Unidentified speaker at the 'Women in Technology' Conference. This conference was held on the 3rd November 1990. This image captures other scientists in the background including Susan McKenna-Lawlor

Group photograph of scientists at the Women in Technology Conference, image includes Professor Susan McKenna-Lawlor, 3rd November 1990

Women in Technology Conference, photograph of a speaker addressing the audience, taken from the back of the room, 3 November 1990

Portrait of Ena Prosser for the 'Women in Technology' Conference. Photographed operating laboratory equipment.

Images from the first Women in Technology & Science Conference at DCU in Nov 1990. WITS, founded by Mary Mulvihill that year, supported women in STEM.

The Mary Mulvihill papers are now preserved in DCU Library Special Collections
#InternationalWomensDay @dublincityuni.bsky.social

These are great! I recognise a few faces here.

« Americans are lucky, in every country where they bring democracy, they find oil »

The other geometry down was the mine spacing, and I was glad to see @trekculture.bsky.social spotted it. The charts show them being more spaced out than star systems, but they show them as a wall that is less spaced than stars. As the Hitchhiker's Guide says "Space is big. Really big..."

I'm enjoying the current Star Trek offering, but have a geometry down for E9. You shouldn't ask for a 360° scan in space. It is fine if you on a 2D surface, but in 3D, you have more directions you can choose from, so it should be a 4π steradian scan (or about 41253°²).
@seanferrick.bsky.social

Number of garda investigations into Grok AI rises to 244 The number of garda investigations into images generated by the Grok AI tool has risen from 200 to 244.

The number of garda investigations into images generated by the Grok AI tool has risen from 200 to 244

www.rte.ie/news/politic...

An infographic with weighing scales showing that the majority of universities not on X outweigh those still using the platform

If you are part of a university or UK facing research organisation, publisher, funder, learned society and they are still posting on X - they're in a rather uncomfortable minority now. Perhaps point them to the eXit.

My piece for the @lseimpactblog.bsky.social

blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
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Oh now I get it. Dubai is Golgafrinchan Ark B.

Five year Astro career development fellowship in Oxford open for applications, broadly in survey astronomy including transients and cosmology. College teaching and research. Do think about joining us. Happy to answer questions! 🔭

Composite image made up of 6 frames, 2 images wide by side repeated 3 times, zooming in further on the faces each time. On the left, a woman holds her hand in the air to attract attention while kneeling next to a man who has fallen down clutching his chest, on the right, a serious-faced man holding a briefcase Woman: Y a t'il un docteur ici?. Man: Je suis docteur. Que se passe t'il? Woman: Une attaque cardiaque ! Man: Je suis docteur en philosophie ! Woman: Il va mourir... Man: Nous allons tous mourir. Translation in English: Woman: Is there a doctor here? Man: I am a doctor, what happened to him? Woman: - a heart attack Man: I am a doctor of philosophy Woman: He's going to die... Man: We're all going to die

I've only got 2 French jokes, this is the best

PayGap.ie - Irish Gender Pay Gap Portal A portal cataloguing gender pay gap reports from Irish companies.

Friends, I'm working on allowing people to access PayGap.ie in Irish. I'm close to finished on the code work needed to support translatable strings everywhere, and will do my best at a first pass of the translations too, but if there's any Irish speakers willing to give it a look, let me know!

Welcome to SeanadVoter.ie. You can use this portal to apply to be entered on the Register of Electors for the Seanad Éireann Higher Education constituency. You are eligible to register as an elector if you: Are a citizen of Ireland AND Are 18 years of age or older AND Hold a degree from a designated institution The deadline for applications for the 2026 Register is 26 February 2026. The 2026 Register of Electors will be published on 1 June 2026.

Last day to register for the Seanad, if you aren't on the list already. There's some feckers in there that desperately need voting out.

www.seanadvoter.ie

#Seanad #SpeirGhorm

Good question. For most of those, I feel like an interloper but one that feels they have been made welcome!

I am much closer to "Everton Football Club Supporters" than I expected, and also further from the "Tolkien and Fantasy Fandom" than you might have guessed.

I'm close to quite a lot of fun things, like "British Wildlife and Birding", "Creative Professions and Nerd Culture", "Queer Creative Left-Leaning", "Star Wars Fan", "Autism Research and Neurodiversity Advocates", "Norwegian Progressive Intellectuals" and "Star Trek Roleplay".

Hey, my name is in the Epstein files! I've told the story before, but should probably re-up.

TLDR: never met the guy, never took (or asked for) any money from him, never visited the island. I was invited to the island, and said no.

It's not that hard to just say no.

How? How do you double-check the accuracy, if you're not already an expert? Ask a different GenAI? Or do you, you know... Have to go and do the research you would have done anyway, pre-AI? Because I'm buggered if I can think of how you do that in a way where the GenAI saved you time.

I think I might take one of these "under 20 minutes" AI skills courses the UK Govt. seems very keen on everyone doing and live-post it here... Maybe we can all learn something together! The press release sends me to aiskillshub.org.uk/aiskillsboost/ - let's go and see!

The problems with coining terms like 'rage bait' and 'brain rot' The words, metaphors and ideas we use to describe experiences and phenomenons may not necessarily be able to explain them

The problems with coining terms like 'rage bait' and 'brain rot'. The words, metaphors and ideas we use to describe experiences and phenomenons may not necessarily be able to explain them, writes @emmaefarrell.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

"If people experience mental health and/or substance use issues, but services cannot adequately respond, then they can find the symptoms of their illness and subsequent behaviour are being criminalised."

- Dr Daniel McFadden, Applied Social Studies

www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

After reviewing your submission of notice 52465e5e-а914-4а3а-8a07- 31b9187ec3b4, we notified the X content provider regarding the identified content. We also found the content violates the App Review Guidelines and requested the content provider take action to come into compliance.

Just received a notice from Apple saying that it has found X to be in breach of the App Store rules due to its nudification functions.

Poll: Is Met Éireann To Blame For Government Not Funding Flood Relief Systems That Were Asked For 10 Years Ago? MET ÉIREANN has come in for criticism for its localised warning weathers, with many suggesting yellow warnings should have been upgraded to red warnings in some affected areas.

Poll: Is Met Éireann To Blame For Government Not Funding Flood Relief Systems That Were Asked For 10 Years Ago? https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2026/01/28/poll-is-met-eireann-to-blame-for-government-not-funding-flood-relief-systems-that-were-asked-for-10-years-ago/

Request to Relocate Real-Time Service Updates from X to Iarnród Éireann Website Request to Relocate Real-Time Service Updates from X to Iarnród Éireann Website We are writing as rail and commuter advocacy groups across Ireland, to request that Iarnród Éireann move its real-time s...

Ourselves, @dublincommuters.bsky.social, @galwaycommuters.bsky.social, & Cork Commuter Coalition wrote to Iarnród Éireann & the NTA today, asking them to cease posting real-time service updates exclusively on X. This vital info should be widely available. Read below:

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

If Bilbo had Chat GPT

Does Jurgen Klopp count? :-)

For those of you already preparing an entry, it may overlap with some of your research or if you are still to decide, it could provide some inspiration.

Remember the closing date for this year’s award is Tuesday 7th April at 12.25am. The overall award winner will take home a €2000 cash prize.

A stained glass window depicting a serene woman wearing a blue hooded cloak and a white garment underneath. She is surrounded by intricate red and gold patterns, with a golden staff partially visible next to her.

Will the real St Brigid please stand up? 👋

Here's the evidence which indicates that the Kildare woman was real - and why this is worth emphasising today, writes Dr Niamh Wycherley from the Dept of Early Irish (Sean-Ghaeilge).

@ceilteachomn.bsky.social

www.maynoothuniversity.ie/research/spo...

Should museums return artefacts to where they came from? My Oxford colleagues have been working on a moral decision aid for cultural institutions. Link here darca.uehiro.ox.ac.uk

One small consolation to come from the tragic situation - we won’t have to listen to philosophers debating the finer points of whether the US is descending into fascism or not any more

Was a little surprised that @seanferrick.bsky.social didn't give biceps-with-cheerios an explicit up.

Interesting that they let cloned eyeballs work. I believe iris patterns aren't genetically determined, so a cloned eyeball doesn't have the same iris as original.

Thanks for explaining dedication!