A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.
I spent 4 months trying to answer a simple question: has this book been translated into my language?
Turns out no one tracks this. Not ISBN registries. Not Amazon. Not Google. Not libraries.
So I built a tool that crosses four databases to piece it together.
zenodot.app
The Nowlan Digitsation Grants scheme which aims to increase the number of historical and archaeological sources that are digitised and freely available online is open to applications until 15 April.
For further detials see here: shorturl.at/lMRrx
@dri.ie
Close up of a section of an embroidered cotton piece by Tracey Emin, entitled “Why”. The image says “Why Be Afraid” repeated over and over.
I’m still processing my trip to the @copim.bsky.social conference in London - two days of energising and inspiring conversations with like-minded folk, followed by a dose of women’s art @tatemodern.bsky.social was just what I needed to get 2026 back on track.
A great piece in the @irishexaminer.bsky.social today from UL’s Prof Máiréad Moriarty on the increased value of the critical skills gained during an Arts degree in the age of AI - expertise in human complexity will always be required! www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
Thanks to @projectmuse.bsky.social ’s Subscribe to Open (S2O) model, all 2026 research articles in the RIA’s journals will be free to read and free to publish.
Read more about RIA’s transition to S2O here: www.ria.ie/2026/02/18/r...
@jisc.bsky.social @irelibrary.bsky.social
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Celebrate World Book Day with us on 5 March! Use the code WorldBookDay to get 20% off any current titles on our website. The code can be used on any books ordered from shop.ria.ie until Sunday, 8 March.
Asylum: Inside Grangegorman is now available as an audiobook, narrated by the author, Brendan Kelly.
Listen now: www.audible.co.uk/pd/Asylum-Au...
@grangegormandev.bsky.social
Delighted to be awardee of @researchireland.ie + Embassy of France Ulysses Award for the project ‘The Lives and Afterlives of Franco-Irish Photographs of the Irish Revolutionary Period’ with @clairdubois.bsky.social at University of Lille + Síobhra Aiken and Mark O’Rawe Queens University Belfast
Is groundbreaking research your thing?
The 2026 Radiocarbon Dates Scheme is now open until 25 March. Apply to date up to five samples.
Info + application: www.ria.ie/grants/archa...
Explore past grantee reports in the @dri.ie : repository.dri.ie/catalog/cj83...
@qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
Six people stand in a row holding books in front of a Royal Irish Academy banner and bookshelves in a library setting.
Today we’re proud to launch the Royal Irish Academy’s (RIA) first Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Strategic Plan, a significant milestone in our ongoing work to broaden representation across all our activities. 1/4
Read our letter today published in the Irish Times - regarding the announcement of the 12 members appointed to the National Science Advice Forum.
Galway Bay FM on that Arts in Galway story -
www.galwaybayfm.ie/galway-bay-f...
The King is mad
There's so much great (peer-reviewed!) data hanging out at @post45data.bsky.social for people to explore and play with! 100 years of major prizes (and the judges)! Everyone who went to Iowa Writers' Workshop (and who they studied with)! All NEA lit awardees! The Canon of Asian Am Lit! So much more!
Bronze sculpture of a female body without head or arms, mounted on a wall - created by Tracey Emin
Wooden box containing glass Schiaparelli perfume bottle sitting on a Meret Oppenheim table with metal bird claw feet.
Pushed out my London visit to take in Tracey Emin @tatemodern.bsky.social and Unveiled Desires (Fetish & the Erotic in Surrealism) at Richard Saltoun gallery. Definitely worth it.
You too!!
Interviewer: You might be able to catch some. It's all completely virtual. It's very simple, but it's also an overlay of physically based information that now exists on top of the real world. Herzog: When two persons in search of a pokémon clash at the corner of Sunset and San Vicente is there violence? Is there murder? Interviewer: They do fight, virtually. Herzog: Physically, do they fight? Interviewer: No- Herzog: Do they bite each other's hands? Do they punch each other?
Happy 30th birthday to Pokémon. Without it, the greatest Werner Herzog quote of all time would not exist.
As a member of the WHAI, and as someone who was part of the advisory committee who recommended a women’s museum - I am delighted with this response from my WHAI colleagues #womensmuseumireland
Hyperlink text should make sense when read out of context. Screen reader users can navigate from link to link, and can listen to links in a list. When navigating this way, only the link is read. So "click here" or "read more" won't make sense.
The scholarly commons is a shared enterprise as much as a shared resource - open research has to be seen beyond compliance as a recipe for decolonisation
#CopimConference
Siddharth Soni speaks to AI & Data colonialism: Big Tech companies grabbing our data exploiting our labour & connections, & repackaging our information to control our views, track our movements, record our conversations and discriminate against us. cf. www.lse.ac.uk/lse-player/w... #CopimConference
I’d hope so!!
Likens the “translation” (such as it was) of logainmneacha to GenAI in scholarly publishing: often inaccurate, vulgar, hallucinated. #CopimConference
Speaker Siddarth Soni stands in front of a projected image of a scene from Brian Friel’s play “Translations”.
So pleased to see Siddarth Soni referencing Brian Friel in his discussion of the commons and data colonialism. Absolutely fascinating keynote at #CopimConference
Closing keynote: Scholarly Book and the Digital Commons - Dr Siddharth Soni of @unisouthampton.bsky.social considers the future of the scholarly book amid new digital cultures of writing and reading, and the role of the librarian #CopimConference
The WHAI has issued a response to the proposal to host a permanent women's exhibition space in Limerick. See below for full statement.
womenshistoryassociation.com
The 2026 Archaeology Research Grant Scheme is now open until 25 March. Apply for around €5,000 in funding.
In 2025, RIA ARG grantee Kate Lavender-Duncan mapped and surveyed sites across the Burren, revealing a whole class of monuments missing from official records.
www.ria.ie/grants/archa...
