Andy Firr

Not a degree application, but a question, what if professional enquiry could be recognised in public? Watch this space!

First step into something new, just contacted the Open Recognition Alliance to explore whether an open, peer-endorsed doctorate could validate my ongoing work on ethical AI and open scholarship.

100 followers isn’t much, but it’s the right 100. I’m more interested in signal integrity than scale, a network that actually thinks with you.

Small, steady, relevant. That’s the goal. I’m impressed with Bluesky and hope to continue to build and share my ideas.

Small win, thank you for my first 100 followers on Bluesky.

Are there any guys out there who have done a DProf? I’m just thinking could I do this…

Currently working on this- Zenodo Within the Open Scholar Ecosystem: Building Reflexive Layers of Publication.

Why? Because I’m a huge fan of the opportunities Zenodo offers and want to share this with others who maybe less aware.

As well as my normal AI ethics style stuff I like to share some of my favourite ever books on here as well. Starting with these two.

The Hidden Infrastructure of Open Scholarship: What I Learned About DOIs (and Everything ​That Can… When I first decided to publish a preprint, I assumed that it would take an afternoon. I had finished the paper, proofread it, and…

I recently found this out when publishing a preprint- medium.com/@ajfirr/the-...

Produced with Chat GPT

Possible future idea- When AI learns to monetise insecurity.

AI algorithms / dubious skincare organisational marketing practices and being a dad of a ‘tween’ is a concern. This might need looking into in more depth around the whole skincare craze for young people.

Ps AI generated image.

Idea for future- We used to know when someone was filming, a phone raised, a gesture we all recognised. Smart glasses change that. The watchful act disappears, but the surveillance stays. What happens when being recorded feels… normal?

#AIethics #DigitalSociety #WearableTech #Privacy

It’s been sitting quietly on my desktop for a long time now, but it’s nearly time to let it go.

#OpenScholarship #AIethics #PhilosophyofAI #EdArXiv #OSE

Coming soon: Existential–Synthetic Ontology (ESO), my next open preprint. It explores how reality itself changes when AI starts to co-produce it, when human and synthetic perception overlap and meaning becomes collaborative.

This is cool!

If we keep this in mind we don’t need to worry so much about AI detectors.

Are people still requiring students to cite and subsequently reference AI tools in the same way as other traditional source material, or are more standardised short AI declarations more common? Asking for a friend!

Next weeks writing will look at what that means for autonomy, consent, and digital ethics, especially in educational and well-being contexts, important stuff for our kids.

#AIethics #DigitalWellbeing #OpenScholarship #EdTech #OSE

Coming to my Medium next week- Relational Dark Patterns, When AI Systems Pretend to Care. I’ve been exploring how some ‘empathic’ AI tools use emotional design to keep users hooked, simulating care, creating dependency, and blurring human boundaries.

It’s interesting to watch a network self-organise before it scales.
Each connection feels like part of the same open-knowledge conversation bar a few bots which will all get!

#OpenScholarship #AIethics #SoTL #EdTech #OSE #NetworkMapping

Open scholarship and digital learning at the core. AI ethics and philosophy on one flank. Creative-reflective thinkers on the other. A light outer ring of public visibility

I’ve been quietly tracking how my Bluesky network has evolved as part of the OSE experiment, and it’s starting to take shape. Even at this small scale, clear clusters are forming.

The Hidden Infrastructure of Open Scholarship: What I Learned About DOIs (and Everything ​That Can… When I first decided to publish a preprint, I assumed that it would take an afternoon. I had finished the paper, proofread it, and…

medium.com/@ajfirr/the-...

#OpenScholarship #OpenScience #AcademicWriting #Metadata #DigitalInfrastructure

The Hidden Infrastructure of Open Scholarship: What I Learned About DOIs (and Everything ​That Can… When I first decided to publish a preprint, I assumed that it would take an afternoon. I had finished the paper, proofread it, and…

Friday writing now live on Medium, The Hidden Infrastructure of Open Scholarship: What I Learned About DOIs (and Everything That Can Go Wrong).

A practical reflection on what metadata, indexing, and broken links can teach us about the invisible systems behind open research.

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Have cleaned up these various platform links into one tidy area, now that’s better to keep all major parts of the Ecosystem together. lnk.bio/AndrewFirr

Thinking out loud- Meet Mr ChatGPT: The Most Unethical Scientist in Human History, satirical-philosophical concept with potential!

It’s deeply concerning and actually from a human perspective just actually quite upsetting. Incredible AI tools that we have to assist us but there must be guardrails around this type of thing. It’s a real problem for our young people going forward.

This is deeply concerning.

My 5-day OSE sprint is now complete.
From global infrastructures to local communities, various layers of open science is now linked in the ecosystem.

We are moving away from reach to resonance and thank you to all my new followers. zenodo.org/records/1751...

Logging followers on this account to try and build a picture and interpret patterns.

Big infrastructures make openness possible but small ecosystems allow it to become personal. When both connect, openness becomes culture.

okfn.org open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu

#OSE #OpenScience #OpenScholarship

Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how

Interesting piece on Sky News how social media can impact. Kind of feeds into some work I’ve been doing more broadly re AI and Ontology- news.sky.com/story/the-x-...