Two roles at Masaryk university, Brno
* Assistant Prof for the Department of English & American Studies (Britonist)
* Assistant Prof for the Department of English & American Studies (Translation)
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#WATCH | Leaked footage reveals a new crime unfolding in Gaza.
Israeli forces are demolishing one of the last remaining schools, deliberately wiping out what survives of Gaza’s education system. This is happening under a so-called “ceasefire.”
(Gaza Notifications)
A man in a tatty suit sits around a campfire with three children. The caption reads "Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for our shareholders"
I think of this cartoon from the @newyorker.com regularly
Assistant Professor in a Strategically prioritised research area at the Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology
Lund University
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📣 New opportunity for early-career scholars!
We’ve partnered with the Women’s History Association of Ireland (@whaireland.bsky.social) to award £500 for the best first monograph in women’s/gender history
❗Deadline: 31 July 2026
Find out more & apply: womenshistorynetwork.org/womens-histo...
Shop local, folks!
Postdoc time loops
2 year
*literary studies (preferably North American studies)
*narratology, with particular focus on time loop stories.
Job Details | Universiteit Gent
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Francesca Albanese: "Israel has been emboldened by the impunity that has historically been granted to it, but particularly in the last 2 years.. Israel is accelerating the genocide against the Palestinian people.. the end game is the ethnic cleansing of Palestine"
"... women experienced a significant drop in research output (mothers had 31% fewer publications than did fathers eight years after the birth of their first child)."
How are the stats for mothers of 2-3-4 children?
As an academic mom of 4, I am not surprised at all.
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📢 Fully-funded PhD scholarship: Living with Print in the Eighteenth Century
Based at the University of Sydney (supervised by me) and the University of Glasgow (supervised by Matthew Sangster), with time at both institutions.
Applications due 21 April
More details: www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...
The Supreme Court on Wednesday will hear a landmark case testing whether President Trump can limit birthright citizenship, the long-held principle that nearly all children born in the U.S. are automatically citizens. Here’s what to know.
It just came to my attention this week - looks great Mary!
I'm always looking for #IrishStudies news for our mail-out
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Have you #IrishStudies news? New books? CFPs? Jobs? Scholarships? Events?
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CFP deadline this week for our Brontë Studies special issue on Poetry - the abstracts are starting to flock in - still time to send in yours!
Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Liz Montague.
We need an epic Fields of Athenry #COYBIG
Saving the cards for Christmas #COYBIG
if Wikipedia, an org with a shoestring budget and volunteer workforce can ban use of llms, what excuse do large orgs and universities have
How am I going to make it through another 30 minutes 😫 🤞🤞 #COYBIG
@deirdreflynn.bsky.social is new Irish Studies Around the World reviews editor @ Estudios Irlandeses www.estudiosirlandeses.org/2026/03/iris...
My dog sleeping with her head on my laptop bag - her bed is a foot away
She has a bed - right there - but it seems preferable to sleep on my laptop bag
Waging war on academic institutions that restrict “emerging scholars” to the under 35 age group.
One week left to send me your ideas!
What a game!
#sixNations #TripleCrown
What a game and it's only 10 minutes in #IREVSCO #SixNations
The second section of the special issue of LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory on 'Irish Women's Genre Fiction' has been published!
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Project Name Written Worlds funded by Leverhulme Trust at Birkbeck
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Written Worlds 17C Non-elite Writing 2 x Postdocs 0.5. Please consider applying.