Russell's Headline: "If the Headline Asks a Question, is the Answer No?"

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

This blog post about Google de-indexing a personal blog very much rings a bell for me -- journal.james-zhan.com/google-de-in... . The vast majority of my own blog is no longer in the Google index, for the same reason: "Page is not indexed: Crawled – currently not indexed"

AI companies: We can't have 50 state AI laws. There has to be just one rulebook for AI EU: Here you go AI companies: not like that

We’re looking for an Administration Manager to join the FreeBSD Foundation team. This role supports our operations, ensuring the Foundation can continue to help grow, maintain, and promote FreeBSD worldwide. Full details and how to apply here: buff.ly/0nNiJK4 #FreeBSD #Hiring #OpenSource

#PayGapWrapped part two. This is where the madness has led me.

Oh go on then, let's do a #PayGapWrapped for the hell of it

Michal Špaček @spazef0rze.bsky.social presenting his talk "Password Reuse Is a Dumpster Fire – We Brought a Hose" at #PasswordsCon in Prague, December 2, 2025. youtu.be/AuCNgoDf-5c

Maximilian Golla @maximiliangolla.com presenting "Measuring the Risk Password Reuse Poses for a University" at #PasswordsCon in Prague, December 2, 2025. youtu.be/6dEQRwueX98

Just booked a taxi. The AI interface on my phone read the confirmation email, added an event called "bus" to my calendar, set it for 2 hours ahead of the time I'm actually travelling and then alerted me that I need to start driving NOW to make my appointment at my home, the place where I already am.

I wrote about Oura's security and privacy practices earlier this year for this.weekinsecurity.com, and found: • Oura rings *don't* end-to-end encrypt users' health data; • Oura *can* access its users' data; • Oura told me that the company *has* received U.S. government demands for users' data.

Ireland’s @norfireland.bsky.social Festival (NORFest) 2025 took place on the 6-7 November, 2025 in the RIA. This two-day booked-out event had over 150 guests in attendance. Read more: www.ria.ie/2025/11/26/n...

I will be on RTE's The Business tomorrow morning to discuss my work on the gender pay gap. Show starts at ten and I expect to be the first guest on. Per usual, they'll have folks ringing in to say I'm talking nonsense, so if you're listening, please consider dropping them a message to say I'm not :D

How to detect text which has been written by ChatGPT. AI-generated texts tend be more predictable than human-written text with the use of certain words, phrases and emojis, explains Jennifer Foster @maynoothuniversity.ie @researchireland.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

I have: 6/42 Rules 6/45 Rules Issue 1 6/45 Rules Issue 2 6/45 Rules Issue 3 6/47 Rules Issue 1 (document unclear about effective date) 6/47 Rules Issue 2 6/47 Rules Issue 3 (same effective date as Issue 2!) 6/47 Rules Issue 6 6/47 Rules Issue 7 6/47 Rules Issue 8 6/47 Rules Issue 9

All you need to know about the evolution of the spice bag. It now sits proudly alongside the spiceburger, jumbo breakfast roll, jambon and chicken fillet roll in the pantheon of great 21st century Irish dishes, writes @gastroirl.bsky.social @tudublin.bsky.social www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

I'm trying to collect all the rules for the main Irish Lotto, and have managed to find quite a few (see next message). Does anyone have copies of older rules, or any from this list that I am missing?

I'm trying to collect all the rules for the main Irish Lotto, and have managed to find quite a few (see next message). Does anyone have copies of older rules, or any from this list that I am missing?

Dundalk Institute of Technology to become a college of Queen's University Belfast, at the 5min mark on the News at One: www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Concerning Muskopedia A colleague send me this arXiv paper. The abstract reads: Elon Musk released Grokipedia on 27 October 2025 to provide an alternative to Wikipedia, the crowdsourced online encyclopedia. In this paper, we provide the first comprehensive analysis of Grokipedia and compare it to…

Hey folks. I have spent *days* reading and meticulously drafting comments on a very lengthy manuscript. Which I have just found includes an AI-faked quote. Attributed to ME. Here is a thread of my feelings

All you need to know about string theory. There are gazillions of different possible universes that can be described and understood using the tools provided by string theory, writes Kay Lehnert @maynoothuniversity.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

An 80,000-word thesis would take 9 hours to present. Their time limit… 3 minutes! The IUA ‘Three Minute Thesis’ competition is on Wednesday, November 19th. 👉 Visit www.iua.ie/3minutethesis to meet the finalists and register to save your seat! @maynoothuniversity.ie @muresearch.bsky.social

Where does the time go? New #RTEBrainstorm podcast presented by Ronan Kelly with Davids Malone @maynoothuniversity.ie @samanthadockray.bsky.social @ucc.ie & Venus Keus @dias.ie - proudly supported by @researchireland.ie - now available wherever you get your podcasts www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

We invite early career economists and PhD students to submit their extended abstracts or research papers for consideration for the Irish Postgraduate and Early Career Economics (IPECE) Workshop 2026. See more:

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Parish sale today at North Strand church / St Columbas School. Starts 10am.

The good people at @diasdunsink.bsky.social are looking for your aurora photos from 2024! www.dias.ie/cosmicphysic... @dias.ie

me at the end of class: here's a little speculative exercises; imagine you wake up from cryosleep in 2085. what's the kind of tech-society r/ship you'd like to see around you? students: no AI I honestly think students' views are missing from the 'should AI be integrated in classrooms' discussion

📣 I am hiring a postdoc! aial.ie/hiring/postd... applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome pls share with your networks

Do I know anyone who know local history in Rathgar? Various bios of economist W. M. Gorman say that he went to "Mount Temple School, Rathgar" or "Mount Temple College", before 1941. I can't see a school of that name in Rathgar, and it is too early to be The High School or Mount Temple Comprehensive.

If you like a a traditional parish sale, and you're somewhere near North Strand next Saturday, then you could do worse than this...

As ballots are being counted across Ireland today, fringe figures online are celebrating the high number of votes that were spoiled in the election. Some point to the number of spoiled votes as evidence the election result is illegitimate. jrnl.ie/6855692

Looks like the spoiled vote group will get their deposit back, at this rate...

This year, the Hamilton Institute's annual Dangerfield Lecture is at 19:00 on Friday 7th Nov 2025. Prof. Monahan from @maynoothuniversity.ie's computer science department will talk on "Using Computational Thinking to Ensure Dependable Software". www.maynoothuniversity.ie/hamilton/eve...

I wrote a thing for @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social about how votes are counted in presidential elections in Ireland. www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Let me tell you a story (before the ship explodes):

That people are now being paid handsomely to hate, is a huge, huge social problem. Regulation is desperately needed. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Maynooth University (MU) has officially launched its new School of Nursing, marking a significant development for both the University and Irish healthcare. 👏👏 www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/...

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast' 10/10 response, no notes

With the "Fall Back" clock change nearly upon us, re-upping this Light O'Clock podcast I contributed to about the science of these clock changes open.spotify.com/episode/0tOU...

Prof David Malone of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics and Director of the Hamilton Institute, outlines the ins and outs of counting votes in an Irish presidential election, as we prepare to vote for our 10th President. #PresidentialElection www.maynoothuniversity.ie/research/spo...

I wrote a thing for @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social about how votes are counted in presidential elections in Ireland. www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

This year, the Hamilton Institute's annual Dangerfield Lecture is at 19:00 on Friday 7th Nov 2025. Prof. Monahan from @maynoothuniversity.ie's computer science department will talk on "Using Computational Thinking to Ensure Dependable Software". www.maynoothuniversity.ie/hamilton/eve...

We are at the final day of #mathsweek and there are events on in the Botanic Gardens and Castlecomer Discovery Park. Of course, it is well known that plants hate solving quadratics - it gives them square roots. www.mathsweek.ie/2025/events/

This morning my ChatGPT quota was inexplicably exhausted. It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed. The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasn’t asking and praising him for his insight.

We’re in Guildhall Derry today! And Botanic Gardens Dublin tomorrow! You mathematicians are always so bloody logical.

We're getting toward the end of #mathsweek, and people have been putting in lots of effort. But, when you decide to do something, always give 100%. Unless you're giving blood... Of course, soon the organisers and presenters will be suffering from the aftermath.

Yesterday, I walked into the room and saw +, −, × and ÷ sitting around a table. "Yep", I thought to myself, “all the signs were there." #mathsweek

Tony O’Farrell addresses the crowd today at Broombridge for the (36th?) annual Hamilton Walk. Eoin Gill, Marcus du Sautoy, Colin Wright and yours truly in the mugshot!