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The ADAPT Centre
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Research centre focused on AI-Driven Digital Media Technology. Supported by Research Ireland, ADAPT has 8 partner universities and over 400 leading academics across Ireland.

To discuss research collaboration or business partnership, email info@adaptcentre
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A new episode of #TransformGov with ADAPT & @tcddublin.bsky.social's Dr Hitesh Tewari examines how rapid advances in #AI are undermining traditional approaches to #digital #identity and raising urgent questions for #public-sector systems: www.adaptcentre.ie/news-and-eve...
@researchireland.ie
February 9, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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Check out my 1st blog for @voicestcd.bsky.social - the Many Brigids of Early Modern Ireland, from pregnant widows to sheep stealing rebels 🇮🇪🐑🌿✨ #StBrigidsDay @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social @nlireland.bsky.social @adaptcentre.bsky.social @tcdlibrary.bsky.social @tlrhub.bsky.social
January 30, 2026 at 4:48 PM
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Brigid Spotlight #5 (& final): Brigitt Doyne accused of stealing 100 English sheep during the 1641 Rebellion 🐑 @tcdlibrary.bsky.social @tlrhub.bsky.social @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social @adaptcentre.bsky.social #StBrigidsDay
voicestcd.bsky.social VOICES OF WOMEN IN EARLY MODERN IRELAND @voicestcd.bsky.social · 4d
Brigitt Doyne stole '100 English ewes & household stuff' according to the Deposition of Gilbert Tarlton of Moniquid in County Laois. Learn more about her story and others here: voicesproject.ie/impact/blog-...
February 6, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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There's less than a week until our Technomoral Conversations event, 'What's the Story with AI? Exploring AI Narratives & Counter-Narratives'!

During this free public event @alex-taylor.bsky.social will be in conversation with @abeba.bsky.social @johnthornhill.bsky.social & @amoorelouise.bsky.social
Headshot photo of Alex Taylor. He is outside, with the sea in the background. The sun is shining through the clouds. He is wearing a blue ballcap, glasses, and a rain jacket. Text reads: Dr Alex Taylor, University of Edinburgh. Blue to green gradient graphic with headshots of the speakers for the Technomoral Conversations event, and text reading: "Technomoral Conversations: What's the Story with AI? Exploring AI Narratives. Join us on 11 February at 6pm in Edinburgh & online, where we will hear from Alex Taylor (University of Edinburgh), Abeba Birhane (Trinity College Dublin), Louise Amoore (Durham University) and John Thornhill (Financial Times)." There are logos for EFI, CTMF and BRAID, the co-organisers of the event.
February 5, 2026 at 12:50 PM
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Brigid Spotlight #4: Briggett Drewie was left a pregnant widow after the 1641 Rebellion. She was ‘left in that miserable predicament great with chyld’. From @tcdlibrary.bsky.social
#StBrigidsDay @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social @tlrhub.bsky.social @adaptcentre.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu
voicestcd.bsky.social VOICES OF WOMEN IN EARLY MODERN IRELAND @voicestcd.bsky.social · 5d
On 30 June 1642 Briggett Drewie recounted her experience of the 1641 rebellion. At the hands of the rebels, she was left a pregnant widow: ‘being left in that miserable state & predicament great with chyld’. Learn more about her story and others here: voicesproject.ie/impact/blog-...
February 5, 2026 at 2:11 PM
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New #ADAPTRadio explores AI Knowledge and the Future of Trustworthy Information, examining how artificial intelligence is reshaping access to information, public trust, and democratic debate. With expert guests Prof. Jennifer Edmond and Éamonn Kennedy.
Listen now: open.spotify.com/show/0yonG0I...
February 4, 2026 at 1:26 PM
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voicestcd.bsky.social
Bridget Bermingham’s mother, Lady Mary Bourke, died from smallpox on Merchant's Quay Dublin on 13 August 1685. Learn more about her story and others here:

voicesproject.ie/impact/blog-...
February 3, 2026 at 1:18 PM
adaptcentre.bsky.social
The ARC Hub for ICT officially launched today in TU Dublin, Grangegorman. With a keynote address by Niamh Bushnell, founder of TechIreland and most recently, CMO at SoapBox Labs.

This national programme aims to build a thriving entrepreneurial ​pathway for Irish ICT and AI research​.
January 29, 2026 at 12:29 PM
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voicestcd.bsky.social
VOICES team delighted to be back after the holidays and wishing everyone the best for the coming year!

@tlrhub.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social @adaptcentre.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social
January 16, 2026 at 4:04 PM
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dublincityuni.bsky.social
#DCUAlumniAwards Profile: Julie Connelly is the co-founder and CEO of AI Mapit, a spinout of the @adaptcentre.bsky.social that uses AI and computer vision to create digital maps of roadside infrastructure enabling telecoms and utility companies to manage their physical infrastructure efficiently.
Julie Connelly
January 20, 2026 at 9:16 AM
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Join us at the next meeting of the ADAPT Law and Tech WG, which takes place on Monday 19th of January 2026, from 12 - 14 pm in the ADAPT Boardroom L2.01, DCU Glasnevin Campus. Join virtually via Zoom here > dcu-ie.zoom.us/j/2124899842...
January 15, 2026 at 12:58 PM
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Registration still open for a FREE workshop under ADAPT’s AI Literacy in the Classroom initiative. Built for post-primary teachers (no AI/CS background needed), it focuses on critical thinking, ethics, and responsible AI use in schools.
🗓 24 Jan 2025
🕒10:00–14:00 (refreshments from 09:30)
📌Limerick
January 14, 2026 at 1:47 PM
adaptcentre.bsky.social
The OpenIreland testbed is evolving towards AI-driven network control and network-enabled sensing, supporting long-term research and collaboration at the intersection of networks within ADAPT @researchireland.ie Centre at @tcddublin.bsky.social. Read more> www.adaptcentre.ie/news-and-eve...
Pictured in the networks lab are Prof Marco Ruffini, Declan McKibben, Prof Merim Dzaferagic, Olivia Waters
January 14, 2026 at 11:06 AM
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Congratulations to Julie Connelly (AI Mapit) and Niamh Donnelly (Akara Robotics) recognised at the DCU Alumni Awards 2025
Both are ADAPT-linked founders translating AI and robotics research into impactful spin-outs. More > www.adaptcentre.ie/news-and-eve...
January 7, 2026 at 12:40 PM
adaptcentre.bsky.social
New research from ADAPT offers insight into how state-of-the-art #AI systems process incomplete or disrupted #speech, shedding light on the internal workings of modern automatic speech recognition, #ASR, models.

Learn more: adaptcentre.ie/news-and-eve...

@researchireland.ie
January 6, 2026 at 9:42 AM
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1st ep of #ADAPTRadio2026 now live!

Local governments face challenges implementing #genAI ethically, maintaining public trust & data security as new #EUAIAct regulations require basic AI lit training for staff.

Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/theadaptcentre
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/36CK...
January 6, 2026 at 9:39 AM
adaptcentre.bsky.social
A new blog post from LegumeLegacy explores the international research secondments undertaken by doctoral researchers across the consortium, highlighting their academic and personal impact. Read here: legumelegacy.scss.tcd.ie/blog/blog-po...
January 5, 2026 at 11:01 AM
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Happy New Year! To mark this new year, ADAPT looks back on some of our highlights from 2025. Learn more > www.adaptcentre.ie/news-and-eve...
@researchireland.ie
January 2, 2026 at 3:42 PM
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ADAPT @ucddublin.bsky.social researcher Haula Sani Galadima has won the Best Presentation Award at the IEEE Cyber Research Conference Ireland (#CRCI2025) for her work on improving organisational cyber incident response: www.adaptcentre.ie/news-and-eve...
@researchireland.ie
December 19, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Today we’re bringing you more good news and the latest updates and achievements from the project ✨📢
December 19, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Upcoming talk tomorrow @ucddublin.bsky.social >>
📢 Digitally-Entangled Worklives, Continued: Is Hybrid really the ideal “new normal”?
🎤 Prof. Luigina Ciolfi, UCC
📍 L143 William Fry Lecture Theatre
🗓 Fri 19 Dec | 13:00-14:30
👉 Register:
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#HybridWork #FutureOfWork
Christmas Lecture- Prof. Luigina Ciolfi
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December 18, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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abeba.bsky.social
i'm hiring a postdoc to map the age-verification space and do some audits

if you’ve worked in this area, pls apply: aial.ie/hiring/postd...

pls share widely
December 17, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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aial.ie
We're hiring a postdoc to identify, map and evaluate commercially used age verification systems

Closing Date: 16 January 2026

Apply here: aial.ie/hiring/postd...
About the role Age verification systems are increasingly being deployed in ways that rely on inferring the age or age range of the user from data such as live selfies or conversational analysis. These systems pose challenges regarding accuracy, bias, privacy, and most importantly raise questions around the scientific legitimacy and methodological soundness underlying the very process. Furthermore, commercially deployed age-verification systems and processes operate in non-transparent ways with no recourse from errors and deficiencies. Currently, information on where, how, and when such technologies are being developed and deployed is extremely scarce, as well as which actors are becoming established as market leaders and key vendors. The AIAL seeks to understand this challenge better through high-quality, high-impact research that helps uphold the principles of scientific validity, methodological rigour, transparency, accountability, and equity. To directly tackle this urgent problem, the AIAL is looking for a highly driven Post-Doctoral Researcher who can identify and map the current state of commercially used age verification systems, the techniques being used, and the key actors in the development and deployment pipeline. Based on publicly available information, the researcher will closely replicate the techniques used in commercial age-verification systems and undertake socio-technical audits with a focus on assessing the scientific legitimacy, epistemic and methodological validity of the overall approach as well as assessing the accuracy, discrimination, and privacy risks. The output of this work is expected to contribute to advancing the state of the art in accountable governance and responsible practices, and will support the application of relevant laws such as the GDPR and the AI Act. Ultimately and in the best case scenario, insights from this work would feed legal or other mechanisms to gain access to real-world deployed age-verification systems.
December 17, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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aial.ie
Are you passionate about exploring what a conceptually cogent, methodologically sound, and well-founded AI evaluation and safety research might look like? Come do a PhD with us.

Closing Date: 10 February 2026

Apply here aial.ie/hiring/phd-a...
About the PhD Audits and evaluation of AI systems — and the broader context that AI systems operate in — have become central to conceptualising, quantifying, measuring and understanding the operations, failures, limitations, underlying assumptions, and downstream societal implications of AI systems. Existing AI audit and evaluation efforts are fractured, done in a siloed and ad-hoc manner, and with little deliberation and reflection around conceptual rigour and methodological validity. This PhD is for a candidate that is passionate about exploring what a conceptually cogent, methodologically sound, and well-founded AI evaluation and safety research might look like. This requires grappling with questions such as: What does it mean to represent “ground truth” in proxies, synthetic data, or computational simulation? How do we reliably measure abstract and complex phenomena? What are the epistemological or methodological implications of quantification and measurement approaches we choose to employ? Particularly, what underlying presuppositions, values, or perspectives do they entail? How do we ensure the lived experiences of impacted communities play a critical role in the development and justification of measurement metrics and proxies? Through exploration of these questions, the candidate is expected to engage with core concepts in the philosophy of science, history of science, Black feminist epistemologies, and similar schools of thought to develop an in-depth understanding of existing practices with the aim of applying it to advance shared standards and best practice in AI evaluation. The candidate is expected to integrate empirical (for example, through analysis or evaluation of existing benchmarks) or practical (for example, by executing evaluation of AI systems) components into the overall work.
December 17, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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#DigiAcademy joined @uniofgalway.bsky.social’s PPI Fest: Empowering Inclusive Digital Futures, highlighting how #inclusive #design and #adaptive #technology can open digital opportunities for people with intellectual disabilities & other accessibility needs: www.adaptcentre.ie/news-and-eve...
December 12, 2025 at 10:32 AM