Marc Scully

Greg Davies: cooked the salmon, didn't taste it once, easy! Burned your thumb but powered through. Well played!

Fionn Mac Cumhaill: go raibh maith agat

Alex Horne: actually we did spot *something*

My uncle was an engineer in Nigeria but had to get out in a hurry in the midst of the 83-84 coup. Been thinking about that a bit this week.

It’s a bit under researched. There was somebody doing a PhD in Galway a few years back on Irish labour migrants in Dubai, but I’m not sure what came of it.

God help me, I think I’m having Thoughts about what the figure of the “Dubai ExPat” in the current cultural imagination says about our concepts of deservingness and “good vs bad migrants”

There’s also a lot of overlap between British & Irish discourse here, which isn’t normally the case.

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I made a bingo card

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It's online and free 🙂

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Current events confirm the achieved wisdom of time-honored classics in the social sciences.

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This, which is partially a reflection on the challenges of doing ethnography during the pandemic:

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"A masterclass in caution!" is a line for the ages, in fairness.

Three football hipsters react emotionally to a 0-0 draw between Milan & Juventus: Hipster #1: A masterclass in caution! Hipster #2: An Italian classic! Hipster #3: Drool!

Sorry, but I just had to post this @davidsquires.bsky.social panel at this point.

Also worth noting in passing that the median British answer to the OP’s original question has been to post the Peter Griffin colour swatch meme, whereas the median Irish answer has been to say “that’s because they don’t view Ireland as properly independent”.

Which is sociologically interesting, no?

Yes, I'm agreeing with you!

Yeah, while I understand the point, I'm always a bit wary about the rhetorical equation of Irishness with whiteness that gets employed in these discussions.

There's plenty of my own friends, family members, colleagues, students etc who are Irish citizens but non-white. Some living in GB.

(Worth noting that Reform's ideological forebears have regularly over the years *not* been ok with Irish citizens voting in GB, especially during the 'suspect community' period. It was a sufficiently live issue in the 1970s that the FIS campaigned on it: collections.londonmet.ac.uk/records/AIB/...)

The rights of Irish citizens to vote was seen as a sufficiently live political issue that the Federation of Irish Societies ran a campaign on it, for instance. There’s material in the @londonmetuni.bsky.social archives: collections.londonmet.ac.uk/records/AIB/...

Don’t have the references at my fingertips but there were sporadic attempts to bar Irish citizens from voting in British elections during the 70s and 80s, yes. I think some of it may have been in response to the perception that Ken Livingstone was cultivating Irish voters during the GLC days.

a man is playing a guitar and singing into a microphone while another man plays accordion . Alt: Shane McGowan playing a guitar and singing.

On the first day of March, it was raining
It was raining worse than anything that I have ever seen
I drank ten pints of beer and I cursed all people there
And I wished that all this rain would stop falling down on me

Shane knew

It seems like a good day to gather front pages and apply some critical discourse analysis. Agency springs to mind...

Her hand gestures are also very “English lit lecturer who is deviating from the lecture she intended to give but, actually, no, this is important” (complimentary).

a woman in a blue dress is saying the situation is a lot more nuanced than that Alt: a woman in a blue dress (Rebecca from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) is saying the situation is a lot more nuanced than that

22-year-old pollster, who is just trying to get her day's responses logged to earn her rent money, and has a script to follow: "So, will I put you down for a 3?"

Qualitative social scientists:

a woman in a blue dress is saying the situation is a lot more nuanced than that Alt: a woman in a blue dress (Rebecca from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) is saying the situation is a lot more nuanced than that

22-year-old pollster, who is just trying to get her day's responses logged to earn her rent money, and has a script to follow: "So, will I put you down for a 3?"

Qualitative social scientists:

YouTube video by British Comedy Yes Prime Minister - Sir Humphrey shows poll rigging

Anyway, when IpsosMori release survey data on public opinions on data centres and energy use in the next few weeks, the findings can be safely dismissed.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GSK...

(I was nice to her, it's not her fault).

two women are standing in a living room and one of them says that 's not how this works ALT: two women are standing in a living room and one of them says that 's not how this works

Pity the young opinion poll data gatherer who rings up a *qualitative social scientist* with a series of yes/no forced choice binary questions on complex, nuanced social issues.

Might just tag this one with #metascience without any further context and see what happens.

I'm getting PTSD flashbacks to the 2009 hurlers strike with the second one.

Projects might include selfie-taking behaviour outside the pub for instance.

Should you be so inclined, you can watch live footage of this on the Temple Bar webcam: www.earthcam.com/world/irelan...

(When I'm teaching observational methods, I get students to come up with projects based on observing behaviour on public webcams. The Temple Bar webcam is always a popular one.)

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