Star Trek/Star Wars crossover thought:

Yoda: "When 900 years old you reach, look this good you will not"
Dax: "Hold my raktajino."

NASA official cat video from Emma Wollman's talk "High-speed SNSPD arrays for the Deep Space Optical Communications project" at the LTD conference. The actual topic is really cool, but the internet likes cat videos. youtu.be/GvJtVOmFs5Q?...

I'm looking forward to delivering this course at @dublincityuni.bsky.social with partners
ICHEC, @digitalskillnet.bsky.social, Intel & Equal1. At the launch of Quantum Ireland for #WorldQuantumDay. It's a very exciting time to get involved. Supported by the EIT Deep Tech Talent Initiative.

www.irishtimes.com/sponsored/20... this is a very encouraging statement from @researchireland.bsky.social I'm cautiously hopeful that their actions will match their words.

I've seen a few odd posts like this one alleging the opposition are fascist and aligned with North Korea. Not sure where that's coming from. The DPRK might be an awful place to live, but autocracy and fascism aren't synonymous. There are lots of awful forms of government! bsky.app/profile/soul...

Interesting sight in the: Irish General Election: Fianna Fáil are the only party even mathematically *trying* to win a majority. Every other party is running for less than half of the 174 seats in the Dáil. Many, even among the middleweights, aren't running in every constituency

Star Guide: Exoplanet Roundtable
I'm looking forward to hosting this upcoming event tomorrow evening, Wednesday 20th November at 19:00 in Room XG20, Lonsdale Building, Dublin City University. Please sign up for the event at eventbrite at this link. www.eventbrite.ie/e/star-guide...