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Allison Littlejohn

@allisonl.bsky.social
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Interested in how people learn with digital technologies and data. Pro Vice Provost (Data Empowered Societies GC) at University College London.

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Allison Littlejohn @allisonl.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
#Parkrun #HampsteadHeath #London
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Allison Littlejohn @allisonl.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Summer solstice. 11pm in Linlithgow, Scotland
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Allison Littlejohn @allisonl.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Paris, a bientôt…
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Allison Littlejohn @allisonl.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
#ParkRun #HampsteadHeath #London
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Allison Littlejohn @allisonl.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Lovely day today for #Parkrun #HampsteadHeath #London
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Allison Littlejohn @allisonl.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Tonight at the #BarbicanCentre #London, the BBC Symphony Orchestra gave a a wonderful performance including Stravinsky’s Firebird, Bartók's 3rd Piano Concerto and Finzi's Eclogue conducted by Sakari Oramo, featuring pianist Yeol Eu
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Allison Littlejohn @allisonl.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
This evening David Buckingham launched his book at the @UCLKnowledgeLab London - The End of Information. David discussed whether the end of information is caused by (dis/ mis)information, lack of trust, types of media, political ideology. Sponsored by UCL GrandChallenges
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Allison Littlejohn @allisonl.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
An AlphaFold 4’ — scientists marvel at DeepMind new tool. From Nature www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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‘An AlphaFold 4’ — scientists marvel at DeepMind drug spin-off’s exclusive new AI
Isomorphic Lab’s proprietary drug-discovery model is a major advance, but scientists developing open-source tools are left guessing how to achieve similar results.
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Allison Littlejohn @allisonl.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Studying human behaviour by training artificial-intelligence #AI agents to mimic the behaviours of people. From Nature www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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The first ‘AI societies’ are taking shape: how human-like are they?
Scientists are studying forms of ‘social’ interactions between artificial-intelligence agents. Will they find a fresh form of sociology, or merely a sophisticated mime act?
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Allison Littlejohn @allisonl.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Protein folding measured in real time! From Nature www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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How fast does a protein fold? Real-time technique captures the moment
Proteins assume complex 3D shapes even faster than does DNA, which is a simpler molecule.
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Allison Littlejohn @allisonl.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
At the Network Plus Spring Conference in Bristol where we’ll be talking about how our research is helping build the roadmap for the UK National Federated Compute Service. Federated compute is vital for innovation and for empowering people with data
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Allison Littlejohn @allisonl.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Walked the Loch Venechar circular walk this weekend in the Loch Lomond & Trossachs National Park, #Scotland. Wet weather but this 20km walk was wonderful.
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Allison Littlejohn @allisonl.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Sunny #parkrun #HampsteadHeath #London with coffee afterwards
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Institute of Educational Technology @ietatou.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Don't miss tomorrow's #CALRG talk by @allisonl.bsky.social UCL's Pro-Vice Provost for the Data Empowered Societies Grand Challenge. She'll be exploring whether future learning for work be data driven or human driven? Thursday 5th Feb, 11.00 am, online Email calrg@open.ac.uk for the link
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Allison Littlejohn @allisonl.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Fostering deliberation and action in context: ana analysis of implementation research among healthcare professionals in LMICs from a post digital perspective. Our latest article in British Journal of Educational Technology led by Koula Charitonos. oro.open.ac.uk/106411/
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The Open University
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New Scientist @newscientist.com · 31/12/2025
Understanding the chemical properties of a molecule is an inherently quantum problem, making quantum computers a good tool for the job – and we may start seeing this take off in 2026
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Could 2026 be the year we start using quantum computers for chemistry?
Understanding the chemical properties of a molecule is an inherently quantum problem, making quantum computers a good tool for the job – and we may start seeing this take off in 2026
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Allison Littlejohn @allisonl.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
#Northamptonshire #England 12km circular walk
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Allison Littlejohn @allisonl.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
In 2026 keep an eye on quantum
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Allison Littlejohn @allisonl.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Last #HampsteadHeath #Parkrun of 2026
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Allison Littlejohn @allisonl.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
#Parkrun #HampsteadHeath #London Huge thanks to all the @Parkrun marshalls who work hard (like Santa’s elves) to make the run happen each week!
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Allison Littlejohn @allisonl.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
The future of Government Statistics Service - and the evidence it provides- should be in the hands of humans, not AI. My thought piece on human agency, vulnerability and why m #AI in work needs to be a negotiated journey. @GrandChallenges analysisfunction.civilservice.gov.uk/blog/the-futur…
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Allison Littlejohn @allisonl.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Leckhampstead 12km loop walk, #Northamptonshire
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Allison Littlejohn @allisonl.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
#Parkrun #MiltonKeynes
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Allison Littlejohn @allisonl.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
On Wednesday Dec 10 11.00GMT Francisco Durán del Fierro and I will present our research on Inclusive Futures of Federated Data. Working with Eileen Kennedy, Edinburgh Futures Institute Hartree and funded by EPSRC. Join the event: research.jiscinvolve.org/wp/events/
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Community events - Research
Community events For upcoming and past research-related events on the main Jisc web site please see this event listing. Upcoming Inclusive Futures: Mapping pathways for future data use | 10 December 2...
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Allison Littlejohn @allisonl.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
English National Opera’s dazzling performance this evening at the wonderful London Coliseum #enopinafore
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Allison Littlejohn @allisonl.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Great to participate in the UCL Grand Challenges Winter Reception at the Grant Zoology Museum where James Hetherington and I gave an update on the first year of the UCL Grand Challenge of Data Empowered Societies. Thanks to the DES Team and to Geraint Rees for amazing leadership.
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Allison Littlejohn @allisonl.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Delighted to join today’s UCL Policy Lab Roundtable on AI, the future of Work and the Role of the University. There was a broad panel of participants with distinctive & fascinating perspectives. HE mist be relevant to student needs, but what is ‘relevant’ increasingly is difficult to predict
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Allison Littlejohn @allisonl.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Delighted to be on this panel at the university of Oslo debating the education/work interface in an era of AI. With Regina Mulder, Francisvo Duran del Fierro, Koula Charitonos, Monika Nerland
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Allison Littlejohn @allisonl.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
We have funded 10 ambitious Challenge-led Awards through the @UCL Grand Challenge Data Empowered Societies, University College London www.ucl.ac.uk/grand-challe...
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Ten ambitious challenge-led projects awarded grants under the UCL Data Empowered Societies programme
As the third of the evolved Grand Challenge themes to be launched goes into its second year of activity, the Data Empowered Societies (DES) team are delighted to announce that ten projects will be spearheading innovative work across the four focus areas of the DES programme.
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Allison Littlejohn @allisonl.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
At Lords Cricket Ground today with colleagues ftom Honda R&D to talk about UCL Grand Challenges Data Empowered Societies the future of Ed Tech and Health Tech
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Allison Littlejohn @allisonl.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Wonderful ethereal sounds this evening at the Kingsplace London in a concert by the Terje Isungset Quartet who used instruments crafted from Norwegian glaciers.
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Allison Littlejohn @allisonl.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
#Parkrun #HampsteadHeath #London
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Allison Littlejohn @allisonl.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
‘By amplifying [knowledge] hierarchies, GenAI risks contributing to the erasure of systems of understanding that have evolved over centuries, disconnecting future generations from vast bodies of insight and wisdom. ‘ via The Guardian www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
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What AI doesn’t know: we could be creating a global ‘knowledge collapse’ | Deepak Varuvel Dennison
The long read: As GenAI becomes the primary way to find information, local and traditional wisdom is being lost. And we are only beginning to realise what we’re missing
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Allison Littlejohn @allisonl.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Wise words from Yoshua Bengio - first person to reach 1m citations. “It should not become an objective for researchers to have more citations, because it leads into trying to optimize this rather than do good science and go after the truth.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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‘Godfather of AI’ becomes first person to hit one million citations
The milestone makes machine-learning trailblazer Yoshua Bengio the most cited researcher on Google Scholar.
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Allison Littlejohn @allisonl.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Pleased to meet with a delegation of university leaders from Ukraine to progress our MOU on the UCL-Ukraine knowledge exchange to support sustainable transition in areas of education, health & infrastructure renewal. Via UCL Data Empowered Societies Grand Challenge.
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Allison Littlejohn @allisonl.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
A Multidisciplinary Research Agenda for ArtificialIntelligence, Education, Learning, and Instruction. Our new paper in Postdigital Science. Led by Jimmy Jaldemark. link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...
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A Multidisciplinary Research Agenda for Artificial Intelligence, Education, Learning, and Instruction
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Allison Littlejohn @allisonl.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
UCL Grand Challenges launched a strategic partnership with Ukraine’s Ministry of Digital Transformation to drive digital innovation. UCL will support knowledge exchange in key strategic areas. I was honoured to take part remotely in the signing ceremony: www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/no...
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UCL and Ukraine’s Ministry of Digital Transformation forge strategic partnership to drive innovation
UCL and the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine (MDT) have entered into a landmark partnership to advance Ukraine's digital transformation and economic recovery through research, innovation,...
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Allison Littlejohn @allisonl.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Slippery conditions on the HampsteadHeath #Parkrun today. But a lovely autumnal day in London.
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Allison Littlejohn @allisonl.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
It was good to meet the Minister for Law in Singapore, Edwin Tong, to discuss the importance of creativity in education and how data, AI and digital technologies are impacting creativity in both positive and negative ways www.facebook.com/watch/?v=119...
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Allison Littlejohn @allisonl.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Amazing concert by Julie Fowlis and fellow musicians this evening. This is the third time I’ve heard Julie in London this year - at the Southbank, Pavilion and here at Cadogan Hall. Each concert has been different and each so inspiring.
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Allison Littlejohn @allisonl.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Pleased to join the AI Global Summit at Friends House, Bloomsbury, London today. Packed auditorium!
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Allison Littlejohn @allisonl.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Wicken to Leckhampstead 12km circular walk in Northamptonshire, England on a lovely, Autumnal day
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Allison Littlejohn @allisonl.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Today I will be talking at the DRI Congress in Leeds,UK, about our UKRI funded research with the National Federated Compute Services on ‘Inclusive Futures’ in federated computing. Led by UCL with Hartree & the Edinburgh Futures Institute at Edinburgh University. These are our objectives:
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Allison Littlejohn @allisonl.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Our hosts ftom the National Institute of Education, Singapore reflect upon our visit there for the Professorships Summit and NIE 75th anniversary during the week of October 6th 2025 www.facebook.com/watch/?v=132...
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Allison Littlejohn @allisonl.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
#Parkrun Hampstead Heath, London
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Allison Littlejohn @allisonl.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Pleased to collaborate with Bruce McCandliss, Carol Chan & George Augustine reviewing the Science of Learning in Education Centre (SoLEC) at the National Institute of Education, Singapore www.ntu.edu.sg/nie/science-...
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Allison Littlejohn @allisonl.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Had a great meeting at the Singapore Ministry of Education today with the team that oversee education research, including Dr Teh Laik Woon. Advancing the Science of Learning in Singapore
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Allison Littlejohn @allisonl.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
After a hard days work, a lovely dinner with colleagues. Pleased to participate in the review of the Science of Learning in Education Centre, a research centre within the National Institute of Education in Singapore.
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Allison Littlejohn @allisonl.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Honoured to be invited to present an open seminar at the National Institute of Education Singapore, as DrRuth Wong Visiting Professor. I discussed social & cultural barriers faced by professionals as they use data and digital technologies, reflecting on implications for teachers.
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Allison Littlejohn @allisonl.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Gardens by the Bay, Singapore. I’ve seen many photos of the gardens but they have to be seen (in person) to be believed. Absolutely stunning.
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