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

@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.

Congratulations to Kuba, the driving force Co-P.I. behind our SURG-Water Team Project in Malawi

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 😉

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

A Day in the Life of Kevin Solardisinfectionist

Lovely fresh day on Clogherhead Beach

I’ve found frogs in the strangest places

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