POLL: UCD and the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Do you approve of UCD's response to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza? Link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Academics for Palestine expression of support for UCD Liberation Encampment: academicsforpalestine.org/2024/05/15/sta… UCD Justice for Palestine Academics for Palestine

IFUT Unite the union: join a union have both released statements of support for the encampment over the last two days, joining SIPTU earlier statement. All three major Unions' representing UCD employees have now expressed their unequivocal support for the solidarity camp 🇵🇸✊

Statement of #ICC Prosecutor Karim A. A. Khan KC: Applications for arrest warrants in the situation in the State of #Palestine ⤵️ icc-cpi.int/news/statement…

At UCD we have, again, received a disappointing email from president Orla Feely. Despite a recent poll showing that a majority of students and researchers are not satisfied with UCD's response to the genocide in Gaza, we don't have UCD's response to BDS' demands. (a thread)

Raids by Israeli forces in Jenin, #WestBank, Palestine, have left at least 8 people dead, including Dr Osayd Jabarin, a Ministry of Health surgeon from MSF-supported Khalil Suleiman hospital, who was shot on his way to work.

On the ground reporting from the UCD encampment and students on the campus. Well worth a read if you’re unsure what the feelings of the student population are.

Exclusive: Israeli soldiers set fire Aqsa University [AqsaUniversity]’s library in Gaza City and took pictures of themselves in front of the flames.

Graphic | Horrific footage is unfolding of the Israeli massacre of displaced Palestinians, with 8 missiles targeting the displacement camp at a UNRWA site in Rafah, despite Israel claiming it is "safe." Civil Defense to Al Jazeera: We believe that the occupation army used

It has come to that: Haaretz went to print with chunks of text redacted by the censor. This is the price Israelis pay for the continued genocide: loss of their own political rights within Israel.

Out and open access: our contribution to dissecting the relationship between plant programmed cell death and polyamines. febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/fe…

Kudos Alina Chan This is a fact-based summary. This is my fave. It’s like zoologists publishing a paper on a unicorn, focusing only on the horse features while failing to describe the horn or mention that they proposed studying the horn in a recent grant.

After four weeks of our encampment in UCD, we've reached an agreement with the University which can be read in full below 🇵🇸✊ ucd.ie/newsandopinion…

UCD is "outraged by the ongoing mass killing of civilians, the withholding of humanitarian aid, and the destruction in Palestine by Israel... UCD is particularly appalled by the destruction of all universities in Gaza and attacks on their students, faculty and staff."

Despite promising a stipend increase to €25,000 per annum for SEAI funded researchers, members in Maynooth University UCC Ireland Ollscoil na Gaillimhe | University of Galway and Trinity College Dublin have yet to receive this. All such pay disparities and underfunding of PhD researchers must end. #PGRsDeserveBetter (1/2)

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Just out Plants People Planet 🌱👥🌐: our paper demonstrating how art can improve understanding of human interactions with plants. What is the story behind it? Few years ago, paper co-author and fantastic artist Lorna Donlon created a visual installation called “In Memory of Plants” …

Happy to support applicants with ideas for a PhD/postdoc in areas related to plant cell culture and/or plant programmed cell death 💀. Interdisciplinary projects on approaches for promoting and studying plant awareness and botany also a possibility!🌱🎨📝 research.ie/funding/goipg/

Disband the RSA Ireland . Not even a major reform can save it. This is the worst kind of ableist, offensive, car brain nonsense they've ever produced. Money was spent on this ad. 🤯 People who cannot or do not drive are not a burden. Delete this tweet and delete the RSA Ireland

Students interested in STEM should probably know that if you create an anonymous forum for biologists, you get constant posts from people having existential crises over being pressured into mass mouse murder 🧵