Rainforests being pushed to breaking point by new demands for resources, report says. The living biosphere is being murdered on *our* watch, so every one of us is living at probably THE most crucial moment in human history. Get into the fight to save nature 💪🏽 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Overproduction of meat and dairy creates unmanageable amounts of manure, ruining streams and rivers The biggest lake in Ireland is so heavily polluted that it poses serious dangers to people's health and local wildlife It's time to stop farming more animals than the land and waterways can support

Honestly, if you are NOT following these Limerick city and county council meeting threads, you are missing out! Highlight of my day - thank you for your service @seamusryan.bsky.social

Limerick Cycling Campaign were out in force today to spread the good news! Lovely group spin around the city and let’s hope it helps create more awareness of the need for greater cycling infrastructure @irishcyclingcmpn.bsky.social @lmkurbancycling.bsky.social #activetravel #bikeweek #cycling

🌟 New publication in BJME Special Issue on Music & Inclusion. “Musical participation and nonparticipation at the intercultural school: a study from Ireland”. 🔍 critical questions around: - Who has access to music in schools and who does not - Where, why and how (non)participation happens

Toxic populists are going to sour all public spending: No, secure bike parking for hospital staff is not the same as Dáil bike shelter Comment & Analysis: There's never money for people on the front line, says Sinn Féin spokesperson on finance Pearse Doherty when he's complaining about a secure…

If you are whinging about a secure safe bicycle storage facility at a hospital which cost about what you'd imagine it would cost, we can't be friends

A dozen female Palestinians are working to save and preserve medieval and early modern manuscripts 📕 from the Al-Omari mosque’s library. Hang this picture in the Louvre (and the Met). www.newarab.com/features/ins...

Bike Week in Limerick kicks off on Sat 9th of May. The highlight is Limerick Rolls on Saturday 16th, a street party and group cycle All events here: www.limerick.ie/discover/wha... @pedestrianlk.bsky.social @limerickecargobike.bsky.social @lmkurbancycling.bsky.social @irishcyclingcmpn.bsky.social 🚲

The personal toll the slashing and burning of large parts of the Higher Education sector, especially in Arts and Humanities, in Britain and now the North of Ireland on our colleagues should not be underestimated. This is horrendous but grimly unsurprising.

Listen. Can you hear it? That's the sound of masses of insect pollinators, feasting on the blossoms of a wild apple tree in the sunshine, amid naturally regenerating native rainforest. Rewilding's soundtrack.

Regulating airbnb being turned into another "attack on rural Ireland" shows how ridiculous and meaningless that phrase is. Increasing the available houses so people can actually live where they're from as opposed to being priced out by landlords and holiday homes is an attack on rural Ireland 🤷‍♀️

No idea who this bloke at the WHCD is, but I like to think that someone with a gun multiple floors and half a building away wouldn’t keep me from my food either. (video from the Straits Times: they haven’t posted it on BS and no idea where they got it from)

"A bicycle needs no fuel. It requires no oil refinery, no pipeline, no tanker route through a contested strait. A worker who cycles to the office has removed themselves entirely from the chain of geopolitical dependency that currently makes Ireland vulnerable." www-tinyurl.com/1b95e30a

🌟 MUSPACE project findings now in Ukrainian! Olha Lukianchenko and I have a new journal article in 'Mystetstvo ta Osvita' (Art and Education). Collaboration funded by Research Ireland Fund for Displaced Researchers. @researchireland.ie 📄 The article is available here: artedu.com.ua/index.php/ad...

New open access pub in Teaching and Teacher Education from Ruth Nic An Bhreithiúnaigh & I. This is a systematic lit review article of 40 studies (2010–2025) examining teacher communities that support arts education. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @miceducationfac.bsky.social

So, happy 120th anniversary of Samuel Beckett’s birth to all who celebrate

The only way to durably protect hauliers - and the economy - against fossil fuel shocks is to support them to electrify trucks. Sales of electric trucks in China outsold diesel trucks last December. So far this year, only one electric HVG was newly registered in Ireland. #fuelprotests #speirgorm

We have been continously asking An Garda Síochána to prioritise routine enforcement around schools. Principals' appeals are being ignored & children are put at risk. Reckless behaviour around schools and where children play should not be tolerated. www.independent.ie/regionals/du...

Article now out in the Journal of Intercultural Studies, open access - ‘Navigating Professional Musical Identities While Forcibly Displaced: A Narrative Inquiry with Ukrainian Women’. #migration #music #identity #ukraine #intercultural www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Half of the children in one school in Dublin are #homeless. No roof over their head. Nowhere to do homework. Nowhere to play. No where to be a kid. This should offend us all. It’s a national disgrace at the hands of Govt inaction & now 4000+ children in #Dublin alone are the casualties.

New article, open access: 'Searching for spaces of encounter and disorientation: Teachers’ lived experiences of music in diverse classrooms' in RSME with long-time collaborator @supergyda.bsky.social @researchireland.ie journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

At least two pedestrians knocked down in Cork today by motorists & a person on a bike killed by a motorist in Dublin. Yet the spinmasters in media keep spinning that bicycles & ebikes are the problem. 3 months into 2026 & already 41 people dead on the roads.

Madrid closed its central business district to cars for the first time during the 2018 Christmas period. The result was a 9.5% increase in retail spending on Madrid’s main shopping street, the Gran Vía. Plus there was a 71% drop in air pollution. Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #UrbanTruth

While we're doing our "the problem with university teaching" takes, mine is that it should be more shocking that in basically every UK university, the crucial decisions about teaching and assessment are made centrally, by fiat, and are almost never guided by active teaching staff or subject experts.

Wuthering Heights at 11 years of age 😬!

Why do surveys show strong public support for cycle paths, but Facebookers call it “fake news”? -- "Leadership means pushing past the noise — and over the Hill of Hysteria," says a leading mobility academic. The National Transport Authority has just published the latest findings of its Walking and…

Listen! @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social spoke to @kennyailbhe.bsky.social about the hugely important "Music Refuge: Living Asylum Through Music" newbooksnetwork.com/music-refuge

Has he considered not shelving rail projects? Not cutting funding for expansion of public transport could be worth looking at too.

'Data centres will take a third of power by 2030' Ireland's government wants to make us a digital slop farm. And in the process, almost certainly miss climate targets. Very few jobs or tangible benefits, but easily wowed and awed by big tech. www.independent.ie/business/iri...

The launch of every piece of AI-driven surveillance/security/criminal justice software basically goes like this: AI COMPANY: this is an error free, bias free, state of the art, highly intelligent software system Two Weeks Later: …aaaand it’s racist

Did you know that homes pay twice as much for electricity as data centers do? It's good that that government are helping out the poor scrappy start ups like Amazon and Google 🥹 m.independent.ie/business/per...

7 deaths on our roads over the weekend including a 16 y/o girl walking her dog. Why the obsession over hi-vis? Why the reduction in active travel funding? Where are the 30km/h zones? Where are the red light cameras? Why no enforcement? Why aren't intelligent speed systems default on new cars?

Just got an invite to give a lecture at a conference on Mathematics, Computer Science and Engineering. I am so very tempted to say yes and see where it all leads…

Our 6-year-old leaving no stone unturned on the hunt for her lost hedgehog teddy.

Weeks of severe storms and catastrophic flooding across the country — all made worse and more frequent by climate change. Our politicians’ response? Our Minister for Climate Action’s response?! More emissions.

The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in the US | Bryan Armen Graham

The depressing thing is all the FFFG politicians are on Twitter where no doubt all the assholes and bots are saying "Yeah fuck those woke communist plebs on bikes, kill them all, cars for everyone!" and so they think helmets and high viz is a great idea altogether lads we're on to a winner here!

The hi viz will work great when I'm hit by a motorist looking at their phone.

“It was a sign that young people growing up here could have bigger aspirations – that Southend was a town on the up.” This article highlights the entangled connections between higher ed, place, space and identity really well. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I will go back to my monthly sharing of this. Big change in my own online life since last month is that my employer @dublincityuni.bsky.social , has left X and is posting here more often. Hopefully this can be the start of greater engagement Do get in touch if you want to join go.bsky.app/8FJAkMG

Reducing - and enforcing - speed limits for ALL vehicles to 30km/hr in urban areas & cameras to detect cars breaking traffic lights would save scores of lives annually, but it might annoy some motorists so instead we get this performative BS from gov’t. www.thejournal.ie/e-bikes-scoo...

Thank you Sarah Moss - “Where the built environment separates human skin and bone from lorries, cars and buses, there is no need for our frantic striving to make fragile bodies hyper-visible” @irishcyclingcmpn.bsky.social @irishtimes.com @irishcycle.com www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

As someone said the other day, one of the biggest problems with AI is not that you're expected to be more productive; it's that it triples the output of the biggest idiot you work with

Going to Trump’s Doonbeg? You should be ashamed of yourself www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

We have been using the cargo bike daily now for the whole family for almost 5 years. It is so quick to get around and reliable - a brilliant way to get around www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

“The nexus of middle management waffle & AI is a bullshit industrial complex.If there are currently too many bullshit documents in your workplace it’s nothing compared to what it will be like now that AI can be used to create them en masse” Freyne @irishtimes.com www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

To think that providing homeless accommodation is fast becoming one of Irelands big indigenous service industries Yet we've over 160k empty homes & over 20k derelict homes How have we left successive governments normalise this violence While generations suffer Sickening😡 #DerelictIreland #speirgorm

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

Truly shameful that close to 6,000 children will spend another Christmas in emergency accommodation in Ireland Truly shameful homelessness has become a massive industry in Ireland F*ck the property hoarders & all those making money off this structural violence & vandalism #DerelictIreland #SpeirGorm