Evan Spotte-Smith (they/them)

"The fundamental questions of the humanities concerning what and how we express a point of view or create a vision of the world is already at work when we ask about the future and try to fathom its possible forms." lithub.com/judith-butle...

An international conference on Palestine was due to take place in @maynoothuniversity.ie this weekend. The organisers rightly postponed it due to the cruel denial of student visas to Gaza students. Profs Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian & David Lloyd in the Examiner. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

This is absolutely monstrous. Child abuse at scale, shrouded in a sanctimonious facade of faux democracy.

'Now entering its 21st week and with no end in sight, the current strike involving University and College Union (UCU) staff is the longest in living memory in British higher education, originating from a staff marking boycott in April over proposed job cuts.'

"the scars left from the time before decriminalisation left a mark on members of the LGBTQ+ community, many of whom never returned to Ireland." www.thejournal.ie/patsy-osulli... @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social said many people left the country to escape the “dead hand of respect”.

Okay, I deleted the original post because people didn't check the link at all and mistook my typo of "young men" seriously. I clearly meant young women. Not sure why this isn't a bigger story, but I read this entire report today. It's gutting. democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center...

Did you know that Intersex Awareness Day is October 26 to memorialize public protest against the pro-genital-cutting @ameracadpeds.bsky.social ? Yep, the AAP has historically been pretty evil when it comes to forced genital cutting of children. ttpphd.com/2023/10/11/t... #Intersex #Pediatrics

Irish universities have followed the UK model of charging high fees to non-EU students to subsidise teaching and research. A sharp fall in visa approvals combined with a €250,000 shortfall in government funding is now putting the squeeze on university funding. #HigherEducation #Ireland #SpéirGhorm

The Royal Society is hiding all posts that mention that they still refuse to remove noted White Supremacist Elon Musk from their number.

Humanities dissertations have fallen by 49 percent since 2015, compared with a drop of 4.5 percent in the social sciences, according to a new analysis of nearly 445,000 dissertations in these two fields over 65 years. Explore the data: https://chroni.cl/4yxUZ4S

College of Arts & Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington has an open dean position. Please apply if you don't want to shut down the humanities and aren't an AI shill. Job ad basically says: promote AI + keep the humanities in check (prevent them from making a fuss): hr.iu.edu/working-at-i...

“‘There’s no way to sugarcoat this,’ Lau told them. Springer Nature felt that Scientific American’s criticism of Trump was threatening their broader business—selling subscriptions to their scientific journals. The federal government was a major client.”

appreciate well-intentioned invites to "important" AI discussions but most of the time folks have decided the outcome through their "it is inevitable" framing. no thanks i am much more interested in building my own table than coming to a table that's already set feel welcome to join my table

This is a desperately uncomfortable post. After putting off some dental work because I couldn't afford it, I'm now in the position of needing $16K of work so that I can do basic things like eat. I don't have an extra $16k (who does??). ko-fi.com/catedenial

🚨Job alert: be my colleague!🚨 Barnard College is hiring someone at the intersection of Cognitive Science and Computer Science. Please share and reach out if you have questions! barnard.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Facult...

About twenty years ago, I was about to start my first faculty position. (I was actually on the job market) I knew I wanted a 3d chemical editor easy enough for undergrads and high school students to use - but would work for #compchem research too I wrote a "manifesto" for @avogadro.cc

No one should be touched without their consent. Even - and, given the rates of abuse of children by family members and caregivers, perhaps especially - by family. Children have the right of bodily autonomy. Adults do not have a right to intimacy with those bodies, including hugs.

We have always encouraged our kids to understand have bodily autonomy and to be confident in asserting it in *any* circumstance. This makes them stronger, not weaker. It shouldn't really be more complicated than that imo.

**WE'RE HIRING!** The Open Journals Collective is recruiting for an Administrative Officer. This is a permanent, fully remote role and the postholder needs to be based in the UK. Full details and how to apply are on our website: www.openjournalscollective.org/news/were-hi...

Here is the BMA saying "we were worried about the FWS case, warned you about the potential health risks associated with the proposed Code of Practice, and now you have gone ahead and implemented policies that will cause serious harm to trans patients and staff' www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opi...

What better way to celebrate #OAWeek than to share news of our next @ojcollective.bsky.social library member - we're delighted that Ghent University Library has joined us!

here (go to topic updates): ec.europa.eu/info/funding...

Bravo @erc.europa.eu 🙄

"the combination of universities’ self-image as incubators & world-leading labs of climate action & innovation, paired with the obscene energy bloat & fossil fuel hunger of generative AI. It’s something a little worse than mere hypocrisy, more in line with betrayal & treachery." - @ketanjoshi.co

Coming soon: Al Jazeera uncovers disturbing links between British right wing activists, the far right and loyalist paramilitaries. #Glasgow #Belfast #London

New pymatgen preprint. I am one of 166 authors and 7 first authors. We spent 1.5 years and longer on this paper! Just finding the co-authors was a massive amount of work. #compchemsky arxiv.org/abs/2610.235...

I keep coming back to this from Tressie. Austerity as a tool to create corporate universities.

Fast on the heels of finally settling on a title, Yale just sent my new book cover, and I love it very much.

there is a piece to be written about this "no contact" as a very specific kind of moral panic about status, intergenerational mobility, and maybe dementia. because it is wild how much this no contact thing riles up older people.

The PSA invites submissions of course syllabi that showcase effective and creative teaching of the philosophy of science that reaches beyond the mainstream! 🧵

In "The Indigenous Anti-Colonial," Linda Tabar explores how Palestinians counter Zionist efforts to erase Palestinian presence and history from the land with a radical resistance tradition that does not yield to settler colonialism. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/H2AYmB6

I have a fully funded PhD at the University of Manchester on modelling actinide speciation in solution with multiconfigurational quantum chemistry. It starts October 2027 and is open to UK students. Feel free to get in touch before applying. Deadline Dec 18. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

there's a lot to this even in many FT/TT jobs (now vanishing) your real intellectual community are people you see once a year at a conference; perhaps your employer pays for you to attend and perhaps not your job itself is a constant effort to prove to your "institution" that your job should exist

go.bsky.app/PxafyB6

Colonisation mindset: destroy all other cultures

Okay, maybe someone here can help. Which countries have tenure, which means academics who can't be thrown out EVEN IF THEY CLOSE THE DEPARTMENT OR THE UNIVERSITY, and which do not? Italy and Germany do. USA, UK, Sweden and the Netherlands do not. Other data points?

I’ve a piece in @irishexaminer.bsky.social this morning about Ireland’s economic identity crisis www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...