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I’m told that the deadline has been extended. New deadline is 17 March. Please share.

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CFP. 35th Irish Conference of Historians, 'Inner lives and outer realities', 12-13 September, Maynooth University www.historians.ie/cfp-35th-iri...

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Don't forget to register for this upcoming webinar. #hstm

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HSTM Network Ireland Webinar, 6 March 2025, 1-2 pm Dr Sorcha O’Brien (Lecturer in Design History & Theory , IADT) 'Kitchen Power: Rural Electrification, Women and Electrical Appliances in 1950s and 1960s Ireland' www.historians.ie/hstm-network...

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HSTM Network Ireland Webinar, 6 March 2025, 1-2 pm Dr Sorcha O’Brien (Lecturer in Design History & Theory , IADT) 'Kitchen Power: Rural Electrification, Women and Electrical Appliances in 1950s and 1960s Ireland' www.historians.ie/hstm-network...

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CFP. 35th Irish Conference of Historians, 'Inner lives and outer realities', 12-13 September, Maynooth University www.historians.ie/cfp-35th-iri...

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Hey, artists, in case you were wondering if your work matters: I'm a scientist working on climate change and biodiversity, and I would not be who I am today without The Lorax, The Secret of NIMH, Watership Down, The Last Unicorn, and The X-Files. I know I'm not alone. Thank you for all you do.

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Any journalist who regularly works with data reading the line “data doesn’t lie”

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My other half @sorchao.bsky.social is giving a lecture on 6 March. Check it out!

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Webinar #hstm Dr Sorcha O’Brien (Lecturer in Design History & Theory , IADT) ‘Kitchen Power: Rural Electrification, Women and Electrical Appliances in 1950s and 1960s Ireland’ 6 March 2025. us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Webinar #hstm Dr Sorcha O’Brien (Lecturer in Design History & Theory , IADT) ‘Kitchen Power: Rural Electrification, Women and Electrical Appliances in 1950s and 1960s Ireland’ 6 March 2025. us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Heading to DCU to speak at the 'Education after the algorithm: Co-designing critical and creative futures' conference on our work with students co-creating Maynooth University's Student GenAI guidelines

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We’re in a bubble. When it pops it is going to be really ugly. Ilya Sutskever’s new company has no product and is raising $1 billion at a $30bn valuation. Mira Murati’s new company just announced a complete nothing burger. The longer this goes on the worse it will be. techcrunch.com/2025/02/18/s...

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This Friday we (including @misterjabsticks.bsky.social) will be discussing our work co-creating @maynoothuniversity.ie GenAI Student Guidelines at the Education after the Algorithm conference, DCU. Really looking forward to discussing the role of students in developing such policies.

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A BBC study just found that generative AI can't even generate news story synopses with any consistent accuracy, and here we are happily pretending it's a symmetrical replacement for education and experience

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Newsletter: Generative AI is a marketing con perpetuated by Sam Altman and Dario Amodei through a mixture of lies and half-truths carried by a tech media that fails to ask the right questions. Outside of ChatGPT, generative AI companies barely get any traffic at all. www.wheresyoured.at/longcon/

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The Gulf of America must have been JD’s idea. It’s a transubstantiation of water into whine.

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HSTM Network Ireland Online Seminar Series 2025 🕑 First Thursday of each month, 1-2 pm 📍Via Zoom For more information, visit our website hstmnetworkireland.org/public-events/

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Have this book on order and truly excited to read it.

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We're recruiting for the role of Assistant Professor in Early Modern History, and seek to appoint a historian working on any aspect of the early modern world, excluding the Anglophone world (deadline 17 March 2025): durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

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Enjoyed talking at the inaugural Maynooth University GenAI Community of Practice today about the challenges and opportunities of GenAI in assessment practice.

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Prepping for a session on GenAI and had a look at Google Treads for the terms 'ChatGPT' and 'Moodle'. The strong relationship between these terms and the academic calendar highlights that students are significant users.

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The two countries held back from signing the communique agreed by about 60 countries at the AI Action summit in Paris as US vice-president JD Vance vowed that the US would remain the dominant force in the technology. www.ft.com/content/a6b5...

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@edinburghup.bsky.social have recently published my blog post on science and religion in 19th-century Scotland, so I thought I'd share it with you all. euppublishingblog.com/2024/12/09/r...

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cfp. annual @hstmnetworkireland.bsky.social conference. Always a welcome and insightful event.

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On Rethink, we discussed AI companies’ copyright heist. Here, a leading children’s author and illustrator argues that the government must not give in to Big Tech www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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JOB Assistant Professor in the History of International Political Thought c.1700 to the Present, University of Cambridge (this is a permanent/tenured position, open to those with a specialism in any period since 1700) www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50242/

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In Paris listening to the fifth talk in a row on global AI risks to humanity, and not one mention yet of runaway AI energy demand pushing us over the climate brink

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History of Science Webinar, Thursday, 6 Feb.

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Online HSTM Network Ireland webinar 6 Feb. 1-2pm (Irish Time). Elena Schaa via Zoom. Registration here: t.co/XcAgamnICK All Welcome.

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Great seminar coming up on 13 Feb with my colleague @jkom.bsky.social on academic content assetization - universities licensing teaching materials to edtech platforms and publishers renting out academic papers to AI companies for model training - it's free online www.de.ed.ac.uk/event/who-pr...

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We are delighted to announce @ssnci.bsky.social 2025 Annual Conference will be held at the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies, University of Aberdeen on 19-21 June 2025. The conference theme is Universalism and Locality in Nineteenth-Century Ireland! See ssnci.org/annual-confe...

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DeepSeek hot take: The emperor still has no clothes, but it's very distressing to the emperor that their non-clothes can be made so much more cheaply.

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'Potential breach of intellectual property'

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Lindsay Janssen will be giving the @ssnci.bsky.social annual lecture on 28 February at @nlireland.bsky.social Dr Janssen will speak on 'Irish Memories in Transatlantic News Media, 1845-1919'! Book your free ticket here www.nli.ie/exhibitions-...

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So, to recap: the suggestion is: the UK creative industries grant open access to all their historic and future work and IP, without payment, to the brains behind a nascent industry that just tanked $1tn in a couple of hours. Sure. Seems great.

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Looks like an interesting position @hstmnetworkireland.bsky.social @iaphistorians.bsky.social @irishhistorians.bsky.social

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Five things most people don't seem to understand about DeepSeek. • It's not smarter than earlier models, just trained more cheaply • It doesn't solve hallucinations or problems with reliability. Rest of post at open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...

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www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j... Nice to see #EltonJohn join #PaulMcCartney is a call for protecting the economic livelihood of young artists and musicians. H/t @neilturkewitz.bsky.social

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🙌Funded PhD Opportunity!🙌 Please do share widely. The DCU School of History and Geography is currently advertising paid PhD opportunities esp in Medieval Ireland, the history of Irish towns and cities, legal history and women’s and gender history www.dcu.ie/historygeogr...

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We're hiring! The Bodleian are looking for a Public Engagement Officer. This is an exciting role based in the Weston Library, with the opportunity to make a real impact on visitors and the community, working with the Bodleian’s historic collections. For more information: tinyurl.com/48uuw625.

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Hoping to make this! It will be great!

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Great to see @hstmnetworkireland.bsky.social on Bluesky. Welcome! #hstm

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Still time to register for this talk. #hstm

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A few weeks ago @emollick.bsky.social hyped this alleged study showing positive impact of AI in Nigerian education. Mercifully @ddmeyer.bsky.social has dug into what's really happening so I don't have to, and unsurprisingly, it's a crock. We need to do better. open.substack.com/pub/danmeyer...

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