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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Not a peep out of them when the main cause of the fuel increases … Trump … was in the country. Not even a token tractor in Doonbeg! And obviously they have no problem with public transport fare hikes … funny that!

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WGDip @wgdip.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Congrats to #WGDip team members @tomlewin.bsky.social @dervc.bsky.social @phylogenie.bsky.social & @peterhox.bsky.social , who with their colleague @yjluo.bsky.social , provide evidence consistent with lineage-specific rediploidisation following a cryptic polyploidy event shared by all bryozoans! 🧪

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WGDip @wgdip.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Big congratulations to our ECRs who shared their work through poster presentations at #IPC2026! Great science on display from Annabelle Knutson, Brianna Banting, Emily Haley, Kevin Bird, Morgane Milin & Zoe Vance. Thank you for sharing your work & sparking great conversations #Polyploidy #ECR #WGDip

Image of Dr. Kevin Bird presenting poster titled "Transcriptional buffering as a consequence of dosage-balance selection on allopolyploid Brassica”

Image of Dr. Morgane Milin presenting a poster titled “Reconstructing chromosome evolution during rediploidisation in salmonids”

Image of Dr. Zoe Vance presenting a poster titled “Does the rediploidization process impact observed duplicate outcomes following the Saccharomyces whole genome duplication?”

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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This statistic is wild.

'Our universities contribute €10 billion to the economy every year - 3 per cent of national income - while the state spends less than 1 per cent of GDP on tertiary education, ranking Ireland 36th out of 37 OECD countries.'

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Dr Gearóidín McEvoy @garodean.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“I would like to use your Irish sound, language, artistry, culture and even your history but absolutely none of the politics wrapped up in any of that, thanks” - a load of British singers, for some reason

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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This is true in Ireland too. You now regularly hear people saying (including on here) that they're afraid to go into Dublin City centre and it's completely detached from reality. It's bizarre. www.kcl.ac.uk/news/public-...

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Public perceptions of crime at odds with reality, study finds | King's College London

Britons consistently overestimate how dangerous the county really is

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

EDMO Ireland has released our report on platform election integrity efforts during the Rapid Response System for Disinformation (RRS), which operated during the Irish Presidential election in October 2025. Platforms failed to remove 87% of the disinformation reported, and in some cases removed 0%

About EDMO and EDMO Ireland
The European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO) was established in 2020 as part of
an EU-wide effort to promote research on disinformation; advance fact-checking;
support media literacy; and assess the implementation of the EU Code of Conduct
on Disinformation.
The EDMO Network comprises 14 hubs
operating across 27 countries in the EU
and EEA. While hubs are co-funded by
the EU and committed to common
principles, they operate with full
autonomy at national and regional
levels.
EDMO Ireland includes the DCU
Institute for Media, Democracy, and
Society; TheJournal FactCheck; and
NewsWhip.

Summary
During elections in EU member states, Signatories of the Code of Conduct on
Disinformation establish a Rapid Response System for communication between
online platforms and actors monitoring disinformation and manipulation. The
European Commission facilitates the process as Chair of the Code’s Taskforce.
The regional hubs of the European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO) are invited to
flag election-related content to platforms for review by participating platforms:
Microsoft (LinkedIn), Meta (Instagram and Facebook), Alphabet/Google (YouTube)
and TikTok. Platform participation is voluntary, but all platforms signatories have
committed to participate under the Code. They are not obliged to do anything with
the flagged content.
For the Irish Presidential Election in October 2025, EDMO Ireland monitored relevant
platforms to identify content that appeared to be in breach of platforms’ stated
terms of services. This content was reported during the five week period of the Rapid
Response System (24 September - 04 November). During this time:

Meta, TikTok, YouTube and LinkedIn didn't act on 77% of misinformation reported during Áras race
No action was taken on about 87% of non-AI election-related disinformation.
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SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANIES failed to act on the vast majority of electoral disinformation reported by researchers ahead of last year’s presidential election, a new report shows.

The report also criticised the companies for not demonstrating an understanding of the context around the election, which was held in October last year.

The 2025 election, which resulted in Catherine Connolly becoming the tenth President of Ireland, saw the use of AI-generated deepfake videos and smear campaigns, as well as a coordinated drive on social media to encourage people to spoil their votes.

The research, published today by the Ireland hub of the European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO), showed that no action was taken on 72 of the 85 items that were reported for breaking the platforms’ own rules on election-related disinformation.

The Journal
@thejournal.ie
· 1h
“During meetings, platform representatives often appeared unfamiliar with the context of the unfolding election,” the report on misinformation in Ireland reads. “Many were unable to articulate the rationale for content-moderation decisions.”

jrnl.ie/7139970

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Loki @lokideburca.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

No. 1 how? Like was there an Ai slop creation buzz doubling use in that period? Or is it just the data centres are already outdated and can't cope with the adverse climate changes that they are contributing to? No.2 fucks sake.

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Siobhán O'Brien @siderophile.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

And that’s a wrap on #MENI2026! What a great day of microbial evolution research, and a pleasure to host at Trinity with @paulinedscanlan.bsky.social

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WGDip @wgdip.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Congratulations to Lukasz Niezabitowski, @roisinlong.bsky.social , @phylogenie.bsky.social & Aoife McLysaght on their paper “A comprehensive and accessible database of jawed-vertebrate ohnologs” 🐟🧪 Read here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Access the database here: ohnologs.com

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A comprehensive and accessible database of jawed-vertebrate ohnologs

A reliable ohnolog database yields insights into vertebrate evolution.

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

You really have to take a moment and think about how insane this is. That’s a quarter of the entire output of the country’s public infrastructure going to support about one hundred sites.

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Karlin Lillington @klillington.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Farmer who supplies hay to me and many others yesterday said his pastures have only dried grass and without rain very soon he will have to start feeding his hay supply to his sheep, in an Irish summer -- something he has never had to in his farming life

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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I do feel the wildfires have been seriously under-reported

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Stephen Bourke @anburcach.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Anyone making this argument should be asked to explain how the increased load of 25,000 public servants going back to full time commutes to central Dublin will be absorbed by the public transport system.

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

The weakness of the Taoiseach’s response to a suggestion to collect data to allow policy to be made rationally suggests a strong wish for that data not to be made clear.

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Original Berf of Chicagoland @kdc.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I just want more of the people doing cool shit to get the funding to do cool shit.

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Zoe Vance @zoev22.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Incredible headline to come across while in the airport waiting for a Ryanair flight

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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

this is imo an example of how data center hatred isn't just reflexive nimbyism

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WGDip @wgdip.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The #WGDip team really enjoyed #SMBE2026! We shared posters from Zoe Vance, Anthony Redmond and Lucas Freitas, plus flash talks from Róisín Long and Lukasz Niezabitowski. Great to see growing interest in rediploidisation with lots of interesting chats! Thanks to the organisers for an epic meeting! 👏

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Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · 07/07/2026

The CSO has released data on metered electricity consumption for 2025. The extraordinary headline figures: - Electricity consumption from data centres grew by nearly 10% last year, and now accounts for 23% of Ireland's electricity demand.

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WGDip @wgdip.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Huge congratulations to #WGDip project partner Aoife McLysaght for receiving the Community Service Award from @official-smbe.bsky.social. This recognises Aoife’s outstanding contributions and commitment to building stronger research communities through collaboration, leadership, and generosity. 👏

Aoife McLysaght receiving a Community Service Award from current SMBE president Juliette de Meaux on the main stage at SMBE 2026

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 06/07/2026

why are people only ever described as "no-nonsense", what if you're a nonsense person, what then

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Zoe Vance @zoev22.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Hup Aoife, award for community service at #SMBE2026 👏👏

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Zoe Vance @zoev22.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Showing some @wgdip.bsky.social work at #SMBE2026! Swing by poster 217 for a chat about whole genome duplication in yeast and why many of the duplicated genes appear to have been created at different points in time

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Coleen Murphy @ctmurphy1.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

one anecdote: I was searching for a link to one of my old papers on Google, and the automated Gemini summary attributed all of my lab's work to my husband

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Daithi @daithig.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

How many would support the idea of handing over your passport or your child's passport, or other ID, to a tech company. That's the real question and not one likely to be asked in polls like this

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Tech bros have recommended pet politicos ban kids from social media, knowing it doesn’t work. & it gives tech more personal data about everyone. Regulating users, rather than tech, is yet another example of how authoritarian control is normalised & users exploited.

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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 15/06/2026

"But sending sexually explicit pictures to and from children – that’s not free speech, that’s basic protection." Says the man who has taken zero action on a social media platform producing a distributing child sex images for a year. Tough on teens, laisser faire on white supremacist billionaires.

12m ago
08.48 BST
Starmer says teenagers won't be punished for trying to get round ban
Q: Will you fine children who ignore the ban? And what are the implications for freedom of speech?

On teenagers, Starmer said:

We’re not going to start taking action against 13 or 14, 15-year-olds who are trying, as they always will, to get around the rules that adults put in their path.

And, on freedom of speech, Starmer said:

I’m a great advocate of free speech, I really am.

But sending sexually explicit pictures to and from children – that’s not free speech, that’s basic protection.

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Anti-fash counter-protests outnumber fash marches all the time and it would be cool if the press made a big deal about it.

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Sue Kirk @suekirk.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Fox news is, of course, consistently amazing but saying about loyalists 'All they want to be is Irish' is just sublime.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Per most recent figures, net migration to NI *over the past 22 years* has been ~62,000 people. Only 3% of Northern Ireland’s population currently belong to an ethnic minority. Pogroms in Belfast (as with Ballymena last year) are just gutter-level "One Is One Too Many" racism, and nothing else.

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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

A fellow of the Royal Society slashed funding for disease prevention, leading directly to the deaths of uncounted children. He promotes white supremacy and is actively encouraging racist violence in the UK. But he's Elon Musk, a billionaire. So the Royal Society does nothing. @royalsociety.org

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I just need to see comeuppance for people who do evil things at some point in my life, this whole thing of letting them do the most deranged shit with no consequences has been a disaster, I don't think it's good for anyone's soul to see monsters get away with it every day.

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 10/06/2026

no other way to say it, this thing in the uk where every single time a non-white person is in the news being accused of a crime we have full on race riots is very very bad

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Steph @stephanenny.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

If you can arrest a thousand people for holding signs that say "I support Palestine Action" you can arrest Tommy Robinson and Elon Musk for telling people to do this.

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AnimalMagic @animatedpigeon.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Not just English commentators. Newstalk radio just 20 minutes ago doing a whole spiel on "legitimate concerns about immigration". No mention of Loyalist anything. When people ask why did nobody stop the Nazis, the answer is right there. Unfettered media-backed propaganda.

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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Some outlets appear to be prepared to "legitimate concerns" their way through actual lynchings.

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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Oh wow it's almost like politicians have been cynically using 'rural ireland' as cover for shitty politics and should never have been taken at their word about the death/nail in the coffin/last straw/end... Etc of rural Ireland. This will be of no surprise to anybody from a rural area

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Science Magazine @science.org · 28/05/2026

Researchers have identified superparamagnetic macrophages in the livers of rock pigeons to be crucial for magnetic sensing. The finding uncovers an unexpected role for immune cells in sensory perception and may fundamentally change our understanding of animal navigation. scim.ag/4nTQ3nq

How animals sense Earth’s magnetic field is one of biology’s enduring mysteries. Researchers have now identified superparamagnetic macrophages in the livers of rock pigeons (Columba livia) to be crucial for magnetic sensing. The finding uncovers an unexpected role for immune cells in sensory perception and may fundamentally change our understanding of animal navigation.

Photo: Andreas Teichmann/laif/Redux

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Eris Loves #DeadTeenagerMovie 🎃📚👻 @erislovesmovies.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️

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Ciaránavirus @sarklor.eurosky.social · 20/05/2026

I keep coming back to Euro-Country by CMAT. Almost a year on and the song still hits like a truck. It's a hell of a way to remind oneself that you are in fact absolutely correct to be *fucking furious* with the spineless shoneen devils in suits who run this place.

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Frank O'Connor @frankoconnor.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

"the plan is working"

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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

The contrast between the number of media requests I got when rich people on a cruise were facing a deadly, but contained outbreak versus now that some of the poorest people in the world are facing a deadly and devastating epidemic is just so so stark and it just really annoys the hell out of me.

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Eamonn Sweeney @sweeneyagonistes.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Remarkable to hear RTE mention the words "shoplifting" at the end of the News but not mention the words "security guards" or "choked" or "physical assault." Despite the fact there's no evidence so far of the first and video evidence of the second.

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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Ireland didn't just abolish the death penalty, we passed a constitutional ban on ever reintroducing it under any circumstances. it's one of the greatest things we've ever done at the ballot box. death is always, and can only be, an unjust punishment. we must never compromise on that, ever

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Adam Ramsay @adamramsay.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

New research shows that more people abandoned Labour because they were too tough on immigration - and because of their support for Israel - than because they were too soft on immigration.

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