Once there one can reflect on the make-up of the Universe, its foundation, etc...

Absolutely not. Nip this in the bud. Our Gardaí do not need to take steps towards the kind of impunity seen in the states. It's beyond dangerous. Their job is to protect the public above all else. If their role is to uphold the law they need to be beholden to it #spéirgorm

I sincerely hope the people who design the questionnaires we receive from the University every now and then are not the same people whose job it is to teach students how to design questionnaires...

April Fool is dead and gone. Now you're the fool, and I am none.

Note: a "tryangle" is an old instrument like a harpsichord, not one of these...

That wolf has been patiently biding its time... www.rte.ie/news/europe/...

In France the geographical spread of #AprilFool pranks is described statistcally by a Poisson distribution.

Particle Physics class test this afternoon at 2pm. #NotAJoke #Seriously #NotAprilFool

Is there an effective treatment for golf?

I see that Sexual Harassment Guy has a paper in the arXiv mailing this morning... #notajoke

Self-portrait. The night wanderer 1924 https://botfrens.com/collections/90/contents/25818

This one is hilarious! #AprilFool

My university: "Copilot is Microsoft's AI-powered productivity service that uses large language models (LLMs) to help you create content, analyze information, summarize documents, and complete tasks more efficiently." Microsoft: LOL

I can't wait to wade through dozens of unfunny April Fools arXiv posts tomorrow morning...

Today on International Trans Day of Visibility, Rainbow Rose and @ivanabacik.bsky.social of @labour.ie stand in solidarity with trans people in Europe. Your lives, your voices, and your contributions matter. We celebrate you — today and every day. #TDOV #TransgenderDayOfVisibility

I see that #Denmark and #Italy have followed #Ireland in making the correct decision to boycott the #WorldCupFinals

We are used to hearing from a handful of academics in the media on foreign policy, defence and security, and geopolitics. They all dismiss Ireland's tradition of neutrality and its basis in international law and decades of peacekeeping. They are not the majority. www.thejournal.ie/academics-an...

"These tests that the IOC and a lot of sports federations are now presenting as new technology. They have literally used these before and found that they were, on one hand, inaccurate in creating these false positives, and on the other hand, just in violation of people’s human rights.”

Manly Nickers United States, Census, 1850

That's three of them in prison now. Will we get the full set? www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

Sheesh. 36 years ago I was on the demonstration. From where I was, it was the actions of the police that turned a peaceful march into a riot...

All I can say is that I hope they treat the gerbils humanely...

There is funding for projects intended to improve the understanding and appreciation of basic science among the general public. Unfortunately, I'm not aware of any funding for projects to improve the understanding and appreciation of science by University managers.

Ireland says that it relies on the US military and State Dept. to abide by Irish regulations; so much so that it does not ever police those regulations by for example inspecting US military planes at Shannon Airport. That trust needs revisiting based on this report.

Grace O'Malley-Kumar's belongings were thrown out by Nottingham University after she was murdered by paranoid schizophrenic This isn't a failure of process -- it's a failure of humanity Universities must set clear standards of conduct & ethics to staff nottinghampost.com/news/notting...

To complement Trans Visibility Day there should be a Bigots Disappearing-Never-To-Reappear Day. #TransVisibilityDay

Europe builds Microsoft-alternative ‘Euro-Office’ to reclaim digital sovereignty The open-source initiative promises seamless document compatibility, transparent governance, and reduced dependency on non-European platforms tech.eu/2026/03/27/e...

Name-dropping Alert! I actually met Craig Doyle back in the 90s. We both worked on a Tomorrow's World Live event at the NEC in Birmingham. He was very easy to work with (and not unattractive, though straight...) Now I've discovered he studied at Maynooth as an undergraduate.

Computational Physics Lab status report.

objectively the funniest critique an american could level at another country

Italy stand up to US on the topic of airports and flights. Micheál and Simon could take lessons. #Speirgorm

Scientists Believe Scandal Free BBC Presenter 'Just Decades Away' https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2026/03/31/scientists-believe-scandal-free-bbc-presenter-just-decades-away/

It's trans day of visibility so have a bunch of queer trans gay stories for $9.99 Please share, make noise, send to your friends, it helps me out a lot. The bundle is up for the next 12 hours :) itch.io/s/183480/tra...

Happy International Transgender Day of Visibility! I was delighted to talk to a group of people recently about one of Irelands most famous trans people, Dr James Barry. 🏳️‍⚧️ www.transgenderhistorymonth.com/tht/james-ba...

I didn't realise they had laundry rooms on planes too!

Campus is very quiet today. I think quite a lot of students are already off on holiday, though the Easter break doesn't start until Friday.

It’s a source of constant shame for learned/professional societies, companies, and higher education institutions that they don’t offer a minimum/living wage to interns 💰 Here the @royalastrosoc.bsky.social is rightly in the dock 👇🏾 Please read and sign ✍️ tinyurl.com/ras-letter

Signing this could have a real impact. Let’s get behind it. Via @mousketeer.bsky.social

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Swampland Published Regular readers of this blog might remember that last year I did a post about a very comprehensive review article which had appeared on arXiv with the title Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Swampland: The Cosmologist’s Handbook to the string-theoretical…

Paying for the Open Journal of Astrophysics Everything is going well at OJAp, but it is not reasonable that the expense of running a journal that serves the global astrophysics community should fall entirely on one small University in Ireland. It won't be sustainable in the long run, either, if we…

Three papers published this morning at @ojastro.bsky.social bring the first quarter of 2026 to a close on a total of 70 articles. Using my sophisticated prediction software I estimate that the total by year end will be around 280...

New Publication at the Open Journal of Astrophysics: "Testing halo models for constraining astrophysical feedback with multi-probe modeling: I. 3D Power spectra and mass fractions" by Pranjal R. S. (U. Arizona, USA) and 4 others based in the USA and Germany. doi.org/10.33232/001...

New Publication at the Open Journal of Astrophysics: "Validation of the DESI-DR1 3x2-pt analysis: scale cut and shear ratio tests" by Ni Putu Audita Placida Emas (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia) and an international cast of 56 others. doi.org/10.33232/001...

New Publication at the Open Journal of Astrophysics: "Differentiable Stochastic Halo Occupation Distribution with Galaxy Intrinsic Alignments" by Sneh Pandya and Jonathan Blazek (Northeastern U., USA) doi.org/10.33232/001...

I have some Artemisia in the garden, if that helps... #ArtemisII

My PhD student Kay Lehnert's mammoth review article about the Swampland Conjectures is now published! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

James Lawless, in the same sentence, says that the gov is investing in LNG but needs to get off fossil fuels. #MondayGR #IrishPol

Paying for the Open Journal of Astrophysics Everything is going well at OJAp, but it is not reasonable that the expense of running a journal that serves the global astrophysics community should fall entirely on one small University in Ireland. It won't be sustainable in the long run, either, if we…

Caster Semenya is mounting a class action lawsuit against the Olympics for their patently discriminatory ban on trans and intersex athletes

#Caturday is for posing, greeting your fans and sunbathing @mulibrarycat.bsky.social edition! ❤️❤️