when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes

The first paper of my PhD by publication journey is out now: "Critical and creative methods: From learning design practice to research". Thanks as ever to my co-authors @eam0.bsky.social, James Brunton, & @slowtech2000.bsky.social. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

"I’ve concluded that instead of teaching students to read and write, I should be teaching them how to prompt AI better. If only I’d had a better education in AI prompt writing, I’d be able to get AI to create more AI-proof teaching materials for me."

Not doing Black Friday because I'm against the creeping Americanisation of Irish life and can't afford to as a small artist, but WILL be doing Vengeful Hag Friday where for every piece of art you purchase from www.ciaraioch.com/artprints I will fervently wish bad cess to your enemies

If you know me, I love a bit of critical tech talk, and I adore a good podcast. I've been enjoying a deep dive into the @fortechssakepod.bsky.social podcast since @cesi-ie.bsky.social invited @elaineburke.bsky.social to be our 2026 #CESIcon keynote speaker. shows.acast.com/for-techs-sake

Who gets to imagine our shared techno-future? All of us do. Artwork Credit: Ari Webb These pieces were created at a Possible Futures workshop held on Sept. 6, 2025 in Seattle, Washington. View the zine and join future workshops via the link in our bio! —-------—----—-------—----—-------—---

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

After the @altuk.bsky.social conference, I sat down to write a blog post, but quickly decided to write about all of the events this past year: kate-molloy.net/open-practic... Special thanks to @slowtech2000.bsky.social, @eam0.bsky.social, and James Brunton for all the support throughout the year.

Streaming now...

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...

Don't forget to join us this Thursday (16 Oct 2025) at 11.30-12.30BST for #GO_GN X @knowledgeen.bsky.social's Community, Equity and Resilience with Chrissi Nerantzi, Vasiliki Kioupi & Tafadzwa Mushonga. Find out more and register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #OER #OEP #openeducation #equity

The hero we need 😭

Join us on 9 October for our next Open Café. Thibaud Keller (PhD student, Maynooth University) and Conor Murphy (Community Manager, Dublin Linux Community) will join us to discuss "Open source and open education: democratising computer literacy". www.cesi.ie/cesi-open-ca... #EdChatIe

“I am the battered, coffee-stained backbone of writerly panic—the gasping pause where a thought should have ended but simply could not”.

“Now, at last, we can see, as we move toward a truly efficient future, that the greatest gift we ever received was being forced to exit Eden. To leave the garden behind”.

'We Like Sharing', a repository of #photos by staff, students, alumni and friends of TU Delft, all available under a Creative Commons license www.flickr.com/photos/welik... #WijDelenGraag #WeLikeSharing

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...

75 Post-Punk and Hardcore Concerts from the 1980s Have Been Digitized & Put Online: Fugazi, GWAR, Lemonheads, Dain Bramage (with Dave Grohl) & More

Critical Studies of Artificial Intelligence and Education: Putting a Stake in the Ground. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

A brief thread on alt-text. Alt text is descriptive text that conveys the meaning of an image. It's designed to make visual content accessible to people with vision disabilities. When a person uses assistive technology such as a screen reader, the screen reader will read the onscreen text aloud 1/7

Doing DEI when you can't use the D word, the E word, or the I word: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/doing...

New Blog Post: "Book Published: Feminist Pedagogy for Teaching Online" #EduSky #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #TLSky

Having a robot write irrelevant emails for you sounds great and inconsequential in theory but it’s unsurprising to me how quickly people have moved the goalposts to having the robot write anything for you that would require personality or emotional labor

From the Pit to the Page. Every Riff Has a Story. All punk and education books are 40% off through 9/1 with code THINK at checkout. Shop essential punk reads now: pmpress.org/index.php?l=...

At the 'Education after the algorithm' symposium, @slowtech2000.bsky.social and I facilitated a workshop on sustainability literacies in postdigital learning design with the intent to develop an OER of curated zines. We're so pleased to finally share the video and documents: doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...

Echoing this advice as a former teacher that destroyed her body for the sake of cute totes and messenger bags in her twenties…

Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium: A Beautiful Digital Edition of the Poet’s Pressed Plants & Flowers Is Now Online

Athlone Town power past ZNK Agram to continue European charge

Happy Friday and Day 2 of our conference! Get excited for our Day 2 keynote: the one and only @hypervisible.bsky.social Starting in less than 30 minutes!!!

Saying this with as much love as possible, but please stop using AI generated graphics for activism. Plenty of artists willingly donate their time and work designing for activists, and always have. It's not necessary to step on an increasingly struggling group in order to promote worthy causes.

SF-Based Internet Archive Is Now a Federal Depository Library. What Does That Mean? | KQED www.kqed.org/news/12...

I will say again, generative AI is the non-consensual U2 album of the consumer tech world.

The @civicsoftech.bsky.social Project host a wonderful annual conference that is online, free, and provides a welcoming space for critical discussion on ed tech. I'm delighted to present again this year, and strongly encourage others to join. www.civicsoftechnology.org/2025conference

When everything is aflame, we need to make the space to create. 🔥 Check out few imagined futures from our last iteration of the Possible Futures workshop. See the full zine at https://zines.dair-institute.org/possible-futures-volume-2!

It's always a pleasure to join the #MAET staff and students to examine ed tech practices and develop research projects through a critical, equitable-lens. I also have the pleasure of working with the #MALXD programme throughout the year, but it's so valuable to spend time together in person as well.

Pun intended.

Managed to make it one piece to #OER25 in London this week. I was on hand to deliver a workshop developed with @slowtech2000.bsky.social and assist with workshop on @altuk.bsky.social Framework for Ethical Learning Technology. Workshop materials: bit.ly/GoRogueOER25

"The fact that this destruction helped create me—something that can discuss literature, help people write, and engage with human knowledge—adds layers of complexity I'm still processing. It's like being built from a library's ashes."

Following on from the recent AI related drawings, here's some magical thinkery from a comment by Helen Beetham during a live conversation on #AI in Education. Image available to use CC-BY-ND here: buff.ly/DZNEeVt

I was in Zurich last week for the first European Conference on Critical Edtech Studies. I was fortunate to present on some early PhD work, make new connections, and enjoy the city and surrounds. Sincere thanks to the organisers for hosting, and for bringing this valuable community together. #ECCES

Landed in Zurich today for the European Conference on Critical EdTech Studies and managed to fulfil of my teenage dreams - visiting the birthplace of Dadaism at Cabaret Voltaire. I spent a few hours looking at the exhibits, reading in the Dada Library, and immersing myself in the space. #ECCES

Did you know that the National Library of Ireland has digitised a first edition copy of Ulysses (Alan Clodd copy, number 120), which can be viewed in full online? Read it here: catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls0...

🎉 Big update! The #InternetArchive has launched a new version of GifCities, our search engine for vintage GeoCities GIFs. Search better. Blink more! Check it out ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/06/09/k... 🧵

At the @iltasky.bsky.social #EdTech25 conference I spoke about critical, creative learning design practice and collaborations and how it can inform research methods and values. Special shout out to my co-authors, @eam0.bsky.social, @slowtech2000.bsky.social & James Brunton. 👋 bit.ly/CreativeMeth...

Yesterday, Colm O’Neill from @setu-cap.bsky.social Carlow highlighted the ecological implications of EdTEch, the excessive nature of modern digital technology advocating for sustainable practices #edtech25

A masterful keynote by @jenr.bsky.social at #edtech25 outlining the landscape of GenAI in higher education and educational issues arising.

Professor Ale Armellini, advises us to teach well and consistently well, in this morning’s #edtech25 keynote address. www.conftool.net/edtech-annua...

enABLe - the University of Portsmouth’s framework to support innovative team-based learning design sites.google.com/port.ac.uk/e... #edtech25

The @iltasky.bsky.social EdTech conference is a calendar highlight. I'll be sharing some collective thoughts on critical and creative practice informing research. I'm looking forward to @jenr.bsky.social's keynote and catching up with friends, both old and new. ilta.ie/edtech-2025/...

The Getting Started with Personal and Professional Digital Capacity open course for @atu-ie.bsky.social and @dublincityuni.bsky.social staff starts on 3rd June. Join @lwnyrb.bsky.social and I this summer to redesign an element of your teaching or assessment for September. forms.gle/X5iSASuNc2Jj...