Take a few seconds to read this and hopefully it will help you understand why we will be on strike tomorrow! CWU cwunicombined please retweet and support your postie!

Belfastians, I have an asylum seeking client who was a professional violinist in Syria. Does anyone know a space in Belfast where he can go play for free? And does anyone have a spare fiddle he could have? (I have let him borrow mine in the meantime) Grateful for any help!

Getting ready for the #WorkedInStone conference to celebrate 🥳 four decades of the The Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture (CASSS), examine its legacy, and look towards its future. The excitement builds! (Image: a Brompton cross-head, N Yorks). Learn more about it here: chacklepie.com/ascorpus/catvo… #SculptureDialogue💬

We are so excited to host the International Viking Lecture on Thursday, in conjunction with Dublin City Council! The incredible Edel Bhreathnach will present her latest research on religion and beliefs in Viking era Dublin🪓🛡️ It's going to be amazing - see you there! Dublin Festival of History

Our featured ASCH 2023 panel of the day: "Experiments in the Art of the Early Medieval Church of Ireland and Britain," with Thomas Pickles, Jane Hawkes, Megan Henvey, Caitlin Hutchison. Panel info: virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/#/event/2915/p… Conference info: churchhistory.org/annualmeeting/…

215 years service in one picture and a CEO with less than a years service thinks he's gonna break us CWU #StandByYourPost Dave Ward Bobby Weatherall cwunicombined

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Applications open for a 3-year postdoc to work with me and my team on the IrishResearch funded #GENCHRON project: my.corehr.com/pls/uccrecruit… Informal inquiries by email welcome, contact details in the link. @UCC_DH English UCC UCC Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences #LoveIrishResearch

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Being rejected from a prestigious postdoc hits even harder when their email about it has grammatical infelicities.

The below examples are US-based, but the situation in UK is no different. Arts and Humanities Research Council what’s stopping you from at least paying National Insurance for funded PhD candidates, so they can at least be accumulating their state pension?

The Long History of Nobody Wants to Work Anymore 🧵

One site done this morning. Just wandering around look for fragments now. Tynan Armagh #DAEICS UCC Archaeology Queen's University Belfast 🎓

You need to pet the dogs If you want to visit the cross.

Sorry to those getting late Xmas presents from me! @royalmail failed to collect items thru click&drop, but emailed pretending they had! Then promised collection on Tues but again NOTHING! 3 calls & finally a refund but NO apology & have been told there is no compensation process!

There are over 250 ancient stone crosses in Ireland, each with a story & something surprising. One of the best is in Tynon co.Armagh Thank you farmer Andrew who arrived in time to hold the camera and make the cuppa afterwards to celebrate. #NornIron

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