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Rasmus Birk @rasmusbirk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It is ASTOUNDING that this apparently needs saying.

Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ah! I must revisit ‘Constructing the Subject’. I talk about the ‘triumph of the aggregate’ a little in my opening applied social psychology lectures. (As ever, I’m grateful to Susan Condor for pointing me in the direction of Kurt Danziger, Fran Cherry, and many others).

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 27/09/2026

Robert Eggers should adapt Disco Pigs, mostly so we can enjoy articles that say things like "he will film it in the original esoteric language of late 20th Century Cork" and "will recreate Sir Henry's and Mangan's with complete authenticity."

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Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Your occasional reminder that it’s quite easy to identify conspiracy theories when they’re aimed at other people’s prior assumptions, confirmation biases and sense of grievance and more difficult to do so when they’re aimed at our own.

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Child of Prog @devindoyle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I hope they're negotiating a difficult situation with love and respect for each other, and I hope the country feels the same.

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It’s not easy and it isn’t their fault. They didn’t want this. And now they’re just a bunch of young men left alone with their obligations and their consciences. And what a credit to them that their conscience weighs so heavy in the first place.

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Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Where are people getting the updates from the Irish squad in Debrecen? Twitter?

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Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Which is another reason why “this is more of a comment than a question” is far preferable to everyone sitting in silence after a talk.

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Some of the lads from the english department heard you made a light, passing reference to intertextuality in your sociology paper and want to talk about it

a poto of gilla band, four unhappy-looking white men in early middle age, dressed in various tones of black and beige

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Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

@bikesnbukes.eurosky.social Oisín, my deepest condolences. We remembered Rena at our Faculty Board meeting at @micireland.bsky.social today. She was our colleague for far too short a time: I always enjoyed her contributions on here.

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Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The day has been long and full of teaching, supervision and meetings, but at least there was an excellent haul of books in my mail tray today. @marekmcgann.bsky.social @craigspeelman.bsky.social @maddipow.bsky.social @sandersonspeaking.bsky.social

Three books on a desk. Absent Minds by Madeline Pownall, The Great Psychology Delusion by Craig Speelman & Marek McGann and Teaching Social Psychology edited by Catherine Sanderson & Rebecca Totton

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Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Big morning on here for people who took an English class in First Arts (or local equivalent) and want you to know about it. (I am among those people, just to be clear).

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Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Anyway, there won’t be a black pudding feijoada prepared among the Brazilian West Cork community tonight. #traitorsirl

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Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Oh, people in their 20s and 30s marvelling that someone aged 40 can still be vaguely youthful. Thanks for that, #traitorsirl.

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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Guilty as charged

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Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 30/09/2024

We need a pedagogical concept of a collective memory threshold in teaching: that point where you can no longer depend on the students in your class remembering the (to you) relatively recent event you’re describing and so you need to build in appropriate context.

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Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

An absolute disgrace that these small number of humanitarian visas for Gazan students to attend university in Ireland are not being prioritized by the govt. The places are funding, the universities are full supportive. The govt should do their job. www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster...

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Gaza student misses start of UCC course amid visa appeal delays

Some 58 students from Gaza granted scholarships to Irish third-level institutions remain unable to travel after visa refusals, despite many having lodged appeals months ago

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Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Having Rachel Duffy on the panel for Uncloaked is a bit like having a hurling All-Star commentating on a Junior B game. #traitorsirl

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Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Is it just in #traitorsirl that we seem to hit a “this is actually getting quite uncomfortable to watch” episode at this point?

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Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I’ve been *waiting* for Kayleigh to start cleaning house. C’mon now. #traitorsirl

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Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I spent some time in my Applied Social Psychology tutorial this week explaining the turn towards ‘silicon sampling’ and there were genuine gasps in the room. Undergrads seem to instinctively grasp the issues with this in a way some more senior academics don’t.

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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Oh, Cork. Hadn’t seen this before, made me laugh.

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Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Look, I'm just saying that if moving the All-Ireland finals back to September was a precondition of a united Ireland, then I'd be willing to make that compromise.

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Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

There’s some really dreadful ‘No True Scotsman’ takes floating around about Ed Sheeran and Irishness: Oisín’s thread here is a necessary corrective.

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Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If you were listening to Florence Okojie's report on 'Modern Manners' on Today with @mcculld.bsky.social this morning, you will have heard me briefly pop up to give a social psychological angle: www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

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Modern Manners report

Do people still threat each other with respect, or are good manners becoming a thing of the past? Our reporter Florence Okojie has been looking into this.

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The @radhumslab.bsky.social are pleased to announce 'Against Automation: Resisting AI Futures in Teaching and Research,' November 20th, @ucc.ie. With Dan McQuillan, Patrick Brodie, Masoumeh Mansouri, and Jennie Stephens. Tickets at: www.eventbrite.com/e/against-au...

A poster announcing Against Automation: Resisting AI Futures in Teaching and Research, November 20th, @ucc.ie. With Dan McQuillan, Patrick Brodie, Masoumeh Mansouri, and Jennie Stephens. Cacsss seminar room, 10am - 3pm

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Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

An appeal to fellow "Introduction to Social Psychology" lecturers: can we perhaps draw straws to decide who's going to take one for the team and watch this, in order to feed it back to the rest of us? #psychsky

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Maq @maqusan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

At long last, we have created the Stanford Prison Experiment from the classic paper Do Not Attempt To Recreate The Stanford Prison Experiment.

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Wendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 16/09/2026

To say Irish citizenship is “given out like smarties” betrays an ignorance that is unworthy of an elected member of the Oireachtas. Also deeply insulting to the many people who have had to wait years for it due to sheer governmental incompetence.

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Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I really do have to write that article about the gendered figure of the ‘Irish granny’ in rhetorical constructions of Irish citizenship through descent. Why is it always a ‘granny’ specifically that is used to suggest that someone’s connection to Ireland is less real? It’s never a ‘grandparent’.

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Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Oh! I haven’t seen too many of the international series: has a murder in plain sight ever got called out in the moment before? #traitorsirl

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Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“Attempting to shelter from the torrential rain on the uncovered Platform 4 of Limerick Junction while the announcement ‘Cork passengers please be advised your train is running 20 minutes late’ crackles over the tannoy” should be listed among the barriers towards sustainable transport in Ireland.

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Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

They’ve no resilience for getting things wrong, have they? Like students who’ve been writing all their essays with ChatGPT. #TraitorsIRL

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Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

My student Alan recently won an award at the Psychological Society of Ireland’s Early Graduate Group meeting. Always wonderful to be able to celebrate student achievements - More here from @micireland.bsky.social : www.mic.ul.ie/mic-insights...

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MIC Psychology student wins Graduate Award for research on perceptions of mental ill-health among offenders | Mary Immaculate College

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Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Casual breakfast reading en route to #spsconf in London @bps-social-psych.bsky.social (Parked at 5.35, through security and sitting down to breakfast by 5.50. Cork Airport remains undefeated.)

A bowl of granola next to a book. The book is “Social Psychology of Leadership and Crowds: Global Perspectives”.

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Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The joke is that lecturers stuff slides full of 90s references students don’t get, but often I find it’s including stuff from the late 00s/early 10s that catches you. So, I was glad to hear a cheery “Troy & Abed in the mooorning!” from an unknown student as I checked my slides before today’s class.

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Troy Barnes Pointing at Abed Nadir

Alt: Troy Barnes Pointing at Abed Nadir

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Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Choosing to believe that Katie Taylor’s shout out to the crowds that supported her at the Excel Arena in 2012 was personally directed to me and my wife.

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Maybe the real replication crisis was the garbage experimental designs all along.

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