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Siobhan McAndrew

@siobhanmcandrew.bsky.social
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Policy economist, here for methods/cultural updates Ex-Sheffield Methods Institute; U. Bristol; U. Manchester; HMT Former V. Prof, Policy Institute, KCL Honorary SL, U. Sheffield Iorras abú

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Siobhan McAndrew @siobhanmcandrew.bsky.social · 3h
Staring at the meaningless road closure map for the Manchester Half-Marathon
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Siobhan McAndrew @siobhanmcandrew.bsky.social · 4h
Not reading my mind as well as usual, the language learning bot Tá allllll the fhioses agam
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Siobhan McAndrew @siobhanmcandrew.bsky.social · 4h
Christopher Eccleston on Chasing Millions: A tale from Ireland’s biggest bank heist www.irishtimes.com/culture/film...
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Christopher Eccleston on Chasing Millions: A tale from Ireland’s biggest bank heist
Christopher Eccleston’s new film is set after the Northern Bank robbery of 2004, when £26m was stolen in Belfast. Amazingly, what happened isn’t very well known, writes Donald Clarke.
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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 7h
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Adrienne LaFrance @adriennelaf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
New just now in The Atlantic: David Robinson resigned this week. He was among the longest-tenured employees at OpenAI—and oversaw safety reports on 12 frontier launches. He is very worried: “The time for trial and error is over.” You can read his essay here: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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I Quit OpenAI Because Its Culture Is Broken
The industry’s approach to safety guarantees more failures.
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Siobhan McAndrew @siobhanmcandrew.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Nick Allum was the Fatima Mansions drummer - I had no idea 🤯
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Siobhan McAndrew @siobhanmcandrew.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The Irish Times London correspondent tries to explain Blackpool Impromptu New Year's Eve in Blackpool last year - Six at the Winter Gardens, ice skating and funfair rides The childs loved it, primed by Strictly Come Dancing & unaware they were Dark Tourists www.irishtimes.com/world/uk/202...
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‘If you don’t like it, don’t come’: proud locals bristle at Blackpool’s dark tourism reputation
It has always been a hotspot for fun, sticks of rock and rollercoasters, but now it also has a surfeit of addicts and deprivation
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 03/10/2026
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Not the Perfect Victim by Nikita Hand: An immense and ongoing act of courage
The voice is clear, natural and readable, staying within the realm of personal testimony
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Siobhan McAndrew @siobhanmcandrew.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Siobhan McAndrew @siobhanmcandrew.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Excellent insight: 'I am in no mood for logic or common sense, for keeping a sense of proportion, for pursuing post-traumatic growth' Or indeed finding comfort in small joys, or well-meant advice to stop thinking about the non-obvious forks in the road
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Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"What the islanders discovered were extensive burial grounds, decorated stonework and early buildings – all the features belonging to a major sixth-century monastery, comparable to the much better known site of Iona a little to the south-west." #MedievalSky www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
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‘Hugely exciting’ finds on tiny Scottish island shed light on spread of Christianity
Community-funded archaeological excavations of ‘really important’ sixth-century monastery also rewrite story of Lismore
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Siobhan McAndrew @siobhanmcandrew.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I was telling off Elder Kid, none of it landing So raised the stakes: 'this is how I'll die - suffocated by your laundry pile collapsing, all the dry & wet, dirty & clean mixed up...' They burst into tears and said they never want me to die 😱 Did I cause damage or was it a genius diversion tactic
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Tom Costello @tomcostello.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Tomorrow morning in DC I'm moderating a panel on feeds and politics with @cerenbudak.bsky.social, @filipecampante.bsky.social and @ylelkes.bsky.social. Misinformation, politicians writing for the algorithm, why depolarization is so hard, and what changes when people ask gen AI instead.
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Siobhan McAndrew @siobhanmcandrew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There's a solution! It's bound to work! www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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‘Whose job is it to empty the dishwasher?’ Experts on the conversations every couple needs to have
Burnout or breakup are constant dangers when one partner carries too much of the mental load of looking after the home and family. Here’s how to spread the burden more evenly
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Siobhan McAndrew @siobhanmcandrew.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I'm glad *some people* held onto their original Hockneys from before he was famous
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Siobhan McAndrew @siobhanmcandrew.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I'm sure this is intentionally simplified: www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s... but - for major irreversible decisions, counting on failing early, failing often (etc) can be reckless It may well be better to be braver than thou, but the brave choices can still turn out badly
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Does avoiding misery make you happy?
It might seem like self-preservation, but the results aren’t necessarily what you’d expect
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Spending time in the presence of one of Ireland's extremely rare ancient trees, like this hulking oak near Bandon with local man Dan Holland, are for me life highlights. But it's always bittersweet, tempered by the knowledge that such stupendous beings were once commonplace. We have lost SO much.
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Neil Jackman @neiljackman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Inishturk is ridiculously beautiful. Having a little break from the hike and enjoying the view of Clare Island. Very windy so I'm getting a year's worth of good sea air in the lungs ready for a winter in landlocked Tipperary
A view of a small lake on Inishturk looking towards a glass square structure that is an artwork known as Tale of the Tongs, Clare Island looms in the background with the Atlantic inbetween
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Siobhan McAndrew @siobhanmcandrew.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Brilliantly unromantic about writing: www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...
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‘We left Ireland because there wasn’t work – and we wanted to get the hell away’: Trespasses author Louise Kennedy
Her Troubles-set debut became a hit TV series starring Gillian Anderson. Now the novelist has returned to her teen years for a follow-up. She talks about her journey from chef to author, and how her c...
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Siobhan McAndrew @siobhanmcandrew.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Happy memories of letting small child & her cousin play in the fountains, then having to go to Primark to get the cheapest possible change of clothes The nature of PG is that it needs upkeep 🤷 More shading/sailing in the summer will be brilliant www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Manchester's Piccadilly Gardens to be transformed
Major work on the city centre space is set to begin in November.
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Siobhan McAndrew @siobhanmcandrew.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Finally catching up with 70 Up - the second episode is fascinating, where the subjects talk about their perceptions of the series and of Michael Apted
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Siobhan McAndrew @siobhanmcandrew.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Elder kid is picking some vocational qualifications They want to be an actor - failing that, an illustrator
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Siobhan McAndrew @siobhanmcandrew.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
September has come, it is hers Whose vitality leaps in the autumn, Whose nature prefers Trees without leaves and a fire in the fireplace Louis MacNeice, Autumn Journal (I gcuimhne)
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Nick Drage @sonofsuntzu.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Would you like to play more games at work? I realise this is a bit "LinkedIn", but I genuinely think you should, and I think we'd all benefit if you did: podcast.curiousbusiness.co.uk/e/business-w...
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What is Business Wargaming with Nick Drage | Curious Business: The B2B Growth Podcast
What if the businesses that survive a crisis aren't the ones with the best plans but the ones who've already lived through the toughest days they could face? In this episode, Nick Drage tells me about...
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Siobhan McAndrew @siobhanmcandrew.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Join us!!! www.tickettailor.com/events/millm...
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Select tickets – Mummy issues: should we still be gawping at human remains? – Manchester Museum
Mummy issues: should we still be gawping at human remains? – Manchester Museum, Thu 24 Sep 2026 - 200 years ago, the mummified remains of a woman named Asru were unwrapped in Manchester. She had lived...
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Siobhan McAndrew @siobhanmcandrew.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Fairytale stuff www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articl...
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Kobe McDonald: Australian Rules convert will 'always be welcome in Crossmolina'
Kobe McDonald's Gaelic football career is over for now with Crossmolina's Mayo SFC defeat at the weekend which drew over 5,000 fans to the small village of Garrymore.
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Priyanca a11y 🌈 @priyanca.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
There's something in my eye
Photo of a tree trunk with an eye shape and a yellow sharp sprig coming out the eye with trees in the background
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Siobhan McAndrew @siobhanmcandrew.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Yikes www.markkoyama.com/p/the-new-ag...
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The New Age of Academic Fraud
Or the Ottoman Election that Never was
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Siobhan McAndrew @siobhanmcandrew.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
💔 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Catherine Webb obituary
Other lives: Treasury civil servant who went on to become bursar of a Cambridge college
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Siobhan McAndrew @siobhanmcandrew.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
No Traitors spoilers!!! #TraitorsIRL
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Siobhan McAndrew @siobhanmcandrew.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
How lovely 🥲
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Siobhan McAndrew @siobhanmcandrew.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Interesting (I would normally use the flame emoji to indicate level of interest, but it'd send the wrong message in this case) 'When two in five Irish people would ‘let it burn’, we’ve got a problem' www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
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Opinion: When two in five Irish people would ‘let it burn’, we’ve got a problem
We have been ignoring the signs of a growing disillusionment and anger
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Siobhan McAndrew @siobhanmcandrew.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Brilliant This should be the canonic form
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Siobhan McAndrew @siobhanmcandrew.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Lots of Donegal in Yorkshire too - like my grandfather and his brothers, who were from Saltpans: www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
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Catherine Connolly meets the Donegal diaspora in Scotland - including Packie Bonner
President visits Glasgow exhibition celebrating Donegal people who emigrated to Scotland in search of work
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Provocative (as ever!) piece by Dieter Helm. engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-c...
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The case for climate realism in an age of soaring energy demand
The conventional narrative assumes economies can grow while using less energy. The opposite is happening. It is time for climate realism.
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Siobhan McAndrew @siobhanmcandrew.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
One for the niche group of people interested in new religious movements and in ballet (the Google news algorithm doing fine work this morning) Incredible story www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/s...
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He Left Her for a Cult, but It Would Be Years Before She Knew It
Hoyt Richards, a male supermodel, disappeared from Donna Flagg’s life for several years. The reason was the subject of a recent HBO Max docuseries.
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Siobhan McAndrew @siobhanmcandrew.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I had completely forgotten that the greater-known de Gaulle spent six weeks in Ireland after leaving office
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Rochdale Canal, Castlefield, Manchester, 1984 (Manchester Libraries).
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Siobhan McAndrew @siobhanmcandrew.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Can it now Who ever would have thought www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Reading for pleasure can improve wellbeing, Cambridge study finds
University of Cambridge academics say reading at any age improves brain and mental health.
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Siobhan McAndrew @siobhanmcandrew.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Such a loss: www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/s...
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‘Newsnight’s kindest critic’: Bonnie Greer was always effortlessly in command
Playwright was an unusual mix of originality and authority and in high demand as a cultural critic
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Siobhan McAndrew @siobhanmcandrew.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
While finishing SDC: youtu.be/2g2Y2iTlWxw
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Will Ye Gang Love
YouTube video by The Black Family - Topic
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The Review of Economic Studies (REStud) @reveconstudies.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
New paper by Auclert, Malmberg, Martenet, & Rognlie www.restud.com/demographics... #REStud #EconSky
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Siobhan McAndrew @siobhanmcandrew.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Also at home for The Man a couple of weeks ago Crossed my fingers the phone hotspot would hold up for any meetings And made sure to explain in advance (to an unreasonably large list of people) that due to my saintly greenness 😇 connections might be unstable www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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Tim Dowling: how not to interview eminent scientists – a control freak’s guide
It was supposed to be a meeting between a great mind and mine. Instead, I was plunged into darkness and did some swearing
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Eleanor G @zaichishka.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
For the last time:
Abyss = for staring into
Void = for screaming into

Please stop screaming into the abyss; we are not insured for that.
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Daryl 𝘊𝘰𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘢𝘯 𝘗𝘩𝘶𝘪𝘮𝘤í𝘯 🎃 Feehely @darylfeehely.com · 12/09/2026
#DailyPhoto #PictiúrAnLae Concealed / Folaithe
A robin perched on a branch behind other branches.
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Siobhan McAndrew @siobhanmcandrew.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I used to go pretty much every week after trying to inflict the Holy Name on a toddler Really didn't like human remains being on display, thought it was wrong There's still the dinosaur and the tigon. Outstanding museum!
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Siobhan McAndrew @siobhanmcandrew.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
At a meeting this evening Seeing it in writing makes it real somehow
Room divider with a dog-eared hand-written sign saying 'Happy Land is closed'
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Siobhan McAndrew @siobhanmcandrew.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A Mayo reference in the first...
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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Photos of missing people pasted to the windows and walls of “The One and Only Famous Ray’s Pizza of Greenwich Village,” on Sixth Avenue, Manhattan. Union Square, New York City: September 13, 2001 medium.com/@josieglz/un...
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Union Square, New York City: September 13, 2001
On September 13, 2001, I walked to Union Square in New York City, where a spontaneous vigil was being held for the victims of the World…
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Siobhan McAndrew @siobhanmcandrew.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
What a sad day 💔 Remembering is so important Not only for tribute to the lost - also to be mindful of our collective vulnerability and resilience
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