It takes a village to make moms feel bad for not having enough friends: www.theatlantic.com/family/2025/...

"If we are serious about our cultural identity, our heritage, traditions & language, it is reasonable to expect that the President should speak our national language." In The Journal, read the latest opinion piece from UL's Professor Laura Cahillane. www.thejournal.ie/readme/gaeil... #StayCurious

Glad to be able to share new preprint on how to make supervising dissertation projects more open and efficient with secondary data, open data, and evidence synthesis with Ashley Robertson, @amcreaven.bsky.social, Elayne Ahern, and @katebutton.bsky.social 🔗 osf.io/preprints/ps... #AcademicSky

Paris cycling numbers double in one year thanks to massive investment and it’s not stopping. A visionary urban policy lead by @annehidalgo.bsky.social 💫🫶🏻🙏🏻 momentummag.com/paris-cyclin...

I am pleased to see academics pushing back hard against the unquestioning adoption of AI. This quote captures all of my concerns in a nutshell.

#jobFairy 💚🚴🏽 We're looking for people to join our @iscycle.bsky.social team, promoting ebikes as a healthy and climate-friendly alternative to driving. We have scope to employ at least two post-docs off this ad, and RA posts as well #ebike #sustainableMobility my.corehr.com/pls/esbsheul...

Germany has warmed by about 1.7 degrees Celsius since official meteorological measurements began in 1881. In Berlin, we can see and feel the effects: less snow, and longer, hotter, and drier summers 🌡️ Today 21st June is #ShowYourStripes day - how does climate change look in your area?

call me crazy but I don't think we should.

Monday weddings in the wesht 🥳 ♥️

New systematic review by PhD researcher Aoife Bowman Grangel on health outcomes in young carers is out in The Lancet Public Health! Key findings: high mental health risks, unclear physical health impacts, and the role of social connection. Funded by @researchireland.ie

Lunchtime @unioflimerick.bsky.social today, and we even have a baby attending the session ♥️ GRMA, Ciara 🎶

In Legacy on RTÉ 1, UL's Dr Karol Mullaney-Dignam from the School of History & Geography speaks about the Bryce family whose creative spirit transformed Garinish Island from a bleak, windswept, rocky outcrop to a unique horticultural & architectural gem Watch: www.rte.ie/player/serie... #StudyAtUL

Happy Friday everyone! I just posted what I think is an important blog post on my website. It is a critique of meta-meta-analyses: meta-analyses of meta-analyses. Link: matthewbjane.github.io/blog-posts/b... #stats #metascience

Assistant Professor/Lecturer Post in any area of psychology in the Department of Psychology, Maynooth University (Fixed Term, 2 years). Sunday, 22nd June 2025. universityvacancies.com/maynooth-uni...

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Research funders at all levels must get past this fascination with unicorns and superstars. Invest broadly, and in enabling research infrastructures.

Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold

#tbt to 2012 when an Irish MEP asked the EU to standardise Mother’s Day across the continent

reminder that @kennysbookshop.bsky.social is the longest-running online bookshop *on the entire internet* (!!!) they have FREE postage in ireland (and it's not so expensive to mainland europe, either) don't give any money to jeff bezos and his employee-abusing company, go straight to kennys.ie

A gorgeous evening in #SpanishPoint ☘️

Yesterday's trip to @rte.ie Limerick, reflecting on digital mental health supports including yourmentalhealth.ie #TodayCB Https://www.rte.ie/radio/podcasts/22495682-digital-mental-health-services/

When will the sun die? A tough one from child #2 right before bedtime

A snippet of our graduation celebrations 🎉 Comhghairdeas all 👏👏👏

UL’s Dr Ann-Marie Creaven, on Today with Claire Byrne discusses how we can work on improving our ability to keep our attention focused and avoid unnecessary distractions: www.rte.ie/radio/radio1... #StudyatUL #SpeirGorm

Yes I did download the 70 page pdf of the Blake Lively filing for some bedtime reading

Happy to see two papers with Emma Kirwan (soon-to-be-PhD graduate) published in the last month. Emma's third PhD study, using @usociety.bsky.social data: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39548824/ - w/ @paraic.bsky.social @annetteburns.bsky.social @hri-ul.bsky.social et al... #LoveIrishResearch

Are you curious how the climate policies of political party manifestos stack up ahead of 🇮🇪 #ge24 next week? ❌ The three major parties - Fianna Fáil, Sinn Fein and Fine Gael all failed our assessment ✅ the Labour Party came out on top www.friendsoftheearth.ie/news/labour-...