Conor O’Donovan

https://press.umich.edu/Books/T/The-Derecognition-of-States2

Book launch next week!

Ticketmaster rejects invite to cttee on dynamic pricing Ticketmaster has rejected an invitation to appear at a UK parliamentary committee about dynamic pricing and consumer protection while it is being investigated over Oasis ticket sales.

Ticketmaster has rejected an invitation to appear at a UK parliamentary committee about dynamic pricing and consumer protection while it is being investigated over Oasis ticket sales

Joan Baez was very good in top gun maverick tbf

Thank you to those who have registered to attend the launch of the DCU Centre for Inclusive Pedagogy.
We are really looking forward to welcoming you on Monday, 27th January, 6pm - keynote by the eminent Prof Mel Ainscow.

@dcuioe.bsky.social @dcuresearch.bsky.social

Need for Speed: Sidney Sussex

Any mention of need for speed: hot pursuit in there?

Watching people’s IG stories like

All set up for VR demonstrations tomorrow

But doctor, I am Seuss 😭😭😭

Thin blue Galway bay

This is a great result for @dublincityuni.bsky.social researchers - making up 25% of those funded in the next phase. Congrats to Mark Roantree, Ciprian Briciu-Burgina, Fiona Regan, David O'Connor and Mary Pryce

Juliana Adelman and Aingeala Flannery sit in wingback chairs on either side of a small round table in a bay window, with a Christmas tree to the right

Juliana Adelman talks to Aingeala Flannery about using contemporary court reports to capture the vernacular of 19th-century Dublin, along with other research for her debut detective novel The Grateful Water, set in 1800s Dublin
@dublincityuni.bsky.social

Sometimes you’ve gotta hit them up with a ‘be that as it may’

The internet made a stink over her ‘politics of smell’ PhD thesis Cambridge scholar Ally Louks overcame a wave of trolling on her way to seeing her obscure academic research find a massive new audience.

Cambridge scholar Ally Louks overcame a wave of trolling on her way to seeing her obscure academic research find a massive new audience.

Once again, I have been libelled by Spotify wrapped

You simply don’t get this wfh

Great sticky note action in the office this morning #setpieces

OpenAI explores advertising as it steps up revenue drive ChatGPT maker hires advertising talent from big tech rivals

And so it begins…

on.ft.com/4gbw66q

A man sitting at a table, facing the camera beside a picture of Heart be at peace by Donal Ryan - Eason Novel of the Year.

Congratulations to Donal Ryan, winner of the @AnPostIBAS novel of the year. Yet another award-winning author who'll be joining us for the @dublincityuni.bsky.social Book Club! Join the waitlist for Donal Ryan in January and see the full year's schedule here bit.ly/3OAY0x6

Big news coming out of Planet of the Bass East

Re-downloading duolingo to really nail “hola” part in Phil Lynott’s Old Town

Dr Valesca Lima

What does Election 24 focus mean for Ireland's housing emergency?

Piece by Dr Valesca Lima @valescal.bsky.social, Assistant Professor in the DCU School of Law and Government, for
@rtebrainstorm.bsky.social.

Read here: launch.dcu.ie/3Yvv4g1

#RTEBrainstorm #GE2024

Traffic from Bluesky to @bostonglobe.com is already 3x that of Threads, and we are seeing 4.5x the conversions to paying digital subscribers.

TikTok approved Irish election disinformation ads - probe An investigation by campaign group Global Witness has found that video-sharing platform TikTok approved ads containing disinformation about the upcoming General Election.

Global Witness submitted 14 ads in English and 14 ads in Irish to TikTok containing disinformation about voting.

The platform approved three of the English ads and eight of the Irish ads

Bluesky growth rate still fluctuating but down as low as 1.6 new users a second at points this morning. At times it has been in double digits.

Is the post US election bump over? What might precipitate another influx of users?
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It’s official 😤

In Pictures: Storm Bert causes severe flooding in Mallow Some roads in the town remain closed due to flooding today

This pic - from local man Jimmy Howard - of a smiling politician on an election poster submerged in the floods in Cork caused by #StormBert - aptly sums up where we are at right now #ClimateChange www.corkbeo.ie/news/local-n...

Lil Wayne made a post telling Kendrick Lamar to stand down after Lamar mentioned him on a new song

Lil Wayne responds to Kendrick Lamar addressing his disappointment over the Super Bowl Halftime Show headliner spot in New Orleans on “wacced out murals”

Lesley Stahl reports on the growing market of “humans in the loop” — workers around the world who help train AI for big American tech companies. They say they face poor working conditions, low pay, and undertreated psychological trauma. Sunday on 60 ⏱️