Matt Donoghue

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Assistant Professor/Ad Astra Fellow in Social Policy, UCD. I do stuff on social citizenship, resilience, ideology, discourse, inequalities. Interested in lived experience

NB this account reposts my tweets; I don't often check it! Feel free to contact me on Twitter or email

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How can reforms be achieved in an EU with 27 vetoes? Don't underestimate individual actors!

@[email protected] shows in her study on #SocialEurope how Macron leveraged media attention to push for change outside the 'Brussels bubble'.

Full study in @[email protected]:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09596801221148853

πŸ¦πŸ”—: https://twitter.com/Afscharian/status/1620342650246422529

One of my favourite things about teaching is the curiosity-driven questions. After talking about (post-) Fordism, consumerism and the welfare state today, I was then able to talk about fictitious commodities, assetisation, GDP inflation and the crisis of welfare! In Week 2!

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Good morning πŸ‘‹

Who has 'submit an abstract to #DiscPol23' on their weekly to-do list?

For the CfP and abstract submission form, visit our website: https://discourseandpolitics2023.wordpress.com

πŸ¦πŸ”—: https://twitter.com/DiscPol2023/status/1619999501749714946

Call for papers: DiscPol23 – Discourse and politics in times of crisis

DiscPol23: Discourse and politics in times of crisis

This looks like a really excellent article, @[email protected]! Downloading it as we speak

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My paper on impact investing and the social conditions for the exercise of financial power just got an issue number @[email protected].

Check it out if you want to learn more about how #assetization does and does not prevail.

πŸ¦πŸ”—: https://twitter.com/PGolka/status/1620018874384265216

Philipp Golka on Twitter

β€œMy paper on impact investing and the social conditions for the exercise of financial power just got an issue number @EconSocJournal. Check it out if you want to learn more about how #assetization does and does not prevail.”

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Good evening

Good God.

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In other countries, they use computers and a fantastic invention called the internet to securely transfer and access patient records.

In the @[email protected], however, in the year 2023, we use suitcases to transfer handwritten notes around the hospital. https://twitter.com/irishtimes/status/1618167770079965184

πŸ¦πŸ”—: https://twitter.com/OlaLN/status/1618611878502223872

The Irish Times on Twitter

β€œThe HSE has β€œno vision” for the digitisation of the health service and efforts to change this are being impeded by β€œbad actors”, according to its recently-departed head of digital transformation (1/5)”

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Despite carrying an injury, made myself get out and run, and somehow got a distance PB. Still slow, though, according to the internet.

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@[email protected] @[email protected] I also think that social and behavioral science is just far more complicated than physical science. We don't have high precision instruments to observe the trillions of neurons across billions of persons nested in all kinds of different groups interacting at various levels.

πŸ¦πŸ”—: https://twitter.com/BreznauNate/status/1618597388733808641

Nate Breznau on Twitter

β€œ@drdonoghue @Afscharian I also think that social and behavioral science is just far more complicated than physical science. We don't have high precision instruments to observe the trillions of neurons across billions of persons nested in all kinds of different groups interacting at various levels.”

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If you're an academic looking for unsolicited advice, here's one I think about often: make time to read. Like, literally schedule time for reading. It's amazing how hard it is to find time for the very thing that made us so excited about the work in the first place.

πŸ¦πŸ”—: https://twitter.com/jeffguhin/status/1617702472663068673

[email protected] on Twitter

β€œIf you're an academic looking for unsolicited advice, here's one I think about often: make time to read. Like, literally schedule time for reading. It's amazing how hard it is to find time for the very thing that made us so excited about the work in the first place.”

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