@mofoghlu.bsky.social
Eng Director, Google Ireland https://blog.ofoghlu.net/about
Cometh the moment, cometh the media outlet of record apnews.com/article/elon...
26.02.2025 21:39 — 👍 41 🔁 15 💬 2 📌 0
In @nature.com we show that humans lived in rainforests ~150,000 years ago – over double the previous oldest estimate. Their presence in West Africa’s rainforests demonstrates the spread of early humans and places ecological diversity at the heart of our species.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The Marquess and Marchioness of Antrim (1722) by Francis Wheatley (1747-1801)
The painting shows their country estate, Glenarm Park, in Co. Antrim. An English artist, Wheatley painted some of his finest works in Ireland. I love how elegant everything is in the work.
This from one of most astute and insightful observers of modern American history
26.02.2025 21:13 — 👍 31 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0@gatetheatredublin.bsky.social
27.02.2025 17:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0If you’re in the market for a bitta Shakespeare, I cannot recommend King Lear at the Gate Theatre enough. A vigorous, thoroughly absorbing production with Conleth Hill. Felt very lucky to get to see it last night. @gate-theatre.bsky.social
27.02.2025 17:37 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0The first measles death in the US in a decade -- the tragic, preventable death of a child whose parents chose not to protect them with vaccination -- should spark an immediate nation-wide campaign to ensure all children are protected against preventable diseases. Anything less is unconscionable.
26.02.2025 19:36 — 👍 39219 🔁 9526 💬 1141 📌 454Not known for political coverage, Wired takes a leading role in tracking Elon Musk's team.
27.02.2025 17:47 — 👍 16 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
“The scale of the hypocrisy on display here is eye-watering.”
If you read just one thing about Jeff Bezoz …
www.niemanlab.org/2025/02/jeff...
KM3NeT xkcd.com/3053
19.02.2025 17:43 — 👍 8796 🔁 855 💬 223 📌 89
The 10 angstrom node will usher in new architectures, tooling, and materials, forcing a massive change in the way fabs build interconnects.
semiengineering.com/interconnect...
#semiconductor
Gene Hackman as popeye Doyle
Poster for The Conversation
Poster of Hackman and Willem Dafoe in Mississippi Burning
Top 3 Gene Hackman Movies ??
The Conversation, The French Connection, Mississippi Burning - what do you reckon ?
The Irish Semiconductor Industry...
How it started(9 minutes in, contains ads, geo-locked):
www.rte.ie/player/serie...
How it's going:
youtu.be/peLV8zMXLnM?...
‘Voters in the Republic are strongly opposed to membership of both Nato and the Commonwealth for a new united Ireland… putting them at odds with voters in Northern Ireland.’
@irishtimes.com @ndirishstudies.bsky.social @ria.ie
How Ian Paisley was viewed by Irish Government at start of the Troubles, written by John Gibney, Assistant Editor with the Royal Irish Academy's Documents on Irish Foreign Policy programme and is one of the editors of Documents on Irish Foreign Policy Vol. XIV: 1969-1973.
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
@yai.ie member @deirdreflynn.bsky.social knocking it out of the park on precarity, research funding, and the importance of the Young Academy Ireland and @ria.ie
for ECRs
1/ The Manuscript of the Week is the Annals of the Four Masters, RIA MS 23 P 7. In keeping with our food theme for #LibraryLoversMonth we have chosen to share the account of the Battle of the Ford of Biscuits in 1594! When English relief was sent to help besieged forces...
24.02.2025 15:39 — 👍 15 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
A 1988 Irish stamp depicting a letterbox with hearts and a love letter, celebrating love
Happy #ValentinesDay! ❤
We're celebrating the @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social theme of #EYALove by highlighting Love stamps from the 'Irish Postage Stamp Collection' deposited in the Digital Repository of Ireland by An Post Museum and Archive doi.org/10.7486/DRI.... #Philately #EYAGrá
#RetroIreland Pics and lots of othwr lovely stuff for #Cork Researchers
22.02.2025 22:37 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Our colleagues at the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) are ceasing activity on X.
Stay up to date with the latest #DigitalPreservation news and events by engaging with them on their other channels, including their new Bluesky account @dri.ie!
#DigiPresNews
‘Irish food history: a companion’ edited by
@irishcookbooks.bsky.social & Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire was published by the RIA last year. With its 28 chapters, it takes the reader on an exciting journey of Ireland’s history through food. Due back in stock very soon! #LibraryLoversMonth
Thanks to everyone who helped with this including @creativedynamix.bsky.social
www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
The open source disruptor disrupting the disruptors
“The reveal of a new artificial intelligence assistant by Deep Seek looks poised to wipe almost a trillion pounds in value off some of the world’s most expensive technology companies.” www.independent.co.uk/business/dee...
How to get good looking light from LED bulbs. www.theatlantic.com
27.01.2025 13:24 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
The document outlines areas of priority for the sector in the coming year and underscores commitment to shaping a competitive and innovative future.
“The Chinese engineers said they needed only about $6 million in raw computing power to build their new system. That is about 10 times less than the tech giant Meta spent building its latest A.I. technology.” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/t...
27.01.2025 12:37 — 👍 14 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
“Silicon Valley's startup culture relentlessly pushes research in the direction of the consumer market. But sometimes, open research tends to overwhelm secret research.”
Could Big Tech’s zero-sum focus on market dominance be its Achilles heel? www.axios.com/2025/01/27/d...
Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']:
Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.
On this day in 1818, Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" was published - written when she was 18, it is widely regarded as the first-ever work of science fiction, and an incredible study of the nature of man.
If you haven't read it yet, do.
