Stephen Roddy
@stephenroddy.bsky.social
Composer/Engineer/Lecturer: Sound & Music Computing @radhumslab.bsky.social & Digital Humanities, @ucc.ie
https://linktr.ee/stephenroddy
https://linktr.ee/stephenroddy
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Satellite Events | IEEE International Symposium on the Internet of Sounds (IS2) 2026 | IEEE IS2 2026
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The call for the 2026 Internet of Sounds symposium is live and we’re inviting work for the 1st IEEE International Workshop on Sonification for the IoS. Please do get involved:
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#sonification #internetofsounds #IoS #enginnering
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#sonification #internetofsounds #IoS #enginnering
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another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 25, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Isaac Asimov’s “Handbook of Robotics” imagined simple rules for machine morality. But reality is a maze of contradictions, biases, and blind spots.
Chasing the Mirage of “Ethical” AI
Isaac Asimov’s “Handbook of Robotics” imagined simple rules for machine morality. But reality is a maze of contradictions, biases, and blind spots.
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
December 15, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Isaac Asimov’s “Handbook of Robotics” imagined simple rules for machine morality. But reality is a maze of contradictions, biases, and blind spots.
How is entirety of Spotify only 300TB? The bitrates here must be absolutely abysmal.
Anna's Archive backed up all of Spotify. They analyzed the data as well. More on their blog: annas-archive.org/blog/backing...
Backing up Spotify
We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files). It’s distributed in bulk torrents (~300TB). It’s the world’s first “preservation archive” for music which is fully open (meaning it can easily be mirro...
annas-archive.org
December 25, 2025 at 12:03 AM
How is entirety of Spotify only 300TB? The bitrates here must be absolutely abysmal.
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www.404media.co/why-i-quit-s...
Excellent inspiration for your New Year's resolutions
Excellent inspiration for your New Year's resolutions
Why I Quit Streaming And Got Back Into Cassettes
In the age of Spotify and AI slop, tapes remind us what we’re missing when we stop taking risks.
www.404media.co
December 24, 2025 at 2:20 PM
www.404media.co/why-i-quit-s...
Excellent inspiration for your New Year's resolutions
Excellent inspiration for your New Year's resolutions
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In the 1960s, a group of New Jersey teenagers helped make computing personal...
(An excerpt from my new book in IEEE Spectrum)
spectrum.ieee.org/teenage-hack...
#HistSci #computing #History 🗃️
(An excerpt from my new book in IEEE Spectrum)
spectrum.ieee.org/teenage-hack...
#HistSci #computing #History 🗃️
The RESISTORS: Teen Hackers Who Saw and Lived the Future of Computing
In the 1960s, before PCs and the Internet were a thing, the RESISTORS were O.G. computer hackers, learning to code on old mainframes in a New Jersey barn.
spectrum.ieee.org
December 12, 2025 at 7:35 PM
In the 1960s, a group of New Jersey teenagers helped make computing personal...
(An excerpt from my new book in IEEE Spectrum)
spectrum.ieee.org/teenage-hack...
#HistSci #computing #History 🗃️
(An excerpt from my new book in IEEE Spectrum)
spectrum.ieee.org/teenage-hack...
#HistSci #computing #History 🗃️
Blade Runner is a Christmas film, change my mind.
December 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Blade Runner is a Christmas film, change my mind.
This sounds great!
Particularly delighted with the degree to which space science, and NASA in particular, have embraced sonification as a research tool as well as an outreach vehicle over the last 15 years.
Particularly delighted with the degree to which space science, and NASA in particular, have embraced sonification as a research tool as well as an outreach vehicle over the last 15 years.
Our ears are ringing with stellar news: #NASARoman will be well suited to study red giant stars in the Milky Way’s galactic bulge. Based on simulated data Roman will collect, this sonification converts the waves moving inside these stars into sound: https://bit.ly/3KYZIK8 🔭 🧪
December 23, 2025 at 1:50 PM
This sounds great!
Particularly delighted with the degree to which space science, and NASA in particular, have embraced sonification as a research tool as well as an outreach vehicle over the last 15 years.
Particularly delighted with the degree to which space science, and NASA in particular, have embraced sonification as a research tool as well as an outreach vehicle over the last 15 years.
Well the good news is I've hit my word count for this current article. The bad news is that I'm only about 60% done writing it.
December 22, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Well the good news is I've hit my word count for this current article. The bad news is that I'm only about 60% done writing it.
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are you disgruntled by the current safety evaluation landscape? curious about what conceptual clarity, methodological soundness and rigour in AI evaluation might look like? if so, consider coming to dublin and doing a phd with me
apply here: aial.ie/hiring/phd-a...
apply here: aial.ie/hiring/phd-a...
December 17, 2025 at 7:33 PM
are you disgruntled by the current safety evaluation landscape? curious about what conceptual clarity, methodological soundness and rigour in AI evaluation might look like? if so, consider coming to dublin and doing a phd with me
apply here: aial.ie/hiring/phd-a...
apply here: aial.ie/hiring/phd-a...
Doesn’t help that a lot of ML pioneers are also pushing slop-brained, hyper-fascist singulatariansim though
*I blame the fascist world-burning plagiarizing autocomplete text slop programs.
It makes me bananas the way machine learning—the outcome of decades of specialized computer programming and collaborative scientific research—has been shoved into the same box as the fascist world-burning plagiarizing autocomplete text slop programs.
December 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Doesn’t help that a lot of ML pioneers are also pushing slop-brained, hyper-fascist singulatariansim though
Just got asked for my student card while buying breakfast.
Nice. Those hair-plugs were worth the investment.
Nice. Those hair-plugs were worth the investment.
December 21, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Just got asked for my student card while buying breakfast.
Nice. Those hair-plugs were worth the investment.
Nice. Those hair-plugs were worth the investment.
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Somebody scraped & shared every song on Spotify, with metadata — a boon for research into music and algorithms, but also, inevitably, what the training data is going to be for every AI music company in 2026. annas-archive.li/blog/backing...
Backing up Spotify
We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files). It’s distributed in bulk torrents (~300TB). It’s the world’s first “preservation archive” for music which is fully open (meaning it can easily be mirro...
annas-archive.li
December 21, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Somebody scraped & shared every song on Spotify, with metadata — a boon for research into music and algorithms, but also, inevitably, what the training data is going to be for every AI music company in 2026. annas-archive.li/blog/backing...
Just found my contact information being sold on some AI platform that automates the process of applying for PhDs and postdocs. Against my will obviously. And if you're reading this there's a good chance you're on there too:
www.applykite.com/professors/s...
www.applykite.com/professors/s...
Stephen Roddy at University College Cork - Research Interests, Publications & Academic Profile
Stephen Roddy at University College Cork. This profile includes research focus, academic background, key publications, collaborations, and contact options.
www.applykite.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Just found my contact information being sold on some AI platform that automates the process of applying for PhDs and postdocs. Against my will obviously. And if you're reading this there's a good chance you're on there too:
www.applykite.com/professors/s...
www.applykite.com/professors/s...
This paper is now out in the proceedings of the 6th IEEE Internet of Sounds Symposium.
It presents a prototype system for soil moisture monitoring to support more sustainable water management practices, through sonification:
doi.org/10.1109/IS264627.2025.11284675
It presents a prototype system for soil moisture monitoring to support more sustainable water management practices, through sonification:
doi.org/10.1109/IS264627.2025.11284675
December 17, 2025 at 1:44 PM
This paper is now out in the proceedings of the 6th IEEE Internet of Sounds Symposium.
It presents a prototype system for soil moisture monitoring to support more sustainable water management practices, through sonification:
doi.org/10.1109/IS264627.2025.11284675
It presents a prototype system for soil moisture monitoring to support more sustainable water management practices, through sonification:
doi.org/10.1109/IS264627.2025.11284675
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Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
December 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
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'the heart is sick with hoping and hoping before books reach Ireland' Maria Edgeworth in 1816
Publication day for @universitypress.cambridge.org Irish Romanticism was yesterday but no sign of any books in Cork yet!
www.cambridge.org/core/books/i...
Publication day for @universitypress.cambridge.org Irish Romanticism was yesterday but no sign of any books in Cork yet!
www.cambridge.org/core/books/i...
Irish Romanticism
Cambridge Core - English Literature 1700-1830 - Irish Romanticism
www.cambridge.org
December 12, 2025 at 1:32 PM
'the heart is sick with hoping and hoping before books reach Ireland' Maria Edgeworth in 1816
Publication day for @universitypress.cambridge.org Irish Romanticism was yesterday but no sign of any books in Cork yet!
www.cambridge.org/core/books/i...
Publication day for @universitypress.cambridge.org Irish Romanticism was yesterday but no sign of any books in Cork yet!
www.cambridge.org/core/books/i...
The call for the 2026 Internet of Sounds symposium is live and we’re inviting work for the 1st IEEE International Workshop on Sonification for the IoS. Please do get involved:
internetofsounds2026.ieee-internetofsounds.org/satellite-ev...
#sonification #internetofsounds #IoS #enginnering
internetofsounds2026.ieee-internetofsounds.org/satellite-ev...
#sonification #internetofsounds #IoS #enginnering
Satellite Events | IEEE International Symposium on the Internet of Sounds (IS2) 2026 | IEEE IS2 2026
internetofsounds2026.ieee-internetofsounds.org
December 10, 2025 at 12:18 PM
The call for the 2026 Internet of Sounds symposium is live and we’re inviting work for the 1st IEEE International Workshop on Sonification for the IoS. Please do get involved:
internetofsounds2026.ieee-internetofsounds.org/satellite-ev...
#sonification #internetofsounds #IoS #enginnering
internetofsounds2026.ieee-internetofsounds.org/satellite-ev...
#sonification #internetofsounds #IoS #enginnering
Very nice!
“AI companies use the future to justify the present, as though speculative benefits should outweigh actual, ongoing damages. This temporal shell game, destroying the world to save it, would be comedic if the consequences weren’t so severe.”
— @jamesosullivan.bsky.social
#agi #superintelligence #ai
— @jamesosullivan.bsky.social
#agi #superintelligence #ai
The Politics Of Superintelligence | NOEMA
Today’s tech “prophets” push a narrative that God-like artificial superintelligence is inevitable, and only they can ensure humanity’s safety from their creations.
www.noemamag.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Very nice!
Very excited to welcome Alan Butler (@alanbutler.info) as the first Arts Council Digital Artist in Residence here at Digital Humanities in @ucc.ie and delighted that he has chosen to share some of his practice with us: www.ucc.ie/en/dah/news/...
@uccresearch.bsky.social
@uccresearch.bsky.social
Alan Butler announced as Arts Council Digital Artist in Residence at University College Cork | 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.
www.ucc.ie
December 9, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Very excited to welcome Alan Butler (@alanbutler.info) as the first Arts Council Digital Artist in Residence here at Digital Humanities in @ucc.ie and delighted that he has chosen to share some of his practice with us: www.ucc.ie/en/dah/news/...
@uccresearch.bsky.social
@uccresearch.bsky.social
Unexpected side effect of the LLM proliferation is that my expectations of people have gone through the roof.
If something looks like it could have been done by AI, a piece of writing, music etc., even if it was made a person, I still now tend to loose all interest very quickly.
If something looks like it could have been done by AI, a piece of writing, music etc., even if it was made a person, I still now tend to loose all interest very quickly.
December 9, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Unexpected side effect of the LLM proliferation is that my expectations of people have gone through the roof.
If something looks like it could have been done by AI, a piece of writing, music etc., even if it was made a person, I still now tend to loose all interest very quickly.
If something looks like it could have been done by AI, a piece of writing, music etc., even if it was made a person, I still now tend to loose all interest very quickly.
I'm just realising, as I attempt to share out the call for our upcoming Book and Symposium on Digital Art in Ireland (w/Sample Studios) that notable exceptions aside (Beta, Concept Null etc.). We're seriously lacking the mechanisms to discuss and share digital art in Ireland. But here's the links:
Two calls for people working in and/or researching #digitalart.
Book on Irish digital art edited by @stephenroddy.bsky.social, McCarthy & Yip: www.blackwaterpublishing.com/digital-art-...
3rd Symposium on Digital Art in Ireland: www.ucc.ie/en/dah/news/...
#irishart #newmedia #mediaart #AIart #AI
Book on Irish digital art edited by @stephenroddy.bsky.social, McCarthy & Yip: www.blackwaterpublishing.com/digital-art-...
3rd Symposium on Digital Art in Ireland: www.ucc.ie/en/dah/news/...
#irishart #newmedia #mediaart #AIart #AI
December 8, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I'm just realising, as I attempt to share out the call for our upcoming Book and Symposium on Digital Art in Ireland (w/Sample Studios) that notable exceptions aside (Beta, Concept Null etc.). We're seriously lacking the mechanisms to discuss and share digital art in Ireland. But here's the links:
ActionScript 😢
What skill did you master that you will never, ever use again?
Testing circuit boards and chips.
Testing circuit boards and chips.
What skill did you master that you will never, ever use again?
Archival research feels like it’s full of these, but then there’s always one throwback archive with a microfiche machine or a paper catalogue (or, indeed: NARA)
Archival research feels like it’s full of these, but then there’s always one throwback archive with a microfiche machine or a paper catalogue (or, indeed: NARA)
December 8, 2025 at 12:34 PM
ActionScript 😢
I’m busy unfortunately but someone else should apply for this.
Come research with us at the Max Planck Research Group for Machine Visual Culture — “Artificial Intelligence and the History of Seeing” positions open under Dr Leonardo Impett. We’ll get to hang out sometimes. www.biblhertz.it/3757971/0412...
Call for Digital Humanities Research Scientist (M/F/D)Max Planck Research Group "Machine Visual Culture: Artificial Intelligence and the History of Seeing"
Job Offer from December 04, 2025
www.biblhertz.it
December 6, 2025 at 3:24 PM
I’m busy unfortunately but someone else should apply for this.
Hi all. We’ve got two calls open.
A new book on Irish Digital Art edited by, McCarthy, Yip & myself: www.blackwaterpublishing.com/digital-art-...
And calls for the 3rd Symposium on Digital Art in Ireland: www.ucc.ie/en/dah/news/...
#irishart #newmedia #mediaart #opencall #digitalart
A new book on Irish Digital Art edited by, McCarthy, Yip & myself: www.blackwaterpublishing.com/digital-art-...
And calls for the 3rd Symposium on Digital Art in Ireland: www.ucc.ie/en/dah/news/...
#irishart #newmedia #mediaart #opencall #digitalart
Call for Submissions Digital Art in Ireland — Blackwater Publishing
www.blackwaterpublishing.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Hi all. We’ve got two calls open.
A new book on Irish Digital Art edited by, McCarthy, Yip & myself: www.blackwaterpublishing.com/digital-art-...
And calls for the 3rd Symposium on Digital Art in Ireland: www.ucc.ie/en/dah/news/...
#irishart #newmedia #mediaart #opencall #digitalart
A new book on Irish Digital Art edited by, McCarthy, Yip & myself: www.blackwaterpublishing.com/digital-art-...
And calls for the 3rd Symposium on Digital Art in Ireland: www.ucc.ie/en/dah/news/...
#irishart #newmedia #mediaart #opencall #digitalart