If you’re a morning rail commuter in Ireland you could do worse than follow @railusersie.bsky.social for early morning updates #speirGorm

Academic tip: sometimes you have to write "Importantly," to get a sentence started and then you can go back and delete it.

Little tip for ya - if you’re listening to an 8-part audio drama, don’t accidentally put it on shuffle, or by the fourth episode you will think you’re going out of your goddamned mind 👍

Attending #NORFest2025 - National open research forum event taking place today and tomorrow.

At #NORFest2025 on Fri Nov 7th, a community engagement workshop will showcase Sonraí with our very own Junwen Luo under "The Next Phase of Open Research Monitoring in Ireland: Community Priorities and Practice". Best of luck, Junwen! See the full list of events here: norf.ie/news-2/norfe...

We are all set for the National Open Research Festival (NORFest) 2025 taking place in the @ria.ie 19 Dawson St tomorrow (Thursday) & Friday 6-7 November!🎉 The event is fully booked but you can opt to join Day One of NORFest ONLINE. Register for free via Zoom: ria-ie.zoom.us/webinar/regi... @dri.ie

Little tip for ya - if you’re listening to an 8-part audio drama, don’t accidentally put it on shuffle, or by the fourth episode you will think you’re going out of your goddamned mind 👍

Repair Video xkcd.com/3163/

📣 Save the date for the 13th PCI webinar on December 1st, 2025, at 4 PM CET!! Simine Vazire (University of Melbourne, Australia) will present "Recognizing and responding to a replication crisis: Lessons from Psychology". For more details and registration, visit: buff.ly/wZNoD2v

#NORFest2025 taking place next week (6-7 November) in @ria.ie is fully booked! But you can opt to join Day One of NORFest (Thursday, 6 November) ONLINE via Zoom: ria-ie.zoom.us/webinar/regi... 🗣️Opening remarks by William Beausang, Assistant Secretary General, DFHERIS: norf.ie/norfest-2025...

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/

Staring down the end of my postdoc contract (2 months to go) with no jobs lined up after, realising that I won’t be a scientist for the first time in 8 years. It’s hard not to feel like I’ve failed.

Then: et al Now: et AI

"The advent of large language models have made this type of content relatively easy to churn out on demand, and the majority of the review articles we receive are little more than annotated bibliographies, with no substantial discussion of open research issues."

Who did this?!

I have been running Nowhere Lab since 2021, and am very proud of the community we've built. Members communicated that their favourite things about Nowhere Lab were the informal chats and accountability, so now we have two sessions per week for this in different time zones per week! 🧡 Come join us!

I am recruiting a postdoc at UC Santa Barbara for an NIH-funded project on the organization of lateral PFC function--across emotion and cognition--using representational fMRI & TMS. I’d love to find someone w/ a background in cognitive control & computational modeling to complement our team! 🏝️ 🧠 🧲

A brilliant, poignant letter from by our very own Dr Caoimhe Clarke in The Irish Times this morning! #ActiveTravel #ActiveTransport

"I know writers who use subtext and they are all cowards"

I appear to have spoken to a reporter who took seriously the gravity of NZ's science crisis does anybody have a newsroom pro subscription so that I can learn what other choice phrases I used on the record? newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/29/w...

Issue 19 of RDM Weekly is out! 🎃 - Handbook for Reproduction and Replication Studies @forrt.bsky.social - A Crowdsourced Effort to Develop a Lab Manual Template @improvingpsych.org - So, What’s the Deal with rlang, Anyway? @veerle.hypebright.nl and more! rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...

Elevate Preprint Feedback with FAST Principles! ✨Focused: Tackle the science, not the person. ✅Appropriate: Keep it respectful and bias-free. 🎯Specific: Provide actionable insights. 🌐Transparent: Be open about your role.

Can’t wait for these riches to trickle down to the rest of us!

The Seance of Blake Manor is now live on Steam. Check out our launch trailer! 💀 store.steampowered.com/app/1395520/... #indiegames

Mother of god, Leni Riefenstahl would have told them to tone it down a bit.

Y’all, Spotify’s stock price sunk by 5% in 1 day. YOU did this by spreading the word to boycott them for running ICE ads. These billionaires only speak one language—money—so let’s keep up the pressure. Tell everyone you know to cancel their Spotify subscriptions. Send them to BoycottSpotify.com.

The home of the O'Donovan family is being used as a polling station in Coolmoyne, Co Tipperary. Around 250 people are eligible to vote at the house and after they cast their ballot, they will be treated to a cup of tea, a slice of apple or rhubarb tart, or a scone | More: rte.ie/b/1540324

Holy shit! That motherfucker TORE DOWN THE WHITE HOUSE!

Calling all op-ed writers and editors! My Penn students are about to begin a unit on op-eds, and I'm wondering if anyone might be willing to talk to them for like 15-30 minutes on zoom about what makes a good op-ed, why op-eds are important, or anything else op-ed related!

I am hiring PhD candidates to study the psychology of attention & technology use at @tilburg-university.bsky.social. We're looking for motivated & curious scholars with expertise in cognitive psychology and statistics, and offer a friendly work environment with great terms & benefits. tiu.nu/22989

A short piece on #CelebrityTraitors and defending yourself from accusations of lying. Very fun to write! Thanks to @uk.theconversation.com for editing and publishing. theconversation.com/the-celebrit...

If Jim Gavin gets 12.5% or more, Fianna Fáil gets €250,000 in expenses refunded. Bear that in mind if you're voting for Jim Gavin as a joke.

I’ve accidentally won an award 😮

It’s international #OpenAccessWeek! 🌍 There’s still time to enter the #HSEOAAwards25 and celebrate your #OAirishresearch. Deadline: Oct 24 — enter here 👉 https://bit.ly/HSEOA25#OpenAccessWeek!#HSEOAAwards25#OAirishresearch.#IrishResearch #OpenAccess #HSEIreland, #OAIrishResearch #hselibrary #Researchers

Time to re-up one of the great quotes of all time...while the Totenkopf is in the discourse. www.huffpost.com/entry/attemp...

I can finally get rid of this auld particle accelerator from the back garden!

My main hobbies

🍂Read the NORF October 2025 Newsletter: mailchi.mp/0ffa64b06d9f... Highlights include: 🌍#NORFest2025 - almost fully booked! 🎉The 2025 #OpenResearchFund awardees 🔬NORF-funded projects 📅Upcoming events 🎓Opportunities Don't forget to #subscribe to receive monthly updates. @ria.ie @dri.ie

Christ every time I'm forced to use Microsoft Teams it re-sets itself to open on startup and I have to hunt the fucker down and turn it off again. Outright sociopathic design.

A púca for the season that's in it 👻 All prints of this one are hand-finished with gold paint, and they're also on sale (along with many other spooky prints) until the end of this month. www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...

Phew! Sooo glad Duolingo is back up, so I can get to work on these great practical phrases 👍

In case you missed my ZPID talk, here is the recording: Researchers are human: Implications for Open Science and the Scientific Record zpid.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Page... Thanks for inviting me! @zpid.bsky.social #OpenScience

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

📣 Exciting news! NORF is delighted to announce funding for four #OpenResearchNetworks under the 2025 NORF Open Research Fund: Diamond Capacity Hub Ireland, Open Repositories Ireland, Sonraí and TROPIC. Read about the funded projects on the NORF website👉 norf.ie/2025-norf-op... @dri.ie @ria.ie

Looking for advice on booking system that is usable for multiple lab members (students and staff) & where more than one participant can book the same slot (2) using a direct link. A link that would display all slots to book from and once two 'spaces' are taken per slot, disappears from view. 1/n

Today's email to an associate editor, declining to review for a big corporate publisher. This one focuses on Nature Publishing Group's practice of funneling rejected manuscripts to their newer journals with hefty APCs.

Lads, is there anything to be said for Dustin running for president this time round? #Aras25 #unityCandidate

Discworld QOTD, from Equal Rites “It is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done. A person ignorant of the possibility of failure can be a half-brick in the path of the bicycle of history.”

Lads, is there anything to be said for Dustin running for president this time round? #Aras25 #unityCandidate