Eoin Daly

@eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social

9.9K followers 2.1K following 710 posts

Law lecturer. Political theory, constitutions, republicanism, France. Dad of two. An 'autism parent'. Interested in athletics, politics, wine.

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Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 3d

Dinner with a view. This is just where she likes to hang out

Daughter eating spaghetti on my shoulders

Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 10d

Low-effort physically if not conceptually… yes we’ll take it!!

Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 10d

Oh just what I wear any weekday, that’s why it’s low effort

Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 10d

What’s your favourite low-effort costume? I wanted to go as a geography lecturer, though the 8 year old made me dress as the Mad Hatter match her Queen of Hearts

Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 16d

Ireland has a new president, who happens to be one of my local deputies (we have multi seat constituencies). I just published the short article about the office of President in Ireland. theconversation.com/catherine-co...

Catherine Connolly and the paradoxes of the Irish presidency

The role is the only national office directly elected by the people, yet it holds very little meaningful power.

theconversation.com

Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 16d

Maybe I am simple minded but I think a populist for whom the Other is the foreigner is ‘bad’, and a populist for whom it is say, oligarchs is at least potentially ‘good’.

‘Populism’ is a political style and strategy that can be put to different uses.

Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 17d

why are people on the left using "populist" in a positive way now, you shouldn't want your politicians to be populists, "populism" isn't good

Reposted by Hugh Pemberton, Juan Cole, Steven Fielding , and 1 more Hugh Pemberton, Juan Cole, Steven Fielding, Eoin Daly

Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 17d

why are people on the left using "populist" in a positive way now, you shouldn't want your politicians to be populists, "populism" isn't good

Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 17d

Have to show off my fussy precious little stuffed pasta

Reposted by Charles West, Michael H. Whitworth, Stephen Jones , and 3 more Charles West, Michael H. Whitworth, Stephen Jones, Steven Fielding, Eoin Daly, Katrina Navickas

Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 18d

This is the context in which I and all my colleagues are being told that we must bring in a minimum of £25k in external funding per year. We get 100 hours of research time per year. The bid-writing process will take up most of it.

ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social · 20d

After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results:

- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%

Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 20d

The funniest hypocrisy of the dominant rad Lib faction in academia is the contradiction between their generally egalitarian social critique, and their acquiescence in the careerism and hierarchy of academia itself

Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 23d

I was able to visit the 6 year old’s classroom during the week and I discovered she has a special ‘processing chair’, a nice little armchair in the corner where she sits for ten minutes every morning to process her change of surroundings, before she starts any school work.
Isn’t she lucky

Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 25d

My party piece is having on average six strong coffees per day and still managing daytime naps

Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 27d

The drive for rearmament in Europe comes from an ‘extreme centre’ that wants us to believe simultaneously that Russia weak enough to be defeated outright by Ukraine , yet strong enough to pose an invasion threat to EU/nato countries

Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · Oct 10

My daughter (8) told me she and her friends have a chant:
‘Girls go to college
to get more knowledge.
Boys go to Jupiter
to get more stupider.’

Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · Oct 10

Couldn’t possibly drink from the blessed portend once such a miracle revealed

Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · Oct 10

A ceramic mug of hot coffee survived a 1km journey on the roof of my car this morning, which I am taking as a good omen

Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · Oct 8

School pickup times are difficult for a congenitally neurotic person like myself when you see things like people parking on top of the little circle in the roundabout

Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · Oct 7

Academia is when you keep going back and forth apologising for not replying to each other’s emails, until someday you retire

Reposted by Robert C. Richards, Eoin Daly

Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · Oct 6

Head of OLC is a former Alito clerk
www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/p...

Exclusive: Classified Justice Department opinion authorizes strikes on secret list of cartels, sources say | CNN Politics

The Trump administration has produced a classified legal opinion that justifies lethal strikes against a secret and expansive list of cartels and suspected drug traffickers, according to multiple peop...

www.cnn.com

Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · Oct 2

I had a big birthday. My daughter (8) got me this specially made hat and said (affectionately) ‘it’ll help to hide your receding hairline’

Reposted by Aurélien Mondon

Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · Sep 28

Being subject to attempted censorship is, semi/sub-consciously, the narcissistic fantasy of the conservative-liberal intellectual

Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · Sep 28

When literally nobody is trying to censor you:

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2025/09/28/john-banville-you-cannot-censor-me-they-would-try-it-now-with-all-this-wokeist-nonsense/

Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · Sep 26

I was gifted a bottle of this Icelandic spirit and I looked up how to drink it and the results are… candid

https://www.reddit.com/r/Iceland/comments/zsubmx/what_are_some_good_cocktails_i_can_make_with/

Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · Sep 24

Only three fairly mainstream candidates having secured nominations for election as (largely ceremonial) Irish president bucks the general trend of the contest having becoming progressively fruitier and wackier each time

Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · Sep 21

The pushy one , d’uh

Andrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social · Sep 21

Who gets listed first on a collaborative article or book?
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/09/21/w...

Who gets listed first on a collaborative article or book? | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu

Reposted by Eoin Daly

Andrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social · Sep 21

Who gets listed first on a collaborative article or book?
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/09/21/w...

Who gets listed first on a collaborative article or book? | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu

Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · Sep 20

Entertainment technology peaked with the iPod shuffle (unironically it was the optimal balance between convenience and being Offline)

erika @yeeeerika.bsky.social · Jan 13

i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?

Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · Sep 20

Handmade ‘peace and quiet vouchers’😍😍😍

Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · Sep 20

I’m turning 40 soon and when family members ask what present I would like, I find myself saying the most ‘turning 40’ things imaginable - like ‘a good clear-out of the attic’ or ‘a bit of peace and quiet’

Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · Sep 18

Again I share much of the sentiment but I think we haven’t really taken stock of what it probably means to do genuinely horizontal or bottom-up organising, or however we put it: it’s gonna come with an awful lot of unconstructive mess and conflict too. It comes with a cost

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