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Marc Scully

@marcscully.bsky.social

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Lecturer in Psychology at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick. Does social psychology & qualitative methods, interested in identity in diaspora. Lives in Cork. Spends more time on the N20 than is good for me.

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Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · Sep 2

New publication from me in Political Psychology on the phenomenon of the rise in applications for Irish passports post-Brexit and how such applicants negotiate discourses of citizenship and identity: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

“I feel I should put that work in”: Discourses of effortfulness and essentialism among post‐Brexit applicants for Irish citizenship

This article explores the post-Brexit increase in applications for Irish passports through descent, and in so doing, seeks to develop a social/political psychology of diasporic citizenship. It draws ....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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niamhestack.bsky.social @niamhestack.bsky.social · 45m

As the theme of #WorldMentalHealthDay this year is focused on ‘access to services’ it seems timely to throwback to research we published last year around parenting while experiencing mental health challenges and challenges in accessing support @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social

www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

How can we support parents with mental health challenges?

Irish research estimates that roughly one in four families in Ireland have a parent who has experienced mental health difficulties

www.rte.ie

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Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 2h

Bump for the above now that comparisons are being made between #TraitorsIrl and #celebritytraitors on the BBC.

One obvious difference, continuing the point in the blog about self-presentation, is that the celebrities have pre-existing public personas that they're bringing with them to the show.

Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 1d

Said a Sassenach back in Dun Laoghaire
"I pay homage to nationalist thaoghaire,
But wherever I drobh
I found signposts that strobh
To make touring in Ireland so draoghaire."

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 1d

Reviewer 1 (left): Just doesn't approve of qualitative methods.
Reviewer 2 (centre): Is worried about generalisability and thinks you should have recruited more participants.
Reviewer 3 (right): Feels you should have preregistered your study and made your highly sensitive dataset open-access.

Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 1d

The guy on the left is why you can't get your qualitative paper published in JPSP.

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Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 1d

American social psychology; British social psychology; European social psychology.

Ryan Teague Beckwith @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social · 3d

Editor in chief, city editor, features editor

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Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 2d

Oileán Chléire grimly holding on to an extra 10 minutes of daylight that the rest of us have lost.

Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 2d

Noticing the nights drawing in? 🌙

October brings a big shift with most of the UK losing over 2 hours of daylight this month!

Do you enjoy the cosy evenings or miss the longer days?

Map of the UK showing daylight lost during October by region. Northern areas like Lerwick lose about 2 hours 40 minutes, Stornoway 2 hours 30 minutes, Aberdeen 2 hours 20 minutes, Glasgow and Newcastle 2 hours 10 minutes, Manchester and Birmingham 2 hours, and southern areas such as London and Plymouth about 1 hour 50 minutes. Background uses colour bands to indicate daylight loss.

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Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 2d

Quick and gentle reminder that if you’re over the age of about 35 (mature students excepted), *your* third level experience has very little relevance to current students.

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Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 2d

Ah! Thanks!

Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 2d

When an article you’ve spent a lot of time on *finally* begins to pick up a few citations.

a man is pushing another man on a bike down a street

Alt: A man shakily rides a bicycle down a street at night while another man cheers.

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Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 2d

Argue, argue against the dying of the light!

Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 3d

Out of interest, how does all this work along the border? If you drive from Cavan to Armagh via the Drummully Polyp, does the BBC Sounds App keep cutting in and out?

Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 3d

Also gone in Ireland.

A sad day for Returned Emigrant 6Music Dads With Long Commutes.

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Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah, similarly, I only really listen to it in the car. I have a fairly long commute, and it fills that “my brain is too fried to listen to a podcast or the news” space.

Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 3d

Ah, FFS.

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Ronan Delexical @delexical.bsky.social · 3d

Gone in Ireland. This was my solution when Sounds went. Not sure I am arsed trying to find another radio app again.

James Cridland @james.crid.land · 3d

BBC Radio appears to have almost entirely disappeared from TuneIn in Australia (and, I gather, Malaysia). My presets have a regional restriction notice on them - and search for these stations gives nothing in response.

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Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 3d

Also, could you explain the run-up to the Iraq War again?

a cartoon says hey everybody an old man 's talking while bart simpson looks on

Alt: a cartoon says hey everybody an old man 's talking while bart simpson looks on

media.tenor.com

Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 3d

Those who are {demographic that is the precise userbase of this platform}, what advice do you have for {younger and cooler demographic that you’re desperate to patronise}?

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Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 4d

Will nobody think of the social scientists!

Solidarity with Stefan and Liam: this would’ve been really interesting.

Stefan Müller @stefanmueller.bsky.social · 4d

There goes the paper on support for Jim Gavin among those interested in Gaelic games in Dublin versus rival counties.

Liam Kneafsey and I successfully applied for including these questions in the Irish Presidential Election Study, and we completed the pre-analysis plan and code last week. 😬😢

Pre-Analysis Plan: Rivalries and Celebrity Candidates: How Sport Shapes Voting Behaviour in Ireland
Authors: Liam Kneafsey and Stefan Müller

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Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 4d

Argh! Solidarity. I’d have been very interested!

Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 4d

So we’ll have gone from 1997 to 2032? without an FF presidential candidate on polling day. #áras25

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Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 4d

I was at this gig (the first set of gigs they had played in almost 10 years, I think), and this was genuinely the most thrilling opening to a set I think I've ever experienced.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5aA...

Sultans Of Ping - Back In A Tracksuit - (Live at the Savoy Theatre, Cork, Ireland, 2005)

YouTube video by Cherry Red Records

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Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 5d

His expression on the Graham Norton show while Taylor Swift was talking about her new album was beyond memeworthy.

Principal Skinner bites his lip. The caption reads “Leave your body, Cillian. Leave your body”.

Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 5d

Me reading your bad takes on Bluesky.

Obelix clutches his brow and says “Wait, Obelix! This fight isn’t your fight.”

Offscreen, there is violence.

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Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 6d

No, it’s more that we have enough sport-based conspiracy theories to keep us going, so we don’t need to engage with the other stuff.

I speak as a hardcore 2006 All-Ireland hurling final ‘long grass’ truther.

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