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The ADAPT Centre @adaptcentre.bsky.social · 17h

🚨 ADVANCE 2025 Speaker Alert! 🚨
We’re excited to welcome Nicola Graham to ADVANCE 2025, ADAPT’s flagship AI, industry & policy forum happening next week.

Join leading voices shaping the future of AI.
#ADVANCE2025 #AI #Innovation
@researchireland.ie @dublincitycouncil.bsky.social

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The ADAPT Centre @adaptcentre.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 ADVANCE 2025 Speaker Alert! 🚨
We’re excited to welcome Dr Robert Ross, @wearetudublin.bsky.social, to ADVANCE 2025, ADAPT’s flagship AI, industry & policy forum happening next week.
Join leading voices shaping the future of AI.
#ADVANCE2025 #AI #Innovation
@researchireland.ie

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The ADAPT Centre @adaptcentre.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 ADVANCE 2025 Speaker Alert! 🚨
We’re excited to welcome Prof. Orla Hardiman to ADVANCE 2025, ADAPT’s flagship AI, industry & policy forum happening next week.
Join leading voices shaping the future of AI.
#ADVANCE2025 #AI #Innovation
@tcddublin.bsky.social @researchireland.ie

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The ADAPT Centre @adaptcentre.bsky.social · 6d

Building on its successful pilot phase, the Research Ireland ADAPT Centre has announced the national expansion of its AI Literacy in the Classroom training initiative, supported by Google. Learn more: www.adaptcentre.ie/news-and-eve...
@researchireland.ie

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The ADAPT Centre @adaptcentre.bsky.social · 7d

Congrats to ADAPT @tudublin.bsky.social's Dr. Harish Kambampati, who won the award for "Best Submitted Abstract for Oral Presentation" at the 2025 Biomedical and Clinical Engineering Association of Ireland (#BEAI) last week.

Learn more: www.adaptcentre.ie/news-and-eve...
@researchireland.ie

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The ADAPT Centre @adaptcentre.bsky.social · 8d

ADAPT welcomed a delegation from Minnesota, USA, as part of a wider mission to build transatlantic connections, learn from Ireland’s innovation ecosystem, and explore opportunities for collaboration in areas spanning #AI, #enterprise, and #agritech. Learn more: www.adaptcentre.ie/news-and-eve...

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Silicon Republic @siliconrepublic.bsky.social · 8d

If you want to rediscover a love for your STEM career, a great place to start can be at industry events.

Creative minds: 5 STEM events to cultivate inspiration

STEM events can help professionals and grads to find inspiration in STEM if and when they start to become unmotivated.

www.siliconrepublic.com

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The ADAPT Centre @adaptcentre.bsky.social · 9d

Congrats to Smart D8 and MoveAhead, who took home the Citizen Engagement award at the 2025 Ireland #eGovernment Awards: www.adaptcentre.ie/news-and-eve...
@researchireland.ie

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The ADAPT Centre @adaptcentre.bsky.social · 9d

Congrats to @dublincitycouncil.bsky.social's GenAI Lab, developed in collab with ADAPT, who won the 'AI in Governance award' at the recent Ireland #eGovernment Awards: www.adaptcentre.ie/news-and-eve...
@researchireland.ie

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VIGILANT Project @vigilantproject.bsky.social · 9d

🎯 Why do actors create #Disinformation?
C2: Causes in the #C5InteractionModel (developed under #VIGILANTProject) examines both the who and the why behind disinformation.
📍Understanding who creates disinformation and why is key to stopping it.

📎 Full report by TNO here: bit.ly/4o0u25j

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The ADAPT Centre @adaptcentre.bsky.social · 12d

A fantastic line up of pop-up talks at tonights #ExploreAI for #EuropeanResearchersNight. Join us at the Douglas Hyde Gallery in @tcddublin.bsky.social!

The ADAPT Centre @adaptcentre.bsky.social · 12d

On today in the Douglas Hyde Gallery at @tcddublin.bsky.social

How is #AI shaping the future of art and creativity? What does it mean for artists and creators?

Join us today from 4 - 8pm to #ExploreAI 2025!

Learn more: adaptcentre.ie/explore-ai/
@researchireland.ie

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The ADAPT Centre @adaptcentre.bsky.social · 13d

Senior leaders from across Ireland’s #AI ecosystem gathered today for the National AI Leadership Forum, hosted at the
William Fry’s Dublin office.

Organised by @researchireland.ie's ADAPT Centre and @insightcentre.bsky.social and William Fry Law. Learn more:
www.adaptcentre.ie/news-and-eve...

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The ADAPT Centre @adaptcentre.bsky.social · 13d

ADAPT is proud to announce that 4 of its pioneering Education & Public Engagement initiatives have been shortlisted across 4 different categories for the prestigious Media Literacy Ireland Awards 2025! Learn more about these initiatives here: www.adaptcentre.ie/news-and-eve...
@researchireland.ie

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The ADAPT Centre @adaptcentre.bsky.social · 16d

Dr Abeba Birhane, @abeba.bsky.social, Director of the AI Accountability Lab in ADAPT @researchireland.ie at SCSS in @tcddublin.bsky.social, recently took part in the gathering on #AI @ the future of humanity at the World Meeting on Human Fraternity:
www.adaptcentre.ie/news-and-eve...
#AIAL

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · Sep 7

In this short piece, I lean on embodied cog sci to argue that we should refuse & resist llms in education (pp. 53-58) unesdoc.unesco.org/in/documentV...

"the classroom is an environment where love, trust, empathy, care & humility are fostered & mutually cultivated through dialogical interactions"

But what iseducation? Embodied and enactive cognitive sciences remind us that knowledge is not something discrete that an individual possesses and passes down but an inherently dynamic and evolving endeavour that develops in the process of embodied, curious and engaged interaction through dialogue. The pinnacle of cognition, particularly ‘human knowing’, is inextricably interwoven with interactions we engage in

with each other and the physical, cultural and social world we inhabit, ‘so much so that individuals are not thinkable outside of their interactions and embeddedness in their (social) world’ (De Jaegher, 2019). Dialogic models of knowledge and education emphasize that interactions between a student and teacher and/or peer provide ‘scaffolding’ for how that child understands the world. The always in flux, active and continually transforming nature of human cognition necessitates that education be fundamentally an ongoing activity. Far from the reductionist view whereby ‘formal knowledge’ can be packaged and acquired from an LLM, the classroom is an environment where love, trust, empathy, care and humility are fostered and mutually cultivated through dialogical interactions

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The ADAPT Centre @adaptcentre.bsky.social · 19d

#TRANSMIXR partners from the Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision #NISV have launched 'Beyond Virtual Museums', a practical workbook designed to push #cultural #heritage institutions beyond traditional #virtual #museum models: transmixr.eu/beyond-virtu...

The ADAPT Centre @adaptcentre.bsky.social · 19d

Congrats to ADAPT TCD Prof. Owen Conlan who was one of this years awardees for the @tcddublin.bsky.social 2025 Awards for Excellence in Research Supervision. The event recognised the critical role research supervisors play in guiding and supporting future scholars: www.adaptcentre.ie/news-and-eve...

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ADAPT #DiscussAI @discussai.bsky.social · 20d

Announcing #ExploreAI2025! Join us to explore "Where AI Meets Art & Creativity" on Fri 26th Sept in Dublin.

Interactive exhibits, games and chats about @adaptcentre.bsky.social's AI research.

A fun, free event for all!
🔗 www.adaptcentre.ie/explore-ai/

#ExploreAI #DublinEvents #SaveTheDate

Explore AI · ADAPT, the SFI Research Centre for AI-Driven Digital Content Technology

www.adaptcentre.ie

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The ADAPT Centre @adaptcentre.bsky.social · 21d

How is Artificial Intelligence shaping the future of art and creativity? What does it mean for artists and creators? #ExploreAI is will challenge, inspire and inform about AI and what it means for human creativity. Learn more: www.adaptcentre.ie/explore-ai/
@researchireland.ie

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VIGILANT Project @vigilantproject.bsky.social · 22d

🌍 #VIGILANTProject returned to #GLOBSEC2025 Forum in Prague!
Brendan Spillane (@ucddublin.bsky.social) & @gary-munnelly.bsky.social (@adaptcentre.bsky.social) shared how VIGILANT Project can support authorities facing crises, extremism & radicalisation online.

👉 Learn more: bit.ly/4nwNAh8

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The ADAPT Centre @adaptcentre.bsky.social · 26d

Call for Papers: Workshop on Genomic Foundation Models for Diagnostic Innovation at #IEEEBIBM2025 (Wuhan, Dec 15–18). Explore how #AI and #genomics are transforming #diagnostics. Submission deadline: Oct 15, 2025
More info: sites.google.com/view/gfm4d2025

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · Jun 25

New paper hot off the press www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance

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Computer-vision research powers surveillance technology - Nature

An analysis of research papers and citing patents indicates the extensive ties between computer-vision research and surveillance.

www.nature.com

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The ADAPT Centre @adaptcentre.bsky.social · 29d

Aisling Murray (Beta Fest) delivered a keynote at #ArsElectronica recently: “Beta Testing Democracy: When Systems Fail, Culture Steps In”. She explored how cultural spaces act as civic laboratories for reimagining democracy. #ArtAndSociety
www.adaptcentre.ie/news-and-eve...
@researchireland.ie

The ADAPT Centre @adaptcentre.bsky.social · Sep 8

Expansion of AI Literacy in the Classroom is here!

After huge enthusiasm last year we’re back with:
-Regional workshops
-Online course in Irish
-Student teacher trainings
-New student-focused course

Led by @researchireland.ie's ADAPT & Google Ireland: ai-literacy-in-the-classroom.adaptcentre.ie

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