Allison Littlejohn
@allisonl.bsky.social
Interested in how people learn with digital technologies and data. Pro Vice Provost (Data Empowered Societies GC) at University College London.
Tonight at the #BarbicanCentre #London, the BBC Symphony Orchestra gave a a wonderful performance including Stravinsky’s Firebird, Bartók's 3rd Piano Concerto and Finzi's Eclogue conducted by Sakari Oramo, featuring pianist Yeol Eu
This evening David Buckingham launched his book at the @UCLKnowledgeLab London - The End of Information. David discussed whether the end of information is caused by (dis/ mis)information, lack of trust, types of media, political ideology. Sponsored by UCL GrandChallenges
An AlphaFold 4’ — scientists marvel at DeepMind new tool. From Nature www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘An AlphaFold 4’ — scientists marvel at DeepMind drug spin-off’s exclusive new AI
Isomorphic Lab’s proprietary drug-discovery model is a major advance, but scientists developing open-source tools are left guessing how to achieve similar results.
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Studying human behaviour by training artificial-intelligence #AI agents to mimic the behaviours of people. From Nature www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The first ‘AI societies’ are taking shape: how human-like are they?
Scientists are studying forms of ‘social’ interactions between artificial-intelligence agents. Will they find a fresh form of sociology, or merely a sophisticated mime act?
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At the Network Plus Spring Conference in Bristol where we’ll be talking about how our research is helping build the roadmap for the UK National Federated Compute Service. Federated compute is vital for innovation and for empowering people with data
Walked the Loch Venechar circular walk this weekend in the Loch Lomond & Trossachs National Park, #Scotland. Wet weather but this 20km walk was wonderful.
Don't miss tomorrow's #CALRG talk by @allisonl.bsky.social UCL's Pro-Vice Provost for the Data Empowered Societies Grand Challenge. She'll be exploring whether future learning for work be data driven or human driven? Thursday 5th Feb, 11.00 am, online Email calrg@open.ac.uk for the link
Fostering deliberation and action in context: ana analysis of implementation research among healthcare professionals in LMICs from a post digital perspective. Our latest article in British Journal of Educational Technology led by Koula Charitonos. oro.open.ac.uk/106411/
The Open University
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Understanding the chemical properties of a molecule is an inherently quantum problem, making quantum computers a good tool for the job – and we may start seeing this take off in 2026
Could 2026 be the year we start using quantum computers for chemistry?
Understanding the chemical properties of a molecule is an inherently quantum problem, making quantum computers a good tool for the job – and we may start seeing this take off in 2026
newscientist.com
#Parkrun #HampsteadHeath #London Huge thanks to all the @Parkrun marshalls who work hard (like Santa’s elves) to make the run happen each week!
The future of Government Statistics Service - and the evidence it provides- should be in the hands of humans, not AI. My thought piece on human agency, vulnerability and why m #AI in work needs to be a negotiated journey. @GrandChallenges analysisfunction.civilservice.gov.uk/blog/the-futur…
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On Wednesday Dec 10 11.00GMT Francisco Durán del Fierro and I will present our research on Inclusive Futures of Federated Data. Working with Eileen Kennedy, Edinburgh Futures Institute Hartree and funded by EPSRC. Join the event: research.jiscinvolve.org/wp/events/
Community events - Research
Community events For upcoming and past research-related events on the main Jisc web site please see this event listing. Upcoming Inclusive Futures: Mapping pathways for future data use | 10 December 2...
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English National Opera’s dazzling performance this evening at the wonderful London Coliseum #enopinafore
Great to participate in the UCL Grand Challenges Winter Reception at the Grant Zoology Museum where James Hetherington and I gave an update on the first year of the UCL Grand Challenge of Data Empowered Societies. Thanks to the DES Team and to Geraint Rees for amazing leadership.
Delighted to join today’s UCL Policy Lab Roundtable on AI, the future of Work and the Role of the University. There was a broad panel of participants with distinctive & fascinating perspectives. HE mist be relevant to student needs, but what is ‘relevant’ increasingly is difficult to predict
Delighted to be on this panel at the university of Oslo debating the education/work interface in an era of AI. With Regina Mulder, Francisvo Duran del Fierro, Koula Charitonos, Monika Nerland
We have funded 10 ambitious Challenge-led Awards through the @UCL Grand Challenge Data Empowered Societies, University College London www.ucl.ac.uk/grand-challe...
Ten ambitious challenge-led projects awarded grants under the UCL Data Empowered Societies programme
As the third of the evolved Grand Challenge themes to be launched goes into its second year of activity, the Data Empowered Societies (DES) team are delighted to announce that ten projects will be spearheading innovative work across the four focus areas of the DES programme.
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At Lords Cricket Ground today with colleagues ftom Honda R&D to talk about UCL Grand Challenges Data Empowered Societies the future of Ed Tech and Health Tech
