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IEEE Spectrum @spectrum.ieee.org · 22/09/2026
Stephen Roddy works on displaying #data as sound. This can help translate information when you can’t look at it or can’t use traditional graphic models. buff.ly/ga4OWAi
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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The @radhumslab.bsky.social are pleased to announce 'Against Automation: Resisting AI Futures in Teaching and Research,' November 20th, @ucc.ie. With Dan McQuillan, Patrick Brodie, Masoumeh Mansouri, and Jennie Stephens. Tickets at: www.eventbrite.com/e/against-au...
 A poster announcing Against Automation: Resisting AI Futures in Teaching and Research, November 20th, @ucc.ie. With Dan McQuillan, Patrick Brodie, Masoumeh Mansouri, and Jennie Stephens. Cacsss seminar room, 10am - 3pm
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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It's cooooooooooooooming (credit @stephenroddy.bandcamp.com)
A poster that says "radical humanities laboratory: against automation."
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Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Really looking forward to this event with Stephen coming from Trinity and Dr Brian Ngwenya from Maynooth to talk with us about ‘Disrupting Historical Amnesia’. It’s open to anyone interested at the Shtepps, HUB Building at UCC (Fri 18 Sept, 2-4pm).
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Stephen Roddy @stephenroddy.bandcamp.com · 08/09/2026
The free online version of my ‘Listening in the Shadow of Palantir’ piece for the @thewiremagazine.bsky.social is live today. You can read it here: www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/c...
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Against The Grain: Listening after Palantir - The Wire
Machine listening is transforming environmental sound into data points that support surveillance infrastructure, changing what it means to hear, argues Stephen Roddy in The Wire 512
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Irish Humanities Alliance @irishhumanities.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Wonderful to have two excellent and thought provoking keynote addresses at our annual conference.
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Sarah Kerr @sarahkerr.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Here is my piece about the fire in Glasgow’s Central Station and why the loss of built heirtage is felt so deeply in the city and elsewhere
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Stephen Roddy @stephenroddy.bandcamp.com · 07/09/2026
I was recently interviewed by Dina at @spectrum.ieee.org about the potential role of sonification in making sense of the coming 6G data explosion, why our ears can reveal patterns our eyes miss, and what this could mean for the Internet of Sounds. spectrum.ieee.org/data-sonific...
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Can Your Ears Catch Data Patterns Your Eyes Miss?
Sonification may become more important with the advent of 6G
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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I'm really looking forward to the @irishhumanities.bsky.social annual conference today and tomorrow. We're meeting at the site of the former Good Shepherd magdalene laundry in Waterford city, and beginning with an intervention from the Waterford Memories project.
A forbidding three story redbrick Victorian institution.
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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
We had an incredible day at @radhumslab.bsky.social yesterday, thinking through the pragmatics and politics of critical humanities research. We talked through problems, methods and futures - and at the risk of linkedin-posting, it's really something to share a research centre with people like this.
a group of people listening to a talk A panel with two women and one man laughing and smiling A man with a laptop sitting on the floor A group of people holding out their devices in response to a presentation
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Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
A wonderful couple of days listening to colleagues from many disciplines exploring temporalities. With special thanks to our keynotes Antonia Thomas and Alberica Bazzoni, for pushing imaginative possibilities. Also to the organizing team of Leonora Masini, Chiara Giuliani and Barbara Siller.
Protection screen with an image of aurora borealis and white text imposed on top ‘The north is always enlarging the change’ (The Auroras of Autumn)Projection screen with a black background and a large amount of text in the centre with different colours used. Projection screen with large image of a woman with glasses sitting in front of a screen at an international UN-style meeting. Text above the image ‘No such thing as better colonizer’ Dr Sara Olsvig.
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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Heard my brilliant colleague Eugene Costello @radhumslab.bsky.social on @rteradio1.bsky.social Countrywide this morning on the history of commonage in Ireland
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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 27/06/2026
The RIA congratulates Prof Claire Connolly, Polite Literature and Antiquities Secretary of the RIA, on receiving the Robert Rhodes Prize for Books on Irish Literature from the American Conference for Irish Studies for her acclaimed monograph ‘Irish Romanticism: A Literary History’: bit.ly/4ex2Vg7
Person in business attire sitting on a dark sofa next to a floor lamp and a side table with stacked books against a plain gray wall.
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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Dr Julia Empey acknowledging the 'fantastic' support of @nuimerrionsq.bsky.social early career scheme in funding her Death Rituals and Death Technologies event, co-organised with Dr Kate Falconer @radhumslab.bsky.social- additional funding from UCC's FHI and School of English and Digital Humanities
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Women's Studies, UCC @uccwomenstudies.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Our @uccwomenstudies.bsky.social MA students recently were taught the ins & outs of queer/ing geography & migration studies in our Gender & Society module by the wonderful Dr Mei Meng, who is currently a @radhumslab.bsky.social postdoc on the "Orders and Borders of Global Inequality" ERC project.
Picture of MAWS lecturer, Mei Meng
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Stephen Roddy @stephenroddy.bandcamp.com · 23/03/2026
The 3rd Symposium on Digital Art in Ireland takes place on 22nd April in collaboration with Sample Studios at the Digital Humanities Dept. @ucc.ie It will be marked by the opening of Basil Al-Rawi’s 'House of Memory' at the Lord Mayor’s Pavilion. Registration & information: bit.ly/DigiArt3
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3rd Symposium on Digital Art in Ireland | University College Cork
Learn, Study and Research in UCC, Ireland's first 5 star university. Our tradition of independent thinking will prepare you for the world and the workplace in a vibrant, modern, green campus.
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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
If you're at the BSA, I'll be among the speakers at this special event on climate affects and liveable futures, organised by the brilliant @angelaofthenorth.bsky.social.
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Radical Humanities Laboratory @radhumslab.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Congratulations to our brilliant lab member and colleagues, Dr Sarah Bezan, as she joins the Young Ireland Academy today! www.ria.ie/2026/03/12/y...
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Young Academy Ireland welcomes 21 new members - Royal Irish Academy
Young Academy Ireland (YAI), an all-island network of early career researchers and innovators (ECRIs), has today welcomed 21 new members from Ireland and Northern Ireland.
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Radical Humanities Laboratory @radhumslab.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
New OA publication from our lab member, Dr Kheira Arrouche, "Afterlives of decolonisation: the racialisation of West and Central African migrants in contemporary Algeria." www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Afterlives of decolonisation: the racialisation of West and Central African migrants in contemporary Algeria
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Evelien Geerts @egeertsphd.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Go check this out, folks! Also might benof interest to our @uccwomenstudies.bsky.social students & folks at the @radhumslab.bsky.social
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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Antiquity Vol. 100, No. 409 (2026) www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @antiquity.ac.uk @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org @sarahkerr.bsky.social @radhumslab.bsky.social @royvanbeek.bsky.social @mpdavies.bsky.social @waltros.bsky.social
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Sarah Kerr @sarahkerr.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
This is a great reflective discussion on #archaeology that also is proactive. Delighted to have been able to join the conversation on this! @ucc.ie @radhumslab.bsky.social
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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
For the Cork crowd, the @irishexaminer.bsky.social has a big supplement on the future of the city today, and I have an article in it about how much I hate the southside in general, Douglas in particular. #speirgorm
We must reclaim and rejuvenate urban spaces

WHEN my wife and I moved W back to Cork from the UK a few years ago, we agreed we'd only live in one of two places.

We'd dig ourselves into the side of a rock somewhere in the Beara peninsula and settle in beside the sheep. Or we'd try to find some-where to live in Cork city centre.

Where we absolutely would not live, we agreed, was where we had both grown up: The mind-numbing. spirit-crushing suburbs of the city's southside, and in particular the

Suburbs are not the solution to our issues, writes Des Fitzgerald

desolate borderlands of Ballinlough and Douglas, where dreams don't go to die, exactly, but do sometimes go to settle down quietly in a row of unchanging, semi-detached houses, each of them extended and rendered until any trace of interest or character has even care fully removed.

The French anthro-pologist Marc Augé uses the term "non-places" to describe bland, tran-sient and interchange-able modern spaces, which seem to exist out-side of the usual human references to history,

culture, and identity. That's probably a bit strong for, say, Bishop-stown. But still, there's

something about the long roads and narrow footpaths of the south-side suburbs, the pre ponderance of shopping

centres and petrol station forecourts, the near-total absence of commercial and civic excitement, that seems almost calibrated to prevent anything that
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University College Cork @ucc.ie · 04/02/2026
A fearless rocket engineer, groundbreaking artist and communist ‘traitor’ Dr @stephenroddy.bsky.social shares the life and legacy of Frank Malina in a new series dedicated to unsung heroes of science on @theconversation.com.
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My unsung hero of science: Frank Malina – fearless rocket engineer, groundbreaking artist and communist ‘traitor’
The first in a new series dedicated to little-known but highly influential scientists.
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Stephen Roddy @stephenroddy.bandcamp.com · 02/02/2026
Article on the Sonification of Synthetic Virology data with colleagues from the School of Medicine at @ucc.ie is out today in Leonardo. It spans music, media engineering and the biosciences doi.org/10.1162/LEON... @leonardoisast.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social @uccresearch.bsky.social
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Generative Sonification of Synthetic Virology Data with Waveshaping and Granular Synthesis Techniques
Abstract. As the field of ubiquitous music has matured and developed since its inception, it has turned its attention to the question of sonification and how sonification techniques might be used to c...
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Stephen Roddy @stephenroddy.bandcamp.com · 23/01/2026
I’m talking to Martin on Shush this coming Monday at 11am on UCC98.3FM. We’ll be chatting music, research and libraries with a nice playlist lined up. Tune in! www.ucc.ie/en/983fm/
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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Genuinely sorry to do a "delighted to announce" while the world is in such a state, but anyway, @lauramca.bsky.social are now the co-directors of @radhumslab.bsky.social and I'm actually delighted about it. Lots of very cool stuff incoming. Look out for more vomit-inducing announcements in 2026! 🥳🤮
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Evelien Geerts @egeertsphd.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Looks like a very interesting @posthumanresinst.bsky.social online event on conceptualization of the #Anthropocene! @maggieoneill.bsky.social @desfitzgerald.bsky.social @radhumslab.bsky.social @uccphilosophy.bsky.social @uccwomenstudies.bsky.social please share!
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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
'the heart is sick with hoping and hoping before books reach Ireland' Maria Edgeworth in 1816 Publication day for @universitypress.cambridge.org Irish Romanticism was yesterday but no sign of any books in Cork yet! www.cambridge.org/core/books/i...
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Irish Romanticism
Cambridge Core - English Literature 1700-1830 - Irish Romanticism
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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
We could not be more thrilled at UCC @radhumslab.bsky.social that our brilliant colleague, Dr Eugene Costello, has been awarded a €2m European Research Council Consolidator Grant for his project, "DeepCattle." www.ucc.ie/en/news/2025...
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Stephen Roddy @stephenroddy.bandcamp.com · 05/12/2025
Hi all. We’ve got two calls open. A new book on Irish Digital Art edited by, McCarthy, Yip & myself: www.blackwaterpublishing.com/digital-art-... And calls for the 3rd Symposium on Digital Art in Ireland: www.ucc.ie/en/dah/news/... #irishart #newmedia #mediaart #opencall #digitalart
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Call for Submissions Digital Art in Ireland — Blackwater Publishing
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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
My favourite image of our excellent @radhumslab.bsky.social roundtable this week, "The medical humanities in a new biological age" - with @ciarab.bsky.social, @felicitycallard.bsky.social and @dyutic.bsky.social (Thanks @egeertsphd.bsky.social for taking it!!)
Des wearing a white shirt and navy jacket standing in front of an image of a topless RFK Jr working out.
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James O’Sullivan @jamesosullivan.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
UCC researchers receive €1.1m to address national and global societal challenges UCC has been awarded funding for five interdisciplinary projects in @researchireland.ie's COALESCE 2025 programme. For more, see: www.ucc.ie/en/news/2025... @uccresearch.bsky.social
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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Cork people, I will be doing a guest lecture, ;The Biopolitics of Urban Green Space' at the Cork Centre for Architectural Education, Monday the 10th, from 1 to 2. Open to all comers as far as I know.
A poster saying Des Fitzgerald, The Biopolitics of Urban Green Space from 1 to 2pm, in the room LR3.
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York Environmental Sustainability Institute (YESI) @yesiuoy.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Are cities bad for us, or are we just telling the wrong story about urban life?🌆 Join us for @desfitzgerald.bsky.social’s public lecture, The City of Today is a Dying Thing, exploring the complex relationship between cities, health + the environment. 📆 Mon 3 Nov 📍 @york.ac.uk 🎟 buff.ly/z4D0Jv4
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 30/10/2025
📣 I am hiring a postdoc! aial.ie/hiring/postd... applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome pls share with your networks
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Postdoctoral Researcher on GenAI in Public Service
Post Title: Post-Doctoral Researcher, generative AI in public services Post Duration: 24 months Salary Scale: Post-Doctoral Researcher, PD2 Point 1 - 4 (54,850 - 59,654) Location: AI Accountability La...
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Stephen Roddy @stephenroddy.bandcamp.com · 01/11/2025
Nice shot of the debut performance of ‘Noise for Waves and Grains’ from the IEEE concerts for the ElettroAQustica 10 festival in L’Aquila this week.
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Women's Studies, UCC @uccwomenstudies.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Tomorrow (w ISS21 & @radhumslab.bsky.social)! Come join us!
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Evelien Geerts @egeertsphd.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Looking forward to this RHL, @uccwomenstudies.bsky.social & ISS21 event with Prof Elizabeth Bernstein!
Poster of event with Prof Bernstein
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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
This weekend I'll be at the Utopian Hours festival in Turin, to talk about the politics of green urbanism: www.archdaily.com/1034043/utop...
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Utopian Hours in Turin: A Festival for Bold New Directions in City-Making
Explore city-making at Utopian Hours 2025 in Turin, with global experts discussing urban innovation, ecology, and community-driven design.
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Stephen Roddy @stephenroddy.bandcamp.com · 15/10/2025
Applications for our digital artist in residence pilot close this Friday at 5:30. More info at the link: artscouncil.ie/funding-oppo...
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Arts Council Digital Artist in Residence at University College Cork (Pilot) - The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon
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York Environmental Sustainability Institute (YESI) @yesiuoy.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
🏙️✨ The City of Today is a Dying Thing Join us for a public lecture by @desfitzgerald.bsky.social (@ucc.ie ), exploring how cities, health + the environment intertwine — and what “green urbanism” really means. 📅 Mon 3 Nov | 🕔5–7pm 📍 @york.ac.uk 🎟️ Book here➡️https://buff.ly/RvbkKuw
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The City of Today is a Dying Thing - Des Fitzgerald
Join YESI's Environment and Health theme for a talk by Des Fitzgerald about his book 'The City of Today is a Dying Thing
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Stephen Roddy @stephenroddy.bandcamp.com · 15/10/2025
Putting finishing touches on a performance and a paper for the IEEE Internet of Sounds Symposium at L'Aquila later this month. @comsoc.bsky.social www.ucc.ie/en/dah/news/...
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Music & Machines at the 5th IEEE Internet of Sounds Symposium | University College Cork
Learn, Study and Research in UCC, Ireland's first 5 star university. Our tradition of independent thinking will prepare you for the world and the workplace in a vibrant, modern, green campus.
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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
I spoke to the Irish Times for this very good and rounded piece on the real-world effects of C***GPT in the humanities classroom: www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...
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‘It’s a monster’: How generative AI is forcing university professors to rethink learning
As students turn to ChatGPT, educators warn that critical thinking, academic integrity and the future of the humanities are at stake
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Stephen Roddy @stephenroddy.bandcamp.com · 14/08/2025
Join the @radhumslab.bsky.social on Friday September 5th at @ucc.ie for (Un)Silencing, our one-day symposium exploring exciting work from the fields of sound studies and sound art, in collaboration with Resonance: the Journal of Sound & Culture.
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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
I wrote about saviour trees and manly super-nature for the Evening Standard: www.standard.co.uk/comment/lond...
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London commuters, a tree is 'on its way'. Can it save you?
‘Tree on its way.’ Commuters between London Bridge and the Monument may have seen this rather startling message, stencilled on the pavement in stark black and white, at regular intervals in recent wee...
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Stephen Roddy @stephenroddy.bandcamp.com · 29/07/2025
Our (@bridgesbb.bsky.social) piece developing a Musical Cybernetics as an antidote to gen-AI slop music goes online this week. DM for pre-print access: doi.org/10.1007/978-...
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Cybernetic Resurgences: Machine Music Beyond AI Slop
This chapter explores contemporary trends in the application of machine learning technologies in music composition and performance contexts. It argues that there is a resurgence of cybernetic approach...
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Stephen Roddy @stephenroddy.bandcamp.com · 24/07/2025
Performed a new musical piece for AM.ICAD this month sonifying synthetic virology data provided by colleagues at @ucc.ie's MVDRL. Our paper on the process will be published in @leonardoisast.bsky.social's in early 2026. Art-science collaborations are one of the more exciting aspects of this job.
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Aisling Shalvey @ashshalvey.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Happy to have some news on the UCC website @ucc.ie @uccresearch.bsky.social @radhumslab.bsky.social - read more about my work here; www.ucc.ie/en/future-hu...
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New Marie Skłodowska-Curie Project at the School of History and the Radical Humanities Laboratory | University College Cork
Explore the latest news and events from the Future Humanities Institute.
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Stephen Roddy @stephenroddy.bandcamp.com · 18/06/2025
Debuting a new piece at AM.ICAD 2025 in Coimbra soon. More details from @ucc.ie's Future Humanities Institute here: www.ucc.ie/en/future-hu...
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Stephen Roddy to debut new musical work at AM.ICAD 2025 | University College Cork
Explore the latest news and events from the Future Humanities Institute.
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