Out of office on, Merry Christmas all and let the season of getting trapped in supermarket car parks well and truly begin!

Christmas gifts from the lab, not sure what it says about me but suspect it may be accurate.

Exam time! Technological innovation has destroyed the advances made by technological innovation, so students once again sit their exams using tools from the 18th century ('pencil') and the 2nd century ('paper') #analoglife

The Carol service at Maynooth, one of our great traditions.

We were honoured to welcome MU alumna and PSI President Dr Sarah Cassidy as speaker at the final #MUPsychologyAt25 event, introduced by @maynoothuniversity.ie Prof. Eeva Leinonen and Prof. Deirdre Desmond, followed by a panel discussion with Alumna Dr Anne Kehoe and Dr Ian O’Grady.

A wonderful close to our celebrations for @mupsychology.bsky.social at 25, opened by @d-desmond.bsky.social and @maynoothuniversity.ie President Eeva Leinonen, keynote talk by PSI President Sarah Cassidy & panel discussion with Sarah, Anne Kehoe & Ian O'Grady, chaired by @cooganlab.bsky.social

I see we are back to doing this

The Imperial Warlord of all Reviewer#3's has entered the chat.

Current weather conditions are null.

Delighted to talk all things Sleep with Karl Henry on the Real Health Podcast @maynoothuniversity.ie @mupsychology.bsky.social www.independent.ie/podcasts/rea...

That's not Mark E. Smith, silly Billies...

Oh God, I have been doing this long enough to have a failed grant application ON A FLOPPY DISK😬

Of the 6 Irish-based ERC consolidator awards, only 1 in STEM. This pattern repeats in previous rounds and calls. Short-sighted government science policy has been a disaster over 13 years has deeply eroded capacity to be competitive at the highest level. www.siliconrepublic.com/innovation/s...

happy stylish but illegal monkey day to all who celebrate!!!!! by the way his name is darwin and he lives a farm now

Safe to say that communication isn’t exactly a strong suit around here.

I, for one, welcome our new robot sandwich-maker overlords.

Can’t wait to spend all my certificates of appreciation and peer reviewer acknowledgements in the shops this Christmas!

I was delighted to talk on Saturday to the Parkinson’s UK South East Parkinson's Research Interest Group on our recent work on sleep in PD - recording available here. parkinsons-org-uk.zoom.us/rec/play/a-W...

I think Covid made a huge difference, universities did a lot of taking and (in my direct experience anyway) absolutely no giving, making clear the nature of the social contract between institutions and their staff, and we cannot go back and unknow that.

Useful decision-tree to inform your socialising this season.

Pretty clear now that this is the apex point at which they should have stopped the internet www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYc4...

Looking forward to chairing this, should be fun and interesting! Please do come along if you are interested in how the professional discipline of psychology operates within our society and health services.

The man who inspired Australia's teen social media ban literally did this:

I have worked here for 17 years, 6 of which I was Head of Department, and never was asked even once by IT Services what our needs and preferences were. Remarkably incurious.

Ooh, it’s a hot day for the Unplanned IT Service Disruptions, the sheer excitement of it all.

Nothing says commitment to strategic leadership quite like an interim role.

I love Yamamori, and remember going there when it opened for our Christmas do when I was PhD student, very exotic at the time. www.irishtimes.com/food/restaur...

I had never noticed before the Welsh Chapel Talbot Street in Dublin, apparently used to cater to merchant sailors running between Dublin port and Holyhead.

We’re proud that a Bantshire student ambassador is on placement at the OBR today.

We are recruiting an information systems manager to support our data management and stewardship efforts. 13-month contract on 53k/year, but I'll be looking to extend the role contingent on renewed funding for our CRF. Small, close-knit team + flexible working arrangements.

Getting past that grant submission deadline.

Unless it involves a robot bringing plastic pints glasses of Heineken to their seats, I'm not sure it is going to work...

Fucking aresholes. www.bbc.com/news/article...

***Poirot Voice*** “I deduce from the contents of ze bin that le Professeur was engaged in ze enterprise of grant writing.”

“…in the cheapest way possible”. Yup 👍 www.theguardian.com/education/20...

ANOVA Oven, perfect for cooking results. anovaculinary.com/products/ano...

Anyone remember the TCD/UCD Innovation Alliance? Good times! www.irishtimes.com/opinion/ucd-...

Yes, yes, HR Transformation, but in which direction?

“France’s top university will focus on free, open participative infrastructures to “reclaim ownership” of its data, its president says.” sciencebusiness.net/news/univers...

Sigh, having to write this so my colleagues don't get spammed by useless university rankers: "Please do not contact any of my collaborators with this, I believe that university rankings are conceptually and methodologically invalid and the ranking companies offer nothing to higher education"

Pub phrenology

Premature Santa

A great example of the sunk cost fallacy in research; at which point do you stop asking non-productive research questions and admit that no further research is warranted as there just is not much effects of importance there?