Fran Callaghan

Google, you're really not helping here!

Not if you publish in a genuinely open-access journal like @ojastro.bsky.social...

Digital map of the Ireland displaying countries, and major geographical features in vibrant colors.

We are delighted to share that @iqda-mu.bsky.social have ingested the MACMORRIS collection into the Repository - Mapping Actors and Communities: Modelling Research into Renaissance Ireland in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century.

Find out more: dri.ie/news/new-col...

Just noting the crucial role that school and university libraries have in teaching critical information skills.

Ireland: Pub grub lasagne and chips

Neither club is "historically Catholic and the other Protestant ".

"Sure the gardens could do with it"

Were they hospitalised for faceplanting off the bus or drinking a full bottle of creme de menthe?

Pamphlet on Napoleon Bonapart’s carriage

Pamphlet on the Irish Famine

Display of historical pamphlets

Interested in historical pamphlets? Have a 👀 at this blog post on some of the fascinating collection at the Russell Library #Maynooth mulibrarytreasures.wordpress.com/2025/05/05/e...

@maynoothuniversity.ie @mulibrary.bsky.social

The greatest astronomy PhD ever written Cecilia Payne realised that the Sun and stars are primarily hydrogen and helium - only for a man to take credit for the discovery

As a PhD student in the 1920s, Cecilia Payne realised that the Sun and stars are primarily made up of hydrogen and helium - only for a man to take credit for her discovery.

This is her story:

#WomenInSTEM

Title: SOME GRAMMATICAL VOICES FOR USE IN SCIENTIFIC WRITING ACTIVE VOICE e.g. Our team collected samples and then we tested them. CLICKBAIT VOICE e.g. We collected some samples... You won't believe what happened next! PASSIVE VOICE e.g. Samples were collected and tested. HAIKU VOICE e.g. Quiet science lab. Workers arrive with samples. The testing begins. PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE VOICE e.g. We did all the collecting and testing. No need to thank us. Just doing our job. CONSPIRACY VOICE e.g. Mysterious "Samples" were harvested and covertly "tested" by so-called scientists.

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

It's a Fibonacci sequence... 1+1=2 1+2=3 2+3=5 etc

High profile journalists are very bad for this, but also academics who think they should have been invited to give whatever talk it was

Speakers at a PowerPoint screen

PowerPoint with DRI and title of paper

@dri.ie peeps presenting this morning at #BDCAM25 and talking about the Asylum Archive. You can browse the collection here: Vukašin Nedeljković. Asylum Archive: doi.org/10.7486/DRI....

Big population spike around 1600. Either trinners had a romantic side effect, or kissing in the bullring did. Yes yes Correlation is not causation (I'm aware of the company here 😁)

*Near* Dublin! How feckin small was Dublin in 1592?

Scientists Just Built a CO2-Eating Machine That Runs on Sunlight Scientists have developed a sunlight-powered reactor that directly captures CO2 from the air and transforms it into sustainable fuel. Unlike traditional carbon capture methods, this device requires no...

Nature already invented this machine 500 million years ago. It's called a plant.

scitechdaily.com/scientists-j...

IReL is pleased to share the details of a new #OpenAccess agreement with @plos.org, and to welcome our Technological Universities on board with this new deal: @atu-ie.bsky.social, DKIT, @myiadt.bsky.social, @mtu.ie, SETU, and TUS: Midlands Midwest.
irel.ie/open-access/...

Ireland Below threshold Threshold 9,165 Statements of support 9,078 Percentage 99.05%

Good morning. Matters are proceeding well for Ireland on this official EU citizens’ petition to ban conversion therapy in the EU.
We were bestilled at 52% last Wednesday.

7days later and we’re about to become one of the 7 countries the petition needs to hit threshold.

Good work to you all.

Welcome to the MU Library #Makerspace BlueSky page.

We look forward to sharing our #3D and #VR journey with you.

We would love to hear from you and get some inspiration from all the #makers out there.

Tomatoes roaming the fields and canaries in the coalmine: another embarrassing paper for MDPI Many publishers are getting nervous about infiltration by paper mills, who can torpedo a journal's reputation when they succeed in publis...

I'm pleased to say that the MDPI paper in Logistics about tomatoes roaming the fields has been retracted. I've added a PS to the blogpost deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/01/toma...
No indication whether anything done re the editors or peer reviewers. I have asked for information about that.

Here's something that takes seconds and could have actual positive outcomes.

There is an official 'citizen's petition' system in the EU. There's one open at the moment to ban conversion therapy for LGBT+ people in the EU.

Ireland can be 1 of the 7 nations needed

eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...

Maybe they should try putting an actual shopping centre in it?

The deadline to claim your vote for the National legislature (as absurd as that sentence is) is the 25th January 2025.

Even if you are currently registered to vote NUI or TCD, they’re throwing you off the register. You have to apply to get back your franchise.

You go here to do it

seanadvoter.ie.

Welcome to the public domain, THE OPRY HOUSE (1929), where #MickeyMouse dons his iconic gloves onscreen for the first time & performs a one-🐭 vaudeville show! 🎞️ 🎭🧤

Learn more. ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025

#PublicDomain #InternetArchive

5 Common data-sharing myths in humanities and social sciences #RDM
open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/blog/5-commo...

Nothing wrong with wendsleydale and cranberry, but why never *just* wendsleydale?

Does anybody know what wendsleydale has done to deserve being stuffed with all kinds of rubbish by supermarkets? Cranberry, apricot, and now lidl are offering it with fudge! What darkness lies in wendsleydale's past? Is it something to do with Wallace and Gromit?

A reminder that the 1st session in the National OA Monitor: A Year in Review series with @openaire.bsky.social takes place this Thursday 12th December at 12pm GMT/ 1pm CET. Entitled “A Year in Review & OpenOrg Sprint”, you can register for this event HERE: zoom.us/meeting/regi...

The calibre of the interns I've had the pleasure of working with in Maynooth University is second to none. They do not have to be a drain on your institution and can be (and indeed have been) a great asset.