I enjoyed an amazing day today at @isa-rc22.bsky.social conference. So many interesting papers and conversations to reflect on. And also I have fallen in love with India.

This tragic incident highlights the completely exploitative underpinnings of our dependency on digital devices, and the limits of any talk in the global north of 'digital ethics', 'tech ethics' etc. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

blueprint to a life

For all those involved in drafting so-called AI guidelines, but being overwhelmed with nonsense, this is a lifesaver. Great work by Dagmar and Ariel! Resisting Enchantment and Determinism: How to critically engage with AI university guidelines. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Human distress is understandable, when we make sense of a person's context. It might take time & space, some care & being safely held, quietness & rest... All these things are possible in principle. But in reality so many people can't access these things- structural inequalities maintain suffering.

Please share: Pew Research Center will provide $3,000 each for 19 new papers using our recent global datasets. We encourage reuse of our Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures data! https://www.pewresearch.org/2026/01/16/seeking-research-using-recent-pew-templeton-global-religious-futures-datasets/

☀️ Summer School 📚 “Critical AI Literacies for Resisting and Reclaiming" Organisers and teachers: 👉 @marentierra.bsky.social 👉 @olivia.science 👉 myself Deadline for application: 🐦 31 March 2026 (early bird fee) 1/🧵 www.ru.nl/en/education...

CAIL = prerequisite knowledge for a critical perspective, such as to tell apart nonsense hype from true theoretical computer scientific claims. For example, the idea that human-like systems are a sensible or possible goal is the result of circular reasoning and anthropomorphism. olivia.science/ai 🧵

Academic books should have more of this playful aesthetic

Casey Michel, on the oligarchs who want Greenland newrepublic.com/article/2051...

I love this paragraph in @neilselwyn.bsky.social book "what is digital sociology" on Lewis Mumford. "Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends."

Sign it, share it. Can't believe we have to petition our leaders for monsters to stop being monsters but it just seems par for the course these days.

Worth waiting for! @alexhanna.bsky.social and I did a LOT of podcast guesting last spring & summer and this one, one of my favorites, is finally available: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJmk...

"Ghost in the Machine approaches ubiquitous questions like “What is AI?”, “Who is building it?”, and “What will humans become?” by exploring how emerging technologies have historically reshaped identity, culture, and global power..." Read the full interview with @valerieveatch.bsky.social here!

We present a typology of traps to avoid: 1. Believing that AI systems are minds 2. Believing that AI systems are theories 3. Believing that cognitive science can be automated. Learn to recognise and avoid these traps. Failure to avoid leads to numerous problems. 3/🧵

Queen's @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social looking beautiful this morning.

Ready to upskill or change direction in 2026? Ulster University’s Skill Up programme offers FREE postgraduate certificates & short courses funded by the Department for the Economy NI starting January 2026. Read more: https://ow.ly/CR5L50XCCk2 #WeAreUU

I had a magical few days in Cambridge, marking the end of a chapter. And having brunch with the absolute legend and a hero of mine @karenod.bsky.social made it even more so special. Thank you @westcotthousecam.bsky.social @angliaruskin.bsky.social

Registered and hoping/planning to go!

Hospital colleague said to me she doesn't feel equipped for the increasing psychological distress that patients are bringing. I know she's highly skilled & caring, but just so stretched & overwhelmed. The solution here isn’t more training, but some regular space to pause, reflect, & feel supported.

My fungus is fruiting!

Last night I heard Arooj Aftab perform at Belfast Cathedral and she was enchanting. I'd 100% recommend if you can get to any of these.

Brilliant thread on public domain image resources. You don't need uncanny valley AI slop!

Iris Murdoch "Most of the time we fail to see the big wide real world at all because we are blinded by obsession, anxiety, envy, resentment, fear. We make a small personal world in which we remain enclosed. Great art is liberating, it enables us to see and take pleasure in what is not ourselves."

so they're mycoblogging

I have 2 articles published in the latest issue of Feminist Theology. The first is an interview I did with one of the editors about my work in feminist and trauma theologies which you can read here: doi.org/10.1177/0966...

Just signed up for this hybrid lecture from Lisa Oakley on spiritual abuse - looks really interesting. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/from-silen...

Something that always stays with me from training, 20yrs on is- "if you leave someone feeling a bit more valued, a bit more heard, a bit more hopeful, if you uphold a person's dignity- then it's time well spent." This is foundational. Even in the most complex situations, this simple guide applies.

I did my first qualitative interview today and I loved it!

I'm really looking forward to going to the panel discussion tomorrow afternoon on Art as Medicine. Looks like so many good things are happening here

**Giveaway Alert** We have a sample of our brand new FTN t-shirt (only 3 currently in existence) and a copy of 'When God Became White'! Just like and follow. For an extra entry give us a re-post. Deadline 10th April 7pm GMT. Winner announced 12th April. (We can only post to a UK address though).

Check out my beginners guide to Trauma Theology in this week’s Church Times (and the brilliant companion piece by @jodolby.bsky.social on trauma-informed yoga!) www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

In good news, today: Namibia swears in first female president Nandi-Ndaitwah is only the second African woman to be directly elected as president, after Liberia's Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. www.bbc.com/news/article...

I would like to clarify that art is not a luxury. Purchasing art is a luxury, yes, but art as an act of creation is not. I need you to hear me when I say, art is something anyone can do. Anyone. It is instinctual. Capitalism is new, but art is ancient, it's in our blood.

I have an old little caravan in the garden, my 'room of ones own' which I use for reading, writing, painting and just being. I finished the underlayer of this. Now it is time for a quick nap, feeling the heat of the sun and listening to the birds singing. #tinyjoys

Was it Arendt who said something like “the death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture on the verge of descending into barbarism”?

There are some fantastic suggestions here 🥰

So lovely…& yet how discordant w/vast majority of Christian parenting resources that instead underscore God-like parental authority/vision or expectations for unquestioning compliance from children! The way we refer to children matters a great deal & reveals quite a lot about underlying beliefs. 1/2

I love this

Coming up in 30 min. Not that we are excited about hearing @bethallisonbarr.bsky.social or anything...

First time at the Duncairn on Saturday night experiencing the wonder that is The Ocelots. Stunning.