Dr Pauline McGonagle
@pgmcgonagle.bsky.social
Lecturer in Mod Lit, University of Groningen, Netherlands. Donegalian. AHRC PhD at Exeter/BL on archive of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.@unigroningen@bsky.social
This affects my parents.
"Essential services are now digital by default, leaving many older people feeling locked out of their own lives."
As more of our lives move online by default, digital ageism has quietly become one of the last unchallenged prejudices, writes Fiona Daly.
jrnl.ie/6864189
As more of our lives move online by default, digital ageism has quietly become one of the last unchallenged prejudices, writes Fiona Daly.
jrnl.ie/6864189
Opinion: We’ve grown far too comfortable excluding older people from the digital world
As more of our lives move online by default, digital ageism has quietly become one of the last unchallenged prejudices, writes Fiona Daly.
jrnl.ie
November 11, 2025 at 7:01 AM
This affects my parents.
An extraordinarily beautiful weekend to include a New Orleans Study day, wonderful friendships continued with friends from Ireland and the best Groningen has to offer.
November 10, 2025 at 11:03 AM
An extraordinarily beautiful weekend to include a New Orleans Study day, wonderful friendships continued with friends from Ireland and the best Groningen has to offer.
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How depressing. Education also needs to be about the joy of learning and questioning, not just about how to be a good consumer drone, or how to protect yourself from tech bros with bad intentions. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Mortgages and AI to be added to the curriculum in English schools
Ministers are making the changes for children in England after a review of what is taught in schools.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 8:01 AM
How depressing. Education also needs to be about the joy of learning and questioning, not just about how to be a good consumer drone, or how to protect yourself from tech bros with bad intentions. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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From our friends over at @404media.co, a look at the closure of Baker & Taylor and the ripple effect it’s been having on libraries:
Libraries Scramble for Books After Giant Distributor Shuts Down
Why it might have been and may continue to be harder to get new releases from your local library.
www.404media.co
November 4, 2025 at 3:04 PM
From our friends over at @404media.co, a look at the closure of Baker & Taylor and the ripple effect it’s been having on libraries:
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I was on a really great TV show called Ireland AM (wearing a Palestinian resilience necklace and a Palestine pin) and the hosts wanted to talk so much about Palestine we almost forgot to talk about my movie...all things that are unimaginable in the U.S.
I love living here 💚
I love living here 💚
November 4, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I was on a really great TV show called Ireland AM (wearing a Palestinian resilience necklace and a Palestine pin) and the hosts wanted to talk so much about Palestine we almost forgot to talk about my movie...all things that are unimaginable in the U.S.
I love living here 💚
I love living here 💚
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Last year, I covered Read Palestine Week and stories of Gazan writers resisting Israel's genocide. Something to read from the archives. 🇵🇸
“My Pen Is My Weapon Against the Occupation”: Palestinian Writers Resist Israel’s Genocide
“Read Palestine Week” frames reading and learning about Palestine as acts of solidarity against Israel’s genocide.
newsletter.mariannedhenin.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Last year, I covered Read Palestine Week and stories of Gazan writers resisting Israel's genocide. Something to read from the archives. 🇵🇸
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Amid all the horror of the attack on Saturday we see the very, very best of human beings. The passengers who helped each other, the heroic train worker who put himself in harms way and undoubtedly saved lives.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c9...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c9...
'Heroic' train worker 'critical but stable' after knife attack, says transport secretary
After seeing CCTV, the police say the worker's actions
www.bbc.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Amid all the horror of the attack on Saturday we see the very, very best of human beings. The passengers who helped each other, the heroic train worker who put himself in harms way and undoubtedly saved lives.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c9...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c9...
A day of joy reconnecting with a ‘lost’ friend in Zimbabwe after 30 years by phone.
October 31, 2025 at 2:01 PM
A day of joy reconnecting with a ‘lost’ friend in Zimbabwe after 30 years by phone.
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Petition for edtech people to talk to actual lecturers when designing their software
October 30, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Petition for edtech people to talk to actual lecturers when designing their software
Looking forward to Day 2 of this in @unileiden.bsky.social tomorrow. What a stunning city.
❗ Interesting conference coming up ❗
- Transnational Conversations: Heritage, Memory, Climate, and Reparatory Justice in the Caribbean, Europe, and Beyond
📅 Conference Dates: 29-30/10/2025
📌 Leiden University, the Netherlands
More information here:
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...
- Transnational Conversations: Heritage, Memory, Climate, and Reparatory Justice in the Caribbean, Europe, and Beyond
📅 Conference Dates: 29-30/10/2025
📌 Leiden University, the Netherlands
More information here:
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...
October 29, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Looking forward to Day 2 of this in @unileiden.bsky.social tomorrow. What a stunning city.
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The "Ceasefire" was just a PR move to stave off increasing international criticism and isolation and it worked. The killing has continued, but there's no talk of boycotts or suspending Israel from uefa etc. Shameful shit.
Among the dead are 24 children as Israeli military says one of its soldiers killed.
Death toll from Israel’s attacks on Gaza rises to 63, testing fragile truce
Among the dead are 24 children as Israeli military says one of its soldiers killed.
bit.ly
October 29, 2025 at 7:54 AM
The "Ceasefire" was just a PR move to stave off increasing international criticism and isolation and it worked. The killing has continued, but there's no talk of boycotts or suspending Israel from uefa etc. Shameful shit.
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@seanmacr.bsky.social
@maynoothlaw.bsky.social hosts todays #MUresearchweek
event on Scholasticide in Palestine and the Responsibilities of Western Universities opened by @mu-ssi.bsky.social director
@lindaconnolly.bsky.social today
@maynoothlaw.bsky.social hosts todays #MUresearchweek
event on Scholasticide in Palestine and the Responsibilities of Western Universities opened by @mu-ssi.bsky.social director
@lindaconnolly.bsky.social today
October 21, 2025 at 4:18 PM
@seanmacr.bsky.social
@maynoothlaw.bsky.social hosts todays #MUresearchweek
event on Scholasticide in Palestine and the Responsibilities of Western Universities opened by @mu-ssi.bsky.social director
@lindaconnolly.bsky.social today
@maynoothlaw.bsky.social hosts todays #MUresearchweek
event on Scholasticide in Palestine and the Responsibilities of Western Universities opened by @mu-ssi.bsky.social director
@lindaconnolly.bsky.social today
A day full of messages and calls of love and good wishes. ❤️
October 26, 2025 at 6:28 PM
A day full of messages and calls of love and good wishes. ❤️
Hits the spot and says everything I tried to but have failed to communicate.
"Since when did we become Big Tech's free PR department?"
I'm really pleased to see an article like this pushing back on the uncritical adoption of (gen)AI by our universities. It hits all the major concerns.
I'm really pleased to see an article like this pushing back on the uncritical adoption of (gen)AI by our universities. It hits all the major concerns.
Belgian AI scientists are advocating *against* the use of AI in academia. “If independent thinking is no longer encouraged at university, where would it?” apache.be/2025/10/24/b...
October 25, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Hits the spot and says everything I tried to but have failed to communicate.
Prominent Jewish Figures Call On World Leaders to 'Refuse' Complicity in Israeli Crimes in Gaza, West Bank www.commondreams.org/news/jewish-...
Prominent Jewish Figures Call On World Leaders to 'Refuse' Complicity in Israeli Crimes in Gaza, West Bank | Common Dreams
In the wake of Israel's violations and the tragic loss of life in Gaza, over 460 Jewish artists and advocates are calling for sustained international pressure to ensure lasting peace. Will world leade...
www.commondreams.org
October 22, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Prominent Jewish Figures Call On World Leaders to 'Refuse' Complicity in Israeli Crimes in Gaza, West Bank www.commondreams.org/news/jewish-...
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"At night, I dream my brother Nour is looking for me. ‘I’m in Ireland, Habibi’ I say to him. ‘Everything is green and lovely'."
MU Gaza Scholarship Initiative student @abunour.bsky.social wrote a piece on leaving Gaza for Ireland in the Weekend Irish Times.
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
MU Gaza Scholarship Initiative student @abunour.bsky.social wrote a piece on leaving Gaza for Ireland in the Weekend Irish Times.
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
October 20, 2025 at 9:42 AM
"At night, I dream my brother Nour is looking for me. ‘I’m in Ireland, Habibi’ I say to him. ‘Everything is green and lovely'."
MU Gaza Scholarship Initiative student @abunour.bsky.social wrote a piece on leaving Gaza for Ireland in the Weekend Irish Times.
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
MU Gaza Scholarship Initiative student @abunour.bsky.social wrote a piece on leaving Gaza for Ireland in the Weekend Irish Times.
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
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Honoured to have my article published in @irishtimes.com today. A piece of me and Gaza and Nour — on paper. ❤️
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
October 18, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Honoured to have my article published in @irishtimes.com today. A piece of me and Gaza and Nour — on paper. ❤️
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Wonderful
Film. A difficult watch. Thank you @iAfrica Film Festival Groningen
Film. A difficult watch. Thank you @iAfrica Film Festival Groningen
La 5e édition du Festival du Film Black d’Ottawa (FFBO) s’amorcera sur la projection du film Samia de Yasemin Şamdereli.
Samia ouvre la 5e édition du Festival du Film Black d’Ottawa
La 5e édition du Festival du Film Black d’Ottawa (FFBO) s’amorcera sur la projection du film Samia de Yasemin Şamdereli.
www.ledroit.com
October 17, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Wonderful
Film. A difficult watch. Thank you @iAfrica Film Festival Groningen
Film. A difficult watch. Thank you @iAfrica Film Festival Groningen
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every single bit of news that comes out of Palestine makes my heart hurt and makes me boggle at the gleeful cruelty of the occupying colonisers. every permutation of misery is inflicted on these poor people
October 15, 2025 at 9:30 PM
every single bit of news that comes out of Palestine makes my heart hurt and makes me boggle at the gleeful cruelty of the occupying colonisers. every permutation of misery is inflicted on these poor people
I can vouch for a former colleague: certainly does 100%, is a wonderful researcher and an all round lovely human.
For all followers: I am an ECR in English and the broader Humanities, and I am out of work. I have applied for numerous teaching jobs both at unis and colleges, admin jobs, museum collection assistant jobs, research jobs, NGO communication jobs.
I have a forthcoming book and research chapters.
I have a forthcoming book and research chapters.
October 16, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I can vouch for a former colleague: certainly does 100%, is a wonderful researcher and an all round lovely human.
Inhumane and brutal regime. @israeldefenseforce.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Inhumane and brutal regime. @israeldefenseforce.bsky.social