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Eoin McFadden

@eoinmcfadden.bsky.social
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Husband, dad and best bud of Trent the Lurcher. R&D Policy, @matrixni.bsky.social, Innovation (especially public sector), open data, History, Archaeology, and food. wordpress.com/post/eoinmcfaddenword…

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Eoin McFadden @eoinmcfadden.bsky.social · 9h
matrixni.org/matrix-calls... if you know anyone with kids in KS2 or KS3 have a look, it promises to be fun
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Matrix calls on future thinkers for schools challenge - Matrix
Matrix 'Future Focus' Schools Challenge, in partnership with the NI Science Festival (NISF) and Nerve Centre, has opened for registration.
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Eoin McFadden @eoinmcfadden.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
An old friend recommended this - well worth a few mins youtu.be/hUPrUJ4F_Ro?...
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The Power of Unconventional Thinking | David McWilliams | TED
YouTube video by TED
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Matrix NI - Northern Ireland Science Industry Panel @matrixni.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🛰️New space report: the 'Northern Ireland Space Enabled Region Pathfinder', identifies 77 potential use cases for satellite technology across NI public services. #satellite #earthobservation #publicsector #innovation 🔗 bit.ly/spacepathfin... @economy-ni.gov.uk @ukri.org @ukspaceagency.bsky.social
Dr Caoimhe Archibald (Economy Minister) with Robert Hill (Matrix, Chair) at the launch of the 'Northern Ireland Space Enabled Region Pathfinder' report. Commissioned by the Northern Ireland Space Office, funded by the UK Space Agency, and facilitated by Matrix NI.
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Fergal @fergalc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is just a sentence that gets progressively more fabulous with each word
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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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Sydney EV @sydneyev.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
we know because data, EV batteries last as long as the car itself. Even with this data and real world evidence. My MiEV is 17 yrs old this yr on its original battery, the stupid myth of EVs needs battery replacement (insert timeframe here) still persist. insideevs.com/news/809604/...
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These Battery Cells Were Tested After 14 Years Of Hard Work. They're Good For Another Decade
CATL supplied the cells for the world’s first large-scale battery energy storage project. Fourteen years later, not one of them has been replaced.
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Sleestak @sleestak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
and behold a pale horse. and the name that sat on him was death. and hell followed with him
cat on a statue
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Eoin McFadden @eoinmcfadden.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
That’s not great. 😬
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A new trailer for Alex Gibney's documentary about Elon Musk was just released. gizmodo.com/elon-musk-do...
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Ian Moody @ianmoody.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
High-mileage electric cars are more reliable than petrol ones, study finds. EVs with 90,000 to 120,000 miles on the clock are more likely to pass MOTs than petrol models of the same age. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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High-mileage electric cars are more reliable than petrol ones, study finds
EVs with 90,000 to 120,000 miles on the clock are more likely to pass MOTs than petrol models of the same age
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Here’s a fun top five: things that are consensus among historians but are essentially unknown by the public. Richard I, a bad king of England. Roman Empire, fell in 1453. Paul, more important than Jesus. Witch burning, a modern phenomenon not a medieval one. Britain last invaded in 1688. Yours?
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Went to have a look at this secondhand VW Polo but I think it needs a new handbrake, because it keeps rolling down the hill.
GOV UK

Check if a vehicle is taxed and has an MOT

< Back

Is this the vehicle you are looking for?

Registration number

SY5I FUS  (Sisyphus)

Make

VOLKSWAGEN

Colour

RED. 

https://vehicleenquiry.service.gov.uk/VehicleFound?locale=en
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
'Humanities & social sciences research is central to ask questions about how and in whose interests technology is being developed, how it can be adopted, deployed & governed and how to create a world where AI can benefit the many, not the few' My blog for @ukri.org ukri.substack.com/p/why-ai-wil...
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Why AI will fail without the humanities and social sciences
AI can transform society. But only if society has a say in shaping it, writes Hetan Shah, Chief Executive of The British Academy.
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Sue Wilkes @suewilkesauthor.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
A craftswoman at work.
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Roger Langridge @hotelfred.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Happy 50th Anniversary to the Muppet Show!
Drawing of the Electric Mayhem band from the Muppet Show, with Doctor Teeth in the foreground playing a keyboard and the other band members playing behind.
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Eoin McFadden @eoinmcfadden.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
@jasonbell.bsky.social youtu.be/U3DS6xglAfQ?... not the best video, but still sublime. & on my 20th anniversary of this job. Must get a chat sometime soon
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Richard Thompson - Persuasion - Scottish TV 99
YouTube video by joni36
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: 18-Year-Old Mia Heller From Virginia, USA, Invents a Water Filter That Eliminates 96% of Microplastics From Drinking Water
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Stephen Kinsella @stephenstroud.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I canuck get enough of this humour.
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ShezzaT @shezzat.eurosky.social · 29/08/2026
Team Skelf has entered the chat.
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Toss @stevenspoints.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I really cannot think of a greater honor than to have the Muppets say this about you upon your passing
Instagram post from the official Muppets account: Few humans have earned the title of honorary Muppet more than the legendary Tim Curry. As a performer he was unparalleled - witty, charming, unnerving, and deeply funny. We will always consider it one of our greatest treasures to have been part of Long John Silver’s crew. Thank you for everything, Tim.
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Leif Боднарчук 🍁 🇺🇦 @leifb73.eurosky.social · 26/08/2026
While some Americans obsess themselves with banning books, starving people of facts and information, Dolly, born into poverty and excelling all expectations of anyone in her situation, SHARED her fortune by supplying books, promoting basic human virtues like learning and curiosity. Be more Dolly ❤️
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton was an icon. She was a brilliant songwriter and performer. She was an incredible activist and advocate, helping to donate over 200 million free books to children. She was one of my personal heroes. This is a terrible loss. She will be greatly missed.
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Stephen Hunsaker @hunsaker.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
For more details, check out the full paper we published today www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...
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The Macroeconomic Policy Outlook: Q3 2026 • Resolution Foundation
On the whole, the 2020s has been a disastrous decade for UK productivity growth. But an under-discussed revival appears to be underway. While the much-maligned Labour Force Survey’s headline number is...
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Stephen Hunsaker @hunsaker.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I have a new report out today with @simonpittaway.bsky.social on Britain's productivity revival – which is real, if it you measure it properly. And it isn’t being driven by the economy shedding low-paid jobs. 🧵
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Rob Corp @robcorp.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
This is a really lovely interview with Russ Abbot. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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‘In 1984, I worked 363 days’: how Russ Abbot soared to success – then walked away
The comedian dominated Saturday night TV in the 1980s, with his sketch shows attracting 18 million viewers. Next came the West End musicals and sitcoms. But in 2016 he quietly disappeared from the lim...
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Eoin McFadden @eoinmcfadden.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Highly recommend Poitiers for a visit. A beautiful city rich in history & culture.
Potiters Cathedral Medieval stained glass windows12th century fresco of Christ in a 6th Merovingian Frescos of saints in the baptistery
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Vox Hiberionacum @voxhib.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Optimist: The cup is half full. Pessimist: The cup is half empty. Archaeologist: That's not a cup, it's a pot.
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alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social @alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Solar farms usually need large stretches of open land. India found another place to put them: directly above water that was already flowing through irrigation canals.The idea took shape in Gujarat. #ActOnClimate #Renewables #ClimateActionNow #solarpower
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
This is a cracking piece by the estimable @drdeanburnett.bsky.social - do #follow him for the best commentary on such things.
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SlenderSherbet @slendersherbet.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
"I AM VENGEANCE! I AM THE NIGHT! I AM BATMAN! I'M IN THE SHED AGAIN SANDRA"
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 20/08/2026
Early signs of tech-driven improvements in productivity growth could herald a sustained strengthening in the UK’s economic outlook, analysts have said, in a turnaround after years of underperformance. Read more here: ft.trib.al/LhHiiAN
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The Royal College of Psychiatrists (which Max Pemberton is a member of) has issued a statement about 'The Great ADHD Myth'. Pemberton should be sanctioned over this and potentially struck off. www.rcpsych.ac.uk/news-and-fea...
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RCPsych statement on Channel 4 ADHD documentary
President Professor Subodh Dave comments on a new documentary about ADHD.
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Best Photobomb proof of delivery package (behind the donkey) 🤗
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
NEW: Teen boys are using smart glasses — mainly Meta's AI Glasses — to film themselves harassing classmates at school, following girls around and "rizzing" them or "ragebaiting" them w/ insults. In several videos we reviewed, girls plead w/ the poster to stop filming. futurism.com/artificial-i...
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Teen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Harass and Bully Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools
Teen boys are using Meta's AI glasses to harass and bully victims -- overwhelmingly girls -- at middle schools and high schools.
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Very cool: The world's oldest cheddar-maker heats its wash water with warm milk, straight from the cow. Barber's (Somerset, UK since 1833) runs milk-source heat pumps from UK startup Arkaya. Electricity use halved, payback under two years. Heat pumps work. www.canarymedia.com/articles/hea...
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World’s oldest cheddar-maker slashes energy bills with novel heat…
Innovative tech from U.K.-based Arkaya Energy cools fresh milk and redirects the resulting heat, saving Barber’s Farmhouse Cheesemakers more than $90,000…
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
During these awful times it’s always great when something amazing like this pops up on the timeline to give you hope for better days ahead
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Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Hang on - is this 1940 or 1944? Because neither ‘it’ll be over before you know it’ nor ‘I’ll quickly run out of fuel’ are the messages you’d be wanting to convey.
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Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
There were still a few Civil War veterans alive at the time of the Korean War.
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Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
My book The Measure of Progress is out soon in paperback - available for pre-order! press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
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The Measure of Progress
Why do we use eighty-year-old metrics to understand today’s economy?
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Eoin McFadden @eoinmcfadden.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Not the best video, as it was flitting about, but still fab to see a hummingbird hawk moth. 😊
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I reviewed Sarah Williams' book on Josephine Butler - one of the most extraordinary women in modern British history, who should be *much* better known. It's "both a biography of a remarkable woman and an argument about how to write the history of Victorian Britain". academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...
"Josephine Butler (1828–1906) was one of the most famous women of her age. She led an international crusade against sex-trafficking and child abuse. She brought prostitutes out of prison and into her home; challenged governments, police chiefs and judges; and spoke of rape and sexually transmitted disease on public platforms. Over a long career, Butler fought for women’s education, argued for female suffrage, served on the Married Women’s Property Committee and supported Home Rule for Ireland. She wrote numerous books, pamphlets and articles, as well as biographies of her husband, her father and the fourteenth-century mystic St Catherine of Siena. Most famously, she led the victorious campaign against the Contagious Diseases Acts (CDAs), which allowed the detention, medical inspection and imprisonment of women suspected of prostitution without trial. Millicent Garrett Fawcett thought that ‘No other woman in history has had such far-reaching influence’, and the suffrage movement carried her name on its banners. Yet she is largely forgotten today; and when the Fawcett Memorial was erected in 2018, her name was not among the fifty-five pioneers inscribed on its plinth."
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Heres’ a poem for all the pedents.
Pedents
 
Foot soldiers in the War on Error,
they’re here to save us from ourselves,
with Fowler’s Modern English Usage
(first edition, nineteen twelve).
 
They scrutinise each word we write
for typos, gaffes, et cetera,
correcting all our dumb mistakes
to make our grammar betterer.
 
They sigh and tut and tell us off
for the rules we have forsaken
and chart this nation’s steep decline
by the care we should of taken.
 
Custodians of the King’s English,
they merely serve to keep it pure
and restrict, they hope, the ignorant
to three mistakes or less.
 
In doing so, they hold no fear
they will deprive a thing of life:
for it’s not important what is said,
what matters is that its right.


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Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 17/08/2026
Fascinating
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Niall Litchfield @nlitchfield.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
If it helps @twlldun.bsky.social @katebevan.com I'm terrible at this, but feel educated and not old for doing it. anthropeum.com
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Anthropeum
A daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artifact was made. See how you rank.
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Crow @abbyjane.cloverdalelane.com · 14/08/2026
I think about this a lot.
Tim Henke
@TimHenke9
eat shit, René Magritte
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Mauv @ThatsMauvelous • 1d the machine refused to recognize my humanity until i professed to believe that a sign painted to look like a traffic light is indeed a traffic light.
Show this thread
Select all squares with traffic lights
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 15/08/2026
How Burnham can curb Britain’s tax-dodging shops ft.trib.al/OFrzTGu
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How Burnham can curb Britain’s tax-dodging shops
The prime minister is missing a simple trick in his campaign to revive high streets: enforcing the basic laws of doing business
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ironeconomist.bsky.social @ironeconomist.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Think this is the first time I have seen it reported that shops are straightforwardly selling skilled visas. Something that has been relatively obvious must be happening ever since the list of sponsors penetrated public awareness.
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Marlène Aviation @aviationmarlene.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
A 1955 advertising leaflet for the SE-210 ‘Caravelle’.
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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 13/08/2026
just a reminder my slate for work for the rest of this year is pretty bare, if you’re looking for an artist for a project with a page rate it could be me!
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European Space Agency @esa.int · 12/08/2026
🔴We're LIVE from the Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre in Spain - join us as we show the total solar eclipse as it happens! Watch here 👉 www.youtube.com/live/DRDx2xD... or watch.esa.int/Two/ 🚨⚠️ Only use certified eclipse glasses (ISO 12312-2) to look at the Sun! #EuropeanSolarEclipse
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Total solar eclipse 2026: Coming to Europe (Official ESA broadcast)
YouTube video by European Space Agency, ESA
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