***David Attenborough voice*** This year is no different to others, with the start of a new semester heralded by the re-emergence of the ceiling leak.

Meanwhile, in Kildare. limerickleader.ie/news/national-…

Everyone who Got a “Fundable but not funded” from SFI the last year had every reason to be furious that SFI preferred to piss away research funds on the lawyers for a management putsch. irishtimes.com/science/2025/0…

Cycling peeps: our club is hosting its annual Sportive on Sunday 21st September, 65km or 100km routes through Meath and Kikdare. Hope to see you on the road! eventmaster.ie/event/oo2phk3t…

Very Horst Wessel-y vibes going on. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_Wes…

Do “free speech” enthusiasts engaging in “dialogue” ever show any evidence of changing their own standpoints as a result of that “dialogue”? No, didn’t think so.

When the announcement of the resignation of the university's Vice Chancellor is met with cheers and applause.🧐 youtube.com/watch?v=PEasiE…

You know who else enthusiastically co-opted Sparta as a model for themselves and their country? The Nazis. theguardian.com/world/2025/sep…

Just counted I am currently supervising/co-supervising 10 PhD student or post-doc projects and my brain is mush trying to keep on top of everything (both big and small picture). I have no idea how people supervise more, they must have some extra cortical lobes or something.

I recently woke up from a dream involving editing thesis chapters, I need to get out more.

Someone has mysteriously left a feather duster outside my office. I wonder if it is a “Luca Brassi sleeps with the fishes” type of warning…

Another power cut in the town (and university) this morning, its like Heath's Britain circa 1973.

Just preparing them for life as faculty.

“Culture is Hard to Build, But Easy to Destroy” markmullaly.com/2022/11/18/cul…

Is that Noddy Holder?

People, I am begging you, if sending a document please just send it as an attachment, not as a link to the accursed OneDrive/Sharepoint leading to login, MFA, then oops you do not have permission to access the document then an e-mail "could you please send it as an attachment"

Start reading about statistical method X to be less of an ignorant methods fool. Find equal amounts of papers saying “Method X is never the right approach” and “Method X is always the right approach”. Runs t test.

Having your country run by grifters, sex offenders and shitheads turns out to be a bad thing.

This is a new one for me, 0.95FTE? Like, 95% of a full time job? where to next, 0.8275747 FTE? universityvacancies.com/university-col…

This is bound to play exceptionally well in Northern Ireland... independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…