The Orange Cat Brain Atlas is here. 🧠🐈 Today, we published the first comprehensive cellular map of the orange cat brain. The new atlas reveals a single, specialized neuron responsible for behaviors like staring at walls, knocking objects off tables, and the 3am "zoomies."

The Department of Education appears to be three years behind in thinking through implications of AI for student coursework, just as they change the leaving cert to increase amount of student coursework. A real hot mess that will hit university shores in a few years www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

From the same school as university managers minimising the inevitable and fully predictable detrimental effects of their poor leadership as "a bad year" or "a blip".

I must have achieved the elusive coffee/cans/crisps golden ratio for grant success.

Cycling trip almost finished. Guess I’ll have to go back to not having donuts and churros for breakfast😔

Not missing the hail and snow at home.

Life as an academic: today, paper rejected followed by big grant success. ‘‘tis a veritable rollercoaster.

My mount for the week.

One of the cardinal rules of the university is that there is always money for the recruitment consultants, even for honorary appointments 🧐 perrettlaver.com/maynooth-uni...

So much Listening and Learning.

housing is more expensive now, but also a lot safer. this kind of home was considered cream of the crop in the 1980s

I want to recruit 3 postdocs at Trinity College Dublin for the neuroscience arm of JUSTICE, a new @erc.europa.eu Synergy project. Focus: • fNIRS hyperscanning • deliberative groups under pressure • silence, dissent, conformity, status, and coercive drift /1

From trackers to gummies and CCTV, society has been gripped by #sleep hysteria | Alice Gregory www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... @rhulpsychology.bsky.social

UCD having a not-so-great moment. www.thejournal.ie/university-c...

Coogan Executive Search Consultants is proud to announce a new and exciting opportunity as Executive Pro Vice President for Incompetence, Arrogance and Fucking Things Up Before Leaving for the Next Exciting Opportunity. We have identified you as a potentially suitable candidate.

Well fucking done Simon, Micheál and the lads in enabling this ghoulish mess, great fucking work👍 www.irishtimes.com/ireland/hous...

Proud supervisor day with Ziba Asadpoordezaki graduating with her PhD! Each graduation day is special, and maybe this one a little more than usual with all the challenges overcome, from COVID to faulty air handling units and some vanishing homozygotes...

If it was the visit of a government minister they would be there come-what-may, so I guess it is all a question of priorities.

In my opinion, graduation days should be a priority for university leaders; I mean, what is the more important thing that they are doing rather than celebrating the graduates of the university?

The "great-man" theory of history but for tax exile tech bros.

The Burkes, the Free Presbyterian Church, the DUP and Charlie Kirk; WTF? m.independent.ie/irish-news/f...

Mandatory septic tank cleaning truck in the parade.

Only a matter of time before we have AI professors supervising AI PhD students in AI Universities and we, actual people, can all go home and have tea safe assured of the new system’s high “productivity”. www.science.org/content/arti...

Watching Louis Theroux‘s “Manosphere” I have become aware of HStikkytokky. I presume the HS stands for High Sensitivity, like the other influencers HS-CRP and HS-Troponin.

More exciting AI innovations in teaching and learning, and I am more than certain that this is what Richard Feynman would have wanted. www.professorfeynman.com

Exciting innovations in Teachimg and Learning.

Banana Republic update.

Jaysus, guess now I’ll have to cheer on Borthers, young Boris and the boys.

Campus e-newsletter having a normal one* ^. BRB, got to attend this technology health check, wait for the power to come back on, then deal with this existential threat to the US rule of law and democracy. *Within 2026 parameters ^ Actually a great looking talk

Also happy to have spoken with the Voice of Islam breakfast show about chronobiology, fasting and meal timing, and Ramadhan (and other religious observances), a really interesting topic! m.soundcloud.com/voislam/brea...

Happy to have contributed comment to this piece on a recent study on sleep duration and glycemic control. @maynoothuniversity.ie @mupsychology.bsky.social m.independent.ie/life/health-...

Outstanding behaviour from the Austrian bailiffs, I look forward to the Boeing 737 turning up at a local auction house.

The glacial pace at which some stuff happens here never ceases to amazing. Example is the University website, which is very 2010. I recall going to a meeting on the new website project in 2019. Apparently a new website is on the way now, only seven years later.

A painful unwinding of the Research Centres strategy that dominated SFI funding for nearly twenty years? www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

Simpler political times www.dailymotion.com/video/x2yo5zw

Hegseth is a Foxnews Goering

Senior Management are not “the university”: Exhibit #257. No time to consult academic staff but strangely enough time to brief journalists…🤷‍♂️ www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

Fluent aphasia.

Outstanding work👍 www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

Tumbledown Dick. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

“Everyone I speak to about Ivison says he’s an unusually, almost freakily, great listener…” University leaders really do need to listen A LOT more to their colleagues who actually do the core work of the university. manchestermill.co.uk/why-the-hell...

Proud to live in a county with such strong links to Dick Nixon. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

I wonder if they used executive search consultants.

Ooh, English Rugby, an endless cycle of hubris and nemesis. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/m...

Someone is after printing out about 30 pages of A3 from a Reddit Antivax thread on a shared printer 👍

I am not sure the VC responsible for this is the best spokesperson for the sector, but what do I know… www.timeshighereducation.com/news/birming...

I worked as a butler.

Somehow, it’s all about AI.