For those of you near Cork on the 20th, there are extra (free) tickets forAgainst Automation with the @radhumslab.bsky.social at @ucc.ie We've a great lineup including Masoumeh (Iran) Mansouri, Patrick Brodie, Jennie Stephens & Dan McQuillan with interventions from the UCC community. bit.ly/RHLAA

Against Automation: Resisting AI futures in Teaching and Research

The Radical Humanities Laboratory presents a 1-day workshop exploring strategies of resistance in an age of ever increasing automation.

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Very much looking forward to getting to Maynooth tomorrow to talk about material worlds and how they reveals the often ‘contested’ realities through the lens of gender and class.

This week @stephenroddy.bandcamp.com published research exploring the role that sound and audio technologies can play in addressing water scarcity challenges in Cambridge Prisms: Water More at the link: www.ucc.ie/en/radicalhu... @universitypress.cambridge.org

Tackling Water Scarcity Through Sound | University College Cork

Learn, Study and Research in UCC, Ireland's first 5 star university. Our tradition of independent thinking will prepare you for the world and the workplace in a vibrant, modern, green campus.

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Stephen Roddy works on displaying #data as sound. This can help translate information when you can’t look at it or can’t use traditional graphic models. buff.ly/ga4OWAi

The @radhumslab.bsky.social are pleased to announce 'Against Automation: Resisting AI Futures in Teaching and Research,' November 20th, @ucc.ie. With Dan McQuillan, Patrick Brodie, Masoumeh Mansouri, and Jennie Stephens. Tickets at: www.eventbrite.com/e/against-au...

It's cooooooooooooooming (credit @stephenroddy.bandcamp.com)

Really looking forward to this event with Stephen coming from Trinity and Dr Brian Ngwenya from Maynooth to talk with us about ‘Disrupting Historical Amnesia’. It’s open to anyone interested at the Shtepps, HUB Building at UCC (Fri 18 Sept, 2-4pm).

Stephen O'Neill@oneillsb.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Looking forward to heading to UCC on Friday for the Disrupting Historical Amnesia: Archives and Contested Pasts workshop. Thanks to @lauramca.bsky.social for organising it www.ucc.ie/en/future-hu...

The free online version of my ‘Listening in the Shadow of Palantir’ piece for the @thewiremagazine.bsky.social is live today. You can read it here: www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/c...

Against The Grain: Listening after Palantir - The Wire

Machine listening is transforming environmental sound into data points that support surveillance infrastructure, changing what it means to hear, argues Stephen Roddy in The Wire 512

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Wonderful to have two excellent and thought provoking keynote addresses at our annual conference.

Des Fitzgerald@desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I gave a keynote to the excellent conference of the @irishhumanities.bsky.social yesterday. Got a bunch of things off my chest about healthcare in Irl, about privatisation, tech, the role of private equity, and the need for a critical sociological imagination in Irish medical humanities. Was good!

Here is my piece about the fire in Glasgow’s Central Station and why the loss of built heirtage is felt so deeply in the city and elsewhere

University College Cork@ucc.ie · 8mo ago

Glasgow fire: how treasured buildings influence our sense of belonging and connection Dr @sarahkerr.bsky.social writes @theconversation.com.

I was recently interviewed by Dina at @spectrum.ieee.org about the potential role of sonification in making sense of the coming 6G data explosion, why our ears can reveal patterns our eyes miss, and what this could mean for the Internet of Sounds. spectrum.ieee.org/data-sonific...

Can Your Ears Catch Data Patterns Your Eyes Miss?

Sonification may become more important with the advent of 6G

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I'm really looking forward to the @irishhumanities.bsky.social annual conference today and tomorrow. We're meeting at the site of the former Good Shepherd magdalene laundry in Waterford city, and beginning with an intervention from the Waterford Memories project.

A wonderful couple of days listening to colleagues from many disciplines exploring temporalities. With special thanks to our keynotes Antonia Thomas and Alberica Bazzoni, for pushing imaginative possibilities. Also to the organizing team of Leonora Masini, Chiara Giuliani and Barbara Siller.

Heard my brilliant colleague Eugene Costello @radhumslab.bsky.social on @rteradio1.bsky.social Countrywide this morning on the history of commonage in Ireland

The RIA congratulates Prof Claire Connolly, Polite Literature and Antiquities Secretary of the RIA, on receiving the Robert Rhodes Prize for Books on Irish Literature from the American Conference for Irish Studies for her acclaimed monograph ‘Irish Romanticism: A Literary History’: bit.ly/4ex2Vg7

Dr Julia Empey acknowledging the 'fantastic' support of @nuimerrionsq.bsky.social early career scheme in funding her Death Rituals and Death Technologies event, co-organised with Dr Kate Falconer @radhumslab.bsky.social- additional funding from UCC's FHI and School of English and Digital Humanities

Our @uccwomenstudies.bsky.social MA students recently were taught the ins & outs of queer/ing geography & migration studies in our Gender & Society module by the wonderful Dr Mei Meng, who is currently a @radhumslab.bsky.social postdoc on the "Orders and Borders of Global Inequality" ERC project.

The 3rd Symposium on Digital Art in Ireland takes place on 22nd April in collaboration with Sample Studios at the Digital Humanities Dept. @ucc.ie It will be marked by the opening of Basil Al-Rawi’s 'House of Memory' at the Lord Mayor’s Pavilion. Registration & information: bit.ly/DigiArt3

3rd Symposium on Digital Art in Ireland | University College Cork

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Congratulations to our brilliant lab member and colleagues, Dr Sarah Bezan, as she joins the Young Ireland Academy today! www.ria.ie/2026/03/12/y...

Young Academy Ireland welcomes 21 new members - Royal Irish Academy

Young Academy Ireland (YAI), an all-island network of early career researchers and innovators (ECRIs), has today welcomed 21 new members from Ireland and Northern Ireland.

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New OA publication from our lab member, Dr Kheira Arrouche, "Afterlives of decolonisation: the racialisation of West and Central African migrants in contemporary Algeria." www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

Go check this out, folks! Also might benof interest to our @uccwomenstudies.bsky.social students & folks at the @radhumslab.bsky.social

Prof. Anna Catherine Hickey-Moody@annahm.bsky.social · 12mo ago

✨ Intersectional Humanities Summer School! June 22nd–July 3rd, 2026 at the Arts & Humanities Institute, Maynooth. Whether you’re a postgraduate student, early career researcher or established scholar, this is a space to create hopeful futures. 📩 Register interest: muahi@mu.ie #Intersectional

Antiquity Vol. 100, No. 409 (2026) www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @antiquity.ac.uk @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org @sarahkerr.bsky.social @radhumslab.bsky.social @royvanbeek.bsky.social @mpdavies.bsky.social @waltros.bsky.social

This is a great reflective discussion on #archaeology that also is proactive. Delighted to have been able to join the conversation on this! @ucc.ie @radhumslab.bsky.social

Antiquity Journal@antiquity.ac.uk · 9mo ago

NEW Archaeologists often claim they can contribute to modern 'global challenges' such as climate change, but rarely get a space at the policymaking table The latest #AntiquityDebate proposes an approach to ensure archaeology's relevance and impact 🏺 #Archaeology 1/2 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

A fearless rocket engineer, groundbreaking artist and communist ‘traitor’ Dr @stephenroddy.bsky.social shares the life and legacy of Frank Malina in a new series dedicated to unsung heroes of science on @theconversation.com.

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.

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Article on the Sonification of Synthetic Virology data with colleagues from the School of Medicine at @ucc.ie is out today in Leonardo. It spans music, media engineering and the biosciences doi.org/10.1162/LEON... @leonardoisast.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social @uccresearch.bsky.social

Generative Sonification of Synthetic Virology Data with Waveshaping and Granular Synthesis Techniques

Abstract. As the field of ubiquitous music has matured and developed since its inception, it has turned its attention to the question of sonification and how sonification techniques might be used to c...

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