Advance commentary (open access): The resilience trap: Deepening the ‘risk shift’ in social policy via the crisis and resilience fund by Matthew Donoghue journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Matt Donoghue
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Political economy of the welfare state. Politics of social citizenship. Dynamics of resilience and cohesion. European society and politics. Ideas and discourse. Ireland, UK & Europe Assistant Professor of Social Policy, UCD
JUST PUBLISHED! Great to see my commentary published in Critical Social Policy today: "The resilience trap: Deepening the 'risk shift' in social policy via the crisis and resilience fund". journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... More in the following posts:
I'm immensely glad to share that my article with Matthew Donoghue @drdonoghue.bsky.social has just been published in Territory, Politics Governance! @rsa-tpg.bsky.social 🎉 Our findings transform how we think about minority nationalism and the welfare state 🧵 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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I really enjoyed working on this article, it was great to be a part of realizing Iñigo's idea! Read the thread below for more!
Iñigo Aldama@inigoaldama.bsky.social · 2mo agoI'm immensely glad to share that my article with Matthew Donoghue @drdonoghue.bsky.social has just been published in Territory, Politics Governance! @rsa-tpg.bsky.social 🎉 Our findings transform how we think about minority nationalism and the welfare state 🧵 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
We could be using technology to live in an age of abundance. But given capitalism requires scarcity to drive surplus value, what we'll likely get is obscene profits for a few, and mass uncompensated unemployment for the rest.
Joshua J. Friedman@joshuajfriedman.com · 2mo agoNew dystopia just dropped
This is more or less what I try to impart on my students. AI is here to stay and it's silly to not acknowledge that. So we must teach people how to use AI interfaces as tools to enhance -not replace - work. If you use AI to save time and cut corners, it WILL end badly for you - or someone else.
Janne M. Korhonen@jmkorhonen.fi · 2mo agoREALLY GOOD read: how to use LLMs to make you smarter, not dumber. Discusses oft-neglected context of viral claims, esp. that one MIT study regularly cited as evidence that #LLM use makes people dumber. AND has concrete, practical examples! cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/how-to-use...
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Concern about Research Ireland’s Strategy and Programme Plan | Matthew Donoghue
If you are an academic in Ireland - or if you have a connection to Irish academia - please consider signing this open letter that expresses concern over the current research funding strategy outlined ...
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Only just started marking this semester. But a strong reflection already on AI use. I don't know if it's AI use settling in now it's been around a few years, or that I require a signed AI declaration with explanation/justification, but in the essays I've marked so far, there's a noticeable shift.
If you'd told me a month ago - let alone when I started off in academia - that I'd be using cloud computing to run a code an AI had written for me to analyse almost 4.5m words of text, I wouldn't have believed you. But here we are.
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Walking out of the lecture theatre realizing I've given my last proper lecture of the academic year, vs the realization that I have hundreds of essays landing on my desk soon
#academicsky people! Do I have any contacts who might be willing to chat to this dunce about Natural Language Processing #NLP, particularly as it pertains to multilingual Semantic Network Analysis? I have many questions!
Come and work with us! Happy to answer questions about the school etc.
Stephan Köppe@drkoeppe.bsky.social · 4mo agoWe are looking for a social policy expert with a background across the social sciences, including political science. Apply by 12 May! @ucdspswsj.bsky.social @drdonoghue.bsky.social @mlgcollins.bsky.social @bryanfanning.bsky.social @naokody.bsky.social @nessawinston-ucd.bsky.social
Does anyone have any recommendations for a *reliable* and *accurate* programme/app that converts references into different styles (e.g. x/y/z/ to APA etc.)?
Another oil shock. *IF ONLY* we could generate energy without oil?! Mad, I know, but maybe huge windmills, or maybe even something that harnesses the sun? Waves move about a lot, maybe some Brainiac could invent something that turns moving water into energy?! One of those billionaire fellas maybe?
To benefit from even a partial notion of "democratic capitalism" you would need to have been alive between ~1945-1979. Democratic capitalism in Liberal economies lasted about 34 years. It lasted longer (maybe still there) in the Nordic countries. As with everything, continental Europe is a mixed bag
Gavin Kelly@gavin-kelly.bsky.social · 5mo agoIf you were born after the 1970s you really haven't spent much/any of your career working in an economy that delivers on the promise of democratic capitalism.
For one of my modules this semester, I put a statement in my handbook to say that use of Generative AI to produce essays is not permitted. I decided I needed to give more specific guidance on what I will - and won't - accept.
From The Times last Saturday. Starmer's ministry provides empirical proof of the fact that (contrary to what the Labour leadership has believed for many years) you can't govern without an ideology: something organising your outlook and mobilising people to action. www.thetimes.com/article/2cb4...
Largely depressing reading. But the takeaway point is that something has to give at some point, some how.
Ann Pettifor@annpettifor.bsky.social · 5mo ago" This will bring down the economies of the world,” Kaabi said. “If this war continues for a few weeks, GDP growth around the world will be impacted. Everybody’s energy price is going to go higher. There will be shortages of some products & a chain reaction of factories that cannot supply.”
Humanity is hurtling so quickly downhill. Lazy warmongering. I'm sure it helps that the targets had already been dehumanised.
I keep hearing the Green Party have been doing divisive and sectarian politics. Does anyone have any examples? Or is this Labour Party entitlement to a core vote they actively dislike?
The current argument of the British right is that Muslims turned out in "blocs" with "family voting" to cast their ballots for a party led by a gay Jewish man, and this shows that multiculturalism has failed, voting is "sectarian" and we are in a crisis. Hmmmmmm.
What Goodwin's reaction shows is that reactionaries claim to talk for "the people" but truly hate the people and them having a say in how things should be run It shouldn't surprise us that reactionaries are elitist and anti-democracy obviously and yet this has been obscured through skewed coverage
Imagine if Matt Goodwin's campaign strategy was to NOT tell people to vote Reform. Absolute galaxy brained genius of the far right. A brain too big for academia etc etc
Hannah Al-Othman@hannahalothman.bsky.social · 5mo agoSpeaking to journalists, Matt Goodwin says Reform were beaten by “a coalition of Islamists and woke progressives that came together to dominate the constituency.” He says “I don’t think the progressives beat us, I think the progressives were told how to vote.”
Delighted to see the news in Gorton and Denton this morning - on multiple fronts.
Today marks the 15,000th day this year it has rained in Ireland.
