Anna Walsh
@annaannawalsh.bsky.social
Contemporary historian. Interested in migration, cities and towns, visual and material cultures, 20th century buildings, photography, leisure centres, pubs, creative methodologies, Irish and British history and oral history. Liverpool.
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Anna Walsh
@annaannawalsh.bsky.social
· Dec 3
Just signed contracts on my book, Narratives of Irish Leeds. Due January ´26 with Liverpool University Press. I hope this picture will be the cover! Let me know if you want to hear about it! (Also please send good writing vibes)
Best £2.49 I’ve ever spent (and most satisfying use of VAR)
Cristiano Ronaldo has been sent off against Republic of Ireland.
With Portugal 2-0 down, Ronaldo threw an elbow into Dara O'Shea — and received his marching orders.
With Portugal 2-0 down, Ronaldo threw an elbow into Dara O'Shea — and received his marching orders.
November 13, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Best £2.49 I’ve ever spent (and most satisfying use of VAR)
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
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'people who are multilingual are half as likely to show signs of accelerated biological ageing than are those who speak just one language.'
Good thing that schools, universities and governments are so actively promoting modern languages then, isn't it? 1/2
Good thing that schools, universities and governments are so actively promoting modern languages then, isn't it? 1/2
Want a younger brain? Learn another language
A vast study suggests that being multilingual can slow down cognitive ageing.
www.nature.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:58 AM
'people who are multilingual are half as likely to show signs of accelerated biological ageing than are those who speak just one language.'
Good thing that schools, universities and governments are so actively promoting modern languages then, isn't it? 1/2
Good thing that schools, universities and governments are so actively promoting modern languages then, isn't it? 1/2
A great man
Michael D Higgins, with his wife Sabina, has left Áras an Úachtaráin for the final time as president.
He was given a guard of honour by members of the Sanctuary Runners, a charity of which he is patron.
The President’s term of office ends at midnight.
@VirginMediaNews.bsky.social
He was given a guard of honour by members of the Sanctuary Runners, a charity of which he is patron.
The President’s term of office ends at midnight.
@VirginMediaNews.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 7:04 PM
A great man
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President Michael D. Higgins and his wife Sabina are preparing to leave Áras an Uachtaráin for the final time this evening as his term comes to an end.
Catherine Connolly will be inaugurated tomorrow as Ireland’s next president.
#VMNews
Catherine Connolly will be inaugurated tomorrow as Ireland’s next president.
#VMNews
November 10, 2025 at 12:57 PM
President Michael D. Higgins and his wife Sabina are preparing to leave Áras an Uachtaráin for the final time this evening as his term comes to an end.
Catherine Connolly will be inaugurated tomorrow as Ireland’s next president.
#VMNews
Catherine Connolly will be inaugurated tomorrow as Ireland’s next president.
#VMNews
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I don’t think it’s inappropriate to have some news stories about migration issues but it is very odd indeed for BBC 6 Music, a station essentially targeted at hipster leftie middle-aged people, to be majoring on asylum seeker stories as much as it does.
*Again* the top story on BBC 6 music is about immigration
How is Shabana Mahmood wanting to introduce a ‘Danish style’ system for refugees the top story this morning?!?
The obsession of 6 Music news on immigration and asylum is frankly bizarre
How is Shabana Mahmood wanting to introduce a ‘Danish style’ system for refugees the top story this morning?!?
The obsession of 6 Music news on immigration and asylum is frankly bizarre
November 8, 2025 at 10:07 AM
I don’t think it’s inappropriate to have some news stories about migration issues but it is very odd indeed for BBC 6 Music, a station essentially targeted at hipster leftie middle-aged people, to be majoring on asylum seeker stories as much as it does.
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I interviewed the exceptional James Graham for Waitrose Weekend and I would just like to scream this bit from the rooftops.
www.weekend-online.com/issue768/#10
www.weekend-online.com/issue768/#10
October 30, 2025 at 11:57 AM
I interviewed the exceptional James Graham for Waitrose Weekend and I would just like to scream this bit from the rooftops.
www.weekend-online.com/issue768/#10
www.weekend-online.com/issue768/#10
Well deserved 250th goal Mo. I love you
November 1, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Well deserved 250th goal Mo. I love you
Glad to see emery dressed as Dracula for rhe 19th year in a row
November 1, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Glad to see emery dressed as Dracula for rhe 19th year in a row
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Happy Samhain 🔥
October 31, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Happy Samhain 🔥
Good questions please
AFQ AFQ AFQ
Walsh A.
Bona (c)
Trad
Morgan
Get your questions in NOW!
Walsh A.
Bona (c)
Trad
Morgan
Get your questions in NOW!
October 31, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Good questions please
I’d love some of these for annual wear
“Are you wearing the-“
“The poorly but enthusiastically sculpted Samhain turnip earrings I made a few years ago? Yeah, I am.”
“The poorly but enthusiastically sculpted Samhain turnip earrings I made a few years ago? Yeah, I am.”
October 30, 2025 at 1:11 PM
I’d love some of these for annual wear
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The incredible May McGee died this week. A feminist icon whose name goes down in history alongside one of the most important Supreme Court judgements in the history of the state. Pre-deceased by her devoted husband Shay, who took on the state alongside his wife
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
Mary ‘May’ McGee: The dignified Irish mother who took on the might of the State and became a feminist icon
Mary ‘May’ McGee, who died this week aged 81, successfully fought the ban on contraception
www.irishtimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 8:30 PM
The incredible May McGee died this week. A feminist icon whose name goes down in history alongside one of the most important Supreme Court judgements in the history of the state. Pre-deceased by her devoted husband Shay, who took on the state alongside his wife
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
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Whatever strategy you’re about to suggest, we’ve thought about it. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
ChatGPT Harm Reduction for Writing Assignments
ChatGPT Harm Reduction for Writing Assignments Because this document has escaped containment, a couple points of explanation. I wrote this for myself and a few colleagues as we work out how to handle...
docs.google.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Whatever strategy you’re about to suggest, we’ve thought about it. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
This feels like a Netflix Christmas special
Why on earth do asylum seekers need to be more than half a mile from Inverness high street? Is he worried that they might take over an empty shop front and rejuvenate the local economy
October 28, 2025 at 10:02 PM
This feels like a Netflix Christmas special
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Today is the 13th anniversary of Savita's death. She was denied potentially life saving care because of Ireland's unjust abortion law in 2012.
Savita's death was preventable. We will not forget her. #NeverAgain
Read more about Savita here.
www.dib.ie/biography/ha...
Savita's death was preventable. We will not forget her. #NeverAgain
Read more about Savita here.
www.dib.ie/biography/ha...
October 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Today is the 13th anniversary of Savita's death. She was denied potentially life saving care because of Ireland's unjust abortion law in 2012.
Savita's death was preventable. We will not forget her. #NeverAgain
Read more about Savita here.
www.dib.ie/biography/ha...
Savita's death was preventable. We will not forget her. #NeverAgain
Read more about Savita here.
www.dib.ie/biography/ha...
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who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.
October 26, 2025 at 6:04 AM
who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.
June 19, 2025 at 11:28 AM
When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.
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The light over the Atlantic coast of Ireland is like nowhere else on Earth 🌎
October 26, 2025 at 9:20 PM
The light over the Atlantic coast of Ireland is like nowhere else on Earth 🌎
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“Our findings show that ChatGPT not only fails to recognise retracted articles but often evaluates them as high-quality research and claims that their discredited claims are true.”
"Relying on LLMs for literature summaries without independent verification could lead to the unknowing citation and perpetuation of false information."
#AcWri #SciComm
#AcWri #SciComm
ChatGPT is blind to bad science - Impact of Social Sciences
A new study finds ChatGPT fails to take into account retraction notices across a wide range of research.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
October 26, 2025 at 2:40 PM
“Our findings show that ChatGPT not only fails to recognise retracted articles but often evaluates them as high-quality research and claims that their discredited claims are true.”
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I’m a bleeding heart pinko who thinks that migrants are people and believes that people deserve to live wherever they want. But I could be the most hardheaded British patriot and still support migration to this country because nobody has ever demonstrated that it’s a bad thing!!!
October 23, 2025 at 12:04 PM
I’m a bleeding heart pinko who thinks that migrants are people and believes that people deserve to live wherever they want. But I could be the most hardheaded British patriot and still support migration to this country because nobody has ever demonstrated that it’s a bad thing!!!
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But British politics and cultural cohesion is supposed to have improved since the 1970s! We spin congratulatory narratives about wiping out the NF, defeating the BNP, the rise of multiculturalism, the decline of racism. For these ideas to be mainstream and explicit for the Tories now is shocking.
October 22, 2025 at 8:52 AM
But British politics and cultural cohesion is supposed to have improved since the 1970s! We spin congratulatory narratives about wiping out the NF, defeating the BNP, the rise of multiculturalism, the decline of racism. For these ideas to be mainstream and explicit for the Tories now is shocking.