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James O’Sullivan
@jamesosullivan.bsky.social
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Teaching & Learning Policy Advisor for Artificial Intelligence at the Higher Education Authority (HEA); Senior Lecturer at University College Cork (UCC); Lead Researcher on CASCADE (Horizon Europe MSCA DN); curmudgeonly Corkonian with malfunctioning heart.
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jcls-io.bsky.social
New article in #JCLS 4(1)! 🎉
Havrylash & @christofs.bsky.social introduce a method for evaluating measures of #distinctiveness ( #keyness ) using synthetically generated, fully controlled text data.
#CLS #TextAnalysis #Evaluation #NLP #NLG #LiteraryComputing #CCLS25
jcls.io/issue/118/in...
Journal of Computational Literary Studies | Issue: Issue: 1(4) (2025)
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November 21, 2025 at 3:24 PM
jamesosullivan.bsky.social
It’s everywhere now, whether you want it or not. #genAI
November 21, 2025 at 3:04 PM
jamesosullivan.bsky.social
A short piece on fathers and sons, and the strange kind of knowledge that dies with a parent.
I miss my father
They say that your father is the only man you’ll ever know who wants you to do better than them.
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November 21, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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claireconnolly.bsky.social
Congratulations to @jamesosullivan.bsky.social @luiciolfi.bsky.social @eireidium.bsky.social and @mtu.ie colleagues including @marygalvin.bsky.social and Susan Rea of MTU Nimbus 🤩 - Minimal Curation is funded by @researchireland.ie #COALESCE
November 17, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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luiciolfi.bsky.social
It's nice to finally be able to talk about "Minimal Curation: Minimal Computing for Sustainable Digital Sociocultural Heritage", which involves a nice team bridging community development, digital preservation, software development, and sustainable HCI!
November 17, 2025 at 12:49 PM
jamesosullivan.bsky.social
UCC researchers receive €1.1m to address national and global societal challenges

UCC has been awarded funding for five interdisciplinary projects in @researchireland.ie's COALESCE 2025 programme.

For more, see:
www.ucc.ie/en/news/2025...

@uccresearch.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 12:49 PM
jamesosullivan.bsky.social
UCC and MTU to partner on 'Minimal Curation', a digital sociocultural heritage project funded by @researchireland.ie under its COALESCE scheme.

www.ucc.ie/en/dah/news/...

@ucc.ie @mtu.ie @luiciolfi.bsky.social @eireidium.bsky.social @marygalvin.bsky.social @uccresearch.bsky.social
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.
www.ucc.ie
November 17, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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noemamag.com
“Scrolling has become a form of ambient dissociation, half-conscious, half-compulsive, closer to scratching an itch than seeking anything in particular. People know the feed is fake, they just don’t care.”

— @jamesosullivan.bsky.social
The Last Days Of Social Media | NOEMA
Social media promised connection, but it has delivered exhaustion.
www.noemamag.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:30 PM
jamesosullivan.bsky.social
Will OpenAI collapse?

I can honestly see OpenAI collapsing in the next decade or so (or being ‘absorbed’ by Microsoft in a fire sale).

The company’s burn rate, revenue model, infrastructure commitments, and reliance on external partners just seem so insecure.

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Will OpenAI collapse?
I wouldn’t be surprised to see OpenAI collapse within the next decade or so.
open.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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datadrivenmd.social
Can we circle back to the part where the NY Times never disclosed that they have incriminating information on Donald Trump from sent by Epstein that's been sitting on their email servers for nearly a decade?
zackbeauchamp.bsky.social Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 11d
Stuff like this makes me wonder why there hasn't been any reporting about Trump having affairs during his presidencies
November 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
jamesosullivan.bsky.social
If you’re ever in doubt about the value that real academic expertise can bring to debates on significant public issues, listen to @orla-hegarty.bsky.social discussing the housing crisis on today’s Inside Politics @irishtimes.com. 👏👏
November 12, 2025 at 4:48 PM
jamesosullivan.bsky.social
Stylometric comparisons of human versus AI-generated creative writing

doi.org/10.1057/s415...

This paper explores whether the human creative writing and large language models can be distinguished through stylometry.

#LargeLanguageModels #LLMs #ChatGPT #GenAI #Writing #CreativeWriting #Stylometry
Stylometric comparisons of human versus AI-generated creative writing - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Stylometric comparisons of human versus AI-generated creative writing
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November 11, 2025 at 1:28 PM
jamesosullivan.bsky.social
I genuinely won’t be surprised if #OpenAI collapses over the next decade or so.
November 8, 2025 at 7:09 PM
jamesosullivan.bsky.social
Fakes quotes attributed to famous figures (often philosophers) is big business in the attention economy right now. It’s sad how desperate people are for engagement, and how readily audiences just gobble up the slop.
October 25, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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www.independent.ie/regionals/co...
New dawn in Cork as MTU establishes University Executive
Munster Technological University (MTU) established its new University Executive and established five new university faculties as part of a historic change for the third level institution.
www.independent.ie
October 21, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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bansheepress.bsky.social
Issue 20 (autumn/winter 2025) has gone to print! Our landmark 20th issue, guest edited by acclaimed author @clarakiyoko.bsky.social, has a speculative fiction theme and marks our tenth anniversary in print. The beautiful cover art is by @erinconnally.bsky.social ✨

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Issue 20 | Autumn/Winter 2025 — Banshee Press
Guest edited by Clara Kumagai 154 pages ISSN: 2009-857X ISBN: 978-1-917161-18-3 Cover art by Erin Connally
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October 19, 2025 at 11:35 AM
jamesosullivan.bsky.social
Today’s Sunday Indo is pretty much one big attack on Catherine Connolly. That and, as my mother-in-law reminds me each weekend, “ads for shite”.
October 19, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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kelz0r.bsky.social
NOEMA's been rolling out bangers this year. In "The Last Days of Social Media" @jamesosullivan.bsky.social sketches out a hopeful little map to help us design our way past the current slopstorm and lay groundwork for the next, better thing. Well worth your time.
October 14, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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kelz0r.bsky.social
Yes, our attention is being collectively neutered in the enshittified omnibucket. This is the first essay I've read that stands up a hopeful, plausible little trellis for us to climb out without quitting the mess we birthed and raised.
www.noemamag.com/the-last-day...
The Last Days Of Social Media | NOEMA
Social media promised connection, but it has delivered exhaustion.
www.noemamag.com
October 14, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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servanemouazan.bsky.social
Wow. Look, a unicorn CEO whose innovation is eventually about ..well, just wanking. What a feat, mate.
Honestly.
🫩 Tech Bros surpassed themselves.
Again
October 14, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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abeba.bsky.social
i don't have the words to emphasise how seriously bad things are gonna get
October 14, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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sscottgraham.bsky.social
Just got falsely accused of using AI for something I worked hard on. Stop doing this! I know you think you can tell, but I promise you can't.
October 14, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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ucc.ie
The first Pregnancy Loss Support Policy for staff in an Irish university has been launched by UCC, marking a significant step forward in workplace wellbeing and inclusion.

www.ucc.ie/en/news/2025...
UCC launches Irelands first Pregnancy Loss Support Policy for University staff | University College Cork
Discover the latest impact of University College Cork with news and views from our leading research experts, our students and our graduates
www.ucc.ie
October 13, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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keithwdickinson.bsky.social
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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stephenroddy.bsky.social
Just a reminder that applications are open brilliant the 17th for our Digital Artist in Residence programme here at Digital Humanities @ucc.ie

Don’t hesitate to get in touch with any questions etc.
October 7, 2025 at 9:32 AM