@glasgowcc.bsky.social thanks for the double SPURIOUS tickets today. Can you please train attendants PA435 and PA437 regarding Lillybank gardens? They are confused about who is allowed to park there and under what circumstances.
Neil McDonnell
@neilmcdonnell.bsky.social
Philosopher at University of Glasgow - interested in philosophy, teaching, VR and AR tech. My opinions, and my preferred lexicon, are no fault of UofG.
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Great idea from @paulinemackay.bsky.social & @neilmcdonnell.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/news/2622005...
World’s oldest football brought to life through cutting-edge 3D technology
A 16th-century football believed to be the world’s oldest is being digitally preserved using advanced 3D technology.
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How fragile a society that responds like this to a single knife attack. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cr...
Homes set on fire in Belfast night of violence as MP says people were targeted based on skin colour - follow live
On one street, hundreds of masked men carrying bottles and bricks set bins on fire and shouted "foreigners out", our reporter says.
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The National Museum of Scotland has launched a public survey to gather data on the creation of a permanent videogames exhibition - and they want to hear from YOU!
A Home for Play: National Museum Of Scotland Launches Public Survey For Permanent Games Exhibition
For years I have been asking the quesstion: How do we protect, preserve and celebrate Scotland's games heritage? The announcement of the recent videogame heritage PhD studentship in partnership with Abertay University, the University of Glasgow, and National Museums Scotland (NMS) was a massive step forward. Today, that momentum takes another major leap forward. National Museums Scotland has launched a…
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Come help us shape the future of video game heritage in Scotland! New AHRC PhD opportunity for anyone interested in video game heritage and want to work with National Museums Scotland, Abertay Uni and Uni of Glasgow, apply! Applications due 11/05/2026 ce0173li.webitrent.com/ce0173li_web...
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Our latest virtual museum environment - an art gallery - was inspired by this very building. A beauty.
Architecture@architecture.bsky.social · 6mo agoThe Barcelona Pavilion by Mies van der Rohe
It’s by no means a broad-spectrum litmus test, but banning Pratchett has to set off some kind of international klaxon.
Rob Davies@byrobdavies.bsky.social · 6mo agoThis is utterly jaw-dropping. A school that bans Atwood, Zadie Smith, Terry effing Pratchett and *literal George Orwell* is actively harming its pupils. www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/scho...
Ray Harryhausen's marvelous 2004 statue of David Livingstone in the grounds of the house where he was born in Blantyre just to the south of Glasgow (now home to the David Livingstone Centre). Cont./ #glasgow #blantyre #statue #sculpture #davidlivingstone
An eagle soaring over Minneapolis near @usbankstadium.bsky.social - a portent @philadelphiaeagles.bsky.social?
Glasgow is positioning itself as the UK’s 3D content creation capital. A new working group brings together UofG, @glasgowschoolofart.bsky.social, @cofgcollege.bsky.social and industry partners to support growth in immersive tech, animation and digital design. More: gla.ac/483GFHL
Wholesome pub life for the weans. Fleadh Cheoil, Wexford.
In 1967, philosopher of language Michael Dummett and his wife, the author Ann Dummett, were arrested for picketing against racial discrimination, charged with public disorder, but acquitted upon an official admission that the police, not protesters, had obstructed passage.
I’d say “what have we become?” But I just can’t own the “we”. Fucksakes.
New paper forthcoming in the British Journal of Aesthetics on perception of VR: philpapers.org/rec/FISVRS TLDR: Virtual reality offers a different experience to most other images. Yet VR also often contains elements that distinguish it from regular perception, which can help prevent harms! 1/9
Alex Fisher, Virtual Reality, Seeing-In, and Twofoldness - PhilPapers
Virtual reality headsets present us with two images, one directly before each of our eyes. One might therefore suppose that virtual reality offers experiences with the phenomenology of many other depi...
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How to make “half football, half Portuguese Man ‘o’ War” better? Add ball-bearings! @brookmyre.bsky.social www.mitre.com/footballs-c1...
Audible Mouldmaster Football
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I've made a series of individual match posters for Celtic's European Cup run in 1967 before, but never a standalone design until now. Prints available on the shop if you fancy one! madebyfrankie.bigcartel.com
@kermodeandmayo.bsky.social did I miss “Deep Cover” review? Or is it too new/too streaming-y? I thought it was a total riot. Haven’t laughed that hard at a film since… Booksmart, maybe?
the article was written by By Professor Neil McDonnell ( @neilmcdonnell.bsky.social and Dr Pauline Mackay ( @paulinemackay.bsky.social) @uofglasgow.bsky.social @uofgnews.bsky.social @uofgartshums.bsky.social @murrayp.bsky.social
This museum is the state of the art imo.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · last yr.In @nytopinion.nytimes.com The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture “does not shy away from the tragedies, but neither does it give short shrift to the joy,” John McWhorter writes. It “trusts everyone to tolerate — no, celebrate — the contradictions.”
OTOH, @neilmcdonnell.bsky.social and co at Glasgow are exploring new business models in Museums in the Metaverse, to be able to commercially license 3D heritage and send micropayments back to heritage orgs for model reuse. Residuals for 3D heritage content usage? Nice.
Museums in the Metaverse to let you build your own virtual collection
An ambitious new £5.6 million project to develop Virtual Reality museums has been officially unveiled today
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The final honor guard for Pope Francis included migrants, prisoners, transgender people, the homeless and others selected by the Vicariate of Rome as a symbol of the late pope’s mission of inclusion and outreach. Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM
