A right-wing think tank ranks nearly all freer-than-US countries as European. Meanwhile the Trump-billionaire set insists Europe is “least free.” Any second now the tech-bro oligarchy will denounce Cato as Marxist.

STUDY: “Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter.” Follow great scientists here like @michaelemann.bsky.social @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social @katharinehayhoe.com

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"Micheál Martin said there is a need to distinguish between the policies of the government of Israel and the Israeli people." I'm sorry but no. There are times - like when a country is committing genocide - when ethical & moral judgement calls must be made. www.thejournal.ie/calls-issued...

Great piece out today in Physics Today on historical origins, contemporary relevance, & fundamental irreplaceability of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, which remains at imminent risk of dismantling for partisan political reasons.

Big restored floodplain takes 80% of floodwaters. Imagine in Ireland?!? OPW and its captured ministers would be having a heart attack.

High Court rules UK Government ban on Palestine Action unlawful. This is a win for free speech amid public outrage on Palestine genocide. Met Police will drop enforcement pending appeal. 1/3

Yes, Micheál Martin "Sport can be challenging when it crosses into the realm of politics" which is exactly why the Israeli state's sportswashing of apartheid and genocide has to be tackled head on. Israel must be expelled from UEFA and the FAI must boycott these Nations League fixtures. #BanIsrael

In incredible news, the European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly for "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women." Even the center-right European People's Party voted for the declaration. It will form a foundation for their position at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. Our latest.

Incredible: ~2500mm (78 inches) in 20 days - 1.5X the normal yearly rainfall in Grazalema, Spain and it’s only February. How? A 5000 mile Tropical Atmospheric River lifted by terrain in Southern Spain. H/T Nahel Belgherze #europe #flood #spain #weather

Read our open letter to the Taoiseach and Climate Minister, arguing that there is no legal or scientific justification for delaying Ireland's Climate Action Plan. It's urgently needed to close the carbon budget delivery gap this decade, and further delays will increase overall costs.

They don't expect to be believed. It's a test to see who will submit.

Sorry to be Radical Left but I don't think we should put people who haven't committed a crime, and aren't even accused of committing a crime, into any sort of "Detention"

There are currently two corporations with applications to strip the west coast of seaweed. There will be a tiny window to put in a submission to these applications but it'd be good to build momentum now and get these applications being talked about locally. Please sign and share.

For those familiar w/ "ARkStorm/ARk2.0" flood scenarios for California, a comparable event has been unfolding on the Iberian Peninsula. These ridiculous rainfall accumulations, caused by a long series of extremely moist atmospheric rivers, have brought widespread severe flooding to Spain & Portugal.

"We're for the jobs the comet will bring..." #DontLookUp

The police are now investigating the deceptive & illegal letter attacking the Greens that Reform sent to Gorton & Denton residents. I've no doubt there's also a huge amount of deceptive & illegal social media chicanery going on (c.f. Brexit). This is much harder to keep tabs on.

TW Suicide trans children Every year about 200 children die due to suicide in the UK % of trans kids in population is 0.7% Expected trans suicide rate = 1.4 In 2021 a devastating 22 children took their own lives. 15.7 times the expected rate! In 2021 the UK ended de facto trans healthcare.

“You don’t treat a flood where it ends up, you treat it where it starts. Upstream at the top of the catchment” How to use the land more cleverly to adapt to changing weather and future floods. #RTECountrywide #SpeirGorm Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Read Section 5.2. You will not be disappointed. I swear it. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

The Government’s latest effort to tackle climate change is simply not to mention it! The Department of Public Expenditure has dissolved its dedicated Climate Unit and amalgamated it was a range of other functions.

- Climate damage is structural, not marginal - Extremes – not averages – define the future - GDP hides climate costs - Climate damage is cumulative, interactive and reinforcing - Uncertainty is increasing - Economic modelling can't handle tipping points greenfuturessolutions.com/news/recalib...

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Best of luck to Janet. Committed and hardworking. Beir [email protected]

Excellent so-called 'debate' between science and evidence on one hand, and ignorant, reactionary gobshitery on the other. Also a masterclass in patience and composure!

Fundamentally misunderstanding what a cycle helmet is designed to protect — your head, if you fall off your bicycle. Personally, I always wear a cycle helmet, but it provides no assurance of protection against being run over by impatient, unobservant or incompetent motorists.

Importing the fabricated anti-trans hysteria of the UK's intentionally divisive fabricated culture wars to Ireland. Culture wars that were planned expressly to advance modern fascism. If he's not a fellow traveler, Bakhurst is either thick or only interested in clicks. Either way not fit for the job

FFG are only delighted to be pushing forward the LNG facility on the shannon estuary. Think of the jobs they say. It'll become a white elephant. Defunct facility to polluting American liquid natural gas that's tarrifed to the point of not being worth buying.

If people care about their pensions funds and they’re planning to retire in 2050 they should be told their pensions ARE entirely worthless unless we stop pumping fossil fuels immediately. “But my pension fund will crash if we do that” is a circular argument.

Meteorologists, environmentalists and other scientists have been ringing the alarm bell 🔔 for well over a quarter of a century regarding climate change and its flooding impacts on #Ireland. Government after government refused to listen, refused to act. Who is to blame? An easy answer.

"It is quite extraordinary for a serving government minister to advise a foreign bank to threaten the chancellor in order to reduce its UK tax bill.” Surely Lord Mandelson cannot retain the Labour whip? www.ft.com/content/91e8...

We’re quickly becoming a tin-pot dictator led country.

It really does, doesn't it?

NHNA objects to: 1. The idea a LNG terminal would increase Ireland’s energy security 2. Lack of assurance the terminal will operate within carbon budgets (Head 20) 3. Giving one Minister, rather than ACP, decision-making power over a dangerous, expensive and unnecessary fossil fuel project (Head 5)

If you see this, don't participate. It's a rigged study by Lisa Littman and unethical researcher J. Michael Bailey meant to undermine access to care. Spread the word.

🇮🇪 Government's proposed Strategic Gas Emergency Reserve Bill would enable fossil fuel lock-in, violate EU law, & (Head 20) subvert the Climate Act's key s.15. 📢 Deadline TODAY 5pm for submissions to the Joint Committee on Pre-Legislative consultation on the Bill. www.oireachtas.ie/en/committee...

This article is a very useful reframing of the tired “Europe falling behind in tech” whinge. Europe has actually build the foundations for socially useful tech, for decades. What it has not done is attempt to create Empires by extracting cash from that work. ploum.net/2026-01-22-w...

If you're a victim of repeated flooding, you need to start looking at land use upstream. One of these sponges up vast amounts of water, releasing it slowly, the other does not. One reduces flooding, the other *increases* it. Without addressing this core driver, it'll just keep on getting worse.

Just the smell of lynx can reduce deer browsing damage in recovering forests 🌎 phys.org/news/2026-01...

“After being hit by US sanctions, the International Criminal Court is moving away from Microsoft Office to an open source office suite and a Swiss-based email platform to reduce its exposure to foreign political decisions.” - Brian Honan www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

C'mon Ireland, we're nearly there. Ireland: 8,305 signatures 10,080 quota 82.39%of quota #gaza #israel #eu #petition #ireland #speirgorm #EuropeanUnion

The Australian social media ban is a mess, and unworkable, but that isn't stopping the Irish government from plowing ahead...

There are real serious potentially life or death consequences to AI hallucination in legal, including law enforcement, or medical settings. It is madness to allow this technology into such high stakes environments.

We need to get real. Met Éireann is not to blame for flooding damage - poor planning, building on flood plains, not implementing over 20 years of remedial action are. We were warned decades ago winter rain would increase, but continued doing nothing and built on space needed for water #spéirghorm

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He’s going to ‘bring Met Éireann in’ to make them talk. Grill them in an interrogation room, maybe. Because, as everyone knows, there’s nothing you can do to make meteorologists talk about the weather. www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

Really worth the 10 minutes to watch this to learn about how car-centric suburbs are financially subsidized by the more sustainable city, and some hints about how cities can improve their own metrics (hint: it's density).

78.12% 😥 #Speirgorm

SCOOP Meta has started blocking links to ICE List on Facebook, Instagram and Threads www.wired.com/story/meta-i...

The reason why cyclists and pedestrians push back against these types of campaigns is not because we think visibility is bad (I wear hig-viz!), but because it's victim blaming that diverts attention from the real issues: dangerous drivers and poor infrastructure