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Luigina Ciolfi @luiciolfi.bsky.social · 24d

Some highlights from the weekend and Sounds from a Safe Harbour - the best festival ever, and right here in Cork!

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Luigina Ciolfi @luiciolfi.bsky.social · Aug 27

Too many to mention…but Skara Brae is definitely high on that list!

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Luigina Ciolfi @luiciolfi.bsky.social · Aug 14

Unexpected find at the Douglas book swap - I’ll re-read it in translation

Luigina Ciolfi @luiciolfi.bsky.social · Jul 25

Powerful piece by Roberto Saviano in The Guardian: "Solitude is the added punishment for courage". (BTW, one of the many reasons why I will never understand the romanticisation of organised crime in popular culture...)
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

My life has been hell since mafia bosses blamed me for their downfall. Finally, justice has been done | Roberto Saviano

Threats were made to stop me and other journalists reporting on their crimes. Now I hope to reclaim my freedom, says writer Roberto Saviano

www.theguardian.com

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Luigina Ciolfi @luiciolfi.bsky.social · Jul 13

2,864.7 km round trip driven, almost 60 km walked, 6 ferry voyages, many ancient stones, rocky hills, beaches, and uncounted drams of whisky. That was the Northern Scotland 2025 adventure!

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Luigina Ciolfi @luiciolfi.bsky.social · Jul 6

Summer morning, Orkney Islands

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RTÉ Brainstorm @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social · Jun 24

How did Ireland become Europe's second most expensive country? Analysis by @howardemma.bsky.social @tudublin.bsky.social @researchireland.ie on the factors behind why we're near the top of this particular league table www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

How did Ireland become Europe's second most expensive country?

We're near the top of this league table due to economic growth, rising demand, government policies and unique socio-geographic characteristics

www.rte.ie

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Luigina Ciolfi @luiciolfi.bsky.social · Jun 23

Acqua di San Giovanni, 2025 Edition. Traditionally, it’s made on St. John’s Eve with whatever can be found in the fields or your garden. The bowl will spend the night outside to catch the dew, and the water will smell wonderful come tomorrow morning! #acquadisangiovanni

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · Jun 15

It's #Bloomsday

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Luigina Ciolfi @luiciolfi.bsky.social · Jun 13

Thanks, Hardy! I enjoyed your takeover show!

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Luigina Ciolfi @luiciolfi.bsky.social · Jun 10

Thank you @shushradio.bsky.social for having me! Choosing the playlist was great fun and I really enjoyed the conversation.

Shush! Sounds from UCC Library @shushradio.bsky.social · Jun 10

This week my guest was @luiciolfi.bsky.social Professor of Human Computer Interaction at UCC and a true music lover

We talked about her work, how UCC Library supports her research and teaching, and we had great fun exploring her music picks.
bit.ly/Shush296

Luigina Colfi, wearing large headphones and glasses, sits at a radio studio desk in front of a microphone. She is smiling and facing the camera. A mixing console with brightly lit buttons and sliders is in the foreground. A water bottle and notes are on the desk, and a studio screen with a clock and “UCC 98.3FM” is visible in the background.

A playlist graphic titled Shush! Sounds from UCC Library with the subtitle Shush 296 – Luigina Ciolfi Takeover. It lists 13 songs:
• Broken Man – St. Vincent
• Ghosts – Seamus Fogarty
• Corsicana Lemonade – White Denim
• Oh No – Biig Piig
• A Lucid Dream – Fontaines D.C.
• Beware of Darkness – George Harrison
• Beauty Lies in the Eye – Sonic Youth
• Palaces of Montezuma – Grinderman
• I Inside the Old Year Dying – PJ Harvey
• The Stars are Underground – The Frames
• My One and Only Love – John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman
• This is a Conversation – Windings

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Shush! Sounds from UCC Library @shushradio.bsky.social · Jun 10

This week my guest was @luiciolfi.bsky.social Professor of Human Computer Interaction at UCC and a true music lover

We talked about her work, how UCC Library supports her research and teaching, and we had great fun exploring her music picks.
bit.ly/Shush296

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Luigina Ciolfi @luiciolfi.bsky.social · May 23

Ten Years of PsychSlam...Absolutely amazing programme, team, and students! And always one of the highlights of the year for our School of Applied Psychology: youtu.be/RZwwSINsbYw?...

Transition Year students tackle real-world issues at PsychSlam

YouTube video by UCCIreland

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Luigina Ciolfi @luiciolfi.bsky.social · May 13

Forza Lucio!

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Luigina Ciolfi @luiciolfi.bsky.social · May 5

A new snooker era…Zhao Xintong is the first Asian world champion, immensely talented, fun to watch and clearly not wanting to waste his second chance…
And it feels like the Class of ‘92 are walking away into the horizon…(in Ronnie’s case, Saudi Arabia)

The Guardian @theguardian.com · May 5

Zhao Xintong beats Mark Williams to become China’s first snooker world champion

* Zhao wins 18-12 in dramatic final session in Sheffield * Zhao makes history as the first amateur to win title Zhao Xintong became the first Chinese player to be crowned snooker world champion after holding off a late rally from Mark Williams to create history at the Crucible and complete a sensational career comeback. The 28-year-old only returned to competitive snooker in September last year after being handed a 20-month suspension for his part in the match-fixing scandal which resulted in a ban for 10 Chinese players. He was forced to begin on the sport’s amateur tour and arrived in Sheffield without professional status. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

The Guardian @theguardian.com · May 5

Zhao Xintong beats Mark Williams to become China’s first snooker world champion

* Zhao wins 18-12 in dramatic final session in Sheffield * Zhao makes history as the first amateur to win title Zhao Xintong became the first Chinese player to be crowned snooker world champion after holding off a late rally from Mark Williams to create history at the Crucible and complete a sensational career comeback. The 28-year-old only returned to competitive snooker in September last year after being handed a 20-month suspension for his part in the match-fixing scandal which resulted in a ban for 10 Chinese players. He was forced to begin on the sport’s amateur tour and arrived in Sheffield without professional status. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Luigina Ciolfi @luiciolfi.bsky.social · May 4

Desislava Bozhilova: the first woman to referee all three snooker Triple Crown finals. She is refereeing the World Championship final this weekend.

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Luigina Ciolfi @luiciolfi.bsky.social · May 4

Some East Cork sunshine before marking and snooker

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Luigina Ciolfi @luiciolfi.bsky.social · Apr 26

Fabulous day in Sheffield. Always nice to be back, always magical to watch snooker at the Crucible

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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · Apr 23

Me: someday my research will be mentioned in the opening paragraph of a New York Times article!

Also me: hmmm should have been more specific.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/s...

National Science Foundation Terminates Hundreds of Active Research Awards (Gift Article)

The agency targeted grants focused on diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as research on misinformation.

www.nytimes.com

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Luigina Ciolfi @luiciolfi.bsky.social · Apr 21

The Gearagh

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Luigina Ciolfi @luiciolfi.bsky.social · Apr 19

Rainy Saturday + Snooker World Championship

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Luigina Ciolfi @luiciolfi.bsky.social · Mar 19

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Eric Schares @eschares.bsky.social · Nov 18

🚨 Preprint! We combine our recent open dataset of #APC prices with the article counts per journal-year from #OpenAlex to estimate how much the academic community has paid in APCs over the last 5 years.

A. $8.349 billion ($8.968 B in 2023 USD)

$2.5B in 2023 alone.

arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551 #metasci

Estimating global article processing charges paid to six publishers for open access between 2019 and 2023

This study presents estimates of the global expenditure on article processing charges (APCs) paid to six publishers for open access between 2019 and 2023. APCs are fees charged for publishing in some ...

arxiv.org

Kelton Minor @keltonminor.bsky.social · Mar 18

There are days in life that shake you.

I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University
& academic career... 1/🧵

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Luigina Ciolfi @luiciolfi.bsky.social · Mar 10

"When it first opened in 1946, after the second world war, the institution was intended as a symbol of postwar friendship." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Goodbye Lenin: Finnish museum reinvents itself in response to shifting relations with Russia

Former Lenin Museum in Tampere, which opened in 1946 as a symbol of Finnish-Russian friendship, has rebranded amid Ukraine war

www.theguardian.com

Luigina Ciolfi @luiciolfi.bsky.social · Mar 10

"Taskmasking" and performative productivity: www.theguardian.com/money/ng-int...

Typing loudly, wearing AirPods: ‘taskmasking’ is how Gen Z pretends to work at the office

As more companies mandate a return to the office, young workers learn to game the system to take back control

www.theguardian.com

Luigina Ciolfi @luiciolfi.bsky.social · Mar 5

Happy Birthday @squeefulraven.bsky.social

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Luigina Ciolfi @luiciolfi.bsky.social · Feb 24

Extremely

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Luigina Ciolfi @luiciolfi.bsky.social · Feb 24

....ooooh, it's so depressing to see your research ideas that nobody wanted to fund (no matter how many times you tried and how many positive reviews you got) become actual "things" in the world out there, being covered by the media, etc....

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Luigina Ciolfi @luiciolfi.bsky.social · Feb 24

For me, it's always "strength"...for some reason my fingers keep typing "strenght" although I know it's wrong 🙄

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