A memorable and touching award ceremony - honoured that it happened so appropriately during CreativeBrainWeek

This is shaping up to be quite a week - arts, neuroscience, health intermingling on a magnificently global stage. Global Brain Health Institute Dalkey Book Festival

Join Prof ianrobertson & Fionnuala Sweeney in conversation with Tracey Naledi, founding chairperson of Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity SA, as she talks about growing up in apartheid-era South Africa and her journey of working in medicine. youtube.com/watch?v=tvFOq7… #HealthEquity #AtlanticInstitute

Congratulations Professor Brian Lawlor, new Menber of the Royal Irish Academy ⁦Global Brain Health Institute⁩ ⁦Trinity College Dublin⁩ ⁦Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College (TCIN)⁩

Guaranteed wonderful early Sunday evening musical experience for you if you turn up in Dun Laoghaire today at 5. Mendelssohn died at 38 having produced this transcendent work of genius ⁦Global Brain Health Institute⁩ ⁦Trinity College Dublin⁩

We have a postdoc position open in our lab. Psychologists, economists and related disciplines welcome. We do research - mostly experiments - to inform lots of different areas of public policy.

🦠🎙️ The Biomes podcast is back for Season 3! Listen in for the next 6 weeks as I chat with some of the best microbiome scientists in the world. First episode is with Jotham Suez (SuezLab@JHU) suez.bsky.social about artificial sweeteners and the gut microbiome. Please rate and share! open.spotify.com/show/2bZCXpQww…

Joe Biden does not have dementia but he has to step down. irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/0…

My interview with CNN’s Sanjay Gupta on confidence podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wan…

My take in today’s Irish Times on the forthcoming Trump Presidency. irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/0…

Some take-homes on confidence from my interview with Sanjay Gupta cnn.com/2024/07/14/hea…

The man on the moon was smiling in Dublin tonight - anything to do with events across the Atlantic?

Stripes sunset in Dublin

Missing the Olympics?

This paper by Global Brain Health Institute and faculty is crucial evidence for how socio-economic and environmental factors accelerate brain ageing across the world. Huge implications for global policy on preventing dementia.

Delighted to have a chapter on the Psychology of the Dictator in this fascinating and important book by Iain Dale

My take on needling and the Harris Trump debate on today’s ⁦The Business⁩ ⁦Trinity College Dublin⁩ ⁦Global Brain Health Institute⁩ rteradioapp.page.link/kyXNP6cHemUw9T…

Ireland is too dependent on other country’s science and technology. It desperately needs to raise its embarrassingly low investment in universities and research if we are to maintain our wealth. It could disappear in a flash. This is urgent Paschal Donohoe TCD TBSI Trinity College Dublin