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Leigh Graves Wolf
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Assistant Professor of Educational Development @ University College Dublin 🇮🇪

Wayfinding.

Critical Digital Pedagogy, Qualitative Research, Open Educational Practices, Pedagogies of Care, Humanising Teaching/Learning/Technology
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ucddublin.bsky.social
🏆⭐️ Two UCD projects have been named winners at this year’s SATLE Impact Awards, which celebrate initiatives that deliver real, demonstrable impact in teaching and learning across Irish higher education.
www.ucd.ie/newsandopini...
HEA names two UCD projects as winners of 2025 SATLE Impact Awards
www.ucd.ie
January 14, 2026 at 2:18 PM
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olivermcgarr.bsky.social
There seems to be little critical debate about our use of phrases like 'I'm going to an Apple school' or ' a Microsoft school'. In this paper, I explore some of the possible reasons for an absence of critical debate about the corporate branding of schools. Free access at: doi.org/10.1080/0332...
The corporate branding of schools in Ireland: why the absence of a critical debate?
This paper explores the increasing engagement of technology corporations with schools in Ireland, focusing on the practice of awarding designations such as Apple Distinguished Schools, Microsoft Sh...
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January 12, 2026 at 9:18 AM
gravesle.bsky.social
Excellent read to start my Monday morning:
January 12, 2026 at 8:19 AM
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phillewis.bsky.social
PBS News notes this Sunday will be “PBS News Weekend’s” last due to federal budget cuts
January 10, 2026 at 1:46 AM
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ecpr.bsky.social
AUCD Ad Astra Doctoral Scholarship: Authoritarian Politics #ECPRMemberJobs
🎓 Minimum grade of 2.1 (GPA: 3.6) in a relevant Master's degree
🇮🇪 @ucddublin.bsky.social
⌛ Friday 6 February
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#PolSciJobs #PoliSky #AcademicSky
January 7, 2026 at 9:01 AM
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gleemie.bsky.social
@emilianotrere.com @tbonini.bsky.social I really enjoyed your book and have it on my syllabus. Thanks for your work. I wrote a review of it for Critical AI:
read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...
Algorithms of Resistance: The Everyday Fight Against Platform Power | Critical AI | Duke University Press
read.dukeupress.edu
January 8, 2026 at 8:28 AM
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato."

surreal times

dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous
Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...
dailynous.com
January 7, 2026 at 10:36 AM
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ucdlibrary.bsky.social
UCD #CitizenScience event🌀
Met Éireann is calling on the public to help rescue millions of historic weather observations currently held in handwritten paper records.
Dr. Rhonda McGovern will run a free hands-on workshop on 27 Jan in James Joyce Library Link 3.
Register: forms.gle/cXs26gVj68pN...
UCD Citizen Science logo in white and Irish Weather Service Met Eireann logo in aqua green, with an images of an open ledger book and weather index card. A portrait of female researcher Dr. Rhonda McGovern is displayed along with the UCD Research and Library logos consisting of the UCD crest and text.
January 5, 2026 at 10:32 AM
gravesle.bsky.social
Well, this is fun - www.guitarcloud.org
Guitarcloud - Prince Equipment Archive
An archive of equipment used by Prince and associated musicians live and in the studio.
www.guitarcloud.org
January 5, 2026 at 10:13 AM
gravesle.bsky.social
Incredible piece of scholarship - lots to think about!

Gardner-McTaggart, A., Blyth, C. Ontological capture: AI, childhood, and the algorithmic governance of becoming. AI & Soc (2025). doi.org/10.1007/s001...
Ontological capture: AI, childhood, and the algorithmic governance of becoming - AI & SOCIETY
This article interrogates how algorithmic infrastructures and AI reshape social life through childhood, civic identity, and education. Drawing on Anders’ account of Promethean shame, Baudrillard’s not...
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December 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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alfiekohn.bsky.social
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Computer scientist Ben Shneiderman argues (in NYT's paraphrase) that "tech companies should give us tools, not thought partners, collaborators, or teammates - tools that keep us in charge, empower us and enhance us, not tools that try to be us."
December 28, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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charleswlogan.bsky.social
Whether you’re looking for a way to discuss AI with students or be the life of the party this NYE, @civicsoftech.bsky.social has you covered with our new activity:
Thinking Critically About AI: A New Critical Quotes Classroom Activity — Civics of Technology
by Dan Krutka and Marie Heath with Danielle Peck When we first developed the Critical Technology Quotes , we sought to create a simple entry point for students to gather a range of critical perspe...
www.civicsoftechnology.org
December 28, 2025 at 7:53 PM
gravesle.bsky.social
Delighted to share our latest article on the @ucddublin.bsky.social Assessment for Inclusion Framework published in @teachinginhe.bsky.social with my colleagues @geraldineoneill.bsky.social & @sheenahyland.bsky.social (featuring artwork from @visualthinkery.bsky.social!)

doi.org/10.1080/1356...
Assessment for inclusion: a holistic framework to support stakeholders’ literacy and implementation across contexts
Higher education is experiencing a significant drive towards more inclusive learning to support student success. Assessment, however, can often be a barrier to achieving that success. The literatur...
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December 12, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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seanlclancy.bsky.social
We have a fully funded PhD (+ research expenses) in Ethnomusicology going in @ucddublin.bsky.social supervised by my new colleague, Abigail Lindo.

Abigail is looking to supervise in a host of exciting & pertinant areas. Full details below:

www.ucd.ie/music/newsan...
Ad Astra PhD Scholarship Opportunity - UCD School of Music
www.ucd.ie
December 9, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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laurenleek.eu
I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it
I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.
open.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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nxthompson.bsky.social
A distressing chart. As our government sues media companies, and threatens to take away their broadcast licenses for airing critical programs, the US has now dropped to 57th in the world in press freedom.

Maybe next year we can catch Romania and Sierra Leone. gijn.org/stories/glob...
December 6, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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gquaggiotto.bsky.social
One Laptop Per Child, 10 years later: "we find no significant effects on academic performance but some evidence of negative effects on grade progression... computer access significantly improved students’ computer skills but not their cognitive skills" www.nber.org/papers/w34495
Laptops in the Long Run: Evidence from the One Laptop per Child Program in Rural Peru
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org
December 7, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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amlibraryassoc.bsky.social
NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.

This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!

Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
ALL IMLS grants restored in every state & territory. In response to a ruling from a federal judge in Rhode Island, the Institute of Museum and Library Services reinstated all previously canceled grants in every state and territory. It's a huge win for libraries and our communities. "The reinstatement of all IMLS grants means that libraries across the country will be able to resume vital services for learning, imagination, and economic opportunity. We are breathing a sigh of relief, but the fight is not over." ALA President Sam Helmick. Show up for our libraries, American Library Association.
December 3, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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michalwieczorek.bsky.social
What do The Matrix and educational AI have in common? Unfortunately way too much, as they promote very narrow ideas of what education should be.

Instead, Alberto Romele and I highlight better sci-fi inspirations in this new paper in Educational Theory:

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
How to Imagine Educational AI: The Filling of a Pail or the Lighting of a Fire?
Recent advances in artificial intelligence (e.g., machine learning, generative AI) have led to increased interest in its application in educational settings. AI companies hope to revolutionize teachi...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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kenplume.bsky.social
This They Might Be Giants TONIGHT SHOW performance of "Birdhouse In Your Soul" from 1990 remains firmly lodged in my noggin thanks to the Tonight Show Band's full commitment and Doc Severinsen's incredible trumpeting... It took an already great song and made it transcendent.
August 23, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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ucdpress.bsky.social
The Dublin Small Press Fair will be celebrating small-scale publishing in Ireland and welcome small presses from abroad.

📍Pearse Street Library, Dublin
📆Today, Friday 28th and Tomorrow,Saturday 29th of November
November 28, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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danmcquillan.bsky.social
4pm today UK time
danmcquillan.bsky.social Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · Nov 21
Resisting GenAI and Big Tech in Higher Education - Tuesday 25th Nov, free registration, great panel, big focus on climate justice. Register here: lmula.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Resisting GenAI and Big Tech in Higher Education Tuesday 25th November 2025 8am - 9:30am PST | 11am -12:30pm EST | 4pm - 5:30pm GMT | 5pm - 6:30pm CET Virtual on Zoom – REGISTER HERE: http://bit.ly/4qE27dB Generative AI is permeating higher education in many different ways—it is increasingly embedded in university work and life, even if we don’t want to use it. But people are also sounding the alarm: Gen AI is disrupting learning and undermining trust in the integrity of academic work, while big tech’s energy consumption, use of water, and rapid expansion of data centers are exacerbating ecological crises. What can we do? How do we resist? Come learn about the environmental, social, economic, and political threats that AI poses and how we can individually and collectively resist and refuse. Learn about how some are challenging the narrative of inevitability. Join this interactive discussion with international scholars and activists on resisting GenAI and big tech in higher education. Inputs from multiple scholar-activists include: Christoph Becker (University of Toronto, Canada), Mary Finley-Brook (University of Richmond, USA), Dan McQuillan (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK), Sinéad Sheehan (University of Galway, Ireland), Jennie Stephens (National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland), and Paul Lachapelle (Montana State University, USA). This event will be recorded and is co-sponsored by: Climate Justice Universities Union and Climate Campus Network
November 25, 2025 at 12:07 PM
gravesle.bsky.social
My literature review searches (anything on Taylor & Francis so far...) have been thwarted.
November 18, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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ibogost.com
Seems like as good a day as any to remember that it was once possible to “log off.”
November 18, 2025 at 12:56 PM