Róisín O’Connor-Laurence
@roisinocl.bsky.social
Irish-Chilean heritage. Childhood in Ireland, Malawi & Eswatini. Moved to new South Africa in ‘93, now in📍Brighton, UK. 4 education systems, several languages, former teacher, counsellor in training. Writing. Crafts, books & film. Aikikai. 50+🇺🇳🇪🇺🌍🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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Brilliant investigation into the ways the water companies are outwitting government - bring water into public ownership now👇
‘Outwitted’: have water companies managed to sidestep Labour’s bonus ban?
Concerns loophole in 2025 act allows payouts at firms that repeatedly pollute England’s waterways with sewage
www.theguardian.com
July 20, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Brilliant investigation into the ways the water companies are outwitting government - bring water into public ownership now👇
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Irish universities are under-funded, recent salary increases were not funded putting more pressure on budgets, there is widespread precarity of employment, research infrastructure is creaking, rarely funding for equipment repair & maintenance, and PhD scholarship stipends are inadequate etc etc
Ireland hopes to entice academics as US becomes ‘a cold place for free thinkers’
Proposed scheme involves talent scouts offering attractive packages to tempt academics and lecturers from abroad
www.theguardian.com
May 15, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Irish universities are under-funded, recent salary increases were not funded putting more pressure on budgets, there is widespread precarity of employment, research infrastructure is creaking, rarely funding for equipment repair & maintenance, and PhD scholarship stipends are inadequate etc etc
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Happy Wednesday!
May 14, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Happy Wednesday!
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It’s beyond outrageous that UK is continuing to supply arms to Israel, when there is - beyond all doubt - a “clear risk” they could be used to commit or facilitate serious violations of international humanitarian law. What else are ministers waiting for? Unforgivable complicity
Overnight, the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator warned that genocide is possible in Gaza. I asked an urgent question Does this Govt stand by its duty to prevent under the Genocide Convention, and will it act to uphold humanitarian law?
Or just say “we did all we could.”
youtube.com/shorts/ClNmA...
Or just say “we did all we could.”
youtube.com/shorts/ClNmA...
Overnight, the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator warned that genocide is possible in Gaza.
YouTube video by Adrian Ramsay MP
youtube.com
May 14, 2025 at 4:53 PM
It’s beyond outrageous that UK is continuing to supply arms to Israel, when there is - beyond all doubt - a “clear risk” they could be used to commit or facilitate serious violations of international humanitarian law. What else are ministers waiting for? Unforgivable complicity
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Early-modern version of keeping multiple tabs open... #bookwheel
April 22, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Early-modern version of keeping multiple tabs open... #bookwheel
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Absolutely brilliant news. It was so important that the govt organised British re-entry to Horizon: UK wins £500m in science grants from EU Horizon scheme after Brexit lockout
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
UK wins £500m in science grants from EU Horizon scheme after Brexit lockout
Exclusive: British scientists ‘over the moon’ with re-entry to funding scheme after losing out for three years
www.theguardian.com
May 5, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Absolutely brilliant news. It was so important that the govt organised British re-entry to Horizon: UK wins £500m in science grants from EU Horizon scheme after Brexit lockout
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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The Trump Administration has issued Executive Orders (EO) that reduce foreign assistance and freeze other international support programs. The broad implementation of this decision is severely affecting programs supporting #Tibet and the #Tibetan people.
Full statement: savetibet.org/ict-statemen...
Full statement: savetibet.org/ict-statemen...
March 19, 2025 at 8:57 PM
The Trump Administration has issued Executive Orders (EO) that reduce foreign assistance and freeze other international support programs. The broad implementation of this decision is severely affecting programs supporting #Tibet and the #Tibetan people.
Full statement: savetibet.org/ict-statemen...
Full statement: savetibet.org/ict-statemen...
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Arrived today: @nnedi.bsky.social One Way Witch, Book 2 of She Who Knows. Giddy up.
March 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Arrived today: @nnedi.bsky.social One Way Witch, Book 2 of She Who Knows. Giddy up.
“Following the Bantu #Education Act (No. 47) of 1953 the government tightened its control over religious high schools by eliminating almost all financial aid, forcing many churches to sell their schools to the government or close them entirely.” (SA 1948-1974)
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March 21, 2025 at 7:45 PM
“Following the Bantu #Education Act (No. 47) of 1953 the government tightened its control over religious high schools by eliminating almost all financial aid, forcing many churches to sell their schools to the government or close them entirely.” (SA 1948-1974)
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educati...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educati...
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Had a brilliant chat with Ellie Newton at the @thetroubleclub.bsky.social about geopolitics, history, and feminism. Here’s a little clip from our conversation!
The Trouble Club is all about platforming women speakers while welcoming everyone as members—definitely worth checking out!
The Trouble Club is all about platforming women speakers while welcoming everyone as members—definitely worth checking out!
March 21, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Had a brilliant chat with Ellie Newton at the @thetroubleclub.bsky.social about geopolitics, history, and feminism. Here’s a little clip from our conversation!
The Trouble Club is all about platforming women speakers while welcoming everyone as members—definitely worth checking out!
The Trouble Club is all about platforming women speakers while welcoming everyone as members—definitely worth checking out!
We’re at a stage now where voting for either Left or Right has no meaning - because the politicians on either side are being funded by business. This is what that looks like: breaks & bail outs for the funders, cuts for public services, then monetisation.
One rule for the rich, another for the poor and disabled. It genuinely surprises me sometimes that the British population hasn’t launched an insurrection. (The only more amazing thing is that Scotland hasn’t)
March 20, 2025 at 12:45 AM
We’re at a stage now where voting for either Left or Right has no meaning - because the politicians on either side are being funded by business. This is what that looks like: breaks & bail outs for the funders, cuts for public services, then monetisation.
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Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
March 14, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
Artist traces Manchester’s links to slavery on blue cotton gown.
#blueplaque
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
#blueplaque
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Artist traces Manchester’s links to slavery on blue cotton gown
Manchester Art Gallery exhibition features gown inspired by outfit worn by abolitionist Sarah Parker Remond
www.theguardian.com
March 15, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Artist traces Manchester’s links to slavery on blue cotton gown.
#blueplaque
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
#blueplaque
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Art it up. All over. Pen and brush and mud.
Creating art under Trump will become harder but it will remain vital | Seph Rodney
Creating art under Trump will become harder but it will remain vital | Seph Rodney
The president’s attacks on diversity and immigration have already affected many artists and will affect many more in the coming months
www.theguardian.com
March 14, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Art it up. All over. Pen and brush and mud.
To read…
Honoured that Leonard and Hungry Paul has been included in the @irishtimes.com 100 best Irish books of the 21st century (so far), at 38. Thanks so much to the contributors who selected it.
(Ps. I was a contributor but didn't nominate or upvote my own book.)
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
(Ps. I was a contributor but didn't nominate or upvote my own book.)
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
The 100 best Irish books of the 21st century: No 50 to No 26
A panel of more than 60 experts (authors, critics, academics, festival curators and booksellers) select their favourite Irish novels and short stories of the years 2020-2025
www.irishtimes.com
March 14, 2025 at 10:46 AM
To read…
Maastricht trip.
March 9, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Maastricht trip.
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March 1, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Please share. 🙏🏻
March 2, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Please share. 🙏🏻
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It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too.
EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them.
Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)
EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them.
Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)
February 14, 2025 at 11:47 PM
It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too.
EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them.
Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)
EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them.
Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)
A few days in London…
February 1, 2025 at 11:08 PM
A few days in London…
Time to get my unread #Book count under control. By Dec 2025 my 4 long bookshelves of unread books will be read! I will then sort into keeping, selling or donating. ☝🏻No new books, until all are read! 🥺Nuh-uh! 😅 I’ll post as I go… #motivation #booksky #booksky💙
January 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Time to get my unread #Book count under control. By Dec 2025 my 4 long bookshelves of unread books will be read! I will then sort into keeping, selling or donating. ☝🏻No new books, until all are read! 🥺Nuh-uh! 😅 I’ll post as I go… #motivation #booksky #booksky💙
A week logged out of ♏️3️⃣🎚️🅰️, globally, a message to them to not interfere with a country’s or union’s politics.
January 16, 2025 at 3:23 PM
A week logged out of ♏️3️⃣🎚️🅰️, globally, a message to them to not interfere with a country’s or union’s politics.
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Are you a United World Colleges grad? Harvard is doing a study on the long-term impact of #UWC on its students. I just completed the survey and I think it's worth doing:@uwc_io (AC87-89!)
uwc.org/impactstudy
uwc.org/impactstudy
Harvard’s UWC Impact Study
The study was conducted between 2017 and 2022, and it involved 4,834 UWC students and 6,894 alumni from all 18 UWC schools and colleges, as well as 1,830 students from 13 non-UWC schools.
www.uwc.org
January 13, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Are you a United World Colleges grad? Harvard is doing a study on the long-term impact of #UWC on its students. I just completed the survey and I think it's worth doing:@uwc_io (AC87-89!)
uwc.org/impactstudy
uwc.org/impactstudy
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"Duncan's collection, “Translating Blackness Across Space: American, British, and Caribbean Editions of 20th Century Black Literature.” wowed the judges with her collection Translating Blackness Across Space: American, British, and Caribbean Editions of 20th-Century Black Literature." 📜
2025 Annual California Young Book Collector’s Prize Awarded | The New Antiquarian | The Blog of The Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America
The 2025 winner of the California Young Book Collector's Prize is Kierra Duncan. Kierra is 27 years old. She was raised in the Los Angeles area and gr...
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January 12, 2025 at 4:54 AM
"Duncan's collection, “Translating Blackness Across Space: American, British, and Caribbean Editions of 20th Century Black Literature.” wowed the judges with her collection Translating Blackness Across Space: American, British, and Caribbean Editions of 20th-Century Black Literature." 📜
“World’s worst solutions to declining birth rates” I’ve decided to make a series of posts, sharing links when I come across this topic, from the Catholic-like disdain of birth control to state attacks on women’s bodies. I’ll then post the alternatives. #1
www.asahi.com/sp/ajw/artic...
www.asahi.com/sp/ajw/artic...
Conservative party leader: hysterectomies can fix birthrate | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
NAGOYA—After a deluge of criticism, the leader of the Conservative Party of Japan retracted his suggestion that subjecting women over 30 to having their uteruses removed would prod them to have childr...
www.asahi.com
November 19, 2024 at 12:13 PM
“World’s worst solutions to declining birth rates” I’ve decided to make a series of posts, sharing links when I come across this topic, from the Catholic-like disdain of birth control to state attacks on women’s bodies. I’ll then post the alternatives. #1
www.asahi.com/sp/ajw/artic...
www.asahi.com/sp/ajw/artic...