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Maura Conway

@galwaygrrl.bsky.social

Moriarty Prof. of Gov & Int’l Studies, Dublin City University; Prof. Cyber Threats, CYTREC, Swansea University; initiator of VOX-Pol. Major research interests = online extremism and terrorism, online radicalisation, regulation, research ethics.

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Maura Conway@galwaygrrl.bsky.social · 6d ago

Australia's online watchdog has launched court proceedings against Telegram, accusing the company of failing to remove terrorist and violent extremist content, including videos of the Christchurch attack, from its service despite repeated warnings. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...

Online watchdog takes Telegram to court over terrorism videos

The Office of the eSafety Commissioner will allege Telegram neglected its legal obligations when it allowed videos, including of the Christchurch mosque massacre, to remain on the platform.

abc.net.au

Doctora Malka Older@older.bsky.social · last wk.

keep thinking about the evil of this. It's not just destroying the physical books, bad as that is. They are trying to remove the underpinnings of knowledge, destroy all the accumulated wisdom - and silliness, and creativity, and whatever else humans have thought worthy of writing down.

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.

Caroline Ball@heroicendeavour.eurosky.social · last wk.

This article estimated global APC spend in 2023 to be around $2.5 billion, which was THREE TIMES the amount just four years earlier in 2019, at around $910 million.

Estimating global article processing charges paid to six publishers for open access between 2019 and 2023

This study presents estimates of the global expenditure on article processing charges (APCs) paid to six publishers for open access between 2019 and 2023. APCs are fees charged for publishing in some ...

arxiv.org

Maura Conway@galwaygrrl.bsky.social · 7d ago

"The Communications Workers' Union (CWU)...has written an open letter to emphasise the necessity for properly resourced trust and safety departments in companies like TikTok, as well as calling for greater regulatory oversight of the platform." www.irishexaminer.com/business/com...

Loss of up to 300 Irish jobs at TikTok will have 'knock-on impact' on user safety, warns union

Some 300 jobs are currently at risk at TikTok's European hub in Dublin

irishexaminer.com

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 11mo ago

"We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically." www.ru.nl/en/research/...

‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University

Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...

ru.nl

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 11mo ago

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues.
Maura Conway@galwaygrrl.bsky.social · last wk.

Telegram def facilitates terrorism, but... ---> "The FSB - Russia's domestic security service - said Telegram had been used 'to prepare and co-ordinate acts of sabotage and terror' inside Russia and had failed to remove channels, chats and bots used by Ukraine." www.bbc.com/news/article...

Russia charges Telegram founder Pavel Durov with facilitating terrorism

The FSB claims the messenger app, created by Pavel Durov, has failed to remove accounts and channels used for recruitment by Ukraine's secret service.

bbc.com

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4w ago

😳 Trump just flubbed his way through his meeting with Zelenskyy, at various points referring to the "Islamic Republic of Japan," repeatedly calling Zelenskyy "President Putin," and railing against the "JCPOC" Here's the blooper reel:

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4w ago

WOW -- Danish reporter *goes there* with Rutte "You sit next to Trump when he talks about conquering Greenland, lashes out at allies like Spain -- things it doesn't seem like the old Mark Rutte would approve of. Does this have any affect on your self-respect when you sit there and say nothing?"

Louise Amoore@amoorelouise.bsky.social · 4w ago

It’s incomprehensible to me that universities imagine their decimation of humanities follows “market forces” when they are so manifestly behind the curve of even the most corporate decisions. Universities are stuck in spent logic of “we must embrace AI” when frontier labs are hiring philosophers 1/

Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social · 4w ago

A fresh batch of Russian fake news posts today focused on the German elections, again targeting political parties to the left of the AfD. You'll note the very similar numbers of likes, reposts, and views as the pervious batch, all from commercial bot networks.

Bild
Maura Conway@galwaygrrl.bsky.social · 4w ago

"Appeals Centre Europe, an Ireland-certified dispute settlement body operating under the EU's Digital Services Act, says it overturned platforms' decisions not to remove reported hate speech 70 percent of the time between April 2025 and March 2026..." www.theregister.com/personal-tec...

EU moderation watchdog says social media giants hate taking down hate speech

Also somehow censoring too much while refusing to hand over account ban evidence for review

theregister.com

Kevin J. Kircher@kevinjkircher.com · 4w ago

This is wild. 93% of the renewable electricity generation added to the Irish grid over that last decade now powers data centers, rather than reducing fossil fuel use. Data centers have pretty much annihilated the health and climate benefits those renewables could have provided.

Hannah Daly@hannahdaly.ie · 4w ago

What is even more striking is that data centre demand has matched 93% of the growth in renewable electricity generation (wind + solar + hydro) over the past decade. If we measure since 2020, data centre demand has grown nearly 3-times faster than renewable electricity growth.

Maura Conway@galwaygrrl.bsky.social · 4w ago

Worth a read --> Sohini Chakraborty & Sabeen Hasan Rizvi | 2026 | 'Reviewing the ‘Online’ in Radicalization: A Critical Essay on Contemporary Positions, Scope and Challenges' | Studies in Conflict & Terrorism www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Reviewing the ‘Online’ in Radicalization: A Critical Essay on Contemporary Positions, Scope and Challenges

Due to the increasing intermingling of digital and extremist actions, the internet’s role in radicalization and extremism has drawn growing attention; however, many scholars have cautioned against ...

tandfonline.com

Alisa Bokulich@alisabokulich.bsky.social · last mo.

1000 evaluators given identical resumes & told candidate used AI. Only difference on resumes was candidate’s name: Emily vs James. Study found women using AI are evaluated as less competent than men who use AI...To evaluators, women’s AI use signaled inability, while men’s AI use signaled initiative

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · last mo.

Women’s use of AI is perceived as a sign of incompetence, while men’s use of AI is seen as an indication of initiative. 🤦🏻‍♂️