Hot of the electronic press by me in Verfassungblog: a personal take on the symbolism of the Irish fuel protests in April.
A date for your diaries...
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If anyone fancies a job in Welsh politics, there are lots of opportunities working for our new Members of the Senedd! senedd.wales/work-opportu...
The School of Law and Criminology is delighted to launch the Postgraduate Scholarship once again for the 2026-27 academic year. This scholarship awards €2,000, which will be deducted from the recipient's course fees.
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Join Dept of Physics, Maynooth University, for a rare solar eclipse evening with talks, telescopes, planetarium fun & family activities.
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🚨Temporary Senior Researcher (devolution, parliament and constitution) for SPICe. Great gig for someone at the heart of the action:
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“…hallucinated references disproportionately assign credit to already prominent and male scholars, suggesting that LLM-generated errors may reinforce existing inequities in scientific recognition…” 🧪
arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723
I spoke to @alejandrotauber.bsky.social of @euobserver.com about how Europe's "Ireland problem" could lead to tech disaster for our children, industry, and politics euobserver.com/218368/dubli...
Micheál Martin said yesterday sanctioning Aughinish would hurt Europe more then it hurts Russia.
However new figures obtained by The Irish Times show that this year 83% (200,619 tonnes) of alumina exports went to Russia.
The amount exported to EU countries was 149 tonnes (0.6%)
Members of the Senedd are employers in their own right and usually employ people both in their constituency, and in Cardiff Bay.