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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Ready for some more Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000? Join me and @alexhanna.bsky.social for the next livestream, where we peer into what the tech companies say the impact of "AI" on labor is and what they are actually doing with their mathy maths: Monday, August 10, noon Pacific

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dair_institute - Twitch

Twitch account for The Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR).

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marloft.bsky.social @marloft.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Sport at its best! Gwan Mayooooo! 💚❤️💚

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Noella Gray @noellagray.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I am so saddened by this news, as I know so many on here will be. I cannot think of a more generous or influential presence in the online scholarly community than Dr Raul Pacheco Vega. Sending condolences to all of his family and friends.

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Simon Fern @simonfern.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I learned so much from the resources that Raúl Pacheco-Vega generously wrote and shared. Really saddened to see the news of his passing today.

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Dr Ian C Elliott @ianelliott.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I am completely shocked by this tragic news. I really can't believe it. Raúl Pacheco-Vega was an outstanding scholar who did so much to promote good scholarship. Utterly devastating news.

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Catherine Cronin @catherinecronin.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

so sorry to be missing #EdTech26 (hello to all!) but grateful to @iltasky.bsky.social for livestreaming keynotes ilta.ie/edtech-2026/ this morning's keynote on AI & Education by @abeba.blacksky.app (@aial.ie) was outstanding: core values of education (love, trust, empathy, care) cannot be datafied

AI in education = commercialisation of a collective responsibility
outsourcing a social, civic and democratic process of cultivating the coming generation to commercial and capitalist enterprise whose priority is profit

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Dr Maeve O'Dwyer @drmaeve.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

@abeba.blacksky.app kicks off @iltasky.bsky.social #edtech26 with a keynote challenging the aggressively paced introduction of AI in HE

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Steve Welsh @stevedotedu.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

You know you're off to a good start when Freire's quoted in the opening keynote, to reflect on what we can do to resist the corrosive extractionist hegemony of Big Tech. #Edtech26

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marloft.bsky.social @marloft.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

So sorry to have missed the live talk - and the wonderful audience - but delighted to have joined the livestream! Thank you @abeba.blacksky.app for setting out the most critical questions for educators and educational institutions, and the call to action! #edtech26

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Irish Learning Technology Association @iltasky.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Can’t make it to EdTech 2026 In Dublin? You can still join us online for the keynote talks by tuning in to our livestream. Click each livestream link on ilta.ie/edtech-2026/ to register in advance for Zoom access from anywhere. #EdTech26 #edusky #academicsky #edtech #learningsciences #sotl

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EdTech 2026 – ILTA

EdTech 2026, the annual conference of the Irish Learning Technology Association (ILTA), is hosted this year by Dublin City University. This event brings together educators, researchers, technology and...

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Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

It was fun speaking with @niemanlab.org about publishers limiting access to the beloved @archive.org. There is a simple solution: AI companies could pay publishers for content.

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Annie West @anniewestdotcom.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Crew of ISS feeling cruelly overlooked rn

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

In the years since co-authoring Stochastic Parrots, I've come to spend more time thinking about the dehumanization inherent in the project of "AI". (New version of that talk, with a humanities focus, should be online soon, but here's an earlier version: bsky.app/profile/emil... ) >>

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 15/01/2026

are you displeased with today’s AI safety evaluation landscape and curious about what greater conceptual clarity, methodological soundness, and rigour in AI evaluation could look like? if so, consider coming to Dublin to pursue a PhD with me apply here: aial.ie/hiring/phd-a... pls repost

$About the PhD: Audits and evaluation of AI systems — and the broader context that AI systems operate in — have become central to conceptualising, quantifying, measuring and understanding the operations, failures, limitations, underlying assumptions, and downstream societal implications of AI systems. Existing AI audit and evaluation efforts are fractured, done in a siloed and ad-hoc manner, and with little deliberation and reflection around conceptual rigour and methodological validity. This PhD is for a candidate that is passionate about exploring what a conceptually cogent, methodologically sound, and well-founded AI evaluation and safety research might look like. This requires grappling with questions such as: What does it mean to represent “ground truth” in proxies, synthetic data, or computational simulation? How do we reliably measure abstract and complex phenomena? What are the epistemological or methodological implications of quantification and measurement approaches we choose to employ? Particularly, what underlying presuppositions, values, or perspectives do they entail? How do we ensure the lived experiences of impacted communities play a critical role in the development and justification of measurement metrics and proxies? Through exploration of these questions, the candidate is expected to engage with core concepts in the philosophy of science, history of science, Black feminist epistemologies, and similar schools of thought to develop an in-depth understanding of existing practices with the aim of applying it to advance shared standards and best practice in AI evaluation. The candidate is expected to integrate empirical (for example, through analysis or evaluation of existing benchmarks) or practical (for example, by executing evaluation of AI systems) components into the overall work.$

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

OpenAI's rapid rush into education has been achieved by habituating users through training programs, institutional lock-ins, strategic marketing partnerships, and third party integrations that together are helping it become infrastructural to teaching and learning. It's going to be hard to get out.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 07/09/2025

In this short piece, I lean on embodied cog sci to argue that we should refuse & resist llms in education (pp. 53-58) unesdoc.unesco.org/in/documentV... "the classroom is an environment where love, trust, empathy, care & humility are fostered & mutually cultivated through dialogical interactions"

But what iseducation? Embodied and enactive cognitive sciences remind us that knowledge is not something discrete that an individual possesses and passes down but an inherently dynamic and evolving endeavour that develops in the process of embodied, curious and engaged interaction through dialogue. The pinnacle of cognition, particularly ‘human knowing’, is inextricably interwoven with interactions we engage in

with each other and the physical, cultural and social world we inhabit, ‘so much so that individuals are not thinkable outside of their interactions and embeddedness in their (social) world’ (De Jaegher, 2019). Dialogic models of knowledge and education emphasize that interactions between a student and teacher and/or peer provide ‘scaffolding’ for how that child understands the world. The always in flux, active and continually transforming nature of human cognition necessitates that education be fundamentally an ongoing activity. Far from the reductionist view whereby ‘formal knowledge’ can be packaged and acquired from an LLM, the classroom is an environment where love, trust, empathy, care and humility are fostered and mutually cultivated through dialogical interactions

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

This detail from the recent Bloomberg Businessweek article on AI in education about how Alpha School rewards students with XP (experience points) is literally part of the plot in @savasavasava.bsky.social short film #tresdancing and its dramatization of surveillance and ed-tech.

An excerpt from the article, "Silicon Valley’s Drive to Get AI Into America’s Schools Is Working" by Vauhini Vara. The excerpt reads, "As long as a student did well enough on the school’s on-screen knowledge assessments, Price said, she applauded the shortcut. Showing through quizzes that they’d mastered concepts earned the students XP—experience points, like in video games—which they could convert into dollars for investment into personal projects called 'masterpieces.'"

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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

So new studies showcase that the more you know how GenAi works, the less likely you are to use it! 😌 This reminds me of ai advocates who claim that those who refuse to use GenAi do so because they dont know how it works, yet it’s the opposite! The less you know the more you are likely to use GenAi

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The Less You Know About AI, the More You Are Likely to Use It

AI can seem magical to those with low AI literacy, a new study finds. That, in turn, might make them more willing to try it.

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Teachers, unions, education leaders: AI does not clearly do what it's being marketed and hyped as doing in education. It won't save time, solve inequality, raise achievement, and it's not inevitable. But it will line their wallets. Still time to call a pause on it nepc.colorado.edu/publication/ai

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Time for a Pause: Without Effective Public Oversight, AI in Schools Will Do More Harm Than Good.

Ignoring their own well-publicized calls to regulate AI development and to pause implementation of its applications, major technology companies such as Google, Microsoft, and Meta are racing to fend o...

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Bonnie Stewart @bonstewart.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

turns out there's a word in Gaelic for pretty much exactly the intersection of belonging & place that i set out to study at UHI. on Dùthchas as home & worldview...a report preview ;) four key ways UHI staff frame belonging in their local communities & campuses: bonstewart.com/belonging/po...

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findings 2: Dùthchas – belonging as worldview – the belonging project

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Kate Molloy @kate-molloy.net · 17/03/2025

Looking forward to presenting at the next #GO-GN Member Research Special tomorrow afternoon about the early stages of my doctoral research at @dcuioe.bsky.social. The session is open to all. go-gn.net/gogn/go-gn-m...

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GO-GN Member Research Special X (18 March 2025) |

Join us on Tuesday 18 March 2025 at 16.00-17.00GMT for our 10th awesome GO-GN member research special! We're delighted to be joined by Dr. Jess O'Reilly (Cambrian College) and Kate Molloy (Dublin City...

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 22/01/2025

The story of computing is written in its artifacts, in the organizations in which they were forged, and expecially in the people who shaped them.

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marloft.bsky.social @marloft.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Thriving at @atu-ie.bsky.social - a warm welcome from @oflynnatu.bsky.social to a conversation about growing compassion, respect, inclusion and belonging at our University... looking forward to this!

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helenbeetham.bsky.social @helenbeetham.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

I have a new podcast - a wonderful interview with @danmcquillan.bsky.social about his book Resisting AI, and the possibilities for resistance in education. Recorded in November but this week it feels more urgent than ever. helenbeetham.substack.com/p/the-dan-ma...

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The Dan MacQuillan episode

"All that was once directly lived has become mere representation" (Guy Debord)

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Leni @leni.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

In case you havenʼt seen it yet, this website is such a great resource for all of us researchers and teachers working on and discussing technology and society: Calculating Empires – A Genealogy of Technology and Power since 1500 calculatingempires.net

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Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power since 1500

Explore how technical and social structures co-evolved over five centuries in this large-scale research visualization.

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Teltales @teltales.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Trinity College Dublin has established a new AI Accountability Lab (AIAL) led by @abeba.bsky.social launching today. A useful podcast on www.adaptcentre.ie/podcasts/ai-... from earlier this year explains why this research is so important. Wishing it every success.

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AI Accountability · ADAPT, the SFI Research Centre for AI-Driven Digital Content Technology

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 14/12/2024

so apt and for some reason, my immediate thought is “it’d be nice to print and hang it up in the lab"

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

THE AI CON: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want (by yours truly & @alexhanna.bsky.social) is now available for pre-order! All the details here: thecon.ai

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THE AI CON

How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 10/12/2024

“‘We are not evaluating systems for some hypothetical, potential risks in the future,’ Birhane says. ‘These audits are uncovering actual real issues, real problems, whether it’s racism, sexism, or encoding of stereotypes and historical injustices and so on.’”

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How Abeba Birhane is cleaning up AI’s dirty data

“We are not evaluating systems for some hypothetical, potential risks in the future. These audits are uncovering actual real issues, real problems, whether it's racism, sexism, or encoding of stereoty...

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Tom Farrelly @gasta.me · 11/12/2024

@gravesle.bsky.social Keynote Day 2 #DEC24

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Ken McCarthy @kenmccarthy.ie · 11/12/2024

Leigh Graves Wolf @gravesle.bsky.social talking about the transformational power of N-TUTORR @ntutorr.ie during her keynote at the DEC 24 conference in Waterford @dec24conf.bsky.social

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Dr Gearoid O Suilleabhain @gosuilleabhain.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

@gravesle.bsky.social gives the @ntutorr.ie programme a big shout out as part of her keynote talk at the #DEC24 conference

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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 11/12/2024

Watching @gravesle.bsky.social inject her passion for education along with her inspirations for wayfaring along the crossroads of technology and education.

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jackieotoole24.bsky.social @jackieotoole24.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

It was a privilege to be in the room to hear President Mary Robinson assert the absolute truth of human rights and call out the international community for its double standards on human rights and climate change. She left us with a message of hope and humanity @atu-ie.bsky.social

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Dr Sharon Flynn @sharonlflynn.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

What a privilege to be at the honorary conferring of Mary Robinson at ATU Castlebar campus yesterday afternoon. She spoke about Human Rights and gave a message of hope, in dark times. Thank you to @jacqmccormack.bsky.social and @oflynnatu.bsky.social for inviting us.

Mary Robinson receives her honorary doctorate from Orla Flynn, President ATU, and Bill Bennett, VP for Academic Affairs

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marloft.bsky.social @marloft.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Over 30 years since I was first lucky enough to share a space with Mary Robinson and have her voice inspire us... she's just as inspiring, hopeful, and insistent on fairness today! Delighted to see her honoured by @atu-ie.bsky.social @oflynnatu.bsky.social yesterday with an honorary doctorate!

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Colin Simpson @gamerlearner.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

General question - I know it is early days, but what are the seminal papers about GenAI in education so far? (Everyone is having a crack at it - what has cut through?) #ASCILITE2024

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I am collecting examples of the most thoughtful writing about generative AI published in 2024. What’s yours? They can be insightful for commentary, smart critique, or just because it shifted the conversation. I’ll post some of mine below as I go through them. #criticalAI

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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 26/11/2024

Worth another share, for the week that's in it… How Ireland's PR-STV electoral system works, explained with a 🔴specific 🟠 (#notspon) 🟡 brand 🟢 of 🔵 popular 🟣 colourful 🟤 chocolate confectionery. @virginmedianews.bsky.social #ge24 (Part 1 of 4)

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

"This manifesto emphasizes that GenAI is not ideologically and culturally neutral. ... as the use of GenAI reshapes education, it risks eroding essential human elements—creativity, critical thinking, and empathy—and could displace meaningful human interactions with algorithmic solutions."

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Ann O’Dea @annodea.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

There’s the great (Time 100) @abeba.bsky.social leading the new Artificial Intelligence (AI) Accountability Lab (AIAL) aimed at addressing the structural inequalities and transparency issues related to AI-deployment.

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An expert group to keep AI accountable launched at Trinity

A new lab aimed at addressing the structural inequalities and transparency issues related to AI deployment is launching today.

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ESAI @esai-irl.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Calling all Early Career Researchers. Why not consider applying for the ESAI #ECRAward? Information about criteria, requirements and the selection process are available from: esai.ie/esai-ecr-award/ Deadline 14 March 2025 #esai25

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