Rory Burke

Rory Burke

@rorby95.bsky.social

Postdoc @LPCV Grenoble Studying molecular responses in arctic diatoms during sea ice formation

85 Followers 278 Following 6 Posts Joined Nov 2024
3 weeks ago

And 'pay' and 'contract' aren't mentioned once!

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If you were wondering where the US regime found their internal oppression & lies blueprint, take a read of the Statement from the U.K. Govt after the Bloody Sunday massacre in Derry.

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1 month ago

Which begs the questions - why is Walz begging people not to defend themselves? Is this not what the Second Amendment is for?
An American citizen reputed to have been in possession of a legally-held firearm was murdered in cold blood and in broad daylight by his government.
What else is needed?

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When two years of academic work vanished with a single click After turning off ChatGPT’s ‘data consent’ option, Marcel Bucher lost the work behind grant applications, teaching materials and publication drafts. Here’s what happened next.

Amazing sob story: "ChatGPT deleted all the work I hadn't done"

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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New UCC paper shows how low beef and sheep systems are for net digestible protein per hectare: they produce protein for 2–3 people per ha, versus ~23 for milk and ~40 for legumes. That’s ~15× more digestible protein per hectare from legumes than beef.

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1 month ago

That's definitely that problem solved then, nothing to see here

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2 months ago
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The Gist: The Abuse Factory X, the child abuse imagery app, revealed our state has no red lines. This is the Gist.

In Dublin, on Fenian Street, there's a factory that makes child sex abuse material.

You can pay it money, as a subscription, and that's one of the services it offers. This doesn't happen by mistake or because you've tricked or hacked the system.

It’s a feature.

www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...

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2 months ago

Ah yeah, just blame it on the mental health charity doing their best to help young people navigate your broken-by-design housing policy

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ChatGPT: our study shows AI can produce academic papers good enough for journals Publishers and researchers should not necessarily see ChatGPT as a threat but rather as a potentially important aide for research argue Dr Brian Lucey, School of Business and Michael Dowling, Dublin C...

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www.tcd.ie/news_events/...

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2 months ago

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I don't know enough about his work or his relationship with Elselvier to know whether the research in these papers is solid and this is, as he claims, an unfair retaliation. But I do know that I find the whole thing extremely funny.

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2 months ago
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Publisher retracts 12 papers co-authored by Trinity College Dublin finance professor A finance professor at Trinity College Dublin is disputing a decision by a global academic publishing company to retract 12 papers he co-authored.

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I spent the last two years of my PhD campaigning with PWO for workers rights + a living wage. In that time, nobody was more determined to demean and punch down on PhD researchers and our union than this lad.

www.independent.ie/irish-news/p...

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2 months ago

My word.

The Taoiseach, in China, says "platforms can be misused and abused or they can be used for positive reasons as well..." and says that should be considered carefully "before jumping to conclusions" on whether it's appropriate for the Government to be on X.

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2 months ago
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What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?

Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

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3 months ago
Quote from Richard Tice:

https://reacpol.net/erosion-democratica-antigenero/

This is where the shameless weaponisation of antisemitism in defence of Israel's war on Gaza has led us

Allegations of extreme forms of antisemitism can be discarded by stressing support for genocidal policies

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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3 months ago

1. The European Parliament’s attempt to ban plant-based foods from being sold as “sausages”, “burgers” etc is a direct response to livestock industry lobbying. This is a short thread on how utterly bleeding ridiculous it is. 🧵1/6

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4 months ago
A chara, - In January 1989, the British Minister Douglas Hogg stated that some solicitors were “unduly sympathetic to the cause of the IRA”. Three weeks later Pat Finucane was murdered by loyalists. It is widely accepted in Ireland that there was a consequential link between these two events.

Will there be a similar recognition of the responsibility political leaders bear for inciting violence in the wake of the horrific arson attack on a centre for international protection applicants in Drogheda on Hallowen night, only days after the Tánaiste described migration numbers as “too high”? - Is mise

Wendy Lyon

Wow the IT actually printed my letter

#speirghorm

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4 months ago

He may have been allowed to walk free by a British court, but the world now knows that David Cleary was part of the unit that murdered 14 and injured 15 in Derry on Bloody Sunday, 1972.
Let history judge them with the same amount of mercy that they showed their victims - that is, none at all.

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4 months ago
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Postdoc vacancy: Microbial dormancy in the cryosphere
@erc.europa.eu #ERC_SIESTA
📢 PLEASE RT

🧬 Single cell microbial activity measurements, flow cytometry, cell sorting, omics, ecological interpretation

☀️ Marseille, France
‼️ Apply ASAP & before 7 Nov
Link: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

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4 months ago
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Finally, someone has solved a real problem with AI! No more having to take a paper in the format for a journal that rejected you, and reformat it for a new journal. Well done!! formatmypaper.com

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5 months ago

I have often said that if people could see how trawlers actually work, maybe they'd stop eating fish - guess it's time to test that?

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5 months ago

This is a wild read

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6 months ago
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Did you know tiny algae can "skate" within Arctic sea ice? ⛸️ Our new study in @pnas.org reveals the secret life of ice diatoms: they are actively gliding to navigate the ice! This adds a new dimension to the sea ice ecosystem, revealing an active, dynamic ecological niche. @prakashlab.bsky.social

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6 months ago
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PLOS Biology Associate Editor- FTC UK-Remote

Great opportunity! #PlantScience
PLOS Biology hiring full-time Associate Editor.
Requires PhD+2 years postdoc experience
"Expertise in molecular cell biology is required, preferably in context of plant science"
job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/plos/jobs/46...
I know folks who should apply to this!

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6 months ago

Remember when various world leaders were saying they would recognise a Palestinian state in September?
This is why.
In a few days or weeks, there won't be a Palestine left to recognise. This was always the end-game.

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8 months ago
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2025: A fossil fuel lobbyist meeting Ireland's Minister for Climate Action for a friendly chat and posting it on LinkedIn.
#climate #fossilfuels #lobbying

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9 months ago

Stop trying to recruit "superstar" scientists to Ireland from the US. Instead try:

Diverting excellent PhD students and postdoctoral scientists who would otherwise be on their way to US to land here instead

Investing in the research infrastructure needed to attract and retain excellent scientists

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11 months ago

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

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#Communiqué 🗞️ Le CNRS exprime sa solidarité avec les scientifiques exerçant aux États-Unis, où la liberté académique est aujourd'hui mise à l’épreuve.

👉 www.cnrs.fr/fr/presse/le...

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1 year ago
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Beat the heat: need for research studying plant cell death induced by extreme temperatures Extreme temperatures surpassing 45°C can cause widespread plant damage and mortality, with severe consequences for ecosystem health, agricultural productivity, and urban greenery, thus negatively imp...

Temperatures that switch on plant programmed cell death are now reality.
In our new viewpoint article @newphyt.bsky.social, we propose that studying the heat induced mortality at cellular level can contribute to strategies for heat stress mitigation.

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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1 year ago
Next generation scientists 2025

Are you a plant science researcher working towards a PhD or an early career researcher who completed their PhD no more than five years ago? Consider applying to the Next Generation Scientists 2025 meeting, sponsored by New Phytologist! #botany
www.newphytologist.org/nextgenevent...

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