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Fionanimhurchui

@fionamur.bsky.social
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Dreamer, mother, anthropologist of displacement. Noli Timere

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Emmaaargh 🧟 @betaburns.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Of course Eoin O'Malley of DCU has signed the letter supporting Cofnas. Of course.
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Social Democrats @social-democrats.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The refusal to award visas to Palestinian students over their not being able to provide documentation such as bank statements, is nothing short of outrageous. These students and their families are being treated with a staggering lack of compassion by the Irish state. Where has our humanity gone?
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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Well done Phoenix Law Firm, the denial of visas to these students in Gaza is an absolute disgrace by the Minister for Justice. #LetThemStudy Minister faces potential High Court action over visa refusals for Gaza scholarship students www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...
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Minister faces potential High Court action over visa refusals for Gaza scholarship students
More than 30 scholarship students due to study in Ireland have had visa applications refused over documentary requirements, lawyers say
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Ronald Hartz @ronaldhartz.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
- UK universities paid an estimated £500m in agent commissions in 2022 - The three biggest owners of purpose-built student accommodation in the UK are all financial firms - “Learning products” ... are another rewarding area for financial capital www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...
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Private finance is strangling British education
More money is being spent on education—but this isn’t always to the benefit of students, or the country
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Research Ireland @researchireland.ie · 17/11/2025
Minister James Lawless today announced €3.5 million for 16 research projects under Research Ireland’s COALESCE 2025 programme. Two of the projects are funded by Cuan: The Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Agency. Read here: www.researchireland.ie/news/ministe...
A photo of, from left-right: Dr Stephanie O'Keeffe, CEO Cuan; Dr Diarmuid O'Brien, CEO Research Ireland; and COALESCE awardee, Prof. Roja Fazaeli, School of Law, University of Galway.
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Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+
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Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags
Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water
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Fionanimhurchui @fionamur.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Many thanks to @publicanthropologist for publishing my poem #airmailfortherevolution publicanthropologist.cmi.no/2025/09/26/a... #publicanthro #anthrosky @dcuresearch.bsky.social #archives
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Airmail for the Revolution | Public Anthropologist
written after a research visit to the Linen Hall Library with a team of researchers  to examine Northern Irish civil rights activist records , Belfast,…
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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus @drtedros.who.int · 02/10/2025
66 000 people have been killed & almost 170 000 have been injured in #Gaza. @who.int estimates that at least 1/4 of those have life-changing injuries that require immediate & ongoing rehabilitation. I call on all parties to this conflict to choose peace, now.
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 04/10/2025
Thousands take part in pro-Palestine march in Dublin, calling for sanctions
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Thousands take part in pro-Palestine march in Dublin, calling for sanctions
‘I feel optimistic because all we have is to hope,’ Palestinian mother tells crowd
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
When you drag a woman by the hair, beat her and force her to kiss your flag, that’s how you tell the world you are the Good Guys
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Dublin Inquirer @dublininquirer.com · 27/08/2025
At a recent gathering, there were calls for progress on returning African relics held at the National Museum of Ireland. Most are weapons, taken as souvenirs of colonial wars, said Olusegun Morakinyo, Africologist and former visiting scholar at the TCD.
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Calls for progress on returning African relics held at the National Museum of Ireland
Most are weapons, taken as souvenirs of colonial wars, said Olusegun Morakinyo, Africologist and former visiting scholar at the TCD.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
British surgeon Nick Maynard, who has just returned from volunteering in Gaza, explains to #GMB viewers how Israel confiscates all baby formula that doctors like him try to take with them. Why does Israel do this? Because they want to starve Palestinian babies to death.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Gaza is now single deadliest conflict for journalists in history. This is not only an attempt to extinguish a whole people, it is also an attempt to extinguish the story of their genocide. “One day, everyone will have always been against this.” - Egyptian-Canadian writer, Omar El Akkad. #Gaza
The city of Beit Hanoun in the north east edge of Gaza is seen from above. It is completely destroyed, not a single building is standing. It is all rubble, as though the aftermath of a nuclear explosion. The city had a population of 52,000
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
🚨BREAKING: The last journalists working for AFP in Gaza have said they can no longer work for the news agency. They are out of energy and they are starving to death. I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it. 🧵
Sans intervention immédiate, les derniers reporters de Gaza vont mourir
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L'AFP travaille avec une pigiste texte, trois photographes et six pigistes vidéo dans la Bande de Gaza depuis le départ de ses journalistes staff courant 2024.
Avec quelques autres, ils sont aujourd'hui les seuls à rapporter ce qu'il se passe dans la Bande de Gaza. La presse internationale est interdite d'entrer dans ce territoire depuis près de deux ans.
Nous refusons de les voir mourir.
L'un deux, Bashar, collabore pour l'AFP depuis 2010, d'abord comme fixeur, ensuite comme photographe pigiste, et depuis 2024 comme principal photographe.
Samedi 19 juillet, il est parvenu à poster un message sur Facebook: « Je n'ai plus la force de travailler pour les médias.
Mon corps est maigre et je ne peux plus travailler ».
Bashar, 30 ans, travaille et vit dans des conditions égales à celles de tous les Gazaouis, allant d'un camp de réfugiés à un autre camp au gré des bombardements israéliens. Depuis plus d'un an il vit dans le dénuement le plus total et travaille en prenant d'énormes risques pour sa vie. L'hygiène est pour lui un problème majeur, avec des périodes de maladies intestinales sévères.
Bashar vit depuis février dans les ruines de sa maison de Gaza City avec sa mère, ses quatre frères et sœurs et la famille d'un de ses frères. Leur maison est vide de tout aménagement et confort, à part quelques coussins. Dimanche matin, il a rapporté que son frère aîné était « tombé, à cause de la faim ».
Même si ces journalistes reçoivent un salaire mensuel de l'AFP, il n'y a rien à acheter ou alors à des prix totalement exorbitants. Le système bancaire a disparu, et ceux qui pratiquent le change entre les comptes bancaires en ligne et l'argent liquide prennent une commission de près de 40%.
L'AFP n'a plus la possibilité d'avoir un véhicule et encore moins de l'essence pour permettre à ses journalistes de se déplacer pour leurs reportages. Circuler en voiture équivaut de toutes les façons à pre…
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Our hearts are heavy for the grieving family of Jaime Alanis, who died from injuries sustained during a chaotic raid on Thursday. We will do everything we can to support them. We continue to work with the hundreds of farm worker families navigating the aftermath of this violent raid.
photo of Jaime Alanis
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Brendan McNally @brendanmcn.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
I have nothing but bafflement at how English politicans and English media can talk as if terror flags, hate directed against ethnic groups and yes, death threats to politicians, under the guise of state and establishment condoned culture, isn’t just what in Northern Ireland is known as ‘Summer’.
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EASA @easainfo.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
📣 Public keynote by @pinheiromachado.bsky.social, @ucddublin.bsky.social From streets to screen: The Digital Disembedding of Informal Economies and the Road to Fascism in Brazil 📍 @ucc.ie + online 🗓️ 27 June Organised by the European Network for #DigitalAnthropology (ENDA) 🔗 buff.ly/jMCAfOZ
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Walt Kilroy @waltkilroy.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Congratulations to Dr Gordon Ogutu who passed his PhD viva without any corrections at all at @dublincityuni.bsky.social‬ today. Many thanks to my fellow examiner Dr Rachel Hoare, and congratulations also to supervisors Dr Agnes Maillot and @fionamur.bsky.social‬
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Dublin Inquirer @dublininquirer.com · 10/06/2025
To mark a decade of Dublin Inquirer, we’re launching a collection of tote bags featuring headlines from the last 10 years. Have a look! And if there's a different one of our headlines you'd like on a bag let us know and we can probably do that for you. www.dublininquirer.c...
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Get your Dublin Inquirer headline tote bag now!
We’ve a new range of merchandise, just in time for our 10th birthday.
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Rebecca Solnit on compromise: "If I think the world is round and you think the world is flat, I don't really make the world better by saying it's kind of a squashed oblong."
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Dublin City University @dublincityuni.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Small Boat: this slim, devastating novel about a real migrant shipwreck reminds us of the cruelty of indifference. Piece by DCU's Dr Fiona Murphy @fionamur.bsky.social for @uk.theconversation.com. Read more here: launch.dcu.ie/3Fs65mu
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Dublin City University @dublincityuni.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
From a longlist of 13, six novels have been shortlisted for the 2025 International Booker prize. DCU's Dr Fiona Murphy @fionamur.bsky.social reviews 'Small Boat' by Vincent Delecroix ahead of the announcement of the winner later today. Read the @uk.theconversation.com piece: launch.dcu.ie/43DimxQ
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Fionanimhurchui @fionamur.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Why Wouldn’t You? A 12-minute film about solidarity, displacement & everyday acts of care across Ireland www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qDs... Explore the free Solidarity Toolkit: solidaritymanual.my.canva.site/why-wouldn-t... #WhyWouldntYou #DCU #RefugeesWelcome #Solidarity #PublicAnthropology
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Why Wouldn't You?
YouTube video by Maria Loftus
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Fionanimhurchui @fionamur.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Join us for the launch of Why Wouldn’t You? – a powerful 12-min film on solidarity & displacement in Ireland. Created by @DublinCityUni IRIN & Sanctuary 📅 Mon 19 May | ⏰ 10:30AM | 📍 DCU • Manual launch & activist roundtableRegister here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/launch-of-...
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Launch of DCU Short Film "Why Wouldn't You?"
Join us for the exciting premiere of the DCU Short Film "Why Wouldn't You?" on May 19th at 10:30 AM! DCU GLASNEVIN CAMPUS.
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Fionanimhurchui @fionamur.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Join us for the launch of Why Wouldn’t You? – a powerful 12-min film on solidarity & displacement in Ireland. Created by @DublinCityUni IRIN & Sanctuary 📅 Mon 19 May | ⏰ 10:30AM | 📍 DCU • Manual launch & activist roundtableRegister here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/launch-of-...
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Launch of DCU Short Film "Why Wouldn't You?"
Join us for the exciting premiere of the DCU Short Film "Why Wouldn't You?" on May 19th at 10:30 AM! DCU GLASNEVIN CAMPUS.
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Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 07/05/2025
I still think the stressfulness of Zoom direct messaging is an evil genius UI design feature that intentionally reproduces the anxiety of whispering to someone during an in-person meeting
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David Storey @davidstoreygeog.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
"May Day belongs not only to the land, but to those who labour upon it, and beyond it. To the ones who rise up when the land is hoarded, when care is undervalued, when work is invisibilised" @fionamur.bsky.social
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Theresa O'Keefe 🍉 @treesaw.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
This is what precarity looks like... and it's grim. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/hous...
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The homeless university lecturer: ‘There’s a sense of shame around it’
Screenwriter Jenny Roche was ordered to vacate her rented property in Moycullen, Co Galway, having overheld for more than eight months
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Fionanimhurchui @fionamur.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Happy #Bealtaine / #MayDay! I wrote a short piece for @thejournal_ie on the radical roots, seasonal thresholds, and fiery possibilities of this time of year.Read here: www.thejournal.ie/readme/bealt... #FireAndResistance#IrishCulture @dublincityuni.bsky.social
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Bealtaine in Ireland: May Day rituals for a world on fire
Dr Fiona Murphy catalogues the different Irish pagan traditions around Bealtaine, the Celtic festival.
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Fionanimhurchui @fionamur.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Happy #Bealtaine / #MayDay! I wrote a short piece for @thejournal_ie on the radical roots, seasonal thresholds, and fiery possibilities of this time of year.Read here: www.thejournal.ie/readme/bealt... #FireAndResistance#IrishCulture @dublincityuni.bsky.social
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Bealtaine in Ireland: May Day rituals for a world on fire
Dr Fiona Murphy catalogues the different Irish pagan traditions around Bealtaine, the Celtic festival.
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David Storey @davidstoreygeog.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
"The built environment is never neutral. Cities are designed, and design is power. Who gets to shape a city? Who benefits from its architecture, its transport, its housing? Who is displaced, erased, pushed to the margins?" @fionamur.bsky.social @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
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How design justice could transform Dublin
Design Justice is a fundamentally different way of understanding who and what a city is for
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Dublin City University @dublincityuni.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
How design justice could transform Dublin. Design Justice is a fundamentally different way of understanding who and what a city is for. Piece by DCU's Dr Fiona Murphy @fionamur.bsky.social for @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social. Read here: launch.dcu.ie/4j9uf47 #RTEBrainstorm
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How design justice could transform Dublin
Design Justice is a fundamentally different way of understanding who and what a city is for
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James Cuffe @jamescuffe.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
The Atlantic Anthropological Workshop is kicking off later today, my favourite time of year, stunning weather for it too. Www.atlanthro.org @fionamur.bsky.social @alissecc.bsky.social
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Andrew Simon @simongandrew.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.
There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they will come to your doorstep one day; to repeat the famous phrase about who they came for first and who they'll come for next. But this appeal cannot, in matter of fact, work. If the people well served by a system that condones such butchery ever truly believed the same butchery could one day be inflicted on them, they'd tear the system down tomorrow. And anyway, by the time such a thing happens, the rest of us will already be dead.
No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience.
Who cares if diplomatic expediency prefers you shrug away the sight of dismembered children? Who cares if great distance from the bloodstained middle allows obliviousness. Forget pity, forget even the dead if you must, but at least fight against the theft of your soul.
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Fionanimhurchui @fionamur.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
My reflection on #motherhood and #mothering on this #mothersday www.thejournal.ie/readme/mothe... @thejournal.ie @dcuresearch.bsky.social #care #anthrobluesky
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Mother’s Day: It's not gratitude that's needed, it's an honest conversation about motherhood
On Mother’s Day, Dr Fiona Murphy examines all aspects of motherhood, mothering and everything in between.
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Rebecca Fielding-Miller @rebeccafieldingmiller.com · 22/03/2025
Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
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Illan wall @illanwall.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Extraordinary, packed out event at the Irish centre for human right with Francesca Albanese and Omar barghouti, hosted by Anita Ferrara
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 20/03/2025
Ireland is one of few European countries to take action against Israel but more is needed, Francesca Albanese says
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Ireland could financially punish Israel without Occupied Territories Bill, says UN special rapporteur
Ireland is one of few European countries to take action against Israel but more is needed, Francesca Albanese says
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Fionanimhurchui @fionamur.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
It’s too complicated they say - a poem on silence, complicity and blame . Thanks to @publicanthropologist for publishing publicanthropologist.cmi.no/2025/03/14/i... #anthrobluesky #publicanthropology #poetry
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IT’S TOO COMPLICATED, THEY SAY | Public Anthropologist
A Reckoning in Seven Movements I. To Begin With Fire There are nights I wake with my hands curled into fists,nights when I cannot unclench…
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Fionanimhurchui @fionamur.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Lovely day had at @ucc.ie anthropology day ! Thanks to @jamescuffe.bsky.social for the invitation down to show our @DCU short film Ordinary treasures : objects from home !
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Máire Ní Mhórdha @mairenimhordha.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Join @anaivas.bsky.social @fionamur.bsky.social @saraorke.bsky.social, Nasrin Khandoker, Abayomi Ogunsanya, Chiara Magliacane, Ernesto Vásquez del Águila and myself on Anthropologies and Solidarities. #EuropeanAnthropologyDays Link to register: ucd-ie.zoom.us/webinar/regi... @easainfo.bsky.social
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James Cuffe @jamescuffe.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
#Corkcity welcomes Anthropology on the 28th Feb for a free public event celebrating World #Anthropology Day, a little late but we got there. Details here www.ucc.ie/en/cacsss/ne...
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UCC event to explore the science of humanity | University College Cork
Learn, Study and Research in UCC, Ireland's first 5 star university. Our tradition of independent thinking will prepare you for the world and the workplace in a vibrant, modern, green campus.
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Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
‘Stamp out paper mills’ — science sleuths on how to fight fake research By Anna Abalkina, René Aquarius, Elisabeth Bik, David Bimler, Dorothy Bishop, Jennifer Byrne, Guillaume Cabanac, Adam Day, Cyril Labbé & Nick Wise @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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‘Stamp out paper mills’ — science sleuths on how to fight fake research
A group of scientists who are experts at spotting fraudulent research outline five essential steps to combat industrialized scientific misconduct.
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Ethnic and Racial Studies @ersjournal.com · 18/02/2025
#ERSNew #ERSSpecialIssue🐣🔓 Uncover new perspectives on inclusive policies, social entrepreneurship, and community-led initiatives that challenge colonial legacies. Article by @fionamur.bsky.social and Ulrike Vieten: buff.ly/3EJ9sVF
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Anthropology of Work Review @anthropologyofwork.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
"... people are slowly becoming tools, machines in sync, bodies in motion, but rarely minds." @jamescuffe.bsky.social & @fionamur.bsky.social in @allegralab.bsky.social on the emergence of the 'fungible subject' under the drive for automation allegralaboratory.net/being-fungib...
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Being Fungible - They Only Want Us from the Neck Down - Allegra Lab
They Only Want Us from the Neck Down Across the airport car park, a figure in a mad dash—a sprawl of limbs in motion, with bags flapping like the wings of
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Dublin City University @dublincityuni.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
#ValentinesDay: Is true love possible in the age of algorithms? DCU's Dr Fiona Murphy @fionamur.bsky.social says technology is simply another way humans have tried to manipulate love. The question is, does it work? Read more in @thejournal.ie: launch.dcu.ie/3X1Y1yJ
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Valentine's Day: Is true love possible in the age of algorithms?
Dr Fiona Murphy says technology is simply another way humans have tried to manipulate love. The question is, does it work?
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Evi Chatzipanagiotidou @evichatzi.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Nothing says happy Valentine’s like @fionamur.bsky.social ‘s take on algorithms!
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Fionanimhurchui @fionamur.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
This Valentine’s Day, I explore how online dating fosters artificial intimacy—swipes, matches, and fleeting connections that mimic closeness but often deepen disconnection @thejournal.ie www.thejournal.ie/readme/valen... @dcuresearch.bsky.social @dublincityuni.bsky.social #ArtificialIntimacy
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Valentine's Day: Is true love possible in the age of algorithms?
Dr Fiona Murphy says technology is simply another way humans have tried to manipulate love. The question is, does it work?
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