The philosophy department at @univie.ac.at is advertising a permanent senior lectureship position in Ethics/Applied Ethics!

Here's the ad: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Senior-L...

That’s a fiáin piece of work.

My hand holding two programmes, against a background of ivy. #SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland #Art #BuyIrish

Cartoon on a pale blue background of a variety of animals, plants, people, and environment-related objects and symbols making up the shape of a human brain. #SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland #Kerry #Art #BlueskyArt #Cartoon #EcoSky #Environment #SciArt

Programmes for Wild Mind festival in Fenit are out, featuring me lil' doodle. Really looking forward to this! 🌿 wildmind.ie

Every train, a note. A jazz combo played in real time by every active NYC subway train.

Summery bop: “Tonton” by Burkina Faso pop singer Audray

Dance around the house song: “Fabulous” by MEEK (edging out “C*ntology 101” by Lambrini Girls)

“Blue Strips” by Jesse Murph

“Stardust” by Big Wild

(and Train Jazz, lmao: www.trainjazz.com )

This Company Is Secretly Turning Your Zoom Meetings into AI Podcasts WebinarTV hosts 200,000 “webinars.” A Zoom call you may thought was private might be one of them.

WebinarTV hosts 200,000 “webinars.” A Zoom call you may thought was private might be one of them.

(PS2) More than anything, what I'm begging everyone reading this to understand is that what will shortly become the most infamous election conspiracy investigation in U.S. history is itself an election interference conspiracy focused on 2026 and 2028.

Incredible, but inarguable.

On the need and contents of a specific addiction recovery research agenda Background For decades knowledge about the etiology, epidemiology, neurobiology, typology, and treatment of addiction in various populations has been well documented and widely disseminated. In more...

🚨 On the need and contents of a specific addiction recovery research agenda

Outline of a new science of addiction recovery by two giants in the field!

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

In the late seventies, if what you were doing was in slow-mo that meant you were doing it really, really fast.

Power without accountability: The Palantir manifesto The problems with our tech philosopher kings

New, from me: Take the Palantir manifesto seriously, if not literally.
It reveals that our tech philosopher kings want public money, but without public accountability. This creates a dilemma for governments unaligned with its techno-fascist vision. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/palantir-w...

Bacteria are weaving forever chemicals directly into their cells Forever chemicals may be entering living cells as bacteria weave PFAS into their membranes, revealing a hidden pollution pathway.

#PFAS - #ForeverChemicals

Extremely concerning research on this #PoisonedPlanet
www.earth.com/news/bacteri...

figure 1 from the paper linked in OP - similar prevalence of self-reported imagery scores across auditory and visual domains

new preprint from PhD student Gage Quigley-Tump, reporting a survey of 200,000 ppl on themusiclab.org about auditory imagery or the lack thereof ('anauralia', the auditory version of aphantasia)

osf.io/cm85z

some findings:

(1) self-reported imagery ability similar across auditory & visual domains

I recently encountered someone with a history of neuroinflammation who could sing wonderfully by themselves, but couldn’t match pitch externally.

But what if "learning to hear a note before you sing it' isn't the same thing as imagining sound?

(Might explain how some singers have excellent musical skills but unreliable intonation for example)

But also, how might objective attempts to measure *visual* imagery have similar issues?

Ooh this is cool.

So... in my previous singing career I also taught others to sing. An important first step is learning to match pitch, which often needs to be taught by asking them to imagine the sound first 🎶

So I've always imagined anauralia is something which learning could improve 🧵

We just turned in the copy-edited and fact checked draft. Feels good!

Selfishly, it would be nice for there to be no more apocalyptic end timesy stuff happening from now to the pub date, since we can't update any more. And also, bc I'm sick of living in it as I know all of you are, too.

Mick Kelly: We’re only ever nine meals away from anarchy. That risk is no longer just theoretical Ireland is sleepwalking into a food security crisis. We have just 74 field-scale vegetable growers left, down from around 600

Important read from Mick Kelly on Ireland's (dis)illusional food security.

Crow carrying a knife

Crow Fact 🔪

#Art by Emi Boz

Am-hater? Dramateur?

The Old English word for a flower was ‘blōsma’.

While it survived, becoming modern ‘blossom’, it gave up part of its meaning to a French loanword.

Interestingly though, this word, originally spelled both ‘flour’ and ‘flower’, stems from the same root as ‘blossom’.

Click my graphic to learn more:

A #Motability customer has launched a legal action against the Treasury over budget measures that he says will put at risk the mobility “lifeline” the scheme provides to disabled people.
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/motability-c...

The book cover for Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation. It shows two men sat on a bench in the 1930s.

"Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation" is published TODAY by @cornellupress.bsky.social! I tell the story of how queer men didn't just exist in Belfast but could be accepted by friends, family & colleagues... at least until a moral panic about homosexuality in the 1950s. 🧵

Indeed.

I love it when we post true things about Point Break, amen

naming your biology plagiarism machine after the most famous case of biology plagiarism is a very funny bit I must admit

@fotoole.bsky.social Did you notice that during the protest there was a major OECD report released on the massive ongoing & future impact of long Covid. Reported in @irishtimes.com @irishexaminer.bsky.social @irishmedicaltimes.bsky.social @bloomberg.com @euronews.com @financialtimes.com

Did you know you can pop a nice card in the post to a senator Eileen Flynn

Via Leinster House, Kildare Street, Dublin 2

Or even just send her a supportive email eileen.flynn@oireachtas.ie

Cos messages of support help when dealing with gobshites lashing out.

#speirgorm #Mná

They could go Full Rambo and just go for Top Gun: Total Destruction, embracing the ‘Are we the Baddies?’ ethic.

I’m not a big fan of kicking, generally, but could it maybe be a left kicking?

Here's the article which includes the actual interview in question. Yes, he absolutely said this and yes, it's in context.

wordinblack.com/2025/02/rfk-...

An episode of The Hulk called ‘The Disciple’ not only contains dubious Magical Asian stuff that doesn’t age well, but also the added bonus of Rick Springfield, Gerald McRaney, and Fred Ward.