No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Tried to put the stakes of the Triple Lock in a broader context - Ireland's historic commitment to the UN, multilateralism and active neutrality vs efforts by FF/FG to dilute those commitments in recent decades, aligning us closer with EU/NATO defence structures.

Shame on @nature.com for publishing this ableist trash, and shame on the authors for writing it: Short 🧵>>

The Breakthrough Programme aims to support the mental health of young women by combining group boxing sessions, led by Olympic silver medallist Kenny Egan, with one-to-one psychotherapy over a 10-week period.

I had no idea that the wildly profitable Ryder Cup at the gazillion star posh hotel was a struggling charity event needing volunteers

A modest proposal for Irish cyclists. Maximum visibility. #SpéirGorm

"It's a heist movie!" 🤣

On days when I can work from home, I find listening to things like some slow Duke Ellington a real antidote to all the tension from being on campus the day before. Ideally, being physically in work shouldn't require recovery time.

New paper: we examined how sleep timing and regularity and eating behaviours associate with migraine features. Led by Shannon Richardson as part of her Phd with myself and Unai Diaz-Orueta. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Another excellent piece by Pádraic Fogarty. The Nature Restoration Law and the Land Use Review offer the government a real opportunity to address challenges like flooding head-on, but I have little faith they’ll take it. www.thejournal.ie/readme/storm...

I think my favourite thing about this clip where HC explains that current legislation is unfair to victims is that after she explains it, Michael Martin almost chides her and explains that her words are, in fact, very unfair on the government. The real victims.

Glossary from Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem (Boston, USA, 1892), trans. John Lesslie Hall (1856–1928), Professor of English History and Literature at the College of William & Mary. #literature #English #poetry #archaic #obsolete #language

There are echoes here of Richard Feynman’s behavior daily.jstor.org/asimovs-empi...

If you have to make me watch an entire video about the data protection implications of using AI maybe you shouldn't be pushing me to use AI.

Mikhail Belomlinsky- Bard vs. Smaug (The Hobbit) 1976

The current American administration really is a neverending study in pure incompetence and ignorance.

(1213) Irene de Jong on her narratological commentary on Herodotus' Histories - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=PW_L...

I had a great "look at the squiggles" moment earlier this week when revisiting the earliest Copernicus illustration of the sun-centered cosmos - we always look at the diagram, but the incredibly careful & artful arrangement of manuscript text around the central illustration is kind of fascinating:

Your periodic reminder that you can start learning ancient Greek right now, free of charge!

Stop callinge them "data centers" and starte callinge them "slop peripherals"

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

This is one of the issues I see talked about far less than others in discussions around AI. The technology doesn't train itself without human input, and people are being forcibly traumatised.

Workers hired for "data annotation" are not told the subjects of annotation will, over time, be more and more horrific. There ned to be class action lawsuits that bankrupt AI companies and throw executives in jail. In the meantime, "don't use genAI" - not video, not anything else.

I mean, it’s not even that “landmark”, it’s in-line with all previous research. Same as before: Sports’ governing bodies should set policies based on good science and a spirit of inclusion, not the opinions of lunatics who only care about sport as a wedge issue to bully trans people out of society

I'm sure hi viz and a helmet would have stopped this.

This pup found a stick shaped like an old timey pipe earlier today and has already solved three mysteries. 13/10

Today, Paul Murphy said that the Government are afraid to stand up to big tech, and Micheál Martin replied "How dare you? Who the hell do you think you are? That is a reprehensible assertion."

A correction for the ages (from The Guardian's review of 'Melania'):

The current historical accuracy 'discurse' has made me think of the movie Titus, for some reason. It was bizarre, alien, and thoroughly captivating. I watched it in a cinema on my own and it was surreal, one of those experiences that stays with you.

The EU can either partner with ICE or it can have human rights, but it can’t do both, no matter how much ICE represents anti-immigration wish fulfillment in the Union.

Wait, they've made the woman who hatched from an egg alongside her other three quadruplet siblings after the storm god seduced their mum in the form of a swan BLACK?? Whatever happened to historical accuracy!

AI is just advanced statistics, nothing 'intelligent' about it.

Life is cheap in Ireland on our roads and sentences by a court are laughable, especially when an appeal can restore a license this early.

New all-time minimum sea level in the Baltic Sea! The Föglö tide gauge measured just -71.6 cm below the mean level which is the lowest value ever recorded there. Records have been kept over 100 years, since 1924 (!). The sea level is still decreasing. (1/3)

Maybe instead of harassing cyclists the government could do something about this kind of thing? But that'd be harder so no

Meta will tell the Committee: "Our AI tools are trained not to comply with requests to create nude images – and we have built-in safeguards to prevent these violating images from being created." Which you'd surely agree, should be a baseline. Except for ⤵️ www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Striking paper from researchers at Anthropic using a randomised control trial to look at the effects of AI use on skills acquisition. TL:DR ‘We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery.’ www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...

The only surprise is they admit it

Sacre bleu

Apologies, please visit following link to read more: www.maynoothuniversity.ie/psychology/n...

American as apple pie.

Racists are garbage.

Come on Ireland, sign! For these ECIs to work and be considered by the European Commission, 7 EU member states must meet their threshold, for Ireland that's 10,080. We are now at 8,951, 88 8%. No more EU-Israel Agreement for the apartheid state. #SanctionsNow eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public/#...

When she tells you she hates the way you read 'Beowulf' aloud to her.

This is stupid and the people who wrote it are stupid. Statistical probabilistic prediction of the next words in a series, made to look like human speech and text because that's what it was trained on, is *not* intelligence.

Nature discovers a level below Nature Scientific Reports archive.today/2026.02.03-0... > The vision of human-level machine intelligence laid out by Alan Turing in the 1950s is now a reality. Eyes unclouded by dread or hype will help us to prepare for what comes next. you fucking idiots

It definitely goes both ways. Nobody with a moral compass becomes a billionaire and vice versa

No new pictures. Where are you at mentally?

Employees of a system built on exploitation did not expect to be included in the exploitation. #leopardsatemyface #Politics #News