You'd have to be an idiot to fail just like the old scientific communism tests

Deans and assistant deans wouldn't fit in the picture

Media complicity with Russian disinformation is shameful. Get the Russian viewpoint from Russian officials for reporting purposes so its nature is clear. Don't get it from 'independent' experts who are not independent. And Pekka Kallioniemi (@vatniksoup.bsky.social) can't catch them all. 7/

And he loves a label! He always uses his Royal Irish Academy and UCC affiliations, one more - vatnik - won't hurt. Are @ria.ie and @ucc.ie are happy with Kremlin funding? 6/

Disruption: historians challenge Russophobic propaganda — Solidarity British historian Geoffrey Roberts and other scholars push back against Western media’s vilification of Russia, calling for nuanced analysis of the Ukraine war. They challenge myths, expose biases, an...

Can the Irish media now label him a 'foreign agent'? That's what Russia media would have to do to a Russian academic who'd taken money from the West. Roberts won't mind, such labelling results from a decision of Putin, and Putin, as Roberts has asserted several times, is a 'visionary'. 5/

Did he, like some other attendees get a jubilee medal "In Commemoration of the Tenth Anniversary of the Reunification of Crimea with Russia" from the head of the Parliament of the Republic of Crimea, Vladimir Konstantinov? 4/

Was he comfortable listening to the greetings to the conference from one of its sponsors, Sergei Lavrov, the Russian Foreign minister? 3/

The conference was sponsored by the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Crimea, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia and the World Russian People's Council (the latter has called the war against Ukraine a 'holy war'). Did they pay for flights and accommodation? More? 2/

The next time @news.rte.ie @rteradio1.bsky.social @drivetime.bsky.social have Geoff Roberts on to spout the latest Kremlin line about Ukraine could they ask him who paid for his trip to the illegally annexed Crimea to attend a 'Congress to mark the 80th anniversary of the 1945 Yalta Conference'? 1/

Comedy gold from Medvedev, the samogon must have been extra strong

About what I was expecting to be honest, MAGA nonsense and anyone who knows better keeping their heads down.

Doubt they noticed before they suggested it, or took advice.

Russia seems to have rejected it which will probably be good enough for Trump

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Pleasure, well written and a good read, balanced and learned. I will be pleased of my students read it.

Good job @bdtaylor-su.bsky.social, very well presented digest of Russian politics

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Andrew Shorten’s new paper on Alienation, equality, and multifaith establishmentAmerican Journal of Political Science - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @andrewshorten.bsky.social @unioflimerick.bsky.social

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Politicizing Political Liberalism: On the Containment of Illiberal and Antidemocratic Views by Gabriele Badano & @alasianuti.bsky.social (Oxford Academic) reviewed by @andrewshorten.bsky.social @politics-ul.bsky.social 👇

It was a bomb in our house

Richard Hofstadter is supposed to have once said ‘Other countries have ideologies, America is an ideology’. Perhaps a mobilised one after today.

I like to imagine that as Trump finished Xi picked up a phone, said ‘Release the next virus’ and then laughed maniacally.

The gender divide in young people’s political opinions in Ireland Dr. Rory Costello is an Associate Professor in the Department of Politics & Public Administration at the University of Limerick. He is Director of WhichCandidate.ie and is a member of the …

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Never, ever buy a VanMoof bike. Overpriced, badly made, poor service provision (not the local service providers, the main company’s decisions cripple them).

Yeah, because of the electoral system and its encouragement of localism

Thank god

They should go and explain their reasoning on the frontline. I’ll chip in for the travel expenses.

At least these was some hope when the Greens backed up FF/FG. FF/FG backed up by gobshites (damn spell check, that should have read independents) less so. #GE24

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Academic colleagues, please consider signing this. The growing repression of academic freedom is part of the wider authoritarian moves by the election-stealing, Putin-backed government of Georgia. Our Georgian colleagues and their students need our solidarity. ruta-association.org/news/open-le...

'The Goldilocks principle is key', says Limerick political expert Lecturer predicts who’ll get it ‘just right’

What might happen in #GE24 in Limerick. @unioflimerick.bsky.social

Still time to find out who to vote for or to change your mind