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
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Have cleaned up these various platform links into one tidy area, now that’s better to keep all major parts of the Ecosystem together. lnk.bio/AndrewFirr
First step into something new, just contacted the Open Recognition Alliance to explore whether an open, peer-endorsed doctorate could validate my ongoing work on ethical AI and open scholarship.
November 11, 2025 at 3:13 PM
First step into something new, just contacted the Open Recognition Alliance to explore whether an open, peer-endorsed doctorate could validate my ongoing work on ethical AI and open scholarship.
100 followers isn’t much, but it’s the right 100. I’m more interested in signal integrity than scale, a network that actually thinks with you.
Small, steady, relevant. That’s the goal. I’m impressed with Bluesky and hope to continue to build and share my ideas.
Small, steady, relevant. That’s the goal. I’m impressed with Bluesky and hope to continue to build and share my ideas.
November 11, 2025 at 2:10 AM
100 followers isn’t much, but it’s the right 100. I’m more interested in signal integrity than scale, a network that actually thinks with you.
Small, steady, relevant. That’s the goal. I’m impressed with Bluesky and hope to continue to build and share my ideas.
Small, steady, relevant. That’s the goal. I’m impressed with Bluesky and hope to continue to build and share my ideas.
Small win, thank you for my first 100 followers on Bluesky.
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Small win, thank you for my first 100 followers on Bluesky.
Are there any guys out there who have done a DProf? I’m just thinking could I do this…
November 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Are there any guys out there who have done a DProf? I’m just thinking could I do this…
Currently working on this- Zenodo Within the Open Scholar Ecosystem: Building Reflexive Layers of Publication.
Why? Because I’m a huge fan of the opportunities Zenodo offers and want to share this with others who maybe less aware.
Why? Because I’m a huge fan of the opportunities Zenodo offers and want to share this with others who maybe less aware.
November 10, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Currently working on this- Zenodo Within the Open Scholar Ecosystem: Building Reflexive Layers of Publication.
Why? Because I’m a huge fan of the opportunities Zenodo offers and want to share this with others who maybe less aware.
Why? Because I’m a huge fan of the opportunities Zenodo offers and want to share this with others who maybe less aware.
As well as my normal AI ethics style stuff I like to share some of my favourite ever books on here as well. Starting with these two.
November 10, 2025 at 3:30 AM
As well as my normal AI ethics style stuff I like to share some of my favourite ever books on here as well. Starting with these two.
Possible future idea- When AI learns to monetise insecurity.
AI algorithms / dubious skincare organisational marketing practices and being a dad of a ‘tween’ is a concern. This might need looking into in more depth around the whole skincare craze for young people.
Ps AI generated image.
AI algorithms / dubious skincare organisational marketing practices and being a dad of a ‘tween’ is a concern. This might need looking into in more depth around the whole skincare craze for young people.
Ps AI generated image.
November 10, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Possible future idea- When AI learns to monetise insecurity.
AI algorithms / dubious skincare organisational marketing practices and being a dad of a ‘tween’ is a concern. This might need looking into in more depth around the whole skincare craze for young people.
Ps AI generated image.
AI algorithms / dubious skincare organisational marketing practices and being a dad of a ‘tween’ is a concern. This might need looking into in more depth around the whole skincare craze for young people.
Ps AI generated image.
Idea for future- We used to know when someone was filming, a phone raised, a gesture we all recognised. Smart glasses change that. The watchful act disappears, but the surveillance stays. What happens when being recorded feels… normal?
#AIethics #DigitalSociety #WearableTech #Privacy
#AIethics #DigitalSociety #WearableTech #Privacy
November 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Idea for future- We used to know when someone was filming, a phone raised, a gesture we all recognised. Smart glasses change that. The watchful act disappears, but the surveillance stays. What happens when being recorded feels… normal?
#AIethics #DigitalSociety #WearableTech #Privacy
#AIethics #DigitalSociety #WearableTech #Privacy
Coming soon: Existential–Synthetic Ontology (ESO), my next open preprint. It explores how reality itself changes when AI starts to co-produce it, when human and synthetic perception overlap and meaning becomes collaborative.
November 9, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Coming soon: Existential–Synthetic Ontology (ESO), my next open preprint. It explores how reality itself changes when AI starts to co-produce it, when human and synthetic perception overlap and meaning becomes collaborative.
This is cool!
That URL isn't working for me, but this slightly different one is! katinamagazine.org/content/arti...
How Fanfiction Can Help Us Reimagine Scholarly Publishing
Archive of Our Own, a digital fanfiction repository, shows what’s possible when we design our infrastructures around the communities that use them, rather than around extractive logics.
katinamagazine.org
November 9, 2025 at 8:31 AM
This is cool!
If we keep this in mind we don’t need to worry so much about AI detectors.
November 9, 2025 at 6:08 AM
If we keep this in mind we don’t need to worry so much about AI detectors.
Are people still requiring students to cite and subsequently reference AI tools in the same way as other traditional source material, or are more standardised short AI declarations more common? Asking for a friend!
November 9, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Are people still requiring students to cite and subsequently reference AI tools in the same way as other traditional source material, or are more standardised short AI declarations more common? Asking for a friend!
Coming to my Medium next week- Relational Dark Patterns, When AI Systems Pretend to Care. I’ve been exploring how some ‘empathic’ AI tools use emotional design to keep users hooked, simulating care, creating dependency, and blurring human boundaries.
November 8, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Coming to my Medium next week- Relational Dark Patterns, When AI Systems Pretend to Care. I’ve been exploring how some ‘empathic’ AI tools use emotional design to keep users hooked, simulating care, creating dependency, and blurring human boundaries.
I’ve been quietly tracking how my Bluesky network has evolved as part of the OSE experiment, and it’s starting to take shape. Even at this small scale, clear clusters are forming.
November 8, 2025 at 1:35 AM
I’ve been quietly tracking how my Bluesky network has evolved as part of the OSE experiment, and it’s starting to take shape. Even at this small scale, clear clusters are forming.
Friday writing now live on Medium, The Hidden Infrastructure of Open Scholarship: What I Learned About DOIs (and Everything That Can Go Wrong).
A practical reflection on what metadata, indexing, and broken links can teach us about the invisible systems behind open research.
A practical reflection on what metadata, indexing, and broken links can teach us about the invisible systems behind open research.
The Hidden Infrastructure of Open Scholarship: What I Learned About DOIs (and Everything That Can…
When I first decided to publish a preprint, I assumed that it would take an afternoon. I had finished the paper, proofread it, and…
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November 7, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Friday writing now live on Medium, The Hidden Infrastructure of Open Scholarship: What I Learned About DOIs (and Everything That Can Go Wrong).
A practical reflection on what metadata, indexing, and broken links can teach us about the invisible systems behind open research.
A practical reflection on what metadata, indexing, and broken links can teach us about the invisible systems behind open research.
Have cleaned up these various platform links into one tidy area, now that’s better to keep all major parts of the Ecosystem together. lnk.bio/AndrewFirr
AndrewFirr Lnk.Bio · link in bio
AndrewFirr Lnk.Bio · link in bio - Profile and social media links for AndrewFirr
lnk.bio
November 7, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Have cleaned up these various platform links into one tidy area, now that’s better to keep all major parts of the Ecosystem together. lnk.bio/AndrewFirr
Thinking out loud- Meet Mr ChatGPT: The Most Unethical Scientist in Human History, satirical-philosophical concept with potential!
November 7, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Thinking out loud- Meet Mr ChatGPT: The Most Unethical Scientist in Human History, satirical-philosophical concept with potential!
My 5-day OSE sprint is now complete.
From global infrastructures to local communities, various layers of open science is now linked in the ecosystem.
We are moving away from reach to resonance and thank you to all my new followers. zenodo.org/records/1751...
From global infrastructures to local communities, various layers of open science is now linked in the ecosystem.
We are moving away from reach to resonance and thank you to all my new followers. zenodo.org/records/1751...
November 7, 2025 at 1:53 AM
My 5-day OSE sprint is now complete.
From global infrastructures to local communities, various layers of open science is now linked in the ecosystem.
We are moving away from reach to resonance and thank you to all my new followers. zenodo.org/records/1751...
From global infrastructures to local communities, various layers of open science is now linked in the ecosystem.
We are moving away from reach to resonance and thank you to all my new followers. zenodo.org/records/1751...
Logging followers on this account to try and build a picture and interpret patterns.
November 6, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Logging followers on this account to try and build a picture and interpret patterns.
Big infrastructures make openness possible but small ecosystems allow it to become personal. When both connect, openness becomes culture.
okfn.org open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu#OSES#OpenSciencec#OpenScholarshipip
okfn.org open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu#OSES#OpenSciencec#OpenScholarshipip
https://okfn.org
November 6, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Big infrastructures make openness possible but small ecosystems allow it to become personal. When both connect, openness becomes culture.
okfn.org open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu#OSES#OpenSciencec#OpenScholarshipip
okfn.org open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu#OSES#OpenSciencec#OpenScholarshipip
Interesting piece on Sky News how social media can impact. Kind of feeds into some work I’ve been doing more broadly re AI and Ontology- news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Interesting piece on Sky News how social media can impact. Kind of feeds into some work I’ve been doing more broadly re AI and Ontology- news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Around thirty voices now, open science, pedagogy, ethics, systems, culture.
The pattern forming isn’t audience growth; it’s coherence. Openness lives in those connections, not the metrics.
#OpenScholarship #OSE #OpenScience #AcademicBluesky
The pattern forming isn’t audience growth; it’s coherence. Openness lives in those connections, not the metrics.
#OpenScholarship #OSE #OpenScience #AcademicBluesky
November 5, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Around thirty voices now, open science, pedagogy, ethics, systems, culture.
The pattern forming isn’t audience growth; it’s coherence. Openness lives in those connections, not the metrics.
#OpenScholarship #OSE #OpenScience #AcademicBluesky
The pattern forming isn’t audience growth; it’s coherence. Openness lives in those connections, not the metrics.
#OpenScholarship #OSE #OpenScience #AcademicBluesky
Day 3 of 5 on the OSE Sprint, reflecting on community models like the Open Science Communities Network. It’s interesting how conversations about open practice seem to surface here on Bluesky, even without official accounts.
November 5, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Day 3 of 5 on the OSE Sprint, reflecting on community models like the Open Science Communities Network. It’s interesting how conversations about open practice seem to surface here on Bluesky, even without official accounts.
Idea for future writing. “Hybrid Authorship: Rethinking Academic Writing in the AI Era” Thinking out loud. I was writing about this on LinkedIn probably two years ago, still needs formalising in some way.
November 5, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Idea for future writing. “Hybrid Authorship: Rethinking Academic Writing in the AI Era” Thinking out loud. I was writing about this on LinkedIn probably two years ago, still needs formalising in some way.
Just learned you can timestamp almost any educational artefact on Zenodo, not just papers. Slides, frameworks, even logos. The infrastructure of open scholarship keeps surprising me. Mind blown!
November 5, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Just learned you can timestamp almost any educational artefact on Zenodo, not just papers. Slides, frameworks, even logos. The infrastructure of open scholarship keeps surprising me. Mind blown!