My new blog post - The Art of the Gasta: How This Presentation Style is an Expression of Openness farrellytom.wordpress.com/2025/08/27/t...

Never Forget: "Native American nations gift handwoven rug for 'kindness' during pandemic" www.rte.ie/news/politic...

Funded 2-year Master's by Research. “Assessing the impact of the South Kerry Social Farming Project” is funded by @mtu.ie and supported by TU RISE funding #EUinmyregion Link to Doc: drive.google.com/file/d/1gTNL...

Oh hey looks like we contributed a "must read book" glad to see this @gosuilleabhain.bsky.social and @gasta.me send.successbyemail.com/prvw_message...

Well done Tomás, pleasure to work with you on this OA paper. First Systematic Review article, learned so much along the way!

Delighted to be asked to be part of a team of great presenters at the @athabascau.bsky.social "Faculty of Graduate Studies Professional Development Series: Multimodal and Alternative Dissertations/Theses – Meeting the Needs of our Time" (1/2)

@gosuilleabhain.bsky.social host of #NDLN2025 launch hosted by @mtutelteam.bsky.social

A great series of reports

Delighted to be at the hybrid launch of the National Digital Leadership Network chaired by @gosuilleabhain.bsky.social evebt hosted @mtutelteam.bsky.social Great series of reports...

Vancouver Community College's CredX symposium kicks off. Looking forward to presenting tomorrow.

This by JR Dingwall is a marvelous engagement with our edited volume, I missed it in November&want to make sure y'all can see it. This is just Part 1! Looking forward to the rest of JR's review, and grateful for his and @greeneterry.bsky.social 's chapter in the book. jrdingwall.ca/blogwall/how...

Final thoughts from @bonstewart.bsky.social

@bonstewart.bsky.social of the University of Windsor Presenting at the After the Algorithm Conference in DCU

CEST Workshop in St Pats DCU hosted by @eam0.bsky.social some attendees @catherinecronin.bsky.social @bonstewart.bsky.social

Along with my co-editors @gasta.me and @gosuilleabhain.bsky.social we feature @bonstewart.bsky.social @readywriting.bsky.social @edifiedlistener.bsky.social @autumm.org @kerrypinny.bsky.social @profjhangiani.bsky.social @nbaker.bsky.social @tadhgleanemtu.bsky.social @greeneterry.bsky.social

Nuff Said.....

Badges to be presented at #SocMedHE24 for the Gastateers #Gasta

The Social Media Dilemma faced by academics #SocMedHE24

How I feel at about my current and future use of social media as an academic .... at a crossroads #SocMedHE24

@suebecks.bsky.social and Suzanne Faulkner Lego Serious Play workshop....my ducks #SocMedHE24

How True! Great slide from @amltaylor66.bsky.social from her keynote at #SocMedHE24

Prof. Liz Mossop Vice Chancellor @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social opening #SocMedHE24 conference

Nearly there, last leg of journey to Sheffield #SocMedHE

"Academic journals are a lucrative scam – and we’re determined to change that" - amp-theguardian-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/amp.theg...

Heading to Sheffield tomorrow for #SocMedHE presenting and doing a #Gasta Session for good measure. Last #Gasta of 2024

Time is running out to book your place at the 10th Social Media for Learning in HE Conference on Thursday 19th December. We're down to the last few places. Once they have gone the conference will be full! #SocMedHE24 Full details about the conference are at blogs.shu.ac.uk/socmedhe/soc...

Feel refreshed and renewed attending #DEC24. Attended some great talks and (most importantly) met some excellent people. Delighted to have gotten through a #GASTA on scholarly podcasts - with going over time (too much)! Cheers @gasta.me !

@gravesle.bsky.social Keynote Day 2 #DEC24

#Gasta took an extraordinarily meta twist today at #DEC24 with an unexpected #Gasta talk, about Gasta, by the Gasta-Master himself @gasta.me "May you live in interesting times", they said 🤯 🤔

Prof Martin Curley of Maynooth University talking about digital healthcare - Stay Left, Shift Left x10 #Dec24

And we're off. Here in SETU for #DEC24

Ahoy Shipmates!

Among the most important critiques of GAI embedding everywhere is that it encourages a situation where human interaction is a luxury not an expectation. We are humans. we need human interaction. And human care. These tools encourage an outsourcing of self that we should not accept.

If you're relatively new to #AcademicSky we would like to (narcissistically) recommend: How To Get Started On Academic Bluesky, on the @lseimpactblog.bsky.social: blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... It will help you hit the ground running...

Racial Profiling of Travellers and Roma in Manchester youtu.be/irR9FFt8XHg?...

osf.io/preprints/os... PrePrint of our article: "Roadmap to Good Practice for Training Supervisors and Leadership: A European Perspective"

Great way to raise the post lunch energy levels with a #Gasta

@mtu.ie Colleague @gosuilleabhain.bsky.social presenting at #NTUTORRShowcase @ntutorr.ie

We categorically deny that the photos in our prospectus were AI-generated.

Honoured to be listed along with so many great people

Experimenting with starter packs... I was planning to do the first 150 educators I find, but then I also filtered to prioritize women and non-white/north people when I found them. I think I can find 150 more... go.bsky.app/F7xedrV

@sharonlflynn.bsky.social #NTUTORRShowcase

@mattcooperlastword.bsky.social Kicks off the #NTUTORRShowcase @ntutorr.ie

Exciting day ahead for @ntutorr.ie A great opportunity to showcase some of the great work

I was in great company at the @ntutorr.ie #genAI Masterclass this week with Professor Mike Sharples @sharplem.bsky.social and Dr Tom Farrelly @gastatom.bsky.social Lots of great insights! I presented on the strength of collaboration for impact in our GenAI:N3 project @kenmccarthy.ie

Easier Strategies for Finding and Evaluating Open Educational Resource (OER) Materials – With and Without Generative AI, recording and slides: asccc-oeri.org/2024/11/15/e... #OER Hosted by the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges OER Initiative.

The next @n-tutorr.bsky.social Masterclass, on Gen AI in HE, will be on 21 November. Speakers include @sharplem.bsky.social @hazelfarrell.bsky.social & @gastatom.bsky.social Open to all, but registration is absolutely necessary. www.eventbrite.ie/e/generative...

What the US election looks like to people in Europe.

Blackrock Castle Observatory, MTU, looking great for the third lecture in the @n-tutorr.bsky.social Autumn Series. Thanks to Violeta Morari and @gastatom.bsky.social for a stimulating hour on the topic of Academic Integrity.

Quite right and has to be said! Not good enough