Shane O'Mara

@shanewriter

Neuroscientist, psychologist, writer; Prof Exp Brain Res, Trinity College Dublin; n/lr @ www.brainpizza.com; New book: Talking Heads @ www.shaneomarawriter.com; projectjustice.eu

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Shane O'Mara@shanewriter· May 3

From a letter by Ruth Rendell to Donna Leon (in Leon's wonderful book, Backstage). #donnaleon #booksky #ruthrendell #Barbaravine #writing

And she listened. To Handel, as it turned out. In one
of her last letters, she remarked upon her first hearing of
the oratorio Saul: 'Wonderful, yes, and one has to hear the
celebrated Dead March in context fully to appreciate it I
am definitely going to have it at my funeral or perhaps at
my memorial service. Do come.'

Shane O'Mara@shanewriter· May 1

And where's this?

Shane O'Mara@shanewriter· May 1

Where's this?!

Shane O'Mara@shanewriter· Apr 23

Honestly, just brilliant 👏 #gorillaz #themountain

Shane O'Mara@shanewriter· Mar 24

Look at these numbers. Nature Comms and Sci Reports - approx $180,000,000 between them in APCs.

Shane O'Mara@shanewriter· Jan 2

Salthill Park Bandstand

Shane O'Mara@shanewriter· Dec 31

In an age of AI slop, a reminder from an age when knowledge was under attack:

But our first and most important function, the reason the people need us and keep us, is to preserve the purity of all sources of knowledge. ln trade, in
politics, and what have
you, turning an X into a Y may occasionally prove to be a
stroke of genius; but never with
us.

Shane O'Mara@shanewriter· Dec 31

Just finished this masterpiece from 1943. The para feels entirely true today. #hesse #glassbeadgame #politics

Shane O'Mara@shanewriter· Dec 30

Nice view, eh?

Shane O'Mara@shanewriter· Dec 28

Superb essay on the politics of grievance mongering, negative solidarity, and anger. aeon.co/essays/what-... 'When identity is built through antagonism, it becomes dependent on conflict...And that means it can’t stop; it can’t rest...'

Shane O'Mara@shanewriter· Dec 26

Some cracking Christmas reading here. FitzGerald comes out of this as someone whose grasp far failed his reach, and Haughey as someone who could have achieved so much more had he not been so venial and corrupt.

Shane O'Mara@shanewriter· Nov 12

My new project (a book released in stages): Cognitive Republic: Building Societies That Experiment, Learn, and Evolve - Reinventing Democracies as Learning, Adaptive, Systems Sign-up: steady.page/en/cognitive... #cognitive #democracies #renewal #republic #learning #newdirections #systems

Shane O'Mara@shanewriter· Oct 17

Indeed. And the simple things to make the tech work. jfc. Here's a screenshot of the co-pilot solution to remove randomly appearing line breaks in a large Word file - install a macro in word...

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Shane O'Mara@shanewriter· Sep 4

There's something lovely about sitting on the upper deck of the bus (normally, I take a train, but there are issues this evening)

Shane O'Mara@shanewriter· Jul 11

Even in these times, there is beauty.

Shane O'Mara@shanewriter· Jun 21

Study this carefully, especially the bottom...

From an Italian church, a vision of hell and its denizens

Shane O'Mara@shanewriter· Jun 10

against civilisational nostalgia: western identity and global cognitive drift-the supposed narrative of civilisational unity obscures systematic motivated reasoning, preventing adaptive institutional evolution. More: www.brainpizza.com/p/against-ci... #psychscisky #politics #USA #Europe #China

Shane O'Mara@shanewriter· May 21

The V & A is on the move. Victoria Hill is just up the road, btw... www.tripadvisor.ie/Attraction_R...

Shane O'Mara@shanewriter· May 17

‘a low dishonest decade’: if an LLM can outrun your logic, there's a problem Latest and maybe greatest or maybe ok-ist post is posted… ChatGPT beats the New York Times hands down at logical reasoning and identifying cognitive biases….😉😀 open.substack.com/pub/brainpiz...

Shane O'Mara@shanewriter· May 9

🧠🎬TRDA funded PhD @ TCD! fNIRS to study films, stories in neurotypicals & patients. Design tasks, work with patients. 1st class/high 2.1 (MSc a plus), Python, human participant exp. Stipend + full fees (EU & intl). Start Sept 2025. Apply by 14 Jun→ smomara@tcd.ie #PhD #psychskyence #neuroskyence