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Centre for Technomoral Futures @technomoralfutures.bsky.social · Feb 6

'Digital tech is often presented as a solution to challenges facing universities. Its use interacts w/ political & economic pressures on universities & students in ways that are sometimes problematic'

Read @joenote.bsky.social's reflections on his CTMF PhD journey & future plans ▶️ edin.ac/4gnRvsV

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Jen Ross @jenr.bsky.social · Dec 24

Congrats Harry, I’m looking forward to reading it!

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maxwell museums @maxwellmuseums.bsky.social · Dec 19

🟦 NEWS 🚨 | the viral absolute unit meme from @themerl.bsky.social has been acquired for the national collection

it is the first born-digital object acquired by the National Science and Media Museum, and will go on display in January

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Kay Guccione @kayguccione.bsky.social · Dec 13

Brill to catch up with @alexpeden.bsky.social and co at Edinburgh Research Cultures Forum. My point, #ResearchCulture work is not charity. It addresses the serious volume of waste in the system. Wasted talent, resources, time, money, goodwill, trust, and health. Is this what we want for ourselves?

Screenshot of a slide headed: waste in the system. A list reads Talent pipeline
Groups of people
Research resources
Research data
Mental resources
Time
Knowledge
Money
Health
Goodwill
Trust

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Jen Ross @jenr.bsky.social · Dec 13

great presentation and discussion, Kay - thanks for coming. I think this core point is one you and the team at Glasgow are making really powerfully.

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Jen Ross @jenr.bsky.social · Dec 11

This is amazing, thank you so much!!

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Jen Ross @jenr.bsky.social · Dec 10

I came across this randomly and it is so lovely! Do you have any tips you could share for trying to do something similar? (I don't knit but my talented sister does! though not freestyle)

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · Dec 9

What's happening to academic journal publishing now AI's in the workflow? Year-end reflections and near-future speculations from the editors of Learning, Media & Technology - @discoursology.bsky.social @johnpp.bsky.social and me doi.org/10.1080/1743...

Near future academic publishing – a speculative social science fiction experiment

Published in Learning, Media and Technology (Vol. 49, No. 4, 2024)

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · Dec 5

The pictured tweet is overused, and yet. And yet. Sometimes people do things that make me think they are actively trying to recreate the aesthetics of a cyberpunk dystopia.

Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus

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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · Dec 1

Cool project here from @jwyg.bsky.social

troubling AI: a call for screenshots 📸

troubling-ai.glitch.me

troubling AI: a call for screenshots 📸

troubling-ai.glitch.me

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · Nov 19

Charles Brooks looks inside a 250 year old French Violin. Photographed with a Medical Laparoscope adapted to a Lumix G9ii Camera. 1770 violin by Augustin Chappuy. #music #art #photography

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Museums Association @museumsassociation.org · Nov 18

Little bump for our starter pack of UK museums – as ever, if we've not spotted you, give us a wave so we can follow back and add you ✅

Museums Association @museumsassociation.org · Nov 11

Hey! We’ve compiled a starter pack of museums, galleries, archives and libraries in the UK who are right here on Bluesky 🦋 go.bsky.app/9o1sRWp

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annebeatehovind.bsky.social @annebeatehovind.bsky.social · Nov 15

Next week in Edinburgh (or online)!

Future Library and Futures Literacy: Making Futures from Where We Are - Edinburgh Futures Institute

A panel event marking the 10-year anniversary of Katie Paterson’s 100-year artwork, Future Library.

efi.ed.ac.uk

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Jen Ross @jenr.bsky.social · Nov 15

So looking forward to this conversation with you!

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Jen Ross @jenr.bsky.social · Nov 14

I'm so excited to be chairing an event on 22/11, marking 10 years of Katie Paterson's 100-year artwork, Future Library. It's free to attend (online/in person), with a dazzling panel: Katie, Anne Beate Hovind, Richard Sandford and Anja Hendrikse Liu. Please join us! efi.ed.ac.uk/event/future...

Future Library and Futures Literacy: Making Futures from Where We Are - Edinburgh Futures Institute

A panel event marking the 10-year anniversary of Katie Paterson’s 100-year artwork, Future Library.

efi.ed.ac.uk

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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · Nov 15

The original #Surveillance Studies Starter Pack is now full, and more people are still coming over to BlueSky, so I've started a Surveillance Studies Starter Pack #2... this will continue to grow! go.bsky.app/7VhTRFP The original Starter Pack is still here: go.bsky.app/HYGu6oX

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Susie Dent @susiedent.com · Nov 14

Good morning.

Word of the Day is as beautiful as it is underused. ‘Confelicity’ is finding joy in the happiness and success of others.

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Dr. Amanda Wyatt Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social · Nov 14

Jacobs starting us off w/audience round on why we're interested in teaching w/3D tech: tactile accessibility, fragile artifacts, public humanities, preservation, ways to work w/what no longer exists, speculative & reparative applications, makerspace, data viz, social justice...

Photo of a crowd of ~20 people seated around lunch tables and in blue armchairs, watching a speaker present next to a screen that says "why teach with 3D technologies?"

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Jen Ross @jenr.bsky.social · Nov 14

I'm so excited to be chairing an event on 22/11, marking 10 years of Katie Paterson's 100-year artwork, Future Library. It's free to attend (online/in person), with a dazzling panel: Katie, Anne Beate Hovind, Richard Sandford and Anja Hendrikse Liu. Please join us! efi.ed.ac.uk/event/future...

Future Library and Futures Literacy: Making Futures from Where We Are - Edinburgh Futures Institute

A panel event marking the 10-year anniversary of Katie Paterson’s 100-year artwork, Future Library.

efi.ed.ac.uk

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Dave O'Brien @drdaveobrien.bsky.social · Nov 13

🧵 from earlier on a new report looking at access to creative higher education

Dave O'Brien @drdaveobrien.bsky.social · Nov 13

Couple of highlights from the @suttontrust.bsky.social new report 'A Class Act: Social mobility and the creative industries' www.suttontrust.com/our-research...
I'll focus on Higher Education (which @orianbrook.bsky.social @markrt.bsky.social & I worked on)

Front cover of the higher education section of the Sutton Trust's A Class Act report available here https://www.suttontrust.com/our-research/a-class-act/

Front cover of A Class Act: Social mobility and the creative industries available here https://www.suttontrust.com/our-research/a-class-act/

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · Nov 1

Fantastic to have Janja Komljenovic @jkom.bsky.social join here - give her a follow for political economy of higher education research. For a taster check out this big multi-authored paper that Janja led on digitalisation of HE www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Digitalised higher education: key developments, questions, and concerns

Higher education is already profoundly digitalised. Students, academics, and university administrators routinely use digital technologies, many of which rely on data, including artificial intellige...

www.tandfonline.com

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valerie @vfo.bsky.social · Nov 2

Speaking of this are any libraries doing audits of their research databases and any research tools they provide access to to keep track of all the GenAI features that are being added and whether they are opt-in or opt-out? Does anyone want to do a study with me? 📚📜

valerie @vfo.bsky.social · Nov 2

I don’t see how to get around using AI tools when companies are integrating the tech into everything. (this is coming from a librarian who deals with academic technology like research databases and data analytics tools)

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Carol Chiodo, Ph.D. @digitaldante.bsky.social · Oct 24

Whether you are a researcher in #dh , a librarian 📚, or a cultural heritage professional #glam , I would strongly recommend this _fantastic_ report out of the U of Edinburgh by @melissaterras.bsky.social and her colleagues on possible futures for digital cultural heritage: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Infrastructure Futures for Digital Cultural Heritage

This report presents the findings of a study focused on infrastructure futures for digital cultural heritage, considering the processes and practices of preserving, managing, sharing and maintaining t...

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Jen Ross @jenr.bsky.social · Oct 24

Here it is! the final report from our Infrastructure Futures for Digital Cultural Heritage project. Speculative methods, museum futures, it's all in there! #GLAM #digitalculturalheritage

Cover of the report, with images representing each of the eight scenarios created for the project.

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Dennis Detwiller @drgonzo123.bsky.social · Oct 13

William Gibson (abridged)

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