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Philosopher @APotochnik writing on science and public draws on the early 20th c. multidisicplinary Vienna Circle of philosophers, physicists, sociologists, mathematicians and economists active in public engagement. See Pᴜʙʟɪᴄ Uɴᴅᴇʀsᴛᴀɴᴅɪɴɢ ᴏғ Sᴄɪᴇɴᴄᴇ 𝑱𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒂𝒍 review by Thomas Dickins, medium.com/scicomm-book-r…

Psychoanalyst and film festival founder Andrea Sabbadini in a Pᴜʙʟɪᴄ Uɴᴅᴇʀsᴛᴀɴᴅɪɴɢ ᴏғ Sᴄɪᴇɴᴄᴇ 𝑱𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒂𝒍 review says a book on cinema and psychiatry in the 60s shows how mental health professionals changed cinema culture, replacing earlier formulaic approaches to psychiatric conditions. medium.com/scicomm-book-r…

We celebrate a 19th century Wexford medical scientist Arthur Leared 3.30pm Saturday 12th with unveiling of a plaque in the Bull Ring. All welcome. Details of this and lecture at Wexford Libraries in Wexford People report by Pádraig Byrne m.independent.ie/regionals/wexf…

Join us Tuesday 15th 7.30pm Wexford Libraries Town Library for discussion with Patrick Prendergast, chair of SETU governing body, on challenges and possibilities for SETU, especially for Wexford campus. Pádraig Byrne

We are delighted to announce that the theme for this year's Mary Mulvihill award will be 'Life'.🌎 The award is open to undergraduate and postgraduate students enrolled in an Irish higher education institute at the time of submission. See below for details⬇️ 🧵1/2

The sun shone and a good crowd attended as a plaque to medical doctor Arthur Leared, born 1822 nearby in Main St, was unveiled in Bull Ring, Wexford, by Surgeon Ken Mealy, 3rd from left. Edward Leared (nearest camera), one of very few living members of the family, was present.

Science's blind spot, write physicists Marcelo Gleiser and Adam Frank and philosopher @evanthompson, is its failure to take account of being embedded in human experience. In a review for Pᴜʙʟɪᴄ Uɴᴅᴇʀsᴛᴀɴᴅɪɴɢ ᴏғ Sᴄɪᴇɴᴄᴇ 𝑱𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒂𝒍 hilosopher @APotochnik finds their book enjoyable and profound. medium.com/scicomm-book-r…

The lives, #scicomm activities and strategies of 12 notable science writers and broadcasters from across the ages and countries are analysed by Bienvenido León in a new book (in Spanish only, for the present), reviewed in Pᴜʙʟɪᴄ Uɴᴅᴇʀsᴛᴀɴᴅɪɴɢ ᴏғ Sᴄɪᴇɴᴄᴇ 𝑱𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒂𝒍 by Carolina Moreno Castro medium.com/scicomm-book-r…

As The Guardian has left X, somebody has to post this on Musk's media. Fair play to Prof Bishop, of Oxford, who has resigned from the Royal Society over Elon Musk’s continuing fellowship theguardian.com/technology/202…

A few photos from last night's launch of "Araby House" by Dr. Michael Quinn. Our special thanks to Michael, Brian Trench, Brid O'Brien of INOU, and Cormac O'Hanrahan. The book is €10 and is available for purchase in our giftshop and for shipping worldwide.

Welcome indication that there are critical voices in Israel.

Stephen Jay Gould did not just explain science but showed how it can support inequality and injustice, writes Declan Fahy in a Pᴜʙʟɪᴄ Uɴᴅᴇʀsᴛᴀɴᴅɪɴɢ ᴏғ Sᴄɪᴇɴᴄᴇ 𝑱𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒂𝒍 review of a new book on this most consequential of public scientists medium.com/scicomm-book-r…

Brian Trench is a speaker for the #RBWS25 'The Brain: Past, Present & Future'! He'll portrait three Boyle's Medalists of 1910's: Sir Howard Grubb, Henry H Dixon and John A McClelland. More info on her and the programme on robertboyle.ie #RobertBoyle #BoyleMedalist

In a Pᴜʙʟɪᴄ Uɴᴅᴇʀsᴛᴀɴᴅɪɴɢ ᴏғ Sᴄɪᴇɴᴄᴇ 𝑱𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒂𝒍 review of Martin Hewitt's study of the reception of Darwin's ideas Diarmid Finnegan notes that the author’s nuanced conclusions point to ‘generational churn’ as a (possible) major influence on the communication and reception of scientific ideas. medium.com/scicomm-book-r…

Attention Nick Lloyd and others interested in the lives of Brigadistas: a first biography of Robert Hilliard, fatally wounded at Jarama. His complicated life is unravelled and eloquently told by his grand-daughter, Lin Rose Clark. Published by The Lilliput Press in Dublin.

See my review of this brigadista's biography here: irishlabourhistorysociety.com/wp-content/upl…

As promised, but Sam and Pippin are not very impressed Laurie - Light Maven Massi Bucchi