Shaun O’Boyle
@shaunoboyle.bsky.social
Biologist working in science communication (research: community involvement; practice: art-science and podcasts). Big fan of The X-Files and Star Trek.
#QueerinSTEM (he/him) 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Work: shaunoboyle.org
X-Files Podcast: heydannyitsmulder.com
#QueerinSTEM (he/him) 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Work: shaunoboyle.org
X-Files Podcast: heydannyitsmulder.com
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Shaun O’Boyle
@shaunoboyle.bsky.social
· Jul 29
I have a podcast about the making of #TheXFiles, and in the latest episode I got to chat with the brilliant @annealiz1.bsky.social about her work as the science advisor on the show.
Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/5tOdPoK...
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/h...
Website: www.heydannyitsmulder.com
Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/5tOdPoK...
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/h...
Website: www.heydannyitsmulder.com
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Nothing to see here.
Just physicist Lawrence Krauss telling Jeffrey Epstein, "Beyond anything else, you are my friend. I hope we can both always remember that, no matter what."
Just physicist Lawrence Krauss telling Jeffrey Epstein, "Beyond anything else, you are my friend. I hope we can both always remember that, no matter what."
November 13, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Nothing to see here.
Just physicist Lawrence Krauss telling Jeffrey Epstein, "Beyond anything else, you are my friend. I hope we can both always remember that, no matter what."
Just physicist Lawrence Krauss telling Jeffrey Epstein, "Beyond anything else, you are my friend. I hope we can both always remember that, no matter what."
there are about 10 vacant homes for every homeless person in Ireland - and I know that's oversimplified and imperfect maths, but I'm still mad
November 10, 2025 at 11:21 PM
there are about 10 vacant homes for every homeless person in Ireland - and I know that's oversimplified and imperfect maths, but I'm still mad
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The Edge of Space-Time is coming! You should preorder it -- look at what THE Ed Yong had to say about it:
“With this extraordinary book, Prescod-Weinstein cements her status as one of the most accomplished and important science writers of our time; as polymath, griot, teacher, and more; (1/2)
“With this extraordinary book, Prescod-Weinstein cements her status as one of the most accomplished and important science writers of our time; as polymath, griot, teacher, and more; (1/2)
November 10, 2025 at 6:41 PM
The Edge of Space-Time is coming! You should preorder it -- look at what THE Ed Yong had to say about it:
“With this extraordinary book, Prescod-Weinstein cements her status as one of the most accomplished and important science writers of our time; as polymath, griot, teacher, and more; (1/2)
“With this extraordinary book, Prescod-Weinstein cements her status as one of the most accomplished and important science writers of our time; as polymath, griot, teacher, and more; (1/2)
Got the same view of Dublin three times today
November 10, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Got the same view of Dublin three times today
🥰🥰🥰
November 10, 2025 at 5:40 PM
🥰🥰🥰
He was a terrible person. Many scientists knew this and still named buildings after him, still invited him to conference dinners. They should be reminded of this now.
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:44 AM
He was a terrible person. Many scientists knew this and still named buildings after him, still invited him to conference dinners. They should be reminded of this now.
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there is quite literally something for everyone in this list, whew
In case anyone is wondering if Watson was really THAT bad, @lpachter.bsky.social compiled a list of quotes that are absolutely not for the faint of heart.
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
November 7, 2025 at 10:52 PM
there is quite literally something for everyone in this list, whew
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📣 I am hiring a postdoc! aial.ie/hiring/postd...
applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome
pls share with your networks
applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome
pls share with your networks
October 30, 2025 at 7:51 PM
📣 I am hiring a postdoc! aial.ie/hiring/postd...
applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome
pls share with your networks
applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome
pls share with your networks
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79% of homes sold in Dublin this year were bought by landlords, 75% by large landlords. About 1 in 5 TDs are landlords.
This is disgusting dog whistling. The problem has never been people seeking asylum. The problem is people seeking to endlessly profit from folks just looking for a home.
This is disgusting dog whistling. The problem has never been people seeking asylum. The problem is people seeking to endlessly profit from folks just looking for a home.
🗣️ "The one thing that there is a problem with is housing right across the state, and the more that come to seek asylum, the more pressure it puts on that system.” - Fianna Fáil Minister of State Timmy Dooley
#TonightVMTV
#TonightVMTV
November 5, 2025 at 8:28 AM
79% of homes sold in Dublin this year were bought by landlords, 75% by large landlords. About 1 in 5 TDs are landlords.
This is disgusting dog whistling. The problem has never been people seeking asylum. The problem is people seeking to endlessly profit from folks just looking for a home.
This is disgusting dog whistling. The problem has never been people seeking asylum. The problem is people seeking to endlessly profit from folks just looking for a home.
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So yeah, uh, if anyone wants to hire a scientist next year, hit me up. My specialties include Raman spectroscopy, FTIR, astrobiology, plastic pollution, environmental degradation, meteorites, and Mars
November 4, 2025 at 9:27 AM
So yeah, uh, if anyone wants to hire a scientist next year, hit me up. My specialties include Raman spectroscopy, FTIR, astrobiology, plastic pollution, environmental degradation, meteorites, and Mars
“I’m looking for a collection of different animal figures awkwardly mounting each other”
My local €2 Shop: “Say no more”
My local €2 Shop: “Say no more”
November 3, 2025 at 11:19 AM
“I’m looking for a collection of different animal figures awkwardly mounting each other”
My local €2 Shop: “Say no more”
My local €2 Shop: “Say no more”
a beautiful piece of writing by @chanda.blacksky.app on the value of learning arrived in my inbox today. subscribe to The Boogie-Woogie Rumble of Space-Time - it's fantastic. news.chanda.science
The Boogie-Woogie Rumble of Space-Time
Cosmology, Particles, and the Stuff That Came After. A newsletter from theoretical physicist and Black feminist theorist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein.
news.chanda.science
October 23, 2025 at 2:14 PM
a beautiful piece of writing by @chanda.blacksky.app on the value of learning arrived in my inbox today. subscribe to The Boogie-Woogie Rumble of Space-Time - it's fantastic. news.chanda.science
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I’ve recently finally decided to get my podcast life together partly because shit is fucked and we need to at least laugh a little and also remember there’s still good art out in the world
Anyway here’s recent episodes of stuff I regularly check out 🧵
Anyway here’s recent episodes of stuff I regularly check out 🧵
Suboptimus Prime (with Langston and David)
Podcast Episode · My Momma Told Me · 10/14/2025 · 51m
podcasts.apple.com
October 22, 2025 at 12:52 AM
I’ve recently finally decided to get my podcast life together partly because shit is fucked and we need to at least laugh a little and also remember there’s still good art out in the world
Anyway here’s recent episodes of stuff I regularly check out 🧵
Anyway here’s recent episodes of stuff I regularly check out 🧵
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And if you are running events (anywhere in the world) and you want us to promote it please get in touch.
If you would like to have an event but don’t know where to start, @shaunoboyle.bsky.social prepared a useful toolkit:
prideinstem.org/wp-content/u...
If you would like to have an event but don’t know where to start, @shaunoboyle.bsky.social prepared a useful toolkit:
prideinstem.org/wp-content/u...
a group of people are holding rainbow flags in front of a sign that says " happy pride "
Alt: a group of people are holding rainbow flags in front of a sign that says " happy pride "
media.tenor.com
October 18, 2025 at 10:32 AM
And if you are running events (anywhere in the world) and you want us to promote it please get in touch.
If you would like to have an event but don’t know where to start, @shaunoboyle.bsky.social prepared a useful toolkit:
prideinstem.org/wp-content/u...
If you would like to have an event but don’t know where to start, @shaunoboyle.bsky.social prepared a useful toolkit:
prideinstem.org/wp-content/u...
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I'm so proud to announce my most ambitious pin to date: a miniature guide to the trees of Britain (and lots of Europe)!
Available now from my Etsy: canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4386...
Available now from my Etsy: canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4386...
October 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I'm so proud to announce my most ambitious pin to date: a miniature guide to the trees of Britain (and lots of Europe)!
Available now from my Etsy: canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4386...
Available now from my Etsy: canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4386...
This is unethical. And the people making these decisions do not understand biology.
Just got a call from a lovely but very nervous Dr, who advised I wouldn't be routinely screened for breast cancer because I'm not indicated as being "biologically female" on the central NHS database and my biology wouldn't indicate I'm at risk.
My records have been altered, which is upsetting.
My records have been altered, which is upsetting.
October 16, 2025 at 1:31 PM
This is unethical. And the people making these decisions do not understand biology.
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We gotta make this happen peeps! Resistance IS futile (in this case)!
Friends, a conversation with @rossytv.bsky.social made me realise that we have only one year to convince our local cinemas to screen #StarTrek First Contact on the 30th anniversary of its release. How do we do this?
October 8, 2025 at 3:07 PM
We gotta make this happen peeps! Resistance IS futile (in this case)!
Friends, a conversation with @rossytv.bsky.social made me realise that we have only one year to convince our local cinemas to screen #StarTrek First Contact on the 30th anniversary of its release. How do we do this?
October 8, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Friends, a conversation with @rossytv.bsky.social made me realise that we have only one year to convince our local cinemas to screen #StarTrek First Contact on the 30th anniversary of its release. How do we do this?
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Curious about where science meets poetry?
Science Communication through Poetry is an online course exploring how creative language can make research more human and engaging.
Only a few places left. Register here:
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#SciComm #Poetry #AcademicSky #SciArt 🧪
Science Communication through Poetry is an online course exploring how creative language can make research more human and engaging.
Only a few places left. Register here:
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#SciComm #Poetry #AcademicSky #SciArt 🧪
Science Communication through Poetry
At Edinburgh Napier University, we nurture talent and create knowledge that shapes communities all around the world.
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October 7, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Curious about where science meets poetry?
Science Communication through Poetry is an online course exploring how creative language can make research more human and engaging.
Only a few places left. Register here:
napier.ac.uk/study-with-u...
#SciComm #Poetry #AcademicSky #SciArt 🧪
Science Communication through Poetry is an online course exploring how creative language can make research more human and engaging.
Only a few places left. Register here:
napier.ac.uk/study-with-u...
#SciComm #Poetry #AcademicSky #SciArt 🧪
can anyone recommend an Irish company that does vinyl sticker printing?
October 7, 2025 at 1:35 PM
can anyone recommend an Irish company that does vinyl sticker printing?
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As president and founder of @blackinastro.bsky.social , AJ an amazing force within space law, an outspoken advocate for the people, and dear friend. I also agree with @ohdearz.bsky.social that this too makes me question my presence and the presence of @blackinastro.bsky.social on this site.
Unfortunate update: Link reached out to BlueSky and got email back now on reason.
His appeal is denied. He will remain permanently banned on BlueSky’s side.
Here are the screenshots he just sent me as of 8:22 AM EST(my time)
His appeal is denied. He will remain permanently banned on BlueSky’s side.
Here are the screenshots he just sent me as of 8:22 AM EST(my time)
October 6, 2025 at 2:58 PM
As president and founder of @blackinastro.bsky.social , AJ an amazing force within space law, an outspoken advocate for the people, and dear friend. I also agree with @ohdearz.bsky.social that this too makes me question my presence and the presence of @blackinastro.bsky.social on this site.
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Exactly. She has no intention otherwise: "I promise that if I am elected as President, I will return to the Gaeltacht and I will learn Irish” - like that's quite a high prerequisite for folks to be President first.
I honestly gasped when she said *if* she gets elected.
October 6, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Exactly. She has no intention otherwise: "I promise that if I am elected as President, I will return to the Gaeltacht and I will learn Irish” - like that's quite a high prerequisite for folks to be President first.
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I also have minimal respect for a former Minister for Arts, Heritage and the GAELTACHT who didn't work on fluency while in office but is now promised to learn Irish if elected President.
Nice try Heather.
Nice try Heather.
Back to the actual and current Presidential candidates -with all the Jim Gavin shenanigans of the last 24 hours it may have not grabbed people’s attention that Heather Humphreys just threw trans people under the bus in response to a Grift dot ie reporters question!So there’s that! #aras25 #speirgorm
October 6, 2025 at 9:41 AM
I also have minimal respect for a former Minister for Arts, Heritage and the GAELTACHT who didn't work on fluency while in office but is now promised to learn Irish if elected President.
Nice try Heather.
Nice try Heather.
hello, yes, I'm a massive nerd whose hobby is making a podcast about the making of The X-Files
but I get to learn about cool stuff like editing for film and television
if you also like these things, you can find the latest episode with Eleanor Infante on the podcast apps or at heydannyitsmulder.com
but I get to learn about cool stuff like editing for film and television
if you also like these things, you can find the latest episode with Eleanor Infante on the podcast apps or at heydannyitsmulder.com
October 5, 2025 at 9:03 PM
hello, yes, I'm a massive nerd whose hobby is making a podcast about the making of The X-Files
but I get to learn about cool stuff like editing for film and television
if you also like these things, you can find the latest episode with Eleanor Infante on the podcast apps or at heydannyitsmulder.com
but I get to learn about cool stuff like editing for film and television
if you also like these things, you can find the latest episode with Eleanor Infante on the podcast apps or at heydannyitsmulder.com
my friend just sent me this very very old photo, back when I still took my knees and back for granted
October 4, 2025 at 10:21 AM
my friend just sent me this very very old photo, back when I still took my knees and back for granted