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Michael Plank @michaelplanknz.bsky.social · 1h

Samuel Mehr: "Moving control of science funding decisions away from the experts and toward government ministers is a recipe for under-informed funding decisions that are likely to be biased by external influence, whatever topics are currently exciting (but don’t necessarily have any long-term value)

Science Media Centre NZ @smcnz.bsky.social · 1d

Big shakeup for NZ’s research funding – Expert Reaction

Big shakeup for NZ's research funding - Expert Reaction - Science Media Centre

The Government will consolidate decision-making for New Zealand's science research funding as part of its new science system strategy. Research Funding New Zealand will be a new independent board that...

www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz

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Michael Tremmel @michaeltremmel.bsky.social · 8h

It’s really hard trying to be a fan of Irish soccer… they just suck so much. Even wins feel like losses when you can barely get past a 10-man Armenian team.

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Crash's Landing @crashslanding.bsky.social · 18h

A fellow cat rescuer spotted a homeless group kindly sharing their lunch with a starving, matted senior cat under a highway. Now named Expresso, this 12+ year-old deaf dynamo is thriving despite kidney disease and past injuries. She’s in our Special Adoption Program—fee waived, care covered.

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Michael Tremmel @michaeltremmel.bsky.social · 20h

Climate change is real. We need a government that takes it seriously

RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 21h

Farmers along the Shannon Callows have said their livelihoods are being destroyed by rising water levels in the area, which takes in large stretches of land in counties Galway, Offaly, Roscommon and Westmeath

Farmers along Shannon say lives 'destroyed by flooding'

Farmers along the Shannon Callows have said their livelihoods are being destroyed by rising water levels in the area, which takes in large stretches of land in counties Galway, Offaly, Roscommon and W...

www.rte.ie

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Anna Pringle @annapr.bsky.social · 21h

Well said @irishrainforest.bsky.social - Leddin must not have paid attention to recent speeches from the Taoiseach and government (in)action.

Meanwhile, the EPA tells us today that water quality in our rivers and lakes has deteriorated again.

#Aras25 #SpeirGorm

Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 22h

Ex-Green TD Brian Leddin is leaving the Greens over the party's support for "far left" Connolly, and voting for Fine Gael's Humphreys as president.

He believes climate and ecological breakdown are not left-right issues.

He's very wrong: *capitalism* is their core driver.

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 1d

Brian Leddin: Why I resigned from the Green Party over its decision to back Catherine Connolly

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 22h

Ex-Green TD Brian Leddin is leaving the Greens over the party's support for "far left" Connolly, and voting for Fine Gael's Humphreys as president.

He believes climate and ecological breakdown are not left-right issues.

He's very wrong: *capitalism* is their core driver.

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 1d

Brian Leddin: Why I resigned from the Green Party over its decision to back Catherine Connolly

Party’s decision to support Connolly’s presidential campaign only deepened my concerns about its current direction

www.irishtimes.com

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Michael Tremmel @michaeltremmel.bsky.social · 23h

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Michael Tremmel @michaeltremmel.bsky.social · 1d

Capitalism will always mean caving to corporate interests at the expense of public health and safety.

The Journal @thejournal.ie · 1d

New documents reveal how alcohol giants pressured the Irish government into delaying landmark cancer warnings, writes @investigates.thejournal.ie
www.thejournal.ie/alcohol-lobb...

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 2d

lol liars, every one. Chicago cops threatened to quit if Brandon Johnson was elected mayor. Police union leader LITERALLY threatened "blood in the streets," saying between 800 to 1,000 would walk.

Guess what never happened.

And even if they'd made good on that threat... OK??? BYE????

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 3d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 3d

“The Biden FBI”

Who was President on January 6?

Donald J. Trump * © @reaDonaldTrump • 1m
THE BIDEN FBI PLACED 274 AGENTS INTO THE CROWD ON JANUARY 6. If this is so, which it is, a lot of very good people will be owed big apologies. What a SCAM - DO SOMETHING!!! President DJT

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Michael Tremmel @michaeltremmel.bsky.social · 2d

I suggest reading Service Model by @aptshadow.bsky.social because even this promise coming true will create a horrible future for us.

The rich will destroy the world if we continue to let them.

Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 3d

our economy is currently being propped up by the promise of billions of fully autonomous robot butlers coming in a year or so

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Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 2d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 2d

"The chancellor approved it"

🫧 Spark Elation 🫧 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 2d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

“a supply chain attack”

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 2d

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

A comic strip in six panels. The panels inerlock like a jigsaw with knobs and sockets. Two stick figures walk right to left through all the panels.

Panel 1: Person 1 says "I hear you're working on a new theory."
Panel 2 & 3: Person 2 says: "Yes, I'm calling it the jigsaw model. I think it could change our whole View of reality."
Panel 4: Person 1 says "When Will you publish?:
Panel 5: Person 2 says "But a couple of things are still bothering me." (this piece/panel is a bit squint)
Panel 6: This piece is rotated ninety degees and fits to the others very badly. Person 2 is saying "Soon. I feel like I'm really close"
A second look at the whole comic shows that the last two panels read in the wrong order because the jigsaw has been put together incorrectly.

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Joe O'Hara @joeoharadcu.bsky.social · 2d

When life imitates art

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 3d

The universe is too fucking fabulous for capitalism, y'all!

Last night's evidence:
1. North America Nebula (1 hour)
2. Andromeda (20 min)
3. Pac-Man Nebula (15 min)

The universe is basically just hydrogen, dark matter, and dark energy. Plus trillions upon trillions of perturbations lol
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North America Nebula. Lots of red because of all of the hydrogen gas.

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 7d

As an aside, "Excellence" must be the single-most overused, empty, boilerplate word used in academic bureaucracy and it's typically a stand-in for "We don't know what we want so you should do everything".

Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 7d

Admin email from university: "Share your ideas: Help shape operational excellence at U of I"

Soliciting ideas for how to improve operational processes.

Except...

The form doesn't work—the form created by the Operational Excellence team.

Yeah.

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Michael Tremmel @michaeltremmel.bsky.social · 4d

They risk upsetting the multinationals. They risk upsetting the capitalists. This is neoliberalism. These people care more about capitalism and profit than their ideals (and often mistake those motives AS ideals). They will sell out the future of the planet to ensure the rich get richer.

Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 5d

“I don’t think we can mitigate for climate change.”

- Mícheál Martin, Taoiseach.

www.independent.ie/business/tec...

Taoiseach says some climate projects will not be fulfilled because they risk polarising society

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has rowed back on climate change commitments, saying Ireland may not be able fulfil all current initiatives due to the polarising effect it could have on society.

www.independent.ie

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Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · 4d

The full quote as reported:

“I don’t think we can mitigate for climate change,” he said.
“This might be controversial, because I believe in addressing climate change....

Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 5d

“I don’t think we can mitigate for climate change.”

- Mícheál Martin, Taoiseach.

www.independent.ie/business/tec...

Taoiseach says some climate projects will not be fulfilled because they risk polarising society

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has rowed back on climate change commitments, saying Ireland may not be able fulfil all current initiatives due to the polarising effect it could have on society.

www.independent.ie

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Michael Tremmel @michaeltremmel.bsky.social · 4d

So at first I thought it was hilarious that a Venezuelan won the peace prize but then I found out she’s a capitalist who wants to privatize everything (including oil) and has publicly thanked Trump for his “commitment to freedom and democracy in Venezuela”. I’m not impressed.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 5d

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them.

They should feel bad.

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Elaine McGoff @elainemcgoff.bsky.social · 6d

This is honestly the stupidest thing I've heard in a long time- banning the use of the words burger & sausage on plant based products.

The world is burning & war ravaged, & this is what our Parliamentarians think they need to 'fix'?

P.S. Fish also don't have fingers, right @oisinc.bsky.social?

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Michael Tremmel @michaeltremmel.bsky.social · 6d

*screams into the void*

POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 6d

The EU says it has a new problem when it comes to artificial intelligence: Companies are not using it.

But Brussels is looking to solve this.

European businesses barely use AI. Brussels wants to fix that.

Commission to warn Europe’s slow embrace of artificial intelligence risks squandering economic growth.

ow.ly

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Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social · 7d

Valuable info about the Physics Nobel Prize today from Prof. Joseph Barranco at SFSU on Martinis and Devoret being a grad student and postdoc in Clarke's lab at UC Berkeley & Clark and Devoret being immigrants. "California *public* education made this happen. Immigration made this happen." ⚛️

Joseph Barranco posted on social media: Go Bears! Nobel Prize in Physics goes to 3 physicists studying mesoscopic quantum phenomena... Work was done in the 1980s in UC Berkeley Professor John Clarke's lab with his graduate student John Martinis and postdoctoral fellow Michel Devoret... all 3 share the Nobel Prize. Must also point out that both Clarke and Devoret are immigrants from the UK and France, respectively. All 3 are pioneers in the race to build the most powerful quantum supercomputers. California *public* education made this happen. Immigration made this happen.

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Karl Stanley @karlstanley.bsky.social · 7d

Absolutely fuming at this Derelict Property Tax move in #Budget25 - any change like this will take years to bed in, meanwhile any efforts to collect the legacy Derelict Site Levy will be abandoned while councils wait for new legislation.

A gigantic win for property speculators. Smells like FFG.

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