How much time is wasted by research presenters telling us:
1. What they intend to present.
2. What they have just presented.
This is the academic hill I’m prepared to die upon

Research meeting in Barcelona

Expectations Vs Reality

Another introduction in #MeetTheTeam!
Today, it's the turn of @kgmcguigan.bsky.social: a good-humoured co-PI, Jedi #SODI master (he looks after the solar disinfection aspect of the project), winner of a @UNESCO award and always up for a good craic.

@researchireland.ie @rcsi.bsky.social

@irishrail.bsky.social
This morning’s commute

When persuading the RCSI Pharmacy student to complete her project in University of Santiago de Compostela, did I say how beautiful the city would be?
Yes

Did I "forget" to tell her that she would spend part of her first week on a farm, collecting faecal samples from scouring calves
Also Yes.

I had more than 3000 followers on my Twitter/X account. However, ever since its owner hitched his wagon to the Orange Clown, I’ve been using it less & less.
The Nazi salute yesterday at the inauguration was the final nail its coffin for me.

I deactivated & deleted my Twitter/X account today.

I found a loose sheet of proposals tucked inside a PhD thesis that I was reading today. While all were good, some were “more good” than others 😉

Tell me your new vet is Australian, without telling me she’s Australian.
Me “How would my cat pick up a tapeworm?”
Vet “She could easily pick them up from any lizards or geckos that she hunts!”
😳
(Note: I live in Ireland which only has one species of reptile, which is very rare)

Wintery afternoon walk on Clogherhead Beach yesterday with my Current Wife and Favourite Daughter

A Day in the Life of Kevin Solardisinfectionist

Congrats to Dr Ines Perić & Eric O'Flynn, @rcsiglobalsurgery.bsky.social, who won @timeshighered.bsky.social Award for Technological or Digital Innovation of the Year for SURGhub project, bringing high quality healthcare ed to healthcare workers in low resource regions & areas experiencing conflict.

Lovely fresh day on Clogherhead Beach

I’m a physics professor in an Irish medical college. My research focuses on using solar UV to disinfect contaminated water in low to medium income countries around the globe