Alan Sloane

Lecturer, Food Business @ UCC - Social Network Analysis + Rural Development.
Formerly @ Glockenspiel, ParcPlace, Sun, Motorola, Iona Technologies

[Alan Sloane @alansloane]

@remkorteweg Irish Govt reportedly planning emergency laws to allow return of immigrants to UK. Raises many questions, but is in many ways another "Brexit" effect and so would be more effectively addressed within an EU-wide context? https://t.co/TCWvS86HMJ

[Alan Sloane @alansloane]

@Caesar100Kaiser @LizCarolan @WhoTargetsMe FG supporters still have HotMail accounts and don't understand social media😀

[Alan Sloane @alansloane]

@itvnews I wonder do people realise that Ireland is also a major food source for the UK - and that it's in the EU? It's misssing from the graphics (obscured by an animated truck), but accounts for almost 10% of the UK's total Food & Live Animal imports.

[Alan Sloane @alansloane]

@infowetrust Hard to leave this out, but maybe not for those new to it https://t.co/1gHXLKwUm5

[Marc Johnson @SolidEvidence]

The first time this happened was with the lineage B.1.1.1.1, which became C.1.

Eventually they ran out of single letters and had to switch to a two-letter code. We are about halfway towards needing a 3-letter code.

12/

[Alan Sloane @alansloane]

@Usherwood One more caveat - EUComm statement: "Today's political agreement must now be approved by EU Member States before being formally adopted in the EU-UK Specialised Committee on Participation in Union Programmes" Will all member states see it as in their national interest to approve?

[Alan Sloane @alansloane]

@dwmal1 @UrbnWarfareDuck @IrishTimes @UL Other oddities I recall: the editor we had was the infamously terse "ed", later replaced to universal relief with "em" from QMUL. The first "internet" connection was to UKC - you needed to know your own "routing table" and separate out the path with "!"'s to get anywhere else!

[Alan Sloane @alansloane]

@dwmal1 @UrbnWarfareDuck @IrishTimes @UL Tim got the PDP-11 in late summer of 1979. It ran Version 6 of Bell Labs Unix. I recall it being in a very small room beside what became the computer lab. At first there was a set of hand-written instructions taped to it with how to set the switches on the front to boot it up!

[Alan Sloane @alansloane]

@dwmal1 @UrbnWarfareDuck @IrishTimes @UL @MathsTCD Sorry David, didn't see your reply. I think that note is from a later time, as I don't recall the PDP having anything so cute as a name back in the first days. My recollection was that the "how to boot" note was written Brendan Lynch from CS, who later worked with me at Sun.

[Alan Sloane @alansloane]

@IrishRail @DublinPride Love her work https://t.co/e2ppT7Pm6e - looking forward to seeing the mural, but maybe not tomorrow morning!

[Alan Sloane @alansloane]

@colleenhartlan1 @EmmaSmith035 @AmandaFBelfast It's also unclear how it could be enforced or checked - no border and too many travellers!

[Alan Sloane @alansloane]

@colleenhartlan1 @EmmaSmith035 @AmandaFBelfast Citizens of Ireland & UK free to travel (&work ) anywhere in the 2 countries. English husband above should have no problems. For Australia UK will charge £10 for ETA (visa waiver (https://t.co/xGnddn8Sky), but they won't be ready until 2024 at best (https://t.co/q4022ynOIB)

[Alan Sloane @alansloane]

@sdonnan As a textbook, Core Economics (https://t.co/xlpuljZt80), is much more heterodox and interesting IMHO than the standard textbooks used especially in the US. It's also free

[Alan Sloane @alansloane]

A great crowd of lovely people at @Vicar_Street with @PillowQueens

[Alan Sloane @alansloane]

Sunset swim in November (Donabate, Co. Dublin)

[Alan Sloane @alansloane]

@visualisingdata Having had to re-do one figure last weekend (which took me the full weekend!), monochrome output was a major constraint. But also file image formats for publication - eps, pdf, jpg, emf, plain old Word ...

[Alan Sloane @alansloane]

@HannahEDaly Katya comes well-recommended for disease resistance in Irish condition, but not a long-keeper. Elstar and Red Windsor (Alkmene) do well in Cork https://t.co/5nfVtkVjA8

[Alan Sloane @alansloane]

The French Embassy showing solidarity

[Alan Sloane @alansloane]

@MaryOShaughne16 @LucasOl94300482 @CUBSucc @MSCActions @UCC Congrats. Great photo!

[Alan Sloane @alansloane]

@SadhbhWalshe @ShannonAirport Last time I was there most of the travelers were shockingly young Americans in battle dress, in transit to Iraq and Afghanistan. I hope it can thrive now without that business!