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Girls and sport: ‘You don’t really aspire to be something that you don’t see. There’s a lot more to be done’ Camogie player Niamh McGrath reflects on keeping girls – and mothers – playing sport

Girls and sport: ‘You don’t really aspire to be something that you don’t see. There’s a lot more to be done’

Union of Skills needs education and research at its heart www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...

The memorandum was signed at the Scotland-Ireland space innovation conference, ‘Growing the Space Economy Together’, in Glasgow this week.

Areas of focus will include the work towards achieving net-zero emissions, as well as economic growth and technological advancements in rural, coastal and island communities.

The universities aim to work together on research and innovation projects and student exchange initiatives to tackle global space-related challenges.

UCD and University of Strathclyde sign memorandum of understanding on space-related research and innovation

🛰️✍️ University College Dublin and University of Strathclyde, Glasgow have signed a memorandum of understanding to foster potential collaboration in research for space-related activities. www.ucd.ie/newsandopini...

Trump 2.0: an assault on science anywhere is an assault on science everywhere US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks.

Inexplicably, US administration has launched an unprecedented assault on science, on research institutions & on vital international organizations & initiatives.

An assault on science anywhere is an assault on science everywhere; the global community must unite
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...

‘Cowardliness at the top’: Science agency staff revolt over cuts At an emotional meeting, foundation officials announced layoffs for about 10 percent of their workforce and warned of more firings to come.

“NSF fired about 10 percent of its staff at the end of Tuesday, removing 168 people who included most of the agency’s probationary employees and all of its experts, a class of contract workers who are specialists in niche scientific fields.” — www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

Mary MacSwiney by @lloislanel.bsky.social offers a comprehensive understanding of a misrepresented and marginalised voice in early 20th-century Irish politics.

🗓️ Coming March 2025
Available for preorder www.ucdpress.ie

#RevolutionaryWomen #IrishCivilWar #IrishFreeState
📸 @nlireland.bsky.social

'Faerie smut' is having a moment — just like it did in 1500 Stories like A Court of Thorns and Roses have been seducing audiences with tales of romance and magical danger for hundreds of years.

🧚‍♀️🫣 “In the Irish tradition, the Otherworld is not all sweetness and light...You do not mess with the Otherworld.”
- Assistant Professor Kelly Fitzgerald, Head of the School, UCD School of Irish, Celtic Studies and Folklore

🗣️ @kellyfitzgerald.bsky.social

How Spain’s radically different approach to migration helped its economy soar As immigration has increased, GDP has surged and unemployment has fallen to lowest level since 2008

How Spain’s radically different approach to migration helped its economy soar

#Shanti

The Co-founder of Airbnb folks. A craven hypocrite.

Bending the knee to MAGA.

Having previously presented himself as a defender of refugee rights.

Bye bye Airbnb.

Airbnb’s co-founder is joining Elon Musk’s DOGE Gebbia, a close friend of Musk, has praised DOGE’s work and defended it against criticisms on social media

Time to evict AirBnB from your life, if you have't already.

Blue Road a film about the life of Edna O’Brien is an extraordinary telling of an extraordinary story. Don’t miss it!

Blue Road -The Edna O'Brien Story has now exceeded 100k euros at the Irish box office.

It's a lot for an Irish documentary on so few screens in 2 weeks + we know it's all due to word of mouth from our audiences and Edna herself.

Irish cinemas below with new screens in Dundrum, Cork + Ranelagh 💙

And I saw it again yesterday! This time with my daughter & pal with her daughter. They were enthralled too. All ages in the cinema. I saw new & different elements of this fantastic documentary, this time. Hope you can keep it going @sineadoshea.bsky.social for an even larger audience.Big screen must

The UCD Sutherland School of Law is advertising an Ad Astra/Assistant Professor in International Law and Global Justice. Ad Astra fellowships are 5-year tenure track positions. Closing date 12:00 noon (local Irish time) on  21st February 2025. www.ucd.ie/adastrafello...

The UCD Ad Astra Fellows Prog is now accepting applications, with 12 positions in Health and Agricultural Sciences.🌟🔍
in critical fields. Visit www.ucd.ie/chas/research/
🔍 Explore our Researchers
🏢 Learn about our Research Institutes & Centres
#Research #HealthScience #UCDAdAstra #ResearchCareers

UCD School of #Philosophy is looking to hire an Ad Astra Fellow in #Ethics and Philosophy of Technology, inc. ethics of AI (5-year fixed-term, leading to permanent subject to performance). For details, see my.corehr.com/pls/coreport.... Closing date: 21st Feb. #PhilSky #PhilTech #AIEthics #PhilJobs

A job advert stating: Ad Astra Fellow - Assistant Professor of Clinical Trials, UCD School of Medicine Applications are sought for Ad Astra Fellow - Assistant Professor of Clinical Trials within the College of Health and Agricultural Sciences. This Ad Astra fellowship will effect key deliverables in the context of several domains of strategic relevance to UCD’s ambitions: International Policy and Practice Consistent with UCD’s WHO Collaborating Centre commitments: Develop evidence-based guidance on operationalising One Health, including protocols for cross-sectoral clinical trials. Contribute trial methodologies and case studies to a knowledge repository, facilitating global knowledge-sharing and capacity building. The fellowship will focus on: Innovative trial design for One Health Operationalising cross-sectoral clinical trials Build research partnerships within the university, nationally and internationally Capacity building, advocacy and education

Passionate about clinical trial design? UCD is seeking an Ad Astra Fellow – Assistant Professor of Clinical Trials.

Focus on:
✅ One Health clinical trials
✅ Research partnerships
✅ Training & capacity building

📅 Closing 12pm, 21st Feb
Learn more: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/311624

If you haven't seen #blueroad the #ednaobrien story, then I would highly recommend you go and see it. It's a beautiful and emotional story. And being from the same town as her, I found it particularly poignant. What an amazing woman she was.
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Saw this brilliant, thought provoking doc @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social it has stayed with me since. What a real #trailblazer Edna O’Brien was. Much missed especially right now as we seem to going backwards. Highly recommend! Congratulations @sineadoshea.bsky.social @breakoutpictures.bsky.social

Statement by Irish President Michael D. Higgins on the death of President Jimmy Carter
“I cannot think of anyone who would be more appalled at the images on the television screens of the world of tiny children, a few weeks old or less, being buried having died from hypothermia..

I have had a recent firsthand glimpse of the role of canvassers and the #commitment needed by anyone who wishes to stand as a #generalelection #candidate

It has certainly been a very interesting experience especially as a #Politics graduate! See how it goes and please don’t forget to #vote today!

‘Politics is fighting people’s corners where they are not getting what they should’ | Meath Chronicle What a difference a year can make. And what a hectic year that has been for Cllr Caroline O'Reilly who only entered politics this time last year following the sudden death of her cousin, Damien O'Reil...

www.meathchronicle.ie/2024/11/23/p...

Very good to see the new #UCD #Strategy #Breaking #Boundaries #Launch by our President Professor Orla Feely

My beautiful #Mum in #Brighton in her #cape ♥️

Belatedly learned that my colleague Jagjeet Lally's book is now published (by Routledge): India & the Early Modern World. Many congratulations to the author and the Press!