Richard Roche

Yeah, Oxford Comma - bad sign

Hahaha excellent point!

Keeping my fingers crossed the next film starts with him emerging from rubble, patting the dust off himself, coughing "that was a close one..."

Also, wouldn't that EMP thing in his watch have destroyed or disabled the nanites in his bloodstream?

Is anyone else getting a ton of spam emails lately offering to promote your books? I'm talking 8 to 10 per day, mostly caught by the spam filter but one or two get through

@1900hotdog.bsky.social
They look like Chernobyl Hellhounds to me...

a stray dog stands in a bushy area. the dog is blue with golden eyes. he looks majestic as he stares off into the distance.

a group of 4 dogs rest together in a bushy area. two of the dogs are tan, one is black, and the last is blue with long, scruffy fur.

a blue dog is mid-step as he walks through brush.

Some of the stray dogs living near Chernobyl have recently turned blue. This confused scientists for weeks, until they realized they had simply been rolling around in chemicals from a nearby set of portable toilets. 14/10 for all

Photo or @rionabuthello.bsky.social painting?

Welcome back Dr Ross Brannigan @rcsi.bsky.social for today's @maynoothuniversity.ie Psychology Departmental Seminar as part of our #MUPsychologyAt25 series

Good to see someone involved in the field describing the techbro fantasies as “bullshit”. But note the link between this nonsense and eugenicist ideas from Altman. These people are rich, stupid and influential, which = dangerous.

Title card for Gilligan’s Planet

Title card for The Fonz and the Happy Day Gang series

Title card for Laverne & Shirley In The Army animated series

I wish this cornball sci-fi adjacent cartoon spin off trend had continued to the Sopranos / The Wire / Deadwood prestige era.

Got these new trainers today but I can't get it out of my head that they look like fuckin DC Tosh Lines from The Bill

Painting in portrait format of stylized bronze statue of St Brendan and another monk in a tiny boat atop a grey stone plinth against a sky that is somewhere between blue and turquoise. The boat has curved spiral-ish wave bands attached to its side, and Brendan is standing up with his arms outstretched, the other monk sitting behind him. The bronze is rendered realistically in its bronze metal colour with green patches of patin, and some very dark shadows on underside of waves bands, and lenghtways pieces of 'wood' that curve dramatically up at the front of the boat, and along creases of the monks' robes. Signed bottom right, Liam Daly

Have a #painting why don't you. "Bantry Brendan" was painted because I like sitting in the west Cork town eating a sandwich as I look up at the sculpture, by Imogen and Ian Stuart, of Brendan the Navigator looking out to the Atlantic - or Bantry Bay at least. #SpeirGhorm #ArtYear

Excellent City performance today, looked very composed. Jerry D is finally starting to deliver, Savinho needs to do the same. Nico G's apprenticeship going very well, and Nico O doing a brilliant job as makeshift left back - he's an attacking midfielder, which no pundit seems to realise. #mcfc

Rudy press conference at 4 seasons total landscaping

HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE

Delighted to support MU Psych Soc's invited lecture on Forensic Metascience by departmental alum, Dr Jamie Cummins @jamiecummins.bsky.social whose work in this area seeks to enhance rigour & accuracy in scientific reporting.

Sincere thanks to Dr Cummins. #MUPsychologyAt25

A hilariously inaccurate "diagram" of visual areas of the brain created by Chat GPT

generating examples for my fall undergrad Perception students on why they should not use LLMs as study aides...

stop doing phrenology with the computer!!

Every tech company eventually either reinvents the bus or reinvents phrenology

There's been a great deal of debate about how safe Dublin city centre is, but when we @dublininquirer.com looked for data to resolve this, we couldn't find much useful – so we commissioned a survey to try to add some facts/data to the debate. Today we've published five articles about the results. 1/

Lovely to welcome back Dr @jamiecummins.bsky.social for tonight's @mupsychology.bsky.social talk as part of our #MUpsychologyAt25 events @maynoothuniversity.ie

We are delighted to announce Dr Ross Brannigan, Department of Public Health and Epidemiology @RCSI_Irl, as our next seminar series speaker! Join us for his seminar "Psychiatric Epidemiology and Healthcare: Identifying Groups at Risk" #MUPsychologyat25

Need more Chuck Feeneys

👏Congratulations to Dr Alexander Porshnev, Postdoctoral Researcher in Psychology on his recent MaynoothSparks Award 2025. 🏆

Read more here: maynoothuniversity.ie/psychology/n...

@MaynoothUni

Annual reminder to businesses in Ireland - stop trying to make Black Friday a thing over here. Black Friday is the day off Americans get after thanksgiving. Give us a day off at the end of November and then we can talk about your little sale or whatever you're trying to flog

OpenAI pirated large numbers of books and used them to train models.

OpenAI then deleted the dataset with the pirated books, and employees sent each other messages about doing so.

A lawsuit could now force the company to pay $150,000 per book, adding up to billions in damages.

A neural state space for episodic memories Episodic memories are highly dynamic and change in nonlinear ways over time. This dynamism is not captured by existing systems consolidation theories …

I wrote a thing on episodic memory and systems consolidation. I hope you all enjoy it and/or find it interesting.

A neural state space for episodic memories

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪

If you're interested in memory, engrams, hippocampal systems, this is a must read:

Great to welcome back Dr Austin Fahy for this week's Departmental Seminar @mupsychology.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie #MUPsychologyAt25

Have never come across this, but seems to be leveraging aspects of number forms and ordinal linguistic personification (shapes and personalities for numbers, similar to what I have) for learning purposes. Are some synaesthetes involved with the show?