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Richard Roche

@rrocheneuro.bsky.social

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Professor at Maynooth University Psychology Dept. Neuroscience, brain, memory, art, science, folklore, mythology, writing, music, football.

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Richard Roche @rrocheneuro.bsky.social · Nov 15

This place seems to be taking off so better do a pinned tweet - we've had a few books in recent years, so if you're into the history of Irish neuroscience, or art and the brain, or Irish mythology, there should be something for you here:

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Richard Roche @rrocheneuro.bsky.social · 1d

...under a full moon, you forgot about the full moon!

Richard Roche @rrocheneuro.bsky.social · 2d

Our number had 4 digits when I was small. Then they added a 7 at the start, then the 8. One of my favourite little details in An Cailín Ciúin was Sean answering the phone with the four-digit number

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 4d

Greg Dunn, Cortical Forest, ink and gold leaf on watercolor paper #sciart

Painting of neuron shapes in gold, brown and gray

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Richard Roche @rrocheneuro.bsky.social · 4d

Picked up this Colm Henry print of @michaelstipe.bsky.social at a garage sale, taken at Croke Park in 1986! Looking good! @remhq.bsky.social

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 6d

"Make the proof" colloquial phrase that means fabrication of data

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · 6d

"Experimenter bias" refers to a mistake in scientific studies where the experimenter wants to see something, and so unconsciously designs protocols to prove what they want to see. RFK here provides an example, Let me explain what we might see based on this. 🧵

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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MU Psychology @mupsychology.bsky.social · 6d

Huge thanks to everyone who joined us from the general public, staff, students, and our fantastic Psychological Society!

#MUPsychologyat25

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MU Psychology @mupsychology.bsky.social · 6d

The lecture was part of our #MUPsychologyAt25 series celebrating 25 years of Psychology teaching and research at Maynooth University.
@maynoothuniversity.ie

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MU Psychology @mupsychology.bsky.social · 6d

Great turnout last night for our public lecture by Dr Brian Pennie (brianpennie.com), popular neuroscientist and Maynooth Psychology graduate, who shared his inspiring journey of recovery from addiction and how the brain supports not just resilience, but growth and thriving.

#MUPsychologyat25

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Richard Roche @rrocheneuro.bsky.social · 6d

Some more photos from last night's event @mupsychology.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie
@d-desmond.bsky.social

Richard Roche @rrocheneuro.bsky.social · 7d

A wonderful evening to celebrate @mupsychology.bsky.social at 25 years with our alumnus Brian Pennie returning to give us an inspiring talk on how education gave him the life of his dreams

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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 8d

“Never before have we issued a joint public warning like this. But the profound, immediate and unprecedented threat that Kennedy’s policies and positions pose to the nation’s health cannot be ignored.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.

We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

www.washingtonpost.com

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 9d

Have a #painting. "West Cork Trees" came out of cycling past these lads several times out west of Clonakilty where I would catch a glimpse of them through a gap in a hedgerow and despite how far they were away they would always arrest me. I hope they're doing ok. #SpeirGhorm #ArtYear #BlueSkyMonday

Landscape format in acrylic on canvas. On far side of a pale grey-green field with tufts of short vertical strokes of green and blue, is a small dark-green broken hedgerow about one running horizontally, about one quarter the way up from the bottom, and from it grow 2 trees both with twisting branches of green and red without foliage and then some clumps of blue-green foliage just at their extremities. Beyond trees is another field, rendered as a narrow strip of blazing orange and at far side is line of trees and bushes in paler blue-green than the near hedgerow. Sky is pale blue in the top half with some strips of clouds high up, but the bottom half of the sky directly behind the trees down to the horizon is one large dark mass of billowing clouds topped with lighter fluffy edges of almost white. Signed bottom right: Liam Daly

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 10d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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R.E.M. @remhq.bsky.social · 10d

Released 33 years ago—Oct. 5-6, 1992. Share your favorite track in the comments!

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 12d

A newer #painting for you. "Roscommon Bog", finished only a few weeks ago, came out of a lifetime of enjoying the bogs in the middle of Ireland. Many of my earliest days of cycling involved 200 km loops out into the bog of Allen. This painting came out of a later day. #ArtYear #Scape #SpeirGhorm

Landscape format in acrylics on canvas. The horizon is very high, about one sixth from the top of the painting and everything below it is the bog. The bog is rendered in horizontal bands of varying widths and hues of purples and oranges, giving a warm rusty effect overall punctuated by dark bands. Loosely the bog gets lighter the further away it is, but the immediate foreground is lighter than the next band, and between them is a bright horizontal puddle, in shades of very pale blues and yellows as it reflect the sky. About two-thirds of the way up is a very narrow horizontal strip running the full width of the painting, of pale grass growing. Beyond the bog along the horizon sits a gently undulating landscape of a distant patchwork of very pale green fields with pale blue-green hedgerows, trees and bushes. The sky is a very pale smokey blues and teal. Signed in blue in the bottom right corner, Liam Daly

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Gerrit Thompson @gerrit.bsky.social · 12d

Notice how actual artists want nothing to do with “A.I.” while it keeps getting pushed by people with bad taste?

Cinephilia & Beyond @cinephiliabeyond.org · 12d

Werner Herzog has slammed the use of AI in new cinematic releases, saying that films that make use of the technology “look completely dead.”

“There are stories, but they have no soul. They are empty and soulless.”

Amen to that!

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Richard Roche @rrocheneuro.bsky.social · 12d

On the other hand, Jack Gleeson is excellent in it; good lad Joffrey!

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 12d

Yesterday the Royal Society held a series of panels & keynotes in celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Turing Test. The unanimous critical takes on AGI, big tech's power concentration & the call for urgent action left me w hope things might be turning

Watch here m.youtube.com/live/GmnBTCK...

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Richard Roche @rrocheneuro.bsky.social · 12d

Maybe everyone - especially the media - should stop calling them ICE and go with I.C.E. instead, because you just know those idiots think ICE sounds cool

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Clodagh Tait @clodaghtait.bsky.social · 12d

News to Captain Boycott
www.rte.ie/entertainmen....

Cyrus: 'I was the first person to ever be cancelled'

Miley Cyrus has reflected on the intense backlash she received during her transformation from a child actress to a pop star and believes she was the "first person to ever be cancelled".

www.rte.ie

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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 12d

In memoriam...

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Richard Roche @rrocheneuro.bsky.social · 12d

@ciaraegan.bsky.social FYI too

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Barry Boland @barryboland.bsky.social · 12d

For National Potato Day (Oct 3rd)!
www.cell.com/news-do/pr-p...

The potato evolved from the tomato 9 million years ago

Recent Cell research covered by The Guardian, The New York Times, The Atlantic, and more.

www.cell.com

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Richard Roche @rrocheneuro.bsky.social · 12d

Very sad to hear this, had a lovely chat with him about art and the brain for his Almanac podcast, and he became a real champion for our CúChulainn books. A fascinating, interested and kind soul, RIP a chara

RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 12d

The writer, broadcaster and documentary maker Manchán Magan has died at the age of 55, his family has confirmed

Broadcaster and scríbhneoir Manchán Magan dies aged 55

The writer, broadcaster and documentary maker Manchán Magan has died at the age of 55, his family has confirmed.

www.rte.ie

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