This is a new one for me, 0.95FTE? Like, 95% of a full time job? Where to next, 0.8275747 FTE? universityvacancies.com/university-c...

Having your country run by grifters, sex offenders and shitheads turns out to be a bad thing.

Start reading about statistical method X to be less of an ignorant methods fool. Find equal amounts of papers saying “Method X is never the right approach” and “Method X is always the right approach”. Runs t test.

People, please, I am begging you, if sending a document please just send it as an attachment, not as a link to the accursed OneDrive/Sharepoint leading to login, MFA, then oops you do not have permission to access the document then an e-mail "could you please send it as an attachment"

Just preparing them for life as faculty.

Another power cut in the town (and university) this morning, its like Heath's Britain circa 1973.

Someone has mysteriously left a feather duster outside my office. I wonder if it is a “Luca Brassi sleeps with the fishes” type of warning…

This quote also applies to universities...

I recently woke up from a dream involving editing thesis chapters, I need to get out more.

Just counted that I am currently supervising/co-supervising 10 PhD student or post-doc projects and my brain is mush trying to keep on top of everything (both big and small picture). I have no idea how people supervise more, they must have some extra cortical lobes or something.

You know who else enthusiastically co-opted Sparta as a model for themselves and their country? The Nazis. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

When the announcement of the resignation of the university's Vice Chancellor is met with cheers and applause.🧐 www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEas...

University managements 👋

Good times.

Do “free speech” enthusiasts engaging in “dialogue” ever show any evidence of changing their own standpoints as a result of that “dialogue”? No, didn’t think so.

Very Horst Wessel-y vibes going on. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_W...

Cycling peeps: our club is hosting its annual Sportive on Sunday 21st September, 65km or 100km routes through Meath and Kikdare. Hope to see you on the road! eventmaster.ie/event/oo2phk...

Everyone who Got a “Fundable but not funded” from SFI the last year had every reason to be furious that SFI preferred to piss away research funds on the lawyers for a management putsch. www.irishtimes.com/science/2025...

Meanwhile, in Kildare. www.limerickleader.ie/news/nationa...

***David Attenborough voice*** This year is no different to others, with the start of a new semester heralded by the re-emergence of the ceiling leak.

Ha ha UCD has a cinema in its student centre, but no wooden sheds…

🎼The first time, ever I saw your face, I thought your mitochondria had challenges🎼

Great European Biological Rhythms Society (EBRS) meeting, chapeau Lubeck! 2 posters and one talk done to fly the Maynooth Chronobiology flag.

@rrocheneuro.bsky.social SART mentioned in a talk here! You can run but you can’t hide!

Lübeck, ich bin in you innit.

Systematic review of the association between later chronotype and insomnia disorder. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Congratulations to (Dr) Ziba Asadpoordezaki on passing her PhD viva! Many thanks to Sean Commins and Alun Hughes for examining.

“We are not retreating, we are advancing in another direction”

Ah here.

Is there a German word for the extra hours you spend trying to recover an unsaved document over the time it would take you just to do it again?

Mark E. Smith voice: "Ten Americ-ahs" www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

The Continuous Improvement will be temporary.

I wish real life meetings were like meetings in Mad Men: they last three minutes before everyone agrees that it is time to get pissed.

Incompetent authoritarianism seems to be all the rage these days.

For some reason MS Teams us telling me what the weather is like in Poltar, Slovakia. WTF?

There are about 250,000 students in Higher Education here; 120 represents 0.05% of them, hardly a “barrage”. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

"Speaking truth to power in double-spaced Times New Roman..."

PSA: If you “keep making the same mistake”, it is not a mistake but a deliberate pattern of behaviour and should be treated as such

20 years ago, and we have fallen further behind. www.rte.ie/archives/202...

Sorry to go on about this, but there is something fascinating in the way this AI crap manages to be funny in ways people wouldn’t be. Like Urndon B. Johbon, President from 1981 to 1979.

The not very uncanny valley.

👍

Fuck Microsoft. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

@rrocheneuro.bsky.social Richard!

Another one ticked off the bucket list

Dear (some) American tourists: when visiting one of the great cities of the world, consider taking time off talking loudly about yourself to look around you, maybe even consider what all that deep history might teach you about the temporality of the human condition.

Here we are now, all the lads.