Aidan Kane

Economics lecturer at NUI Galway, Ireland also @duanaire

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

When babies are at high risk of dying prematurely, parents respond by having lots of kids. Once medical conditions improve and infant mortality goes down parents have fewer kids. Overpopulation is solved by improving healthcare. Source: https://t.co/GLzfzzZ8KL

[Aidan Kane @aidankane]

@DoranAine @econgalway Great job Aine. Good as always to hear about some of the work underway at @QUCEHBelfast

[Aidan Kane @aidankane]

@donnchanuig Established Professor slams pompous titles shocker :)

[Aidan Kane @aidankane]

@kjhealy No joy with the Pollygraph, neither.

[Nery Persichini @nerypersi]

Una derivada segunda del grano de café en jarrito, por favor.

[Aidan Kane @aidankane]

Hi Jodi --- great stuff, looks very interesting indeed!

[Jodi Schneider @jschneider]

@AidanKane In a talk by Kathryn Tomasek @KathrynTomasek about Digital Edition Publishing Cooperative for Historical Accounts https://t.co/Qhegr8r7hc which builds off Modeling Semantically-Enhanced Digital Edition of Accounts. This made me think of your work on economic history.

[Aidan Kane @aidankane]

Hi Kathryn! V interesting work -- looking forward to reading closely

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[Stanley Bill @StanleySBill]

Yes. https://t.co/2RS3fpQkcv

[Keaton Patti @KeatonPatti]

I forced a bot to watch over 1,000 hours of Trump's State of the Union and then asked it to write its own Trump's State of the Union. Here is the first page.

[Edel @bisonasasta]

Tá níos mó daoine a bhí ar scoil liom ina gcónaí #TrasnaNadTonnta ná mar atá aige baile.Cuireadh tascfhórsa le chéile le dul i ngleic le seo.Tacaigh linn ár bplean a chur i gcrích https://t.co/Io4npAUqaB

[Justin Sandefur @JustinSandefur]

Not news, but Emily Oster is very clever.

[John Cox @johncoxnuig]

Have you got a passion for passion for open scholarship? That's one of the requirements for a new role of Open Scholarship Librarian @nuiglibrary - lots happening in this space globally and @nuigalway so a great opportunity to make a big difference - see https://t.co/7iw1a7tPZa

[Peter Foster @pmdfoster]

I can scarcely believe this - we are not into a 'the backstop' v 'a backstop' semantics debate.

Downing St once again dancing on the head of a pin.

So let's be clear...1

https://t.co/8cPkJFL7bn

[Motherfoclóir: The Legacy @Motherfocloir]

Wow #TrasnaNadTonnta

[Stefan Simanowitz @StefSimanowitz]

A man feeds swans in the snow in Cracow, Poland. Photo by Marcin Ryczek.

[TheVictorianCommons @TheVictCommons]

James Joyce's Ulysses was published #onthisday 1922. One of our Victorian MPs, the long-lived Hedges Eyre Chatterton (1819-1910), was immortalised in it. Chatterton sat as MP for Dublin University in 1867, before his appointment as vice-chancellor of Ireland (a judicial post).

[Joseph Lacey @JJJLacey]

Launch of new website for @ucdpolitics @Aidan_Regan on the New Political Economy of Europe - great new research programme/speaker series/web-resource on Democratic Legitimacy/Economic Governance/ Protest. https://t.co/ntrIE8Tjjt Keep an eye 4 future events. Today: David Soskicke

[Irish Lights @IrishLights]

Closing date for applications for @IrishLights Archivist and Heritage Officer role is close of business on Friday, 1 Feb #jobfairy