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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