Neil McDonnell

Wholesome pub life for the weans. Fleadh Cheoil, Wexford.

I’m not nominating anything, obvs. But if we decide not to charge students for tuition (good!) we need to find the money from somewhere and not just pretend it isn’t required. Each Eng Uni gets about £4k more per student per year than Scottish ones and that is unsustainable.

This is something to be proud of only as long as Scottish Universities are still being adequately funded for the students they teach. But they are not.

Congratulations, Tim! Very well deserved.

In 1967, philosopher of language Michael Dummett and his wife, the author Ann Dummett, were arrested for picketing against racial discrimination, charged with public disorder, but acquitted upon an official admission that the police, not protesters, had obstructed passage.

You obviously listened closely to the “Brits Out” message and indeed got out of Britland.

Ah.

Nope.

This is the most faux macho silliness I have ever seen on Bluesky.

Watch sleepytime and try and type that again.

Fake news. AI slop. Cannot actually be real.

This has spurred an existential crisis in me, by Toutatis!

I’d say “what have we become?” But I just can’t own the “we”. Fucksakes.

Alex Fisher, Virtual Reality, Seeing-In, and Twofoldness - PhilPapers Virtual reality headsets present us with two images, one directly before each of our eyes. One might therefore suppose that virtual reality offers experiences with the phenomenology of many other depi...

New paper forthcoming in the British Journal of Aesthetics on perception of VR:

philpapers.org/rec/FISVRS

TLDR:
Virtual reality offers a different experience to most other images. Yet VR also often contains elements that distinguish it from regular perception, which can help prevent harms!

1/9

Audible Mouldmaster Football

How to make “half football, half Portuguese Man ‘o’ War” better? Add ball-bearings! @brookmyre.bsky.social

www.mitre.com/footballs-c1...

I've made a series of individual match posters for Celtic's European Cup run in 1967 before, but never a standalone design until now. Prints available on the shop if you fancy one! madebyfrankie.bigcartel.com

@kermodeandmayo.bsky.social did I miss “Deep Cover” review? Or is it too new/too streaming-y?

I thought it was a total riot. Haven’t laughed that hard at a film since… Booksmart, maybe?

I appear to be morphing into the pikachu format myself!

Deary me. Dysfunction abounds in Celtic recruitment.

Always

Always.

the article was written by By Professor Neil McDonnell ( @neilmcdonnell.bsky.social and Dr Pauline Mackay ( @paulinemackay.bsky.social) @uofglasgow.bsky.social

@uofgnews.bsky.social @uofgartshums.bsky.social @murrayp.bsky.social

Enjoyed last night, and brought ma boy along to inculcate. Happy to share the set list?

This museum is the state of the art imo.

Museums in the Metaverse to let you build your own virtual collection An ambitious new £5.6 million project to develop Virtual Reality museums has been officially unveiled today

OTOH, @neilmcdonnell.bsky.social and co at Glasgow are exploring new business models in Museums in the Metaverse, to be able to commercially license 3D heritage and send micropayments back to heritage orgs for model reuse. Residuals for 3D heritage content usage? Nice.

An inverse correlation between fluoride and *low* IQ is the opposite of the idiotic thing he is trying to say.

“That they should be the ones to welcome Pope Francis’s coffin in the basilica is because these people are those who represented the focus of his mission,” said Father Giulio Albanese, head of missionary cooperation and communications for the Vicariate of Rome. “They are those who live on the peripheries, geographical and existential peripheries.”

The final honor guard for Pope Francis included migrants, prisoners, transgender people, the homeless and others selected by the Vicariate of Rome as a symbol of the late pope’s mission of inclusion and outreach.

Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM

Calculated cruelty.

Th American University in Exile could be anywhere (like Open University) and carry the right sort of cache.

Colour me completely unsurprised. But if third terms are on the table then perhaps Obama should be warming up.