📷 Edwardian Portraits began in John Lawson ’s Whitley Art Studio in Whitley Bay and resurfaced decades later when a box of his glass plates was found under a floor. An archive of faces and fashion, hidden for half a century before being shared again.
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A brown penguin chick of some kind. It looks very much like a man in a suit. It is bedraggled and miserable
Made it to Friday but at what cost
We wrote this report with the OTB in mind, but it equally helps explain the Govnt's refusal to condemn the illegal US-Israel bombing of Iran.
'Ireland’s economic dependency on the US ensures that the US holds a de facto veto over Irish foreign policy.'
www.uplift.ie/neutrality-f...
Irish Women's basketball team urged not to play St. Patrick's Day match against Israel
IPSC is urging supporters to write to Basketball Ireland’s calling on them to respect the Palestinian boycott call and refuse to play the March fixture #BanIsrael
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1908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health
I have a new OA article out on the early history of Irish young people’s anti-abortion group Youth Defence. It’s part of a special issue by Agata Ignaciuk and Sylwia Kuzma-Markowska on anti-abortion activism in Europe.Thanks to reviewers and the RSE for funding.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Have you ever thought about reusing Discovery Programme data? We have datasets on the DRI including ISAP (doi.org/10.7486/DRI....) and CHERISH (doi.org/10.7486/DRI....)
If you have an idea for reuse, @dri.ie are currently offering grants to support data reuse projects:
Thanks
The image is a poster from Maynooth University announcing that the MU Sanctuary Scholarship is now open. The poster includes details on eligibility, such as international protection applicants and refugees in Ireland who lack state support for studies. Supports include a fee waiver, up to €5,000 stipend, laptop funding, and access to the MU Access Programme. Application instructions are provided, and the closing date is 5 pm, Friday, 20th March. The background is teal, with colorful text and icons symbolizing learning and support.
Applications for the Sanctuary Scholarship is now open! The online application form for this scholarship is now live and the deadline to submit this form is 5pm on Friday 20th of March 2026.
www.maynoothuniversity.ie/edi/excellen...
Picture of yellow flowers against blue skies and a green sea.
#speirgorm I’m looking for info. My nephew is doing an undergrad in environmental science - are there any organisations that allow students to do summer internships with them?
The internet hosts several very good Walkman/personal stereo archive sites, but this is the slickest yet
walkman.land
Thanks @kottke.org
The others will be linked below
Ethics, AI, and the Public Humanities. A four-part speaker series from the National Council on Public History and the American Conservation Experience.
Join us for part 3 of the Ethics, #AI, and Public Humanities Series presented with @usaconservation.bsky.social, “Ethical AI use in #Galleries, #Libraries, #Archives, and #Museums” Feb. 26 at 2pm ET. https://ncph.org/conference/ethics-ai-and-the-public-humanities/
Guess what's back, back again! Shrove Tuesday! @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social
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Cartoon. Person says to other person „We invented a robot that answers questions.“, adding, „we just have to feed it 10 baby giraffes a day“. The other person asks „But it answers the questions correctly?“ Person responds „Oh my goodness, no. No no no no no.“ By Aram J. French Appropriated due to missing alt text
Happy birthday to Charles Darwin,
patron saint of tired scientists, grumpy fieldworkers, and hating your own manuscript.
Filmed over four years across kitchen tables, protests and public meetings, this documentary follows a city fighting for itself as a broken property market chews up its citizens for profit. Rooted in Dublin, it reveals global forces reshaping cities, where homes are assets and people are obstacles.
Introducing the DRI Research Reuse Reward! 🏆 📊
For #LoveData26 we're announcing a new scheme rewarding good research that interrogates, enhances, remixes or reimagines Ireland's social and cultural data. You could win up to €500 for reusing data in the DRI repository.
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It's St Gobnait's feast day, so who was Cork's medieval beekeeper @liber-ray.bsky.social @ria.ie looks at the life and times of Ireland's lesser-known patron saint of bees and beekeeping www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
Today we launch new AI guidelines to help galleries, libraries, archives and museums prepare for the future - read more here: www.archives.org.uk/news/new-ai-...
Grass, brown leaves and purple and yellow crocus
Spring. Imbolc.
I'm sorry. As a technology writer, I'm supposed to be telling you that this bet will some day pay off, because one day we will have shoveled so many words into the word-guessing program that it wakes up and learns how to actually do the jobs it is failing spectacularly at today. This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding horses to run faster and faster, one of them will give birth to a locomotive. Humans possess intelligence, and machines do not. The difference between a human and a word-guessing program isn't how many words the human knows. I'm sorry. I know that when we talk about "digital sovereignty," we're obliged to talk about how we can build more data-centres that we can fill up with money-losing chips from American silicon monopolists in the hopes of destroying as many jobs as possible while blowing through our clean energy goals and enshittifying as much of our potable water as possible.
Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...
Typical winter's day in this entry for #February in the Labors of the Months section from the Très Riches Heures (15th.c). Some peasants get warm by the fire, another chops wood + another leaves for market. Above, an arguably redundant Phoebus... publicdomainreview.org/collection/l...
Happy St Brigid's weekend! To celebrate we bring you a journey through Europe w/Prof. Jean-Michel Picard, UCD. He has unreal stories of hunting down manuscripts (incl. Napoleon & nazis!) & helps us understand the appeal of Brigid in lands far from Kildare! #brigid open.spotify.com/episode/0Bl4...
National Grief Awareness Week runs Jan 26 – Feb 1, and its message is that grief affects everyone, and no one should grieve alone. The Irish Hospice Foundation’s Bereavement Support Line is at 1800 80 70 77.
And, if you can, please donate to help them do what they do.
hospicefoundation.ie/donate
Love Data Week!
Join ISSDA's webinar discussing the documentation needed to understand data. Book here: www.eventbrite.com/e/issda-loves-data-documentation-tickets-1981131678180?aff=oddtdtcreator
#IrishData #SocialScience #DataArchive #LoveData26
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Great thread and key point re LLMs
And a third one!
MINNESOTA VERSION OF COME OUT YE BLACK AND TANS
Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out.
As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class.
Here's what happened:
