Andrew Coogan

Giving a talk being critical of social media when this guy walks in after being flown over by Meta; I rapidly change my conclusions.

This is absurd: academic who specialises in marketing asks why universities are so bad at marketing, people in his university’s marketing admin get hurty feelings and university investigates him. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/univers...

Jeez, I hope the quality of their products doesn’t suffer. www.reuters.com/technology/m...

Well look, the minister is going to commission a report to go alongside of all of those other reports that confirm this and then do nothing until it is time to commission another report.

Hey hey, there we go already

Recruitment/promotions freeze - staff leave to go elsewhere where advancement is reasonably possible - hire agency staff to plug holes - why are we spending so much on agency staff. Geniuses.

Yes, yes, but are they Executive Pro-Vice Chancellors or just regular Pro-Vice Chancellors?

That’s really going to help with staff retention. www.irishtimes.com/health/2026/...

In more positive news, Balamory is back! Sad to say that Archie, Josie Jump and Spencer did not survive the great purge of 2007 during Edie McCready’s despotic reign. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Apart from the specific issues involved, fuck all the Toucher O’Callaghans and other gobshites trying to import US culture-wars bullshit politics here.

I love how a never ending carousel of ignorant novices are put in charge of everything that matters in this country. www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster...

I see surveys done to the level of a bad undergraduate dissertation making national headlines again.

Apart from the ridiculousness of this, a senior Garda calling for more gillet jaune is pretty funny.

Toucher O’Callaghan.

Trying to figure out a walking route home that minimises my chance of being hit by a car going straight through a well-turned red light (pretty much every day now). I don’t know, peoples’ brains seem to have turned to mush so they forget they are driving a ton or more of metal and glass.

As Mitt Romney is in the news, I am thinking of his father George's line that he was "brainwashed" by the generals into supporting the Vietnam war, a comment which elicited the wonderfully bitchy response from Eugene McCarthy that a "light rinse would have been sufficient".

Still there, getting ready for the winter storms, research excellence in action.

Only 5 - amateur.

James MacLean season comes around faster every year.

Searching Pubmed and stumbled on this. I wonder if this is part of a series on every US state?

This would be a real shame in psychology, our final year dissertations are the highlight of the programme for many of our students and have proven to be pretty AI free so far.

Pre-sleep excitement scale. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Mind you , I am preparing a manuscript now which contains the word "scaldy".

I FUCKING HATE MICROSOFT.

If you have 30 minutes today, maybe watch last night’s Newsnight with the three survivors from Pantglas school in Aberfan. m.youtube.com/watch?v=HtBt...

“What type of virus?” “Oh, you know, one of those legs-affecting viruses”.

Well, there goes the peace process. www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sport/footba...

Exhausted after another tough day polluting the literature.

I see that "out of whack" is now acceptable scientific terminology, and will endeavor to use in the future.

From the minister about to spaff away 150 million on “AI Upskilling”, whatever the fuck that is.

Archival footage of my brief stint as a butler.

As Bob Dylan famously said, "I don't believe you" www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

You would never get that type of carelessness from university managers. www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

I guess they are a breed apart then but still will accept the hard-won pay settlements negotiated.

Hey hey, it’s like 2009 again, well done to the lobby journalists!

The whole peptides thing makes me 🤔bemusedly, having spent a portion of my earlier career working on neuropeptides: gastrin releasing peptide, vasoactive intestinal polypeptide, neurotensin, substance P, hypocretin, PACAP. Does this mean I can be an influencer now? www.rte.ie/news/primeti...

Irish university colleagues, did you experience senior managers showing up to the picket line to express solidarity with what is after all a shared cause?

It’s not like this is not a known circumstance, it’s just that the government wants only to talk the talk. www.rte.ie/news/2026/10...

What a fantastic day of solidarity. Wonderful to catch up with so many brilliant colleagues, and to have such overwhelming support from the wider public. Power to the people! ✊️ @ifut.bsky.social

***Chef’s Kiss***

Today’s a good day for people showing you who they are.

We are here today because the Government made an active choice to prioritise fast food restaurants and data centres and not to prioritise teachers, nurses, carers, Gardaí and the rest of us who keep the state running.