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Dr Shawn Day
@eireidium.bsky.social
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Lecturer in Knowledge Visualisation, Information Design & Digital Humanities @UCC. Sometime dotcom adventurer, contrarian, fountain pen addict and craft beer drinker
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UCC and MTU to partner on 'Minimal Curation', a digital sociocultural heritage project funded by @researchireland.ie under its COALESCE scheme.

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UCC and MTU to partner on digital sociocultural heritage project | 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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November 17, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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@wouterkreuze sharing his expertise with renaissance news and putting the Avissi into an international context. @ucc.ie #uccDH colloquium
October 15, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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Look what we have here then.
1817 map snipping, "Well. Well. Well."
September 24, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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"slop that passes for culture in the digital age" @jamesosullivan.bsky.social asks when did we become so vapid? substack.com/app-link/pos...
When did we become so vapid?
There’s a particular species of despair that creeps in when you spend too long online.
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July 12, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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I've been doing some historical data analysis, and I think the first time the 'sun never set' over the british empire was in 1685 with the colonisation of bengkulu by the East India Company (when it was still called the English Empire). Didn't factor in eclipses though... #history #maps
A map showing the English Empire as it stood just prior to the 1685 colonisation of Bengkulu in South-Western Indonesia by the East India Company. There is a day/night terminator line, showing the empire was still able to be in total darkness at this point. A map showing the English Empire as it stood just after the 1685 colonisation of Bengkulu in South-Western Indonesia by the East India Company. There is a day/night terminator line, showing that the empire spanned sufficiently broadly east/west such that there was no date/time (until the 2025 surrender of the Chagos Islands) where the sun was not shining upon at least one part of the Empire.
May 23, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Cool: First-Year Students Explore AI Through the Lens of Speculative Fiction—Featuring Visits from Sci-Fi’s Literary Superstars - cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2025/05... - kind like history of the future.
First-Year Students Explore AI Through the Lens of Speculative Fiction—Featuring Visits from Sci-Fi’s Literary Superstars
First-Year Students Explore AI Through the Lens of Speculative Fiction—Featuring Visits from Sci-Fi’s Literary Superstars
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May 13, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Dr Colleen Thomas launches Responsible Use of Research Metrics.
March 31, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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"those moments that seemed to change everything, until it changed nothing" - Ireland is losing its war on misogyny by @jamesosullivan.bsky.social - substack.com/inbox/post/1...
Ireland is losing its war on misogyny
The long shadow of institutional misogyny in Ireland stretches across generations.
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March 29, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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@erikadyck.bsky.social sorry to miss your talk - hope you enjoy the Burren! Great conference!
March 24, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Interesting reflection by Reanna Daniels reminding that 'ceremony should be part of everyday life'.
March 24, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Fascinating kick off talk @ucc.ie with an opening talk by Manchan Magan on 'Rewinding the Mind' also first time I have heard the term #PsychedelicHumanities hosted by @erikadyck.bsky.social and Oliver Davis
March 24, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Reminder: The #DHAwards are open for voting! 🏆 Cast your vote for your favorite #DigitalHumanities resources across 7 categories: dhawards.org/dhawards2024... (And if you’d like to support my work, consider giving liiive.now a vote in the Tools category! 😉)
DH Awards 2024 Voting | Digital Humanities Awards
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March 19, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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What wonderfully immersive experience. Enjoying Ishiguro 's lyrics, performed by Stacey Kent, music composed by Jim Tomlinson and illustrations by Bianca Bagnarelli. Book + Spotify. Brilliant!
February 27, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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After a mad scavenger hunt to see where on campus Amazon deigned to deliver it - found @braciatrix.bsky.social 's newest book and really looking forward.
February 11, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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Google Maps changed the way we get around. It all began in a spare bedroom in Sydney www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Google Maps changed the way we get around. It all began in a spare bedroom in Sydney
This weekend the mapping platform turns 20 – and Stephen Ma is writing himself and his friends back into its origin story
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February 9, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Nominations are now open for DH Awards 2024

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Open until 2025-01-26
DH Awards 2024 – Call For Nominations | Digital Humanities Awards
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December 14, 2024 at 6:32 PM
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My colleagues and friends in the library @ucclibrary.bsky.social are killing it with these Research Essentials Workshops.

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Lineup: Being FAIR with your Data, Online, 10:00 – 12.00, Wednesday, 22nd January, Being FAIR with your Data Research Data Management, Online , 10:00 – 12:00, Thursday, 30th January Research Data Management Open Access Publishing, In-person, Creative Zone, Boole Library, 10:00 - 12:30, Wednesday, 12th February, Open Access Publishing Learning with Lego - Metadata for Researchers. In-person, Seminar Room, Boole Library, 10:00 - 12:00, Thursday, 13th February Learning with Lego - Metadata for Researchers Designing Academic Posters.On-line. 10:00 - 11.30. Monday 24th February. Designing Academic Posters Introduction to R Programming Language, In-person, Research Skills Training Room, Boole Library, 12:00 - 14:00, Wednesday, 19th February Introduction to R Programming Language Tidy Data – Data Organisation in Spreadsheets, In-person, Research Skills Training Room, Boole Library 12.30-2.30, Wednesday 26th February Tidy Data - Data Organisation Podcasting/audio editing for researchers, In-person, Digital Scholarship Studio, Boole Library 10.00-12.30, Wednesday, 5th March Research Essentials - Audio Editing for Researchers Open Refine, In-person, Research Skills Training Room, Boole Library 10.00-12.30, Thursday, 6th March Introduction to Open Refine Video Editing, In-person, Digital Scholarship Studio, Boole Library 11.00-12.30, Tuesday, 11th March Research Essentials - Video Editing An Introduction to Special Collections & Archives: the what and the how, In-person, Special Collections & Archives, Boole Library, 10.00- 11.30, Wednesday, 12th March, An Introduction to Special Collections & Archives Predatory Publishing, Online, 10.00-11.00, Thursday, 20th March, Predatory Publishing Advanced searching techniques for systematic reviews, In-person, Library Seminar Room 10.00-12.30, Wednesday, 9th April Advanced Searching Techniques for Systematic Reviews
January 16, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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A Holiday tradition: www.youtube.com/live/DzOSoUe... Robin Sloan reading Sir Gawain and the Green Night on NYD.
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January 1, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Dr Shawn Day @eireidium.bsky.social uses social network visualizations to map the collaboration between Irish craft beer brewers locally and internationally. These graphs highlight a culture of respect in the industry.
November 20, 2024 at 12:32 PM
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Love it ;-) laserprinter has printed me two sheets now to show me how to clear a jam keeping it from printing - seriously.
November 13, 2024 at 1:20 PM
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@pnilsson.bsky.social putting GIS talk into a current context looking at flooding in Valencia. @ucc.bsky.social
November 6, 2024 at 12:11 PM
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Very disappointed to hear that Amazon is locking down Kindles. Guess this may be my last as I convert a lot of epubs that I buy elsewhere to read on it. Probably have bought well over 1K kindle books from Amazon. Ah well. Where's it get you?
October 24, 2024 at 4:31 PM
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Big News! @jamesosullivan.bsky.social to lead out on #AI in Education policy in Ireland: News | University College Cork - ucc.ie/en/dah/news/dr… @ucc.bsky.social
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August 20, 2024 at 12:46 PM
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So close ....
January 12, 2024 at 4:15 PM
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I have often remarked how i miss abundant wildlife in Ireland - and then I find frolicking otters on a flooding Lee this morning.
January 2, 2024 at 5:51 PM