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Robbie Gilligan

@robbiegilligan.bsky.social

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Professor Emeritus, School of Social Work and Social Policy, Trinity College Dublin. Active in research relating to children in care, care leavers and care experienced adults.

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Robbie Gilligan @robbiegilligan.bsky.social · Jul 30

Thanks for your interest. Kinship care for children living in the child protection care system. Synthesising key insights from international qualitative research in this area.

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Community Care @community-care.bsky.social · Jul 3

Eileen Munro questions overhaul of child protection conference chair role and raises concerns about non-social work qualified staff taking on cases

Munro: children's social care reforms 'very likely to fail' due to scale of change and lack of testing - Community Care

www.communitycare.co.uk

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Colm O’Gorman @colm.bsky.social · May 24

This is evil.

How much barbarsim roes it take, how many war crimes, how at innocent lives lost to such butchery, how much genocide before the world finally days stop?

Whay happened to “never again”?

www.rte.ie/news/middle-...

Nine of Gaza doctor's 10 children 'killed in air strike'

An Israeli air strike hit the home of a doctor in Gaza killing nine of her 10 children, according to the director of the Hamas-run Health Ministry.

Robbie Gilligan @robbiegilligan.bsky.social · Apr 22

New images could change cancer diagnostics, but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes them

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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · Apr 21

Pope Francis beautiful 2025 Easter message. ( which he wrote & had read )
www.vatican.va/content/fran...

"Urbi et Orbi" - Easter 2025 | Francis

Urbi Et Orbi Message of His Holiness Pope Francis - Easter 2025

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Harry Ferguson @profharryferguson.bsky.social · Apr 19

I’ve had 2 liver transplants- one in 2004 and the other in 2023. The generosity of my donors and their families has kept me alive. Please support #OrganDonation and let your wishes be known.

www.facebook.com/share/p/19Pm...

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Robbie Gilligan @robbiegilligan.bsky.social · Apr 8

LS Lowry painting sold to Guardian literary editor for £10 could fetch £1m

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · Apr 7

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.

Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · Mar 27

Mississippi, once ranked 49th in #education test scores, is now among the top 20 for 4th grade reading. The state's literacy reforms offer a model for closing early literacy gaps nationwide. An education policy scholar explains (Harry Anthony Patrinos @uarkansas.bsky.social #edusky)

Mississippi’s education miracle: A model for global literacy reform

The state, once ranked near the bottom of education standings, dramatically improved student literacy rates while using little money.

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Research in Practice @researchip.bsky.social · Mar 27

Kirsty Kitchen talks about the need for co-ordinated and consistent national policy and shares the @birthcompanions.bsky.social charter for women with involvement from children's social care www.birthcompanions.org.uk/resources/bi... #PartnershipC

The Birth Charter for women with involvement from children’s social care

www.birthcompanions.org.uk

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Research in Practice @researchip.bsky.social · Mar 26

Steve Baguley talks about how helpful and useful NICE's guidance is on transitions www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng43 #SupportingTransitions

Overview | Transition from children’s to adults’ services for young people using health or social care services | Guidance | NICE

www.nice.org.uk

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · Mar 26

I wrote about the group chat. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · Mar 26

State Dept gave Congress its full list of 5,300+ USAID program terminations. The sweeping cuts for health alone - from global childhood vaccines to surveillance for deadly diseases to malaria work - entail massive loss of life & national security risk. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h...

U.S. to End Vaccine Funds for Poor Countries but Continue Some H.I.V. and TB Aid (Gift Article)

A 281-page spreadsheet obtained by The Times lists the Trump administration’s plans for thousands of foreign aid programs.

www.nytimes.com

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · Mar 26

Not to be a wide-eyed naïf about such things but... am I right in thinking that they levelled an entire building to get to one guy and *that* is not controversial to anyone in the American media or political class, only that this information was recklessly shared in an unsecured chat?

Screenshot of the Atlantic Signal exchanges, including Michael Waltz saying "the first target - their top missile guy - we had positive ID of him walking into his girlfriend's building and it's now collapsed".

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Leia🇨🇴🇺🇸 @theswprincess.bsky.social · Mar 26

The Atlantic has released the Signal messages.

My company's client data includes financial info and personal information.

They're VERY strict about protecting that data, and train all new employees on security.

If I made the mistake Hegseth made, I would be fired.

#FireHegseth #FireWaltz

Robbie Gilligan @robbiegilligan.bsky.social · Mar 25

Springtime on the campus. Trinity College Dublin just now.

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Orla Hegarty @orla-hegarty.bsky.social · Mar 24

“Paris residents vote in favour of making 500 more streets pedestrian”

Local democracy in action
www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Paris residents vote in favour of making 500 more streets pedestrian

Parisians voted in a referendum on Sunday to pedestrianise a further 500 of the city's streets, giving fresh momentum to efforts by the French capital's left-leaning town hall to curb car usage and improve air quality.

www.reuters.com

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Kristen Martin @kwistent.bsky.social · Mar 22

Americans prefer to believe that homelessness and employment are mutually exclusive. For @washingtonpost.com, I reviewed @brian-goldstone.bsky.social’s paradigm-shifting book THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US, with a little detour into Sarah Jones’s DISPOSABLE. Gift link: wapo.st/4irDbBx

Review | Who gets housing, and who is ‘disposable’?

Brian Goldstone’s “There Is No Place for Us” and Sarah Jones’s “Disposable” reckon with how American society has drawn lines that assume certain people are undeserving of security

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Tuatha @tuatha.ie · Mar 21

The Ardagh Chalice • Limerick

In September 1868, a man was digging potatoes alongside the bank of an old ringfort, close to the village of Ardagh. As he did so, he uncovered one of the greatest treasures of Ireland: The Ardagh Chalice.

#SpéirGhorm #Ireland

The Ardagh Chalice a two handled cup of polished silver, decorated with gold filigree that features stylised birds and beasts; with delicate interlace in filigree and other techniques and colourful studs of red, blue and yellow glass

A closer view of the decoration on the Ardagh Chalice.

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Dr. Muireann Ní Raghallaigh @drmuireann.bsky.social · Mar 16

Been visiting the Spring Hill playground for about 11 years - it’s just been redeveloped and was looking fab yesterday in the early morning. Word had spread by this today and it was jam packed with kids and parents enjoying the new amenities. Well done DLR! @marthafanning.bsky.social

Photo of playground surrounded by wooden fence with blue sky in backgroun

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · Mar 15

Mapping disease: John Snow, English physician, pioneer of epidemiology, born #OTD 1813; his studies of the London cholera epidemic in 1854 (Broad Street water pump) determined that it was a water borne disease, and led to reforms in public health, urban water supply & waste disposal.

Mapping disease: John Snow, English physician, pioneer of epidemiology, born #OTD 1813; his studies of London cholera epidemic in 1854 (Broad Street water pump) determined that it was a water borne disease, and led to reforms in public health, urban water supply & waste disposal.
Portrait Wellcome Trust Collection | Map from John Snow: ‘On the mode of Communication of Cholera’ (1854).

Mapping disease: John Snow, English physician, pioneer of epidemiology, born #OTD 1813; his studies of London cholera epidemic in 1854 (Broad Street water pump) determined that it was a water borne disease, and led to reforms in public health, urban water supply & waste disposal.
Portrait Wellcome Trust Collection | Map from John Snow: ‘On the mode of Communication of Cholera’ (1854).

Mapping disease: John Snow, English physician, pioneer of epidemiology, born #OTD 1813; his studies of London cholera epidemic in 1854 (Broad Street water pump) determined that it was a water borne disease, and led to reforms in public health, urban water supply & waste disposal.
Portrait Wellcome Trust Collection | Map from John Snow: ‘On the mode of Communication of Cholera’ (1854).

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O. Alan Noble @oalannoble.bsky.social · Mar 14

This unlocked post is about the importance of knowing how to speak and *not* to speak to other people, to attend to others with our words and silence. newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/the-etique...

The Etiquette of Speech

How to stop talking and listen

newsletter.oalannoble.com

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Dr Charles Mount @cmount1.bsky.social · Mar 14

Agatha Christie was married to Max Mallowan for 46 years. She once said, "An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her."

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UW-Madison Sociology @uwsoc.bsky.social · Mar 13

Mario Luis Small & Jessica Calarco (@jessicacalarco.bsky.social) published "For Qualitative Literacy: How to Assess the Effectiveness of Data Collection in Field Research" in The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research Quality sk.sagepub.com/hnbk/edvol/t...

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Robbie Gilligan @robbiegilligan.bsky.social · Mar 12

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Worth a look. The power of underselling! County #Clare, #Ireland

Don't... Visit Miltown Malbay

YouTube video by Miltown Malbay Community Centre

Robbie Gilligan @robbiegilligan.bsky.social · Mar 11

Overheard in #Dublin pub. The wisdom of adulthood reflecting on earlier adventures. ‘If I was around now, I wouldn’t do half the things I did then’.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · Mar 11

one great mystery of our age is how the only way to motivate rich people to work is to give them loads of money for no reason but the only way to motivate poor people to work is to take away loads of their money for no reason

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Orla Hegarty @orla-hegarty.bsky.social · Mar 10

Architectural education & research looks doomed in USA

Banned terms include:
Climate Science
Cultural Heritage
Environmental Quality

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Robbie Gilligan @robbiegilligan.bsky.social · Mar 6

Anyone figured out how to transfer a set of followers from the other place to here?

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National Centre for Research Methods @ncrm.ac.uk · Mar 6

NCRM is running a two-day online course on how to combine a variety of creative and participatory #ResearchMethods in your work.

The course, on 31 March and 1 April 2025, is led by @drlinziladlow.bsky.social and Dr Laura Way.

Book a place: buff.ly/0FMlXU3

Swirls of colour around the outline of a human face.