Holy shit! I just found out a bunch of the other actors are not even American - they're Irish or English... www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZNe... kudos to the dialect coach!

"Dublin Bay Chimneys", a new #painting that sold earlier this month. For many, seeing the chimneys when arriving into Dublin port or Dublin airport, means simply one thing. Home, that word home, with all its flaws and its joys, it means you’re home. So I paint them. #SpeirGorm #Stunday #ArtYear

JFC the President of the USA, repeating debunked conspiracy nonsense from behind the seal, that even his crank conspirasist health advisors are not claiming, relayed live all around the world. People will fkn die, because this shitstain needs the stories about Homan and Epstein to go away.

Some people think ChatGPT has a place writing things like news briefs, stuff written to a specific style and tone and, y'know, kinda boring. So Science did a study. ChatGPT failed. Why? It got stuff wrong. "Also, extensive editing for hyperbole was needed." www.science.org/content/blog...

Delighted to see my new article for @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social was ‘most read’ on the site today. Discussing the Autumn Equinox and Michaelmas in Ireland, the latter festival marks the traditional start to the academic year 🙌 @atu-ie.bsky.social @oflynnatu.bsky.social #MichaelmasTerm

These stunts are creating a parallel reality among the people I know that is very difficult to demystify. The average person has zero chances to understand who this technology actually serves.

Oxford has been around since 1096. Imagine tossing almost a thousand years of academic reputation into the garbage, setting it on fire, and then pissing it out over a useless fucking plagiarism machine what loses billions of dollars a year telling people to kill themselves.

Fantastic piece in Nature Reviews Neuro by @nicolecrust.bsky.social on the importance of science communication. My take? Everything matters - just do something. It will make a difference for how science is valued and trusted, how community understands. Let's get out there and communicate! 👏

Oxford has fallen. Repeat: Oxford has fallen… 🤖 #HigherEducation #academia

En route to Vicar St to see the great Harry Hill - though sadly my own Stouffer has seen better days - hope the real Stouff is in better condition

We are delighted to extend a very warm welcome to the inaugural cohort of our new Professional Doctorate in Educational Psychology at MU. @maynoothuniversity.ie @maynootheducation.bsky.social Learn more here: www.maynoothuniversity.ie/psychology/n...

The pass from Foden though! KdB-esque #MCFC

The staff of the MU Department of Psychology would like to congratulate all of this year's graduands and we wish them all the luck and joy that life can bring in the exciting years ahead. Read all about them: www.maynoothuniversity.ie/psychology/n...

Another new #painting. "Connemara Cottage IV" was years in progress. I like scenes where land sweeps up to a cottage peeping out from a ledge. If it has a curtain of hanging rock behind it, all the better. Near the Renvyle Peninsula. Wish you were heading there right now? #ArtYear #SpeirGhorm

Mini-scoop: After resisting pressure to strip Elon Musk of his fellowship for months, the Royal Society is meeting on 1 October to discuss his removal – following his decision to address Tommy Robinson's far-right rally on Saturday. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-r...

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Warmest congratulations Dr Hannah Casey on your recent PhD conferring . 🎉🎓 We wish you the very best in your future endeavors. Pictured with proud supervisors Prof. Deirdre Desmond and Dr Laura Coffey. 📸 @MaynoothUni

Congratulations Dr Bill Calvey on your recent PhD graduation. 🎓 We commend you on your hard work and dedication. 👏 Pictured with supervisors Dr Rebecca Maguire and Dr Joanna McHugh-Power. 📸 @maynoothuniversity.ie

🔔 #BrainAwarenessWeek 2026 Grant Applications are open! #FENS and the @danafoundation.bsky.social, are offering financial support of up to EUR 1,000 for Brain Awareness Week event organisers across Europe. 🗓️ Application deadline: 15 October 2025 👉 https://loom.ly/kwUsyd8#BrainAwarenessWeek

Had a go at some painting after a long gap - maybe a year! Anyway, turned out pretty nice, Clew Bay with Croagh Patrick in the distance, acrylics on canvas

@footballcliches.bsky.social One for the "no disrespect to egg" files, plus a lovely "on its own merits"ing

"Staff member to Aisle 3, got another raccoon trapped in the shop display stand"

An Irish #painting for you. "Stone Cottage" came out of liking outbuildings, rough fields, and bright days that are dark. #SpeirGorm #ArtYear #Stunning

A #painting from the southwest of Ireland "Bandon II" came out of times I spent cycling in West Cork, the town being one I've always enjoyed visiting. And I'm very much overdue another visit. Maybe this is what happens when you get older. I wonder if it's still orange? #ArtYear #SpeirGhorm #scape

Time for another west of Ireland #painting. "Cliffs of Moher I" came out of, well you can guess. I've been to the County Clare cliffs 7 times but the first left the biggest impression. So young I was fearless and went to the edge to look straight down at the Atlantic. #SpeirGorm #ArtYear #Stunday

Warmest congratulations to Dr Joan O’Donnell on your recent PhD conferring 🎓 🎉 Pictured with very proud supervisors Prof. Deirdre Desmond and Prof. Mac MacLachlan 📸 @maynoothuniversity.ie

Another new #painting destined for a new home. "Birds, Wires #20" is the latest in my longest running series of paintings. Everywhere I walk I look at how wires slice up the landscapes behind them. Then I wait for birds to land in my pictures. But that’s not exactly a hardship. #ArtYear #SpeirGhorm

Behold, the best 9/11 humor of all time: The Onion's TV listings (my favorite row is MTV)

Can't believe it's been thirteen years since Danny Dyer couldn't believe it had been eleven years since them slags smashed into the twin towers and it still freaked out his nut til that day, it still freaks my nut out to this day.

Congratulations to Carina Kaufmann on her research masters conferring last week. We are proud to share in your success and excited for all that’s yet to come 🎓 Pictured with supervisor Prof. Bryan Roche 📸 @maynoothuniversity.ie

- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

Silhouetted remains of the High Court Banksy creating a curiously medieval quality...as if depicting Thomas a Becket being attacked in the crypt 'It is dangerous for men in power, if no-one dares to tell them when they go wrong' Thomas A Becket 1118-1170

A new #painting sold last month. "Clew Bay Boat" came out of a day cycling by the County Mayo bay when I was arrested by the yellow presence of Girl Catriona somewhere near Murrisk. As I have a soft spot for Nephin I stood so the boat lined up with the mountain, then said, yes. #ArtYear #SpeirGhorm

Have headed out west for a few days before it all kicks off again. Sun, rain, strong winds: Westport has it all

Congratulations to our newest research graduates!🎓 Please join us in congratulating them on this incredible milestone by adding a 👏 in the comments to celebrate them!! @MaynoothUni

The photos are in 📸 What a fantastic group! 🎓 Once again, we extend our warmest congratulations to our 2025 BA and BSc graduates. Wishing you every success in all your future endeavors! @maynoothuniversity.ie

This @culturenightdub.bsky.social,‬ RCSI invites the public to attend ‘Gibbet Hill: Bram Stoker’s Silent Story Speaks again’. Join us on Friday, 19 September, to discuss the discovery of the long-lost short story by Bram Stoker. Register for tickets here ⬇️ www.rcsi.com/dublin/news-...

The psychology department extends warm congratulations to Roisin Deery on her recent MSc Research conferring 🎓 Roisin was pictured on the day with proud supervisor Prof Seán Commins 📸 @roisindeery.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie

To be fair to Ireland, we're always one of the first teams to boycott a major tournament in an opressive regime.

Missed the eclipse action due to cloud but still a gorgeous full moon there tonight

Can we please get Moloney off comms duty? I think he's getting worse. #IRLHUN

#painting "Wicklow Sunrise" is another of my new paintings that sold last month. Once upon a time I sat up all night in Wicklow town and watched the sun rise over the Irish Sea. You don’t really need any more of a reason than that for why I painted this. #ArtYear #SpeirGhorm #scape

I will never apologize for a post

TIL that in Irish you can use the word 'demon' as a negative quantifier and it's called "demonic negation" (McCloskey 2009), e.g. Dheamhan duine a bhuaileann sé. demon person that hits he 'Not one person does he hit.' 🐦🐦🐦

Academics are under unrelenting pressure to accept the narrative of the inevitability of #generativeAI & to embrace it in teaching & learning. We resist - because it is ecologically destructive, ethically corrupt, & because it undermines the thinking abilities that make us both human & intelligent.

This is excellent from TCD colleagues @clarekelly.bsky.social @kbruisch.bsky.social & Caitríona Leahy and just the sort of critical thinking and leadership we need to resist the relentless and harmful march of AI.

Warmest congratulations to our BA Psychology and BSc Psychology graduates! We were delighted to join you in the celebrations🎉🎉📸 @maynoothuniversity.ie

Huge congratulations to our @mupsychology.bsky.social students on graduating from @maynoothuniversity.ie today! Glad the rain held off for the photos!