Haven't done one of these in a while (trying to leave this place...), so here's some beautiful things on a Sunday: friends, squirrels, deer & vintage plates of my dreams (OK, maybe minus the chicken feet?). Photos mostly by Csaba Gálffy (unvetted economic migrant)

Tiger Competition winner: 🇭🇷 Fiume o morte! by Igor Bezinović (Croatia, Italy, Slovenia)

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The real cleavage.

Not sure how many people are around here but my latest article is out: 'Language and trust: Struggles for recognition of migrant people in the political realm' SALIS at DCU FuJo Open Access & supported by We are now Research Ireland & Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences @ DCU sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

academics across the world rn

Dublin City University MA in Gender and Sexuality Studies is now open for applications (programme starting Sept. 2025). Open to students from a range of disciplinary backgrounds and with different career trajectories. Please apply here (queries to [email protected]) dcu.ie/courses/postgr…

The best useless thing on the Internet today.

A very interesting short-term scheme to support young journalists from underprivileged backgrounds/social groups. Should theoretically apply to Ireland as well (no requirement for UK citizenship, just the right to work in the UK...), and there's housing aid for the period.

All these years of studying political science have not prepared me for this.

"I began to see how my diagnosis explained the monumental efforts I made daily to mask my struggles, to seem like everyone else, to keep up. (...) to realize that I could not continue to neglect my health to meet academe’s demands to work every spare moment of the day (...)."

Solidarity across borders.

Fiume o Morte!, Igor Bezinović's ingeniously conceived and sharply realized incarnation of grimly absurd and secretly crucial history—the Fiume dictatorship of Gabriele D'Annunzio—screens twice in New Directors/New Films (and desperately needs distribution): newyorker.com/culture/the-fr…