Mathieu Bokestael
@mathieubokestael.bsky.social
PhD Scholar @ UCD English. Funded by Research Ireland. Community, Immunity, Care in Contemporary Scottish Writing. He/him
https://www.ucd.ie/humanities/people/residentscholars/mathieubokestael/
https://viralimaginariesnetwork.wordpress.com/
https://www.ucd.ie/humanities/people/residentscholars/mathieubokestael/
https://viralimaginariesnetwork.wordpress.com/
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Hi Bluesky! Moved here to avoid the Musky Empire! I'm currently in the final stages of my PhD! My research asks how contemporary Scottish writing negotiates what I call the immunitary unconscious in its construction of the (individual) body and the body politic!
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Me and @eireannmor.bsky.social have a few words on @rte.ie about small presses, the "rich forest of independent publishing," and the Dublin Small Press Fair @dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social (28/29 November, Pearse St library):
www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
In praise of small presses: Ireland's indie publishers celebrated
Ahead of the inaugural Dublin Small Press Fair this November, co-founders Tim Groenland and Éireann Lorsung salute a golden age for independent publishing in Ireland.
www.rte.ie
November 11, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Me and @eireannmor.bsky.social have a few words on @rte.ie about small presses, the "rich forest of independent publishing," and the Dublin Small Press Fair @dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social (28/29 November, Pearse St library):
www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
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Wed: “Our migration numbers are too high”-Simon Harris
Thurs: “Taoiseach and Donohoe back Tánaiste’s remarks that numbers migrating to Ireland are ‘too high’”
Fri: ”migration numbers too high outside of international protection…as well”-Simon Harris
*Arson attack on infants in IPAS centre.*
Thurs: “Taoiseach and Donohoe back Tánaiste’s remarks that numbers migrating to Ireland are ‘too high’”
Fri: ”migration numbers too high outside of international protection…as well”-Simon Harris
*Arson attack on infants in IPAS centre.*
November 1, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Wed: “Our migration numbers are too high”-Simon Harris
Thurs: “Taoiseach and Donohoe back Tánaiste’s remarks that numbers migrating to Ireland are ‘too high’”
Fri: ”migration numbers too high outside of international protection…as well”-Simon Harris
*Arson attack on infants in IPAS centre.*
Thurs: “Taoiseach and Donohoe back Tánaiste’s remarks that numbers migrating to Ireland are ‘too high’”
Fri: ”migration numbers too high outside of international protection…as well”-Simon Harris
*Arson attack on infants in IPAS centre.*
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Sharing this again for #Irishbookweek
I spoke to some booksellers about the arrival of Amazon's Irish website and what it might mean for them:
How Irish booksellers feel about the arrival of Amazon.ie: ‘It’s a very real danger to the industry’
Bookshops offer something that an exclusively online retailer cannot, but they may need support to compete against a corporate giant
www.irishtimes.com
October 22, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Sharing this again for #Irishbookweek
my thesis in a nutshell:
my woke take is that entirely too many people feel entitled to the benefits of a social contract while not feeling bound by the responsibilities of said contract
October 20, 2025 at 3:07 PM
my thesis in a nutshell:
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UCD #standoutforgaza - call out for all research collaborations with and funding of Israeli institutions at EU level to be stopped #speirgorm
October 16, 2025 at 12:14 PM
UCD #standoutforgaza - call out for all research collaborations with and funding of Israeli institutions at EU level to be stopped #speirgorm
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Looking forward to this RHL, @uccwomenstudies.bsky.social & ISS21 event with Prof Elizabeth Bernstein!
October 15, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Looking forward to this RHL, @uccwomenstudies.bsky.social & ISS21 event with Prof Elizabeth Bernstein!
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Send in your abstracts for the Sadness + Gender conference we're holding in June 2026! We have some fantastic keynote speakers and specialist panels lined up and would love to see you all in Dublin! #cfp @ucdhumanities.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social @molimuseum.bsky.social
October 1, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Send in your abstracts for the Sadness + Gender conference we're holding in June 2026! We have some fantastic keynote speakers and specialist panels lined up and would love to see you all in Dublin! #cfp @ucdhumanities.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social @molimuseum.bsky.social
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Three Irish citizens among activists detained as Israeli forces seize flotilla ships, organisers say. Thinking of Sarah Clancy - all eyes on the flotilla #speirgorm jrnl.ie/6832196
Three Irish citizens among activists detained as Israeli forces seize flotilla ships, organisers say
The Global Sumud Flotilla is now just 45km from Gaza, but over a dozen Israeli warships are approaching.
jrnl.ie
October 1, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Three Irish citizens among activists detained as Israeli forces seize flotilla ships, organisers say. Thinking of Sarah Clancy - all eyes on the flotilla #speirgorm jrnl.ie/6832196
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Tomorrow in Dublin, delighted to be introducing this event with @sahavoice.bsky.social in collaboration with the Irish Humanities Alliance at the Royal Irish Academy to mark the completion of the first phase of the Bilateral Framework between the Irish and Scottish governments
September 25, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Tomorrow in Dublin, delighted to be introducing this event with @sahavoice.bsky.social in collaboration with the Irish Humanities Alliance at the Royal Irish Academy to mark the completion of the first phase of the Bilateral Framework between the Irish and Scottish governments
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Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Creative Writing - 5 years
University College Dublin
Full time, temporary
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOS472/l...
University College Dublin
Full time, temporary
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOS472/l...
Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Creative Writing - 5 years at University College Dublin
Recruiting now: Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Creative Writing - 5 years on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board
www.jobs.ac.uk
September 17, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Creative Writing - 5 years
University College Dublin
Full time, temporary
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOS472/l...
University College Dublin
Full time, temporary
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOS472/l...
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🌱 Fully funded PhD scholarship in Environmental Humanities at Ghent University!
A unique opportunity to collaborate with Marco Caracciolo, Elly McCausland, and me on innovative research connecting literature, culture, and ecology.
A unique opportunity to collaborate with Marco Caracciolo, Elly McCausland, and me on innovative research connecting literature, culture, and ecology.
PhD Scholarship in Environmental Humanities at Ghent University
Discover a PhD Scholarship in Environmental Humanities on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other PhD opportunities.
www.jobs.ac.uk
September 16, 2025 at 9:02 PM
🌱 Fully funded PhD scholarship in Environmental Humanities at Ghent University!
A unique opportunity to collaborate with Marco Caracciolo, Elly McCausland, and me on innovative research connecting literature, culture, and ecology.
A unique opportunity to collaborate with Marco Caracciolo, Elly McCausland, and me on innovative research connecting literature, culture, and ecology.
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stay floppy, pals
This gets progressively funnier with every use of the term "floppy".
![One of Britain’s most senior police officers has launched an angry tirade against Extinction Rebellion protesters going “all floppy” when they get arrested.
Sir Stephen House, the deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan police, said the tactic of going limp was a “flipping nuisance” as it required extra officers to drag protesters away.
House told a London assembly police and crime committee hearing: “We have asked them to stop being floppy. And that might seem like a silly thing to say, but when we arrest them and pick them up, they go all floppy, which is why you see four or five officers carrying them away. It’s a complete waste of officers’ time, and a complete pain in the neck.”
Extinction Rebellion: how successful were the latest protests?
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House also expressed annoyance at how the tactic made the police look heavy-handed. He said: “The problem with them going floppy and four offices carrying them away [is that it] looks to the general public like police are overreacting here. We’re not making them go floppy. They’re just sort of being a nuisance.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7uvcqt45oqlutlrtgx7bpodq/bafkreie7yqxb4cj2t4gxftiqsno5wgk2kczb5vbtj7wh2b2u5sjtqtdrku@jpeg)
September 6, 2025 at 8:34 AM
stay floppy, pals
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Hodges Figgis is indeed a lovely shop, but that doesn't matter a fuck when they discipline staff for showing solidarity during a genocide.
Thankfully Dublin has plenty of indy & Irish owned chains to buy books from, like the ones mentioned below as well as Gutter, Dubray, Easons etc
#Speirgorm
Thankfully Dublin has plenty of indy & Irish owned chains to buy books from, like the ones mentioned below as well as Gutter, Dubray, Easons etc
#Speirgorm
Oooffff, apparently Hodge Figgis are on the side of Big Genocide, including firing a staff member for his stance on supporting Palestine.
Shop in your LOCAL (non-UK operated) bookshops, people.
www.instagram.com/p/DNwUzXpWAt...
Shop in your LOCAL (non-UK operated) bookshops, people.
www.instagram.com/p/DNwUzXpWAt...
August 25, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Hodges Figgis is indeed a lovely shop, but that doesn't matter a fuck when they discipline staff for showing solidarity during a genocide.
Thankfully Dublin has plenty of indy & Irish owned chains to buy books from, like the ones mentioned below as well as Gutter, Dubray, Easons etc
#Speirgorm
Thankfully Dublin has plenty of indy & Irish owned chains to buy books from, like the ones mentioned below as well as Gutter, Dubray, Easons etc
#Speirgorm
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TWO tenure track jobs in #DisabilityStudies at the University of Buffalo! Teaching and research interests in gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, or Indigenous cultures or methodologies preferred. www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/57847
Assistant Professor, Disability Studies
The College of Arts and Sciences at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, invites applications for two tenure-track Assistant Professor positions in the humanities and qualitati...
www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu
September 3, 2025 at 9:36 AM
TWO tenure track jobs in #DisabilityStudies at the University of Buffalo! Teaching and research interests in gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, or Indigenous cultures or methodologies preferred. www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/57847
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24 month, 0.16 post at Glasgow University to cover my teaching while I'm leading a Leverhulme Project Grant. Desirable: Up-to-date knowledge and specialist understanding in science fiction, literature and medicine, and/or post-war literature.
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...
Lecturer in English Literature (LTS)
Job Purpose The School of Critical Studies seeks to appoint a part-time fixed term Lecturer in English Literature (Learning, Teaching and Scholarship track) to provide teaching cover for Dr Gavin M...
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk
August 25, 2025 at 7:56 AM
24 month, 0.16 post at Glasgow University to cover my teaching while I'm leading a Leverhulme Project Grant. Desirable: Up-to-date knowledge and specialist understanding in science fiction, literature and medicine, and/or post-war literature.
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...
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24 month 1.0FTE RA post on Leverhulme Project, ‘A Mutual Fascination: British horror and the psy disciplines, c.1955-present’ with me and co-I Dr Timothy Jones (University of Stirling). Open to range of humanities disciplines. @leverhulme.ac.uk
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...
Research Associate
College of Arts & HumanitiesSchool of Critical Studies Research Associate Vacancy Ref: 180594Salary, Grade 7, £41,064 - £46,049 per annum The School of Critical Studies seeks to appoint a ...
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk
August 28, 2025 at 4:15 PM
24 month 1.0FTE RA post on Leverhulme Project, ‘A Mutual Fascination: British horror and the psy disciplines, c.1955-present’ with me and co-I Dr Timothy Jones (University of Stirling). Open to range of humanities disciplines. @leverhulme.ac.uk
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...
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In case you missed it, you can now catch @kathunfeld.bsky.social and Andreas Malm discussing *Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature* with author Alyssa Battistoni on the Historical Materialism YouTube channel.
August 22, 2025 at 12:19 PM
In case you missed it, you can now catch @kathunfeld.bsky.social and Andreas Malm discussing *Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature* with author Alyssa Battistoni on the Historical Materialism YouTube channel.
Yikes, we really are fucked aren't we?
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
August 21, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Yikes, we really are fucked aren't we?
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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The UK government will evacuate nine of the 40+ students in Gaza with scholarship at UK universities. My PhD student Shaimaa isn't included. We must now make sure they help the other students - email your MP today. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
UK to evacuate nine Gaza students with university scholarships
Move follows months of pressure from MPs, academics and campaigners, with dozens of other students still stranded
www.theguardian.com
August 21, 2025 at 9:06 AM
The UK government will evacuate nine of the 40+ students in Gaza with scholarship at UK universities. My PhD student Shaimaa isn't included. We must now make sure they help the other students - email your MP today. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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📣The deadline for abstract submissions for the Critical Minerals symposium has been extended to 31 August 2025.
Still time to send yours to the organisers @gigitang.bsky.social
and Katie Donnelly.
CFP below.
Still time to send yours to the organisers @gigitang.bsky.social
and Katie Donnelly.
CFP below.
Here's the CfP for the Critical Minerals Symposium (7 Nov '25, Dublin).
Organised by @gigitang.bsky.social & Katie Donnelly (both in the UCD School of English, Drama & Film; Resident Scholars @ucdhumanities.bsky.social; and researchers on the Research Ireland @imperialminerals.bsky.social project)
Organised by @gigitang.bsky.social & Katie Donnelly (both in the UCD School of English, Drama & Film; Resident Scholars @ucdhumanities.bsky.social; and researchers on the Research Ireland @imperialminerals.bsky.social project)
August 18, 2025 at 12:15 PM
📣The deadline for abstract submissions for the Critical Minerals symposium has been extended to 31 August 2025.
Still time to send yours to the organisers @gigitang.bsky.social
and Katie Donnelly.
CFP below.
Still time to send yours to the organisers @gigitang.bsky.social
and Katie Donnelly.
CFP below.
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teachers!
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
AGAINST AI
against-a-i.com
August 15, 2025 at 5:39 PM
teachers!
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
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Listen to me and @benbgdalton.bsky.social discuss Queer Medical Humanities and different issues and approaches in queering health, healthcare and health futures
open.spotify.com/episode/0v73...
open.spotify.com/episode/0v73...
Episode 28 - Queer Medical Humanities /w Ben Dalton and John Gilmore
Conversations about Arts, Humanities and Health · Episode
open.spotify.com
August 15, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Listen to me and @benbgdalton.bsky.social discuss Queer Medical Humanities and different issues and approaches in queering health, healthcare and health futures
open.spotify.com/episode/0v73...
open.spotify.com/episode/0v73...
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Irish artists/ supporters of the arts, please check out and fill in this short survey. The Gript/ far right dudes are already sharing it on X and I'd be worried it'll get brigaded.
If we want it to be retained and expanded we gotta drown them out.
If we want it to be retained and expanded we gotta drown them out.
Would you like to contribute to the public consultation about the Basic Income for the Arts? 💡
Fill out this survey from Minister O’Donovan at the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...
Fill out this survey from Minister O’Donovan at the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...
Basic Income for the Arts public consultation
ec.europa.eu
August 12, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Irish artists/ supporters of the arts, please check out and fill in this short survey. The Gript/ far right dudes are already sharing it on X and I'd be worried it'll get brigaded.
If we want it to be retained and expanded we gotta drown them out.
If we want it to be retained and expanded we gotta drown them out.
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One of the less known aspects about the Easter Rising is that Indian students at UCD also took part & were then deported by the British authorities for it. Among those students was V.V. Giri who became president of India and said “when I am not an Indian, I am an Irishman”
August 9, 2025 at 3:38 PM
One of the less known aspects about the Easter Rising is that Indian students at UCD also took part & were then deported by the British authorities for it. Among those students was V.V. Giri who became president of India and said “when I am not an Indian, I am an Irishman”
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Loving every “PhD-level intelligence” joke on here, but, just to be clear, all it is really meant to signal is what level of employee organizations are now supposed to fire/replace with the tool.
August 9, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Loving every “PhD-level intelligence” joke on here, but, just to be clear, all it is really meant to signal is what level of employee organizations are now supposed to fire/replace with the tool.