Andy Firr
@andyfirr.bsky.social
Exploring open scholarship, AI, and digital ethics.
Ideas begin here, and sometimes return here.
Part of the Open Scholar Ecosystem (OSE) Project.
https://lnk.bio/AndrewFirr
Ideas begin here, and sometimes return here.
Part of the Open Scholar Ecosystem (OSE) Project.
https://lnk.bio/AndrewFirr
Well leaving 2025 in Manchester, UK and starting 2026 in Agadir, Morocco. Have a good one everyone.
December 31, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Well leaving 2025 in Manchester, UK and starting 2026 in Agadir, Morocco. Have a good one everyone.
AI ‘hallucinations’ suggests breakdowns. In reality, generative systems fabricate continuously, sometimes those fabrications just happen to be correct. The term misleads more than it explains.
Accuracy is a coincidence we recognise after the fact, not something the system knows it has achieved.
Accuracy is a coincidence we recognise after the fact, not something the system knows it has achieved.
December 31, 2025 at 3:15 AM
AI ‘hallucinations’ suggests breakdowns. In reality, generative systems fabricate continuously, sometimes those fabrications just happen to be correct. The term misleads more than it explains.
Accuracy is a coincidence we recognise after the fact, not something the system knows it has achieved.
Accuracy is a coincidence we recognise after the fact, not something the system knows it has achieved.
How do you approach peer review?
My own guideline: two reviews per accepted submission, in places where I publish. Enough to give back, not enough to disappear into invisible labour.
Only exception, will do one review in journal / space I am actively looking to publish in the future. Thoughts?
My own guideline: two reviews per accepted submission, in places where I publish. Enough to give back, not enough to disappear into invisible labour.
Only exception, will do one review in journal / space I am actively looking to publish in the future. Thoughts?
December 28, 2025 at 7:39 AM
How do you approach peer review?
My own guideline: two reviews per accepted submission, in places where I publish. Enough to give back, not enough to disappear into invisible labour.
Only exception, will do one review in journal / space I am actively looking to publish in the future. Thoughts?
My own guideline: two reviews per accepted submission, in places where I publish. Enough to give back, not enough to disappear into invisible labour.
Only exception, will do one review in journal / space I am actively looking to publish in the future. Thoughts?
The OSE (Open Scholar Ecosystem) has evolved, not as a workflow, but as a way of inhabiting scholarship.
Visible thinking, voluntary output, care over optimisation. Work done because it matters, not because it’s demanded.
I think this visual represents accurately what OSE has now become over time.
Visible thinking, voluntary output, care over optimisation. Work done because it matters, not because it’s demanded.
I think this visual represents accurately what OSE has now become over time.
December 27, 2025 at 4:41 AM
The OSE (Open Scholar Ecosystem) has evolved, not as a workflow, but as a way of inhabiting scholarship.
Visible thinking, voluntary output, care over optimisation. Work done because it matters, not because it’s demanded.
I think this visual represents accurately what OSE has now become over time.
Visible thinking, voluntary output, care over optimisation. Work done because it matters, not because it’s demanded.
I think this visual represents accurately what OSE has now become over time.
The Open Scholarship Ecosystem (OSE) began as a framework for open publishing, evolved into a culture of ethical scholarly practice, and now functions as a mentality for how I think about knowledge, time, and academic value.
That’s the shift over time.
That’s the shift over time.
December 25, 2025 at 1:26 AM
The Open Scholarship Ecosystem (OSE) began as a framework for open publishing, evolved into a culture of ethical scholarly practice, and now functions as a mentality for how I think about knowledge, time, and academic value.
That’s the shift over time.
That’s the shift over time.
I can’t fully control whether students outsource work or cheat. What I can control is the classroom.
My responsibility is to design sessions where theory is understood, unpacked, and made meaningful. What students choose to do with that understanding later is a separate ethical decision.
Thoughts?
My responsibility is to design sessions where theory is understood, unpacked, and made meaningful. What students choose to do with that understanding later is a separate ethical decision.
Thoughts?
December 24, 2025 at 7:25 AM
I can’t fully control whether students outsource work or cheat. What I can control is the classroom.
My responsibility is to design sessions where theory is understood, unpacked, and made meaningful. What students choose to do with that understanding later is a separate ethical decision.
Thoughts?
My responsibility is to design sessions where theory is understood, unpacked, and made meaningful. What students choose to do with that understanding later is a separate ethical decision.
Thoughts?
An ambition for 2026 is to read proper physical books, remember them? My question if you are a reader do you go for fact of fiction? I’ve got a great list of both, maybe I should alternate? Thoughts welcome.
December 24, 2025 at 1:08 AM
An ambition for 2026 is to read proper physical books, remember them? My question if you are a reader do you go for fact of fiction? I’ve got a great list of both, maybe I should alternate? Thoughts welcome.
I have made my first attempt at some academic curation this week. I focussed on AI and Ontology papers from 2025. It was quite a fun process, and something I think I’ll do again. zenodo.org/records/1801...
Artificial Intelligence and Ontology (2025): An OSE Curated Collection
This publication presents a curated editorial collection of six peer-reviewed papers published in 2025 that engage with questions of artificial intelligence and ontology. Rather than offering a system...
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December 23, 2025 at 5:17 AM
I have made my first attempt at some academic curation this week. I focussed on AI and Ontology papers from 2025. It was quite a fun process, and something I think I’ll do again. zenodo.org/records/1801...
You can read my last Friday Medium writing of the year here if you like. This week I looked at- From Terraces to TikTok: How Football Fandom Has Changed Children's Sense of Belonging.
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From Terraces to TikTok: How Football Fandom Has Changed Children’s Sense of Belonging
Growing up with football in the late 1980s and the 1990s, the feeling of belonging was remarkably unambiguous. You supported a club largely…
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December 19, 2025 at 3:10 PM
You can read my last Friday Medium writing of the year here if you like. This week I looked at- From Terraces to TikTok: How Football Fandom Has Changed Children's Sense of Belonging.
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medium.com/@ajfirr/from...
You only ‘fail’ when you give up trying. I had my work rejected from a small academic journal, why? Because I framed it wrong and lack experience. But I’m learning each and every time I fail, and that will mean ultimately I’ll succeed. www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew...
#academicprocess #teachingfirst #researchinprogress #learningthroughfailure #openscholarship | Andrew John Firr
A small note on academic process.
A paper I recently submitted on children, ethics, and generative video (Sora 2) was reviewed and ultimately rejected by a journal in Tanzania. That happens, the edit...
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December 19, 2025 at 6:19 AM
You only ‘fail’ when you give up trying. I had my work rejected from a small academic journal, why? Because I framed it wrong and lack experience. But I’m learning each and every time I fail, and that will mean ultimately I’ll succeed. www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew...
A couple of my preprints got picked up by Scholar. How nice, never had that before. Still learning daily.
December 16, 2025 at 7:26 AM
A couple of my preprints got picked up by Scholar. How nice, never had that before. Still learning daily.
My weekly Friday Medium piece is now ready and you can read it here if you like. Its called 'When the Unreal Starts to Matter: How AI Is Quietly Redefining What We Call ‘Reality’
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When the Unreal Starts to Matter: How AI Is Quietly Redefining What We Call ‘Reality’ | Andrew John Firr
My weekly Friday Medium piece is now ready and you can read it here if you like. Its called 'When the Unreal Starts to Matter: How AI Is Quietly Redefining What We Call ‘Reality’
#ArtificialIntellige...
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December 12, 2025 at 6:46 PM
My weekly Friday Medium piece is now ready and you can read it here if you like. Its called 'When the Unreal Starts to Matter: How AI Is Quietly Redefining What We Call ‘Reality’
www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew...
www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew...
Have you ever found yourself or your teaching on TikTok when you haven’t posted it?
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#digitalethics #highereducation #classroomtechnology #aiandeducation #professionalpractice | Andrew John Firr
I recently discovered a few TikTok clips of me teaching, background style stuff to a wider video, nothing malicious, just moments from a class recorded and shared. It made me think about how effortles...
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December 11, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Have you ever found yourself or your teaching on TikTok when you haven’t posted it?
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www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew...
Truth is not the same as belief. Belief feels like truth, but truth requires justification. AI makes believable language easy to produce, which confuses the boundary between what sounds true and what is actually true.
December 11, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Truth is not the same as belief. Belief feels like truth, but truth requires justification. AI makes believable language easy to produce, which confuses the boundary between what sounds true and what is actually true.
Posted something on LinkedIn today about how Christmas at work isn’t always easy.
Festive seasons can amplify the absence people carry, even when they show up and smile through it. A kind workplace is one that leaves room for both joy and heaviness. www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew...
Festive seasons can amplify the absence people carry, even when they show up and smile through it. A kind workplace is one that leaves room for both joy and heaviness. www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew...
#workplacewellbeing #employeesupport #mentalhealthawareness #compassionateleadership #inclusiveworkplace | Andrew John Firr
As offices across the UK decorate for Christmas and plan end-of-year socials, it’s worth remembering that this season is not easy for everyone. For colleagues who have experienced loss, December can b...
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December 8, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Posted something on LinkedIn today about how Christmas at work isn’t always easy.
Festive seasons can amplify the absence people carry, even when they show up and smile through it. A kind workplace is one that leaves room for both joy and heaviness. www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew...
Festive seasons can amplify the absence people carry, even when they show up and smile through it. A kind workplace is one that leaves room for both joy and heaviness. www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew...
My second video on my new YouTube channel is now available.
If your child treats AI like a friend, watch this first.
youtu.be/H-o3iVVc3mI?...
If your child treats AI like a friend, watch this first.
youtu.be/H-o3iVVc3mI?...
If Your Child Treats AI Like a Friend, Watch This First
YouTube video by Raising Kids in the AI Age
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December 8, 2025 at 6:59 PM
My second video on my new YouTube channel is now available.
If your child treats AI like a friend, watch this first.
youtu.be/H-o3iVVc3mI?...
If your child treats AI like a friend, watch this first.
youtu.be/H-o3iVVc3mI?...
My new preprint has been published today. It’s a bit heavy and probably not something I’ll go near again but it got completed and out which I’m pleased about. I’ll be making a more easy to digest version for this weeks Medium writing.
December 8, 2025 at 5:08 PM
My new preprint has been published today. It’s a bit heavy and probably not something I’ll go near again but it got completed and out which I’m pleased about. I’ll be making a more easy to digest version for this weeks Medium writing.
Dads, this is difficult to watch but important to share. www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew...
#onlinesafety #protectourchildren #digitalresponsibility #respectandsafety #socialawareness | Andrew John Firr
Trigger warning- this video contains highly sexual explicit language (and because I’ve put in those words which are entirely accurate it will sadly almost certainly not be pushed out by the algorithm)...
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December 8, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Dads, this is difficult to watch but important to share. www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew...
Little teaser into next Fridays Medium writing piece. “From Terraces to TikTok: How Football Fandom Has Changed Children’s Sense of Belonging”.
December 8, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Little teaser into next Fridays Medium writing piece. “From Terraces to TikTok: How Football Fandom Has Changed Children’s Sense of Belonging”.
This is why we as parents need to educate ourselves about the advancements of AI and what this means for our children, good and bad.
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As parents we have to educate ourselves over AI advancement to help our kids
YouTube video by Raising Kids in the AI Age
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December 7, 2025 at 7:40 PM
This is why we as parents need to educate ourselves about the advancements of AI and what this means for our children, good and bad.
youtube.com/shorts/pAHuR...
youtube.com/shorts/pAHuR...
I want to do something to help parents who are totally AI novices understand how things work and what to observe in terms of how their kids utilise the technology.
I’ve therefore started a basic YouTube channel which will have simple explainers. I hope it can help. youtu.be/LBTNImf4PQs?...
I’ve therefore started a basic YouTube channel which will have simple explainers. I hope it can help. youtu.be/LBTNImf4PQs?...
Video 1- AI Explained for Parents: Tool, Not Teacher
YouTube video by Raising Kids in the AI Age
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December 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I want to do something to help parents who are totally AI novices understand how things work and what to observe in terms of how their kids utilise the technology.
I’ve therefore started a basic YouTube channel which will have simple explainers. I hope it can help. youtu.be/LBTNImf4PQs?...
I’ve therefore started a basic YouTube channel which will have simple explainers. I hope it can help. youtu.be/LBTNImf4PQs?...
You can read my weekly Medium writing here if you like. I enjoyed this one as it’s partially about one of my favourite films. As always at the bottom of the story is accompanying podcast produced with Google NotebookLM.
Rewatching Groundhog Day in the Age of AI
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Rewatching Groundhog Day in the Age of AI
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#artificialintelligence #philosophyoftechnology #digitalculture #filmanalysis #techethics | Andrew John Firr
You can read my weekly Medium writing here if you like. I enjoyed this one as it’s partially about one of my favourite ever films. As always at the bottom of the story is a short accompanying podcast ...
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December 5, 2025 at 12:52 PM
You can read my weekly Medium writing here if you like. I enjoyed this one as it’s partially about one of my favourite films. As always at the bottom of the story is accompanying podcast produced with Google NotebookLM.
Rewatching Groundhog Day in the Age of AI
www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew...
Rewatching Groundhog Day in the Age of AI
www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew...
Really pleased with my Project Management class today. We used the brand-new PMBOK 8th Edition plus Google NotebookLM to create videos, podcasts and flashcards from verified PMI sources.
A great example of how AI can be used well in the classroom.
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A great example of how AI can be used well in the classroom.
www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew...
December 3, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Really pleased with my Project Management class today. We used the brand-new PMBOK 8th Edition plus Google NotebookLM to create videos, podcasts and flashcards from verified PMI sources.
A great example of how AI can be used well in the classroom.
www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew...
A great example of how AI can be used well in the classroom.
www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew...
I was really pleased to see a piece of my writing re Sora 2 and Children of the Synthetic Age appear in our Faculty of Science, Business and Enterprise Research Round Up for November 2016.
December 3, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I was really pleased to see a piece of my writing re Sora 2 and Children of the Synthetic Age appear in our Faculty of Science, Business and Enterprise Research Round Up for November 2016.
Coming this week to Medium. AI and New Conditions of Human Experience.
This is quite a heavy one.
This is quite a heavy one.
December 3, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Coming this week to Medium. AI and New Conditions of Human Experience.
This is quite a heavy one.
This is quite a heavy one.