Niall Winters (also: @nwin@mastodon.ie)
@n-win.bsky.social
Towards a socially-just creative technology culture. #convivialtech
Thanks to all for coming to my talk today at @education.ox.ac.uk. Great discussion and always nice to see familiar faces:).
December 8, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Thanks to all for coming to my talk today at @education.ox.ac.uk. Great discussion and always nice to see familiar faces:).
“ICE was here” nativity www.boston.com/news/local-n...
'ICE was here': Dedham church's Nativity scene protests immigration crackdown
The Nativity scene at St. Susanna Parish in Dedham holds "the mirror up to what’s happening," Father Stephen Josoma said.
www.boston.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:35 PM
“ICE was here” nativity www.boston.com/news/local-n...
Arriving into Dublin Airport to see a recruitment advertisement for social care workers. These are the very people whose families the new Irish immigration policy seeks to tear apart. Not to mention the cruel irony of using photos of kids as promo.
December 6, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Arriving into Dublin Airport to see a recruitment advertisement for social care workers. These are the very people whose families the new Irish immigration policy seeks to tear apart. Not to mention the cruel irony of using photos of kids as promo.
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Community health workers bridge gaps between clinicians & communities, yet they still face challenges in funding, certification, & training.
Join our webinar to explore insights on the support CHWs need most—& how we can elevate CHWs as they guide patients in a changing landscape. ➡️ bit.ly/49VStgu
Join our webinar to explore insights on the support CHWs need most—& how we can elevate CHWs as they guide patients in a changing landscape. ➡️ bit.ly/49VStgu
December 5, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Community health workers bridge gaps between clinicians & communities, yet they still face challenges in funding, certification, & training.
Join our webinar to explore insights on the support CHWs need most—& how we can elevate CHWs as they guide patients in a changing landscape. ➡️ bit.ly/49VStgu
Join our webinar to explore insights on the support CHWs need most—& how we can elevate CHWs as they guide patients in a changing landscape. ➡️ bit.ly/49VStgu
Facial recognition systems are approx 200 times more likely to misidentify a black woman than a white man. Not that we didn’t already know this but let’s see if it stops a nationwide UK rollout. www.theguardian.com/technology/2... cc @abeba.bsky.social
Home Office admits facial recognition tech issue with black and Asian subjects
Calls for review after technology found to return more false positives for ‘some demographic groups’ on certain settings
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Facial recognition systems are approx 200 times more likely to misidentify a black woman than a white man. Not that we didn’t already know this but let’s see if it stops a nationwide UK rollout. www.theguardian.com/technology/2... cc @abeba.bsky.social
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Join us Friday 5 Dec at #OEB25 for the plenary "From Access to Integrity: Rethinking Education Today."
We’ll explore how #AI, automation, and digital change are reshaping #HigherEducation – and how to protect inclusion, integrity, and trust in knowledge.
Learn more 👉 t1p.de/k2fx2
#DigitalLearning
We’ll explore how #AI, automation, and digital change are reshaping #HigherEducation – and how to protect inclusion, integrity, and trust in knowledge.
Learn more 👉 t1p.de/k2fx2
#DigitalLearning
October 28, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Join us Friday 5 Dec at #OEB25 for the plenary "From Access to Integrity: Rethinking Education Today."
We’ll explore how #AI, automation, and digital change are reshaping #HigherEducation – and how to protect inclusion, integrity, and trust in knowledge.
Learn more 👉 t1p.de/k2fx2
#DigitalLearning
We’ll explore how #AI, automation, and digital change are reshaping #HigherEducation – and how to protect inclusion, integrity, and trust in knowledge.
Learn more 👉 t1p.de/k2fx2
#DigitalLearning
Note: non-EU students can apply for a fee wavier. #PhD #studentships
John & Pat Hume Doctoral Awards 2026-2027 at Maynooth University. 4 year scholarship (€25,000 stipend, €2,000 research expenses plus fees). Applicants can find more details and identify potential supervisors and the topics they are willing to supervise at www.maynoothuniversity.ie/graduate-res...
John & Pat Hume Doctoral Awards at Maynooth University
John & Pat Hume Doctoral Awards 2026-2027 The call for student applications for the John & Pat Hume Doctoral Scholarship Awards opens on Monday 1st December 2025 at 12 noon and closes on Friday 23rd
www.maynoothuniversity.ie
December 4, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Note: non-EU students can apply for a fee wavier. #PhD #studentships
As of now, there is no condemnation of this attack from anyone - spokesperson, Minister, PR - in government. (This comes after the attack on a Brazilian man, where he was left with bleeding on the brain.) The gov are playing with fire and they know it. Shameful.
Asylum seekers have told of how they were followed by men on motorcycles before being subjected to an alleged attack in rural Co Dublin yesterday.
The incident – which saw the young men beaten and their car windows smashed – has been condemned.
www.thejournal.ie/brittas-asyl...
The incident – which saw the young men beaten and their car windows smashed – has been condemned.
www.thejournal.ie/brittas-asyl...
'They started punching us': Asylum seekers followed before alleged attack in Co Dublin village
One man who came on the scene told of how the men had been ‘badly beaten’ and left bloody by the incident.
www.thejournal.ie
December 1, 2025 at 9:11 PM
As of now, there is no condemnation of this attack from anyone - spokesperson, Minister, PR - in government. (This comes after the attack on a Brazilian man, where he was left with bleeding on the brain.) The gov are playing with fire and they know it. Shameful.
Seventy years ago today, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama ✊ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Pa...
Rosa Parks - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 1, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Seventy years ago today, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama ✊ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Pa...
In Untitled (Buffalos) (1988-89), David Wojnarowicz (1954-1992) framed a portion of a diorama depicting a traditional Native American hunting method as an allegory of the decade as he was dying of AIDS.
#WorldAIDSDay. Credit: The Art Institute of Chicago (www.artic.edu/artworks/238...)
#WorldAIDSDay. Credit: The Art Institute of Chicago (www.artic.edu/artworks/238...)
December 1, 2025 at 3:41 PM
In Untitled (Buffalos) (1988-89), David Wojnarowicz (1954-1992) framed a portion of a diorama depicting a traditional Native American hunting method as an allegory of the decade as he was dying of AIDS.
#WorldAIDSDay. Credit: The Art Institute of Chicago (www.artic.edu/artworks/238...)
#WorldAIDSDay. Credit: The Art Institute of Chicago (www.artic.edu/artworks/238...)
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Event alert! Join us for Convivial technology: Can it offer an alternative to the ‘age of AI’ in education? With @n-win.bsky.social Monday 8 December 14:00-15:00 GMT. tinyurl.com/2x58v69z
Convivial technology: Can it offer an alternative to the ‘age of AI’ in education?
tinyurl.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Event alert! Join us for Convivial technology: Can it offer an alternative to the ‘age of AI’ in education? With @n-win.bsky.social Monday 8 December 14:00-15:00 GMT. tinyurl.com/2x58v69z
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It's December 1st, which means that throughout the entire month you should reserve 5-10 minutes every day to read a fantastic article about HTML. ❤️🔥
Check out what's hidden behind the first door.
htmhell.dev/adventcalendar
Check out what's hidden behind the first door.
htmhell.dev/adventcalendar
December 1, 2025 at 7:48 AM
It's December 1st, which means that throughout the entire month you should reserve 5-10 minutes every day to read a fantastic article about HTML. ❤️🔥
Check out what's hidden behind the first door.
htmhell.dev/adventcalendar
Check out what's hidden behind the first door.
htmhell.dev/adventcalendar
This is interesting in light of Harris’ recent tirade against immigrants and O'Callaghan’s proposed changes to immigration policy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
U.S. to Press Europe and Other Allies on ‘Mass Migration,’ Document Says
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
This is interesting in light of Harris’ recent tirade against immigrants and O'Callaghan’s proposed changes to immigration policy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Given Trump’s latest actions, it’s a good day to give @theaidsmemorial.bsky.social a follow 🔺👍
November 27, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Given Trump’s latest actions, it’s a good day to give @theaidsmemorial.bsky.social a follow 🔺👍
Quiet Kenny by Kenny Dorham really is a gem of an album! 🎶
November 26, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Quiet Kenny by Kenny Dorham really is a gem of an album! 🎶
Credit to Reeves for abolishing the two-child benefit cap. It was around for far too long. Better late than never.
November 26, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Credit to Reeves for abolishing the two-child benefit cap. It was around for far too long. Better late than never.
Fully support the healthcare assists. The Irish government is happy to have them
as “non-critical” workers so their families cannot join them for 12 months or more, unlike those whose work is deemed “critical”. How is healthcare work not critical to how we live today?
as “non-critical” workers so their families cannot join them for 12 months or more, unlike those whose work is deemed “critical”. How is healthcare work not critical to how we live today?
Migrant workers have held a rally outside Leinster House calling for changes to the family reunification policy for migrants
Migrant workers urge change to family reunification rules
Migrant workers have held a rally outside Leinster House calling for changes to the family reunification policy for migrants.
www.rte.ie
November 20, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Fully support the healthcare assists. The Irish government is happy to have them
as “non-critical” workers so their families cannot join them for 12 months or more, unlike those whose work is deemed “critical”. How is healthcare work not critical to how we live today?
as “non-critical” workers so their families cannot join them for 12 months or more, unlike those whose work is deemed “critical”. How is healthcare work not critical to how we live today?
In the #UK gov announcement on #immigration today, rich people will get settled status after three years but the poor and marginalised will have to wait **20-30** years. #Labour once again doing their very best to promote #inequality.
November 20, 2025 at 3:06 PM
In the #UK gov announcement on #immigration today, rich people will get settled status after three years but the poor and marginalised will have to wait **20-30** years. #Labour once again doing their very best to promote #inequality.
November 17, 2025 at 8:57 PM
“The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.” - The Second Coming by W.B. Yeats (1919)
I wonder what cruelties the UK gov will engage in next? Their scapegoating will end up helping absolutely no one. (1/2)
Are full of passionate intensity.” - The Second Coming by W.B. Yeats (1919)
I wonder what cruelties the UK gov will engage in next? Their scapegoating will end up helping absolutely no one. (1/2)
November 17, 2025 at 7:48 PM
“The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.” - The Second Coming by W.B. Yeats (1919)
I wonder what cruelties the UK gov will engage in next? Their scapegoating will end up helping absolutely no one. (1/2)
Are full of passionate intensity.” - The Second Coming by W.B. Yeats (1919)
I wonder what cruelties the UK gov will engage in next? Their scapegoating will end up helping absolutely no one. (1/2)
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An attack planned on a mosque in Galway was “imminent”, gardaí have told a court in Co Laois. jrnl.ie/6873973
Attack planned on mosque in Galway was 'imminent', gardaí tell court
Gardaí opposed bail for Karolis Peckauskas, who is charged in relation to a cross-border investigation into far-right extremism.
jrnl.ie
November 13, 2025 at 6:59 PM
An attack planned on a mosque in Galway was “imminent”, gardaí have told a court in Co Laois. jrnl.ie/6873973
Didn’t expect to see Dave Fanning’s name pop up in this article! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/b...
Who Pays When A.I. Is Wrong?
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Didn’t expect to see Dave Fanning’s name pop up in this article! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/b...
This is a hell of a statement on the massive cost of #AI infrastructure from JPMorgan. For comparison, the entire German economy is ~$5tn, which is about 1/5 of the entire Euro economy. on.ft.com/3JwN1pw
November 11, 2025 at 10:18 AM
This is a hell of a statement on the massive cost of #AI infrastructure from JPMorgan. For comparison, the entire German economy is ~$5tn, which is about 1/5 of the entire Euro economy. on.ft.com/3JwN1pw
This headline beggars belief… until you read the HSE response: “… the waiting time has now been reduced to 10 years”. These are not timelines that any well funded health service should be working with.
November 10, 2025 at 9:44 PM
This headline beggars belief… until you read the HSE response: “… the waiting time has now been reduced to 10 years”. These are not timelines that any well funded health service should be working with.