Carol Dunlop
@carold.bsky.social
Philosophical academic librarian at QUB. Personal account. Likes ponies, cats and other 4 legged furries! 👩🎓 📚 🐴 🐱
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58% of UK Universities still actively posting on X - even being the majority is not a good look.
It’ll look even worse when another dozen or so from the 141 finally cease using that horrendous platform.
It’ll look even worse when another dozen or so from the 141 finally cease using that horrendous platform.
January 10, 2026 at 10:02 AM
58% of UK Universities still actively posting on X - even being the majority is not a good look.
It’ll look even worse when another dozen or so from the 141 finally cease using that horrendous platform.
It’ll look even worse when another dozen or so from the 141 finally cease using that horrendous platform.
January 10, 2026 at 10:06 AM
January 10, 2026 at 10:05 AM
December 27, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Post walk cappuccinos with my parents and 🐶 at Crawfordsburn Country Park 🤗
December 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Post walk cappuccinos with my parents and 🐶 at Crawfordsburn Country Park 🤗
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"Calculators expanded reasoning; the printing press spread knowledge. ChatGPT, by contrast, doesn’t extend cognition—it automates it, turning thinking itself into a service. Rather than democratizing learning, it privatizes the act of thinking under corporate control."
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 3, 2025 at 4:12 PM
"Calculators expanded reasoning; the printing press spread knowledge. ChatGPT, by contrast, doesn’t extend cognition—it automates it, turning thinking itself into a service. Rather than democratizing learning, it privatizes the act of thinking under corporate control."
48 eh? Could be worse 😉 #SpotifyWrapped www.spotify.com/wrapped-shar...
My listening age
Spotify
www.spotify.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:16 PM
48 eh? Could be worse 😉 #SpotifyWrapped www.spotify.com/wrapped-shar...
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In December’s ‘5 to Thrive’:
🫥 The concept of ‘Dehumanization’
🎭 ‘Being Eddie’ - a documentary about Eddie Murphy
📕’How Emotions Are Made’ - a book by Lisa Feldman Barrett
#Thr5newsletter #dehumanization #thrive
Access the newsletter at the link below
tinyurl.com/Thr5Dec25
🫥 The concept of ‘Dehumanization’
🎭 ‘Being Eddie’ - a documentary about Eddie Murphy
📕’How Emotions Are Made’ - a book by Lisa Feldman Barrett
#Thr5newsletter #dehumanization #thrive
Access the newsletter at the link below
tinyurl.com/Thr5Dec25
December 2, 2025 at 11:54 AM
In December’s ‘5 to Thrive’:
🫥 The concept of ‘Dehumanization’
🎭 ‘Being Eddie’ - a documentary about Eddie Murphy
📕’How Emotions Are Made’ - a book by Lisa Feldman Barrett
#Thr5newsletter #dehumanization #thrive
Access the newsletter at the link below
tinyurl.com/Thr5Dec25
🫥 The concept of ‘Dehumanization’
🎭 ‘Being Eddie’ - a documentary about Eddie Murphy
📕’How Emotions Are Made’ - a book by Lisa Feldman Barrett
#Thr5newsletter #dehumanization #thrive
Access the newsletter at the link below
tinyurl.com/Thr5Dec25
That’s a fine looking tache you have there Roxy! #HairyCob #HorsesWithMoustaches
December 1, 2025 at 4:07 PM
That’s a fine looking tache you have there Roxy! #HairyCob #HorsesWithMoustaches
What better way to spend a day off work than a ride in Castleward on a beautiful Autumn day! 🍂 ☀️ 🐴 ❤️ #HappyPlace
October 24, 2025 at 5:11 PM
What better way to spend a day off work than a ride in Castleward on a beautiful Autumn day! 🍂 ☀️ 🐴 ❤️ #HappyPlace
Playtime with Tabitha 🤗
October 8, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Playtime with Tabitha 🤗
MAYBE DON'T FORCE THEM ON US? "Yet, as these tools become embedded in scholarly workflows, the segment faces a complex challenge: how do we balance responsible AI use and the prevention of harmful outputs with the need to preserve academic freedom & research integrity?" clarivate.com/academia-gov...
Guardrails for Responsible AI
Clarivate on AI guardrails: balancing responsible AI, safety, and academic freedom through shared standards and community collaboration.
clarivate.com
September 23, 2025 at 7:02 AM
September 21, 2025 at 5:48 PM
September 21, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Our Irish Studies Seminar programme for the autumn is now available - all events will be in hybrid format and everyone is welcome. For more info and registration: www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...
September 5, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Our Irish Studies Seminar programme for the autumn is now available - all events will be in hybrid format and everyone is welcome. For more info and registration: www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...
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This #MapMonday can we tempt you with #MoreMaps?
We've just added early maps of Scotland and Great Britain, as well as town and county plans. These maps are from our Charlotte Smith collection, acquired by the Library in 2017. maps.nls.uk/additions/#184
We've just added early maps of Scotland and Great Britain, as well as town and county plans. These maps are from our Charlotte Smith collection, acquired by the Library in 2017. maps.nls.uk/additions/#184
September 1, 2025 at 2:45 PM
This #MapMonday can we tempt you with #MoreMaps?
We've just added early maps of Scotland and Great Britain, as well as town and county plans. These maps are from our Charlotte Smith collection, acquired by the Library in 2017. maps.nls.uk/additions/#184
We've just added early maps of Scotland and Great Britain, as well as town and county plans. These maps are from our Charlotte Smith collection, acquired by the Library in 2017. maps.nls.uk/additions/#184
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August 22, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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'lamentable' as if it wasn't preventable
More than 180 council-run libraries have either closed or were handed over to volunteer groups in the UK between 2016-2024, a third of those remaining have had their hours reduced, and at least three councils have at least halved their provision
More than 180 council-run libraries have either closed or were handed over to volunteer groups in the UK between 2016-2024, a third of those remaining have had their hours reduced, and at least three councils have at least halved their provision
The lamentable decline of reading on.ft.com/3JNqX9y | opinion
The lamentable decline of reading
Childhood encouragement, libraries and government support can reverse the trend
on.ft.com
August 22, 2025 at 5:10 PM
'lamentable' as if it wasn't preventable
More than 180 council-run libraries have either closed or were handed over to volunteer groups in the UK between 2016-2024, a third of those remaining have had their hours reduced, and at least three councils have at least halved their provision
More than 180 council-run libraries have either closed or were handed over to volunteer groups in the UK between 2016-2024, a third of those remaining have had their hours reduced, and at least three councils have at least halved their provision
August 14, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Yet another reason to hate AI tools.
And people wonder why women, who in this case are being biased against, are less likely to adopt and use AI.
(Gender and racial biases previously observed in many AI systems)
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
And people wonder why women, who in this case are being biased against, are less likely to adopt and use AI.
(Gender and racial biases previously observed in many AI systems)
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
AI tools used by English councils downplay women’s health issues, study finds
Exclusive: LSE research finds risk of gender bias in care decisions made based on AI summaries of case notes
www.theguardian.com
August 11, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Yet another reason to hate AI tools.
And people wonder why women, who in this case are being biased against, are less likely to adopt and use AI.
(Gender and racial biases previously observed in many AI systems)
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
And people wonder why women, who in this case are being biased against, are less likely to adopt and use AI.
(Gender and racial biases previously observed in many AI systems)
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
July 11, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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The library AI bot will answer all your questions as long as they are stupid questions with stupid answers.
June 29, 2025 at 6:31 PM
The library AI bot will answer all your questions as long as they are stupid questions with stupid answers.
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The latest from the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland project:
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
#History #Ireland 🗃️
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
#History #Ireland 🗃️
Pioneering project releases more lost Irish records spanning 700 years
Newly restored material from vast archive destroyed in civil war takes in Anglo-Norman conquest and 1798 rebellion
www.theguardian.com
June 30, 2025 at 11:14 AM
The latest from the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland project:
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
#History #Ireland 🗃️
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
#History #Ireland 🗃️
