This is obviously dreadful and epistemologically bankrupt but also I think we’re going to be seeing a lot of this ⬇️ in response to peer reviews and vivas in the next few years.

*Notes legal precedent for getting paid extra for marking AI essays* “Counsel for the plaintiff informed the Court that this added to their work in requiring them fruitlessly to attempt to locate the hallucinated authorities and thereby needlessly added to the costs of the plaintiff in the appeal.”

Were you starting to feel better about things on this bright Saturday morning with the prospect of the clocks going forward tomorrow? Here’s the front page of the Irish Times sport section to bring your mood right back down again over breakfast. 🪳

Two new blogs from esteemed @micireland.bsky.social Psychology departmental colleagues today. Here's Suzanne Egan & Jennifer Pope with further insights from their study of teachers' perceptions of the effects of the pandemic lockdowns on primary school children: www.mic.ul.ie/mic-insights...

Similar vibes to the non-qualification for Euro 2000, I think. Narrowly miss out on qualification, partially due to giving away a bad penalty having been in a strong position. A sickener, but the team are playing well and clearly going places. Next tournament should be a good one. #COYBIG

Genoa, not Suwon, please. #COYBIG

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Ah God, very nearly shades of Alan McLoughlin in Windsor Park there. #COYBIG

As he giveth, so he taketh away. Ireland will win tonight, but it'll rain at every wedding in Ireland for a year. Are we happy enough to accept that, yeah? As a nation? #COYBIG #CZEIRL

Could we play some of that slow boring football for a few mins please? #Coybig

I’m way too old to have a favourite Ireland player, but having said that, I’m very invested in Chiedozie Ogbene doing well. #COYBIG

'I'll give you hailstones at Niamh's wedding if you can do 2-0 up by half time'

As he giveth, so he taketh away. Ireland will win tonight, but it'll rain at every wedding in Ireland for a year. Are we happy enough to accept that, yeah? As a nation? #COYBIG #CZEIRL

My @micireland.bsky.social colleague Aoife McLoughlin will be running this fascinating session on 'The Psychology of Fashion, Self & Belonging' at the Hunt Museum as part of the Limerick Lifelong Learning Festival next month. Register here!: www.eventbrite.ie/e/wearing-id...

I'll be offering a social psychological perspective to this transdisciplinary panel on teaching and learning climate change at @micireland.bsky.social tomorrow alongside esteemed colleagues, including @drdanielvazquez.bsky.social & others. Do come along.

One thing about working in a building of architectural significance @micireland.bsky.social , is that occasionally you look out your office window and there's students in the quad staring up at you and sketching. Wondering whether I should be striking a pose. www.rte.ie/culture/2023...

Academics of Bluesky, just double-checking that I haven't fallen victim to false consensus bias here: When reviewing a revised article submission, it's extremely normal to be sent the author's responses to the other reviewers' original comments, as well as your own, right?

When you're all set to leave the room, but then Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands comes on the radio. May as well settle in for another 10 minutes, I suppose.

Academics of Bluesky, just double-checking that I haven't fallen victim to false consensus bias here: When reviewing a revised article submission, it's extremely normal to be sent the author's responses to the other reviewers' original comments, as well as your own, right?

Choosing your #qualitative analysis.

And yet, approx one in five people who live here can't vote for a TD because we restrict the franchise to Irish and British citizens. I'd argue that too many TDs is less of an issue than too few voters.

And now incorporated in Stegosaurus raps, as any 5 year old dinosaur enthusiast will be able to tell you: youtu.be/sGtIfSPIK40?...

Well, the “What kind of Irish was your Grandad?” sketch on #SNLUK should be good for an Irish Studies Review article or two.

A book called The Memoirs of Christopher Columbus by Stephen Marlowe. I don’t think it raised any parental alarm bells when I brought it home from the library. Turns out the scenes depicting the Spanish Inquisition were not something a 13 year old should have been reading…

He’s right, y’know. Look to the West.

Some lovely stuff in here from Gary Breen about growing up London-Irish, and supporting Ireland, and Kerry, in Camden Town in the 1980s. #spéirghorm

In relation to the ongoing discussion about the terminology of 'expats'/'migrants'/'diaspora' in relation to British people abroad, a nod to @sophiecranston.bsky.social 's excellent paper looking at the use of the term 'expat' by British migrants in Singapore: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

We have a big Open Science & Research Integrity Event coming up at @micireland.bsky.social on April 8th. Featuring @maddipow.bsky.social , @dermotlynott.bsky.social and the launch of @marekmcgann.bsky.social's book. It's rooted in psychology, but should be of interdisciplinary interest. Come!

River Lee looking splendid this morning #speirgorm #corkcontent

I have a joke about experimental social psychology, but it doesn’t work if you repeat it.

Me (steepling my fingers): Well, we must acknowledge that many of these annual customs have evolved in a diasporic context. So, really, for us in Ireland to assert any kind of proprietorship over St Patrick's Day traditions is to miss the point- Wait, what? They're setting traps for *what* now?!

Don't miss @proftaylor.bsky.social talk on "The metaphor of voice & migration discourses" next week. Webinar in the 2026 series of Issues in Applied Linguistics, organized by Mary Immaculate College, Limerick. 14.00 GMT Mon. 23rd March teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...

Here’s a thing about all the Irish businesses using AI-generated promotional material on their social media profiles this week: there’s a lot of green beer. We’re going to wind up reverse engineering green beer as a feature of St Patrick’s Day in Ireland into existence.

An annual plug for my article on #StPatricksDay, 'authenticity', contestation and Irish identity in England: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... (Some of this is perhaps a little dated now, but hopefully a lot still resonates).

For the day that’s in it, an RTÉ Brainstorm article to which I contributed a few thoughts about how St Patrick’s Day is performed on the streets of English cities.

The first LGBT float in a Patrick's Day parade anywhere in the world was in Cork in 1992. Happy queer Patrick's Day. @orlaegan1.bsky.social #SpéirGhorm #SpeirGorm

Little help, UK & non-UK followers! When I try to click through on this episode of the BBC's series 'Mind Changers' with @claudiahammond.bsky.social , I get an error message as the page refreshes: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p... Does this only happen outside the UK, or does it happen within it too?

Cork: 1 Kerry: 1 Dublin: 2 (supporting) Laois/Wicklow Anglo-Irish ascendancy via London with dual citizenship and lookit, identity is complex, leave the man be: 3.

There won’t be a reusable coffee cup filled in Killarney tonight.

Roughly what time are we expecting the Best Actress award tonight, folks? For people who have no intention of staying up for the duration but wouldn’t mind setting an alarm to see if Jessie Buckley makes history.

The paragraphs of meaning in the slight nods of recognition that men in early middle age exchange on Mother’s Day in a graveyard.

So that you can go to the pub and talk angrily about how modernist architecture had been misrepresented by the lecturer with your friends. This is how you actually learn thing…

‘Reminiscence therapy’: How recordings of Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh are helping dementia patients

The soccer team playing out of Tom Barry’s pub on Barrack Street was called Barry St Germain.

Trying to remember now what exactly @murphyciaran.bsky.social ‘s final score prediction was @secondcaptains.bsky.social . I don’t think we’re far off it. #IRESCO

Thing is, given that we're going to see a wave of failed PhD vivas downstream of this, how long do we give it before the "academia must adjust to the new realities" crowd start to argue that the nature of the PhD viva itself needs to change?

Several ages of Ireland on display in Whitegate, Co. Cork, this morning.