Feels like a day for this #painting. "Poolbeg, Kayakers, Sunlight" came out of monthly cycles past Scotsmans Bay where I would invariably stop and enjoy the views across Dublin Bay and wait for kayakers to paddle into my picture. #SpeirGhorm #ArtYear #Scape

Was NOT expecting a major synaesthesia cameo in the penultimate episode of a middling child abduction drama... Anyway, they're both wrong, Mondays are dark green

O'Connell Bridge, Dublin (ca. 1890-1900) Photo: Detroit Publishing Co. / Library of Congress

Big performance, big result, fantastic win #IRLPOR

Scenes from the Aviva

New paper with @statsepi.bsky.social and @deevybee.bsky.social in which we show there's really no evidence for a link between the gut microbiome and autism www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

An updated flood advisory from Met Éireann with Kilkenny included now. A lot of followers reporting flooding of land before the heavy rain to come. Again I am sharing this as I believe it is in the public interest to show the flood risk as per Met Éireann flood forecast team.

!!! #IRLPOR

Ireland scoring against Portugal

Luí na gréine

I have obtained a copy of the Flood Advisory issued by Met Éireann to local authorities today showing an orange level flood risk for many parts of East and South. I cannot see why it is not made public as I believe it is in the public interest to share it so I am sharing it.

What does life in your lab look like? 🧠✨ Join the NSI “Show Your Lab!” Challenge! Post a photo, tag @neuroscienceirl.bsky.social + #NSILabLife Let’s show where neuroscience happens! Please help us reach more people by sharing🚀

Is anyone else getting a ton of spam emails lately offering to promote your books? I'm talking 8 to 10 per day, mostly caught by the spam filter but one or two get through

@1900hotdog.bsky.social They look like Chernobyl Hellhounds to me...

Some of the stray dogs living near Chernobyl have recently turned blue. This confused scientists for weeks, until they realized they had simply been rolling around in chemicals from a nearby set of portable toilets. 14/10 for all

Welcome back Dr Ross Brannigan @rcsi.bsky.social for today's @maynoothuniversity.ie Psychology Departmental Seminar as part of our #MUPsychologyAt25 series

Good to see someone involved in the field describing the techbro fantasies as “bullshit”. But note the link between this nonsense and eugenicist ideas from Altman. These people are rich, stupid and influential, which = dangerous.

I wish this cornball sci-fi adjacent cartoon spin off trend had continued to the Sopranos / The Wire / Deadwood prestige era.

Got these new trainers today but I can't get it out of my head that they look like fuckin DC Tosh Lines from The Bill

Have a #painting why don't you. "Bantry Brendan" was painted because I like sitting in the west Cork town eating a sandwich as I look up at the sculpture, by Imogen and Ian Stuart, of Brendan the Navigator looking out to the Atlantic - or Bantry Bay at least. #SpeirGhorm #ArtYear

Excellent City performance today, looked very composed. Jerry D is finally starting to deliver, Savinho needs to do the same. Nico G's apprenticeship going very well, and Nico O doing a brilliant job as makeshift left back - he's an attacking midfielder, which no pundit seems to realise. #mcfc

HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE

Delighted to support MU Psych Soc's invited lecture on Forensic Metascience by departmental alum, Dr Jamie Cummins @jamiecummins.bsky.social whose work in this area seeks to enhance rigour & accuracy in scientific reporting. Sincere thanks to Dr Cummins. #MUPsychologyAt25

generating examples for my fall undergrad Perception students on why they should not use LLMs as study aides...

stop doing phrenology with the computer!!

Every tech company eventually either reinvents the bus or reinvents phrenology

There's been a great deal of debate about how safe Dublin city centre is, but when we @dublininquirer.com looked for data to resolve this, we couldn't find much useful – so we commissioned a survey to try to add some facts/data to the debate. Today we've published five articles about the results. 1/

Lovely to welcome back Dr @jamiecummins.bsky.social for tonight's @mupsychology.bsky.social talk as part of our #MUpsychologyAt25 events @maynoothuniversity.ie

We are delighted to announce Dr Ross Brannigan, Department of Public Health and Epidemiology @RCSI_Irl, as our next seminar series speaker! Join us for his seminar "Psychiatric Epidemiology and Healthcare: Identifying Groups at Risk" #MUPsychologyat25

👏Congratulations to Dr Alexander Porshnev, Postdoctoral Researcher in Psychology on his recent MaynoothSparks Award 2025. 🏆 Read more here: maynoothuniversity.ie/psychology/n... @MaynoothUni

Annual reminder to businesses in Ireland - stop trying to make Black Friday a thing over here. Black Friday is the day off Americans get after thanksgiving. Give us a day off at the end of November and then we can talk about your little sale or whatever you're trying to flog

OpenAI pirated large numbers of books and used them to train models. OpenAI then deleted the dataset with the pirated books, and employees sent each other messages about doing so. A lawsuit could now force the company to pay $150,000 per book, adding up to billions in damages.

I wrote a thing on episodic memory and systems consolidation. I hope you all enjoy it and/or find it interesting. A neural state space for episodic memories www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪

If you're interested in memory, engrams, hippocampal systems, this is a must read:

Great to welcome back Dr Austin Fahy for this week's Departmental Seminar @mupsychology.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie #MUPsychologyAt25

💙🇳🇴 26 goals for club and country, 13 Premier League goals in 10 games… …and new robot celebration for Erling Haaland, dropped today. 🤖

A nice shift in perceived colour between central and peripheral vision. The fixated disc looks purple while the others look blue. The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea. From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...

Huge congratulations to Dr Fabiana Traini on graduating with her PhD from @tcddublin.bsky.social yesterday!

I made some #halloween treats as a tribute to Phineas Gage--the most important lesion patient in neuroscience Gage survived an accident in which an iron rod shot through his frontal lobe that damaged his social capacities If you want to make these treats www.powerofusnewsletter.com/p/why-people...

The scariest thing about this time of year (for me anyway) is the spooky and unsettling disappearance of the apostrophe from Hallowe'en #Hallowe'en

Happy Halloween to all who celebrate

Empathy is one of the most important human characteristics. Lack of, or complete, gleeful disregard of empathy is a symptom of a fundamentally damaged individual.

“Bonferonni correction”, an invaluable method in #statistics, refers to the act of repeatedly correcting misspellings of the word Bonferroni at multiple places in a draft manuscript. #science #academia

Let me be very clear. It is not enough that RFK Jr. was forced to admit today that no causal relationship between Tylenol and autism has been shown. We know that while disinformation spreads like wildfire on social media, corrections most often die on the vine.

Today, I teach the (graduate) kids about long-term memory. I'm bringing along my 3D print of HM's brain, made from post-mortem histology. #neuroscience

The light over the Atlantic coast of Ireland is like nowhere else on Earth 🌎

What a match that was. And what a job Keith Andrews is doing, fair play to him

No reading, no writing, no learning "what does it mean to ‘learn how to use ChatGPT’? What are you teaching them? Copying and pasting the output of a chatbot? My advice would be to teach them how computers work, how to code, how to think about the processes behind all this” apache.be/2025/10/24/b...