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Des Fitzgerald
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Radical Humanities, Medical Humanities, Urban Studies, Science & Tech Studies - https://linktr.ee/des_fitzgerald
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I don't want to be rude to our social psychology friends, but for reasons both technical and political the answer to this question is always going to be yes! www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
It’s one of the most influential social psychology studies ever. Was it all a lie?
A classic book on UFO believers and their "cognitive dissonance" after aliens failed to land is called into question.
www.motherjones.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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I would say, from an Irish perspective, that the idea that christian nationalism is some new and baffling foreign import to Britain is.... questionable. www.theguardian.com/world/commen...
Is British politics immune to US-style rightwing Christianity? We’re about to find out | Lamorna Ash
Nigel Farage and Tommy Robinson are increasingly espousing Christian ‘values’, and a wealthy US legal group is becoming influential – this could have dire consequences, says author Lamorna Ash
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Obviously it;s news to no-one but me, but today's down-the-research-rabbithole discovery is that Isaac Asimov was a real piece of shit, huh.
November 24, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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If you're in ireland and have kids in primary school or soon to be, please fill out this survey on preferences re religious involvement in schools, and whether people prefer single-sex or co-ed. It takes < 1 minute and will inform future provision. #speirgorm www.gov.ie/en/departmen...
Primary School Survey
This survey is for parents and guardians of children in primary school or who will enter primary school in the coming years
www.gov.ie
November 24, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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A joy to see the great Richard Dawson in cork last night
Richard Dawson in stage in St Luke's church, with blow lights behind him. He's playing a red guitar and to his left someone is playing the drums.
November 22, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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Now in Turkish (with an awesome cover).
The cover of the Turkish edition of "the urban brain" - Kentsel Beyin
November 21, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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When the students ask what I think about putting the readings into chatgpt to get a summary
A truth social post by donald trump: "SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!"
November 21, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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Whenever I think of what is obvious to us but not to students, I recall the (excellent) undergrad - many years ago - who didn't realise a comment of "awkward" on her essay referred to an awkwardly phrased-sentence, and thought I was expressing how awkward I found it to read such poor work.
November 21, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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'tis winter
A view of St Ann's cork, looking west. The sky is weirdly pink.
November 21, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Once again, we are way too relaxed about the fact that "shooting Irish people is good actually" is a mainstream political position on the neighbouring island.
Am X post from Suella Braverman that reads: "The SAS has the support of the whole country against this shameless government of cowards and Sinn Fein sympathisers." She is quote tweeting a post from the telegraph that says, "New laws could see former soldiers hounded through courts over alleged crimes, say veterans."
November 20, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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"When I searched my phone for texts I’d sent with ‘lol’ in them [...] I realised that I had sent a lot of messages like these while actively crying." granta.com/lol-im-tryin...
Lol I’m trying to tell you how it feels for me
‘What was I trying to communicate by telling A. that I was laughing, while simultaneously writing that my love for him felt clear and ancient in between the wet walls of the blue and starless night?’
granta.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Has anyone done the Predator Badlands/Oedipus long read yet? Because I have *ideas.*
November 18, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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I love a "deadline extended due to overwhelmingly demand" email. Sure guys! That's 100% why the deadline is extended, no doubt.
November 18, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Anyway, amid the endless moaning about cork city council, the new bridge at crosses green is... pretty great?!
Looking lengthways on a sandstone coloured pedestrian bridge with a new apartment block and an old commercial building in the background. Looking sideways from the same bridge. A black cargo bike is in the foreground, and you can see the river just behind.
November 18, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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UCC researchers receive €1.1m to address national and global societal challenges

UCC has been awarded funding for five interdisciplinary projects in @researchireland.ie's COALESCE 2025 programme.

For more, see:
www.ucc.ie/en/news/2025...

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November 17, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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A sincere belief I have, which makes me sound like a crank, is that it would be a clear net positive for academia/the world if Harvard university was to be simply shut down.
November 17, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Praying for the bluesky liberals that they never find anything out about danish politics.
November 15, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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I think I'm the only person in Cork who likes what they've done here, so it's lucky I've written an entire book about why I'm right and everyone else is wrong.
Two ginger kids playing in a terracotta coloured fountain in the revamped bishop lucy park in Cork A small girl in a pink jacket standing on concrete steps in from of a stone arch and a mural of an old man
November 15, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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On the face of it, this looks incredibly fucking bad and irresponsible. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/13/s...
Researchers say they have verified and sequenced Hitler’s DNA. A new documentary reveals the findings | CNN
Analysis of Adolf Hitler’s DNA reveals he may have had a rare genetic disorder that delays puberty, a new documentary says. Experts say that more details are needed.
edition.cnn.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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Everyone in Ireland rn
A picture of a smiling Eamon Dunphy in the early 1990s
November 13, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Ginger recognises ginger
Two red haired kids watching a ginger cat scratching a tree
November 13, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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"structural inequalities" is doing some amount of heavy lifting here
Few scholars today would accept this view, or accuse the British government of genocide. There is no archival evidence of a deliberate, organised attempt to starve the Irish population, forcibly displace them or destroy their means of survival. Historians instead tend to view the famine as the product of deep-rooted structural inequalities compounded by the government’s disastrous short-term policies.
November 13, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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I snuck a half litre of wine into the cinema to see bugonia and wow was that a good decision [non derogatory]
November 12, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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A weird genre of post on here is academics delivering lengthy homilies to wholly imaginary detractors/misunderstanders of their particular fields.
November 12, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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If there was maybe *one* thing I would change about my place of employment, it'd be that we stop allowing retired staff members to still send all-staff emails.
November 12, 2025 at 9:31 AM