Conor O'Reilly EdD

Deleted LinkedIn because it's cesspit of competitive toxicity about a world of work that is following me home everyday

Critical thinking was in decline before AI There is a tendency, especially in discussions shaped by technological determinism, to blame complex problems on a single, recent cause.

#Readthis: Critical thinking was in decline before AI open.substack.com/pub/jamescos...

Would you go to prison for something you wrote? The reality today is that many are arrested and prosecuted for the words they have written and shared.

Would you go to prison for something you wrote?
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Traveling to #Chengdu in #china tomorrow. Last time I was there I was 26 with a rucksack and hoping for adventure. I remember Dufu's house but that's about it. This trip will be dramatic in a different way. Suggestions for #thingstodoinchengdu!

Create your own voice. Don't wait to be allowed one.

Is there a recognised definition for 'international student'? This post will be a part of a series where I want to discuss this term which is used a lot but is quite ambiguous, while at the same time it impacts how we percieve hundreds of thousands of people.

I wrote about what is an international student on my substack. Take a look!

Is there a recognised definition for 'international student'?
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Exciting to welcome this new journal discussing the wealth and diversity of issues relevant to #highereducation and #intled. Well done to @jlmittelmeier.bsky.social, @selomer42.bsky.social & colleagues for driving this initiative.

I find it is much more rewarding to be distracted than getting the actual stuff finished.

Stop messing around and just write the thing. Just write it. Get off social media. And WRITE!

feeling empty is all part of the process #jobhunting

Someone followed me on twitter.....it's 2025 like.

Transitioning to Ireland, and a little concerned that I will need to find work outside teaching or education. It would genuinely break my heart if I couldn't be involved in education, working with students, helping people become better.

Trying to force myself into a writing habit...

(from: Writing Your Journal Article in Twleve Weeks)

I don't really have anyone to talk to about this and seeing no one seems to use this platform, I can just shout into the void.
#academiccareer

I did an interview for a job. I have tried for around 5 or 6 similar roles. Where do all these people start? Where is the bottom rung? Why do people not feel fit to trust me?
#feelinguseless

Shifting country and shifting career... Every time I try to move on or upwards professionally, I feel I have to climb all the way back down a ladder, then try to start climbing another one. It is so frustrating and I am often left to feel humiliated.
#career #whatsnext

That's the bigger issue in Ireland. Students will pay, but if there's nowhere to live then that's a multitude of problems.

Ireland the same. BUT actually not as big an issue as it would be for locals.

The marketers usually leave that bit out of their blurbs

With many of the largest IS destinations pushing back against attracting more students, the opportunity is ripe for smaller, dynamic education systems to take advantage of the global shifts and threats to student mobility. New Zealand making a simple but attractive change here....

Quite jealous of those people out there deleting their linkedin...

‘Architect’ of flagship HE policy is nominated minister Lee Jin-sook, the ‘architect’ of South Korea’s new president’s policy to have 10 major flagship universities in the country, has been nominate...

"flagship universities initiative proposes levelling up ten national universities across the country as a means to address educational inequality, ease university entrance pressures to get into the current few top universities in Seoul".

www.universityworldnews.com/post-mobile....

Trying to write a little. As ever, the words and ideas are fine. Its the belief in myself where the problem lies.

She was discarded in a septic tank 80 years ago. Her sister won’t rest until she’s buried | CNN When Annette McKay’s first grandson was born, she thought her mother would be over the moon. She had become a great-grandmother. Instead, it led her to reveal a secret she had buried for decades.

We spent a few days in Tuam.

Read and watch here:
www.cnn.com/2025/07/13/e...

While I'm on the subject of complaining about job hunting...I love applying for a job that I am absolutely certain I won't even get a sniff of an interview off....

6.55 and it's 26 centigrade already in Songdo, Incheon. Humidity is 86%, which isnt too bad. Car temperature had a high if 38 yesterday. The fact this normalised is our newest concern.

Prove me wrong internet. I dare you.

Some say you shouldn't say things like this #outloud on social media, but I think it's safe to say that the person looking to hire me isn't on this app.

I'm an absolute *neurotypical angel* on Linkedin etc.

#jobhunting is probably the most demotivating task, especially after working at it for so long. I see a job I could do (I think well) but there's always someone else ahead of me.

*please don't tell me what I need to do to get ahead - I already know.

#ADHD isn't a superpower - it's a curse. If it was superpower, I wouldn't lose meaningful things, and then feel like the shittest person on the planet. If it was a superpower I'd be able to fly away or zap the feeling of uselessness to smithereens. Instead I'm left with more regret.