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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🎓💌 Donoghue, McGahern & Tóibín: Three of the four authors honoured in a new set of literary stamps from An Post celebrating Ireland’s rich literary tradition are UCD alumni. @emmadonoghue.bsky.social
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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
👩‍🎓📕 "Margaret Kelleher, with a fluency and captivating style already on ample display in her Maamtrasna Murders (2018), has brought this singular couple back to life and shown how, in matters of intellectual courage, tenacity and depth of feeling, they demand to be our contemporaries."
irishtimes.com
Mary and Padraic Colum - Lives and the Dream: Bringing a singular literary duo back to life
Margaret Kelleher seeks to introduce new readers to the work of this successful intellectual couple
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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
AI is changing how research is done - we’re only beginning to understand what that means. 'Developing AI for Creativity & Society' at #AIS26 curated by @eassh.bsky.social will explore the multifaceted relationship between AI & SSH across three dimensions. REGISTRATION CLOSING SOON: www.ais26.eu
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Stefan Müller @stefanmueller.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
New paper on gender and disciplinary differences in grant proposal peer review published in @plosone.org. We use supervised machine learning to analyse almost 40,000 review reports submitted to the @snsf.ch. @ucddublin.bsky.social summarised the paper in the thread below. ➡️ doi.org/10.1371/jour...
Gender and disciplinary differences in grant proposal peer review: Content and sentiment in 39,280 reports

Stefan Müller , Gabriel Okasa, Michaela Strinzel, Anne Jorstad, Katrin Milzow, Matthias Egger

Abstract: Peer review by experts is central to the evaluation of grant proposals, but little is known about how gender and disciplinary differences shape the content and tone of grant peer review reports. We analyzed 39,280 review reports submitted to the Swiss National Science Foundation between 2016 and 2023, covering 11,385 proposals for Project Funding across 21 disciplines from the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH), Life Sciences (LS), and Mathematics, Informatics, Natural Sciences, and Technology (MINT). Using supervised machine learning, we classified over 1.3 million sentences by evaluation criteria and sentiment. Reviews in SSH were significantly longer and more critical, with less focus on the applicant’s track record, while those in MINT were more concise and positive, with a greater focus on the track record, as compared to those in LS. Compared to male reviewers, female reviewers wrote longer reviews that more closely aligned with the evaluation criteria and expressed more positive sentiments. Female applicants tended to receive reviews with slightly more positive sentiment than male applicants. The tone, length, and focus of peer review reports varied systematically by applicant gender and disciplinary context. These differences have important implications for fairness and consistency in research funding.
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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
👩‍🎓📃 Analysis of almost 40,000 review reports for research funding reveals that female researchers provide longer, more positive assessments than their male counterparts and cover the formal evaluation criteria more comprehensively. 🧵 @stefanmueller.bsky.social @ucdpolitics.bsky.social
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Stephen Daly @slishwood.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Explore this gift article from @nytimes.com about a study of bat evolution by my UCD colleague Prof. Emma Teeling @emmateeling.bsky.social and coauthors, just published in @nature.com. You can read the article free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/s...
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New Study Illuminates Bats’ Murky Origins (Gift Article)
The largest analysis of bat genomes and fossils suggests that the first bats emerged in Europe roughly 65 million years ago and that echolocation evolved early.
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UCD Library @ucdlibrary.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
University Librarian Dr. Sandra Collins will be speaking at the upcoming #AI in Science Summit 2026, held in O'Reilly Hall here at University College Dublin on 15-16 October. Register: www.ais26.eu #AIS26 is part of #EuropeanAIInnovationMonth @ucdresearch.bsky.social @ucdischool.bsky.social
Headshot of Dr. Sandra Collins, University Librarian at UCD. Open Science and Data for Research graphic. AI in Science Summit 15th and 16th of October.
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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🕵️‍♀️🦇 New research has rewritten the evolutionary history of bats, providing evidence the winged mammals most likely originated in Europe during the late Palaeocene, some 65-60 million years ago. @emmateeling.bsky.social
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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🦆📉 Hunting is not the main reason for bird populations dropping across Europe, according to new research from UCD in collaboration with the Spanish research institute, Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos (IREC). 🧵 #wildlife
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UCD Research @ucdresearch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
AI is changing how science is done - we’re only beginning to understand what that means. The ‘AI in Physics and Mathematics’ track at #AIS26 curated by @cern.bsky.social will explore how #AI is reshaping both fields. Join the conversation about the future of scientific discovery. www.ais26.eu
Prof Mark Thompson, Director General of CERN, will speak at the 2026 AI in Science Summit (AIS26) at UCD in Dublin, in the 'AI in Physics and Mathematics' strand.
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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🔬📜 “The recording of ancient DNA of pathogens has completely changed our understanding of infectious disease in the past, and here we show that parchment can also preserve animal pathogen DNA." - Louis L’Hôte, the study’s lead author and a PhD student at UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science
gizmodo.com
Scientists Extracted DNA From Medieval Parchment—and Found a Hidden Disease
The 3,500-year history of sheeppox was written into the books—quite literally.
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UCD Research @ucdresearch.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Europe is ‘Reaching a new level of ambition in Research and Innovation’ #AIS26 is very excited to announce Dr Shakir Mohamed, a Senior Director at Google DeepMind, as this year’s keynote speaker - at the premier conference exploring what’s next for #AIinScience. Register now: www.ais26.eu
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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"As Chair of UCD, I write in the Business Post along with my fellow Chairs of Ireland's leading universities." 🗣️ Mike Beary, Chair, UCD Governing Authority #SupportIrishUniversities @iua-official.bsky.social
businesspost.ie
Opinion: Budget 2027 must tackle Ireland’s universities €250m funding gap
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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
🕵️‍♀️🏰 One of Dublin’s “lost” medieval castles has been found hiding in plain sight inside University College Dublin’s Roebuck Castle. @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social #archaeology
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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
🌞⚡️ Could payments to households for selling excess solar electricity back to the grid eventually be phased out? @ucdsocscilaw.bsky.social
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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Thanks to Museum of Literature Ireland @molimuseum.bsky.social for a stunning launch for our new book Lives and the Dream by Margaret Kelleher @mgtkell.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social Available in bookshops nationwide and at the Moli Bookshop and www.ucdpress.ie
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Michael Iantorno☔️🕹️ @michaeliantorno.com · 17/09/2026
Woods.
A game Boy camera photograph of a wooded path, colored in orange
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UCD Research @ucdresearch.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
AI is changing how science is done - we’re only beginning to understand what that means. Explore what AI can help us to discover at AI in Science Summit 2026 #AIS26 Researchers, innovators, industry & policymakers. One conversation about the future of scientific discovery Register: www.ais26.eu
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UCD College of Engineering & Architecture @ucdengarch.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The College of Engineering & Architecture would like to welcome all of our visiting international students who will be studying with us for the autumn trimester.
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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
😎👌 How do you do, fellow kids? We’re librarymaxxing and feeling rather degreepilled. No cap. 67, mogging and unc: New figures have revealed Ireland’s most-searched-for slang terms of 2026 so far. @stephenlucek.bsky.social @ucdslcl.bsky.social www.independent.ie/irish-news/f...
independent.ie
From rizz to unc and 67, study reveals Ireland’s top 10 slang words of 2026 so far
A study has revealed the top 10 most searched slang words in Ireland so far in 2026.
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UCD School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice @ucdspswsj.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Congratulations UCD Professor Emeritus, Marie Keenan who, with co-authors Prof Anne-Marie McAlinden (QUB) and Dr James Gallen (DCU) has been awarded the 2026 European Society of Criminology Book Award in recognition of their book Transforming Justice Responses to Non-Recent Institutional Abuses.
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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🧑‍🎓🐸 It's time to play the music! Huge congratulations to our most sensational, inspirational, celebrational and Muppetational graduate, Kelly Younger, who has won a 2026 Emmy Award for his writing on the new Muppet Show special. 🎓 @artshumanitiesucd.bsky.social
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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
📕📰 “No one warns you about old age. No one tells you that your body falls apart.” UCD Prof Margaret Kelleher describes 'No One Tells You: The Last Years of Edna O’Brien', a memoir by Carlo Gébler, as a moving account of him witnessing his mother grow frail. @mgtkell.bsky.social
irishtimes.com
Compelling and unsettling: The Last Years of Edna O’Brien by her son Carlo Gébler
The memoir powerfully evokes O’Brien’s rage against ‘hideous’ dying
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Michael Iantorno☔️🕹️ @michaeliantorno.com · 11/09/2026
Brutalist.
A game Boy camera photograph of a brutalist university building, taken between two trees.
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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
👩‍⚕️📻 "AI is able to find signal from noise…and help us find something that humans would never be able to identify within large amounts of data." @ucdscience.bsky.social
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Elifcan Celebi @elifcan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Yesterday at #ecprgc2026 I received the best paper prize in public policy in person by @ecprpublicpolicy.bsky.social on behalf of me and my coauthor @v-yilmaz.bsky.social for our “Narrative Power in Electoral Autocracies” paper. Loved the picture on the pptx slide 🤭 Thanks a mill to the jury and SG.
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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
📕🏆 Warmest congratulations to UCD Professor Emeritus Marie Keenan, whose co-authored book Transforming Justice Responses to Non-recent Institutional Abuses has received the prestigious European Society of Criminology Book Prize. 👏 @mariekeenan.bsky.social @esc-eurocrim.bsky.social

(Pictured L-R): Professor Anne-Marie McAlinden, Queen’s University Belfast; Dr James Gallen, Dublin City University; Professor Emeritus Marie Keenan, University College Dublin.
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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
👩‍🎓📻 Nobel Prize-winning AI pioneer and UCD Ulysses Medal recipient Prof Geoffrey Hinton told BBC Newsnight that a 10% chance of AI causing human extinction within the next decade was “not an unreasonable estimate”. UCD AI ethics expert Assistant Prof @susanly.bsky.social responds on RTÉ Radio 1.
rte.ie
Is humanity really in threat due to AI?
Dr. Susan Leavy, Ethics of AI at UCD
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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
👩‍💻📊 Almost one in three workers across Ireland now use AI as part of their job, and almost half use it every day. The latest Working in Ireland Survey, overseen by UCD Professor John Geary, reveals significant divides in how the technology is being adopted 🧵 @ucdsmurfitschool.bsky.social
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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
🥬🏭 “The real struggle that Ireland will have to come to terms with is how big you want to make this industry.” | Speaking to Ali Watkins of The New York Times, UCD researcher Charlene Vance discusses the future of Ireland’s seaweed industry as global demand surges. 🌎 @ucdearth.bsky.social
nytimes.com
Seaweed Is Their Way of Life. A Company’s Sweeping Plan Threatens It.
As global demand for seaweed surges, a Canadian corporation’s bid for exclusive harvesting rights in the west of Ireland has upended a once-sleepy industry.
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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
🇪🇺🇮🇪 The future of European farming was on show at UCD Lyons Farm this week, as EU Agriculture Ministers gathered to see how cutting-edge UCD research is tackling the sector’s biggest challenges. www.ucd.ie/newsandopini...
ucd.ie
EU Agriculture Ministers see science driving future of farming at UCD Lyons Farm
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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
💙💛 Distinguished figures from the worlds of science, agriculture, business, human rights, art and education were honoured by University College Dublin this September, receiving honorary doctorates alongside some 4,400 graduates conferred with degrees. www.ucd.ie/newsandopini...
ucd.ie
Six remarkable lives and careers recognised with UCD Honorary Doctorates
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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
🧑‍💻🤖 New UCD research finds that about one-third of Irish workers now use AI as part of their work, with almost half of users doing so every day. @ucdsmurfitschool.bsky.social
irishtimes.com
Engagement with AI at work growing, survey finds
Almost half of those using it say they do so every day
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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
🧑‍🎓🏆 Dr Steven McCartney, UCD Ad Astra Fellow and Assistant Professor in HRM and People Analytics at UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, has received the 2026 IAM Outstanding Business Educator Award from the Irish Academy of Management. @ucdsmurfitschool.bsky.social
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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
💙💛 University College Dublin has honoured Belfast headteacher Kevin McArevey for pioneering work bringing philosophy into the lives of young people. @ucdphilosophy.bsky.social
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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
💙💛 The university community is deeply saddened by the loss of journalist, author and campaigner Frank McDonald, UCD graduate and former environment editor of The Irish Times. www.irishtimes.com/obituaries/2...
irishtimes.com
Frank McDonald obituary: campaigning journalist changed how we think about urban planning
His reporting was relentless and led to the publication in January 1985 of his ground-breaking book The Destruction of Dublin
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Helmholtz Institute for One Health (HIOH) @helmholtz-hioh.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
🔬Exciting research on the history of the deadly sheeppox virus (SPPV):hidden DNA from medieval manuscripts shows that capripoxviruses diverged after their hosts were domesticated. Prof. Calvignac-Spencer contributed to this collaborative effort, supporting Louis L’Hôte during a 3-month stay at HIOH🤝
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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
👨‍🎓🚜 Congratulations to UCD double-graduate Dr William Minchin on his appointment as President of the Agricultural Science Association (ASA) for 2026.
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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
💙💛 Renowned Irish art historian Finbarr Barry Flood has been conferred with an Honorary Doctorate of Arts in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the history of art and his pioneering scholarship on Islamic art, architecture and material culture.
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UCD School of Archaeology, Dublin @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Our archaeological investigations at Ferriter’s Cove were on TG4 Nuacht this week. The news piece begins at 6 minutes, 18 seconds: www.tg4.ie/ga/search/se... For further information: 🐻‍❄️ www.ucd.ie/.../kerrycow... 🐗 www.prehistoricsociety.org/publications...
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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
🧑‍⚕️🎖️ Associate Professor Ronan Mullins has been awarded Fellowship of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the veterinary profession.
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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
💙💛 Congratulations to UCD researchers Dr Alan Seltzer and Dr Seungkuk Ahn, who have received prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grants, securing almost €4 million to advance ambitious projects in groundwater science and biomedical engineering. @erc.europa.eu
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Clare Rainsford @littlebonelady.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This is VERY cool.
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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
🐑📜 Some of Europe’s most well-known historic manuscripts, including the York Gospels, have proven to be biological time capsules for uncovering the 3,500-year history of the sheeppox virus (SPPV). 🧵
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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
💙💛 𝑀𝒾𝓁𝑒𝓈 𝑜𝒻 𝒮𝓂𝒾𝓁𝑒𝓈: Another special day on campus as students from UCD Lochlann Quinn School of Business celebrated among family, friends and faculty. Best of luck to the Class of 2026 on all you’ve achieved and for whatever comes next! 👏😊
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UCD Library @ucdlibrary.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The @bealoideasucd.bsky.social is moving into a new Cultural Heritage Centre in UCD's James Joyce Library. Watch a series of clips, including this one, on the importance of the collection & the creating of the new Centre. Also on YouTube: youtube.com/shorts/EElrU... @ucddublin.bsky.social
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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
🧑‍🎓📺 Warmest congratulations to UCD graduate Cara McHugh, who has been announced as the newest presenter of RTÉ’s news2day, bringing Irish and international news to young audiences across the country. @rte.ie @artshumanitiesucd.bsky.social
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Commissioner for Human Rights @commissionerhr.coe.int · 02/09/2026
Returning 46 years after my own graduation was a reminder that, no matter where our legal studies take us, we are all tasked with helping realise the human rights vision of a world where everyone is free and equal in dignity & in rights. Congratulations to the Class of 2026! @ucddublin.bsky.social
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Commissioner for Human Rights @commissionerhr.coe.int · 02/09/2026
Deeply honoured to receive an honorary doctorate from my alma mater, University College Dublin, yesterday. @ucddublin.bsky.social @ucdsocscilaw.bsky.social @coe.int
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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
💙💛 University College Dublin honours Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Michael O’Flaherty with an honorary Doctorate of Laws for his outstanding contributions to the promotion and protection of human rights. 👏 @commissionerhr.coe.int @coe.int @ucdsocscilaw.bsky.social
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