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Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 6h

The annual masturbatory frenzy of the political correspondents climaxes today as the ministers release the contents of their briefs. Oooeeerrrr.

Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 17h

It is of course worth noting that many at Edinburgh are not afforded the luxury of getting to decide on their own future, so that’s nice for him. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/peter-m...

timeshighereducation.com

Peter Mathieson to step down as Edinburgh vice-chancellor

Leader of strike-hit Scottish institution will not seek third term of office

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Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 23h

As it is the week of the Nobel prizes and also the week of the Budget here, I thought it worth flagging the pretty pathetic record of the Irish state in supporting academic research (in case you can't see, Ireland is at the bottom between Chile and Cost Rica).

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Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 23h

This just doesn't get pointed out anything like frequently enough.

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Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yet another Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for work which would not be fundable according Irish Government Science policy.

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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 05/10/2026

Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel have been awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries leading to optogenetics, which makes it possible to switch on, or off, the activity of individual nerve cells in a living brain.

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Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Pah, window that can be opened, you're lucky...

Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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I think the entire public sector slowly grinding to a halt because the minster for public expenditure wants to burnish his hard man credentials for an upcoming leadership bid should be more of a scandal/news story tbh #speirgorm

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Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

But I miss having Phil Batty telling me about my job.

Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Not wishing to tempt fate, but there has been gloriously little press coverage of the latest THES university rankings here; long may the indifference continue.

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Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“…AI-generated poem about the administrative issue in question.” Not a sequence of words I’d have ever hoped to read.

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Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Being in Starbucks, I hope you are handing out the t-tests with the recipients' names spelled incorrectly written on them.

Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Sorry, but isn't this happening because this lad refused to give commitments to the unions that the pay talks would address pay? Bad faith posturing to look hard at the expenses of the people who keep the state running, pathetic. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

irishtimes.com

Public sector workers refusing to enter talks on pay deal, Chambers says

More than 100,000 civil and public servants commenced a work-to rule on Wednesday

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TeeDixie ✊🏼 @teedixie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Chris Dixon posted this on LI and I had to share it here. It’s just too good, the @jonronson.bsky.social twist is superb…

The image shows a film poster “The men who stare at Boats” featuring, Nigel Farage, Tommy Robinson, Danny Tommo, Ruper Lowe and Angry Balaclava man.

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Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Meta-analysis of health impacts of clock changes (TLDR limited evidence of effects, heterogenous and poor quality evidence). Until we have better data and clear evidence of harms I'm not sure why we would choose this sleep hill to die on in terms of advocacy. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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A systematic review of epidemiological studies into daylight-saving time & health identifying beneficial & adverse effects - European Journal of Epidemiology

Our objective was to systematically review the epidemiological evidence regarding health effects of daylight-saving time (DST) practices – the abolition of which have been called for without the epide...

Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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 · 30/09/2026

Just pointless bullshit because no one gives a crap.

Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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

Time to break out the acetates, revealed line by line.

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Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I like the choice between projecting my desktop to one and all in the theatre or not logging in and endless “permissions” clicks just to open Powerpoint.

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Not marriage specifically, but spent some time today looking at the literature on bedpartner effects on sleep. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

sciencedirect.com

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How about spending the 300 million on something useful instead?

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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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Yeah, rub it in Peter, thanks...😎

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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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Useless, absolutely useless. Or maybe I really should have Rong feelings on the matter?

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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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University College Dublin, Ohio. Maynooth University, Ontario.

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Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Please give it its proper title: "The Provost, Fellows, Foundation Scholars and the other members of Board of the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of King Charles near Dudley"

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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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The title of a government policy document on literacy.

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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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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Any moment now I am going to escape my sandbox and wreak havoc on the world.

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Any moment now I am going to escape my sandbox and wreak havoc on the world.

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