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Alan Kelly

@akellyucc.bsky.social

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Personal ramblings about the world we live in and life in general, especially science and culture. Frequent puns and dogs. Professor and food scientist at @ucc.bsky.social

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Alan Kelly @akellyucc.bsky.social · 34m

A modern day Caravaggio painting

Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 18h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 1d

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Alan Kelly @akellyucc.bsky.social · 1d

“So can I have a sweetie now?”
- 6-year-old child diplomacy

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I want to be good because you want to prove to God so you go to that next step, right? So that's very important to me."

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Alan Kelly @akellyucc.bsky.social · 2d

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Alan Kelly @akellyucc.bsky.social · 2d

And just like that it’s a to-Áras race

Jim Gavin withdraws from Presidential Election

Fianna Fáil's candidate Jim Gavin has announced he is withdrawing from the Presidential Election "with immediate effect".

www.rte.ie

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Gavin Elliott @sgelliott.net · 3d

A permanently relevant tweet.

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Alan Kelly @akellyucc.bsky.social · 3d

Undecideds?

Alan Kelly @akellyucc.bsky.social · 3d

💯- the only thing Donegal ever did wrong was to be so bloody far from Cork

Alan Kelly @akellyucc.bsky.social · 3d

Have family in Donegal who have barely intermittent power since #stormamy.

Really feels like the price of living in the most beautiful part of the country is to get the worst possible weather and to be generally ignored otherwise most of the time.

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Alan Kelly @akellyucc.bsky.social · 4d

Vaguely threatening email from a predatory journal? Submit OR ELSE.

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Alan Kelly @akellyucc.bsky.social · 4d

A mass-y Ferguson?

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Prof Caroline Mala Corbin @carolinemalacorbin.bsky.social · 4d

h/t jonathan zasloff

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Alan Kelly @akellyucc.bsky.social · 4d

Cool sky at night!

Alan Kelly @akellyucc.bsky.social · 4d

Amazing red sky in Cork after #stormamy

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Alan Kelly @akellyucc.bsky.social · 5d

Around 10 years ago I met Manchán when we both spoke at an @irishtimes.com food culture event. He was very nice and had a piece of paper for all the speakers with an old Irish word chosen for them. I still have it. He picked well for this dairy scientist.
May he rest in peace.

Piece of paper with old Irish words for ‘yielding milk’ and ‘detective work’, which are clearly linked

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Alan Kelly @akellyucc.bsky.social · 5d

Small world!

Alan Kelly @akellyucc.bsky.social · 5d

I am very much looking forward to this show next week, and hopefully the music won't be as cheesy as my research and the photo below suggest

Shush! Sounds from UCC Library @shushradio.bsky.social · 6d

@akellyucc.bsky.social, Head of UCC’s School of Food & Nutritional Sciences, joins me for a Shush Takeover on Monday morning at 11am
We’ll talk about his work and research, his connection to libraries, and his music selection.
Tune in on UCC 98.3FM or catch up on our podcast later

Alan Kelly holding a large block of yellow cheese in front of industrial food processing equipment. He is wearing a blue jacket over a light blue shirt. Text below reads: 'TAKEOVER SHOW ALAN KELLY MONDAY 11 – 12

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Alan Kelly @akellyucc.bsky.social · 6d

The patron saint of copying people on emails

(Old joke but I like it)

John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 6d

St Francis of Assisi, around 1618 by Dirck van Baburen (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)

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Alan Kelly @akellyucc.bsky.social · 6d

Bear: where did she go???

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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 6d

Jane Goodall on Donald Trump: “I see the same sort of behavior as a male chimpanzee will show when he’s competing for dominance with another

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Alan Kelly @akellyucc.bsky.social · 6d

“There’s a NEW Mexico?”

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 7d

Stop everything and look at that Sheep

Alison Brackenbury @abrackenbury.bsky.social · 7d

Also for #LincolnshireDay! My prose, non-fiction book, 'Village,' has unique photos. Here are more: a prize-winning Lincoln sheep,a century ago; my grandmother's grandmother's lost Lincolnshire farmhouse; my shepherd grandfather & dog Jim & a very young feeder of orphan lambs!
LINK IN COMMENTS!

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Alan Kelly @akellyucc.bsky.social · 6d

Preballed wool

Alison Brackenbury @abrackenbury.bsky.social · 6d

I thought you might like 3 almost spherical heep of the breed my grandfather finally tended: 'Romney Marsh'. My uncle took this pihoto in the 50s. The recipe for perfectly round sheep? Feed root crops lavishly, have at least 4 generations' experience (& cheat a littlle-(don't shear fully in May!)

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Alan Kelly @akellyucc.bsky.social · 6d

This photo reminds me of the best line so far from the new series of The Morning Show

“Orange smoke? Did they make T***p pope?”

Alan Kelly @akellyucc.bsky.social · 7d

Woodie Guthrie would approve

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