This morning - San Francisco bound - 4th visit of 2025 - PSP looking good this morning 💚

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Listening to lawyers on Radio 4 Today trying to make a case for human lawyers in an AI world … #ticktock

If you need to spell your company name out loud for people, you probably need to change it …

Full circle moment - I was back at Magee campus at @ulsteruni.bsky.social on Friday as the @royalsociety.org EIR attached to the UU Business School - our event was a couple of buildings over from where Learning Pool started out almost 20 years ago

🪹 | Seabirds that survived recent bird flu outbreaks have continued to reproduce, although overall breeding performance remains notably low, according to a new study. The study has looked at breeding success in Northern Gannets at two locations during 2023. 🔗 orlo.uk/44CaS 📸 Dave Pressland

A perfect SymPhysis: From Galway to global in cancer care revolution - #Podcast Ep 281: How two Galway University researchers are revolutionising end-of-life care for cancer patients #medtech #HealthTech #funding #irish #business #innovation www.thinkbusiness.ie/articles/sym...

'Angel investing as a way to keep the ecosystem growing is far more interesting to me than just making money.' Entrepreneur, mentor and angel investor @MMaryMcKenna on why backing women founders is a winner, her best mistakes and having boundaries businesspost.ie/connected/mary…

Nice commute to work this morning #Vilnius

After decades of absence, the nocturnal calls of shearwaters once more echo from burrows on Northern Ireland's seabird island. www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/M...

For an instrument of war, the 17thC cannons really are very pretty

Makes life worth living on a long bus journey 🙏

Great to catch up with Marty Neill yesterday at #BarCampBelfast as part of #BelfastTechWeek in Oh Yeah Music - love that casual talk format - stayed on to hear Tina Calder’s very interesting talk

Apples 🍎

Hate that we can no longer access @mickeyundertone.bsky.social’s wonderful Friday night radio show in Donegal - our Saturday mornings have been ruined … boo to BBC Radio Foyle

Today … 9 hours spent answering emails :-(

14 Sept & that’s the first fire of the autumn lit … ah well … I guess we had 3 months or so off

This week Edinburgh, Belfast & Galway … in that order … looking forward to the craic (work has to be fun!)

Great to hear the good work of @policyinpractice.bsky.social being amplified this morning on BBC Radio 4

I love these wee cottage ornaments that appear in many forms in Irish gardens across this island

Sketching little stints and curlew sandpipers on Teeside, September 9th. A blog at jonathanpomroy.wordpress.com

This week Dublin & also Belfast … looking forward … nice to get out & about to see people in real life

The Royal Society's Lisa Jardine Grant Scheme is still open for applications. This scheme offers early-career scholars the opportunity to use history of science collections, including our own, as part of their research. Find out more: #RSGrants https://royalsociety.org/grants/lisa-jardine/

Need a book? Bookseller Crow excellent indie bookshop proprietor Jonathan is gravely ill and they need all the business they can get. booksellercrow.co.uk They’re on bookshop.org too.

I’m going to be in #Riga this coming week - shout up please if you can intro me to any interesting people there 🙏

Professor Clare Burrage wins the Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Award and Lecture 2025 for her achievements in theoretical cosmology & her proposed project which aims to inspire and engage girls of all ages with physics. #RSMedals https://royalsociety.org/medals-and-prizes/rosalind-franklin-award/

The Clifford Paterson Medal and Lecture 2026 is awarded to Professor Philipp Kukura FRS for pioneering and democratising mass photometry, a novel means of mass measurement for single biomolecules. #RSMedals https://royalsociety.org/medals-and-prizes/clifford-paterson-lecture/

Afternoon delight #Porto

View from Pollan Bay in Inishowen, Donegal. www.inishview.com/activity/pol... #donegal #wildatlanticway #visitdonegal #govisitdonegal #ireland

New grants for exporters hit by US tariffs - Enterprise Ireland launches grants to help Irish exporters impacted by US tariffs with market research and new market entry strategies #irish #business #exports #trade #tariffs @entirl.bsky.social www.thinkbusiness.ie/articles/ent...

A tile museum with a QR code made out of … what else but tiles … and guess what - it actually works #TileMuseum #Lisbon

When you think you couldn’t love azulejos any more than you do … & then you stumble across a kitchen tiled by Querubim Lapa

Close-ups from the Temptation of St Anthony #Bosch #Lisbon snapped yesterday

Brilliant ! Thank you @thomasgothberg for today's #FoxOfTheDay

Most ingenious use I’ve seen yet of an @easyjethelpdesk.bsky.social sick bag 👍 #improvisation (LGW to LIS today - pure brilliant) #EasyJet

Can anyone in Northern Ireland help @abigail.bsky.social with her sheds of “stuff” she is trying to clear … 🙏

Our Faraday Discovery Fellowships are now open for applications. These prestigious long-term awards are designed to support mid-career research leaders to undertake high-quality, original research. Find out more now: #RSGrants royalsociety.org/grants/farad...

We try to make it clear that Lunch with the FT is not a prize, sometimes your lunchdate is a real pill. But this week is just a nice treat. Our lovely @sarahhemm.bsky.social takes Michael Sheen to Rules for chicken pie and cherry sorbet and what can go wrong? nothing that's what on.ft.com/4fxMwHd

We made it to the #EvieHone & #MainieJellett exhibition at the @nationalgalleryirl.bsky.social today - there are still 5 more days to catch it - don’t miss out - it’s 100 years since they were last exhibited together in #Dublin

We’re accepting applications to pitch to the #AwakenAngels syndicate in Oct, Nov & Jan. Only for #womenfounders based on the island of Ireland. Upload your deck at this link & we’ll be back to you loom.ly/_oRm9qE #angelinvesting #startups #ireland

Today we went to Beltany Stone Circle near Raphoe in #Donegal - it was magical & there was no-one else there - we were last there 30 years ago - guess what - nothing has changed 😂 - we have over 300 such stone circles in Ireland … which is your favourite one?

The big day is here #AllIrelandFinal Good luck to all #Donegal neighbours & friends heading to Croker today #JimmysWinningMatches youtu.be/HGHDz04CSg4?...

Interesting topic for Irish discussion #TabooIdeasForTransformation

We’re heading out to Day 2 of @macgillschool.bsky.social - join us on the livestream for some lively debate & stimulation on this year’s theme of “A Fractured World”

Join in the fun on BBC Radio Ulster tonight at 10.04pm as The Late Show with Mickey Bradley is filled with music from Jim Bob, Martha Reeves, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Sun Byrd, Bobby Fuller, Rolling Stones, @bunnymen.com and plenty more. Chat at: @mickeyundertone.bsky.social

🌄 MacGill 2025 is officially underway! We’re coming to you live from the Highlands Hotel in Glenties, where some of Ireland’s brightest minds are gathering to explore the big questions shaping our fractured world. Follow along! #MacGill25 In association with @notredame.bsky.social

This is probably worth a listen - I was at #SXSW in March & @meredithmeredith.bsky.social was by far the most interesting speaker I heard (in a fireside chat conversation hosted by @guykawasaki.bsky.social)

£13m of local public sector workers’ #pensions divested from #Tesla as NILGOSC ditches stock for first time in years