The Ada Scotland Festival is featured in today's Herald: www.heraldscotland.com/news/2548659...

Just published a blog post on the Advance HE website, drawing on our research into how Graduate Apprentices develop an impressive range of professional skills. advance-he.ac.uk/news-and-vie...

The Ada Scotland Festival, which aims to shift the gender balance of Scotland’s computing sector, is set to return with more than 20 events aimed at young women and non-binary people across the country from September 29. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

Our UofG Colleagues Peter Sneddon, Erin Ferguson, Eric Yao share: Why do students decide to stop studying physics? #oSoTLSummer #SoTL #AcWri #highered #Vol2No1_22 #physics #motivation osotl.org/osotl/articl...

We continue our oSoTL summer with Sarah Honeychurch's: Pragmatism in practice: Bricolage as a methodological framework for SoTL #oSoTLSummer #SoTL #AcWri #highered #Vol2No2_22 #SpecialEdition #bricolage osotl.org/osotl/articl...

An early start this morning to deliver my talk at the hybrid Computing Education Practice in Pakistan (PkCEP): 'Delivering a Work-Based Learning Degree Programme in Software Engineering: Lessons from Practice'. Thank you to the organsiers (including @waqarnabi.bsky.social) for the invitation!

New journal article: 'From disciplinary enthusiasm to soulless tasks: norms behind computing educators' emotion display' with @vgrande.bsky.social, Päivi Kinnunen, Anne-Kathrin Peters, @mihaelasabin.bsky.social, Matilde Sánchez-Peña, and Ethel Tshukudu: doi.org/10.1080/0304...

The Apple TV+ app for Android is the worst streaming app I've ever used. Shockingly poor piece of software that prevents me from watching the content I've paid for. All the hype around the return of #Foundation and I can't even watch it!

@ant-workshop.com have an incredible Ruin Remix Update for Into the Restless Ruins! Guided entirely by the amazing player feedback. ➕ New Remix Levels Unlocked 🐺 Harvest Maiden & Wulver Updates 📿 Brand new room cards, charms, boons & trinkets! store.steampowered.com/news/app/287...

Very much enjoying this on PS5! store.playstation.com/en-gb/concep...

Thanks to the @advancehe.bsky.social team for the opportunity to speak at the Mental Health in Higher Education conference yesterday. I failed to take any photos so here's a peek at my slides, featuring a very flattering photo of me playing the original Zelda circa 1990.

Lovely people, inspiring speakers, and great ideas. Our students share their experience of this year's BCS Women Lovelace Colloquium. blogs.napier.ac.uk/womenintotec...

Excellent article on this year's BCS Women Lovelace Colloquium @bcswomenlovelace.bsky.social in the latest issue of the BCS @wearebcs.bsky.social IT NOW magazine: www.bcs.org/articles-opi... Lovely to hear from Joanna Jardine, one of our @uofgcompsci.bsky.social Graduate Apprentices!

"All those people who look like they've got it sorted? They don't." We are all still inventing ourselves. Great start to the keynote from Sharon Moore.

The @bcswomenlovelace.bsky.social colloquium finally comes to Glasgow! www.linkedin.com/posts/matthe...

Our conference tomorrow - no tickets left, sorry, we're full - is in GUU. Attendees coming by public transport should go to KELVINBRIDGE subway and head up the Great Western Road, then turn left on to Bank Street. Detailed directions + pics follow...

Hello Bluesky! Work is already underway on the 2025 Ada Scotland Festival, which will run from 29 September to 10 October. Stay tuned! ada.scot

Donald Trump is not welcome. The state visit must be cancelled.

'Four things to look for when choosing your next Responsible AI training' - really useful blog post from @oanamandrei.bsky.social and colleagues, in response to the UK government's AI Opportunities Action Plan (via Responsible Ai UK). rai.ac.uk/four-things-...

This @wearebcs.bsky.social Animation & Games 2025 competition “The Power of Connection - Design a game where the core idea is understanding, empathy, and unity among players from different cultures and backgrounds" is open to primary to postgrad students & BCS members: www.bcs.org/membership-a...

This was a really fun (& sometimes unexpected) conversation about academic leadership. Feels weird to share, but I'm glad to have been invited onto the podcast by @gerifitz.bsky.social (at the suggestion of the wonderful @oanamandrei.bsky.social). changingacademiclife.captivate.fm/episode/oana...

The 2025 BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium will be on April 16th at the University of Glasgow! And our call for poster abstracts is open until Monday 3rd February. Find out more at bcswomenlovelace.bcs.org

@oanamandrei.bsky.social @ #CEP25 kicking off our RECAP (Research Evidence-based Collaborations for Advancement in Pedagogy) session on Integrating Socially Responsible Computing Competencies in Software Engineering Education (w/ @drolga.bsky.social & @waqarnabi.bsky.social) doi.org/10.1145/3702...

We are delighted to be hosting the @wearebcs.bsky.social Women Lovelace Colloquium in 2025! The call for abstracts is now open (just 250 words!): bcswomenlovelace.bcs.org?page_id=92 So, if you're a female or non-binary undergraduate or postgraduate taught student, get your abstract submitted!

I posted already about our new book, but I wanted to thank the colleagues who contributed to my own chapter, 'The Design and Delivery of Work-Based Degree Programmes: Challenges and Solutions': www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

Thank you to Margaret Ross for the invitation to deliver a talk ('The positive effects of playing video games') at the BCS AGD SG AGM last night. I'm also pleased to be joining the SG committee! (The paper featured in Safia's screen grab is here: doi.org/10.1177/1555...)

Our book, 𝘼𝙥𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙖𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙒𝙤𝙧𝙠-𝘽𝙖𝙨𝙚𝙙 𝙇𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙣 𝙃𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙀𝙙𝙪𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣: 𝙄𝙢𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙫𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙂𝙧𝙖𝙙𝙪𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙀𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙤𝙮𝙖𝙗𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙮, is now available in electronic form, with the print version out on 16 December - just in time for Christmas! 😀 doi.org/10.4324/9781...

Looking forward to @suesentance.bsky.social’s talk today at @uofgcompsci.bsky.social about @rpcerc.bsky.social and their projects including broadening participation, AI education, programming education, and many timely and exciting topics!

It was so much fun to judge the Kelvin Games Jam competition! Some brilliant ideas, and a fun, inventive winning entry (from a team that included at least one @uofgcompsci.bsky.social student that I recognised!)