The ‘temptation” Rosemary Sutcliff once said: “is to try & use everything you’ve found out in…research. That can be fatal, because you…only need to use about 1/10. It’s…like an iceberg…It has to be there, because it gives you the freedom of the period. But you don’t use it.”

We're delighted to announce the release of 'Aby Warburg 150: Work, Legacy, Promise' – honouring the visionary founder of The Warburg Institute.

The publication explores Warburg's pioneering ideas and their profound influence on cultural studies: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news/new-publi…

Awful, truly awful. Little short of vandalism. Expecting the worst for Politics and international relations tomorrow.

You should never miss a book with which the fabulous Laura Cleaver is involved.

So this is where we are now in Higher Ed. Sad, but also disgraceful. Such a waste.

Happy birthday #Shakespeare 🥳 Check out the First Folio on Digital Collections: digitalcollections.tcd.ie/concern/works/… English, TCD #VirtualTrinityLibrary

Absolutely love Fanthorpe’s ekphrastic poems, linked below, from the perspective of the dragon, princess, and knight. Talked about them in my dragons lecture at Faculty of English last term 🐲🔥

Let's start by ignoring our very own employment law experts ...

No probs here ...

In a country where you vote with a pencil...

I am sick of higher education leaders, I am sick of neoliberal thinking, I am sick of scarcity mindsets, I am sick of austerity, I am sick of senior management lacking morals, I am sick of education being decimated, I don’t know how we hang on + do important work for students

Oh no! I can't express all my horror, sadness, & solidarity with my colleagues and friends in just the one tweet. This is so hard to read. What a state we are in! My one solace is so many are willing to provide a listening ear & vital companionship in this awful turmoil. #UKHE

Excitingly the criteria my university are going to use to decide who is made redundant actively punishes those who have been successful in securing external funding buyout, those with responsibility for research leadership, and those who publish. So our whole REF submission 🤪

A standing ovation as the families of the Stardust victims are welcomed to Dáil Éireann.

The Taoiseach will soon offer an apology to them, after an inquest into the deaths of 48 people in the nightclub delivered a verdict of unlawful killing.

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University’s head of HR said contract void

Adjudicator decided this was 'no way for an employer to treat an employee... it lacks dignity, decency and reasonability'

Many #University administrators are Trump-ian.

Like the Donald, they think they're above the law ...

#academia

Penny dropping slowly that I am an ex-academic. After the obvious – losing the job(s) – it’s a slow death. Emails don’t get through since not from an institutional address. Losing library online resources. (cont.)

Now count 'priestcraft' ...

'From now on, Cork is just a gateway to Cork...'.
Although it can come as no surprise to anyone, it does at least come as a relief.

The sieve of Tuccia ... one of my more popular classes on the transposition of Mariological iconography onto the figura of Elizabeth...

Beara IS West Cork ... the rest is just west of Cork city (godhelpus) ...