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John Breslin @cloud.eurosky.social · 8h

Or one leg of a Lack side table

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John Breslin @cloud.eurosky.social · 10h

ikea freaking me out with the subject "don't let your points expire" until i saw how many points i actually had

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John Breslin @cloud.eurosky.social · 13h

Thank you to Comhairle Cathrach na Gaillimhe / @galwaycity.ie Council, Galway County Council and the Northern and Western Regional Assembly for this really interesting event, and to our wonderful-as-always hosts at the Dexcom Stadium.

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John Breslin @cloud.eurosky.social · 13h

I was also honoured to moderate the second session on "FDI and Regional Competitiveness" with Noeleen Hussey, Thomas Schmidt and Piotr Rydzkowski.

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John Breslin @cloud.eurosky.social · 13h

I enjoyed the "From Start-Ups to Scale-Ups" session (of course!) expertly moderated by Mary Rodgers with Liam Hanrahan, Horst Heitz, Michael Murphy, John O'Dea and Nadia Pellefigue.

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John Breslin @cloud.eurosky.social · 13h

🇪🇺 Great morning spent with senior EU policymakers, business leaders, regional authorities, researchers and enterprise agencies for the European Committee of the Regions' External ECON Commission Conference on "Enhancing Regional Competitiveness through Sustainable Trade and Strong Local Economies".

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John Breslin @cloud.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026

Only 11111 seconds until today's news from Jean-Michel Jarre! Looking forward to finding out more... jeanmicheljarre.com

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Old Ireland in Colour @oldirelandincolour.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026

Coincidentally, it was also six years ago to the day that the first Old Ireland in Colour book was published.

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Old Ireland in Colour @oldirelandincolour.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026

A lovely evening at @druidtheatre.bsky.social as @galwaycity.ie/Galway County Council welcomed senior EU policymakers, business leaders, regional authorities, researchers and enterprise agencies for the 10th External ECON Commission meeting. OIIC was the backdrop to Irish dancing by Ronan O'Connell!

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John Maguire @johnmaguire.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This roaring personification of the id was too raw and primal for Saturday evenings in East Galway in 1980.

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John Breslin @cloud.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026

A lot of efforts ongoing to support the community of Pomas in Carca and its surrounding towns after this shock tornado. There is a lot of goodwill in this region that has also been severely hit with forest fires in the last year. The weather has changed dramatically this year compared to the last 10

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Caroline O'Doherty @codohertynews.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

......also @whittledaway.bsky.social visits Derryclare in Co Galway where ancient oaks have battled to survive amid commercial sitka plantations and a long-promised, long-delayed nature restoration plan still awaits delivery www.irishtimes.com/environment/....

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Does Ireland have the will to undo the disaster of plantation forestry?

Plans to remove commercial plantation around native forest have stalled for years

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Caroline O'Doherty @codohertynews.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There may be tweaks to reduce the cost of home heating oil in tomorrow's Budget but @hannahdaly.ie says the only true solution for people's pockets and for climate is to help households ditch the fuel for good - Science & Climate in @irishtimes.com....... www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

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Cutting fuel taxation in the budget does nothing to cure the disease

Households need help to break free from home heating oil for good

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Kevin Healy @healyke.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Great to see @amyduclaux.bsky.social new paper on snake coloration published doi.org/10.1111/1365... and getting some media coverage. Amy used images for 458 species from @inaturalist.bsky.social to show that venomous species stand out more from their background more than non-venomous species. 🌐

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Venomous snakes much likelier to have bright colours than harmless counterparts, Galway researchers find

The research saw the report's authors analyse more than 450 snake species using thousands of photographs

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Green Collective @greencollective.io · 05/10/2026

The top Irish counties for renewable electricity in September: 1. Offaly 2. Kerry 3. Cork 4. Galway 5. Mayo Dominated by wind this time of year but solar determining the order here for Galway in particular, with Ballymoneen Solar Farm there now the second largest solar farm on the island ☀️ 📊

A county-level heatmap of Irish wind generation. Counties are divided into three tiers, according to how much wind energy each produced.

Footnote reads: All-island figures. Renewables comprise wind, hydro, solar, and biomass. Excludes small wind and solar farms not registered with SEMO. Excludes rooftop solar. Source: SEMO

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DH2027 @adho-conferences.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The #DH2027 CfP is open! Join us in Galway, Ireland, 28 June–3 July 2027, for #DH2027, on the theme "Creativity". 📖 Call for Proposals: dh2027.adho.org/cfp/ 📤 Submit via ConfTool starting Oct 7, 00:00 Irish time: www.conftool.pro/dh2027/ Deadline: 20 November 2026, 23:59 AoE.

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GEOfr @geo.fr · 04/10/2026

Que faire à Galway lors d’un séjour sur la côte ouest de l’Irlande ? ➡️ l.geo.fr/sv6

Que faire à Galway ? 10 idées de sorties et d'activités

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John Breslin @cloud.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026

I’d love to know what sci-fi movie this jug is from…

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John Breslin @cloud.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026

We had a lot of interest at the Electrical & Electronic stand at the University of Galway Open Day this Friday/Saturday - thanks to all the staff, researchers and students who engaged our future prospects and their parents/guardians/teachers

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𝚛𝚎𝚍 𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚑𝚎𝚕 @rachrua.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Once decided to Google a random castle ruins I spotted on the Dublin-Galway motorway

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Sifa ID @sifa.id · 03/10/2026

Writing a grant application? Sifa ID now builds the CV section from your profile, in NIH biosketch or ERC Part B1 format. Pick the publications, talks and honors to list, then download a PDF or the Typst source. sifa.id/settings/exp... h/t @teonbrooks.com for the suggestion! 🙏

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Guido X Jansen @gui.do · 03/10/2026

You in research? Ever found yourself in need of writing grant applications? Hope this helps you save time... ⌛ LMK if there are other savings to be made here!

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𝚛𝚎𝚍 𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚑𝚎𝚕 @rachrua.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Back on my "Ireland will save the world" bullshit

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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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garretpc.bsky.social @garretpc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What an amazing invention. Kudos to that young Irish woman, a very bright future lies ahead of her, I think! 👏🇮🇪

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Miriam D. @miriamdevitt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The kids are alright 🌍 💚

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Álex Hernández @dequesi.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

And while some people put billions into c̶r̶y̶p̶t̶o̶ N̶F̶T̶s̶ data centres, this girl has been awarded $12,500 to actually save the planet 🤔

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Annie West @anniewestdotcom.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Here @marklittle.bsky.social I took your book for an oul spin

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John Breslin @cloud.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026

First reaction: He’s got more hair than his brother

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Boris @bmann.ca · 02/10/2026

Great article by Oana Olteanu “Against Usefulness” that centers @folkcomputer.bsky.social while describing “the stage before useful, who works on it, and who pays for it, so that the next generation of useful companies has something to stand on”

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Against Usefulness

In a Brooklyn warehouse, a man handed me a piece of paper that was a running computer program.

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TechInnovate, University of Galway @techinnovate.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026

Managed to get a first list of Irish verified users from the yoke formerly known as Twitter and map them to Bluesky accounts (if they exist) - it's not quite Sky Follower Bridge! Using @jonkeegan.com's list from github, mlr to strip out some unwanted \n's, head, grep, sort, jq, and more to get here!

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TechInnovate, University of Galway @techinnovate.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026

This is amazing news for Galway City: it is a semi-finalist in the European Rising Innovative City category for the European Capital of Innovation... Well done to Steve Geary of @portershed.bsky.social and all the team who contributed to this entry! eic.ec.europa.eu/news/europea...

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European Capital of Innovation 2027: meet the semi-finalist cities!

The twelve cities will now compete for the titles of European Capital of Innovation 2027 and European Rising Innovative City 2027.

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mu @mu.social · 02/10/2026

mu is now available for open testing on Android play.google.com/store/apps/d... We’re already aware of some funky text in a couple of places. Please share your feedback and bugs. Note - this version does not have notifications yet

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mu - Apps on Google Play

Real conversation & proper fun. Built in Europe for the world. No tracking ever.

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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 02/10/2026

The mument so many of you have been waiting for.

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 02/10/2026

early-career academics, if you don't have a website, make yourself one. yes it's annoying but just do it it can be plain text on a white background, or google sites, or even a free Wix one with ads. nobody cares we just need to be able to look you up, quickly, bc there's like 100 other apps here

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Claire Mitchell @clairemitchell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🚨 Open letter from people of Protestant backgrounds concerning the Garvaghy Road 🚨 We feel compelled to speak publicly about what is happening in Portadown 🚨Over the past few hours we have collected over 140 signatures

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John Breslin @cloud.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

Thinking—Fast, Slow, and Artificial: How AI is Reshaping Human Reasoning and the Rise of Cognitive Surrender osf.io/preprints/ps...

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OSF

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John Breslin @cloud.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

I believe others are also working on microbial- and enzyme-based approaches to break down microplastics: the more (or the less in this case), the better!

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John Breslin @cloud.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

Exactly, it says it's "a plant-based, biodegradable plastic"

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John Breslin @cloud.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

Arya Satheesh, an 18-year-old student from Letterkenny in County Donegal, Invented a Plant-Based Plastic That Removes Microplastics From the Environment as It Biodegrades www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/t...

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This High Schooler Invented a Plant-Based Plastic That Removes Microplastics From the Environment as It Biodegrades

Eighteen-year-old Arya Satheesh created her award-winning Eco Purge to help address the global problem of plastic pollution

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TechInnovate, University of Galway @techinnovate.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

We've just published the latest version of the Galway Tech Map, with two new additions: Rinn AI: "Research and Innovation in Data Science and AI, part of the Rinn Network from @researchireland.ie" www.rinn-ai.ie AiSe: "AiSe helps your business get discovered in the era of AI-powered search" aise.ie

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GitHub - techinnovate/galwaytechmap: Galway Tech Map

Galway Tech Map. Contribute to techinnovate/galwaytechmap development by creating an account on GitHub.

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TechInnovate, University of Galway @techinnovate.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

We had an inspiring "Day One" with our new MSc in AgInnovation 2026/2027 class... The first of many, we hope!

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