I had a blast presenting two Irish language-related papers at #LREC2026 last week! It was a treat meeting so many inspiring researchers from all over the world! Thanks to everyone for the thought-provoking questions and insights - I am feeling energised after all the great discussions.

Thosaigh mé ag cruthú físeáin TikTok i nGaeilge le déanaí - cheapas gur fiú cuidiú leis an méid brainrot atá ann don teanga chomh maith le taighde a dhéanamh di. I started making Irish TikToks! This is my contribution to better Irish representation online! www.tiktok.com/@joshtheoptimistt

I am starting to believe that the popularity of a language is directly proportional to the amount of brainrot content available for it on social media. Irish may be low-resource but it's definitely high-meme :)

I didn't expect to be on Liveline talking about this today 😳

I am sickened to see that users are able to create AI generated photos of regular and genuine users on Twitter now. I sincerely ask, who are these platforms actually for if traffic is dominated by bots, and real people can be turned into pornographic content?! It's sick.

I accidentally came across BBC Alba and was shocked at how similar Gaidhlig is to Gaeilge. I would say the two languages are almost mutually intelligible, aside from some pronounciation and naming convention quirks. Time for a deep dive on the language I guess 🤩 #ScottishGaelic

Such an interesting read!! Maybe I should start drinking coffee 😩 www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

"Should Gaeilgeoirí have to surrender their data to tech corporations in order to be included in public services, or to benefit from AI tools that enhance productivity?" Read more about the implications of poor AI model understanding of Gaeilge here: www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Dia dhaoibh ar fad arís! Anois, táimid ag lorg daoine chun cluiche gairid a dhéanamh dúinn. Dá mbá rud é go bhfuil tú líofa sa Ghaeilge agus go bhfuil ~10 nóiméad agat, seol msg chugam! Bheinn thar a bheith bhuíoch!!! Tá deis agat cur le taighde le tionchar, don teanga. #CabhairAgTeastáil #Gaeilge

Bhí fadhb ag Bluesky cúpla lá ó shin, uaidh sin bhí 'Bluesky Gaeilge' as ord go dtí seo! Tá sé ar ais ag obair anois! www.theverge.com/news/784442/...

📢 Táimid ag lorg daoine le cáilíocht sa Ghaeilge chun léamh profaí a dhéanamh ar thurgnamh atá déanta againn. People with qualifications in Irish needed to proof-read some of our experiments. Seol teachtaireacht chugam má tá suim! - Participants will be acknowledged in an academic publication.

Fotha @bsky.app i nGaeilge?? Maith thú @joshtheoptimist.bsky.social! Beimid á leanúint as seo amach! #gaeilge #foghlaimgaeilge #learnirish #blueskygaeilge

Anuas ar gach rud éile, táim ag oibriú ar theicneolaíocht nua don Ghaeilge agus táim ar bís chun gach rud a roinnt i gceann tamaill! ✨ #PhD #Gaeilge

Ah bhí bug sa chód chomh maith a lig postálacha Béarla isteach sa fotha seo. Tá sé socraithe anois!! Is féidir linn sult a bhaint as postálacha Gaeilge, agus muid sábhailte ó na ag daoine a mbíonn ag úsáid an tag mícheart srl... ✨ bsky.app/profile/did:...

Omd tá fíor-bhrón orm!! Táim ar sos óna meán soisialta agus ní raibh a fhios agam go raibh "Bluesky Gaeilge" as ard mar a déarfá! Tá sé ar ais ag obair anois ag: bsky.app/profile/josh...

He has risen 🥹✊

Táim thar a bheith bhuíoch chun a bheith foilsithe ag RTÉ! Labhraím faoi na deiseanna teicneolaíochta atá ann chun cumhacht a thabhairt do Ghaeilgeoirí. I got to credit @kscanne.bsky.social, @kingdonncha1.bsky.social and @aonghusoha.bsky.social for their amazing work! 👏 www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Chruthaigh mé fotha nua a aimsíonn na postálacha ar fad scriofa i nGaeilge amháin! 🥳 It uses a little machine learning model to differenciate between posts tagged in Irish and posts that are actually written in Irish - love people using it on random posts 🤩 Bain triail as! bsky.app/profile/did:...

Labhair mé le Silicon Republic mar gheall ar mo thaighde le déanaí. Dar liomsa gur cheart do Ghaeilgeoirí a bheith in ann páirt a ghlacadh i gcursaí teicneolaíochta gan teorainn - agus táim tiomanta chun an cheart sin a chur i bhfeidhm. www.siliconrepublic.com/machines/ai-...

OpenAI is concerned that DeepSeek might have trained models using their "proprietary" models... They must be OUTRAGED! Imagine stealing content and using it to train AI models... 🙃 #TheyCouldNever

I'm so proud of how far I've come with my game dev project :) This is a demo of some of the detective game mode features. I'm really happy with the "emotional dimension". Making everything fit a natural scale has taken some experimenting, hence the ugly white boxes :) #indiedev #gamedev

In my latest quest for personalising my work office to make everyone think I'm insane, I have planted these little guys around the place 😍 I'm not a Disney adult but I am a stitch adult 😎✊

Dia dhaoibh ar maidin ✨ Bíodh lá den scoth agaibh ar fad 🤗💖 Táimse ag súil le #goodvibes amháin inniu 🥺🙏 #gaeilge

Twitch calling me out for not streaming by calling me grass-toucher of the year is pretty spot-on 💀☠️ Top 10% of game development though?! HUGE W 🚨 Calling all game dev and software engineers, this is clearly the community for you 😎 #gamedev #indiedev

Attending Trinity for the week, and wow this room is beautiful 😍

Ahhh we have almost survived the work week!!!

I grew up on these streets

Had a full circle moment today where I did a lecture in a room I did most of my classes as an undergrad 😳 Life is strange...

My dear friend is live on Twitch, labhair Gaeilge leis! ✨💖

Manifesting a wonderful start to the week for you all ✨🪄✨💖

This is such wonderful news for the area. I'd love to go because like Cillian himself, my parents and their parents used to see films there. I remember walking past when it was closed thinking that it was so cool that there was a cinema in the Gaeltacht. 🥳

I'd love to connect with local game developers and gamers on here. I am obsessed with final fantasy! I'm currently playing FFXVI. I am partial to some Overwatch and Dead By Daylight. The Harry Potter trilogy on PC was my childhood. Any gamegeoirí out there? - gamers that play as Gaeilge 👀🎮🕹️

Is today a build games or play games kind of day? 🤔

Mise nuair a aimsím cuntas nua le Gaeilge 😍

Just got back from seeing Wicked for the first time and it was phenomenal... But when are we going to address the rise in teenagers blasting TikToks with full brightness on their phones while having full conversations with each other for everyone in the cinema to hear 😍😍😍

My latest piece for RTÉ is about #games set in Ireland (but that doesn't necessarily mean they're good!!) As always, I write dialectally in Gaelainn Chorca Dhuibhne, and appreciate that RTÉ let me do so! www.rte.ie/gaeilge/2024... #Gaeilge #Irishlanguage

It's a like a Total Wipeout challenge trying not to slip on ice on the way to work today..

For all the Gaeilgeoirí out there, you can search "lang:ga" to find all Bluesky posts as Gaeilge 😎 I think this platform could truly foster a strong Irish community 🤞

Is aoibheann liom an slí ina bhfuil muid in ann teanga a dháileadh ar na posts ar fad ar Bluesky. Tá an gné simplí seo chun cabhair a thabhairt do thaighdeoirí cosúil liomsa chun rudaí thar a bheith cool a chruthu don phobal 💖 #Gaeilge #PhD

People: you should bring your switch on the plane if you need a good distraction from the flight anxiety Me: good idea *opens Just Dance in the middle seat*

I am not an artist by any stretch of the imagination, so I'm finding the idea of making every object in a 3D scene fit a uniform scale for my game is tricky ☠️ Maybe I should give in and make my aesthetic be jarring 🤩🤩

This platform is giving Twitter 2018 vibes. Time for my #promosky 👨‍🎓 PhD student 🔬 Researching Natural Language Processing / Generation LLMs AI ML 🎮 Game Dev - I make games 🕹️ Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy, Twitch 🇮🇪 I speak Gaeilge I kind of want to start sharing my game dev journey on here 👀

Hey everyone! I came across this video game museum in Berlin over the weekend and it was easily one of the best experiences I've ever been to. Between all the history, Monkey Island and the mini arcades - it was well worth going. 🎮🕹️👾🇩🇪 We need one of these in Ireland 🙏🇮🇪

Currently mourning the fact that I'll never get to experience Life is Strange 1 and 2 for the first time ever again 🥲 ... We don't talk about true colours 🤐

Oh wow a new platform! Ok hello, I'm Josh 👋 I am a massive nerd that: loves to game (Final Fantasy 😚); is doing a PhD in machine learning; obsesses over EDM (Clean Bandit 😍); makes video games for fun; loves gay culture 🏳️‍🌈 and spreading as much Joptimism as possible ✨ See you around 🫡😎