@kevinkosullivan
Author of The NGO Moment (http://cambridge.org/9781108708548). Associate Professor in History at University of Galway. Co-editor @difp-ria.bsky.social. Currently researching climate change and capitalism in c20th & early c21st Ireland
They weren't kidding - these figures are astounding:
"Each of these data companies touts its stable of pedigreed experts. Mercor says around 30,000 professionals work on its platform each week, while Scale AI claims to have more than 700,000 'M.A.’s, Ph.D.’s, and college graduates.'"
Very excited to get up and running with this one: awarded £1.5m AHRC Standard Grant for Landscapes of Catastrophe, a project examining the context and impact of the Great Irish Famine www.qub.ac.uk/schools/NBE/...
I wish I had a more sophisticated response than to say it's a really disgusting use of language. But it's both entirely deliberate *and* a dead giveaway about the intellectual poverty of their own concept of gender and identity that they feel the need to categorise in this way.
Photograph of a white hand dryer. The name of the company is on the bottom left of the machine. It is titled, simply: Hubris Limited.
A hand dryer, spotted on campus today.
Pretty good name for a company dedicated to emitting hot air, I suppose.
Linking these two posts together, is it too simplistic to conclude that without data centres soaking up power from the grid, we might be in a better place? And that Irish consumers might be able to reverse ever-increasing prices for electricity?
On eve of #IWD2026 am delighted to share project webpage for #womensgrassrootsactivism & link to download #Activism100+ Toolkit ahead of launch on Tuesday 10 March, 5.30pm via Zoom. Take a look to find out more. @whaireland.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social
learn.lsbu.ac.uk/womens-grass...
"It is hard to overstate the bravery of this act of non-compliance. These women are in effect prisoners. They have no escape hatch, nowhere to hide from potential consequences."
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Photo of an A3 pad on a stand. There is only one word written on a white sheet of paper: 'Keynes.'
Saw this in the room I was teaching this morning. It seems appropriate to our moment, somehow...
In the latest Urban History interview, @erikahanna.bsky.social speaks to @samgrinsell.bsky.social about his recent article 'Urban History as Urgent Work'. It's an incredibly rich discussion of the intersection of urban history and environmental history, and how we do and communicate our research
Preparing by listening to another Cold War-era product of the Global South: the Ethiopian jazz-soul-funk sounds of Alemayehu Eshete youtu.be/onL__vWjFYw?...
I'm currently teaching a final year course on Globalisation since 1945 and every week is a rollercoaster of "here's the world that was built and here's how it's been dismantled..." With impeccable timing, today we start two classes on the global Cold War and its violent impact in the Global South.
Well, there's obviously a piece of work to be done there then. 😆
I don't know how and when, exactly, the phrase "there's a piece to be done on this" crept into our everyday bureaucratic lingo, but my word is it irritating...
On the flip side, surely it can't be as boring as Roy Keane's "chat" with Roddy Doyle in the Marquee last summer. Tedious long before they got to the "best XI you've ever played with or against" malarkey.
See this, for example, from a fan, quoted anonymously, who described her attendance at the last World Cup: '"I literally feel like I'm in mourning. My brothers and sisters have died. Even though I'm excited to be here and I'm enjoying the game, I'm not happy," she says.' www.bbc.com/news/world-m...
There is something deeply distasteful about the idea that football should already be making contingency plans for a World Cup without Iran. Especially given their fans' use of past tournament as a space for protest. www.theguardian.com/football/202...
"Everything is politics...You don't get to make art in a fascist state"
CMAT delivering, mar is gnách. 👏
(Same goes for sport btw)
#Speirgorm
A white horse standing in the middle of a field. The sky is grey and there are briars in the foreground.
A horse, yesterday.
Friday night listening is the new Bill Callahan album, 'The Days of 58'. I almost laughed out loud at this line (from Pathol O.G.): "I remember one girl in east Tennessee, where girls in songs always seem to be."
youtu.be/6gSveB1tLT8?...
History: who the fuck?
Historiography: who asked "who the fuck" and why the fuck did they?
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...
"The new terms ... would give the US military carte blanche to use services for mass surveillance and lethal autonomous weapons, AI that has full power to track and kill targets with no humans involved in the decision-making process."
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
We are advertising a two-year lectureship in Modern British History at University of Cambridge, please spread the word!
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
Reposting this: the question was asked what book in your field had a sizeable impact on the way you think about that field. My answer is Linda Nash, which has been instrumental in the way I think about my current work and radically altered my ambition for that work - by highlighting what's possible.
Front cover of Linda Nash's book Inescapable Ecologies (2006).
Most recently, it was Linda Nash's book, Inescapable Ecologies. It's twenty years old now, but when I read it last year it completely altered how I understood the relationship between our bodies and the environment - and how that relationship challenges our understanding of temporality.
Really great. I read her book, West, a long time ago. Worth a look as well.
Now *that's* commitment to the cause: nothing could drag me into Douglas traffic!
Superb book. I love her writing style
You are a true middle-class Corkonian now, Jay!
Just finished a proposal for my next book, which will be co-written with David Webster of Bishops University - a global history of the Timor Leste solidarity movement from 1974-2002 (ish). I first wrote about the Timor solidarity movement in 2004, and have wanted to write this book for a long time.
