Most of my morning routine is now shutting down pop ups telling me that AppsAnywhere is not working in myriad different ways.

"We need to be in the room"

Err, is this supposed to happen?

Just making a picture of a baroque church black and white now makes me think that Ripley is about to murder and assume the life of a new victim.

Poor old Saint Luigi looks like he has been a present of a crucifix and is very disappointed.

Driving on the SS16 motorway here which satnav is helpfully pronouncing as ”Sulfur Hexadecide Sulfide”

This is just so fucking stupid.

As usual, there is a The Fall song for the occasion. m.youtube.com/watch?v=dIyU...

my body is a machine that transports authentication codes from my screen to my phone and some other supporting auxiliary functions

Having lunch in a small very traditional trattoria in Puglia and there is a print of the Punchestown Races on the wall.

Really enjoyed taking part in this discussion on the perils of health tracking, including sleep. @maynoothuniversity.ie @mupsychology.bsky.social www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Hope they are also using H-factors.

So Wellcome are retrenching from funding discovery research in Ireland, another outstanding success for our “innovation” fixated research policy makers.

Saint Lucy with a cup containing her eyes.

Out of Office is On, parking my many professional headaches for a few weeks!

British Loyalists in Ireland rioting over immigration reminds me of this classic from Ali G and Sammy Wilson "Iz you here on holiday?" www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4Te...

What are the chances that the university will somehow find the money to pay off the hackers whilst simulataneouly firing hundreds of employees because they don’t have any money? www.bbc.com/news/article...

The leaders of Ireland's new Rinn national research network. I can only assume from this line-up that women in STEM initiatives are failing to produce results.

Going for the "Logan Roy dead in the toilet" look.

“…an increased number of international students will be strategically important to Ireland’s higher education funding model.” There is literally no terrible/discredited idea from the UK 20 years ago we won’t try to implement. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

Operation Transformation‘s legacy continues.

USA shaping up to be a worse World Cup host than Qatar and Russia, slow handclaps all around.

Seriously, it evades university managerialism's notice that universities only function because of staff good will and un-paid labour. Take that away and nothing works: giving up your Saturday to do an Open Day-no; giving up your weekend for exam marking-no; taking on unpaid leadership roles-no.

"Beatings to continue until morale improves" etc.

Is this not the greatest meme?

More Free Speech updates.

Good to remind ourselves what the internet was really invented for www.instagram.com/reel/DZC3MNB...

Free Speech update. www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...

Heard today about a multinational in which employees work in teams, and each week teams have to vote for who their ”weakest link” is. Excellence in HR in action!

Absolutely massive news from spamworld.

My letter to Minister Lawless about Research Ireland's decision to devolve the awarding of doctoral scholarships & postdoctoral fellowships to universities. A disastrous move. Please consider raising this issue in your own institutions and with elected representatives and the media.

11. Addendum: here are the words characteristic of LLMs. Notice anything? It reads like an email from our upper administration.

”That is out”, That is out.”, “That is out”. 💪👍 www.rte.ie/archives/201...

I would like to say I am surprised.

I read in the newspapers that the poor lad who was murdered in Dublin at the weekend was a student at our university. Just terrible. www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...

Pope-ally wired! Why Mark E Smith’s maligned Catholic play is getting a reboot

Enjoyed touching on the weird and sometimes frightening world of parasomnias with @seanmoncrieff.bsky.social . @mupsychology.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie www.newstalk.com/podcasts/hig...

Once again to make the point that notwithstanding these big concerns, the fundamental weakness is that Ireland chooses not to make civic investment in research to anything like the level of our peers (by whichever metric you choose to look at).

Tough morning for university managers the world over.

Not only concerns about the sidelining of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences but also fundamental science. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

“superparamagnetic macrophages in the liver” is not a phrase I expected to read today… www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The weather has, err, developed...

Not The Onion.

When able to spend a couple of hours in the pub before doing a driving test, who amongst us wouldn’t have four pints and seven whiskies? www.rte.ie/archives/201...

I am now officially BORED of MARKING (BoM).

Somehow they have managed to make the RIS system even worse. I wouldn't have thought it were possible, but you should always dream the impossible dream.

“The principles of collegiality include academic freedom, shared responsibility, the policy of participation of all concerned in internal decision making structures and practices, and the development of consultative mechanisms.” www.unesco.org/en/legal-aff...

Look Dublin, a medium sized city with a tap on/tap off system!