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Martina Comiskey

@mmcomiskey.bsky.social
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Originally from Co. Donegal. Living in US (Boston area) for almost 40 years. Recently retired and thinking of moving back to Ireland to be closer to family. Would love input from anyone who has moved back recently, especially for finance and tax advice!

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Martina Comiskey @mmcomiskey.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Watching Nova on PBS,The Battle to Breathe, about Cystic Fibrosis understanding, research, funding and successes and challenges. The impact of foundation support, the challenges of research are well documented. Great progress with new drugs, challenges with drug pricing are disappointing.
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Martina Comiskey @mmcomiskey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Enjoyed Enola Holmes 3. Maybe because I’m Irish and the colonial components resonated and it was good to have them acknowledged.
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
A crow casually removing several metal anti-bird spikes from a building ledge. Original post
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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Ted Cruz called the FBI on me @weareronin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Woke fertilizer virus
Brazilian scientist spent 40 years perfecting bacteria that feed crops nitrogen from the air. Her $2 treatment now replaces $50 fertilizers, saves farmers $25 billion/year, and prevents 230 million tons of CO2 emissions. She just won the World Food Prize.
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Daniel Lismore @daniellismore.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
For the small minded who think only two chromosomal genders exist (XX & XY):
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Japanese scientists created a plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours—no microplastics left behind. Made from plant-based CMC with salt-sensitive bonds, it breaks into harmless nutrients. [📹 RIKEN CEMS / Univ. of Tokyo] Original post
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Dr Earhart Sampson PhD 🌎 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 🇲🇽 🇩🇰 🇺🇦 @earhart.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Massachusetts farm installs 832 solar panels above berry fields, and the berries grown underneath turned out sweeter and juicier and could change the future of American farming - The Economic Times share.google/GDGqQBgisqhG...
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Massachusetts farm installs 832 solar panels above berry fields, and the berries grown underneath turned out sweeter and juicier and could change the future of American farming
A Massachusetts farm is integrating solar panels above berry fields. This agrivoltaics project generates electricity while shading the crops. The elevated panels create a cooler microclimate, retain...
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Martina Comiskey @mmcomiskey.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
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The Chocolate You Love Is Changing—and It May Never Be the Same
Why does chocolate taste different—and cost more? We spoke with experts to explain how cocoa shortages are changing chocolate and what consumers should know before buying.
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Terre-Strial @terre-strial.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Such a magnificent and magical world… 🦋✨🫶 www.sunnyskyz.com/blog/4101/Ch...
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Martina Comiskey @mmcomiskey.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Enjoying the waterbirds on the Charles River in Waltham, MA. There is a swan family I see occasionally, there were more cygnets originally but some are thriving.
A swan with her cygnets on the Charles River in Waltham, MA. A swan and her growing cygnets on the Charles River in Waltham, MA. There were more cygnets originally. A swan with two remaining cygnets on the Charles River in Waltham, MAThe swan family, male and female with two cygnets feeding in a bed of waterlilles on the Charles River in Waltham, MA
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Martina Comiskey @mmcomiskey.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
An intriguing tree growing out of the side of a bridge with no obvious roots. Mother Nature is amazing.
A tree growing out of the side of a bridge over the Charles River in Waltham, MA. No indication of how it is rooted or surviving.
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Martina Comiskey @mmcomiskey.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
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Martina Comiskey @mmcomiskey.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
No Crocs or baby onesies - the draconian Delaney Hall dress code ICE uses to deem toddlers ‘too provocative’ - The Guardian
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Martina Comiskey @mmcomiskey.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Scientists gave an octopus a mirror. Here’s what happened next - BBC Wildlife Magazine
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Martina Comiskey @mmcomiskey.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Fungi take up more mass than people—see how they stretch across the Earth - National Geographic
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Martina Comiskey @mmcomiskey.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
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Nature @nature.com · 29/05/2026
Catalogue entries for more than 100 antibodies sold by the research services and supply company Thermo Fisher Scientific contain images that have apparently been manipulated, according to a pair of science sleuths. go.nature.com/4wX4yej
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Science sleuths uncover more than 100 suspicious images in Thermo Fisher antibody catalogue
Scientists have long worried about the reliability of commercial antibodies, and the latest findings have sparked fresh concerns.
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ALVIRA, the BASTARD of the Dark 🇮🇪 🍉 @alkalinecollective.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
There's a guy in Ireland writing African stories and publishing in Irish because "he knows colonialism and how important preserving language is" and we love to fuckin see it folks
A kid reads a book called okani agus banriocht an cheogaill
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Mike Meadway 🇪🇺 🇩🇰 🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @mmeadway.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
I was reminded this morning of something IBM noted in 1978: "A computer can never be held accountable. Therefore, a computer must never make a management decision."
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
"Hegseth yesterday took time out of his busy schedule of committing war crimes and firing generals to focus on the real enemy: vaccination...[But if] mandatory vaccination represents an 'era of betrayal,' then George Washington’s woke vaccines are the root of it." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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George Washington’s Woke Vaccines
What the Founders would have thought about Pete Hegseth lifting the requirement that service members get the flu vaccine.
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Martina Comiskey @mmcomiskey.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Watching NOVA-Return to the moon, about the Artemis II mission. The courage and calm of the crew was inspiring. Their faith in the support teams and in the science and engineering underpinning the mission is a testament to centuries of theory, calculation, testing, education and endeavor. Bravo!
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
In February 1777, General George Washington ordered the first mass immunization campaign in American history by mandating that his troops be inoculated against smallpox. He protected the Continental Army from an epidemic that was deadlier than British forces. 249 years later, we have this idiot.
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Martina Comiskey @mmcomiskey.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
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Martina Comiskey @mmcomiskey.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Watching Shrinking. I did not think I would be interested in this, but heard a review on PBS today and decided to check it out. Enjoying it very much, deeply intense topics but with a leavening of humor. Great ensemble cast, special shout out to Harrison Ford.
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Martina Comiskey @mmcomiskey.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
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Tracy Chapman - Talkin' Bout A Revolution (Official Music Video)
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Martina Comiskey @mmcomiskey.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
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Martina Comiskey @mmcomiskey.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 09/03/2026
Two women who married one another in Ireland will challenge a decision by the State to refuse an Irish passport for their daughter who was conceived through IVF in the UK. jrnl.ie/6979820
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Two women who married in Ireland challenge government's refusal of passport for their daughter
The couple now live outside of Ireland in an EU country.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
RIP to Jesse Jackson. His funeral is today. I wanted to share this clip from his appearance on Sesame Street in 1971. His important words ring just as true today as they did back then.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
It wasn't "cancel culture" when women and people of color got used up, silenced, and dismissed before their careers even began. It only became "cancel culture" when powerful abusers started having established careers momentarily inconvenienced by revelations of what they'd done.
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Martina Comiskey @mmcomiskey.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Pope invites Catholics to 'disarm' language and build kindness, respect for Lent url:https://www.usccb.org/news/2026/pope-invites-catholics-disarm-language-and-build-kindness-respect-lent
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 10/02/2026
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
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It’s “Mrs. Powers” during my day job @mrspowersdayjob.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
A large (maybe 3 feet wide by 5 feet tall) sign on the end of a row of bookshelves that tells the “address” of books that have sensitive content.
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Pickwick The Dodo @lesleyhustler.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Best Christmas ad yet! Knocks John Lewis into a cocked hat.
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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.eurosky.social · 11/11/2025
Four presidents
Mary McAleese, Catherine Connolly, Michael D Higgins, and Mary Robinson in Áras an Uachtaráin, 11 November 2025.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Forget the polls. Take nothing for granted. And let's work our hearts out these next seven days. Vote now: zohranfornyc.com/vote Canvass + phonebank: zohranfornyc.com/gotv
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
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Greg Priest @gregpriest.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was published OTD in 1962. “[W]e have now acquired a fateful power to alter and destroy nature. But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.” 🌱🐋 # HistSTM 🧪🌎 #philsci #philsky #WomeninSTEM
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
CMAT relasing Euro-Country "was the end of Bertie's chances. By making the financial crash a culturally live issue again, she channelled 1.21Gws of raw artistic power directly into Bertie's campaign and sent it like a DeLorean, back into all those futures lost. " www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...
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The Gist: The Presidential Selection
The time is ticking down to pick the candidates to replace Michael D. This is the Gist.
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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Five years ago, a very close relative died of a glioblastoma brain tumor at the age of 13. Today would have been his 19th birthday. And now comes news that an mRNA vaccine is being trialed to treat this very (incurable) malady. Fingers crossed. mbi.ufl.edu/2024/05/01/v...
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Vaccine triggers fierce response to fight brain tumor » McKnight Brain Institute » University of Florida
UF-developed mRNA vaccine quickly reprogrammed the immune system to attack glioblastoma.
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Martina Comiskey @mmcomiskey.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 06/08/2025
We’ve discovered a literal miracle with almost unlimited potential and it’s being scrapped for *no reason whatsoever*. This isn’t even nihilism, it’s outright worship of death and human suffering.
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Berkeley Lab @berkeleylab.lbl.gov · 05/08/2025
🎉 Congratulations to Jennifer Doudna! The Nobel Laureate has just received the @acs.org‘s Priestley Medal for her incredible work on CRISPR-Cas9 🧬 and contributions to unlocking the power of RNA. 🧪 @biosci.lbl.gov @innovativegenomics.bsky.social @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
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Jennifer Doudna Wins American Chemical Society’s Priestley Award
The Nobel Laureate has received the American Chemical Society’s highest prize for her breakthrough work on CRISPR-Cas9
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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
To have this paper appear the same day that RFK Jr is canceling all mRNA vaccine funding is further indication that irony is not dead, even though we might all be soon.
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Rebecca Fishbein @bfishbfish.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
I believe one of the new mRNA vaccines was expected to treat colon cancer, and another had the potential to keep pancreatic cancer from recurring. That’s what they’re taking away.
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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Dublin born Andy Byron, happily married with two children, was left shell shocked on Thursday evening when his phone blew up while he was on holiday with his wife. There were hundreds of messages from internet users wrongly accusing him of cheating on his spouse. www.independent.ie/irish-news/i...
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Irish man faces backlash after being wrongly accused as man at centre of viral Coldplay footage
An Irish man has been caught up in a global viral internet scandal that saw a tech executive and his employee caught in an intimate embrace on a ‘kiss cam’ at a Coldplay concert.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/06/2025
SCHRIER: Have you ever treated measles? RFK JR: No SCHRIER: Well I have. Let me tell you how miserable these kids is. The great thing is there's a vaccine to prevent it ... they only work if you actually give them
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Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry, to attach ourselves to the world around us, to turn desire into love, to embrace, finally what always evades us, what is beyond, but what is always there – the unspoken, the spirit, the soul. - #OctavioPaz
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