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Ross Carroll @rosscarroll.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

A poem for the students using AI to write their papers.

Ross Carroll @rosscarroll.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I’m biased, of course, but this is a great piece of research by celestemcnamara.bsky.social It’s a fascinating window into the strategies and connivances that ordinary Venetians used to exit marriages that just weren’t working. Social and legal history at its finest.

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Celeste McNamara (@celestemcnamara.bsky.social)

Historian @ Dublin City University. Author of The Bishop’s Burden (Catholic UP). Currently working on the policing of illicit sexuality in 18th century Venice. For more see www.celestemcnamara.com.

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Ross Carroll @rosscarroll.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We’re SIPTU at DCU mostly. Never thought I’d be the strike veteran in the room. The questions people ask are gas. “Should we reschedule the classes that we miss on the strike day…” 🤦‍♂️😫

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Ross Carroll @rosscarroll.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Thanks! Would love to know your thoughts on it.

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Ross Carroll @rosscarroll.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My article on Edmund Burke, slavery, and plantation governance is finally out in Political Theory. I can’t recall how long I’ve worked on it at this stage. Definitely feeling more wearily relieved than jubilant. I hope some readers find it useful. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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The Perils of Improvement: Burke, Slavery, and Colonial Governance in the West Indies - Ross Carroll, 2026

Edmund Burke’s thoughts on plantation slavery have long been the subject of scholarly attention. Too often, however, discerning Burke’s long-term intention in r...

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Anyway, as much as we may mock, this is the wholly forseeable end-point of a system where universities are (a) deliberately starved of resources; (b) deliberately bereft of public mission and vocation; (c) deliberately placed in the hands of an intellecually/morally bankrupt management class.

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Xero now with 100% more 🎃 @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.

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Ross Carroll @rosscarroll.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This looks like a fabulous resource.

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I do wonder if the people convinced "AI" can only be a good thing for universities think it's just a weird coincidence that "AI" is also the favoured tool of the planet's biggest fuckheads as they gleefully hollow out the public sphere.

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Ross Carroll @rosscarroll.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Ouch! I can think of several political philosophers that these complaints apply to. Rousseau is definitely not among them (though I do have *other* complaints about him).

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

We are a people undefeated in the deployment of empty symbolic gestures.

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Britain and Ireland Association for Political Thought @biapt.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We are delighted to announce that Dr Paul Sagar of Kings College London is the winner of our Mid-career prize! Heartiest of congratulations to him. Our full statement is below. 👇 www.associationforpoliticalthought.ac.uk/biapt-mid-ca...

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BIAPT Mid-career prize winner 2026 - Paul Sagar - BIAPT

We are delighted to award the BIAPT Mid-Career Prize to Dr Paul Sagar, who is Reader in Political Theory at Kings College London. Sagar has made a seismic contribution to our field over the last decad...

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Ross Carroll @rosscarroll.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Agreed, although even without the cooptation, the qualifier “lived” has always puzzled me. It implies that there are kinds of experience that aren’t lived, which is a head scratcher.

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Ross Carroll @rosscarroll.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The phrase “lived experience” needs to be retired. I saw a CEO interviewed in the FT talk about how his new corporate strategy was informed by his “lived experience” in the job.

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Ross Carroll @rosscarroll.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

“Education … consists in creating motives. To show what is beneficial, what is obligatory, what is good - that is the task of education. Education concerns itself with the motives for effective action.” Simone Weil was on to something here.

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Ross Carroll @rosscarroll.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

That is quite the epigraph to a memoir.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

'Staff across the university will learn their fate on Tuesday after a 10-week process over proposals originally expected to put around 190 full-time equivalent posts at risk.' A harrowingly anxious weekend for Dundee colleagues ahead. 1/3

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EXCLUSIVE: Dundee University cuts shake-up revealed as compulsory redundancies loom

Hundreds of staff will learn their fate on Tuesday as Principal Nigel Seaton delivers update.

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

The provincialism of US academia is truly undefeated.

No US sociologists I've talked to had heard of Arday 2 weeks ago. Granted, not a random sample.

He didn't publish in flagship soc journals or top soc of ed journals. His apt was in education.

If he was famous, it wasn't for his work. And there lies the problem.

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Ross Carroll @rosscarroll.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

This would surely only work for very niche corners of scholarship. Unclear otherwise how editors could even tell if it’s “good enough” to begin with. You can only assess quality without the help of peer reviewers if you know the area.

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

"Arday was treated [by Cambridge] not as a scholar but as a mascot, one who was particularly expedient for an institution that had been regularly embarrassed by its historic record on race." Really good piece by Jason Okundaye. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The takedown of Jason Arday has overjoyed the right, and must be a wake-up call for the left | Jason Okundaye

The Cambridge academic has rightly now resigned. But that won’t end the targeting of senior black figures or the lazy way institutions promote faux equality, says Guardian columnist Jason Okundaye

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Ken McDonagh @kenmcdonagh.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Delighted and honoured to be joining the RIA Standing Committee for International Affairs along with several excellent @dublincityuni.bsky.social colleagues and colleagues from across the island of Ireland.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

How long before we start using the concept of ‘artisanal writing’? (Previously known as ‘writing’ before AI.)

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Ross Carroll @rosscarroll.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

It’s not all bad. Marvin Gaye? Nina Simone? Glen Hansard (God rest him) also had his moments.

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Britain and Ireland Association for Political Thought @biapt.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

There’s still time to submit to our Exeter conference. Our keynotes will be @davinacooper.bsky.social, @camilavergara.bsky.social, Stephen Gardiner, @raunaku.bsky.social, Richard Whatmore, and Musab Younis! This is not one to miss! Deadline is Friday, July 31st. Details 👇

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Ken McDonagh @kenmcdonagh.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Nothing says "I'm being over taxed" more than having $7 million dollars to spare to splosh on lobbying...

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Ross Carroll @rosscarroll.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Did you catch the shade against Exeter too (“somewhere known for its university and almost nothing else”)?

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

An unpopular take I have is that defending the humanities as essentially "reading," with reading taken as a collective moral good for some reason, is bad. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The Guardian view on humanities cuts in universities: academic departments are more than cost centres | Editorial

Editorial: Literature, the arts and social sciences must not be sacrificed as higher education funding is squeezed

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Ross Carroll @rosscarroll.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Yes, it’s about those delicious petty hatreds that we nourish for a month or so and then kinda vanish as soon as the football finishes and we all get on with our lives.

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Ross Carroll @rosscarroll.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

As if the WC was ever non-political.

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Look on the bright side, England, it's only 3.5 prime ministers until the next world cup!

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hell bent for average goaltending @theoilluminati.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

forever reminded of what jorge luis borges wrote on the falkland/malvinas war: two bald men fighting over a comb

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 15/07/2026

Coming Home Status: Nope

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Ross Carroll @rosscarroll.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Why were you watching the BBC?!

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I mean, you want them to lose, but to lose like this when they had it in the bag is just 👌👌

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Ross Carroll @rosscarroll.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Why were your expectations low?

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Ross Carroll @rosscarroll.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Have you read Returning to Reims? Am very tempted by it.

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Ross Carroll @rosscarroll.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

The crucial difference being that Dublin have won a shed load of titles.

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Ross Carroll @rosscarroll.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Can’t see a problem with that.

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Ross Carroll @rosscarroll.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

You mean paraphrases of your own work that you saw in peer review? I see no issue with that. In ways, you are kind of paying a compliment to the reviewer’s powers of synthesis, synopsis etc.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

The Command Economy.

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Ross Carroll @rosscarroll.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

You’ll be grand. There’s always the spare reserve of England hate to be tapped from that extra spleen that all Irish people have had in their bodies since the plantations. 😅

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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I've just spent a day at Exeter with wonderful colleagues who are all wondering what is to become of them. It is disgraceful how staff are being treated. But sure, Lisa, enjoy your pimm's on the terrace... (and thanks rosscarroll.bsky.social‬ for sharing this).

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