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Ricki O'Rawe

@rickiorawe.bsky.social
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Senior Lecturer in Latin American Studies. Interested in the fantastic, surrealism, esotericism, decoloniality, and other modes of unsettling binaries and being in-between. Musician: -ence, Many Souls, Not Squares

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QUBstaff @qubstaff.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"My research is all about how we judge others based on how they speak, write or sign, and the TEDx talk felt like a good opportunity to encourage the audience to reflect on this."—Dr Emma Humphries @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social. 👉 Our latest staff blog: ow.ly/qX0k50ZPHqR #LoveQUBstaff #TEDxQUB
young woman presenting a TEDx talk on a red-lit stage to a seated audience in a darkened brick-lined room
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A point @annakornbluh.bsky.social has frequently made about labor intensification is that colleges cut support staff, offload essential work that support staff did onto faculty, then wonder why faculty aren’t being as “productive.” What once took our Asst. Dir. an hour, easily takes me twice that.
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The Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland @hispanists-ahgbi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🎉 Congratulations to our colleagues at Queen’s University Belfast on 100 Years of Spanish! AHGBI was delighted to join the celebration of a century of Hispanic Studies, including the inauguration of Gabriel Sánchez Espinosa as the first Cátedra Cervantes. 🇪🇸✨
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Ricki O'Rawe @rickiorawe.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Celebrating 100 years of Spanish at @QUBelfast To celebrate 100 years of teaching, research and international influence, we are hosting a major public programme featuring leading writers, poets and scholars from Spain, Argentina, the UK and the USA. Come along!
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Ricki O'Rawe @rickiorawe.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Mid-career researchers - check out this publication opportunity with the @hispanists-ahgbi.bsky.social .
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Ricki O'Rawe @rickiorawe.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Mid-career researchers - check out this publication opportunity with the @hispanists-ahgbi.bsky.social .
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Instituto Cervantes @institutocervantes.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
El Instituto Cervantes abrirá una extensión en Belfast (Irlanda del Norte) | ℹ️ cervantes.org/es/sobre-nos... La institución contará con la Queen’s University como socio estratégico para la apertura de este espacio, dependiente del #InstitutoCervantesMánchester. @exterioresgob.bsky.social
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Ricki O'Rawe @rickiorawe.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Some info for those frustrating climate denial conversations on buses, trains, and coffee breaks at work www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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‘Children were calling for their mummies’: UK pupils struggle in 40C-plus classrooms
Teachers call for schools to be urgently adapted for hot weather amid reports of nausea, fainting and heatstroke
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Ricki O'Rawe @rickiorawe.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
NI is failing its population by not requiring language learning throughout schooling: www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Learning another language appears to slow brain ageing, scientists say
Study finds those who speak two languages have brains that appear around six years younger than those who speak one
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Ricki O'Rawe @rickiorawe.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Cutting language courses puts social mobility at risk, say UK experts www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Cutting language courses puts social mobility at risk, say UK experts
Exclusive: University moves and falling exam entries fuel concerns about opportunities for working-class pupils
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Ricki O'Rawe @rickiorawe.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
The state of the present
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Vault Artist Studios @vaultartiststudios.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
'We will not stand by as racist pogroms sweep our city. Not in our name' - Solidarity rally at Belfast City Hall, Sat 13 June at 1pm. #solidary #rally #belfast
Dark Green poster with primarily white text. At the top there is a United Against Racism logo with handprint, followed by 'Belfast Solidarity Rally, Together Against Hate'. Underneath, a graphic representing a page torn from a desk calendar that reads 'June 13 Saturday'. Further text reads: 'We will not stand by as racist pogroms sweep our city. Not in our name!', and 'Belfast City Hall, 1pm'. Dark Green poster with primarily white text. At the top reads 'Together Against Hate', followed by 'Belfast Solidarity Rally , Endorsed by NIC-ICTU', a logo reading 'Stronger Together, Congress, Irish Congress of Trade Unions Northern Ireland Committee', Saturday 13th June, Belfast City Hall, 1pm'. Finally in the bottom right corner, there is a United Against Racism logo with handprint.
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Miriam Crozier @meerium.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
If you feel a bit like me and massively helpless at the absolute fucking racist scumbaggery happening in NI right now, here’s something that feels like it’ll make a difference where it matters:
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Support people and groups impacted by racist attacks
We are raising funds to support people who have been attacked, displaced and traumatised in racist attacks in Belfast.
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Luke Butterly @lukejbutterly.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
TUV + DUP politicians were on BBC radio blaming the horrific attack in Belfast on an "alien culture". When there are e.g. racist attacks on the Shankill, politicians from those same parties always make the point that only the individuals involved are to blame and not representative of a community
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Ricki O'Rawe @rickiorawe.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Excellent account of the struggle of universities in the UK www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Stefan Collini · Squadrons of Pigs: Bonfire of the Universities
The problems with Britain’s universities are systemic and deep-rooted, not just local or contingent. Yet political and...
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
US media keeps using the phrase “heightened tensions with Cuba” to describe what is in reality unilateral US aggression, with illegal sanctions and threats of illegal invasion, against innocent people who repeatedly say they just want to be left alone.
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Ricki O'Rawe @rickiorawe.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
“every farm decision, planning permission, wastewater investment, industrial licence and abstraction licence can be measured against a single sentence: does this make our waterways more drinkable and swimmable, or less?”
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Ricki O'Rawe @rickiorawe.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
‘ The report, 'Ireland in Focus 2025, Mind the Gap', shows that a relatively small number of far-right actors disproportionately influence public debate through online amplification, visible protests, and repeated narratives.‘ www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
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Far-right narrative not the majority view - report
A report by the Hope and Courage Collective, which works to build resilience in communities against rising far-right hate and disinformation, has found a widening gap between public attitudes and poli...
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Ricki O'Rawe @rickiorawe.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
What do singing nuns, pluriversal saints, and visionary painters have in common? They are all discussed in our new collection published today by @livunipress.bsky.social. Order for your library, today! liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
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Women, Religion and Culture in Spain and Latin America, 1900-2000 | Home
Please be aware - the LUP website will be in 'Read Only' mode on Tuesday 28th April from 7am-7pm BST (2am-2pm EDT).During this time, you will not be able to register new accounts, activate access tokens, or buy books/ebooks/articles on the site.
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Ricki O'Rawe @rickiorawe.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Very excited for this event about artistas visionarias in Barça today. The sobremesa last night alone was fascinating!
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Tori Holmes @toririo.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
An interesting conference being organised by colleagues in the Centre for Documentary Research here at Queen's University Belfast in June 2026. Home Frames: Documentary and the Domestic Space www.qub.ac.uk/research-cen...
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Home Frames Conference: Call For Papers | Centre for Documentary Research | Queen's University Belfast
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 13/02/2026
The court has spoken. Counter-terror powers must not be used to undermine democratic rights. Full statement from @drjogrady.bsky.social
https://www.ucu.org.uk/article/14409/UCU-statement-High-Court-rules-governments-proscription-of-Palestine-Action-unlawful
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 31/01/2026
Israeli air strikes kill 12 people in Gaza, health ministry says
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Israeli air strikes kill 12 people in Gaza, health ministry says
Three children and two women killed in strike on apartment
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Ricki O'Rawe @rickiorawe.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
A scene is made up of so many parts, some of which doń´t get the credit they deserve. The DIY-alt-punk community of Belfast has been supercharged over the years by the inimitable Gwendolin Patterson. Come help us celebrate her and her 60th birthday next Friday - www.facebook.com/events_invit...
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GWENDOLINS 60th Birthday Party
Friday, January 16, 2026 at 8:00 PM
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
“The idea that squeezing a tiny elite of billionaires will pay for everything is fantasy and we do need to expose that.” Good job no one’s ever actually said that - including me. So why is Labour again repeatedly lying to avoid taxing the super-rich? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Zack Polanski offering voters fantasy solutions, says head of Fabian Society
Joe Dromey, head of the Labour thinktank, urges his party to take on the ‘twin populisms’ of Reform UK and the Greens
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
The attacks on trans rights, which are basic human rights, are a terrible injustice and an attack on truth and fact as well. Everyone should be deeply alarmed and it should be disqualifying for a politician to support such discrimination.
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Ricki O'Rawe @rickiorawe.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Another significant Modern Languages department under threat. What does it say about current arrangements that learning about other cultures is being systematically devalued and disallowed?
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UCU @ QUB @ucuatqub.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
As an affiliate of Irish Congress of Trade Unions, @ucuatqub.bsky.social encourages colleagues to gather in front of the Lanyon Building gates at 12.30 on Friday 28th November to show solidarity with Palestinian trades unionists, workers and the Palestinian people. Hot food & tea/coffee provided!
Poster providing same details as the post.
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Ricki O'Rawe @rickiorawe.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Excellent source of decolonial thinking and reporting - follow if that is your thing.
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The Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland @hispanists-ahgbi.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
AHGBI, led by Professor Sarah Wright, opposes the University of Nottingham’s move to suspend—and effectively close—all Modern Languages degrees. SRUK/CERU, led by Dr Carlos Soler Montes, has also raised concerns. AHGBI urges immediate reconsideration. #SaveNottinghamLanguages
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Ricki O'Rawe @rickiorawe.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Nice primer on research about AI use and brain development
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Ricki O'Rawe @rickiorawe.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
With Palestine conspicuously absent from the front pages of some major outlets and bombs still falling on Gaza, let’s make sure to look a little further for our news.
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César Domínguez @drcesarpdp.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
📢 ¿Te interesa el realismo mágico, las narrativas contemporáneas y los estudios literarios innovadores? En breve se abrirá la convocatoria FPI (Formación de Personal Investigador) del Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia para la contratación de un/a investigador/a predoctoral asociado/a al proyecto:
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Ricki O'Rawe @rickiorawe.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Brexit Britain
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
You almost never see/hear/read a person-on-the-street quote in which that person is saying "Yeah, immigrants are great." If it hates it rates just like if it bleeds it leads, and we get a disproportionate number of right-wingers sharing their hate and disinformation about immigration from msm.
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Ricki O'Rawe @rickiorawe.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
JOB: Lecturer/Assistant Lecturer in Spanish (Global and Area Studies) - jobs.hku.hk/en/job/53267...
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Ricki O'Rawe @rickiorawe.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Sally Rooney on the hypocrisy of the proscription of Palestine Action : www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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Sally Rooney: I support Palestine Action. If this makes me a ‘supporter of terror’ under UK law, so be it
I would happily publish this statement in a UK newspaper – but that would now be illegal
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Ricki O'Rawe @rickiorawe.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Come join us for a special event to honour Ted Hickey (my father in law) on the 20th anniversary of his passing in the hometown of his close friend and musical comrade, Seán Corcoran. seancorcoranseries.com/requiem-for-...
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Ricki O'Rawe @rickiorawe.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
I wonder will UK politics go the way of post-agreement NI, when voters fled the middle ground towards Sinn Féin and the DUP.
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Ricki O'Rawe @rickiorawe.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
The embedding of AI into a platform some teaching staff are required to use raises all sorts of ethical quandaries, not least ecological ones.
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Paul Hayward @paulhayward.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Three stunning and shaming paragraphs, by Rachel Wolf of Public First, in @theobserveruk.bsky.social
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Ricki O'Rawe @rickiorawe.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
YES
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Ricki O'Rawe @rickiorawe.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Something the establishment is trying so hard to censor will always be worth seeing
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Geoffrey Maguire @maguiregeoff.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Job! Assistant Professor of Spanish @caiuscollege.bsky.social and Emmanuel College. Nine months from 1 October 2025 to cover my teaching while I’m on leave. Latin American literature, cinema or thought. Details here: tinyurl.com/33m6d389.
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Assistant Professor in Spanish of Gonville & Caius College and Emmanuel College at University of Cambridge
Apply for the Assistant Professor in Spanish of Gonville & Caius College and Emmanuel College role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply n...
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Ricki O'Rawe @rickiorawe.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
‘Musk apparently did not anticipate that it would be bad P.R. for the world’s richest man to take food and medicine from the world’s poorest children.’ What a dangerous, sociopathic, idiot Musk is.
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Languages, Society and Policy @lspjournal.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
💬 What can primary school French and Spanish teachers learn from Irish-Medium classrooms? Thomas Rogan explores how immersion-style techniques used in Irish-Medium Education could transform modern foreign language teaching in mainstream primary schools. 📖: www.lspjournal.com/post/languag...
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Ricki O'Rawe @rickiorawe.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Playing tonight in Belfast at Skronk Fest. Bank holiday skronk for those that celebrate.
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Ricki O'Rawe @rickiorawe.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Local UCU meetings in coming weeks. Come along/join up:
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Nancy B @flygirlfly625.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Read this again MAGAs. 19 households owned more Money than the bottom 50% of 208.5 million working ppl. 19 households made more than 104 million working ppl.
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Ricki O'Rawe @rickiorawe.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Oooof. A sucker punch of a poem.
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