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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Late summer highlights, now the heatwaves have ended + back-to-school is on: a passenger ferry family day trip to Dieppe, the Bowie immersive exhibition near King’s Cross with friends, and a solo day of volunteering for the Ealing Beaver Project at Paradise Fields. Much else awaits this year.

Setting sun behind French coastal town with harbour waters in the foreground and a cloud-mottled dark blue sky above.

Large projection of David Bowie in concern in 1978 looks down on an onlooking seated audience in a darkened room.

Wild-looking aquatic area with pond water in the centre and a profusion of plant life around the edges.

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

My fellow Nighthawk and I will be making our first foray to South Africa from 22:00 (UK time) tonight, fully expecting it to end up an African Diner mini series. Expect classics + roots. Live on TTNS.uk till midnight tonight (Aug 27). Join us in the chatroom. #InternetRadio

Poster for ‘Nighthawks at the African Diner’ radio show (Aug 27, 22:00-00:00). Bands of colour representing the South African flag, and strips of Hopper’s ‘Nighthawks’ painting.

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Live on TTNS.uk in just under an hour, I’ll be D1 Radio tonight with a set of ‘Odds And Ends’ - no theme, just a bunch of tracks of relevance to today or that I’ve been listening to recently. On at 23:00 (UK time). See you in the chatroom.

Poster for a radio show for D1 Radio on The Thursday Night Show, Aug 6th 2026, 23:00 UK time. Brighton yellow background with seven ‘Polaroid’ style snaps to hint at some of the songs in the set. The show is titled ‘Odds And Ends’.

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

It’s Namibia Night on ‘Nighthawks at the African Diner’ tonight, as John and I explore the music of one of the world’s most sparsely populated countries. Tune in live on ttns.uk or ttns.fm from 22:00 UK time for two hours of the sounds of Namibia.

Poster for radio show titled ‘Nighthawks at the African Diner’ on The Thursday Night Show (Jul 30th, 22:00, UK time). The poster contains text in a variety of different bright colours, combined with extracts from Edward Hopper’s painting ‘Nighthawks at the Diner’ as bands across the poster and with a photo of desert sand dunes in the background.

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Tonight, on The Thursday Night Show (TTNS), we will be celebrating our 14th birthday with DJs playing the music they were listening to at 14yo. 17:00 ian joliet 18 A.Nu.Revolution 19 Hardy Milts 20 DannyM 21 David deVYNEL 22 Digit3 23 D1 Radio (yours truly) 00 Dunavibe 02 Brian Borden ttns.uk

Radio show poster that is headed with a graphic stating ‘TTNS14 - our 14th birthday’. The bulk of the poster is made up of ‘yearbook’ style images of the DJ line-up, from when they were 14 years old. Live from 17:00 - 03:00 UK time.

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Ready for a little Harare heat to bring you up to midnight tonight? Tonight, the Nighthawks at the African Diner take you on a 2hr journey into the Zimbabwe Zone. Live on ttns.uk from 22:00 (UK time), June 25th. See you at the diner counter or in the chatroom. #TTNS

Poster for radio show titled ‘Nighthawks at the African Diner’ on The Thursday Night Show (Jun 25th, 22:00, UK time). The poster contains text in a variety of different colours drawn from the Zimbabwean flag, combined with extracts from Edward Hopper’s painting ‘Nighthawks at the Diner’ as bands across the poster and with a photo of a baobab tree in the background.

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

On Monday, we are running a public debate on #AI and the #ClimateCrisis as part of #LondonClimateActionWeek. Today is #ShowYourStripes day, so here’s an image with Islington’s average temperatures since 1850. Register online for the debate: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/462177... #LCAW2026

A succession of thin different coloured stripes. The stripes progress from colder looking blues on the warmer, hotter, darker reds on the right.

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

On Mon June 22nd (14:00-15:00), I’m hosting a panel debate on #AI and the #ClimateCrisis as part of this year’s #LondonClimateActionWeek programme. Four great speakers will be debating pausing AI deployment for environmental grounds. Join us 👇🏼 #LCAW2026 dompates.medium.com/the-elephant...

An African elephant, head on, standing between two large banks of servers. Text reads ‘The Elephant in the Data Centre’ - a public debate on AI and the Climate Emergency.

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Am back on ttns.uk from 23:00-00:00 tonight with ‘Hope I Keep Going When I Get Old’ - a tribute to musicians that have kept going after all these years. See you in the chatroom.

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Made it up to the top of Southwick Hill for the sunset, before the week ends. It’s, fortunately, been a holiday of restoration and the tidying up of a few loose ends. And now the summer beckons - it’s going to be a full one. Bring it on.

Panorama of sunset over Sussex countryside, up on Southwick Hill.

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Tonight, on Nighthawks at the African Diner, John and I spent a couple of hours with some contemporary music from around the Congo region. Expect multiple afro genres and plenty of great music. Will certainly be a learning journey for me. 22:00 on May 28th on ttns.uk. Come & join us in the chatroom.

Poster for radio show titled ‘Nighthawks at the African Diner’ on The Thursday Night Show (May 28th, 23:00, UK time). The poster contains text in a variety of different bright colours, combined with extracts from Edward Hopper’s painting ‘Nighthawks at the Diner’ as bands across the poster and with a photo of a Tanzanian river in the background.

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Delighted to be making my debut at Jisc’s Connect More event, on May 13th, 10:50 - 11:20. I’ll be talking about our interdisciplinary undergraduate module on #sustainability and #ClimateChange, why the module was needed and how it works, as well as some of the impact. www.jisc.ac.uk/connect-more

Promotional card for speaker at Jisc’s Connect More 2026 event. Design shows multiple overlapping squares of differing sizes with a black and white picture of a man, faintly smiling. Text reads Speaker: Dominic Pates, Senior Educational Technologist, City St George’s, University of London. Session: Working together for change: co-designing climate curricula. Date: 13 May.

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Back on the radio again tomorrow, this time for 2hrs. It’s going to be an interesting (if eclectic) show. The 1st half is called ‘Dreaming Spires’ and is about music from Oxford (where I’m giving a talk about TTNS next week. 2nd half is a tribute to #AshaBhosle. ttns.uk on Apr 23, from 22:00 (UK).

Poster for D1 Radio Hour show, on April 23rd 2026 (22:00-00:00). Main image is of an old circular stone building - Oxford’s Radcliffe Camera - overlaid with abstract shapes and lines.

The text reads as follows:

The Thursday Night Show presents The D1 Radio Hour with Dreaming Spires (music from Oxford) & Setful of Asha (a tribute to Asha Bhosle).

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Today, my daughter became a teenager - a milestone for the whole family. My radio show tonight - starting at 23:00 UK time - is a set of songs by well known artists about their own kids. See you in the chatroom. ttns.uk #InternetRadio

Poster for D1 Radio Hour set on The Thursday Night Show (April 16th 2026, 23:00 UK time).

Main image of a baby’s feet sitting on a father’s lap, while the father’s larger hands hold the baby’s feet.

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Finally completed a book I’ve been looking to read for several years, de Sousa Santos’s ‘From the Pandemic to Utopia’. Though a pretty dense read, it has helped to extend my thinking around what I have been calling #transitionism (essentially, pathways towards better futures). Will revisit this.

Book titled ‘From the Pandemic to Utopia: The Future Begins Now’ by Boaventura de Sousa Santos, in the ‘Epistemologies Of The South’ series. Cover includes an abstract image in dark colours that seems to combine a large body of water, a ladder, and a hole in the sky.

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Tonight on The Thursday Night Show, the Nighthawks get on a journey down river as the African Diner takes in music from around the River Congo. This time for 2 hours, join Dom and John at the virtual diner counter on March 5, from 22:00 (UK time) for samples of Congo music. ttns.uk

Poster for radio show titled ‘Nighthawks at the African Diner’ on The Thursday Night Show (March 5th, 22:00, UK time). The poster contains text in a variety of different bright colours, combined with extracts from Edward Hopper’s painting ‘Nighthawks at the Diner’ as bands across the poster and with a photo of an African river in the background.

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

A gentleman I spotted at work servicing ‘Starbot’, our robot barista vending machine.

Man in overalls works at a trolley next to a roll-up banner with ‘AI powered coffee’ as a headline and a large robot barista vending machine named Starbot.

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Have just completed David Byrne’s marvellous ‘How Music Works’, which was mostly hard to put down. In some part, you get the story of Talking Heads, but in other parts, you get how architecture influences how music is made or an insider’s view on the music industry. Highly recommended. #AmReading

Black book with white text on a grey carpet. Title is ‘How Music Works’, author is David Byrne, and a white icon of a speaker emitting sound and pointed upwards is between title and author name.

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Last October, we put on a full 48hrs of radio programming as part of the annual #ALTc conference in Glasgow, exploring what learning technology sounded like. This Jan & Feb, we’re broadcasting programme highlights again on TTNS every Friday PM. #ALTCRadio #Rewind docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Table with different coloured rows outlining the ALTc Radio 2025 Rewind programme. Link to full listing at end of post.

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

The African Diner continues. Tonight, my fellow Nighthawk and I will be taking our listeners on a trip to Senegal for a deep dive into their rich musical traditions. Tune in to TTNS.uk at 23:00 (UK time) and join us in the chatroom.

Poster for radio show titled ‘Nighthawks at the Virtual Diner’ on The Thursday Night Show (Jan 8th, 23:00, UK time). The poster contains text in a variety of different bright colours, combined with extracts from Edward Hopper’s painting ‘Nighthawks at the Diner’ as bands across the poster and with a photo of a Tanzanian red dirt road in the background. Two Senegalese kora players are in the bottom corners.

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Tomorrow, back to work after two weeks off that were both restful and productive. And I go into the new working year with probably (as far as my records can tell) my first #InboxZero in about five years! Won’t last long, but nothing like a blank state to start back up from.

Two columns in Outlook software. Left hand column lists folders titled Inbox, Drafts, Archive, Sent, Groups, Deleted Items, Junk Email, Clutter, Conversation History, RSS Feeds and Saved. Right hand column shows an illustration of a yacht with the sun behind it. The message below states ‘It’s a wrap! Well done - everything’s now under control’.

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

For any of you still up (or in a different time zone to mine), I’ll be doing a radio show on Christmas Day itself. 23:00 UK time. The theme is ‘This Day In Music’, so although there’ll be some festive music, it’s not all that. Drop by for the curios, stay for the chatroom. ttns.uk

Poster for D1 Radio show. Red background with nine white cubes, each with a vintage image on the front.
The show is titled ’This Day In Music’.

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Tonight on The Thursday Night Show, the Nighthawks make our third outing at the African Diner for our series that explores the music of the continent. Join Dom and John at the virtual diner counter from 23:00 (UK time) for more samples of Africa’s finest.

Poster for radio show titled ‘Nighthawks at the African Diner: III’ on The Thursday Night Show (Nov 27th, 23:00, UK time). The poster contains text in a variety of different bright colours, combined with extracts from Edward Hopper’s painting ‘Nighthawks at the Diner’ as bands across the poster and with a photo of a Tanzanian red dirt road in the background.

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Tomorrow night, Bob Dylan plays my hometown. I’m not going, but I am doing a radio show in 30 mins time that’ll be a tribute to Dylan. The man who taught me how to write song lyrics. Live on ttns.uk at 23:00 (UK time). See you in the chatroom.

Black and white photo of 1950s family gathered around a TV set, looking at a screen with a young Bob Dylan playing a harmonica. Text reads ‘The Thursday Night Show presents D1 Radio with Theme Time Dylan Hour’.

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

The Nighthawks head back to the African Diner tonight for Part II of our starting sampler of some of Africa’s finest tunes. Join Dom and John at the virtual diner counter on TTNS.uk tonight, from 23:00 (UK time) and we’ll see you on the chatroom.

Poster for radio show titled ‘Nighthawks at the Virtual Diner’ on The Thursday Night Show (Oct 30th, 23:00, UK time). The poster contains text in a variety of different bright colours, combined with extracts from Edward Hopper’s painting ‘Nighthawks at the Diner’ as bands across the poster and with a photo of a Tanzanian red dirt road in the background.

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

What does learning technology sound like? For the 3rd year running, TTNS is partnering with ALT to bring you #ALTcRadio - live on site from Glasgow and online, with 48hrs of #EdTech radio. Hear exclusive shows, live streamed keynotes, archive rewinds and regular TTNS DJs. #altc #ALTc25

ALTc Radio 2025 poster, showing full listings for the radio programme across two days of the conference. Includes two columns of multicoloured 30m blocks, in blue, yellow and grey. The programme is overlaid on a photograph of the cloisters at the University of Glasgow.

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Just finished this fabulous book, ‘Designing Hope’ by @sarahhousley.bsky.social, looking through the lenses of four emerging futures. Read it in just a few days - it felt like a neat summary of many of the things I’ve been reading over the past few years in the search for ways out of the polycrisis.

Book on a blue fabric surface. The book is called ‘Designing Hope’ by Sarah Housley and features a colourful abstract nature-based image on a white background.

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

An hour of music radio all about #RenewableEnergies, you say? Of course you want to tune in! D1 Radio Hour tonight, live on ttns.uk at 23:00 (UK time) with a set entirely dedicated to solar, wind, waves (oh yes, and batteries). Join us in the chatroom if you can. #transitionism

Poster for a D1 Radio Hour set on The Thursday Night show, titled ‘Musical Renewables’ (live on air Oct 2nd 23:00 UK time). Shows a wind turbine by the sea with a sunset sky.

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Tonight on The Thursday Night Show, the Nighthawks make their first step into the African Diner for a series that explores the music of the continent. Join Dom and John at the virtual diner counter on Sep 18, from 23:00 (UK time) for samples of Africa’s finest musical cuts.

Poster for radio show titled ‘Nighthawks at the Virtual Diner’ on The Thursday Night Show (Sept 18th, 23:00, UK time). The poster contains text in a variety of different bright colours, combined with extracts from Edward Hopper’s painting ‘Nighthawks at the Diner’ as bands across the poster and with a photo of a Tanzanian red dirt road in the background.

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Took the #drone out today and got 20m of flight time, capturing the sun setting over the South Downs. Beginning to develop more confidence in my abilities to navigate and fly the thing by now, its 5th proper flight. It’s interesting how much our countryside becomes ‘managed farmland’ from up there.

Sunset over farmland, shot by drone from high up in the air. Laid out in most of the image are bare fields, and a handful of scrub bush can be made out on the right. In the distance, the sun sets over the horizon.

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

A little history tonight on The Thursday Night Show, as I take a look at Aug 14th in music. Join me on ttns.uk in the chatroom from 23:00 (UK time) for a highly eclectic music of tunes from several continents and decades.

Poster for radio show titled ‘This Day In Music: Aug 14’ by D1 Radio on The Thursday Night Show (23:00, UK time). The poster contains consists of an orange background and nine lightly-coloured 3D boxes with historical images on the front. The images include an aerial photo of the Falkland Islands, FDR, a beaver in a box dropped from a parachute, and Fidel Castro with a raised fist and Che Guevara next to him.

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Tonight, the Nighthawks take our final excursion to the Caribbean with a second dive into spouge - Barbados’s forgotten cousin to reggae. Featuring special guest Nicholas Brancker, dialling in from Bridgetown. Live on ttns.uk from 23:00 (UK time). Come and join us in the chatroom.

Poster for a radio show titled ‘Nighthawks at the Bajan Diner’ on The Thursday Night Show (Aug 7th, 23:00 UK time). The poster contains text in the blue and yellow colours of the Barbadian flag, combined with extracts from Edward Hopper’s painting ‘Nighthawks at the Diner’ as bands across the poster.

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Have held on to this faded 1946 edition of ‘Hiroshima’ by John Hersey of The New Yorker for years without reading it. Tonight, the 80th anniversary of the world’s first atomic bombing, I read it in full, in one sitting - the book a retelling of the stories of 6 survivors. What utter hell it all was.

Angled photograph of faded edition of John Hersey’s 1946 Penguin Books publication ‘Hiroshima’.

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Might be my third week in a row on the radio, which is not common these days. Tonight (23:00 UK time), I will be doing my second ‘Filling In The Gaps’ set, where I will be playing tracks that I missed out on at the time from the first two decades of the 21st Century. Join me in the chat at ttns.uk

Monochrome poster for a ‘D1 Radio Hour’ show, with black and grey text layered over an image of white paper with a large tear in the centre. The show is titled ‘Filling In The Gaps’, the station is The Thursday Night Show.

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Finished reading Isabella Tree’s ‘Wilding’ yesterday, a remarkable book about one of Britain’s biggest experiments with #rewilding, at the #Knepp estate in Sussex. Fascinating as the tales of rewilding were, there was also so much rich information about nature to learn about from this book too.

Front cover of a paper book book titled ‘Wilding’, which features an illustration of a turtle dove sitting in a tree. Above the book are the leaves of a house plant, below it, a wooden table.

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

For The Thursday Night Show’s 13th birthday tonight, I shall be joining in the celebrations with playing some of the oddest cuts from the deepest recesses of my collection. Expect off-the-wall Beatles, unusual mashups and even a bit of swearing! ttns.uk from the earlier time of 20:00 (UK time).

Poster for a ‘D1 Radio Hour’ show, depicting an old tree growing over the outside of a fragment of a building, both inside a modern new building. The show is called ‘Going Off The Rails’, and is on July 24th at 20:00 UK time.

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Tonight, TTNS is officially a teenager! Join us from 17:00 UK time for a cluster of DJs going purposefully weird in the music we’ll be playing. Find us in the chatroom on ttns.uk and help us celebrate our 13th birthday. I’m on at 20:00. #InternetRadio

Comic-book style poster for The Thursday Night Show’s 13th birthday sets. Features 10 cartoon-like images of each performing DJ (playing ‘the maddest songs in their collections’) set in different coloured panels.

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Tonight on ttns.uk at 23:00 UK time, my fellow Nighthawk and I will be delving into the almost forgotten genre of spouge, which emerged out of Barbados at a similar time to reggae’s emergence in Jamaica. We might even be featuring some special guests too. Join us at the diner counter, won’t you?

Poster for radio show titled ‘Nighthawks at the Virtual Diner’ on The Thursday Night Show (July 10th, 23:00, UK time). The poster contains text in the black, blue and yellow colours of the Barbadian flag, combined with extracts from Edward Hopper’s painting ‘Nighthawks at the Diner’ as bands across the poster. The poster introduces a show on the forgotten genre of spouge.

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

A powerful start to the day as I bore witness to a small group of animal puppets and their human puppeteers from #TheHerds as they visited London. Their journey runs from the Congo Basin to the Arctic Circle. Met the creator too and thanked him for his vision. #ThinkBig www.theherds.org

Life size animal puppets from The Herds (a giraffe, a kudu and a gorilla) with their puppeteers in from on London’s Tower Bridge.

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Will have to up my game here. Talking at one of my fave conferences, our annual #HCID event, on ‘Battling Monsters for Credit’ (June 24th). Part of an event on the role of design in paradigm shifts, mine’s about interdisciplinary climate education. hcidopenday.co.uk #HCID2025 #ParadigmShift

Banner for a conference talk titled ‘Battling Monsters for Credit: Introducing Interdisciplinary Education for Climate and Sustainability’. Monochrome image of male speaker, title of conference is ‘Paradigm Shift’.

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Back on the radio in 30 mins. Tonight, the Nighthawks take you on an exploration into Brazilian reggae. It’ll be an education for me as much as a delight to play tonight’s selections. Join John and myself at the diner counter on ttns.uk from 23:00 (BST). #InternetRadio

Poster for radio show titled ‘Nighthawks at the Jamaican Diner: Brazilian Reggae’ on The Thursday Night Show (May 29, 23:00, UK time). The poster contains text in the red, gold and green colours of the rasta flag, combined with extracts from Edward Hopper’s painting ‘Nighthawks at the Diner’ as bands across the poster and with aspects of the Brazilian national flag in the background.

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

First Thursday Night I’ve not been on a train back from London in ages, so a bit fresher for TTNS for once. And am live at 23:00 (BST) with a set drawing on today - May 22 - as the theme. Come for the surprises, and stumble across a little history along the way. See you on the chatroom. ttns.uk

Poster for D1 Radio set on The Thursday Night Show (titled ‘This Day in Music: May 22’). Shows a pattern of cubes with photographs and other images on the front side.

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Just finished a pretty remarkable book - ‘Imagination: A Manifesto’ by @ruha9.bsky.social. I have a strong feeling that some of the ideas in this will find its way into my future work, hopefully to support others to open their imaginations. Thanks to @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social for the pointer…

Paperback of ‘Imagination - A Manifesto’ by Ruha Benjamin on a navy blue background. Book cover shows a young Black girl with braided hair branching in multiple directions, blossom growing out of it and wearing a necklace that contains butterflies.

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Spent y’day on an 8-mile hike around #Knepp estate, one of Britain’s best known examples of #rewilding. Saw the white storks, the deer, & the weather was glorious. As I roamed the place, I was struck by nature’s relationship with time - both fast enough to show abundance & slow enough to show ages.

Snarled old tree with tangled trunks, covered in moss and lichen.

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Tonight on The Thursday Night Show, the Nighthawks’ Jamaican journey goes all in on Lovers Rock. Join Dom and John at the virtual diner counter on Apr 3, from 23:00 (UK time) and bring a little love. www.ttns.uk

Poster for radio show titled ‘Nighthawks at the Virtual Diner’ on The Thursday Night Show (Apr 3rd, 23:00, UK time). The poster contains text in the red, gold and green colours of the rasta flag, combined with extracts from Edward Hopper’s painting ‘Nighthawks at the Diner’ as bands across the poster and with a red and green gradient background.

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Live at 13:00-16:00 (UK time) today, an #ALTcRadio Rewind of last month’s #CSET25 event, originally broadcast from University of the Arts London. Features talks from Lawrie Phipps, Wesley Goatley and Dave White, along with tunes from yours truly. See you in the chatroom. ttns.uk #EdTech

Poster for radio show depicting abstract image of different coloured lines and the title 'Critical studies of Education and Technology'. Lists four speakers and a broadcast day/time of February 21st 13:00 - 16:00 GMT. Associated organisations are University of the Arts London, the Association for Learning Technology and The Thursday Night Show

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

What a week! VIP treatment from Jisc as a Community Champion Pioneer at Digifest, sliding back into teaching on my climate change module in the middle, and a day at RIDE2025 at the end. 16 trains in total and *so* many good people + ideas 😊 A weekend first, to decompress and then process…

Large room at RIDE conference with many delegates seated at circular tables and a big grid-based skylight window overhead. The screen in the distance displays the question ‘Where is the critical thinking happening?’

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

This week on The Thursday Night Show, the Nighthawks’ Jamaican odyssey continues with an exploration of reggae in and from Japan. Join Dom and John at the virtual diner counter on Mar 6, from 23:00 (UK time) for some fine J-Reggae cuts. See you in the chatroom.

Poster for radio show titled ‘Nighthawks at the Virtual Diner’ on The Thursday Night Show (Mar 6th, 23:00, UK time). The poster contains text in the red, gold and green colours of the rasta flag, combined with extracts from Edward Hopper’s painting ‘Nighthawks at the Diner’ as bands across the poster and with a black and white bamboo grove background.

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Turned up at a conference this morning. Happened to be listening to the ‘Ziggy Stardust’ album. Turned my headphones off the minute the album ended, turned my headphones off to see a photo of Bowie on the wall and a note that he’d performed Ziggy in the lecture theatre I was heading to. Serendipity!

Photograph on University of Westminster wall of David Bowie performing during the ‘Serious Moonlight’ tour, flanked with two plaques that recounted the connection between Bowie, the photographer who was a former student and a campus lecture theatre he once performed in.

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Despite my general reservations about Generative AI, I had my first exchange with Claude this week. It was both about David Bowie and climate change, but also about the nature of human use of GenAI. ‘Prompting the Alien’ is the result. buff.ly/4i8tCqB

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