News I'm hearing from across universities is disastrous. The sector has been falling apart for months, but the process is now continuously speeding up. Outside a small handful of institutions, HE as we've known it has basically zero future.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
A Reddit user has meticulously kept a diary of Trump’s daily victory claims.
It should form part of every historical archive on the planet.
Brace yourself, here goes 🧵👇
Reminder: our call for evidence for our inquiry into dynamic alignment is open! Deadline: 9am 20 April. We're interested in economic/trade/regulatory impacts of the prospective UK-EU dynamic alignment agreements + how a system of dynamic alignment might work committees.parliament.uk/call-for-evi...
The extent to which these cuts will be detrimental to the lives of so many in Northern Ireland is unfathomable.
People in NI, once again, caught in the middle of a senseless political standoff:
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/norther...
🚨 NEW REPORT! 🚨
What is the state of the UK academic job market in politics, and what does this mean for the field and #highered?
In a new @psaecn.bsky.social report, @lawrencemckay.bsky.social @williamlallen.bsky.social and I find worrying trends in job adverts and HESA data from 2012-25
#PSA26
📨Today the Northern Ireland Scrutiny Committee has published a letter to the Government, following its short follow-up inquiry on Strengthening Northern Ireland’s Voice in the Context of the Windsor Framework 👉
committees.parliament.uk/publications...
What happens to "guarantees" of rights protections under the ECHR when the Council of Europe states themselves set about "rebalancing" the ECHR rights in immigration cases? Neither the UK nor the Irish Government have a convincing answer when it comes to the GFA:
verfassungsblog.de/belfast-good...
📢Our followers may be interested from a NI perspective in the below inquiry on dynamic alignment - especially questions 2b and 9.
📅Deadline to submit evidence 20/04
Call for Evidence👉https://lnkd.in/eEdwwtpp
Stopped in my tracks listening to the Taoiseach during this press conference, both at what was being said and half-expecting it to turn into another Zelensky moment
Infographic for the follow up oral evidence session. Photo of Belfast City Hall as the backdrop.
The Committee will hold a public oral-evidence session tomorrow with NI businesses with witnesses from
NI Chamber, Ulster Farmer's Union, & FSB NI
Follow the session tomorrow at 10:45am👉 parliamentlive.tv/Lords - Northern Ireland Scrutiny Committee
Info: committees.parliament.uk/work/9636/fo...
bsky.app/profile/jrel...
Friends and colleagues in Irish academia! The wonderful Dr Mary McGill has asked me to circulate her @researchireland.ie - funded survey on Exploring experiences of gender-based online abuse among female academics in Ireland - please do share! forms.office.com/pages/respon...
Our Budget Assessment now live 📊
Budget “balances ex ante” but is “unlikely to unfold as presented.”
Treasury support masks deeper fiscal strain as the Executive faces hard choices.
A risk that no Budget is agreed before the new financial year.
www.nifiscalcouncil.org/publications...
Cover page of UK in a Changing Europe's latest report - 'UK-EU Alignment and Divergence: The Road Ahead'
An insightful new report today from @ukandeu.bsky.social assessing UK-EU regulatory alignment and divergence post-Brexit:
"Ironically, the UK has to spend a lot more time thinking about EU regulation after Brexit than it did when it was a member state."
media.ukandeu.ac.uk/wp-content/u...
🚨🚨Biggest #EU news of today: #Iceland looks to fast-track vote on joining EU as referendum on EU accession could come as early as August, departing from original plan for 2027 ref. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/icel...
Promotional graphic for the “Hear Her!” training programme. Text reads: “Hear Her! Training for women who want to get into politics.” It advertises a two-part online workshop with sessions on 11 March and 18 March, both from 6:30–8pm. The design is in pink and purple tones, with a background image of Parliament Buildings at Stormont in Northern Ireland. Logos at the bottom note delivery in partnership with Connect and that the programme is generously funded by the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust.
Hear Her Training Programme is BACK!
Are you a woman curious about running for election?
Hear Her is a two-part online workshop for women who want to run for election!
🗓 Part 1: 11 March | 6:30–8:00pm
🗓 Part 2: 18 March | 6:30–8:00pm
📍 Online
🔗 Sign up via Eventbrite : shorturl.at/LOsKr
BREAKING Keir Starmer confirms that Chris Wormald, the cabinet secretary, will be stepping down.
No 10 says this is "by mutual agreement" but senior officials say that he was pushed out.
Looking for more analysis on what has been happening in UK politics this week? Want to know what politicians in NI make of it all?
Catch up with View from Stormont, live last night at 10.55 and now available to watch back (with some thoughts from me in part two):
📺 www.itv.com/watch/news/v...
Tomorrow's Headlines
The Telegraph: Starmer Next!
The Guardian: Morgan McSweeney's Gone, Thank God!
The Irish Times: Irishman forced out of UK Labour Role
The Irish (Cork) Examiner: Having Completed Michael Collins' Work, and brought low the British Government, Macroom Calls it's Son Home
What a strangely worded statement from someone unelected and without the power to make the appointment...
Social media tech firm X is to snub the Oireachtas Media Committee today, despite facing calls for the company to answer questions on the Grok AI-generated non-consensual images controversy. jrnl.ie/6945608
A great opportunity to work with the Human Rights Consortium on a Bill of Rights for NI.
Further information here:
www.humanrightsconsortium.org/job-advertis...
A combined nationalist vote share of 38% would be tied with the 2016 Assembly election as the lowest since 1992 in an Assembly or Westminster election.
But what difference to those who only care about the follower count on their X profile 🤷♀️
🚨 Ireland will not join Donald Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ “as currently constructed”, Simon Harris tells the Dáil
(only an hour or two after Mícheál Martin said it was being considered)
@virginmedianews.bsky.social
Six-panel meme from The Simpsons. In the first panel, Superintendent Chalmers points at Principal Skinner and says, “GOOD LORD, WHAT ARE YOU NEGOTIATING IN THERE?” Second panel: Skinner replies, “GREENLAND FRAMEWORK.” Third panel: Chalmers says, “A PERMANENT FRAMEWORK ON GREENLAND? IN AN HOUR? WITH THE HEAD OF NATO? WITHOUT DENMARK?” Fourth panel: close-up of Skinner saying “YES.” Fifth panel: Chalmers asks, “WELL CAN I SEE IT?” Sixth panel: Skinner, half-lit by a red glow, replies, “NO.”
Thank you Mr President, that clears things up.
Ireland’s *last* EU presidency kicked off negotiations on a full, comprehensive, free trade agreement between the EU and U.S.
Utterly wild how much things have changed ahead of the next stint…
Northern Ireland's own @niallstanage.bsky.social 👏
🚨 NEW: UUP confirm that Jon Burrows is the sole candidate for the leader position, having met the nomination threshold of 35 signatures from at least nine constituency associations.
Full statement 👇
