🏆⭐️ Two UCD projects have been named winners at this year’s SATLE Impact Awards, which celebrate initiatives that deliver real, demonstrable impact in teaching and learning across Irish higher education. www.ucd.ie/newsandopini...

There seems to be little critical debate about our use of phrases like 'I'm going to an Apple school' or ' a Microsoft school'. In this paper, I explore some of the possible reasons for an absence of critical debate about the corporate branding of schools. Free access at: doi.org/10.1080/0332...

Excellent read to start my Monday morning:

PBS News notes this Sunday will be “PBS News Weekend’s” last due to federal budget cuts

AUCD Ad Astra Doctoral Scholarship: Authoritarian Politics #ECPRMemberJobs 🎓 Minimum grade of 2.1 (GPA: 3.6) in a relevant Master's degree 🇮🇪 @ucddublin.bsky.social ⌛ Friday 6 February buff.ly/ETcFg6G #PolSciJobs #PoliSky #AcademicSky

@emilianotrere.com @tbonini.bsky.social I really enjoyed your book and have it on my syllabus. Thanks for your work. I wrote a review of it for Critical AI: read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...

"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato." surreal times dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...

UCD #CitizenScience event🌀 Met Éireann is calling on the public to help rescue millions of historic weather observations currently held in handwritten paper records. Dr. Rhonda McGovern will run a free hands-on workshop on 27 Jan in James Joyce Library Link 3. Register: forms.gle/cXs26gVj68pN...

Well, this is fun - www.guitarcloud.org

Incredible piece of scholarship - lots to think about! Gardner-McTaggart, A., Blyth, C. Ontological capture: AI, childhood, and the algorithmic governance of becoming. AI & Soc (2025). doi.org/10.1007/s001...

1/2 Computer scientist Ben Shneiderman argues (in NYT's paraphrase) that "tech companies should give us tools, not thought partners, collaborators, or teammates - tools that keep us in charge, empower us and enhance us, not tools that try to be us."

Whether you’re looking for a way to discuss AI with students or be the life of the party this NYE, @civicsoftech.bsky.social has you covered with our new activity:

Delighted to share our latest article on the @ucddublin.bsky.social Assessment for Inclusion Framework published in @teachinginhe.bsky.social with my colleagues @geraldineoneill.bsky.social & @sheenahyland.bsky.social (featuring artwork from @visualthinkery.bsky.social!) doi.org/10.1080/1356...

We have a fully funded PhD (+ research expenses) in Ethnomusicology going in @ucddublin.bsky.social supervised by my new colleague, Abigail Lindo. Abigail is looking to supervise in a host of exciting & pertinant areas. Full details below: www.ucd.ie/music/newsan...

I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...

A distressing chart. As our government sues media companies, and threatens to take away their broadcast licenses for airing critical programs, the US has now dropped to 57th in the world in press freedom. Maybe next year we can catch Romania and Sierra Leone. gijn.org/stories/glob...

One Laptop Per Child, 10 years later: "we find no significant effects on academic performance but some evidence of negative effects on grade progression... computer access significantly improved students’ computer skills but not their cognitive skills" www.nber.org/papers/w34495

NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month. This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory! Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...

What do The Matrix and educational AI have in common? Unfortunately way too much, as they promote very narrow ideas of what education should be. Instead, Alberto Romele and I highlight better sci-fi inspirations in this new paper in Educational Theory: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

This They Might Be Giants TONIGHT SHOW performance of "Birdhouse In Your Soul" from 1990 remains firmly lodged in my noggin thanks to the Tonight Show Band's full commitment and Doc Severinsen's incredible trumpeting... It took an already great song and made it transcendent.

The Dublin Small Press Fair will be celebrating small-scale publishing in Ireland and welcome small presses from abroad. 📍Pearse Street Library, Dublin 📆Today, Friday 28th and Tomorrow,Saturday 29th of November

4pm today UK time

My literature review searches (anything on Taylor & Francis so far...) have been thwarted.

Seems like as good a day as any to remember that it was once possible to “log off.”

Maybe don’t put it at the top of every search result then?

7/ Epilogue: take a listen to Alice using assistive technology on KQED to keep speaking out. It’s a beautiful audio essay www.kqed.org/perspectives...

Cory Doctorow’s #booktalk on ENSHITTIFICATION builds on his long career as a science fiction author, activist & journalist. His work shows how power shapes our digital lives. Join us! 📆 Friday, Nov 21st 🕙 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET 📍 Online 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1839608451... @authorsalliance.bsky.social

🧵 Rest in power, Alice Wong. @sfdirewolf.bsky.social A trailblazer, a fierce advocate, and a relentless voice for disability rights. Her work changed the landscape for so many. /1

I have been dreaming of this day for over five years. Proctorio’s lawsuit against me is forever over. I’ve won my life back! linkletter.org/update-33-th...

A new state-by-state evaluation of the projected energy and water use of "AI" data centers in the US. Looks… real bad. Like, "undoing tech sector climate gains" bad. Strongly recommends immediately ensuring any & all new "AI" data centers to run on existing & expanded renewables grids. Which… yeah.

Read Audrey Watters, always. "Technologies are often wielded in ways meant to imply that humans are weak, messy, slow, stupid, replaceable. We are strong, messy, awkward, flawed, irreplaceable. All of us. Our strength comes, in part, from this vulnerability, from our humanity."

So excited to work with our amazing 2025/26 @ucdtl.bsky.social Teaching & Learning Student Partners. (And big thanks to Leone Gately for all of her work to make the SAP initiative so successful!) www.ucd.ie/teaching/wha...

Call for Special Issue Proposals! IJTEL invites proposals on digital learning & edtech - showcase new research, amplify diverse voices, and help shape the future of technology-enhanced education. 📅 Deadline: Jan 30, 2026 #AcademicSky #EduSky #heie #Edtech #TEL

Call for Expressions of Interest: IJTEL are seeking a new co-editor (and associate editor) to join our team. Find out more on ilta.ie/ijtel-callfo...

The call for abstracts for the 25th Irish Learning Technology Association's EdTech 2026 Conference is now open. Join us in Dublin in June 2025! See more on ilta.ie/edtech-2026/ #Highered #edchatie #edusky #Heie #edtech26

The full acceptance speech www.youtube.com/live/NnM_RgL...

Always get irrationally angry that "Run-Hide-Fight" is the best safety advice we can muster in an emergency and at the dizzying media ecosystem that can't get accurate information out to those who need it.

Devastating. Teen Vogue's politics coverage has been incredible and this is a major loss for journalism. Legacy journalism keeps on getting rid of the only people making it worth anything anymore.

The #CESIcon 2026 call for proposals is open through 19 December. We will return to the Gaelcholáiste Luimnigh on 28 February for a day of exciting talks and workshops as we continue to explore our 'Navigating Digital Futures' theme. @lcetb.com @denistreacy.com #EdChatIe forms.gle/x4SNHynzdT2v...

It’s that time of the year again, when I carve a Hallowe’en turnip, in honour of this marvellous painted cast of an original turnip from Baile na Finne, Co. Donegal collected in 1910 and held in the National Museum of Ireland #Halloween #Ireland #Samhain (pronounced “sow-in” (to rhyme with the pig)

Congrats to Drs. Rebecca M. Reese & Amy Lomellini for putting this OPEN resource out into the world! It was an honour to write the prologue for this fantastic & much needed text. Advancing Accessibility: Practical Strategies for Instructional Designers and Educators edtechbooks.org/accessibility

I've been using raindrop.io for a while now and it has stuck as a habit. I was a massive del.icio.us user and have been searching for a replacement for almost 10 years now.

South Korea pushed AI hard in schools. The national program was aborted within months, following massive pushback from students, parents and teachers, after a fortune had already been spent by both the government and education publishers restofworld.org/2025/south-k...

Don’t forget to submit a paper by Dec 5 for our Music and Media conference at UCD: “Directions and Aesthetics of the Digital Era” www.ucd.ie/music/newsan...

I am writing this because it has swiftly become crystal clear to me that many people have no idea what is happening or how this works. Here is a thread for non-academics to put into context what just happened to Dr. Mark Bray, a fellow historian.

The world has lost an incredible human and scholar and I have lost a dear friend. www.waskoms.com/obituary/Mar...

‘I’m a composer. Am I staring extinction in the face?’: classical music and AI

Let’s talk about AI art. theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.