Maura Flynn
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Curious idealist. #Open #OER #TEL #UDL #UX #Quality #Health #Libraries #Books #Trees #Nature #Ireland #Foodie #LiverpoolFC X profile (for now!): https://x.com/MauraGFlynn Views are all mine!
My favourite presentation so far relates to the use of cake to promote the incredible cost savings that OER can bring about! Well done to the staff from University of the Pacific and Middle Tennessee State University for celebrating their achievements in a classic, fun and memorable way! #OpenEd26
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#OpenEd26 is kicking off! Looking forward to sharing and learning from the wonderful OpenEd people around the globe!
Open Education Conference@openedconf.bsky.social · yesterdayWelcome to Day 1 of #OpenEd26! Join us at 10:45 a.m. ET for our welcome and opening keynote with astronaut, educator, and artist Dr. Sian Proctor. Let’s explore “The Space Between” together! openeducationconference.org/news/2026/ke...
Don’t forget to join us tomorrow for #LTHEchat which will explore “Making space for meaningful CPD” with @yazosho.bsky.social on Wednesday 8-9pm GMT. Read the blog post at: buff.ly/E1UTUQ3
LTHEChat 378: Making space for meaningful CPD: how can higher education make it worthwhile, accessible and possible?
Join us on Wednesday 28 October at 8.00pm (GMT) with our guest contributor, Yaz Iyabo Osho, University of Westminster (@yazosho.bsky.social). This #LTHEchat on Bluesky will explore how higher educa…
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“That is the privacy risk which is sort of emerging, because there is no boundary anymore; the system is acting as your advisor, your friend, your doctor, your lawyer, and so it has information on everything…”
ChatGPT Is Building Detailed Psychological Profiles of Its Users
Chatbots are building "algorithmic self-portraits" of users as they retain information for a hyper-personalized experience, a study warns.
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Lots of great goals tonight in the Champions League games. PSG looking dominant again this season!
The website for Springer Journals Online, an agency offering authorship slots in articles in exchange for payment, has gone offline, four days after Retraction Watch published its investigation into its activities.
‘Springer’ agency website offering authorship for sale goes down following Retraction Watch story
A screenshot from the “Springer Journals Online” website before it went down on Friday. The website for Springer Journals Online, an agency offering authorship slots in articles in exch…
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“AI is just the accelerant”, says Ivan Oransky. “The kindling is the publish-or-perish culture.” If scientists want to fix the problems caused by AI slop, fixing incentives is the place to start.
Could AI help scientists with their paperwork?
Yes—but that amplifies existing problems
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Day 1 of #OEGlobal26 starts now. ☀️ 9:00am EDT: Keynote with Dr. Joshua Bennett 10:30am: The Student Perspective keynote 4:55pm: Open Education Awards for Excellence Join online: https://twp.ai/E5H82p #OpenEducation #OER
Beautiful send off for Messi. What an incredible talent, I'm privileged to have seen him play so much during my lifetime and to have gone to see him play once for Barca. His parting speech says it all: youtu.be/zEpY-z_c8tA?... #GOAT
Lionel Messi Full Speech - Saying Goodbye To Argentina Fans
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🌙 Dublin By Dusk | Twilight Talks Join us for our first Twilight Talks, exploring how NLI collections have shaped readers’ research. 📅 Thurs, 24 Sep, 6.30pm: https://ow.ly/XIQJ50ZKnbl Four 15-minute talks on: Sarah Curran, 1950s Irish homes, the 1932 Tailteann Games and Michael Davitt.
Dublin By Dusk | Twilight Talks
Scholarship, creativity and discovery emerging from NLI Collections
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September's here & for many of you a new academic year. So just a brief reminder of what we're here for. The OBC is a charity that channels library funding to Diamond OA publishers - the books are free to read & no author pays to be published. It's small-scale, deliberately, but with a big impact!
“I lost my confidence in my own writing.” When a student sitting on a stage shares this with an auditorium full of adult educators, acknowledging why they stopped using AI in their own school work, it has an impact. Two weeks later and I still remember what it felt like to hear that...
How many of your favourite thrillers have made The New York Times best 50 of the 21st century…. www.nytimes.com/50thrillers #BookSky
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LinkedIn Introduces a 'Seems Like AI Slop' Button
Following 404 Media's reporting on how LinkedIn is full of AI slop, the platform is giving users a chance to report it when they see it.
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Join us for our next webinar on August 13 to learn how to find and reuse CC-licensed content confidence. We’ll explore some of the best places to discover openly licensed content, decode the different CC licenses, walk through the ins and outs of proper attribution, and more! buff.ly/VipX1vD
How enchanting it is to watch a bumblebee move from blossom to blossom and eventually simply fall asleep there. Perhaps it reminds us, too, to follow our joy, to trust our own rhythm, and to find a place in time where our soul, too, may rest a while.
EBOOKS ARE BOOKS. THE LAW SHOULD SAY SO. Irish libraries face an existential crisis over e-Books. Martin Bradley, KR21 national coordinator for Ireland, explains in Katina Magazine why Ireland must act, and how. 🔗 katinamagazine.org/content/arti... #eBookSOS #LetLibrariesBeLibraries
If you’re up and scrolling you could be up and reading. Just ten minutes to get started, it does feel better than scrolling 🥰 open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
'reading is a radical act'
"Couch to 5k" for reading week 3. includes: an interview with Emma Gannon! a celebration of reading plays! and: how to memorise a poem! (if you want to)
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This post says it all really...incredible team, class act!
The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 3mo agoRodri wins World Cup Golden Ball as Kylian Mbappé wins second Golden Boot
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Maura Flynn@mauragflynn.bsky.social · 4mo agoI don't think tonight will be Argentina's night but Messi has been immense throughout the tournament. I'm grateful that he has played in this World Cup & trying not to think that this could be his last... 😢 #ArgVEng #Messi #Legend 🇦🇷
Academics “examined the behaviour of mainstream large language models provided by Elon Musk’s xAI, Meta, Google, China’s Alibaba and France’s Mistral and found the introduction of bias happens even when the AI tool is instructed to preserve the original sense.”
AI altering meaning of users’ drafts on issues from abortion to climate, study finds
Researchers say small changes in drafting could spread rapidly and create long-term shifts in public opinion
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We're hiring a #ProjectManager to lead a multi-year, cross-institutional programme spanning cultural programming, professional development, research, and policy. ⭐ More info + #apply: https://www.nli.ie/about-us/working-national-library-ireland 📅 Closing date: 3pm, 24 July 2026. #Jobfairy
As a huge Messi fan I can't help wishing the fixtures had lined up differently & that #CapeVerde could have progressed further, but I'm relieved for Argentina and the #GOAT Inspirational from #CapeVerde Onwards #Argentina & #Messi ⚽️ #WorldCup #TheBeautifulGame 🇦🇷
pmchoan.bsky.social@pmchoan.bsky.social · 4mo ago"They have shown courage, togetherness, unity and unwavering belief in what they are and what they can do. The story of this tournament is Cape Verde. That is what you want to see in a football side." #CapeVerde #CaboVerde #WorldCup www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
Cape Verde bloody fucking did it. #67 in the World drawing #2 Spain 0-0. How can you not love this sport
