BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPrize in Physics to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit.”

Delight and relief across Marino as copies of Charlie vs Garret arrive in time for Christmas.

It’s the 100th anniversary of the birth of Charles J. Haughey. What better way to mark this than by reading… in bookshops this week.

Space Foundry has been making steady progress. In the past quarter we achieved few milestones. 1) Installed our printer at Oklahoma State University 2) Received an SBIR award from DoD on IR photodetectors and 3) corporate R&D project for electronic warfare. #plasmajetprinting

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them. - R. Oppenheimer

A brilliant free-kick from Szobo…

Investment in research infrastructure and sustainable core funding is not a luxury - it is a strategic necessity. It is an investment that grows the economy, strengthens public finances, and enables government to deliver on wider national priorities. https://t.co/ezZ283dpDa

🌍🧪 The 46th International Conference on Coordination Chemistry (ICCC 2026) invites symposia proposals! 🗓️ Deadline: September 15, 2025 🔗 https://t.co/6mMfrPqizh Shape this key #CoordinationChemistry event! @McKenzie_SDU @UniSouthDenmark

#CAO2025 offers will be made available tomorrow, Wednesday, 27th August from 2pm online - also issued by email and SMS text. Best of luck to those awaiting offers. We look forward to welcoming our new students very soon! Click here for more info: https://t.co/F0vgRLAlVA

Fireworks🎇 go off here in Tramore. Nice end to a sunny day down here for us ‘blowins’. ⁦@TramoreEcoGroup⁩ - Visit ⁦@LafcadioHearn1⁩ gardens when you visit next.

Thank this man for digital communication, data compression (ZIP, MP3), coding theory, and cryptography. Claude Shannon’s biggest scientific contribution was the creation of information theory in his 1948 paper “A Mathematical Theory of Communication.” He defined “information”

Quantum Tunneling: Particles can pass through energy barriers they seemingly shouldn't be able to cross, a phenomenon critical in technologies like semiconductors and nuclear fusion in stars.

We're hiring! 👨‍🔬👩‍🔬 Postdoctoral researcher with STM expertise needed @TCD_physics working with colleagues @TCD_Chemistry (@mathiassenge, John Boland), and collaborators @DCUPhysics, @MAXIVLaboratory, funded by @Researchirel #FFP. See https://t.co/s43mtppzBX Join our team! 😀🇮🇪

Mohamed Salah dedicates his goal and celebration to Diogo Jota ❤️

Ireland-US relations are moving towards major crisis. Text of yesterday's letter from 16 federal lawmakers urging the Trump administration to act against Ireland. Anyone in Ireland who thinks this is not serious or newsworthy doesn't know a lot about how the big bad world works.

Calling all prospective Ph.D students, see below: @DCU_LSI @DcuBiotech @DCUWater #PhD #Biodiversity #eDNA @DCUFSH

Bastille Day. The sixth anniversary of the passing of my great friend, Robert Elgie. The very definition of the phrase “a gentleman and a scholar”. May he continue to sleep easy.

A sobering assessment from @TheEconomist of the UK economy: “Britain is stuck in its longest period of economic stagnation since the 1930s. The public finances do not add up. The cost of servicing debt as a share of GDP is the highest since 1987. “ #economy #uk #markets

Our lad from Portugal. Forever ❤️

Japan has expressed concern about the security of subsea cables off the Irish coast, seeking reassurance from the Taoiseach that govt was taking adequate steps to protect them. During a meeting in Tokyo, prime minister Ishiba also raised cybersecurity.