If you look up any major university, you will see they have a zoological museum. If you look up any major country, you will find they have a natural history museum. Ireland is no different. Our own campus, here at …
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Eureka in Éire
A look at how instrumental Ireland was in scientific innovation
Picture this: a land where the rivers flow with wit and the skies are painted with creativity. Ireland is well known for the best whiskey on the planet and the all-healing elixir – a microwaved 7UP! But amidst its rolling …
From print to pixels: The Irish press revolution
A look back at 70 years of publishing in Ireland
As the Celtic Tiger roared into the new millennium, a quiet revolution was unfolding, one that would transform how the Emerald Isle devoured its daily news. Ink met pixels, headlines leaped from broadsheets to browsers, and the reader’s journey through …
Student digital (de)vices
Investigating what has and hasn’t changed about our social media habits in the last decade
If you take a peek at the Trinity News archives all the way back in the days of November 2013, you might stumble across a feature piece entitled, ‘Is Facebook a false reality?’ Authored by then-staff writer Alice Kinsella, the …
Synge, talking about relativity: 50 years on
A Review of Synge’s Talking About Relativity – is it still as relevant as it was 50 years ago?
It is an oft-cited aphorism that intelligence is best displayed in the process of aptly simplifying the complex for general understanding. Though a passionate and rather frequent reader of physics-related literature, I frequently find my desire to (though verily only …
How to Write a Popular Science Book? In Conversation With Kevin Mitchell
Associate professor of Developmental Neurobiology and Genetics, Kevin Mitchell, speaks to Trinity News about his new book “Free Agents: How Evolution gave us Free Will”
It is a truth universally acknowledged that the closer you get to finishing your degree, the further you get to finishing that book that has been dog-eared on the same page for the last month.The time to read a book …
When alcohol takes the piss
Alice Matty explores why alcohol makes us urinate like a faucet.
If I had a dime for each time a friend asked “you don’t need to go to the bathroom?” on a night out, I’d have … well, I guess I’d have no dimes, because, as most college students …
Academics across research disciplines embrace AI’s potential to accelerate research
While some have already begun to embrace the power of AI tools to speed up research, others seek to pioneer its use in their own fields
“Too many things are still uncertain to know how it will change things in teaching and research.”
Dr Noah Buckley’s comment summarises the general attitude among academics towards the rapidly advancing impact of artificial intelligence (AI). Uncertainty about how powerful …
Prohibition simply won’t work – universities must train their students to use ChatGPT to its full potential
Generative AI is here, and students are embracing it with or without their universities
The ancient institution of the university, with its many traditions and entrenched bureaucracies, will have to be uncharacteristically nimble to adapt to the coming revolutionisation of knowledge work. The ability of large language models (LLMs) to produce a well-written essay …
Analysis: ChatGPT is set to disrupt the post-pandemic dominance of written assessments
Post-pandemic assessment and education as a whole are at odds with user accessibility to artificial intelligence
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic meant that traditional modes of assessment were no longer compatible with distance learning. Academic officials were not prepared nor understood how to effectively deliver education solely online to all students. An inability to administer …