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Ciarán O'Kelly

@ctokelly.bsky.social

Reader and Deputy Head of School, School of Law, Queen's University Belfast, Co-chair EGPA PSG VII.

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Uğur Aytaç@uguraytac.bsky.social · last yr.

Political philosophers! Please consider encouraging your students to apply for this PhD position on the global governance of technology. The Ethics Institute is a great place to work! It hosts one of the largest and most international group of practical philosophers in Europe.

Uğur Aytaç@uguraytac.bsky.social · last yr.

We're hiring! I'll be co-supervising a PhD at Utrecht University on the global governance of socially disruptive technologies. Political philosophy/ethics project focused on legitimacy & good governance. More info: edu.nl/9admd Deadline: June 3, 2025 (apologies for the short notice!)

Ciarán O'Kelly@ctokelly.bsky.social · last yr.

Enjoyed this and it's sobering but I do think we all need a mindset shift: instead of comparing travel to burning carbon by the tonne and externalising the consequences, we need to compare to when travel was powered by donkeys and thus rarely if ever happened. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Jennifer O'Connell: I’ve become an accidental EV owner. There have been some nasty surprises – and a few nice ones

The plan was to continue to drive my 10-year-old diesel until the wheels fell off, and ideally beyond. That day came sooner than I thought

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Paul Price@swimsure.bsky.social · last yr.

Here are 4 slides from my lecture, "State-enabled regulatory capture?", this week to a class at Trinity Business School in Dublin. I focused on Irish dairy expansion since 2010, its profit-takers & facilitators, & its highly negative impacts for climate action, pollution & farm/food resilience.

Slide showing a system dynamic graphic (Paul Price 2021-09-03 DCU-ECRN CC-BY) of feedback loops and drivers of Irish milk production with additional annotations identifying limits, mostly undermined, and state agencies and government policies that have enabled milk production expansion.Line chart for Dairy in Ireland since 1990 showing changes in absolute totals (milk, methane, nitrogen-excreted and cow numbers) and efficiency improvements for milk/cow, methane/litre, N-ex/litre. While milk quota was fully in place, total methane and N-ex reduced to stable level 2005-2010. After milk quota relaxed from 2010 and then was removed in 2015, a sharp rise in total methane and N-ex has occurred, contrary to climate action and water improvement commitments. Base chart from Price, P.R., 2023. Carbon Budgets to Inform Climate Action: A society-wide, integrated GHG quota and accounting perspective (Working Paper No. 19). Climate Change Advisory Council. https://www.climatecouncil.ie/councilpublications/councilworkingpaperseries/Paul%20R%20Price%20Working%20Paper%20No%2019.pdf Slide from Paul Price, Oxford Real Farming Conference #orfc2025 2025. Two bar charts showing 2022 data for Ireland relative to Denmark, the EU-27 average, UK, and Germany. Agriculture share of total Irish GHG emissions is very high (37%); and, ruminant enteric methane emissions per capita (2.9 tCO2e/person) is exceptionally high. Chart for dairy nitrogen shows N-excreted from cows decreasing while milk quota remained fully in place up to 2010, then a sharp rise in N-ex (driving up air and water pollution) from 2010 onwards as dairy expansion occurred.Schematic stock-flow diagram focussed on nitrogen flow and losses, and related animal methane. The crucial driver in modern intensive "grass-fed" farming is a linear input of synthetic chemical fertiliser for grass and feed production as inputs to milk and livestock farming. Base chart from Price, P.R., 2023. Carbon Budgets to Inform Climate Action: A society-wide, integrated GHG quota and accounting perspective (Working Paper No. 19). Climate Change Advisory Council. https://www.climatecouncil.ie/councilpublications/councilworkingpaperseries/Paul%20R%20Price%20Working%20Paper%20No%2019.pdf
Bertrom.@bertrom.bsky.social · 2y ago

Fay Godwin. 1931 - 2005. I came from the cobbled streets of Bradford Manchester, and in my mind, I yearned for the rural landscapes, that later in life were brought to me by Fay. It is not lost on me that my own landscapes echo her haunting approach to these places where poetry lies.

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Ciarán O'Kelly@ctokelly.bsky.social · 2y ago

I know it's a difficult moment in world history but I'd just like to add to the collapse of civilisation that Guinness Zero, from a can, is it transpires my favourite of all the Guinnesses.

Ciarán O'Kelly@ctokelly.bsky.social · 2y ago

I'm a pretty proficient bread baker but never tried proper sourdough. A month into trying to get a starter going and I think I need to surrender. Has anyone any hints apart from cop on and get bread from the shop like real people?