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Luke Drury

@Luke_Drury@mastodon.dias.ie

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Emeritus Professor of Astrophysics in DIAS, member and former president of the Royal Irish Academy, former VP of ALLEA. Interested in open science and the future of scholarly communication. All views expressed here are personal. Languages are English, German and some French.

1033 Followers

814 Following

22 Posts

Joined November 07, 2022

ORCID:

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9257-2270

Location:

Dublin, Ireland

DIAS:

https://www.dias.ie/2010/08/19/astrostaff-ld/

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Luke Drury @Luke_Drury@mastodon.dias.ie · Jul 12, 2026

Replying to @knud@mastodon.social

@knud@mastodon.social Excellent news. Although it always struck me how little wind there was in Heidelberg compared to Ireland!

Luke Drury @Luke_Drury@mastodon.dias.ie · Jul 05, 2026

Is it conceivable that printed books and encyclopaedias from before AI may become quite sought after and valuable as reliable sources of information in the near future?

Luke Drury @Luke_Drury@mastodon.dias.ie · May 21, 2026

Lesson learnt — turning a research paper into a talk is easy, but the reverse, turning a talk into a research paper, is much harder and almost impossible!

Luke Drury @Luke_Drury@mastodon.dias.ie · May 17, 2026

This is a persuasive and insightful analysis of the disaster that is British politics at the moment. Thanks @Tupp_ed@mastodon.ie

https://www.thegist.ie/the-gist-britain-the-ungoverned-country/

Luke Drury @Luke_Drury@mastodon.dias.ie · May 09, 2026

This Europe day one has to admit that while far from perfect, looking at the rest of the world, the EU seems pretty good. Happy to be able to say "Civis Europaeus sum".

Luke Drury @Luke_Drury@mastodon.dias.ie · Mar 31, 2026

Replying to @ASAPbio@mas.to

@ASAPbio Astonishing how many people still think that posting a preprint risks being “scooped”. In reality it’s just the opposite; preprints are time stamped, public and citable, whereas in the traditional route a malicious referee can scoop you.

Luke Drury @Luke_Drury@mastodon.dias.ie · Mar 26, 2026

RE: @kim_harding@mastodon.scot

Interesting! This should be possible in Ireland.

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kim_harding ✅: "Your next puffer jacket could be made from bulrus…" - mastodon.scot

Luke Drury @Luke_Drury@mastodon.dias.ie · Mar 25, 2026

RE: @asiny@mstdn.ca

Helium is an incredibly valuable resource that we manage very badly. Although the second most abundant element in the universe, on Earth it only occurs trapped in rocks as a result of alpha decay of radioactive elements. Once it enters the atmosphere it is so light that it diffuses out into space and is lost. We need to conserve it as much as possible.

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Asiny: "https://www.euronews.com/business/2026/03/25/heli…" - Mastodon Canada

Luke Drury @Luke_Drury@mastodon.dias.ie · Mar 25, 2026

An unintended but positive side effect of the rise of AI and LLMs is that it may accelerate the long overdue reform of research assessment. If the "journals" are flooded with slop academia will be forced to take DORA seriously.

#ResearchAssessment #COARA

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Luke Drury @Luke_Drury@mastodon.dias.ie · Mar 24, 2026

Sad to hear of the death of the mathematician David Wilkins from TCD - he did interesting work on the history of mathematics and was a talented amateur musician.

https://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/

#Mathematics

Luke Drury @Luke_Drury@mastodon.dias.ie · Mar 24, 2026

The presidents of Germany and Ireland agree - the war in the middle east is illegal.

https://www.tagesschau.de/newsticker/liveblog-iran-dienstag-102.html

Luke Drury @Luke_Drury@mastodon.dias.ie · Mar 22, 2026

I do wish the media would stop talking about the cost of energy when what they really mean is the cost of fossil fuel energy. Renewables are and remain cheap.

Luke Drury @Luke_Drury@mastodon.dias.ie · Oct 27, 2025

Good thread showing why the global cloud is basically what economists call a natural monopoly.

From: @Mer__edith@mastodon.world
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Luke Drury @Luke_Drury@mastodon.dias.ie · May 04, 2025

Replying to @hfalcke@mastodon.social

@hfalcke @LudoWaltman @stephenpinfield @cwts @RoRInstitute @ASAPbio This data is from 2017, but even then astronomy papers using ESO data were being posted on the arXiv well over 90% of the time and I doubt that it has dropped since. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1801.03366

Luke Drury @Luke_Drury@mastodon.dias.ie · May 03, 2025

Replying to @LudoWaltman@social.cwts.nl

@LudoWaltman @hfalcke @stephenpinfield @cwts @RoRInstitute @ASAPbio Fascinating! and would seem to support my suggestion of a correlation with the use of TeX/LaTeX?

Luke Drury @Luke_Drury@mastodon.dias.ie · May 02, 2025

Replying to @hfalcke@mastodon.social

@hfalcke @LudoWaltman @stephenpinfield @cwts @RoRInstitute @ASAPbio It is certainly much higher in astrophysics and theoretical physics, but people working in material science for example do not have the same preprint culture - there are many different branches of physics with different traditions and norms.

Luke Drury @Luke_Drury@mastodon.dias.ie · May 02, 2025

Replying to @LudoWaltman@social.cwts.nl

@LudoWaltman @stephenpinfield @cwts @RoRInstitute @ASAPbio An under-appreciated factor in the early adoption of preprints by the physical and mathematical sciences was I believe the introduction of TeX for typesetting the mathematics in preprints. Once scientists realised that they could do their own typesetting the journals lost one of their main selling points. https://council.science/publications/normalization-preprints/ #Preprints #OpenScience

Luke Drury @Luke_Drury@mastodon.dias.ie · Jan 17, 2025

Replying to @natural20@mastodon.ie

@natural20@mastodon.ie @bert_hubert@fosstodon.org the expert here is @dwmalone@mastodon.ie - I had a weird problem with the time stamps on emails in the apple mail client which turned out to be due to this issue with official Irish time being summer time!

Luke Drury @Luke_Drury@mastodon.dias.ie · Mar 28, 2024

Replying to @mattjhodgkinson@scicomm.xyz

@mattjhodgkinson@scicomm.xyz @johannes_lehmann@fediscience.org The tide has most definitely turned and a clear consensus is forming - see commentary by @brembs@mastodon.social and myself on the International Science Council blog https://council.science/current/blog/the-open-access-rising-tide-gates-foundation-ends-support-to-article-processing-charges/

Luke Drury @Luke_Drury@mastodon.dias.ie · Oct 11, 2023

Replying to @msh@post.lurk.org

@msh@post.lurk.org @TeamMidwest@glammr.us @DIAS_Dublin@mastodon.dias.ie Agree about @DIAS_Dublin@mastodon.dias.ie of course! Check out @NdeFaoite@mastodon.ie for instance. The Royal Irish Academy library is also worth a visit. Not so much a library as an art institute the Chester Beatty library is fascinating if you like Asian art and manuscripts.

Luke Drury @Luke_Drury@mastodon.dias.ie · Dec 26, 2022

Taking the turkey out of the oven yesterday!

Luke Drury @Luke_Drury@mastodon.dias.ie · Dec 19, 2022

Open science friends and colleagues, please follow the Federation of European Academies of Sciences and Humanities (European to be interpreted broadly as in membership of the Council of Europe - more than the EU).

@ALLEA@eupolicy.social

#OpenScience #SciencePolicy #ResearchIntegrity #IntellectualProperty #ScienceEducation

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