New research on how early baby black holes grew into supermassive giants just hundreds of millions of years after the Big Bang has been published in @NatureAstronomy . 🌌
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Using advanced simulations, the team found that chaotic, gas-rich conditions in the early Universe fueled rapid feeding frenzies — solving a puzzle revealed by the @ESA_Webb.
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The research was led by @MU_Physics Daxal Mehta and supported by research group leader Dr John Regan and research team member Dr Lewis Prole.
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How did the US become the main threat to the future of NATO?
As the United States moves away from NATO’s founding multilateral principles, the alliance faces a forced redefinition of its future strategy, writes Dr David Murphy from @MaynoothHistmaynoothuniversity.ie/resear…
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📻Listen back: Dr Emma Farrell from @MUpsychdept was on @RTERadio1 today speaking about the association between technology and brain rot/rage bait (Oxford Dictionary’s words of the year for 2024 and 2025).
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How did the US become the main threat to the future of NATO? America's departure from the multilateral principles that NATO was founded upon will force the organisation to redefine its future strategy. By David Murphy @MaynoothUnirte.ie/brainstorm/2026/0113/…
Dr David Murphy from @MaynoothHist examines how Co Meath–born Sir William Johnson and his nephew, Guy Johnson, played important roles as British colonial administrators in the 18th century, especially in shaping relationships with Native Americans.
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The first all-island mental health collaborative research network – CO-PRIME – has been set up to help combat mental ill health in a more coordinated way right across Ireland and will be headed up by MU's @CMHCR_maynooth Director, Prof Sinead McGilloway.
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Nollaig na mBan faoi mhaise dhaoibh. Happy Women’s Christmas from MU 🎄
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ChatGPT-generated text is often more predictable than human writing and uses certain recurring words, writes Prof Jennifer Foster of the @MU_Hamilton .
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"We're getting into the 'uncanny valley,'"
Dr Constance de Saint Laurent, @MUpsychdept
, referring to the phenomenon in which interactions with artificial objects are so human-like it triggers unease.
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