In the Dark
Adams, Rachmaninov & Stravinsky at the National Concert Hall
Weekly Update from the Open Journal of Astrophysics – 14/03/2026
40 Years since Prof. Susan McKenna-Lawlor made Contact with a Comet – Guest Post by Emma Whelan
Hopeful news about the STFC Crisis
Horizon, Zenith and Atmosphere – Paul Klee
Writing as Thinking
Labhair an teanga Ghaeilge liom
Cuts, Commitments and Contradictions – guest post by Lucien Heurtier
Tony Benn in 1998
Open Letter about Cuts to UK Theoretical Physics Funding
Weekly Update from the Open Journal of Astrophysics – 07/03/2026
Crows in Spring – John Clare
On Pedantry, by Arnoud S.Q. Visser
Iran, a graveyard
Hubble, Euclid and the Cat’s-Eye Nebula
A Gulf in the Airspace
Barddoniaeth ar gyfer Dydd Gŵyl Dewi
Weekly Update from the Open Journal of Astrophysics – 28/02/2026
Maynooth University Library Cat Update
Another Day, Another Elsevier Scandal
Remembering David MacKay
The Alex Blue Case
Via Negativa, by R.S. Thomas
Call for Editors at the Open Journal of Astrophysics
Higdon, Strauss and Ravel at the National Concert Hall
Weekly Update from the Open Journal of Astrophysics – 21/02/2026
A Quarter Term
Ash Wednesday Observance
Astrophysics Wrapped 2025
Fat Tuesday – Bourbon Street Parade
The Trouble with Teaching Particle Physics…
On the Blog
Time After Time – Chet Baker
Weekly Update from the Open Journal of Astrophysics – 14/02/2026
The County Game
The Rain Falls Down
Snowdrops – Lillias Mitchell
Probabilistic inference in very large universes
Take Note!
10 Years of the Open Journal of Astrophysics
The Week in Pictures…
Weekly Update from the Open Journal of Astrophysics – 07/02/2026
The STFC Funding Crisis – Guest Post by George Efstathiou
What’s your Epstein Number?
Maynooth University Library Cat Update
Cosmic Spring I – František Kupka
That Letter from UKRI
Imbolg, St Brigid, and the Quickening of the Year
Weekly Update from the Open Journal of Astrophysics – 31/01/2026
A Cosmic Miracle?
A New STFC Funding Crisis
Maynooth off X!
Request to Iarnród Éireann to move from X
Storm Chandra
The Next Semester
Man was Made to Mourn – Robert Burns
Bologne, Mozart and Mendelssohn at the National Concert Hall
Weekly Update from the Open Journal of Astrophysics – 24/01/2026
The Kilmainham Gaol Scam: yet another Reason not to use Google
Dark Energy Survey Year Y6 Results Day!
The growth of light seed black holes in the early Universe
The Girl from Greenland – Chet Baker
Accessibility Upgrade at Maynooth Railway Station
Marking Over
Barry Ward’s Letter about Grok/AI
Leaving X
Boulanger, Shostakovich and Rimsky-Korsakov at the National Concert Hall
Weekly Update from the Open Journal of Astrophysics – 17/01/2026
Marking Progress
The Exam Room – Cyril E. Power
De-Dah – Elmo Hope Trio
Marking Time Once More
The Unsolved Mysteries of Erich von Däniken
Carioca – The Hampton Hawes Trio
Weekly Update from the Open Journal of Astrophysics – 10/01/2026
Greenland’s Icy Mountains – William Topaz McGonagall
Exam Time Yet Again
Ashes to Ashes…
Now you REALLY need to leave X (and so does your employer…)
Maynooth University Library Cat Update
A Frosty Return
Den Bortkomne Sauen
Not a Weekly Update from the Open Journal of Astrophysics – 03/01/2026
Sunrise, Sunset, Solstice and Perihelion
2026: The Year Ahead
December 31st – Richard Hoffman
Lick Observatory Damaged
Alegoría del Invierno – Remedios Varo
The Voice of Niels Bohr
Weekly Update from the Open Journal of Astrophysics – 27/12/2025
Nollaig shona daoibh go léir!
A Christmas Eve Message
The Counties of the United Kingdom (according to ChatGPT)
O Tannenbaum – Vince Guaraldi Trio
The Winter Solstice 2025
R.I.P. Yannick Mellier (1958-2025)
Weekly Update from the Open Journal of Astrophysics – 20/12/2025
Art in Bruges
Supplement to the Open Journal of Astrophysics – “Pulsar Science with the SKAO”
The Last of Teaching
Schumann: Arabeske in C major (Op. 18) – Boris Giltburg
The Last Judgment
Maynooth University Library Cat Update
Four Teaching Days to Christmas
Everything is a Simple Harmonic Oscillator
Weekly Update from the Open Journal of Astrophysics – 13/12/2025
How magnetism might make galaxies…
Blue Christmas Again
An Introduction to Philosophy
Around the Circle – Wassily Kandinsky
Storm Bram Approaches…
Nine Teaching Days to Christmas
Black Holes, Hawking Radiation (and AI…)
Mozart and Bruckner at the National Concert Hall
Weekly Update from the Open Journal of Astrophysics – 06/12/2025
Viva Chair
Like a Million Pounds…
Yet Another Elsevier Scandal
MAUVE Image Simulation
World Aids Day
Eight Years in Maynooth…
More AI garbage
Weekly Update from the Open Journal of Astrophysics – 29/11/2025
MAUVE Launched!
Crosaire Puzzles
Maynooth University Library Cat (and Bat) Update
MAUVE Postponed
In-Tray
A month to go
Money and Open Access
For the Birds
Weekly Update from the Open Journal of Astrophysics – 22/11/2025
Visiting Speaker
Stardust – Michael D. Higgins
Queen’s University Belfast and Dundalk IT (not Maynooth?)
It’s LGBTQIA+ STEM Day!
Principia for Sale
Concerning Muskopedia
Weekly Update from the Open Journal of Astrophysics – 15/11/2025
The Key to Ireland’s Victory against Portugal
Quantum & Answers
One Hundred Years of the Hot Five
Ireland has a new President
Why can’t you make a neutral pion from two photons?
Autumn Transition
On the death of James Watson
Ravel, Dressner and Beethoven at the National Concert Hall
Weekly Update from the Open Journal of Astrophysics – 08/11/2025
Euclid’s “Tuning Fork”
Euclid and the Dark Cloud
Trouble at Astronomy Ireland
Virtually in Chile
Denario
Weekly Update from the Open Journal of Astrophysics – 01/11/2025
Oíche Shamhna shona daoibh go léir!
Fifth Covid Booster
After Conferring
Graduation – Jacob Lawrence
On the Evidence for Supersymmetry from CMS…
It’s That Time Again
Ireland’s new President
Weekly Update from the Open Journal of Astrophysics – 25/10/2025
Polling Day
Autumn Leaves – Cannonball Adderley
Ireland in CERN!
Autumn Rhythm (Number 30) – Jackson Pollock
The Passage of Time
On Cosmography (and going Mainstream)
Clyne, Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich at the National Concert Hall
Weekly Update from the Open Journal of Astrophysics – 18/10/2025
Testing Times
Calling all Irish weather and climate enthusiasts!
There and Back Again
Beginning Astronomy
Quarter-Term – Testing Time
When will the AI Bubble burst?
Weekly Update from the Open Journal of Astrophysics – 11/10/2025
Shackleton: a Lesson in Leadership
Caveman Physics
Everyone wants something better than ΛCDM
And then there were two…
Nobel Prize for Physics Speculation
Introducing Science Explorer (SciX)
Storm Amy
Weekly Update from the Open Journal of Astrophysics – 04/10/2025
R.I.P. Patricia Routledge (1929-2025)
“Who was Mr. W.H.”? – and Other Questions
A Meme for Modern University Management
Moonlight and Lights – Léon Spilliaert
“Celebrated Air” on the Piano
Supplementary Information
Summer’s Over
Weekly Update from the Open Journal of Astrophysics – 27/09/2025