The only planet with books!

I want to be excited by all the moon stuff but what's being done to earth and space science is dismal

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit

Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here

Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse

Media and universities: AI is here to stay

Why is Irish electricity so expensive? Economists have crunched the numbers The culprit is gas, which exposes Ireland to volatile international markets.

Why is Irish electricity so expensive? Economists from the ESRI crunched the numbers - and generating a large share of our electricity using gas is a big factor. jrnl.ie/7011725t

Okay okay but can we have trains

Now, you might say, "What about all the knowledge we'd lose if we push all the abusive geniuses out of academia?!"

But I'd counter and say, "Well, what about the knowledge we've already lost from the budding scholars whose careers they've derailed with their abuse?"

Seriously, after 10 years in the UK plus almost 4 years in Ireland and I still sometimes answer if I'm not paying attention

I went to block this but discovered it was already on a block list I follow. Phew.

Spain invested heavily in clean energy over the last 6 years. Now, as gas prices rise, Spain has some of the lowest electricity costs on the continent.

In August 2025, Spain used zero coal — just 10 years ago it powered 25% of the country.

This is what energy independence actually looks like. 🌎

Given that most major media and nearly every social media company is owed by people pushing fascist agendas and AI is rampant, we all have to be extra careful to practice media literacy. Slow down. Don’t share what you haven’t read. Be wary of confirmation bias. Check the source. Verify.

Meanwhile proeminent scientists are leaving NASA because they can't do science there anymore but sure, never give up the moon or whatever.

Every fuppin time. Story of climate breakdown accompanied by a nice picture of people at the beach.

This is not a good news story.

Crazy idea but what if the government itself invested in housing and public transport and put in place regulation that enhances both

Hey fellow scientists, I'm just letting you know that if you're promoting something with some junky AI image, I'm not gonna click. You've got a workshop, a conference, a new paper?

Just not gonna bother. You want a bespoke image? Hire an illustrator.

I'd love to talk to prospective postdocs who are thinking about the role of land in the climate system about applying! If that's you please reach out!

We could look at this another way and say we had half a century or thereabouts when this kind of prejudice was not normalised across Europe. We have a long history of this shit.

Morning Womble! I've almost finished All That We See or Seem by Ken Liu. It's not really my kind of story but Ken Liu is a fantastic writer so to my surprise I've been enjoying it

I was feeling a little bleak after teaching a climate science lecture and listening to a talk from the Climate Change Advisory Council yesterday so I wrote a quick TTRPG inspired by a short story by Naomi Kritzer and titled from a quote by David Graeber.

I will be practicing this laugh for certain questions at conferences

If you need 150 people in palaeontology, geology, zoology, scicomm and related. And I could list more, but ran out of space!

I got one of these emails too. Can't decide if spam or more academic metrice BS.

The thing about countries that have had dictatorships in the recent past, like Portugal and Romania, is we can quickly recognise the threat for what it is

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I had to cancel a lecture yesterday because the building was flooded. Today I almost missed a different lecture (Climate Science...) because of a landslide on the train line. There is more rain coming tonight. We need better climate adaptation plans around here, it's only going to get wetter.

Adding a barcode to a historic specimen in Trinity College Dublin herbarium.

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Morning, Womble. I'm about two thirds of the way through The Incandescent by Emily Tesh and it's absolutely fantastic

Today I learned “Norwegian Christian laws forbade citizens from conversing with and interacting with trolls, and in documents dating from 1274 to 1781, doing so would result in severe punishment” (source: Wikipedia), and I kinda think many people nowadays would be better off if this law was revived

A to-do list for Government: what one thing could it accomplish in 2026? Voices from across Irish life choose a single thing the Government should – and could – try to accomplish in its second year in office

A to-do list for the Government from the Irish Times and friends…

Zero mention of climate change, emissions, biodiversity or nature.

The planet is on fire, but apparently that didn’t make the cut.

A screenshot from the EPA Ireland project reporting website asking if the project has a dedicated Twitter account

Hi @epaireland.bsky.social why are you still asking if research projects have a twitter account as part of the annual reporting? That place is full of fascists, bots and produces CSAM, you shouldn't encourage people to use it

Scientists, seriously