be thought to finally bring the twentieth century to a close.
April 1, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Seeing the end of US universities on the world stage is an epochal moment that might even be thought to finally bring the twentieth century to a close.
Hard agree ... works well in my alma mater and current employer ...
While I am here and while I’m pissed off, vice chancellors should be elected from our own for a fixed term. This isn’t a radical or controversial statement.
April 1, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Hard agree ... works well in my alma mater and current employer ...