Alan Kelly
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Personal ramblings about the world we live in and life in general, esp science and culture. Frequent puns and dogs. Professor, food scientist and Head @fnsucc
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Everyone slags Starmer over the family background in tools but in fairness he can assemble a cabinet quickly
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The joke is all the sweeter when you have to work to get it.
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E and MC, squared
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Okay, I’m hooked on the
#Wordle
bug, but does anyone else of a certain age think it’s basically an online word-based version of this?
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As a journal editor, I have just checked the stats for 10 papers
I am handling.
68 review invites sent
13 accepted
32 declined
23 no response.
Finding reviewers is getting harder and harder, and peer review needs everyone to engage for it to work.
@AcademicChatter
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Ireland very safe through no fault of our own
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There is also a Freud one but you need to show id
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Two lovely letters in different newspapers today about the kindness of
#SineadOConner
Another example of the many acts of private kindness that were characteristic of Sinéad O’Connor. RIP
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Hey
@AIBIreland
, this Fisher Price toy doesn’t seem like it should form part of any modern banking system. Screen impossible to read. Surely there is a better way?
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I have solved
#Barbenheimer
.
Robert Oppenheimer studied for his PhD at Göttingen University under the supervision of Max Born, whose granddaughter was Olivia Newton John, who had a Barbie doll in her honour. QED.
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This is fascinating- same paper sent out to huge pool of reviewers under different names. 23% recommended “reject” when a prominent researcher was the only author shown, 48% when the paper was anonymized, and 65% when a little-known author was the only author shown
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This is still possibly one of the funniest things I have encountered on here
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When driving from Cork to Dublin and back you briefly enter county Limerick and the sign about this welcomes you to “Ireland’s Ancient East”.
Given its geographical position (as shown below) do visitors to this country conclude we can use neither map nor compass?
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The occasion of Michael Collins being on TV seems excuse enough to share this masterpiece of absurdity again
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@JimMFelton
@alex_meehan
It’s a process called miaowsis whereby one cat can split into two identical cats
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When not playing synths in dance metal band God Alone, my eldest is studying for a degree in classical piano in Cork School of Music, to cover all musical bases. Lovely to see him do a recital this evening.
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I wasn’t sure the vaccinator was giving me their best shot, so I asked to see their super Pfizer
#LunchPun
#RateMyPun
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Just saw some astonishing (to me) results of a study of people in Cork with antibodies to the nucleocapsid protein of
#Covid_19
.
- 450 participants
- half thought they had been exposed to virus
- *95%* had actually been exposed
Almost everyone exposed and half had no idea.
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If your electric car’s battery fails do you call the AA or the AAA?
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Shocked by this in The Guardian. How is Ireland so far out of line with most of western EU (where pandemic looks to essentially be over) despite one of highest vaccination rates?
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Modelled after the Jedi library in Star Wars!
Trinity College is home to one of the world's most beautiful libraries. Inside is The Long Room, which contains 200,000 historic volumes.
Photo by Failte Ireland
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Apologies but I have realised that the credit was cropped off this when it posted. All credit for a brilliant joke to
@OffTheMarkComic
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The apostrophe in the title of this is very important as it shows possession
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Family moves to Ireland, had found apartment off popular property website, arrives at same to find it looks nothing like what they saw. Told (rudely) that photos on site were generic and not intended to reflect actual location. Seriously???
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Do they say where in the UK it is???
An ultra-massive black hole around 33 billion times the mass of the Sun has been discovered by astronomers in the UK
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Sunday - my son Dylan was playing the Portals alt-rock festival in London on synths with
@GodAloneCork
.
Today - he was playing Chopin at his final degree recital at
@mtu_csm
#proudparent
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A very good letter in today’s
@IrishTimes
. Indeed, many have been doing this since March. Whatever about the social side of college life, they have missed so many academic opportunities- placements, projects, study abroad -all largely borne stoically. As an academic, we miss them
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Students doing exams can be very like politicians.
They ignore the questions they are asked and stick to the answers they have prepared.
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I follow American politics reasonably closely and got a start a while ago when I remembered Kamala Harris is VP. Is it just me or is she surprisingly invisible?
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Only ten years? I genuinely believe this is one of the best large-scale ideas anyone in Ireland has had for decades. Gave a unifying theme to so much beauty and so many wonderful and special places.
@wildatlanticway
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When food is spoiled by the ghosts of microbes past.
A short 🧵
Did an interesting experiment with a group of students today. Opened a carton of UHT milk which I bought at the start of the pandemic and did not open until today, i.e., more than 4 years old.
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A a very good letter in today’s
@IrishTimes
. In response to the question posed, I really think it just might be
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If Joy Divison were Irish
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Antigen tests being sent in the post sound like a slow, expensive and admin/labour heavy system? Easier to fund distribution through pharmacies where convenient?
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All the
#Coronation
kerfuffle brings this classic to mind (can’t find author but think was a letter in
@IrishTimes
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Today’s weather is brought to us by the oil paintings of Vincent Van Gogh.
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I always appreciate the positive motivational messages in this Cork car park.
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If they’d asked Cork…..
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Proud parental moment as our eldest son Dylan graduated with his BMus degree (in classical piano) from
@mtu_csm
this morning. Huge amount of talent recognised across the CSM degrees, and congratulations to all who conferred!
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@AstroKatie
Didn’t Richard Feynman, on being asked by a reporter to summarize his Nobel prize-winning work (on the day he won it) in one sentence, reply ‘buddy, if I could do that, it wouldn’t be worth a Nobel Prize’?
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Very unusual astronomical phenomeon happening in Cork right now - a reverse eclipse, where the sun is occasionally appearing, albeit briefly,almost unobstructed in the sky. Very exciting to see such a rare phenomenon in Ireland.
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Lovely evening tonight at the
@UCC
long service awards - hard to believe it has been 25 years and so nice to share a special occasion on campus with family and colleagues once again.
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Today is the first day my new book is available for anyone to read! Released this morning on Amazon’s Kindle store, with release of the hardbound edition in the US and EU to follow in August and September. Can’t wait to see the real thing in due course.
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Takes a second but worth it
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..the world’s slowest cheese-making began, and so years later we have basically a rennet gel in the container.
Milk, destabilised by the enzyme ghosts of long-dead bacteria.
A very nice illustration of one of my favourite dairy science stories.
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The simple pleasures of life: a book on a dark evening, sandwiched between warm dogs
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Very nice delivery today of my personal copies of my new book, How Scientists Communicate. Great to see the real thing at last! It was released in the US on Monday and extracts can be read at
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Very proud parents as our youngest wins the final of the Senior Recital competition at
@mtu_csm
this evening. Lovely evening of music from incredibly talented young musicians.
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@TheRealHoarse
The mental health benefit for so many (globally) when he has left office will be a measurable phenomenon.
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Thought for a second I could see the Northern Lights from Cork but must just be the Aurora Norriealis
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@daraobriain
Imagine a Morrissey version of Never Gonna Give You Up. Heaven knows we’d all be miserable now.
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@sophiegrenham
When visiting Australia in April I found it completely disorienting to have a very hot day end in darkness at 6. Totally programmed to associate hot days with long days.
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Ireland before St Patrick was of course a dark place full of belief in the Yakult
The St Patrick’s Day festival posters look like ads for gut health.
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Deliverloo
China has developed a mobile drone toilet that can be requested via an app remotely
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@NiecyOKeeffe
Parer? Pearer? Pairer? Pérer? Pêre-er?
No idea how to spell it, but it’s one of them!
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Cillian Murphy becomes the first person born in Ireland to win best actor at
#bafta
. "Oppenheimer was this colossally knotty complex character, and he meant different things to different people,” Murphy said. “One man’s monster is another man’s hero. That’s why I love movies."
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