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Matthew Barr @matthewbarr.co.uk · 15d

The Ada Scotland Festival is featured in today's Herald: www.heraldscotland.com/news/2548659...

Festival aims to attract more women and girls to computing

The Ada Scotland Festival, named after famous mathematician Ada Lovelace, runs from 29 September to 10 October.

www.heraldscotland.com

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Matthew Barr @matthewbarr.co.uk · 20d

The underlying papers were co-authored with @uofgcompsci.bsky.social colleagues @oanamandrei.bsky.social, @waqarnabi.bsky.social, and Alistair Morrison.

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Matthew Barr @matthewbarr.co.uk · 20d

Just published a blog post on the Advance HE website, drawing on our research into how Graduate Apprentices develop an impressive range of professional skills.

advance-he.ac.uk/news-and-vie...

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UofGNews @uofgnews.bsky.social · 23d

The Ada Scotland Festival, which aims to shift the gender balance of Scotland’s computing sector, is set to return with more than 20 events aimed at young women and non-binary people across the country from September 29.

Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

Dr Matthew Barr of the University of Glasgow's School of Computing Science, director of the Ada Scotland Festival, meets young women at an event during the 2024 festival

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oSoTL Journal @osotl.bsky.social · Jul 14

Our UofG Colleagues Peter Sneddon, Erin Ferguson, Eric Yao share: Why do students decide to stop studying physics?

#oSoTLSummer #SoTL #AcWri #highered #Vol2No1_22 #physics #motivation osotl.org/osotl/articl...

View of Why do students decide to stop studying physics? | Open Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

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oSoTL Journal @osotl.bsky.social · Jul 28

We continue our oSoTL summer with Sarah Honeychurch's: Pragmatism in practice: Bricolage as a methodological framework for SoTL

#oSoTLSummer #SoTL #AcWri #highered #Vol2No2_22 #SpecialEdition #bricolage osotl.org/osotl/articl...

View of Pragmatism in practice: Bricolage as a methodological framework for SoTL | Open Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

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Matthew Barr @matthewbarr.co.uk · Jul 26

An early start this morning to deliver my talk at the hybrid Computing Education Practice in Pakistan (PkCEP): 'Delivering a Work-Based Learning Degree Programme in Software Engineering: Lessons from Practice'. Thank you to the organsiers (including @waqarnabi.bsky.social) for the invitation!

Hybrid talk at Computing Education Practice in Pakistan (PkCEP): 'Delivering a Work-Based Learning Degree Programme in Software Engineering: Lessons from Practice'

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Matthew Barr @matthewbarr.co.uk · Jul 23

This is awful 😞

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Matthew Barr @matthewbarr.co.uk · Jul 13

It's hard to believe this is real. Jesus.

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Matthew Barr @matthewbarr.co.uk · Jul 13

(Building on our previous work on role modeling as a computing educator: doi.org/10.1145/3571...)

Role Modeling as a Computing Educator in Higher Education | Proceedings of the 2022 Working Group Reports on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education

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Matthew Barr @matthewbarr.co.uk · Jul 13

New journal article: 'From disciplinary enthusiasm to soulless tasks: norms behind computing educators' emotion display' with @vgrande.bsky.social, Päivi Kinnunen, Anne-Kathrin Peters, @mihaelasabin.bsky.social, Matilde Sánchez-Peña, and Ethel Tshukudu: doi.org/10.1080/0304...

From disciplinary enthusiasm to soulless tasks: norms behind computing educators' emotion display

Computing educators' emotion display is regulated by various norms and conventions. These (unwritten) rules affect which emotions educators feel comfortable expressing to different extents when stu...

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Matthew Barr @matthewbarr.co.uk · Jul 13

Ha ha, Apple say I need to phone them to get it fixed. The world's biggest tech company needs me to use a telephone to get their streaming service working in 2025!

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Matthew Barr @matthewbarr.co.uk · Jul 12

Same goes for the #Murderbot finale. And we wonder why people choose piracy over legit options?

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Matthew Barr @matthewbarr.co.uk · Jul 12

The Apple TV+ app for Android is the worst streaming app I've ever used. Shockingly poor piece of software that prevents me from watching the content I've paid for. All the hype around the return of #Foundation and I can't even watch it!

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Wales Interactive @walesinteractive.bsky.social · Jun 26

@ant-workshop.com have an incredible Ruin Remix Update for Into the Restless Ruins! Guided entirely by the amazing player feedback.

➕ New Remix Levels Unlocked
🐺 Harvest Maiden & Wulver Updates
📿 Brand new room cards, charms, boons & trinkets!

store.steampowered.com/news/app/287...

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Matthew Barr @matthewbarr.co.uk · May 28

Very much enjoying this on PS5!

store.playstation.com/en-gb/concep...

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Matthew Barr @matthewbarr.co.uk · May 15

We covered a lot of work in a short space of time, including our paper on video games and wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic (doi.org/10.1177/1555...) and various work on using games to develop graduate skills (e.g. doi.org/10.1016/j.co... and doi.org/10.1007/978-...).

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Matthew Barr @matthewbarr.co.uk · May 15

Thanks to the @advancehe.bsky.social team for the opportunity to speak at the Mental Health in Higher Education conference yesterday.

I failed to take any photos so here's a peek at my slides, featuring a very flattering photo of me playing the original Zelda circa 1990.

Me playing Zelda circa 1990. I look very cool.

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Edinburgh Napier SCEBE @enuscebe.bsky.social · May 13

Lovely people, inspiring speakers, and great ideas. Our students share their experience of this year's BCS Women Lovelace Colloquium. blogs.napier.ac.uk/womenintotec...

BCS Women Lovelace Colloquium 2025 - Women into Tech

I strongly recommend to any women or gender minorities in computing or related at university to take advantage of this opportunity!

blogs.napier.ac.uk

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Matthew Barr @matthewbarr.co.uk · May 7

Excellent article on this year's BCS Women Lovelace Colloquium @bcswomenlovelace.bsky.social in the latest issue of the BCS @wearebcs.bsky.social IT NOW magazine:

www.bcs.org/articles-opi...

Lovely to hear from Joanna Jardine, one of our @uofgcompsci.bsky.social Graduate Apprentices!

Dare, always dare: Lovelace Colloquium 2025

On 16 April 2025 the BCS Lovelace Colloquium celebrated its 18th birthday at the University of Glasgow Student’s Union (GUU), a building which forbade women until 1980. Georgia Smith reports.

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BCSWomen Lovelace @bcswomenlovelace.bsky.social · Apr 16

"All those people who look like they've got it sorted? They don't." We are all still inventing ourselves. Great start to the keynote from Sharon Moore.

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Matthew Barr @matthewbarr.co.uk · Apr 15

The @bcswomenlovelace.bsky.social colloquium finally comes to Glasgow! www.linkedin.com/posts/matthe...

The BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium has finally made it to Glasgow! Amazing… | Matthew Barr

The BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium has finally made it to Glasgow! Amazing turnout tonight for the pre-conference social, with Colloquium founder Hannah Dee on quizmaster duties. Fantastic atmosphere in...

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BCSWomen Lovelace @bcswomenlovelace.bsky.social · Apr 15

Our conference tomorrow - no tickets left, sorry, we're full - is in GUU. Attendees coming by public transport should go to KELVINBRIDGE subway and head up the Great Western Road, then turn left on to Bank Street. Detailed directions + pics follow...

a map showing the route from Kelvinbridge subway to the Glasgow University Union

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Ada Scotland Festival @adascot.bsky.social · Apr 7

Hello Bluesky! Work is already underway on the 2025 Ada Scotland Festival, which will run from 29 September to 10 October. Stay tuned! ada.scot

Ada Scotland Festival

Gender diversity in computing and tech

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Lorna Slater MSP @lornaslater.bsky.social · Mar 1

Donald Trump is not welcome.

The state visit must be cancelled.

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