Dr Emma Farrell

The problems with coining terms like 'rage bait' and 'brain rot' The words, metaphors and ideas we use to describe experiences and phenomenons may not necessarily be able to explain them

The problems with coining terms like 'rage bait' and 'brain rot'. The words, metaphors and ideas we use to describe experiences and phenomenons may not necessarily be able to explain them, writes @emmaefarrell.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Warmest congratulations to Chiara Seery who successfully defended her PhD thesis yesterday.

Chiara is pictured with Prof Damien Woods (Viva Chair), examiners @emmaefarrell.bsky.social, Dr Amanda Fitzgerald UCD & very proud supervisor @rebeccamaguire.bsky.social

You haven’t changed a bit…

Very interesting #epistemicinjustice

NCH Talks: Fintan O’Toole & Sam McBride: For and against a united Ireland | National Concert Hall The National Concert Hall is a national cultural institution and the designated home of music in Ireland.

A model of democratic debate this evening as @fotoole.bsky.social & @sjamcbride.bsky.social each presented positions for & against a united ireland. While it’s clear we have a way to go, this evening’s debate, & the excellent work of @ria.ie ARINS, is a healthy start.

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Can you eat them too? For added horror?

That’s so lovely. A great cause 🙏

Such a great interview ✨

It really is. It’s one I go back to time again for inspiration and recalibration. It’s a lovely reminder of what’s important in life and it sounds like it was particularly defining for you.

This book has greatly shaped and inspired me as an academic and led to many rich conversations with colleagues about how we can honour and protect a humanistic education in an increasingly neoliberal university and society.

Cover of ‘The Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in The Academy” written in black font against a white backdrop. The cover also features the outline of a snail and the words “Tenth Anniversary Edition” across the top in gold lettering

Photo of the first page of chapter entitled “reclaiming the university as place where we belong” written by Emma Farrell and Shane Bergin. The page mostly features a large block of text

So honoured to write a short piece with @shanedbergin.bsky.social in the 10th Anniversary edition of ‘The Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy’ by Drs Maggie Berg and Barbara K. Seeber.

Writing isn’t just about what you say, it’s about what you refuse to lose in the process.

Read my conversation with Cas Mudde on writing, voice, and resisting conformity in academia, in the media, and on the page.

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Powerful piece Clare. Thank you for sharing your personal experience to illustrate these essential points. I hope your story will nudge us to less isolated healthcare, a greater respect for ‘patients’ own knowledge and truth, and the adequate resourcing of critical public services.

Jane Goodall – What It Means to Be Human For Thanksgiving, a beautiful conversation with the legendary primatologist — on her spiritual and moral wisdom, and the hope that sustains her.

“A story, an anecdote, can be a carefully recorded observation […]. Those anecdotes are sometimes the key to unlocking a puzzle. They are terribly important and the collection of anecdotes, stories, has been very very important in my research”

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Book cover showing two children and two adults playing in a garden. Children are digging & writing in a notebook. There are birds and flowers and a man looking over the wall at them

The Experimenters book on bookshelf facing out with other books near it

My new children’s book is available in bookshops from today!

Join Luke and Ruby in ‘The Experimenters’ on cosy adventures where you think, test, & experiment like a real scientist.

It’s been so much fun working with with illustrator Sayani Mukherjee & publisher @littleislandbooks.bsky.social

⚠️Scientist at work!⚠️

Huge thanks to @shanedbergin.bsky.social for signing copies of his new kids books, The Experimenters, a treat for curious minds

Remarkable to see five of my @mupsychology.bsky.social colleagues listed amongst the world’s top 2% of scientists rankings. Congratulations to all 👏

After 25 years of university teaching I have some advice for new students I’m listening to my son and his friends making their final decisions about where and what to study at university. Mostly, I keep quiet; on the rare occasions when teenagers want your opinion, they’ll ...

“If your situation allows you to do what delights you, do it; following healthy delight rarely leads to misery”

Excellent advice from Sarah Moss in today’s @irishtimes.com

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YouTube video by Young Academy Ireland Dr Emma Farrell shares her experience of being a member of Young Academy Ireland

Applications for Young Academy Ireland (YAI) are still open.

We're sharing reflections from Dr Emma Farrell, inaugural Co-Chair of YAI. Emma talks about what it means to be part of a community that values collaboration, curiosity, and impact.
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#earlycareerresearchers

This event is a must for researchers and policy makers alike - an opportunity to come together to consider how ERCIs and policy makers can best support each other to produce effective evidence for public policy. A small number of spaces have become available- don’t miss it!

Looking forward to sharing a paper on applying phenomenology to understand the lived experience of mental health and distress at this conference later this month. Still time to register👇

“Schools involved in the DEIS programme are already creating a school context that is of positive influence on their students’ well-being”

It was a pleasure to work with ESRI colleagues Dr Caoimhe Dempsey and Prof. Selina McCoy on this important evidence paper.

No, we Wexford people are too hardy for flip flops 😂. But I was glad of your tip to bring a towel ☺️

It is!! It was wonderful. Thanks for the inspiration (and top tips) ❤️

@mulibrarycat.bsky.social is surely a bigger celebrity draw than Paul Mescal 😂

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“Boasting has become the new normal [in HE]”

Bruce Macfarlane getting the PaTHES ‘Creative University’ conference off to a rousing start with a thoughtful paper on educational leadership, the neoliberal university and the duty to serve in academia.

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Two puffins standing on a grassy cliff top with the sea and some sea stacks visible in the background.

One puffin, side on, on a grassy cliff top

Sitting on a cliff looking out to sea through binoculars at the hundreds of thousands of birds (not visible) on the water surface.

Magical day on Saltee Mór.

It’s taken quite a while for this Wexford woman to get there but it was a visit to remember.

Puffins, guillemot, razorbills, kittiwakes, Manx shearwater, gannets, every type of gull and tern, and all in great numbers.

Mental-health lessons in schools sound like a great idea. The trouble is, they don’t work | Lucy Foulkes All-class therapy sessions don’t help, and may even make matters worse. The evidence shows we need different solutions, says Dr Lucy Foulkes, an academic psychologist at Oxford University

I’m in the Guardian today, arguing that we should stop them all-class mental health lessons in schools

I've thought very carefully about ‘going public’ with this, because it's a sensitive argument to make, especially in the face of so many young people struggling.

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