British universities paid security firm to ‘spy’ on pro-Palestine students Investigation reveals how Horus, a company led by ex-military intelligence officials, was hired during protest movement.

British universities paid to spy on students. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/...

How Big Tech wrote secrecy into EU law to hide data centres’ environmental toll Environmental footprint of Europe's data centres kept secret after industry lobbying in a move legal experts warn could violate transparency rules.

"Microsoft and DigitalEurope, a lobby group whose members include Amazon, Google and Meta, secured a secrecy provision in EU law to block public access to critical information on data centres’ environmental impact."

here.

On the US-Israeli Coalition’s Continued Acts of Scholasticide in the Middle East With the killing of 175 school girls, educators, and parents in Minab, Iran, the latest chapter of the US-Israeli war in the Middle East began with a cruel act of scholasticide—a term many of us we…

New from me, in @literaryhub.bsky.social : I consider how the scholasticide which US-Israel practiced in Gaza is now tragically expanding to Iran and Lebanon lithub.com/on-the-us-is...

Our leaders must show courage in commitment to peace by keeping the triple lock We urge the government to use this moment of heightened conflict to retain the triple lock and speak out against obvious breaches of international law and efforts to undermine the UN

Short version of letter sent to the Taoiseach urging him to retain the triple lock and defend international law and the UN.

Signed by 400+ academics & university workers.

The handful of academics we read and hear from all the time in the media are outliers.

www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

The Reckoning • EQUATOR Hormuz and the end of American hegemony

www.equator.org/articles/the...

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5m tonnes of CO2 emitted in just 14 days of US war on Iran, analysis finds Exclusive: War in the Middle East is draining the global carbon budget faster than 84 countries combined

Dark clouds, black rain, flaming skies, a whole region turned sacrifice zone, climate war. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Ice flight stopped at Shannon Airport on St Patrick’s Day while deporting Ukrainians Private jet hired by Ice agency also stopped on its return journey to Arizona

Ice flight stopped at Shannon on Patrick’s Day while deporting Ukrainians
So we are facilitating deportations by the brutish, murderous ICE-here deporting Ukrainians back to war zone. On top of the delivery of the bowl of shamrock this is just shameful #spéirghorm

www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

Open letter from Irish academics on the Triple Lock and Irish neutrality An Taoiseach, Mr. Micheál Martin TD Department of the Taoiseach Government Buildings Merrion Street Dublin 2 A Thaoisigh, On behalf of the undersigned academics and university workers we write to rei...

Ireland-based academics and university workers, please sign this letter urging the Irish govt to maintain the 'triple lock' and Irish neutrality, and to promote the values enshrined in the UN Charter and our constitution at this time of escalating militarisation:

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

TODAY! Wed 12:30 outside O'Reilly Hall. Join staff and students "calling for systemic change in how UCD responds to sexual violence and gender-based harm...and to call for survivor-centred practices, institutional accountability, and cultural reform." universityobserver.ie/not-in-our-u...

EDIT: the EDI celebration event has now been cancelled by the uni BUT the student-led protest/standout is still going ahead, so please still join in.

For UCD colleagues who are on campus tomorrow (Wed 4th March), please join this call to action put out by members of the Student's Union, asking for staff and students to mobilize outside O'Reilly Hall in protest of UCD's treatment of a sexual assault survivor and to call for accountability:

Today at 1 PM outside Tierney by the lake! UCD Standout for Palestine!

TOMORROW: UCD Stand Out for Palestine as part of ICTU's National Day of Workplace Actions in solidarity with Palestine! UCD Justice for Palestine and student organisers from BDS, SNF and SU ask UCD students and workers to join the rally by Tierney at 1 PM, Fri 28 Nov.

Tom Hanks on mask wearing: "I’ve had COVID enough in my life” Tom Hanks has joined a growing movement of COVID-conscious artists who are openly speaking up about the threats of the disease

www.thecanary.co/global/world...

Congratulations to Dr. Clare Kelly @clarenicheall.bsky.social l who passed her viva yesterday, defending her thesis on "Orality and Authorship: African Storyteller-Authors in the Literary Marketplace" with poise and articulacy. It was a pleasure to read and examine her work alongside Madhu Krishnan!

TOMORROW: UCD Walk Out for Gaza, Thurs 16 Oct! UCD BDS & UCD Justice for Palestine ask UCD students and workers to join the rally by Tierney at 1 PM and help gear up for a renewed campaign for full boycott of Israeli universities and research partnerships #standoutforgaza1610

Congratulations Dr. Deborah Schrijvers who passed her viva with flying colours on Monday with her thesis on "Against Imperial Extinction Narratives", and many thanks to her examiners Robert McKay and Patrick Brodie, and chair Niamh Pattwell! w/ @marthashearer.bsky.social

What happened, in brief That time Israel kidnapped me

If you can, please read Naoise Dolan writing about her treatment after being illegally abducted by Israel from the Thousand Madleens flotilla. It's pretty chilling, and it's a drop in the ocean compared to what they subject Palestinians to.
#spéirgorm

#standoutforgaza1610

UCD BDS & UCD Justice for Palestine ask UCD students and workers to join the national Workplace Standout for Gaza on 16th Oct at 1 PM. Walk outside your workplace with a sign or flag, and if you can, join the rally organised by UCD students in front of Newman Arts at 1 PM.

If any folks from UCD would like to march together at this Saturday's big national demonstration, please join UCD Justice for Palestine (I'll be holding a sign) at 12:15 outside of the Hugh Lane Gallery. It would be great to meet other folks and share in solidarity!

Israeli Defense Minister says half a million Palestinians in Gaza City will be considered ‘terrorists’ if they don’t evacuate With at least half a million people still left in Gaza City, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz issued a “final warning” for residents to evacuate, saying those who remain will be regarded as “terro...

Eyes on Gaza where apartheid Israel is carpet bombing and now threatening with mass murder the people in Gaza City. This must end. #GazaGenocide
Israeli Defense Minister: Palestinians in Gaza City will be considered ‘terrorists’ if they don’t evacuate
mondoweiss.net/2025/10/isra...

There are emergency protests in solidarity with the Global Sumud Flotilla called around the country tomorrow, keep an eye on social media. This is at the Dáil, 12.30pm. #LiftTheSiege #GazaGenocide

Ships in the Global Sumud flotilla are being intercepted, including the Spectre. Irish-resident friends, please call and email Simon Harris now to condemn Israel's illegal abduction of peaceful citizens and demand safety for all aboard the flotilla:
Phone: 016194000
Email: tanaiste@tanaiste.gov.ie

Flotilla under attack The Global Sumud Flotilla has been bombed with Irish citizens on board. I have just emailed my TDs calling on them to condemn the bombing of the Global Sumud Flotilla and to ensure the blockade of Gaz...

Automated template to email Irish government TDs calling on them to condemn the bombing of the Global Sumud Flotilla and ensure its safe passage to bring aid to Gaza: action.uplift.ie/campaigns/fl...

Gaza flotilla organisers say thay have 'credible intelligence' pointing to more Israeli attacks The flotilla organisers are set to hold a press conference later today.

The Gaza Aid flotilla organisers say they have "credible intelligence that Israel is likely to escalate violent attacks on the flotilla within the next 48 hours". All eyes on flotilla, all eyes on Gaza!
www.thejournal.ie/gaza-aid-flo...

UCD Partnership with Israeli Universities With the recent UN report on Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the expanded invasion of Gaza City, and the renewal of campus activism at UCD, we are publishing a letter written to UCD President Orla…

"We repeat our demands that UCD end its current partnerships with Israeli universities, commit to refusing any future such partnerships, and to join efforts that seek to exclude Israeli universities from European funding initiatives."
academicsforpalestine.org/2025/09/19/u...

“The Onion stands at the ready to act as a mouthpiece of the world’s elite, using its distinguished reportage to parrot whatever the party line happens to be. Genocide, eugenics, incest—no topic is too taboo to find support in our paper so long as it has been approved by a trustworthy establishment”