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paulharkin.bsky.social
Director of Strategy, UCD School of Medicine. Opinions my own. Black sheep of a high performing family. More privileged than most.
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Haven't done one of these for a while. Thoroughly recommend the TRIP 'Leading' interview by Alastair Campbell & Rory Stewart with social psychologist, Jonathan Haidt. https://open.spotify.com/episode/4vE4fDYgR5DDz5Td1Yn164?si=b9f01705b5774c9f Haidt has long explored the social and (1/11)

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🧵 Several people have raised questions about what I meant by "deservedly so" when referring to the decline of institutional trust. It's a fair question, so I want to explain that, because it sits at the heart of my work on how democracies collapse when their epistemic foundations rot.

submitted 4 days ago • 37 comments

In the same vein as a post from @saoirsemc.bsky.social last year, I want to remind everyone how amazing our public libraries are. A public space where, counter to our consumer culture, you don’t have to buy anything, just enjoy the space & the shared resources ⭐️ The staff are also amazing. 📚 1/2

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

Me: Can I ask you a big favour, please? Al Friend: Of course, Paul you need? — go ahead. What do you need?

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

This post provokes so many interesting questions for me (mix of private consumption between goods and services ; role and impact of government consumption, etc.) but more fundamentally it reminds me that perhaps we should ask why is 'GDP growth' the key metric? #Doughnut economics?

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Pleased to see that move by @ria.ie.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Time to update the lyrics.. 🎵And they gave us James McGrory and Paul McStay Forrest, Johnstone, Tully, Murdoch, Auld and Hay 🎵 #CelticFC

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

I have to say, when James scored today, it was one of the most emotional moments I've had supporting Celtic over the past 50 years. The reaction of the support showed how special he is to all of us. A truly magical moment 💚 #CelticFC

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Right now, I love the tone of my Bluesky feed. It isn't all cats, cupcakes or my #Hoops homages. We can still get to admire a judicious well phrased burn! 👇

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🧑‍🎓🇳🇿 Many congratulations to UCD graduate Dr John Roche, who has been appointed as the New Zealand Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor.

submitted 38 days ago • 2 comments

So glad these teams persisted with the new #GAA end-to-end rules again this week.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

There is only one thing worse than watching a below par #CelticFC performance, and that is following said performance on social media. Hoops fans swing from ecstasy to despair. C'mon folks, keep the faith!

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

🚨💳 Giant Cheque Alert! UCD Relay For Life has raised a staggering €86,789 for the Irish Cancer Society.

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

Applications are open for the role of Senior Programme and Communications Manager as part of the @dri.ie‬ team based @ria.ie. This is a specific-purpose maternity leave cover contract. Find out more and apply by 21 May www.ria.ie/about/careers/vacancy-senior-programme-and-communications-manager

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Happy #MayDay to everyone engaged in honest toil but especially - those working in education, health or social care - the over-worked, under-paid in precarious employment - those working far from home But especially those who are all three of the above. Thanks for everything you quietly do.

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Kudos to @ria.ie. This is what leadership looks like. Hope that more in Irish academia do the same. @ucddublin.bsky.social?

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Indeed. "A system that values only outcomes but not the people who deliver them, is neither ethical nor sustainable."

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

It looks like #Barca and #Inter are playing the new #GAA rules compared with the pedestrian #ArsvPSG last night. Wonder if they'll use the hooter seeing as it is televised? 🤔

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Caring for a child with a #RareDisease comes with #financial, #social, and #emotional challenges. We want to understand your experience to create positive change. Share your voice! 🎥 Watch short video shorturl.at/3zmru 👉Take part in the SURVEY tinyurl.com/bdhwd2az

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

This Caravaggio was given to the Jesuits by Marie Lea-Wilson in appreciation for their kindness after her husband, a British officer, was assassinated on Michael Collins’ orders for his mistreatment of prisoners in The Rotunda Gardens after their surrender in 1916 www.irishtimes.com/opinion/retr...

submitted 56 days ago • 1 comment

More wisdom from the aforementioned wise woman.... "we do need leadership. But we also need followership. Everybody can't be a leader, you know. We'll be a leader in different aspects of the lives that we lead. But we also need really excellent followers. You can't be a leader without followers."

submitted 58 days ago • 1 comment

A wise woman recently observed that the so-called 'Soft Skills' are the hardest to teach, learn and assess. In the context of the 'art & science' of medicine, medical education is great at teaching the latter (notwithstanding the explosion in scientific knowledge), not so much the former.?

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

Tomorrow at UCD: seminar and workshop on ‘Bridging the Divide: Narrative Medicine and the Experiences of Women Physicians in Family Planning, Pregnancy and Early Parenthood’ with Associate Prof Margo Wilson (Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland). #CEPL #philosophy www.ucd.ie/philosophy/n...

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

Great nuggets of wisedom from two supreme communicators including perhaps a new Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs for the 21stC. Sandwiched between security/absence of threat and self-actualisation it would seem that values of decency, empathy, hope, truth and accountability are essential needs. #PPP

submitted 65 days ago • 1 comment