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Ross Carroll
@rosscarroll.bsky.social
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Political theorist at Dublin City University. Author of Edmund Burke (Polity, 2024) and Uncivil Mirth: Ridicule in Enlightenment Britain (Princeton UP, 2021). Increasingly interested in abolition/emancipation and multigenerational democracy.
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celestemcnamara.bsky.social
Really looking forward to this!
csrgalway.bsky.social Centre for the Study of Religion, University of Galway @csrgalway.bsky.social · Sep 12
Advance Notice: We are pleased to announce that the CSR will welcome @celestemcnamara.bsky.social to UoG to speak on 'Sleeping with the In-laws: Annulment by Reason of Affinity in 18th Century Venice' on 29th October, co-hosting with @historyatgalway.bsky.social. Further details in due course!
September 12, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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jonathanfloyd.bsky.social
Very nice also to get the chance to chat to @rosscarroll.bsky.social @turnstone.bsky.social @jjjlacey.bsky.social and others not on Bluesky! Very nice to see you all, and many thanks for coming along despite the storm outside!
October 7, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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valescal.bsky.social
"The destruction of Gaza is Israeli policy"

@irishtimes.com : Slaughtered journalists, medics and starving children will not sway public opinion here in Israel
👉 www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Opinion: Slaughtered journalists, medics and starving children will not sway public opinion here in Israel
Views of the public are partly shaped by members of the media here who call for the killing of Palestinian journalists in Gaza
www.irishtimes.com
August 26, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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antaisce.bsky.social
Wonderful video from #CleanCoasts about Sally and her human Tony who litter pick on Sandymount Strand in Dublin every day

Latest Irish Business Against Litter survey has shown great improvements on beaches. It's not come about by magic, but by the heroic efforts of so many like Sally and Tony 👏
August 26, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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newseye.bsky.social
This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen.

By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza
August 4, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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codohertynews.bsky.social
Extraordinary & disturbing court case unfolding. UN rapporteur @michelforst.bsky.social warns State of 'directly assisting' a private company to sue an environmental activist. 'I am deeply concerned at the significant wider public interest imperilled by this case'
www.independent.ie/irish-news/u...
UN investigator seeks urgent action as gardaí ordered to disclose confidential file to facilitate defamation case
Deep concerns have been raised over court proceedings where gardaí were ordered to hand over a confidential complaint for use in a defamation case.
www.independent.ie
June 7, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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valescal.bsky.social
‘This is about how we as a community stand together & resist the injustice that’s happening. Hard-working ppl, & members of our family & our community are being treated like criminals. We all collectively have to object to this madness because this is not justice’

www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
Trump orders 2,000 national guard troops to LA amid protests over immigration crackdown
California governor says mobilisation is ‘purposefully inflammatory’ and will ‘only escalate tensions’
www.irishtimes.com
June 8, 2025 at 9:54 AM
rosscarroll.bsky.social
“There is a pollution in the touch, in the principle of that Governor who makes nothing but money his object.” Edmund Burke on Hastings, but could be better applied to Trump.
June 2, 2025 at 9:22 AM
rosscarroll.bsky.social
An AI exec describes how his company’s corporate strategy is rooted in “our lived experience.” Can we now finally declare that this phrase has been utterly emptied of meaning?

www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
Why we decided to relocate the headquarters of our AI company from the US to Ireland
Partsol’s move is a signal of its long-term strategy, says its CEO
www.irishtimes.com
May 26, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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biapt.bsky.social
We're delighted to launch our CfP for our next conference, our first in Scotland. Join us in lovely Edinburgh, January 7th-9th. Submissions are open until July 17th. Full details below! 👇

www.associationforpoliticalthought.ac.uk/biapt-2026-i...
BIAPT 2026 in Edinburgh: call for papers - BIAPT
CALL FOR PAPERS: Britain and Ireland Association for Political Thought Conference 7–9 January 2026 – University of Edinburgh Academic Convenors: Alfred Moore (York), Tom O’Shea (Edinburgh) and Signy G...
www.associationforpoliticalthought.ac.uk
May 19, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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biapt.bsky.social
The deadline for nominations for the Early and Mid-career prizes has been extended to June 6th. So there's still time to submit!
May 23, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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gregoriobettiza.bsky.social
We are accepting a new round of book proposals for this new Routledge series on "Identity, Ideology, and Worldviews in Global Politics" that Stephane Baele (UCLouvain), Beverley Loke (Australian National University), and I edit. #IR

Send us your great ideas!
May 19, 2025 at 10:58 AM
rosscarroll.bsky.social
This was one of the most enjoyable, useful, and well organized conferences I have attended in years. Huge thanks to the organizers!
whpt.bsky.social Women in the History of Political Thought @whpt.bsky.social · May 9
Today we wrapped up our 1st WHPT Conference – a fabulous gathering! Thanks to our wonderful contributors for inspiring papers:

@abbsleblanc.bsky.social @tmbejan.bsky.social @torreyj.bsky.social @maryjomacdonald.bsky.social @sophiecardin.bsky.social @rosscarroll.bsky.social
May 9, 2025 at 1:02 PM
rosscarroll.bsky.social
My very talented wife has been talking about the history of papal conclaves. Interested in the time the cardinals were taking so long the locals removed the roof they were under to hurry them along (or ..em… “let the Holy Spirit in”)? Give this listen.
May 5, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Why are biofuels being so heavily pushed despite their obvious, MASSIVE inefficiencies?

Because they're a fig leaf for continuing to burn stuff, above all fossil fuels.
April 29, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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gregoriobettiza.bsky.social
Terrific new handbook on International Political Sociology, a what's what and who's who in the field:

"The Oxford Handbook of International Political Sociology"
eds. Stacie E. Goddard, George Lawson, and Ole Jacob Sending

global.oup.com/academic/pro...
global.oup.com
April 28, 2025 at 12:24 PM
rosscarroll.bsky.social
My Burke book has been reviewed in a French publication. It’s a delightfully odd feeling to see your own words translated.

The concept is great. They review books written in languages other than French for a franchophone readership. Burke would approve!

www.books.fr/edmund-burke...
Edmund Burke, un conservateur des Lumières - Books
Parce qu’il a impitoyablement critiqué la Révolution française, Edmund Burke est volontiers présenté en France comme un réactionnaire, à l’instar de Louis de Bonald et de Joseph de Maistre. Dans le mo...
www.books.fr
April 26, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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nicholasgrossman.bsky.social
We’re eliminating programs that save millions of people from disease

And ending a lot of research that has cured diseases and will cure more

Because we need to funnel resources into AI

Because someday it may be able to figure out cures for disease

Do I have that right?
April 23, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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ravenbooks.bsky.social
Get the Zuck Off Our Books: the authors taking on Meta's thieving - our @samblakebooks.bsky.social pictured
open.spotify.com/episode/4llE...
The authors taking on Mark Zuckerberg
Today in Focus · Episode
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April 22, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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davidrvetter.bsky.social
In case you missed it.
thenation.com The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · Apr 16
"Google is now powering state violence across the globe, and the severity of the harm being done is rapidly escalating," writes Emma Jackson, a Google employee speaking out for the first time.
I’ve Worked at Google for Decades. I’m Sickened by What It’s Doing.
For the first time, I feel driven to speak publicly because our company is now powering state violence across the globe.
www.thenation.com
April 21, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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lse-ei.bsky.social
Our Professor in Politics @jonathanpjwhite.bsky.social has published a new paper in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social, “The Future as a Democratic Resource," which explores the relationship between democracy and the expected world to come.

Discover it here 👇

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April 10, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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Nasty work. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...
But their defense also hinges on the argument that the individual books themselves are, essentially, worthless—one expert witness for Meta describes that the influence of a single book in LLM pretraining “adjusted its performance by less than 0.06% on industry standard benchmarks, a meaningless change no different from noise.” Furthermore, Meta says, that while the company “has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in LLM development,” they see no market in paying authors to license their books because “for there to be a market, there must be something of value to exchange, but none of Plaintiffs works has economic value, individually, as training data.” (An argument essential to fair use, but that also sounds like a scaled up version of a scenario in which the New York Philharmonic board argues against paying individual members of the orchestra because the organization spent a lot of money on the upkeep of David Geffen Hall, and also, a solo bassoon cannot play every part in “The Rite of Spring.”)
April 17, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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biapt.bsky.social
If, like many of us, you’ve been impressed by @jowolff.bsky.social’s contributions to public philosophy over the years, then be sure to sign up for this event at @blavatnikschool.bsky.social in June. Details 👇

www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/events/publi...
The Public Philosopher
Join us for a day of philosophical discussion in honour of Professor Jo Wolff's career.
www.bsg.ox.ac.uk
April 14, 2025 at 12:57 PM
rosscarroll.bsky.social
This is what happens when a very 19th century belief (that manufacturing is the key to national greatness) clashes with a very 21st-century fondness for creature comforts and consumerism.
chadbourn.bsky.social Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · Apr 13
More in No, Other People:

New poll:

“America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.”

• 80% of Americans agree
• 20% disagree

“I would be better off if I worked in a factory.”

• 25% of Americans agree
• 73% disagree
• 2% currently work in a factory
April 13, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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judah-grunstein.bsky.social
The use of defense purchases is one way foreign govts could quickly offset trade surpluses with the US, as opposed to the kinds of piecemeal forced purchases seen in the US-China Phase One deal.

Both entail what amounts to US industrial policy, with the Trump admin picking the domestic winners.
Vietnam to buy US defence, security products to tackle trade gap
Vietnam will buy more American goods, including defence and security products, and has asked for a 45-day delay in the imposition of U.S. tariffs, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said in a statement issued late on Monday.
www.reuters.com
April 8, 2025 at 2:54 PM