My trips to Dublin to support Cork teams in national finals this year have both ended unfortunately, so it’s probably best for all concerned that I’ll be supporting Cork City from my living room this afternoon. Regardless, #rebelarmyabú

From Eamonn Sweeney’s sports column in the Indo 👏

Imagine the chaos this would prompt in Ireland. 'Cripes, how do I know them? They've smiled and waved and Eye Contact, I have to stop and chat. Is that Mary's friend with the liver cancer or the guy I worked with three jobs ago? Do I lead with "do ye still all go to that pub on the quays" or not?'

Based on Clark, R. D., & Hatfield, E. (1989). Gender differences in receptivity to sexual offers. Journal of Psychology & Human Sexuality, 2(1), 39–55, of course. Are there many other top 10 hits based on psychology articles?

5 year anniversary of the funniest thing to happen in a particularly joyless year for sport. #gaa youtu.be/zXA-Yy6k5Lw?...

A fair summary of where we are … #ccfc84 www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer...

Here’s the link: www.gov.ie/en/departmen... It’s probably worth stressing that there will be groups who will be highly motivated and organised in responding to this survey, so if you have primary school age children and don’t want your voice drowned out by such groups, well…

Haven’t seen much discussion of this on #spéirghorm today - flagging it in case it winds up going under the radar.

Now do the show but only with senior academics.

#celebritytraitors spoiler alert. Joe, putting in the hard yards of repeated tough unglamorous muddy work to set his team up for an unlikely victory. Nick:

FFS. 🤦🏼‍♂️ At least Social Psychology’s embarrassing moment this week happened 70 years ago. Not sure what History’s excuse is.

Solidarity with former colleagues at Leicester- this is dreadful. The idea that you’d close Human Geography and lay off staff with considerable expertise in migration, in *Leicester* of all cities…

Ha, there's a *lot* going on here. If only, if *only* we knew of someone who had published several excellent peer-reviewed social scientific articles on how the multi-generational Irish in England negotiate 'authenticity' in dialogue with a real or imagined interlocutor.

-- Call for Papers -- Special issue on "Intersectionality in Social Psychology: Perspectives, Methods, and Applications" in the British Journal of Social Psychology. Abstract submission deadline: 15 December 2025

Cork people, I will be doing a guest lecture, ;The Biopolitics of Urban Green Space' at the Cork Centre for Architectural Education, Monday the 10th, from 1 to 2. Open to all comers as far as I know.

"Congratulations, son. Have you given any thought to your future?"

the idea that psychology's privileged position in policymaking reflects a structural/ideological preference for individual explanation has been my main pub bore rant for decades!!reflected esp. more recently in the uncritical and wholesale embrace of "behavioural science/economics" in policymaking

Well, now, look what arrived in the post... Delighted to share that my new book on psychology and the culture wars has now been published. Writing it was a long, at times depressing, but ultimately satisfying journey for me. I hope you like it Deets here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

*cough* www.faber.co.uk/product/9780...

So far I've heard some really rich and interesting stories from my participants on how second-gen identity is negotiated in contemporary Ireland. Still looking for more participants, and would appreciate another push from my Irish followers if possible 🙏 #spéirghorm #identity #migration #Ireland

Haven’t seen much discussion of this on #spéirghorm today - flagging it in case it winds up going under the radar.

Shocking anti-Irish racism on Coronation Street. Carla just got back from two weeks in Ireland and said “I haven’t had a decent cup of tea in ages”

In a change to our planned seminar series, our next seminar will be Sophie Cooper speaking on 'Building to feel ‘at home’: Embedding/embedded memory in the built environments of Belfast and the diaspora'. Thursday 13 Nov, *online* at 7pm. @sophcocooper.bsky.social www.eventbrite.ie/e/sophie-coo...

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

If we argued for a hierarchy of violence from riots and broken windows to murder, we have already been on the far end of the scale for too long. This has yet to trigger any terrorism protocols, despite clearly fitting the criteria. Unclear if leadership is waiting for someone to inevitably die.

This is the reality in Ireland since 2023: the far right is not so much institutionally present and influencing legislation directly as much as it is committing acts of grave violence motivated by hate, which in turn makes national politics reluctant to say no. A man was even tortured in Dublin.

Sorry could I get two gin & tonics, 2 pints of Guinness, white wine, a jameson and 3 packets of tayto thanks

An important demonstration of hope and welcome at Grand Parade this afternoon — especially after last night's cowardly attack in Drogheda. Thank you to the Lord Mayor, Fergal Dennehy, for representing the city so passionately, Laura Harmon for organising and everyone who spoke, sang and danced. 👏👏

Cork in November

All political leaders will sincerely condemn this outrage. Some should weigh more carefully the impact of their public statements about policies and practices for which they themselves are responsible.

Most read on #RTEBrainstorm: are you a headphone dodger? Aoife Ryan-Christensen finds out why some people play their phones out loud on buses and trains - with insights from @draislingod.bsky.social @unioflimerick.bsky.social www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Bhí “Ozymandias, King of Kings” Scríofa ar an bpedestal, Ach mhúch me an corraí Ionam a d'éirigh, Mar smaoinigh mé ar an lá A bheas lone and level sands, Agus gach rud ach two vast and trunkless legs of stone, Ar iarraidh.

#celebritytraitors weirdly turning out to be a strong advertisement for the proposition that if you want to understand complex social dynamics, stop studying history and start playing rugby instead.

One thing I’ll say about teaching late at @micireland.bsky.social : it means you occasionally walk into your office and are greeted with a sunset like this.

I'm dressing up as "Radie Peat's contemptuous stare down the camera lens" www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLLn...

It’s finally happened - just taught a class where over half of the students have never watched The Simpsons - so a bunch of go-to references are getting obsolete!

If you’re going to weigh in on LLMs in the classroom, at least do instructors the basic courtesy of assuming we’re 1) aware that blue books and oral exams exist; and 2) trained to teach in a way that you (perhaps!) are not.

Ah! I worked in Leicester at the time of the RIII discovery and had met Richard Taylor a few times professionally: a decent, helpful man. Anyone who was aware of the sequence of events could tell you that the film had completely thrown him under the bus, so it’s good to see him vindicated.

Honestly, not wanting to have to go back up to Dublin for a work thing he’s not going to enjoy, when it’s an intermittently sunny Jazz Weekend in Cork, and his club are in a County Final tomorrow? It’s the most relatable MM has been in months.

Look, there’s a place for people with a minor public profile who want to translate that profile into national political office without first doing the slog of constituency work, and that place is running for the NUI Seanad panel. It feels like we’re in danger of forgetting that. #Áras25

It’s an indicator of my age and interests that whenever I hear the phrase “came 4th in a 2 horse race” about HH this morning, I immediately think “Just like Liverpool in 1996/97”.

The longer the better. Sisters of Mercy and Christian Brothers Ardscoil Na Tríonóide North it’s a landslide!

Calm down it's just doing its job

Going to interpret every primary school with a saint’s name as an old-fashioned religious oath now.

The caption made it look like the Green leader was taken aback by the sheer size of the Connolly lead in this tally.

Your regular reminder that the Irish electoral register is a joke. I emigrated in 2013 and I'm still on it. #Aras25

Half wondering whether sales of rhubarb tart increased nationwide today off the back of this. (Did I go out and buy one for myself? I did.) #Áras25

And let us be clear: the judge said the Parachute Regiment murdered people and lied about it, in roughly as many words. Because of delay and lies, it couldn’t be proven to the criminal standard which individuals murdered; but those troops murdered and lied. www.judiciaryni.uk/files/judici...