Regina Murphy

Got a young storyteller in your life?The Bloomsday Writing Competition 2025 might just be the thing for them! Details below, closing date May 16th 👇

What could possibly go right? Winning amazing prizes & having their stories read by some other rather prolific literary greats #EdChatIe #Spéirghorm

Broke: Patty's Day
Woke: Paddy's Day
Bespoke: Lá Fhéile Pádraig

Great to visit the Boyne Valley and explore its Neolithic treasures - speculating on their meaning and function c5000 yrs ago with Rhoda Bernard, visiting lecturer from Berklee Institute for Accessible Arts. @SchoolAEM @DCU_IoE @DCU
@dcuresearch.bsky.social

Screenshot from a scan of page 289 of an 1863 English translation of Don Quixote. The text is set in two columns. In the left column, we read in part “thou hast hit the point, Sancho, which can alone shake my resolution”, and on the right “thy share of the booty would would have been at least the emperor’s crown of gold”; by coincidence, these align so that the phrase “shake my booty” can be read across the columns.

Books designed to be read only by human eyes are different from books designed to be read by machines, which is why Google will tell you that the phrase “shake my booty” can be found in an 1863 English translation of Don Quixote.

Trump’s standing in the UK - what little there was - is collapsing further after the events of the last few days.

A new YouGov poll of Brits find just 3% agree with him that Ukraine was the cause of the war. That’s 13% below those who think the moon landings were faked.

📢We’re hiring

Research Fellow with Fluent Irish (Permanent)

The ERC is calling for applications for the post of Research Fellow with Irish

Click http://bit.ly/3EiZWs4 for the recruitment booklet and info on how to apply (1/2)

@BBCNews BBC #research found that major #AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini produced significant inaccuracies in over half of the news summaries tested.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

"Imbolc or Imbolg, also called (Saint) Brigid's Day (Irish: Lá Fhéile Bríde, Scottish Gaelic: Là Fhèill Brìghde, Manx: Laa'l Breeshey), is a Gaelic traditional festival marking the beginning of spring."

"February-isn't-Spring" people, remove the coloniser from your mind

Pun of the day:
Even #chatgpt was asking me what I knew..?!

#deepseek

Stunning!

Another aspect of crisis in university finances - universities starting to drop big subscription deals with academic publishers. As @resprofnews.bsky.social reports, York is the latest university to drop Elsevier deal - via @francesjones.bsky.social www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

If you played an instrument back in high school and stopped: we are in a golden age of decent cheap instruments.

The guitars are better, the amps are better. The pedals are cheaper, the wind instruments are actually instruments and not just shaped like them, etc.

Jump back into it.

Just a posthuman doing its thing. Free rein bias and creepiness for sure!

And so it begins #100daysofwalking

Perfect researcher humour from Twisted Doodles
#funnyfriday

…wish list..? 🙏😊

How cool is that??!

They did us proud! Onwards! #edchat #edchatie

Could be useful when we’ve all been beamed up to neverland …otherwise, building on vast educational research, and not least, the Covid contexts, one should never underestimate the importance of relational, attuned pedagogy and teacher presence for young learners’ holistic development #AI #edchatie

"#EDCHATIE: In education, what do you want from a new government? Date: Monday 2nd December 2024 Time: 19:30–20:30 Platform: BlueSky Hashtag: #edchatie Host: @sccenglish.bsky.social A stick-figure bird is shown typing on a desktop computer, symbolizing online engagement. At the bottom, there’s a note inviting volunteers to propose ideas and host future chats, mentioning that the event happens every two weeks during term-time."

For everyone in Irish education: a proposal to revive #edchatie Monday evening discussions on Bluesky. Every two weeks in term-time.

First session details on the graphic.

More:
www.juliangirdham.com/blog/edchati...

Please repost within Ireland as much as poss & spread the word elsewhere.

I wonder what Comenius would have to say about AI…

Please ask campaigning election candidates what they plan to do for equality-based education in Ireland. Our children and young people deserve a well-resourced education system, where every child can attend a fully inclusive school in their local area. We need a Citizen's Assembly on education!

Job alert! Assistant Professor/Lecturer in Music Education at Mary Immaculate College. www.mic.ul.ie/about-mic/va...

Likewise! Fáilte. In admiration of your courage in forging a new pastoral career. Always much to teach.

Definitely worth a go!

Can you add me too please Joe?

Might we see #edchat, its smart little sibling #edchatie, and close cousin #LoveIrishResearch make their way here any day now to brighten our conversations?

Delighted to share with @EemerEivers our evaluation of #CreativeSchools. As researchers, focusing on #creativity & the #arts in schools nationwide over an extended time, was both a privilege and a rare opportunity to understand rich, creative work See doras.dcu.ie/29450

Just setting up my bluskyz