Leigh Graves Wolf

"AI" is Yesterday's News I gave this talk yesterday to the Massachusetts Teachers Association, as part of the MTA Retired First Wednesday Speaker Series. Thank you very much for inviting me to speak to you today. I’m honored...

"'AI' marks one of the most pressing labor issues that everyone in every profession is facing, particularly since the technology – or certainly those funding and forcing its adoption – is resoundingly anti-worker," writes Audrey Watters.

Come do your PhD with me!

I am offering a fully-funded, four-year PhD position in the School of Education @ucddublin.bsky.social. If you want to do critical research on technology and education, especially combining philosophical and qualitative methods, please apply!

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The biological necessity of boredom in the age of screens "I call it a tyranny of attention because there's so many demands on our attention coming from so many different directions that we are simply overwhelmed and we don't have the mental bandwidth to…

The modern brain is no different than that of our distant Stone Age ancestors, but our environments have changed dramatically. With so many demands on our attention, we are simply overwhelmed.

Author Richard Cytowic explains how our Stone Age brains can cope in the age of screens:

Who owns my child's data? Teachers, parents and children should have a say in the role of technology in schools and on the types of data it collects and why

Who owns your child's data? New #RTEBrainstorm podcast based on a piece by Eamon Costello & Rob Lowney @dublincityuni.bsky.social and voiced by Jan Ní Fhlanagáin - now available wherever you get your podcasts www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Tremendous opportunity to work with amazing colleagues here at @ucddublin.bsky.social School of Education. Two
Ad Astra PhD Scholarships are available in Critical Edtech Studies & Digital Wellbeing in Childhood and Adolescence
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Submission deadline: 31 March 2026

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Open to all at UCD and beyond!

Very pleased to share details of a new permanent academic job opportunity in Creative & Cultural Industries at University College Dublin. We are seeking candidates with a PhD whose work engages with the commercial creative industries. Deadline: 6 March 2026 universityvacancies.com/university-c....

Rainbow colours, UCD crest and text "Discover diversity in our collections LGBTQ plus history month".

LGBTQ plus history month logo with rainbow colours and photo of man holding a "Heartstopper" graphic novel and cover of book.

It's LGBTQ+ History Month🏳️‍🌈 & we are displaying the diversity in our collections via our Feb Spotlight display in the JJL! See our guide libguides.ucd.ie/spotlight for more.

Join us on 17 Feb for an event with Eoin McEvoy, talking about his 'Heartstopper' translation. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

For all the discussion of doxxing federal agents, there’s essentially no discussion of how those agents are taking steps that attach severe punitive measures that stretch across wide swaths of the federal bureaucracy against people acting lawfully.

HEA names two UCD projects as winners of 2025 SATLE Impact Awards

🏆⭐️ Two UCD projects have been named winners at this year’s SATLE Impact Awards, which celebrate initiatives that deliver real, demonstrable impact in teaching and learning across Irish higher education.
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The corporate branding of schools in Ireland: why the absence of a critical debate? This paper explores the increasing engagement of technology corporations with schools in Ireland, focusing on the practice of awarding designations such as Apple Distinguished Schools, Microsoft Sh...

There seems to be little critical debate about our use of phrases like 'I'm going to an Apple school' or ' a Microsoft school'. In this paper, I explore some of the possible reasons for an absence of critical debate about the corporate branding of schools. Free access at: doi.org/10.1080/0332...

Excellent read to start my Monday morning:

PBS News notes this Sunday will be “PBS News Weekend’s” last due to federal budget cuts

AUCD Ad Astra Doctoral Scholarship: Authoritarian Politics #ECPRMemberJobs
🎓 Minimum grade of 2.1 (GPA: 3.6) in a relevant Master's degree
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@emilianotrere.com @tbonini.bsky.social I really enjoyed your book and have it on my syllabus. Thanks for your work. I wrote a review of it for Critical AI:
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Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...

"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato."

surreal times

dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...

UCD Citizen Science logo in white and Irish Weather Service Met Eireann logo in aqua green, with an images of an open ledger book and weather index card. A portrait of female researcher Dr. Rhonda McGovern is displayed along with the UCD Research and Library logos consisting of the UCD crest and text.

UCD #CitizenScience event🌀
Met Éireann is calling on the public to help rescue millions of historic weather observations currently held in handwritten paper records.
Dr. Rhonda McGovern will run a free hands-on workshop on 27 Jan in James Joyce Library Link 3.
Register: forms.gle/cXs26gVj68pN...

Guitarcloud - Prince Equipment Archive An archive of equipment used by Prince and associated musicians live and in the studio.

Well, this is fun - www.guitarcloud.org

cc @keithwilson.eu @michalwieczorek.bsky.social

Ontological capture: AI, childhood, and the algorithmic governance of becoming - AI & SOCIETY This article interrogates how algorithmic infrastructures and AI reshape social life through childhood, civic identity, and education. Drawing on Anders’ account of Promethean shame, Baudrillard’s not...

Incredible piece of scholarship - lots to think about!

Gardner-McTaggart, A., Blyth, C. Ontological capture: AI, childhood, and the algorithmic governance of becoming. AI & Soc (2025). doi.org/10.1007/s001...

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Computer scientist Ben Shneiderman argues (in NYT's paraphrase) that "tech companies should give us tools, not thought partners, collaborators, or teammates - tools that keep us in charge, empower us and enhance us, not tools that try to be us."

Thinking Critically About AI: A New Critical Quotes Classroom Activity — Civics of Technology by Dan Krutka and Marie Heath with Danielle Peck When we first developed the Critical Technology Quotes , we sought to create a simple entry point for students to gather a range of critical perspe...

Whether you’re looking for a way to discuss AI with students or be the life of the party this NYE, @civicsoftech.bsky.social has you covered with our new activity:

We did try the manual override 🫣 - I'm sure it's just working out some of the bugs!

We ran a workshop in there last week and the windows did open automatically (interestingly, it was after a break and the room had been cleared out for about 15 minutes) - it could be a bit tricky if It were raining sideways as the windows opened VERY wide (and everyone got very cold!)

Assessment for inclusion: a holistic framework to support stakeholders’ literacy and implementation across contexts Higher education is experiencing a significant drive towards more inclusive learning to support student success. Assessment, however, can often be a barrier to achieving that success. The literatur...

Delighted to share our latest article on the @ucddublin.bsky.social Assessment for Inclusion Framework published in @teachinginhe.bsky.social with my colleagues @geraldineoneill.bsky.social & @sheenahyland.bsky.social (featuring artwork from @visualthinkery.bsky.social!)

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We have a fully funded PhD (+ research expenses) in Ethnomusicology going in @ucddublin.bsky.social supervised by my new colleague, Abigail Lindo.

Abigail is looking to supervise in a host of exciting & pertinant areas. Full details below:

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How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.

I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...

A distressing chart. As our government sues media companies, and threatens to take away their broadcast licenses for airing critical programs, the US has now dropped to 57th in the world in press freedom.

Maybe next year we can catch Romania and Sierra Leone. gijn.org/stories/glob...