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Ben Lyall 💾
@benlyall.bsky.social
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👨‍💻 Digital sociologist
🔴 RMIT / Lecturer, Digital Communication
💬 Digital civic lives / wearables / data cultures
👣 On unceded Bunurong & Wurundjeri lands
➖ Em dash enthusiast / Nintendo apologist
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Didn't think I'd encounter this again in the wild, but here we are. An example of how to use AI to summarise existing materials, with an AI figure as the example. It's giving "the call is coming from inside the house"...
September 1, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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i sure hope they do
Sign reading "trains stop here" at a train platform
July 12, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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everyday I thank Teams for keeping me grounded 🙏
March 7, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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day in the life of a fellow honker
February 6, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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that's enough linkedin for today
headline from linked in asking "is stress a superpower?"
February 2, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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australian dudes try to do branding challenge
January 16, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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Introduce yourself with 4 records
November 21, 2024 at 7:50 AM
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extremely robust take from the google scholar 20th anniversary blog on the pandemic, under the "tools and tricks" section 🙃
Screenshot reads - More papers, not less, during the pandemic: Library subscriptions are usually available only while you’re on campus. Once you go home you lose all access. When COVID-19 hit, researchers everywhere were locked out of their labs and worked from home. Thanks to work we had done with publisher partners on portable subscriptions — Scholar’s off-campus access program — researchers could still get their work done. In fact, during the pandemic, researchers read and wrote more than ever before, leading to a sharp jump in papers published between 2020 and 2021.
November 20, 2024 at 11:38 PM
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anti-morning morning people
A man slumped on a couch holding a black coffee. A small dog standing on his lap.
November 17, 2024 at 8:39 PM
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New chapter w/ wonderful collaborators Claire & Jose about navigating abundant data, ethical quandaries & doing the best we can to represent participants.

@projectnat.bsky.social & Ingrid Richardson did a stellar job bringing together thoughtful and insightful discussions ⤵️

doi.org/10.1108/978-...
A book cover. A cloudy sky is overrun with computer icons of files and folders.
November 16, 2024 at 8:23 AM
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we're now firmly in *this* era of self-tracking
February 14, 2024 at 9:39 PM
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I see we're still obsessed with 'skeleton screens'. I miss a good old fashion 'loading'.
Screenshot of the Blue Sky interface featuring a silhouette of content that is still loading.
October 13, 2023 at 9:07 PM