Is that a photo of me not making a weird face?! I didn't think it was possible. I guess @tudublin.bsky.social just brought it out in me 😂 I thoroughly enjoyed being part of TU Dublin's International Women's Day celebrations. #iwd26

Jesus, they weren’t bloody joking.

Huge congratulations to our 4 amazing PhD graduates from Maynooth University 🎓👏 — Akash Satheesan, Conor Hackett, Ganesh Sharma, and Kevin Horan! 🌟 All their hard work has truly paid off! @researchireland.ie

Let Me Explain How a State Actor Could Perform a Denial-of-Service Attack on the Entire UK Government in the Wake of Ofcom “Online Safety Act” Client-Side Scanning https://alecmuffett.com/article/150401

After hearing @hjdoom.bsky.social referring to Zanbarbone as "The Renegade Master" and being back "with the ill behaviour", I dug out Fat Boy Slim's remix (which is *so* chirpy) and found out where the samples came from: A.D.O.R.'s "One for the Trouble". I'd assumed "d4 damage" was a AD&D reference.

The ZX Spectrum's ULA chip handled video, sound, keyboard scanning, and cassette I/O. One chip. Today that workload would require a standup meeting, three sprints, and a Jira board.

The entire CRASH magazine archive is online! Every issue of the legendary ZX Spectrum gaming mag (1984-1992) — reviews, comics, tips. Issue 1 featured 3D Deathchase, Atic Atac & Lunar Jetman. What a lineup! 🕹️ crashonline.org.uk

My school is hiring a maths teacher for September! www.swchs.net/blog/?pid=37... Come and work with a brilliantly supportive department, with loads of high quality shared resources, in a school that takes staff workload and wellbeing really seriously.

So I'm part of a masterclass tomorrow on pay gap reporting, and I'm starting strong. One of my slides is just titled "please label your things". ucd-ie.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #genderPayGap #payGapReporting

Happy March 15. Here is my favorite Ides of March meme:

The EU seems to be going in the right direction when it comes to mass message scanning. Unfortunately, the fact that this vote was necessary proves that we’re still in the dark timeline. cyberinsider.com/eu-votes-to-...

See footnote 1 of www.academia.edu/36577847/Var...

I'm definitely completely sure that my university's groundbreaking deal with Microsoft will definitely absolutely be 100% secure and there will be no privacy issues

40 Years since Prof. Susan McKenna-Lawlor made Contact with a Comet – Guest Post by Emma Whelan This guest post by my colleague in the Department of Physics at Maynooth, Dr Emma Whelan, was written to mark this anniversary and the connection with the eminent Irish astrophysicist Susan…

Images from the first Women in Technology & Science Conference at DCU in Nov 1990. WITS, founded by Mary Mulvihill that year, supported women in STEM. The Mary Mulvihill papers are now preserved in DCU Library Special Collections #InternationalWomensDay @dublincityuni.bsky.social

I'm enjoying the current Star Trek offering, but have a geometry down for E9. You shouldn't ask for a 360° scan in space. It is fine if you on a 2D surface, but in 3D, you have more directions you can choose from, so it should be a 4π steradian scan (or about 41253°²). @seanferrick.bsky.social

The number of garda investigations into images generated by the Grok AI tool has risen from 200 to 244 www.rte.ie/news/politic...

If you are part of a university or UK facing research organisation, publisher, funder, learned society and they are still posting on X - they're in a rather uncomfortable minority now. Perhaps point them to the eXit. My piece for the @lseimpactblog.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... 1/3

Oh now I get it. Dubai is Golgafrinchan Ark B.

Five year Astro career development fellowship in Oxford open for applications, broadly in survey astronomy including transients and cosmology. College teaching and research. Do think about joining us. Happy to answer questions! 🔭

I've only got 2 French jokes, this is the best

Friends, I'm working on allowing people to access PayGap.ie in Irish. I'm close to finished on the code work needed to support translatable strings everywhere, and will do my best at a first pass of the translations too, but if there's any Irish speakers willing to give it a look, let me know!

Last day to register for the Seanad, if you aren't on the list already. There's some feckers in there that desperately need voting out. www.seanadvoter.ie #Seanad #SpeirGhorm

Hey, my name is in the Epstein files! I've told the story before, but should probably re-up. TLDR: never met the guy, never took (or asked for) any money from him, never visited the island. I was invited to the island, and said no. It's not that hard to just say no.

How? How do you double-check the accuracy, if you're not already an expert? Ask a different GenAI? Or do you, you know... Have to go and do the research you would have done anyway, pre-AI? Because I'm buggered if I can think of how you do that in a way where the GenAI saved you time.

I think I might take one of these "under 20 minutes" AI skills courses the UK Govt. seems very keen on everyone doing and live-post it here... Maybe we can all learn something together! The press release sends me to aiskillshub.org.uk/aiskillsboost/ - let's go and see!

The problems with coining terms like 'rage bait' and 'brain rot'. The words, metaphors and ideas we use to describe experiences and phenomenons may not necessarily be able to explain them, writes @emmaefarrell.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

"If people experience mental health and/or substance use issues, but services cannot adequately respond, then they can find the symptoms of their illness and subsequent behaviour are being criminalised." - Dr Daniel McFadden, Applied Social Studies www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Just received a notice from Apple saying that it has found X to be in breach of the App Store rules due to its nudification functions.

Poll: Is Met Éireann To Blame For Government Not Funding Flood Relief Systems That Were Asked For 10 Years Ago? https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2026/01/28/poll-is-met-eireann-to-blame-for-government-not-funding-flood-relief-systems-that-were-asked-for-10-years-ago/

Ourselves, @dublincommuters.bsky.social, @galwaycommuters.bsky.social, & Cork Commuter Coalition wrote to Iarnród Éireann & the NTA today, asking them to cease posting real-time service updates exclusively on X. This vital info should be widely available. Read below: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

If Bilbo had Chat GPT

For those of you already preparing an entry, it may overlap with some of your research or if you are still to decide, it could provide some inspiration. Remember the closing date for this year’s award is Tuesday 7th April at 12.25am. The overall award winner will take home a €2000 cash prize.

Will the real St Brigid please stand up? 👋 Here's the evidence which indicates that the Kildare woman was real - and why this is worth emphasising today, writes Dr Niamh Wycherley from the Dept of Early Irish (Sean-Ghaeilge). @ceilteachomn.bsky.social www.maynoothuniversity.ie/research/spo...

Should museums return artefacts to where they came from? My Oxford colleagues have been working on a moral decision aid for cultural institutions. Link here darca.uehiro.ox.ac.uk

One small consolation to come from the tragic situation - we won’t have to listen to philosophers debating the finer points of whether the US is descending into fascism or not any more

Was a little surprised that @seanferrick.bsky.social didn't give biceps-with-cheerios an explicit up. Interesting that they let cloned eyeballs work. I believe iris patterns aren't genetically determined, so a cloned eyeball doesn't have the same iris as original. Thanks for explaining dedication!

Waterford Whispers News particularly on point. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbTo...

This is what I told Farage’s biographer quite a few years ago. Now corroborated by more than 30 others

Things stepping up. ICCL and Digital Rights Ireland have written to the Garda Commissioner calling for an urgent investigation of X.

ChatGPT-generated text is often more predictable than human writing and uses certain recurring words, writes Prof Jennifer Foster of the Hamilton Institute at MU. www.maynoothuniversity.ie/research/spo...

Ice, accidentally extruded from some posts for a metal hand rail in @maynoothuniversity.ie...

Your fact of the day: The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that one in six American citizens suffers a food-borne illness annually. In the UK, the figure is one in 132. bylinetimes.com/2020/02/28/f...

At 5.15pm GMT today, the Earth will be at perihelion, the closest point to the Sun in our annual round. This should be the start of the year. Happy new orbit, everyone!

It means absolutely nothing to anyone concerned right now but here's what the United Nations says about kidnapping Heads of State. legal.un.org/ilc/texts/in...

Today, I rediscovered the existence of the The Magnamund Companion via realising that I owned a copy. gamebooks.org/gallery/lone...

"You said autistic children are a burden. That they ruin families. That they’ll never pay taxes or write poems. That they are, in essence, collateral damage. I’d like to introduce you to my daughter." #McSweeneysTop25of2025

Put that headline on a t-shirt. And how is it that a company can look for a meeting with the Taoiseach to ask why more of the country isn’t using their toxic product? And now they’re trying to push it into our education system? How about no? Just no.