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The ADAPT Centre
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Research centre focused on AI-Driven Digital Media Technology. Supported by Research Ireland, ADAPT has 8 partner universities and over 400 leading academics across Ireland.

To discuss research collaboration or business partnership, email info@adaptcentre
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Join us at the next meeting of the ADAPT Law and Tech WG, which takes place on Monday 19th of January 2026, from 12 - 14 pm in the ADAPT Boardroom L2.01, DCU Glasnevin Campus. Join virtually via Zoom here > dcu-ie.zoom.us/j/2124899842...
January 15, 2026 at 12:58 PM
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Registration still open for a FREE workshop under ADAPT’s AI Literacy in the Classroom initiative. Built for post-primary teachers (no AI/CS background needed), it focuses on critical thinking, ethics, and responsible AI use in schools.
🗓 24 Jan 2025
🕒10:00–14:00 (refreshments from 09:30)
📌Limerick
January 14, 2026 at 1:47 PM
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The OpenIreland testbed is evolving towards AI-driven network control and network-enabled sensing, supporting long-term research and collaboration at the intersection of networks within ADAPT @researchireland.ie Centre at @tcddublin.bsky.social. Read more> www.adaptcentre.ie/news-and-eve...
Pictured in the networks lab are Prof Marco Ruffini, Declan McKibben, Prof Merim Dzaferagic, Olivia Waters
January 14, 2026 at 11:06 AM
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Congratulations to Julie Connelly (AI Mapit) and Niamh Donnelly (Akara Robotics) recognised at the DCU Alumni Awards 2025
Both are ADAPT-linked founders translating AI and robotics research into impactful spin-outs. More > www.adaptcentre.ie/news-and-eve...
January 7, 2026 at 12:40 PM
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New research from ADAPT offers insight into how state-of-the-art #AI systems process incomplete or disrupted #speech, shedding light on the internal workings of modern automatic speech recognition, #ASR, models.

Learn more: adaptcentre.ie/news-and-eve...

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January 6, 2026 at 9:42 AM
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1st ep of #ADAPTRadio2026 now live!

Local governments face challenges implementing #genAI ethically, maintaining public trust & data security as new #EUAIAct regulations require basic AI lit training for staff.

Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/theadaptcentre
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/36CK...
January 6, 2026 at 9:39 AM
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A new blog post from LegumeLegacy explores the international research secondments undertaken by doctoral researchers across the consortium, highlighting their academic and personal impact. Read here: legumelegacy.scss.tcd.ie/blog/blog-po...
January 5, 2026 at 11:01 AM
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Happy New Year! To mark this new year, ADAPT looks back on some of our highlights from 2025. Learn more > www.adaptcentre.ie/news-and-eve...
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January 2, 2026 at 3:42 PM
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ADAPT @ucddublin.bsky.social researcher Haula Sani Galadima has won the Best Presentation Award at the IEEE Cyber Research Conference Ireland (#CRCI2025) for her work on improving organisational cyber incident response: www.adaptcentre.ie/news-and-eve...
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December 19, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Today we’re bringing you more good news and the latest updates and achievements from the project ✨📢
December 19, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Upcoming talk tomorrow @ucddublin.bsky.social >>
📢 Digitally-Entangled Worklives, Continued: Is Hybrid really the ideal “new normal”?
🎤 Prof. Luigina Ciolfi, UCC
📍 L143 William Fry Lecture Theatre
🗓 Fri 19 Dec | 13:00-14:30
👉 Register:
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#HybridWork #FutureOfWork
Christmas Lecture- Prof. Luigina Ciolfi
This form is to gather estimated attendance/dietary requirements for the upcoming Christmas Lecture. If you are attending please complete the form below before 18th December.
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December 18, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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i'm hiring a postdoc to map the age-verification space and do some audits

if you’ve worked in this area, pls apply: aial.ie/hiring/postd...

pls share widely
December 17, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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We're hiring a postdoc to identify, map and evaluate commercially used age verification systems

Closing Date: 16 January 2026

Apply here: aial.ie/hiring/postd...
About the role Age verification systems are increasingly being deployed in ways that rely on inferring the age or age range of the user from data such as live selfies or conversational analysis. These systems pose challenges regarding accuracy, bias, privacy, and most importantly raise questions around the scientific legitimacy and methodological soundness underlying the very process. Furthermore, commercially deployed age-verification systems and processes operate in non-transparent ways with no recourse from errors and deficiencies. Currently, information on where, how, and when such technologies are being developed and deployed is extremely scarce, as well as which actors are becoming established as market leaders and key vendors. The AIAL seeks to understand this challenge better through high-quality, high-impact research that helps uphold the principles of scientific validity, methodological rigour, transparency, accountability, and equity. To directly tackle this urgent problem, the AIAL is looking for a highly driven Post-Doctoral Researcher who can identify and map the current state of commercially used age verification systems, the techniques being used, and the key actors in the development and deployment pipeline. Based on publicly available information, the researcher will closely replicate the techniques used in commercial age-verification systems and undertake socio-technical audits with a focus on assessing the scientific legitimacy, epistemic and methodological validity of the overall approach as well as assessing the accuracy, discrimination, and privacy risks. The output of this work is expected to contribute to advancing the state of the art in accountable governance and responsible practices, and will support the application of relevant laws such as the GDPR and the AI Act. Ultimately and in the best case scenario, insights from this work would feed legal or other mechanisms to gain access to real-world deployed age-verification systems.
December 17, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Are you passionate about exploring what a conceptually cogent, methodologically sound, and well-founded AI evaluation and safety research might look like? Come do a PhD with us.

Closing Date: 10 February 2026

Apply here aial.ie/hiring/phd-a...
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.
December 17, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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#DigiAcademy joined @uniofgalway.bsky.social’s PPI Fest: Empowering Inclusive Digital Futures, highlighting how #inclusive #design and #adaptive #technology can open digital opportunities for people with intellectual disabilities & other accessibility needs: www.adaptcentre.ie/news-and-eve...
December 12, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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The UCD Centre for Cyber Resilience Education hosted the '2025 Adventures in Cyberland Awards' today. The event highlighted the work of teachers partnering w/ cybersecurity for the Junior Cycle Cybersecurity Course in post-primary schools & to adapt it for primary classrooms for the SECURE Project.
December 11, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Needless to say I’m delighted about this. It was super to work with Simon Neal, who re-catalogued more than 70 volumes; to collaborate with Eamonn Kenny @adaptcentre.bsky.social who knocked the data into shape; and to incorporate it into the Knowledge Graph we’re building, based on @dib.ie entries
virtualtreasury.bsky.social Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland @virtualtreasury.bsky.social · Dec 9
#TNAConnections Another great Gold Seam you can explore on the VRTI is that of the State Papers Ireland, 1660–1715 (TNA SP 63), an assembled collection of official letters, private papers, and correspondence that is held at @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy.

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December 9, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Congrats to the winners and shortlisted candidates of the #ADAPTRecognitionAwards2025! The awards highlight exceptional service, research achievement, societal contribution, and innovative scientific collaboration.

Winners here: www.adaptcentre.ie/news-and-eve...
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December 11, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Upcoming post-primary #teacher workshop with ADAPT's #AI Literacy in the Classroom initiative.

📅 Date: 24 Jan 2025
⏰ Time: 10-2
📍 Location: Limerick Education Support Centre, Marshall House, Dooradoyle

Register: ailiteracyintheclassroom.ie/workshop/lim...
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December 11, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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VOICES PI Prof Jane Ohlmeyer recently delivered the Royal Historical Society's 2025 Anniversary Lecture, 'Visible | Invisible: Voices of Women in Early Modern Ireland', which looked at the project's methodologies, the rewards and challenges of using AI, and some early findings. Read more here:
Royal Historical Society: Visible | Invisible: Voices of Women in Early Modern Ireland - VOICES
RHS Anniversary Lecture: ‘Visible | Invisible: Voices of Women in Early Modern Ireland’ VOICES PI, Professor Jane Ohlmeyer delivered a lecture at Royal Historical Society, UK on Friday 21 November 202...
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December 5, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Students from 4 Cavan schools gathered in Briefne College today for launch of the 2025/26 #AILO workshop series by Minister of State for Trade Promotion, Artificial Intelligence and Digital Transformation, & TD for Cavan–Monaghan, Niamh Smyth: www.adaptcentre.ie/news-and-eve... @researchireland.ie
December 5, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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The Age-Friendly AI initiative has been awarded the Best Long Paper Award at #edu4AI2025, held during ECAI in Bologna. The project team was recognised for the paper “Age-Friendly AI: Ireland’s National AI Literacy Programme for Older Adults”: www.adaptcentre.ie/news-and-eve... @researchireland.ie
December 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Professor Deirdre Ahern of @tcddublin.bsky.social delivered a keynote @ Annual Conference of the Financial Planning Standards Board last month, warning financial professionals about ethical, regulatory and legal risks posed by #AI in the financial services sector: www.adaptcentre.ie/news-and-eve...
December 5, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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A new #education #tech spin-out, #MESO, from the @researchireland.ie ADAPT Centre at @tcddublin.bsky.social has secured €500,000 in Enterprise Ireland funding to bring its #AI-driven curriculum planning platform to schools across Ireland and abroad: www.adaptcentre.ie/news-and-eve...
December 3, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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It's been a busy few weeks for the VOICES team! On 17th November, Dr Daniel Patterson (@drdpatterson.bsky.social) delivered a paper 'Women waging law: The Chancery Pleadings revisited' at the Trinity Centre for Early Modern History Research Seminar.

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Women waging law: The Chancery Pleadings revisited - VOICES
By Dr. Daniel Patterson On Monday 17th November, VOICES Research Fellow Dr Daniel Patterson delivered apaper at the Trinity Centre for Early Modern History Research Seminar, entitledWomen waging law: ...
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December 2, 2025 at 8:40 AM