Dr Shawn Day

My unsung hero of science: Frank Malina – fearless rocket engineer, groundbreaking artist and communist ‘traitor’ The first in a new series dedicated to little-known but highly influential scientists.

My unsung hero of science: Frank Malina – fearless rocket engineer, groundbreaking artist and communist ‘traitor’
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UCC and MTU to partner on 'Minimal Curation', a digital sociocultural heritage project funded by @researchireland.ie under its COALESCE scheme.

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@wouterkreuze sharing his expertise with renaissance news and putting the Avissi into an international context. @ucc.ie #uccDH colloquium

1817 map snipping, "Well. Well. Well."

Look what we have here then.

When did we become so vapid? There’s a particular species of despair that creeps in when you spend too long online.

"slop that passes for culture in the digital age" @jamesosullivan.bsky.social asks when did we become so vapid? substack.com/app-link/pos...

A map showing the English Empire as it stood just prior to the 1685 colonisation of Bengkulu in South-Western Indonesia by the East India Company. There is a day/night terminator line, showing the empire was still able to be in total darkness at this point.

A map showing the English Empire as it stood just after the 1685 colonisation of Bengkulu in South-Western Indonesia by the East India Company. There is a day/night terminator line, showing that the empire spanned sufficiently broadly east/west such that there was no date/time (until the 2025 surrender of the Chagos Islands) where the sun was not shining upon at least one part of the Empire.

I've been doing some historical data analysis, and I think the first time the 'sun never set' over the british empire was in 1685 with the colonisation of bengkulu by the East India Company (when it was still called the English Empire). Didn't factor in eclipses though... #history #maps

First-Year Students Explore AI Through the Lens of Speculative Fiction—Featuring Visits from Sci-Fi’s Literary Superstars First-Year Students Explore AI Through the Lens of Speculative Fiction—Featuring Visits from Sci-Fi’s Literary Superstars

Cool: First-Year Students Explore AI Through the Lens of Speculative Fiction—Featuring Visits from Sci-Fi’s Literary Superstars - cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2025/05... - kind like history of the future.

@colleenthomas.bsky.social @eireidium.bsky.social @jamesosullivan.bsky.social

Dr Colleen Thomas launches Responsible Use of Research Metrics.

Ireland is losing its war on misogyny The long shadow of institutional misogyny in Ireland stretches across generations.

"those moments that seemed to change everything, until it changed nothing" - Ireland is losing its war on misogyny by @jamesosullivan.bsky.social - substack.com/inbox/post/1...

@erikadyck.bsky.social sorry to miss your talk - hope you enjoy the Burren! Great conference!

Interesting reflection by Reanna Daniels reminding that 'ceremony should be part of everyday life'.

Fascinating kick off talk @ucc.ie with an opening talk by Manchan Magan on 'Rewinding the Mind' also first time I have heard the term #PsychedelicHumanities hosted by @erikadyck.bsky.social and Oliver Davis

Reminder: The #DHAwards are open for voting! 🏆 Cast your vote for your favorite #DigitalHumanities resources across 7 categories: dhawards.org/dhawards2024... (And if you’d like to support my work, consider giving liiive.now a vote in the Tools category! 😉)

What wonderfully immersive experience. Enjoying Ishiguro 's lyrics, performed by Stacey Kent, music composed by Jim Tomlinson and illustrations by Bianca Bagnarelli. Book + Spotify. Brilliant!

After a mad scavenger hunt to see where on campus Amazon deigned to deliver it - found @braciatrix.bsky.social 's newest book and really looking forward.

It wasn't the Street of Mexico was it?

Google Maps changed the way we get around. It all began in a spare bedroom in Sydney This weekend the mapping platform turns 20 – and Stephen Ma is writing himself and his friends back into its origin story

Google Maps changed the way we get around. It all began in a spare bedroom in Sydney www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Nominations are now open for DH Awards 2024

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Open until 2025-01-26

Lineup: Being FAIR with your Data, Online, 10:00 – 12.00, Wednesday, 22nd January, Being FAIR with your Data Research Data Management, Online , 10:00 – 12:00, Thursday, 30th January Research Data Management Open Access Publishing, In-person, Creative Zone, Boole Library, 10:00 - 12:30, Wednesday, 12th February, Open Access Publishing Learning with Lego - Metadata for Researchers. In-person, Seminar Room, Boole Library, 10:00 - 12:00, Thursday, 13th February Learning with Lego - Metadata for Researchers Designing Academic Posters.On-line. 10:00 - 11.30. Monday 24th February. Designing Academic Posters Introduction to R Programming Language, In-person, Research Skills Training Room, Boole Library, 12:00 - 14:00, Wednesday, 19th February Introduction to R Programming Language Tidy Data – Data Organisation in Spreadsheets, In-person, Research Skills Training Room, Boole Library 12.30-2.30, Wednesday 26th February Tidy Data - Data Organisation Podcasting/audio editing for researchers, In-person, Digital Scholarship Studio, Boole Library 10.00-12.30, Wednesday, 5th March Research Essentials - Audio Editing for Researchers Open Refine, In-person, Research Skills Training Room, Boole Library 10.00-12.30, Thursday, 6th March Introduction to Open Refine Video Editing, In-person, Digital Scholarship Studio, Boole Library 11.00-12.30, Tuesday, 11th March Research Essentials - Video Editing An Introduction to Special Collections & Archives: the what and the how, In-person, Special Collections & Archives, Boole Library, 10.00- 11.30, Wednesday, 12th March, An Introduction to Special Collections & Archives Predatory Publishing, Online, 10.00-11.00, Thursday, 20th March, Predatory Publishing Advanced searching techniques for systematic reviews, In-person, Library Seminar Room 10.00-12.30, Wednesday, 9th April Advanced Searching Techniques for Systematic Reviews

My colleagues and friends in the library @ucclibrary.bsky.social are killing it with these Research Essentials Workshops.

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A Holiday tradition: www.youtube.com/live/DzOSoUe... Robin Sloan reading Sir Gawain and the Green Night on NYD.

Dr Shawn Day @eireidium.bsky.social uses social network visualizations to map the collaboration between Irish craft beer brewers locally and internationally. These graphs highlight a culture of respect in the industry.

Love it ;-) laserprinter has printed me two sheets now to show me how to clear a jam keeping it from printing - seriously.

@pnilsson.bsky.social putting GIS talk into a current context looking at flooding in Valencia. @ucc.bsky.social

Very disappointed to hear that Amazon is locking down Kindles. Guess this may be my last as I convert a lot of epubs that I buy elsewhere to read on it. Probably have bought well over 1K kindle books from Amazon. Ah well. Where's it get you?

Big News! @jamesosullivan.bsky.social to lead out on #AI in Education policy in Ireland: News | University College Cork - ucc.ie/en/dah/news/dr… @ucc.bsky.social

A little tweaking. Small victories. Missing plug for pop up banner pays for the wee 3D printer that generated it.

So close ....

I have often remarked how i miss abundant wildlife in Ireland - and then I find frolicking otters on a flooding Lee this morning.

Full house in the Shtepps @ucc.bsky.social for the last session in this term’s Digital Humanities Research Colloquium.

Today’s speaker is @eireidium.bsky.social, Head of Digital Humanities at UCC, who is discussing his visualisation of the socio-cultural terroir of craft brewing in Ireland.

Dr Pedro Nilsson-Fernàndez presenting “Geoparsing Catalan Crime Fiction at the Turn of the Millennium” at UCC’s Digital Humanities Research Colloquium. @ucc.bsky.social @pnilsson.bsky.social