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James Green @ajamesgreen.bsky.social · 7d

And finally, the ugly piece of steel that Rafferty keeps whacking people with looks like a plane that the coopers would use for shaping barrel staves

James Green @ajamesgreen.bsky.social · 7d

And one of my former colleagues (in fact, the person who was in my office before me) is the proud owner of a 1937 barge that spend almost 40 years at the bottom of a lake with a full cargo of Guinness archive.waterwaysireland.org/sto.../story...

archive.waterwaysireland.org

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James Green @ajamesgreen.bsky.social · 7d

Guinness continued to ship beer by canal to Limerick until 1960, and there is still some stonework from the depot, cranes etc. on the canal.

archive.waterwaysireland.org

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James Green @ajamesgreen.bsky.social · 7d

There are definitely some fiction elements. The cooperage that is burnt in the first episode ran onto the Liffey, but they are seen rolling barrels into the Grand Canal docks, which was by the brewery, not by the Cooperage

Black and white photo of a brewery and silos with a dock in the foreground

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James Green @ajamesgreen.bsky.social · 7d

Iveagh House overlooks St Stephens Green in the centre of Dublin, a gift of the Guinness family (Benjamin, the dead dad in the show) to Dublin, currently featuring Harakeke (an NZ flax) as a centrepiece in its flowerbeds

Harakeke/flax/phormium tenax in a formal flower bed of red flowers (possible begonia). Trees and people on benches to the rear. A single spear of flowers on the flax

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James Green @ajamesgreen.bsky.social · 7d

Iveagh Gardens are to the rear of Iveagh House; you'll see Anne and Edward spending a lot of time looking out the first floor windows at the street. It's now home to the Dept of Foreign Affairs

9 bay 3 story ?georgian house in white stone, with central 3 bays pedimented, flags aloft from the roof

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James Green @ajamesgreen.bsky.social · 7d

Have you been watching House of Guinness? I was in Dublin visiting our funder (SEAI) yesterday, and their offices overlook Iveagh Gardens. Edward, the second (sensible) brother from the show was made Earl of Iveagh #houseOfGuinness

picture of yew maze with sundial in the middle

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 10d

More evidence that biking is really good for you:

After reviewing 23 studies, researchers concluded that there a "positive association between cycling and cognition" in adults 45+.

doi.org/10.1016/j.jc...

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James Green @ajamesgreen.bsky.social · 16d

This is why I wrote a paper on count regression, and in general am a big proponent of generalised linear models. Almost nothing is 'normal'/gaussian. Days off sick are very obviously a count (whole numbers only, never below zero) doi.org/10.1080/2164...

Magnus Johansson @pgmj.bsky.social · 16d

For instance, yesterday I read a paper with a table describing participants' sickness absence days with a mean of 71 and SD = 88. Generating a random (gaussian) sample using these values produces ~20% participants with less than zero sick days.

A histogram with 10000 values using the mean+sd in the text, showing zero with a red line.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 17d

Yet again, machine learning — even gussied up via the transformer architecture — encodes and reinforces societal biases.

This study reveals that LLM-based peer review relies heavily on author institution in its decisions.

arxiv.org/abs/2509.15122

Prestige over merit: An adapted audit of LLM bias in peer review

Large language models (LLMs) are playing an increasingly integral, though largely informal, role in scholarly peer review. Yet it remains unclear whether LLMs reproduce the biases observed in human de...

arxiv.org

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ISCycle Ebike Research project @iscycle.bsky.social · 24d

ISCycle is on the move! From Groningen to Glasgow and Nottingham. Check out our latest updates here: www.iscycle.ie/news#h.vvo24...
@ajamesgreen.bsky.social @annabarrero.bsky.social #iscycle #activetravel #ebikes

ISCycle Info - News

From Groningen to Glasgow and beyond: ISCycle on the move

www.iscycle.ie

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 28d

Exciting clean energy breakthrough if you missed it: Finland launches world's largest sand battery in Pornainen! 13m tall, stores 100 MWh of renewable power as heat in sand at 450°C for weeks. Heats homes/offices/schools, cuts CO2 by 70% vs old woodchip plant.

www.independent.co.uk/tech/sand-ba...

World’s largest sand battery switches on in huge boost to clean energy

Thermal storage system holds enough energy to heat homes, offices and a school

www.independent.co.uk

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ISCycle Ebike Research project @iscycle.bsky.social · Sep 7

Last week, our team headed to Groningen, where bikes outnumber cars, for the @ehps.bsky.social Read more at www.iscycle.ie/news#h.vvo24...
@ajamesgreen.bsky.social @annabarrero.bsky.social

ISCycle Info - News

EHPS 2025 (Groningen)

www.iscycle.ie

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RCSI School of Population Health @rcsipophealth.bsky.social · Sep 4

We're recruiting for a postdoc, suitable for psychologist, health services researcher, health economist or related discipline. The researcher will be employed on @researchireland.ie-funded project to evaluate treatments for depression & their costs
my.corehr.com/pls/coreport...

@fdoyle4.bsky.social

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James Green @ajamesgreen.bsky.social · Sep 3

Carol Sobral using machine learning to develop a model to predict cycling mixed share in European cities. Segregated cycle lanes, lack of vacant dwellings, women in work, and lack of hills key predictors #CyclingAndSociety2025

Figure showing ranked predictors of cycling with bike track density highest

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James Green @ajamesgreen.bsky.social · Sep 3

First talk at #CyclingAndSociety2025 - Graeme Hawker modelling whether a transition to cycling could reduce the number of new power stations required in the future, especially at times of peak demand

Man pointing at energy flow diagram for the UK

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Simon @simonxix.com · Sep 3

tl;dr: open research has been co-opted by tedious corporate interests and state-led regulatory exercises. Let's reclaim the experimental spirit of open licensing and do some cool DIY and community-led stuff. Let's build our own shit. #OpenFest25

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · Aug 31

Proton claims their “Lumo” to be a fully open course AI chatbot.

Luckily, there is @dingemansemark.bsky.social ’s European Open Source AI Index that makes clear that Lumo is in fact “the least open 'open' model” that they have seen so far.

osai-index.eu/news/lumo-pr...

Lumo: the least open 'open' model we've seen

Proton sets a new record in open-washing

osai-index.eu

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · Aug 30

A parenting win.

prioritizing youth mobility is prioritizing adult relaxing

When kids can walk/roll safely and independently to school, you can enjoy some peaceful time to yourself.

Coffee cup image

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EHPS Open Science SIG @ehpsopenscisig.bsky.social · Aug 29

We’re wrapping up with a roundtable discussion on Realising Open Infrastructures with @emmajnorris.bsky.social, @ajamesgreen.bsky.social, @mayabraun.bsky.social. Some key takeaways 👇

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James Green @ajamesgreen.bsky.social · Aug 23

reminds me of this School of Dentistry in Dunedin, New Zealand. Also protected, to various people's chagrin www.nzia.co.nz/awards/local...

University of Otago Dental School

The revitalisation of this existing modernist building acknowledges its pedigree by replicating the geometry of the original curtain wall in a new street façade, while retaining the original facing in...

www.nzia.co.nz

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James Green @ajamesgreen.bsky.social · Aug 23

E-moto or e-scrambler might be a good start. But also, *cough*, the big problem in Ireland is that most of the things that aren't ebikes/pedelecs aren't legally around in the first place

James Green @ajamesgreen.bsky.social · Aug 23

I only ever use "pedelec" as a gloss or in a footnote, but I think the use of "pedal" really gets at the crux of the issue.
But I do think it won't catch on

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James Green @ajamesgreen.bsky.social · Aug 23

This made me mad earlier today. A electric two-wheel dirt bike that can do 75km/h is *not* an ebike...

IrishCycle.com @irishcycle.com · Aug 23

Here' screenshots of headlines from Cork Beo and the Irish Examiner calling a "Powerful off-road e-Moto" and simply a scrambler...

Meanwhile, other outlets keep it unclear with "e-bike", which removes the context that the Gardai had in their press release.

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James Green @ajamesgreen.bsky.social · Aug 21

Kilbirnie at least, but now that I think about it, both South Dunedin and North East Valley have plenty of non-regulation streets, as does Te Aro, so I might semi-retract the last comment re: Wellington and Dunedin