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Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 2h

Interesting, and a new addition to the burgeoning field of Post-Brexit Irish Passport Studies.

Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 9h

We need to send a task force to Oileáin Chléire to figure out what they’re doing to be the only community in Ireland to lose less than 2 hours daylight. Must be a grant of some sort in this. #spéirghorm

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Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

🎵And as I walk the streets of Boston, As the sun begins to set, I’m wishing I was back in INSERT NAME HERE, That’s the place I can’t forget 🎵

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Donncha O’Connell @donnchalaw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Gazan students’ visas must be granted before it is too late. A group of leading Irish academics write that the mass refusal of visas to Palestinian students makes a mockery of the Taoiseach’s speech to the UN General Assembly. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

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Gazan students’ visas must be granted before it is too late

A group of leading Irish academics write that the mass refusal of visas to Palestinian students makes a mockery of the Taoiseach’s speech to the UN General Assembly

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Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yikes! "We are out in solidarity with the entire public sector" is a very different affect to "we are out because people we see daily and used to view as colleagues have taken deliberate decisions to screw us over" anyway. Probably best not to overdo the comparing and contrasting!

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Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

(Will probably delete this because the notion of a hierarchy of strikers is bad solidarity, and I left before things got really bad in the UK anyway. Couldn’t resist the meme potential though.)

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Tríona Cunnane @trionac.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

So grateful to hear the support for teachers work-to-rule in the media today. Nobody wants things to get to this point but needs must. The INTO and public sector unions have been looking for a negotiated pay agreement since June. Schools are underfunded, we are still seeing supersized classes of 30+

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Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Deck the picket with intimidating bunting!" is up there with "Rectify the anomaly!" in the pantheon of HE strike slogans.

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Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Thanks! I can't claim the credit for the #digitalpicket - it was a @ucu.org.uk thing on Twitter for years.

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Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yes, even *your* terrible posts.

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Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It would, I think, be worthwhile if those of us engaged in the work stoppage today, and the forthcoming strike days on the 14th & 21st (if they go ahead), were to observe the digital picket during those times. Posting is public engagement, and public engagement is part of your job. #digitalpicket

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Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I really must try and visit this. Anyone want to provide me with a work reason to visit Liverpool in the next six months? I could do my single transferable talk on Brexit, passports, citizenship & identity. @irishinstitute.bsky.social #irishstudies

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Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Catching up on #celebritytraitors: if we’re looking at the performance of the celebrity academics over the two series to provide an answer to the question “what provides greater insight into the human condition, the humanities or STEM?”, then it’s not looking good for the historians.

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Jim MacMillan (he/him) @jimmacmillan.com · 03/10/2026

Dawn in Cork just now, almost making up for yesterday.

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Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Today was the day I finally admitted defeat and looked up what the word ‘stochastic’ means. (I’m a little underwhelmed, tbh).

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Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Already had an anonymous call from ‘A Friend’ of the West Cork Chamber Music Festival telling me to watch my back next time I’m in Bantry.

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Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I’m going to get cancelled by chamber music Bluesky now, aren’t I?

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Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Really odd to choose an Irish folk song without acknowledging that Irish folk is extremely not in a position of needing to argue for its relevance right now. “We’ve recorded an album of hip-hop classics as chamber music to demonstrate that hip-hop is still relevant”.

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Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

As is this one. bsky.app/profile/davi...

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

It is ASTOUNDING that this apparently needs saying.

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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 · 27/09/2026

Now, I don’t think these are without their flaws as they do the usual social cognitive thing of individualising what is a far broader structural problem, resting in existing power structures. But they may be useful for individuals looking for individually tailored solutions.

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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

Ah ok! Sorry, I’m literally here thinking about possible updates to my First Year social psychology lectures on conformity and dissent next year.

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

You might be thinking of Moscoivici’s theory of minority influence? Solomon Asch also ran studies looking at the effects of having an ally in dissent.

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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 · 24/09/2026

Great - I'll read it alongside my Pevsner Cork City & County guide!

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

"Did you use surveys, interviews, focus groups, ethnographies? What was it? Oh, right, it's an aesthetic judgement based on ... your twenty years of deep scholarship on the topic, and global recognition as one of the renowned experts in the field. I mean, I *suppose* that's ok."

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

I'll admit that I sometimes get caught out by different epistemologies when I've been doing wider reading on collective memory, and I see, e.g., a physical memorial being described as 'unsuccessful'. And my immediate reaction is "well, says who?. What's your empirical basis for making that claim?"

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

“Wasn’t even that old, probably a millennial” is absolutely ice cold.

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

Good to know that this isn’t just a problem that affects social scientists! bsky.app/profile/paol...

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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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