Just a reminder that the closing date for submissions to the 3d Symposium on Digital Art in Ireland with Sample-Studios and University College Cork is January 12th 2026: sample-studios.com/call-for-pap...

Who up forgetting they auld acquaintance

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Sure. But it’s the 1978 Austin City Limits live version that’s canonical: youtu.be/EznGGYQ-Tv8?...

Isaac Asimov’s “Handbook of Robotics” imagined simple rules for machine morality. But reality is a maze of contradictions, biases, and blind spots.

How is entirety of Spotify only 300TB? The bitrates here must be absolutely abysmal.

www.404media.co/why-i-quit-s... Excellent inspiration for your New Year's resolutions

In the 1960s, a group of New Jersey teenagers helped make computing personal... (An excerpt from my new book in IEEE Spectrum) spectrum.ieee.org/teenage-hack... #HistSci #computing #History 🗃️

Blade Runner is a Christmas film, change my mind.

This sounds great! Particularly delighted with the degree to which space science, and NASA in particular, have embraced sonification as a research tool as well as an outreach vehicle over the last 15 years.

Well the good news is I've hit my word count for this current article. The bad news is that I'm only about 60% done writing it.

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...

Doesn’t help that a lot of ML pioneers are also pushing slop-brained, hyper-fascist singulatariansim though

Just got asked for my student card while buying breakfast. Nice. Those hair-plugs were worth the investment.

Somebody scraped & shared every song on Spotify, with metadata — a boon for research into music and algorithms, but also, inevitably, what the training data is going to be for every AI music company in 2026. annas-archive.li/blog/backing...

Just found my contact information being sold on some AI platform that automates the process of applying for PhDs and postdocs. Against my will obviously. And if you're reading this there's a good chance you're on there too: www.applykite.com/professors/s...

This paper is now out in the proceedings of the 6th IEEE Internet of Sounds Symposium. It presents a prototype system for soil moisture monitoring to support more sustainable water management practices, through sonification: doi.org/10.1109/IS264627.2025.11284675

Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.

'the heart is sick with hoping and hoping before books reach Ireland' Maria Edgeworth in 1816 Publication day for @universitypress.cambridge.org Irish Romanticism was yesterday but no sign of any books in Cork yet! www.cambridge.org/core/books/i...

The call for the 2026 Internet of Sounds symposium is live and we’re inviting work for the 1st IEEE International Workshop on Sonification for the IoS. Please do get involved: internetofsounds2026.ieee-internetofsounds.org/satellite-ev... #sonification #internetofsounds #IoS #enginnering

Very nice!

Very excited to welcome Alan Butler (@alanbutler.info) as the first Arts Council Digital Artist in Residence here at Digital Humanities in @ucc.ie and delighted that he has chosen to share some of his practice with us: www.ucc.ie/en/dah/news/... @uccresearch.bsky.social

Unexpected side effect of the LLM proliferation is that my expectations of people have gone through the roof. If something looks like it could have been done by AI, a piece of writing, music etc., even if it was made a person, I still now tend to loose all interest very quickly.

I'm just realising, as I attempt to share out the call for our upcoming Book and Symposium on Digital Art in Ireland (w/Sample Studios) that notable exceptions aside (Beta, Concept Null etc.). We're seriously lacking the mechanisms to discuss and share digital art in Ireland. But here's the links:

ActionScript 😢

I’m busy unfortunately but someone else should apply for this.

Hi all. We’ve got two calls open. A new book on Irish Digital Art edited by, McCarthy, Yip & myself: www.blackwaterpublishing.com/digital-art-... And calls for the 3rd Symposium on Digital Art in Ireland: www.ucc.ie/en/dah/news/... #irishart #newmedia #mediaart #opencall #digitalart

Two calls for people working in and/or researching #digitalart. Book on Irish digital art edited by @stephenroddy.bsky.social, McCarthy & Yip: www.blackwaterpublishing.com/digital-art-... 3rd Symposium on Digital Art in Ireland: www.ucc.ie/en/dah/news/... #irishart #newmedia #mediaart #AIart #AI

Pre-print of our @leonardoisast.bsky.social paper on the sonification of synthetic virology data with colleagues at the Molecular Virology Diagnostic and Research Laboratory @ucc.ie and @apcmicrobiomeirel.bsky.social is up on MUSE: muse.jhu.edu/article/9763... @uccresearch.bsky.social

I am once again listening to Sea Power Disco Elysium Soundtrack on a Sunday evening.

Thinking of adding an additional hobby, alongside buying books, of reading books.

If anyone is interested 'Sonic Pasts: acoustical heritage and historical soundscapes' is available through @routledgebooks.bsky.social at a discounted price #Soundscapes #Acoustics #Heritage www.routledge.com/Sonic-Pasts-...

Thanks for listening. Hope you had a nice rest. We'll be back on December 24th with a sleighful of drone. Tonight's lullabies:

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At Richard Dawson tonight and it was nice to be reminded that the electric guitar is in fact: electric.

"Thing X is actually thing Y" papers are the worst. Particularly egregious where Y is a makey-uppy fantasy idea (e.g. a time machine etc.). Bonus points when X = Y purely on the basis of semantics, and brain-winner of the year award if thinking of X as Y changes absolutely nothing in the world.

Love this

What are you talking about?

📣 I am hiring a postdoc! aial.ie/hiring/postd... applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome pls share with your networks

UCC researchers receive €1.1m to address national and global societal challenges UCC has been awarded funding for five interdisciplinary projects in @researchireland.ie's COALESCE 2025 programme. For more, see: www.ucc.ie/en/news/2025... @uccresearch.bsky.social

I always wondered why DKIT didn’t jump on the Technical University bandwagon. This is a much better move

We are so back

I'm told this will be out in early to mid December. Please forgive coming episodes of shameless self-promotion and make a note of launch dates in your diaries! UCC 19 February Boston College 11 March NYU Glucksman House 12 March Royal Irish Academy 25 March www.cambridge.org/ie/universit...

Reminder: “30×N — LRJ1”, a new video and release is available on www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXds... and www.cronicaelectronica.org/242/ @visiophone.bsky.social @ptudela.bsky.social @carvalhais.org @earlabs.bsky.social

We need an 'Are Death Grips Working on a New Album' bot that just oscillates between yes and no 6 times a day.

As the only Digital Art Biennale, I try to put work in the Wrong Biennale whenever I can. This year Ping Ho has programmed "Thonis-Heracleion" for The Distance of Blue pavilion. You can find the Pavillion here: thewrong.org/TheDistanceO...

This one is going to go south real fast. We’ve had increasingly decent voice cloning some the ‘Catch a Waveform’ model a few years back. But real-time models will open Pandora’s box for phone scammers.

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New study in @IEEEXplore Transactions on Technology and Society explores what it takes to build a 100% renewable power grid Read here: ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/111... #RenewableEnergy #NetZero #EnergyTransition #IEEE #ClimateAction @prajdhan.bsky.social

Nice shot of the debut performance of ‘Noise for Waves and Grains’ from the IEEE concerts for the ElettroAQustica 10 festival in L’Aquila this week.