An update since recording with Megan is that she is going ahead with establishing the Irish chapter of Encode Justice. Go Megan! 🙌🏻 Get the full episode: pod.fo/e/24bcbb

Job alert📢 We are looking for our next Director of Cultural Heritage! As a member of the Library Executive team, you'll have overall responsibility for our #CulturalHeritage units & public communications. See universityvacancies.com/university-col… for details. Apply by 21st Aug. #LISjobsIE

🎓✨ C’est fini! We’re so proud of the thirty UCD sporting students and alumni athletes who participated in an Olympics that saw Team Ireland take home its biggest-ever medal haul. Nearly two dozen of these Olympians are past and current UCD Ad Astra Academy Elite Sports

Be sure to read Liz Carolan's take on whether Harris' frustration with online hate and abuse will lead to real change in digital policies, or whether corporate responsibility will remain ignored in favour of big tech? A thought-provoking piece! #DigitalPolicyIE #UCDDigitalPolicy

Read up on the latest library and information news in our August link-out. Meet ten inspiring librarians, discover library games that spark creativity, follow the fight against book bans, learn how to move your library on from Twitter😬and much more at libfocus.com

Hurry! The deadline for applying for this fabulous position leading our #CulturalHeritage units & public comms is this Wednesday at 12 noon. Apply at ucd.ie/workatucd/jobs/. #LISjobsIE #jobfairy Dr Sandra Collins UCD iSchool conul CILIP Ireland

📸Human Computer Interaction Graduates 2024 on their #HCI Design Project Presentation Day Our graduates designed innovative concept solutions to a complex real-world challenge presented by expert stakeholders Big thanks to project partners🙏 Study HCI-ucd.ie/ics/study/mast…

#HIRING: ADAPT University College Dublin is hiring a #Postdoctoral #Researcher in Human-AI Collaboration w/ UCD iSchool. The project looks to hire a researcher w/ experience leading research activities related to collaborative #human #AI interaction. Apply> adaptcentre.ie/careers/ucd-po…

🧑‍💻🗣️ For years, tech executives rarely faced personal liability for what happened on their platforms; in areas around child safety, this might be changing. UCD Associate Professor TJ McIntyre comments in The New York Times... nytimes.com/2024/08/28/tec…

🗣️ “There’s a 30-year arc here...tech executives have not typically been held responsible for what users did on their platforms, though that approach is now being questioned by those who want stronger accountability." UCD Sutherland School of Law UCD Social Sciences UCD iSchool UCD Digital Policy

The ALCID library access scheme is now called Library Link! This scheme allows UCD postgrads, staff & researchers to visit other participating Irish academic libraries & access their collections. Details at conul.ie/librarylink-co… How it works for UCD: ucd.ie/library/use/vi…. 🪪

Great way to start my role as Head of School UCD Economics with a research away day. We had 28 presentations from faculty, postdocs and PhD students. Arjumand Younus, PhD UCD iSchool gave an enlightening keynote on language processing and economics. University College Dublin UCD Social Sciences

Ben Elsner UCD Economics UCD iSchool University College Dublin UCD Social Sciences Thanks for the invite Ben and Margaret Samahita - wish I could have stayed longer. The research session I did attend was so good; and now I see why UCD's School of Economics is one of the economics school in Ireland. Looking forward to some collaborations!!

Great to hear all the exciting research at UCD Economics research away day! Thank you Arjumand Younus, PhD from UCD iSchool UCD Social Sciences for the interesting keynote on language analysis and decision-making, lots of avenues for interdisciplinary collabs!

Thanks for having me Margaret; looking forward to exciting follow-up conversations. Link to slides for those who'd want to read research works I mentioned dropbox.com/scl/fi/hqyj11u…

Delighted to share that Professor R. David Lankes, U. of Texas at Austin will present the inaugural President's Lecture on AI in our field --"Demons, Determinism, & Divining the Future of Info Science." Register for free at rb.gy/mizhjj u UCD iSchool ASIS&T

Super excited for this event - I had this idea for quite sometime; execution took longer than expected but happy to see it's going to happen this September UCD iSchool

Extending a warm welcome to our 900 new undergraduate students at University College Dublin College of Social Sciences and Law. We hope you are enjoying orientation and we wish you every success in your first semester at UCD! #HelloUCD #UCDOrientation #WelcomeToUCD #collegelife #UCDCommunity

🚨New blog alert🚨 Check out or new blog post from Dr. Sarah Anne Dunne 🆓️ 🇵🇸 on the role of Alt-Tech and Mainstream social media platforms and the far-right political violence over the last year in the UK and Ireland. digitalpolicy.ie/too-far-right-… #DigitalPolicyIE #UCDDigitalPolicy

Great to be invited to speak at the MLIS/GradDip orientation talk again this year with UCD iSchool. Lovely to see the next generation of information/library professionals who will join are fantastic & welcoming profession! Fáilte gach éinne! 👋🏼