Marc Scully

Yeah, I played Natasha Bedingfield to close out a lecture the other day (I had my reasons): while there wasn’t quite the rapturous reception there was for No Scrubs, there were appreciative murmurs.

May as well take advantage of this peculiarity in the musical taste of the youth while it’s there!

More intergenerational ‘No Scrubs’ interactions.

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Ah, excellent!

It strikes me that instead of a book launch, ye should hold a wake.

The Phoebe/Joey speaking French meme. Phoebe: We need... Joey: We need... Phoebe: To study... Joey: To study... Phoebe: Life as it is lived Joey: Life as it is lived Phoebe: We need to study life as it is lived. Joey: We need to design more stringent lab experiments!

There's a discussion on my TL about whether you'd expect studies from the 90s to replicate in the 20s given that the situational context has changed, and it feels like everyone involved is *so* close to getting it but the hegemony of experimental methods in US social psych is proving a mental block.

I think @sophcocooper.bsky.social & @fearfuljoycuit.bsky.social have something in the pipeline on this: www.iasil.org/2024/10/cfp-...

Irish end-of-life care: new report published Sing our own Song: End-of-Life Care and the Irish Community in Britain, findings from a national consultation.

Out now!
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“And you cud fry an egg, if you had an egg!!! ☀️ 😎 🍳 #lol #jk No, but seriously, yolks aside 😉, we are sooo grateful to the UAE government for the regular supply of eggs! #thankful 🙏🏻 🤩 🇦🇪 💚 “

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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Great event by @bps-social-psych.bsky.social and @bps-dartp.bsky.social on secondary data and social media!

It's online and free 🙂

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

Listen! @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social spoke to @kennyailbhe.bsky.social about the hugely important "Music Refuge: Living Asylum Through Music" newbooksnetwork.com/music-refuge

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.

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