iainmacl.bsky.social @iainmacl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Moon above where the river meets the sea. #Galway 000
Reposted by @iainmacl.bsky.socialDr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them! 895404927
iainmacl.bsky.social @iainmacl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Have been gone for months in this platform. Been busy subverting LinkedIn. Back now ish 010
Reposted by @iainmacl.bsky.socialLee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 19/04/2025They'll never print this, but turn up with 5 mates and a 'what is a woman' sign and they'll give you the front page 9501117
Reposted by @iainmacl.bsky.socialWhat The Trans?! 🏳️⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 19/04/2025The sun is out, and there must be thousands here. This is giving me life. 182779745
Reposted by @iainmacl.bsky.socialArthur Webber 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @bernietranders.bsky.social · 19/04/2025Looking forward to this photo being on the front of the BBC News homepage like protests attended by 7 terfs are 227951
Reposted by @iainmacl.bsky.socialTheresaverity @cybertrix.bsky.social · 19/04/2025The UK Supreme Court ruling was so unpopular that central London just ground to a complete standstill and a static protest had to become a march to St James' Park for crowd safety reasons! I was stood at the entrance to the park for an hour and the march itself was still flooding in! 1222
iainmacl.bsky.social @iainmacl.bsky.social · 19/04/2025Oops.. this is the correct link to register lnkd.in/gWyB4B-3lnkd.inLinkedInThis link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn 000
Reposted by @iainmacl.bsky.socialEoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Yes, it is fair. Because there are other ways of producing the timber we need *without* burying 10% of Ireland under deadzones that are disastrous for nature, the climate, and local communities. 67410
iainmacl.bsky.social @iainmacl.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Preparing students (& ourselves!) for a challenging world, is the theme of this year's T&L event in Galway June 12th. Considering Education for Sustainable Development in its broadest sense and incorporating a focus on socio-emotional aspects. Join us! forms.office.com/Pages/ShareF... 021
Reposted by @iainmacl.bsky.socialNews Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 28/02/2025NEW: Something very important is happening tonight. Europe is rallying to Ukraine 🇪🇺🇺🇦 Public statements of support in the last 2 hours from leaders of: France🇫🇷 Holland🇳🇱 Czech Rep🇨🇿 Spain🇪🇸 Lithuania🇱🇹 Portugal🇵🇹 Sweden🇸🇪 Norway🇳🇴 Moldova🇲🇩 Latvia🇱🇻 Poland🇵🇱 And this from the incoming German Chancellor🇩🇪 842021570
Reposted by @iainmacl.bsky.socialThe SNP @snp.org · 28/02/2025🇺🇦 Slava Ukraini! Scotland stands with Ukraine. 23638194
Reposted by @iainmacl.bsky.socialKirsty Hughes @kirstyshughes.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Sweden, France, Norway, Spain, Poland, Lithuania, Ireland all backing Zelensky, where is UK's statement? 37339103
Reposted by @iainmacl.bsky.socialMusa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 28/02/2025I will never forget the photo of Zelenskyy’s face after he saw Russia’s war crimes in Bucha in 2022. He seemed to age years in an afternoon. Watching him constantly cross the world asking for aid that should have been thrown at him is one of the deepest shames of our age. 229251536116
Reposted by @iainmacl.bsky.socialPeter Arnott @peterarnott.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Flattering to have one's country dangled like a shiny object in front of a greedy child. news.stv.tv/scotland/kin...news.stv.tvKing Charles invites Donald Trump to Scotland before 'historic second state visit'Mr Trump showed the letter, marked “private and confidential” and featuring Charles’ signature 022
Reposted by @iainmacl.bsky.socialErin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 27/02/2025Finally. A major media outlet has finally reported on Trump’s total travel ban for transgender visa applicants seeking the United States. I had to scream for two days to get someone else to report on it. It is NOT just for athletes. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...the-independent.comState Department visa policy could bar trans people from traveling to U.S.Violations could result in travel bans beyond just athletes 8857342088
Reposted by @iainmacl.bsky.socialGlen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Universities UK calls for a 'funding rethink' as HE redundancies surge 'off the scale'. Good luck with your science and tech deal. www.universityworldnews.com/post-mobile....universityworldnews.comJob cuts at top UK universities head ‘off the scale’Edinburgh University in Scotland is the latest leading higher education provider to announce widespread cutbacks and job losses amid a financial crisi... 27132
Reposted by @iainmacl.bsky.socialWe Own It @weownit.org.uk · 28/02/2025Amanda Pritchard wanted more private finance in the NHS. The NHS repairs backlog of £13.8bn is dwarfed by the £44bn still owed on PFI contracts. PFI has been a disaster and the new NHS boss, James Mackey, must rule out any new private finance. morningstaronline.co.uk/article/camp...morningstaronline.co.ukCampaigners welcome change at top of NHS 27833
Reposted by @iainmacl.bsky.socialResolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 28/02/2025The CCC suggests that benefits from the move to net zero in aggregate will outweigh the costs. Its estimates suggest that, from 2026, net zero should show up as a net positive on average household expenses. Read our response to the CCC report now➡️ buff.ly/43eo75b 0158
Reposted by @iainmacl.bsky.socialJoyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 26/02/2025This is evil. Pure evil. 37693987412989
Reposted by @iainmacl.bsky.socialAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 26/02/2025This is a campaign of eradication. www.statnews.com/2025/02/25/c...statnews.comCDC will no longer process transgender dataThe agency's decision will likely affect a number of federal health surveillance systems that serve as critical resources for researchers. 11912273
Reposted by @iainmacl.bsky.socialErin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 26/02/2025The reporting on the trans travel visa ban is criminal. It does NOT only affect transgender athletes. The cables CLEARLY say it affects all trans people. They can reject visas on point 6 of anyone who is requesting a visa that does not match their assigned sex at birth. 5240001320
Reposted by @iainmacl.bsky.socialOni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Under fascism, no one is safe. Universities stayed quiet as the admin targeted DEI & foreign aid, censored research, etc. Now, they face devastating cuts to indirect cost rates, threatening research & operations. Silence won’t protect institutions. It won’t protect people; it never does. 333229946227
Reposted by @iainmacl.bsky.socialGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Normalize pronouncing DOGE as DOUCHE. 30718047814609
Reposted by @iainmacl.bsky.socialMelanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Tesla paid $0 in federal income tax last year. 2022: $0 2021: $0 2020: $0 2019: $0 2018: $0 Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years. 14025075418109
Reposted by @iainmacl.bsky.socialJoe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 08/02/2025I come from the right. It’s the cruelty. For the right, the cruelty is the point. The cruelty sells. 1300114612888
Reposted by @iainmacl.bsky.socialElisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 08/02/2025NIH plans to slash support for indirect research costs, sending shockwaves through science Capping these payments would ‘just grind our scientific complex to a halt,’ one researcher said @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2025/02/07/n...statnews.comNIH plans to slash support for indirect research costs, sending shockwaves through scienceThe NIH said Friday night that it would slash support for indirect costs on all existing and future grants to 15% 68333
Reposted by @iainmacl.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/02/2025a good part of me thinks that in addition to everything else, the reason they are scrubbing these stories is they do not want disadvantaged kids to believe they can aspire to anything other than their designated “black” or “hispanic” or “woman” job 8164490411050
iainmacl.bsky.social @iainmacl.bsky.social · 07/02/2025The Virgo cluster of galaxies at 65 million light years distance 020
Reposted by @iainmacl.bsky.socialTrish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 06/02/2025This is the best post I’ve ever seen on this platform. Thank you. #academicsky #medsky 630760
Reposted by @iainmacl.bsky.socialEmily Baker-White @ebakerwhite.bsky.social · 06/02/2025now that's how you write a headline www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...nytimes.comOpinion | The World’s Richest Men Take On the World’s Poorest ChildrenI’ve seen U.S.A.I.D. operate around the world, and it’s not woke — it’s lifesaving. 7352181484
Reposted by @iainmacl.bsky.socialThe Onion @theonion.com · 05/02/2025FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United Statestheonion.comFBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United StatesWASHINGTON—Putting the nation on alert against what it has described as a “highly credible terrorist threat,” the FBI announced today that it has uncovered a plot by members of al-Qaeda to sit back an... 10646838615826
Reposted by @iainmacl.bsky.socialKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/02/2025They found a way to litter from space 652811890
Reposted by @iainmacl.bsky.socialProf Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 06/02/2025🌍🔥 Global warming is accelerating - are we prepared? Earth's temperature has surged 0.4°C in two years, driven by reduced ship aerosols & El Niño. This rapid warming may lock in a 1.5°C+ world, increasing extreme weather & polar ice melt. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0013... #ClimateCrisis #SciComm 🧪doi.orgGlobal Warming Has Accelerated: Are the United Nations and the Public Well-Informed?Global temperature leaped more than 0.4°C (0.7°F) during the past two years, the 12-month average peaking in August 2024 at +1.6°C relative to the temperature at the beginning of last century (the ... 02713
Reposted by @iainmacl.bsky.socialJustin Ling @justinling.ca · 06/02/2025The policy lead for CDC's H5N1 response has abruptly resigned. Sources tell me CDC's response to the bird flu pandemic has been severely hobbled by the chaos of the past two weeks. 29694564007
Reposted by @iainmacl.bsky.socialCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 05/02/2025Source: 404 Media404media.co‘Things Are Going to Get Intense:’ How a Musk Ally Plans to Push AI on the Government404 Media has obtained audio of a meeting held by Thomas Shedd, a Musk-associate who is now heading a team of government coders. In the call one employee pushed back and said one of the planned moves ... 24812
Reposted by @iainmacl.bsky.socialAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/02/2025The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) offered payouts to its entire workforce. The CIA has become the first intelligence agency to offer employees an opportunity to leave their positions in exchange for approximately eight months of pay and benefits. 2694660948
Reposted by @iainmacl.bsky.socialMicah @rincewind.run · 04/02/2025this is very clear and very straightforward about what's happening and at some point we also have to start pointing the finger at major news organizations who are flatly - out of bias, out of fear, out of incompetence, whatever - refusing to treat this as the emergency it is do your jobs 201542402
Reposted by @iainmacl.bsky.socialBrian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 04/02/2025aaaand now it all makes sense 146104853344
Reposted by @iainmacl.bsky.socialAri Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 05/02/2025BREAKING: A federal judge has blocked President Trump's executive order forcibly to detransition trans women inmates and transfer them to men's prisons, citing the 8th amendment prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment. 5063301393
Reposted by @iainmacl.bsky.socialThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 05/02/2025President Trump said that he had “left instructions” for Iran to be “obliterated” if its assassins killed him, on the day that he signed an executive order restoring his “maximum pressure” campaign against Tehran.nytimes.comTrump Hits Iran With Renewed ‘Maximum Pressure’The president made the comment during a visit from Israel’s prime minister, and he signed an executive order to intensify a campaign intended to persuade Iran to give up its nuclear program. 8517446
Reposted by @iainmacl.bsky.socialStephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 04/02/2025The scientific censorship happening in the States right now is unbelievable. 13918
Reposted by @iainmacl.bsky.socialTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Elon acolytes targeting the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. “It’s been a longtime goal of corporations that rely on Noaa data to prevent the agency from making the data public, instead of giving it directly to private corporations that create products based on it.”theguardian.comDoge staffers enter Noaa headquarters and incite reports of cuts and threatsMembers reportedly sought access to IT systems at agency that Project 2025 has called ‘harmful to US prosperity’ 661000470
Reposted by @iainmacl.bsky.socialNandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Very important point: A freeze on federal funds for research will gut our universities - a major target of fascists everywhere, always. 15917
Reposted by @iainmacl.bsky.socialKevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social · 05/02/2025New: Trump’s White House is ending the decades-long practice of ensuring federal CIOs are career employees. OPM is reclassifying the job so they can be replaced with loyalists, per agency memo published today. Total authority over agencies’ IT infrastructure, email, etc.nbcnews.comTrump administration moves to make tech officials political appointees amid DOGE clashesThe change could smooth Elon Musk’s efforts to access the technology systems of various federal agencies through his Department of Government Efficiency. One former personnel management official calle... 15508274
