#DigitalHumanities @ucc.ie has a two-year postdoc suited to researchers from broad range of disciplines. my.corehr.com/pls/uccrecru... Key tasks include coordinating a national survey of digital heritage practices & assisting with prototype development for communit archives. Deadline: Oct 3rd.

I had no idea dial-up still existed. Fellow elder millennials, this is for you. 🫶🏽

Delighted to share that the Department of #DigitalHumanities @ucc.ie will host a digital artist as part of the first @artscouncilireland.bsky.social Digital Artist in Residence pilot programme. Applications are now open! Enquiries to @stephenroddy.bsky.social artscouncil.ie/funding-oppo...

Feels like the "dead internet theory" is becoming the mainstream POV. Great essay from @jamesosullivan.bsky.social www.noemamag.com/the-last-day...

The findings from the Higher Education Authority’s sectoral engagement on gen AI in higher education teaching and learning have been published. The perspectives that emerged through this process have fed directly into the development of our forthcoming policy framework. hea.ie/2025/09/17/g...

The Sorbonne's justification of its decision to leave the Times Higher Education league table game raises key issues for universities in an era of attacks on science and for UK science (SHAPE & STEM) & the escalating growth of proprietary bibliometrics. 1/4

I don’t like iOS 26 and I suspect I won’t like Tahoe.

Just so you all know, I’ve withdrawn from the presidential election.

Glad to be at Munster Technological University’s Cork campus with @marygalvin.bsky.social to mark the 50th anniversary of their student GAA club. Still have my jersey (no, it doesn’t fit).

Super thrilled to share with y'all that my new article on the infrastructures behind Digital Poetry in Lat Am just dropped at @jlacstravesia.bsky.social, under the amazing editorial work of @azucastro.bsky.social and Estefi Bournot <3 *YAY* #elit www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

My experience has been that many people in higher education leadership positions don’t align with John’s view. Which is a pity.

. @junsworth.bsky.social: "21st-century fascism is not just about governing through force. It’s also about surveillance...AI in the service of fascism...dismembering the public sector... systematically erasing history...deprive people of public data so that there is no independent source of fact"

Really enjoyed reading this interview with John who, once upon a time, directed the dissertation of an awkward but maybe slightly precocious graduate student who wanted to write the thing live on the WWW, in HTML. Learned a lot from that, and him, and still do.

"I think the advice I would offer is to remember that leadership is a service role. Your job as a leader is to support the people who work for you, to protect them, to listen to them, & prioritize them." ARL Views with John Unsworth, UVA University Librarian 2016-2025 www.arl.org/blog/john-un...

"The feed no longer surprises but sedates, and in that sedation, something quietly breaks, and social media no longer feels like a place to be; it is a surface to skim." @jamesosullivan.bsky.social for @noemamag.com: www.noemamag.com/the-last-day...

the dailup sound was a protection spell the computer said for us every time we went online but we thought we were too good for it. we wanted to be on the phone and the computer at the same time. we wanted to be on the phone and the computer at the same time and now we’re fucked

RIP SoMe (as we know it). Great reflections by @jamesosullivan.bsky.social in @noemamag.com "The problem is not just the rise of fake material, but the collapse of context and the acceptance that truth no longer matters as long as our cravings for colors and noise are satisfied." #technology

I know the Great DH Wars are over & all & we’re supposed to be cool with the full spectrum of DH engagement & not tell people to learn to code or anything but I still get pretty darn annoyed at any project idea that boils down to "and then I’ll hire some grad students to do all the computery stuff"

So great to see this in the world. Thank you to editor Janneke Adema, all of the authors, reviewers, and fine folks at @michiganpublishing.bsky.social for creating this timely special issue!

“Social media as we know it is dying, but we’re not condemned to its ruins.” — @jamesosullivan.bsky.social #socialmedia #attentioneconomy #aislop

Back @ucc.ie in a part-time capacity today after 12 months fully seconded to Higher Education Authority. But pleased to be staying on with the HEA for a bit longer as we work towards publishing our policy framework on genAI in higher ed teaching & learning, as well as some other research/reports.

Delighted to be @uccstafffpl.bsky.social August Champion! Might have to take my PhD off the wall to make room for this beauty. Thanks @aodhquinlivan.bsky.social & co for keeping the show on the road year in, year out. Makes Mondays that bit easier.

Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.

It's getting harder and harder to deny that AGI is a near certainty. This kind of rapid expansion, this level of investment and infrastructural shift, this amount of *risk* - it doesn't happen without astronomical reward. The other day I saw a big barn, which can only mean one thing: giant horses

Because of the structure of school, particularly the stakes of assessment, we gave students methods to avoid the struggle of writing in order to create a more convincing simulation of someone who has written, but we were truly ruining the experience of writing along the way. We made it alienating.

I think we (or at least I) have a pretty strong idea of what writing is as an act/experience. Every so often I take a step back and realize that over my lifetime, schooling has been on a steady march of alienating students from the act/experience of writing, replacing it with a kind of simulation.

we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light

Academia may not give you job security, flexibility, or wealth, but it will let you unexpectedly connect to eduroam in foreign cities

As an anthropologist, I'm inclined to try to understand stuff that looks like magical thinking rather than mock it, but proposing to build a God and then expecting him to tell you how to get rich is really testing all of my professional training...

I am all for not owning lots of ‘things’ - but books are not things!!

The outpouring of grief over GPT-5 says a lot about our society and our atrophied ability to connect with each other. That some people now value their relationship with a chatbot over their relationship with other people is deeply troubling. jamescosullivan.substack.com/p/when-the-m...

Looking forward to contributing to this important event on AI in education at the Royal Irish Academy next month.

Join us in the Royal Irish Academy and online for a conference exploring the future of AI and education across the post-primary and higher education sectors on Tuesday 23 September. Book your tickets now. https://www.tickettailor.com/events/royalirishacademy/1804710

I regret to inform you that your existential enemies can be intelligent, personable & likeable

"The future of the essay, if it has one (and personally, I hope it does), lies not in doubling down on detection software or ‘AI-proof’ assignments, but in embracing the fact that human writing is, at its best, irreducibly strange." #ai

What an interesting—and unsettling—read: Google’s Sundar Pichai suggests a “marketplace” will emerge where creators simply “create for AI.” Is this the Uberization of intellectual work? #AIethics #DigitalLabor #CreativeRights Via @melaniemitchell.bsky.social

We're looking for an Associate Professor/Professor who can contribute to research and teaching at Cambridge Digital Humanities from January 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter. This is a permanent role with a closing date of 21 September. Apply now: www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/about/news/n...

What happened to Blackpool should be a crime. A village within walking distance of Cork City almost completely derelict, the remaining bits suffering from lack of maintenance. Should be a vibrant City neighbourhood comfortably housing a few thousand more. We should be outraged.

I’m loosing the battle to reclaim Machine Learning from the “AI” movement as it comes to music and the creative arts. But regardless, our new piece now seems to be up online today and we do give it another very whole-hearted try!! Won’t be backing down anytime soon and all that.

UCC Library is currently hiring for Two roles: Learning Support Librarian Deadline: 5 August, 12pm Head of Special Collections & Archives Deadline: 19 August, 12pm More info and applications: www.ucc.ie/en/hr/vacanc...

We are living in an age of bullies. Those with power are less constrained today than they have ever been in my lifetime. The question is: how do we lead moral lives in this era? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/28/bullies-moral-lives-robert-reich

Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.

That we even need to post this, and worse, know it makes no difference to the perpetrators and allies.

All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.

Canvas just became one of the most powerful surveillance, IP theft, & data monetization tools in the world. OpenAI bought a user-base locked in to long-term contracts. But they can’t make us use their trashware. Boycott. Luddify. Open source. Don’t let them have your work or your students.

In a stunning moment of erotic fervour, calculator demands BOOBS.

Questions on DH conferences have changed from „how do we teach humanities students to code“ to „how do we teach humanities students to remenber that they are humanists“ – observation by Renana Kedar at #DH2025 I very much feel the struggle of the 2nd question.

Starting to feel like most humans aren’t equipped to deal with something that confidently lies and communicates those lies with a fluency almost no actual humans possess