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Brendan Palmer

@bapalmer.bsky.social
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Former virologist. Current Senior Manager of Data Services | #rstats #ReproducibleResearch "Some of my best friends use spreadsheets"

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 01/10/2026
Google has retained the old street layouts for neighborhoods in Rafah that no longer exist at all. Not even ruins. Dystopian.
Satellite image of a yellow sandy wasteland in eastern Rafah. A Google Maps overlay shows where the streets of a residential neighborhood used to be, but there are no homes or even ruins of homes visible along them.
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Velour Shirt @object.works · 29/09/2026
This is a metaphor for so many things these days that I couldn't choose
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
"Don't send your sons to finish what politicians start." When asked by a reporter what message he would send to future generations, this young soldier delivered a raw, haunting truth about the human cost of war.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Google has started updating satellite images of Gaza. Holocaust. (📸 Barry Andrews MEP, European Parliament)
A single building is left standing amidst utter carnage. Every single building has been levelled across a few square miles pictures. Google maps identified one pile of rubble as a school.
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
30 years ago Spitting Image dared to broadcast the truth about Israel. Now no one dares.🤔
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The depth of Israel's international isolation is difficult to fathom if you're just watching mainstream media. But these images do not lie. Look at all these delegates leaving the General Assembly in protest as soon as Netanyahu takes the podium...
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Peter Kröner @sirpepe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"In a leaked document, the Irish Presidency proposes to EU Member States that the interest of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and SpaceX to make profits should take precedence over the fundamental right to data protection." noyb.eu/en/ai-eu-mem...
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AI: EU Member States plan “digital expropriation” of Europeans in the interest of AI companies
In a leaked document, the Irish Presidency proposes to EU Member States that the interest of AI companies to make profits should take precedence over the fundamental rights of Europeans.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 22/09/2026
Tyrannosaurus xkcd.com/3300/
Comic. [Person with long hair pointing to diagram with Tyrannosaurus Rex standing next to a person.] PERSON: We now believe the primary prey of Tyrannosaurus Rex was these humans who kept standing next to it for scale.
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fckfscsm.bsky.social @fckfscsm.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Not one bit surprised. They work for the US, not the EU.
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Quiet Majority @majorityquiet.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
We loved this so much we just had to put English subtitles on it, apologies to the French speakers for our translation. But this is what it would look like here in the UK if Farage or Lowe or another of their ilk got their own way.
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Andy @imaculthero.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It can't be said often enough, the wrong people have imposter syndrome
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Brendan Palmer @bapalmer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Says the country with the most nuclear weapons
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Josef O'Shea @josefoshea.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
In 2000, a mob in Wales forced a doctor to flee her home because they got confused by the word 'Paediatrician'
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Jude Sherry @judesherry.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
We are now offering our unique walking tours WalkTalkChalk experience to the public Book ffud.art Appearing in Cork City every 3rd Sat. 11am -12.30 Each month will be a different route Groups are always kept small so no one misses out #DerelictIreland #PureCork #DerelictCork #Speirghorm
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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I am revising my Guerrilla Scientific Workflow talk for the LMU open science summer school, tomorrow. The key idea is that open science training provides tools for critiquing published research, for deciding what to trust, and for challenging institutional power.
slide entitled "Nature is Opaque" with a meme picture of people making two lobsters fight. The lobsters are labeled STATISTICAN, and every person in the pic is also labeled STATISTICIAN
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Brendan Palmer @bapalmer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"Careless People" has been the read of the year for me. I encourage everyone to pick up a copy to gain some clearer insights into the story below.
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Neil Jackman @neiljackman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
As well as the damage to artists, the tidal wave of AI is totally drowning out educational and good travel accounts. We are being buried alive by it. For me to do one post for @tuatha.ie I have to visit the site, edit the images, research info and write a post balanced to a general audience...
An AI post of Poulnabrone Dolmen, though this one is reasonably realistic and not as obvious, you can tell it's AI as Poulnabrone does not have a sea view, also the gentians dont flower there like in the image. But this shows how difficult it is becoming to tell the real from fakeAnother AI image, this time I think it is supposed to be Knowth in the Boyne Valley, this is more obviously fake but only if you know the real siteAnother AI image supposedly representing the Grianán, this is pretty rubbishA truly terrible AI representation of Newgrange
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
A reminder, again, that Ireland has *chosen* not to take regulatory action against this abuse factory, whose office sits in Fenian Street in Dublin. I think this failure to act in the face of clear knowledge is an unforgivable act.
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Elon Musk's xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says
xAI accused of training Grok on real and Al-generated child pornography.
ASHLEY BELANGER - 27 AUG 2026 21:52

- An inflatable effigy of SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, protesting Musk's Grok Al, stands in Times Square in New York City. Credit: CHARLY TRIBALLEAU /
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Peter Finch’s delivery here was so perfect they did the whole thing in one and a half takes. Sidney Lumet said the second Finch was done there was a spontaneous round of applause from the crew and production staff.
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Durham UCU @ducu.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Entirely this. We tried to make this clear during our own uni's "voluntary" scheme - it was clear there were people submitting to the scheme not because they wanted to leave the job they had, but because they feared what their job would *become* after the exodus of so many valuable colleagues.
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The British Media Vs. Plagiarism
4 panel comic

Panel 1: 
British Journalists are relaxing on lilos in the sea. Someone on the shore yells “Hey Guys! An academic got accused of plagiarism”

Panel 2: 
One of the journalists sticks out their tongue and says “Pffft. Wake me when there’s a real story”

Panel 3: 
Person on shore “He was black”

Panel 4: 
The sea explodes as a tidal wave of British Journalists erupt into the air, manic and desperate to report on this now vital for some reason piece of news
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Deckie Jordan (He/him) @decjordan.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The Irish government’s position on this is shameful. RTÉ News: €1.2m gift for Gazan students in doubt over visa refusals www.rte.ie/news/2026/07... #SpeirGorm A letter from 900+ Irish university staff has been ignored.
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€1.2m gift for Gazan students in doubt over visa refusals
A foundation which manages philanthropic donations on behalf of UCD has written to a donor asking them to pause a gift to the college worth €1.2 million until it has certainty around the issuing of st...
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Lisa DeBruine @debruine.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
You can use this R function to download all of the files associated with an OSF project. Improvements are coming in the next version to include registrations. Should we add a function to download all your public and private projects? osf_file_download(“abcde”) www.scienceverse.org/metacheck/
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Check Research Outputs for Best Practices
A modular, extendable system for checking research outputs for best practices using text search, R code, and/or (optional) LLM queries.
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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · 11/08/2026
The Center for Open Science recently announced its decision to phase out OSF Projects. We want to share how those changes will affect PsyArXiv, a psychology preprint server run and maintained by SIPS volunteers but hosted on the OSF platform. improvingpsych.org/2026/08/11/w...
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What Researchers Need to Know about PsyArXiv Given Upcoming Changes to OSF Projects
In just a few short days (August 15th, 2026), PsyArXiv – the community preprint server for psychology – turns 10! 🥳 Over the past decade, our community has published over 58,000 preprin…
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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Over the next several months, we will phase out some popular OSF features. These changes do not affect current public content, which remains safe and accessible. We have prepared support material to help users adapt. I am very sorry for the disruption to your work. Please read this post for details.
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OSF Changes | Center for Open Science
We are preparing substantial changes to OSF that will reduce its functionality, focus OSF on its unique strengths, and move toward an integrated model with complementary services. As part of that shif...
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Inspirational Skeletor @skeletorinspires.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I will be okay. Not because everything is fine, but because I am surprisingly difficult to destroy. Says Skeletor who notices being hard to destroy sure doesn’t mean a bunch of asshoes don’t keep trying.
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Maynooth University Library @mulibrary.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Another fantastic new job opportunity in Maynooth University Library 📚 🔗Click here to read the full job description and apply today: ow.ly/rTYQ50Zw4b4
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Gavin Buckingham @drgbuckingham.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
New Yorker cartoon feels about right
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Bread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The cost of public & active transport infrastructure gets scrutinised within an inch of its life while motor vehicle infrastructure spending at whatever cost is treated as an unarguable necessity, if not ignored entirely. As here, motor vehicle infrastructure is overwhelmingly a terrible investment.
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I think about this all the time. People get mad about bicyclists being on the sidewalk without ever considering *why* they are riding on the sidewalk. (And yes, of course bicyclists need to be respectful and safe when on the sidewalk.)
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Behind the bewildering transformation of British universities, are management consultants being paid millions Really proud to have this vital piece on our unis are being gutted from the inside by @jheathershaw.bsky.social on Democracy for Sale. Do read democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-bri...
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Inside Britain's university crisis
As teaching staff face job loss, their bosses have netted pay rises and bought advice from a “vampiric” management consultancy, writes Prof. John Heathershaw of the University of Exeter
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Brendan Palmer @bapalmer.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I don't believe in any old Jesus as, if there was a God, then why is my arse the perfect height for kicking?
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Alan Dunne @aldunne.eurosky.social · 21/07/2026
as the debate about e-scooter safety continues it's worth bearing in mind that your chances of being killed by or in a car are several orders of magnitude greater. let's make our roads safer for everyone and let's do it based on evidence 📊: European Commission
matrix showing Road Traffic Fatalities in the EU in 2024 by different categories of road user. data from the European Commission
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
A beautiful demoiselle, showing off its delicate wing composition and resplendent colour. The larvae, which live in rivers, are highly vulnerable to oxygen depletion mainly due to agricultural (but also household) waste, causing the species to become rare across much of its European range.
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paulseesequasis @pseesequasis.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
From ‘Outstanding’ and a good reminder that investing in the arts is a win-win, not a lose-lose, proposition.
From Outstanding and a good reminder that investing in the arts is a win-win, not a lose-lose, proposition.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 08/07/2026
absolutely insane story, and yeah, just looking at this chart... with the exception of maybe two people, this entire class was cheating like motherfuckers
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
1. Actual cost.
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Swiss pharma giant’s clean-up bill for former facility in Clare now totals €207.56m
The clean-up bill for Swiss pharma giant Roche’s former manufacturing site in Co Clare now totals €207.56m, in what the company describes as “one of the largest remediation projects of its type in Eur...
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Coleen Murphy @ctmurphy1.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
one anecdote: I was searching for a link to one of my old papers on Google, and the automated Gemini summary attributed all of my lab's work to my husband
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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
The more I see of this version of America the more I hate it
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Sally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Ceasefire or no ceasefire, there’s still an Israeli drone above Beirut #lebanon
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YᗩY ᖴOᖇ ᗷIᑕYᑕᒪEᔕ 🚲 @yayforbicycles.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
If you have a few minutes before 5:30 pm a positive supportive submission on the Cork Luas would be well worth your time. consult.tii.ie/luas-cork-ns... Cork needs this!
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Luas Cork
Luas Cork is a transformative project, developed in close consultation with BusConnects, that aligns with this ambition, supporting the shift from cars to public transport and active travel. Luas Cor...
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
We're going to have to find a way to start geoblocking that country from posting takes about other places in the world. You know the one.
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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
The Thermo Fisher situation keeps getting worse. We've now collected 450+ problematic images presented as verification data in TF's antibody catalog. This includes: 🖌️ Dozens more images with duplications or painting 🖨️ Hundreds of blots that all share the same background (behold slideshow below)
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
I specifically requested no more metaphors
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Frank O'Connor @frankoconnor.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
To end #DerelictIreland we need compulsory sales & compulsory rental Combined with a proper registration system & custodian squatting they would be transformative Here's @judesherry.bsky.social making case at Oireachtas given examples of existing policy in England, Scotland, Amsterdam & Barcelona
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Cork City FC @corkcityfc.ie · 04/06/2026
A stat for the Bluesky lovers 👀 100% win record, 10 goals scored & 0 conceded since the platform shift 📈 @bsky.app 💚 #CCFC84 🇮🇹
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Alan Kinsella @electionlit.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Richie on the ball
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David Wessel @davidmwessel.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
!!! Trump appointees at Treasury push for $250 bill with his face on it. Director of Bureau of Printing & Engraving, who resisted the effort, said she was involuntarily reassigned last month. “The buck stopped here,” she wrote in her goodbye. wapo.st/4fM4Hei
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Trump appointees push $250 banknote with his portrait
The director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing who resisted the effort was reassigned last month. “The buck stopped here,” she wrote in her goodbye email.
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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Excellent news! Nature is expanding Registered Reports to all the fields in which they publish! A great result by all those proposing this strong solution to publication bias and selective reporting (and getting expert feedback before data collection)! www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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