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Leisure time: Ceol, caint agus craic. Wannabe Gaeilgeoir! Work: Biotech, pharma, bioinformatics, virology!
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Do we worry too much about misinformation? I've got a piece in today's Guardian about aliens, vaccines and social media - and the dual risks of believing falsehoods and ignoring truth: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

A bunch of sycophantic "Labour" MPs have published a statement saying that starving the poor and sick instead of taxing the rich is the way forward. I hope you didn't vote for any of these ghouls. I didn't. Still, it got the Tories out, right? Right???

submitted 17 days ago • 11 comments

History, culture, philosophy, politics. HUMAN BEINGS. Couldn't be happier that this is coming out on June 5th published by Wildfire. Available for preorder now on Amazon. @wildfirebooks.bsky.social

submitted 42 days ago • 4 comments

PubMed is down. It’s really sad because I figured this out while looking something up while caring for patients. Is it scheduled maintenance? Is it intentional? We deserve at least a statement.

submitted 27 days ago • 4 comments

Repost & like, if you stand with President Zelensky!

submitted 28 days ago • 691 comments

This is a good if terrifying summary of Trump’s war on science www.science.org/content/blog...

submitted 51 days ago • 13 comments

NEW: Last week Trump announced 'Stargate' a $500bn AI sci-fi inspired plan to boost US economy. This week, I turn the spotlight on the man who stood behind Trump, lesser-known tech bro, Larry Ellison, his special friend Tony Blair & how they're coming for the UK too open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

submitted 54 days ago • 36 comments

If you don’t want history to be re-written please share this video widely - because the only way to stop that happening is to constantly call this boll**** out with the actual facts

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“In a world where conspiracy theories and nonsense cures are widely accepted, the evidence-based concepts of guilt and criminality vanish quickly too” www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

submitted 79 days ago • 5 comments

Substitute “Irish” for “Welsh” and rings just as true!

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

1/ Ok, so instead of just making jokes about the EU Reset, I wanted to do a very simplified thread on: - what the actual problem is Keir Starmer is trying to solve; - the options on the table; and - why this shit is hard. This will be very long. I'm sorry. Let's get wonky.

submitted 95 days ago • 46 comments

Thank you to Kyle Husmann for speaking with our Data Management Hub today about machine-readable metadata! Such a fun and insightful talk! Slides available here: osf.io/zvdyx

submitted 107 days ago • 1 comment

Ní bhíonn an rath, ach mar a mbíonn an smacht. weareirish.ie/great-irish-... #gaeilge #irishlanguage

submitted 112 days ago • 0 comments

Worried about #ElonMusk buying his way into UK politics? Think we need to take money out of our democracy? Help #DemocracyForSale's people-powered plan to #SafeguardDemocracy by taking this short survey: democracyforsale.co.uk/safeguard Please share. Thanks!

submitted 113 days ago • 127 comments

Excellent to see the value of historical knowledge explicitly recognised in this major new @britishacademy.bsky.social initiative on global (dis)order.

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