Surely not a collision, more likely a "rapid unscheduled lunar disassembly"
The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 12h agoSpaceX rocket thought to have crashed into the moon in unintentional collision
Andrew Coogan
@cooganlab.bsky.social
Sleep Researcher and Professor. Views very much my own. Crowland’s Silver Jubilee Committee-fancier.
The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 12h ago
Bede's World! Bede's World! Party time! Venerable!
I am completing some peer review for a UK funding agency, and before I submit my review I for some reason need to tell them "At the age of 14, did you live in a household with electricity?"
Never heard him apologise for costing us 6 billion euro when his Ponzi scheme went bang.
The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 2d agoFormer Irish Nationwide chief Michael Fingleton dies at 88
Nice bit of drug dealing there on O’Connell bridge in the middle of a Sunday afternoon; official Dublin isn’t even pretending to try at this stage.
“Gardaí also caught a person driving at a speed of 115km/h in a 50km/h zone on the Clontarf Road, Dublin 3.” But high viz vests. www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...
Motorist caught driving at 172km/h as gardaí detect almost 1,600 speeding offences
Bank holiday roads policing operation sees 39 people arrested for driving under influence
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Can you change your routine to get a better night's sleep? 🥱 "Let your body be your guide. If you wake up feeling tired or groggy, in a low mood or with a short temper, it’s telling you that you didn’t get enough sleep”. - @cooganlab.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/he...
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Now this is what the internet was invented for. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_C...
Jimmy Carter rabbit incident - Wikipedia
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Quick, we need to offer these guys another opinion piece about how the rest of us are just idiots for paying towards the upkeep of society.
The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · last wk.Irish entrepreneur Patrick Collison donated $7m to group opposing California wealth tax
Say you’re an academic without saying you’re an academic: “I can see now that she was inveigling herself into confidential chats with the higher-ups and then slagging them behind their backs.” www.irishtimes.com/health/your-...
‘My colleague got a promotion and is now my boss... I feel really betrayed and belittled’
Lots of adjustments are needed on both sides to make this work
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My "favourite" quirk of our expenses system is when reclaiming conference registration costs it asks from where and to where the conference is; I mean, its a conference, not a traveling fucking circus.
If you've seen Zardoz, you already know it's a wild ride; it you haven't seen Zardoz, strap in: it's time to talk about the highs and lows of John Boorman's film, featuring false gods and failed utopias, and Sean Connery in thigh-high boots
Zardoz: …What the F*ck Did I Just Watch? - Reactor
John Boorman brings us guns, sex, giant stone heads, and Sean Connery in a wedding dress.
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Anyone else get accidentally overpaid? No, didn’t think so. www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
DCU president overpaid more than €18,000
Overpayment came after administrative error
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Business School Psychology for the win once again.
Times Higher Education (THE)@timeshighered.bsky.social · 2w agoA science PhD can be completed within 18 months: supervisors should involve doctoral students with conducting, writing up and publishing experiments straight away, says Adrian Furnham #PhDs #research #supervision #academicsky https://ow.ly/5Fxb50ZpZ4O
Is the most corrosive sector of society the "Professional Shithead" class (AKA Opinion Columnists)?
The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 2w agoGerard Howlin: Scaling back remote working should be on the agenda as payback for public sector pay rises
Fair play to Trump, he managed to embarrass Infantino who I had assumed was incapable of being embarrassed.
I dare FIFA to try to do that shit at Millwall vs Swansea at the Den.
I fucking hate TNT Sports; I am paying you to watch the Tour de France, not endless fucking ads for some fencing competition or whatever.
Is the nature of spacetime at the Planck scale very different from the continuous classical dynamical spacetime that exists in general relativity? This debate brings together leading psychologists to answer this unresolved question.
Institute of Art and Ideas@iai.tv · 3w agoCan the mind be described mathematically, or is this a mistake? | https://iai.tv/video/cracking-the-code-for-thought This debate brings together leading physicists Roger Penrose, Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski and Max Tegmark to answer this unresolved question.
More shambolic governance issues at UL from the higher ups. www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...
Former UL president gets order halting new investigation over whether PAC was misled
Judge says Kerstin Mey has a ‘fair’ and ‘serious’ case that new investigation is not permitted
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