IHTA is an amazing project for anyone interested in Irish History, Urban History and Cartography. Well worth a follow.

are you disgruntled by the current safety evaluation landscape? curious about what conceptual clarity, methodological soundness and rigour in AI evaluation might look like? if so, consider coming to dublin and doing a phd with me apply here: aial.ie/hiring/phd-a...

Enjoy presenting today at Arqus European University Alliance workshop 'AI in teaching & Learning: International perspectives and best practices' on our work developing critical AI literacies with the Critical Skills programme, Maynooth University.

🚨 THE FINAL FOUR 🚨 We’re nearly at the end! 32 candidates have been narrowed down to a nefarious final four. But who will move on to the finals? You must decide! 🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/wpit25-semif...

Get your vote in!

🚨 ROUND TWO STARTS NOW 🚨 We’re down to the final 16 contestants as you decide who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech! Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday. 🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/wpit25-round...

"Slop" chosen as Merriam-Webster's 2025 word of the year

Do you love researching #History of #Science #Medicine or #Technology? #CFP now open for abstracts for the #HSTM Annual Meeting 26 April 2026 @unioflimerick.bsky.social CALL CLOSES 15 Jan 2026. This is a very friendly conference for those interested in how humans have constructed knowledge

#HSTM has been quite a niche area in #Ireland and #Limerick seems to be the place to go for #IrishHistory in 2026! This is such a juicy theme! Maybe #Historians #Skystorians of #Philosophy have something to pitch in too. #CFP now open, call closes 15 Jan 2026 👇 #Speirgorm #Ireland #AcademicSky

The AHA's Vetted Resources compile materials that have been professionally vetted by historians, offering instructors access to high-quality accessibility guides, pedagogy resources, and materials specific to a range of places, eras, topics, and fields that meet professional standards.🗃️

This could not possible go wrong.

*JOB FAIRY* Role: Rights and Administration Assistant (1 year, part time) UCD Press is seeking a person to support with rights and administration development. We are looking for a person to research, initiate and develop translation rights for the Press, especially in the Chinese market.

My new book is now out in print: POLITICIANS AND MASS MEDIA IN THE AGE OF EMPIRE Examines how an expanding mass media created a new type of politician and system of transnational media politics between 1890 and World War I. www.cambridge.org/core/books/p...

Today, 12 EST/5 GMT.

Now on Bluesky: @darwin-online.bsky.social. Give 'em a follow! #HPS #histsci

We are delighted to announce that we'll be hosting the SSNCI conference in Maynooth next June. Call for papers attached. Please spread far and wide!

Call for PhD Student! I'm recruiting a PhD student to work with me on a project related to my Future Fellowship at Monash University on the political economy of insurance, risk technology, climate governance, and the crisis of uninsurability. Here's the overview of my fellowship.

I wish Dick Cheney was alive, so he could watch this and die again from an aneurysm

Fabulous PhD opportunity at Queen's University Belfast and Armagh Observatory: Observing the Heavens from the 'Periphery': Astronomy in Ireland 1640-1830 www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post... Deadline 13 Jan #histSTM #histastro

This is such a great project!

flat out lies. these tech ceos take regulators and the masses for fools

when you wear a size 9.5 shoe but the 8.5 was on sale

On the event of James Watson's death, I highly recommend this 2023 commentary from @matthewcobb.bsky.social and Nathaniel Comfort with crucial new insights into the discovery of the double helix. (And also check out Cobb's brand new biography of Francis Crick) www.nature.com/articles/d41...

We're hiring in history of science at UW Madison! TT Assistant Professorship with a focus on water. Joint appointment between the History and Integrated Liberal Studies depts, and part of a university-wide hiring cluster on earth/sustainability science. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/profess... #STS #HSMT

As predicted, the EU is ready to dismantle its Digital Rulebook as it did with the Green Deal. It does so upon US administration’s demand and under Big Tech pressure. It’s a self-inflicted political decision putting the EU on a deregulatory turn on.ft.com/47vqFOl

(Call for applications) Assistant Professor Social Studies of Medicine histoiresante.blogspot.com/2025/10/post... #medhum #histSTM

As ever...

As has rightly been pointed out to me it is, in fact, not yet 2026* Sooo... Gulliver's Travels is 300 *next* year. What do we have planned?! *I blame overwork plus the fact that I first mentally noted this anniversary 12 years ago, which is ages to wait! www.theguardian.com/science/the-...

This version of Total Recall sucks.

your timely reminder that AGI is neither clearly defined/described nor amenable to scientific or engineering principles... it remains an ideology that is rooted in white supremacy, racism and eugenics

According to my notifications, several someones rediscovered this gem earlier today. So, I figured I'd fan the flame. ICYMI.

Call for Papers – IHSA 2026 Conference at Maynooth University The Irish History Students’ Association, with the support of the Department of History at Maynooth University, is delighted to announce the 77th Annual IHSA Conference, taking place on Saturday, 28 February 2026.

Just a reminder: "more personalized and more helpful" is often code for "WE WILL COLLECT ALL OF YOUR DATA."

Just a reminder given all the discussion of AI bubbles and stock markets. 2008 recession saw a huge spike in suicides. www.bbc.com/news/health-...

The Corlea Trackway • Longford This 2km ancient routeway was discovered beautifully preserved in the bog. It was dated to c.148 BC. A section of the trackway from Cloonbreany Townland was excavated and conserved, and is now on display in the Corlea Trackway Visitor Centre. #Archaeology 🏺

We had a fascinating talk on Corlea by Prof Aidan O'Sullivan. In 'The Colossus of Roads', Aidan offers memories of the Corlea archaeological campaign by one then-young archaeologist, and the question of what did the Trackway mean to the people who built it? Recording available for Tuatha Members

Really? Perplexity is explicitly advertising cheating with their agentic Comet browser? @marcwatkins.bsky.social found this video on their Facebook page: www.facebook.com/story.php?st... Let's put the pressure on for this to stop!

This meme made me laugh.

If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education. We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.

It's not AI unless it comes from the Altman era of computers. Otherwise it's just sparkling algorithms.

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

It's important when reflecting on the launch of ChatGPT's adult version (with a need for identification) to remember Altman's other venture, the 'Orb', an iris scanning identify device time.com/7288387/sam-...

I strongly urge everyone to not just read this warning from @marcwatkins.bsky.social, but heed it, and be vocal and forceful pushing back against using AI to grade student writing. This must be anathema if we're going to have a world where learning means something. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

Am I wrong? Budget 2026: those earning €120,000 will now get €500 from SUSI and a reduction of €500 in the student contribution, i.e. are €1,000 better off. BUT low paid workers who live within 30KM of university get no increase in SUSI rate (in reality a cut given inflation). #edchat #highered

This is not going to end well 'AI bubble is now a staggering 17 times the size of the infamous dot-com bubble' futurism.com/future-socie...

The Thatcher conference posters are up and you may see mine and Ciara Nicholson face about @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social . Anyone interested in attending the information is on the poster, or just let me know. @qubhistory.bsky.social @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social

Enjoyed talking to second-year marketing students at Maynooth University yesterday. Drawing on work by @emilymbender.bsky.social @alexhanna.bsky.social @biblioracle.bsky.social @wayne-holmes.bsky.social @timnitgebru.bsky.social and others to discuss Critical AI literacies.