Brendan Palmer

ABI Bouhmaida @forgoodcode Every Windows 11 PC is now an Al PC with Copilot at the center of it all. Here's how to get rid of Copilot completely from your computer (1/3)

ABI Bouhmaida @forgoodcode 1/ Settings App > Personalization > Taskbar > Other System Tray Icons > Switch "Microsoft 365 Copilot App" Off This hides Copilot from your taskbar

(9) ABI Bouhmaida @forgoodcode 2/ Press Win + R > Type in ‘regedit’ > Navigate to "HKEY _CURRENT_USER\ Software \ Policie s\Microsoft\ Windows" > Right-click on the "Windows" Key > New > Key > Name the new key "WindowsCopilot’ > Right-click on the new key EY > DWORD (32-bit) Value

@forgoodcode 3/ > Name the value "TurnOffWindowsCopilot’ > Double-click the name of the value > Set the "Value Data" to 1 > Restart your computer Congrats! Copilot is now completely gone from your computer. Hope this helps

My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨

Stack of blocks labeled, all modern digital infrastructure. A ratchet tipping over the entire stack is labeled AI. A load bearing pillar is labeled unpaid open source development. Another label is AWS, and Cloudflare and Unpaid Open Source Developers.

Extremely upset that a throw-away XKCD joke somehow became the organizing principle for the Internet.

The playbook for this (and more) is outlined in the book below.

Worst ever? What about the Man U circus tent?

I somehow read that as "rogue velociraptor accent".

Sounded pretty interesting there for a minute.

@uccresearch.bsky.social @sonrai.bsky.social @hrbireland.bsky.social @ucclibraryresearch.bsky.social @ukcrc-ctu.org.uk @ukrepro.bsky.social @dermotlynott.bsky.social @researchireland.ie @hpscireland.bsky.social

Our group are looking to #hire an Information Systems Manager to join us in Cork as we expand electronic data capture supports offered through REDCap.

Opportunity to work across a wide variety of #HealthResearch projects.

🕛 Deadline: 12 noon, Friday 12th December

my.corehr.com/pls/uccrecru...

I am increasingly of the opinion that people who change menus and look and feel of computer software just so that you know it's a new version should be personally forced to play tech support to my mother for five months.

For researchers using the wonderful REDCap electronic data capture/research data management system, Chapter 5 of hbiostat.org/rflow has new sections on automatic interfaces between REDCap and R. #rstats

Sonraí microcredential

Introduction to Data Stewardship Microcredential (DH5001) has just launched at UCC (online/in-person).

Duration: 13 weeks
Closing date for applications: 25th Jan 2026
Starting: 9 Feb 2026
Cost: €1000

Practical, professional skills in research data management.

Register: www.ucc.ie/en/dh5001/

The secret lives of experiments: Methods reporting in the fMRI literature Replication of research findings is critical to the progress of scientific understanding. Accordingly, most scientific journals require authors to rep…

Another one that I frequently revisit.

"Across the 241 studies, 223 unique combinations of analytic techniques were observed. In other words, there were nearly as many unique analysis pipelines as studies in the sample".

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I liked it more when Black Mirror was set in the future

What every city needs. More bricks.

There's a roundabout in Cork where even during the worst traffic, drivers unfailingly allow others to merge in a "zip" by local custom. Driving through it restores my faith in society, every time.

I just found out it's known as the "soundabout", and that's just wonderful.

Forever young if there's video footage to look back on!

I think it was a young @mendelrandom.bsky.social asking the hard questions at the send of that seminar

YouTube video by Philip Corr Hans Eysenck (1994) personality and cancer lecture

...whereas if a similar amount [US war on cancer] had been devoted to proper research into the **relationship between body** and mind and the ways in which you can prevent cancer or prelong life, the outcomes would have been very much more positive

youtu.be/K9pyS7EGCV8?...

A Waste of 1,000 Research Papers Decades of early research on the genetics of depression were built on nonexistent foundations. How did that happen?

Great work 👏 👏 👏

I was immediately reminded of this piece

www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

Hard copy printed out and post-it notes at the ready!

"Our impression is that autism-microbiome research
is an example of a field that has generated its own momentum,
without necessarily going anywhere"

Cork City Council's annual reminder that parking enforcement is just for Christmas and not for the other eleven months of year

We did a thing. 😬

Just to draw your attention to the HPSC's
truly excellent data hub for respiratory illnesses. A great investment in disease surveillance capacity paying off.

@hpscireland.bsky.social

respiratoryvirus.hpsc.ie

bunch of executives on the deck of a ship with only one guy rowing and a quote "I don't understand, after so many budget cuts why dont we move faster?"

ooof this feels like most every university rn

TFW the data are so fraudulent* you have to learn how to create colour-coded spreadsheets in R to show all the patterns 😂

*allegedly. (is this enough? don't sue me xx)

a group of black and white cows are sitting on a table with the words okay one last time written below them ALT: a group of black and white cows are sitting on a table with the words okay one last time written below them

Accidental Fr Ted reference?

Hope he’s okay. Can’t help but notice RFK making the speediest possible exit directly away from the man in need of support. Ladies and Gentlemen, the Secretary for Health and Human Services of the great USA

A meme template is born

Seven years ago, and last year.

One thing that always identifies charlatans - they blame patients when their treatment fails.

The Royal Irish Academy is ceasing activity on X (Twitter) - Royal Irish Academy The Royal Irish Academy is committed to creating, convening, and sharing knowledge for the public good and as an organisation we value Independence; Integrity; Curiosity; Openness and Rigour. Therefor...

There are a lot, really a lot, of Irish institutions, public bodies and politicians who need to follow suit. Far too many still there, and there is zero excuse for remaining on that rancid platform.

www.ria.ie/2025/05/01/t...