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Andrew Coogan

@cooganlab.bsky.social
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Sleep Researcher and Professor. Views very much my own. Crowland’s Silver Jubilee Committee-fancier.

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Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 2h
This is a pretty cool paper looking at how/when people attribute poor sleep to the moon/lunar phase. Lunar effects on sleep have been hanging around in the literature for a while without a putative mechanism, but maybe it is psychological rather than physiological. www.mdpi.com/2624-5175/8/...
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Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 9h
I just wanted to open Powerpoint so I could give my lecture (and yes, I was already logged in).
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Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Provo, Utah"😎
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Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
How about spending the 300 million on something useful instead?
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Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Solidarity with colleagues in Edinburgh, this just all seems so avoidable and reflects the usual management blind spot that without its academic staff universities are nothing.
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Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Another thing I am finding is that if and when I do reply there is zero response or recognition from the prospective student, so now if it is an AI-written inquiry summarising my own research to me then straight to the bin.
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Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Useless, absolutely useless. Or maybe I really should have Rong feelings on the matter?
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Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
So many government ministers now openly admitting that they have nothing, no solutions, despite record incomes to the state. A zombie government whose only apparent thought is “Data Centres”.
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Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Accrediting dodgy overseas course killed the 120 year old University of Wales, but I'm sure everything will be fine this time around. www.bbc.com/news/uk-wale...
bbc.com
University of Wales effectively abolished in merger
The troubled University of Wales is effectively abolished and its under-pressure chairman resigns as a merger is agreed following a succession of damaging revelations.
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Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Call me old fashioned but I don't think the mission of Irish universities is to educate Chinese students in China or American students in America. We are not budding multinational businesses- we are a public service for students in Ireland, wherever they come from. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...
irishtimes.com
Irish colleges should focus on teaching abroad, not attracting foreign students – Minister
State already has insufficient accommodation for those in higher education, James Lawless says
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Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
An admission of continuing failure. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...
irishtimes.com
Irish colleges should focus on teaching abroad, not attracting foreign students – Minister
State already has insufficient accommodation for those in higher education, James Lawless says
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Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I seem to remember a very senior circadian clock researcher e-mailing an invite to the next meeting of “The UK Cock Club”.
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Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I have not saved the files that were to be saved where they were supposed to be and which you were probably needing for your work Forgive me they were .docx so sweet and so a fatal error had occurred.
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Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Any moment now I am going to escape my sandbox and wreak havoc on the world.
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Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Next week I am doing my annual session on the Bem 2011 paper, and the preceding day will be spend re-reading the paper and going to myself "what in the name of sweet suffering fuck?" again and again; there is no habituation.
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Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I don’t vote for FG or FF, but feel that just not voting for them is insufficient, I want to be able to actively negatively vote against this useless necrotic government. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
irishtimes.com
Trade union balloting is ‘only delaying’ public sector pay deal, Jack Chambers says
Provision will be made in budget for new deal despite the lack of agreement, Minister says
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Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Government playing a blinder on this, top lads. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
irishtimes.com
Doctors and university lecturers latest to vote in favour of industrial action
Industrial action by over 160,000 public sector workers due to begin later this month
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Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
But somehow the government found the money to give Burger King and similar a tax break of nearly 1 billion euro a year. www.irishtimes.com/health/2026/...
irishtimes.com
Patients would contribute more for drugs under proposed policy
New recruitment and spending restrictions to be introduced in health service in coming days amid Government concern at €700m overrun
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Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My two brains.
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Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Looking forward to firing up my tractor. www.independent.ie/irish-news/u...
independent.ie
University staff to stage one-hour work stoppage in escalating pay dispute
University staff are set to hold a one-hour work stoppage early next month in a row with the Government over a new pay deal.
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Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"And State funding per student, at around 8,000 euros a year, is 30 per cent less in real terms than it was in 2008". Worth noting that most European countries invest €15,000-20,000 per student - we simply are not serious about universities in this country.
businesspost.ie
Opinion: Budget 2027 must tackle Ireland’s universities €250m funding gap
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Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Ooph, this is very worrying and it is unlikely that Budget 2027 will bring any good news for Higher Education. And of course Irish universities already have terrible staff/student ratios. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...
irishtimes.com
University of Galway deficit threatens teaching jobs
Recent year-end funding gap measures for third level institutions have fallen out of favour
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Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Shit, that’s what’s wrong with me today, I forgot to reset my vagus nerve this morning.
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Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“🎼In Blackburn, Lancashire…”
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Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
One of the lessons of recent years (Iran, Brexit, Ukraine) is that geography maters and actual physical realities cannot be wished away.
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Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Spending another full day doing a paper revision today, trying to be thorough, methodical and honest, I have nothing but contempt for the mediocrities and grifters doing the below. If you don't want to be an academic, go do something else for fucks sake.
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Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
As AI kills off the university essay, I am becoming nostalgic for when students would write that "theorists posit...", a form of words found nowhere in the universe outside of the undergraduate essay.
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Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It really feels like different arms of the university exist in completely different and separate realities, only one of which relates to teaching, learning and research (ie. the things the university exists to do).
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Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If those manager ever need to leave the NHS I am sure they would be welcomed into universities, where such incompetence, indifference and selfish ass-covering behaviours are seemingly much in demand. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
The Letby inquiry report makes one thing crystal clear: too much NHS management is scandalously poor | Tom Dolphin
Non-medical managers are the only safety-critical part of the service that do not have a regulator. Lady Justice Thirlwall says that must change. So do we, says Tom Dolphin, chair of the BMA council
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Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Dear prospective PhD candidates, sending me an AI slop summary of my own research is not exactly making me want to think even remotely about taking you on to work with me. Please stop it.
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Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
One of these days I am going to watch a Netflix series about Americans who live in a normal sized house.
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Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Crossing off paper submissions on my white board makes me feel like Michael Burry in The Big Short.
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Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Haul away lads, his soul is getting away!"
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Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Today I have been mostly laughing at this. www.tiktok.com/@thegaffcast...
tiktok.com
Louth dominatrix
TikTok video by Darren Gaffney
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Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Remembering the glory days of electrophysiology recordings on chart paper with annotations written directly onto the paper.
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Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
No one: Psychologists: Erdogic error.
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Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“We’ll now transition to questions”. Absolutely coldblooded way for a chair to deal with an overtime speaker. I have taken note😎
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Tomás Ryan @tjryan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"MIT wants to rebuild education around the things AI can't replace. That means oral exams, semester portfolios, in-person project work, and a required social component in every subject. The report even floats the idea of rethinking grades entirely..." This is the way forward @tcddublin.bsky.social
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Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
We have been enjoying the sun in Milan and even doing some science as well! @slrch-society.bsky.social
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Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
An t’Oglach Domhnall O’Trump.
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Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It’s not AI that is going to kill us all, it is bouncy castles. www.irishtimes.com/health/2026/...
irishtimes.com
Bouncy castle play linked to largest outbreak of common superbug in Ireland
Forty-eight children and teens developed skin and soft tissue infections after an outbreak of aggressive strain of MRSA developed
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Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“ Listen lads, I’ll be honest, shure I don’t know, I haven’t a bollix. Ye are on your own y’know, so good luck there”
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Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Nu wheelz
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Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Apart from EVERYTHING ELSE here, who knew there was a journal called "The Innovation" (is is like The Prestige?)
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Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Talked with David McCullagh on RTE Radio 1 about the morning type/people who get up early in the morning narrative: www.rte.ie/radio/radio1.... @mupsychology.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie
rte.ie
People who get up early in the morning – do they work harder?
Professor Andrew Coogan, behavioral neuroscientist and Director of the Chronobiology and Sleep Research Laboratory at Maynooth University
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Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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