Eamon Costello

(1/7) HOT off the furnace and pressed into print!!! 🔥 Costello, E., & Gow, S. (2025). Authoritarian EdTech. Dialogues on Digital Society. doi.org/10.1177/2976...

📖 It’s finally out! 📖 Leading Higher Education in the Digital Age: Critical Mindsets and Responsible Actions for Complex Times with @albertsangra.bsky.social #AcademicSky www.routledge.com/Leading-High...

I'm going to talk to @parismarx.com about his timely new book 'Hyperscale' at London's Frontline Club next Wed 28th. Our conversation about the frontlines of data centre resistance & the implications of big tech's war on resources will be followed by a Q&A. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-talk-...

Using LLMs in science for “literature review” or “summarizing" is *automated cryptogyny* olivia.science/cryptogyny/ @olivia.science 🧵

Here's a WHOLE THREAD by Chanda mentioning other books & leaving out her own masterpieces! I heard a few words from her when I did that with my own book 😂. First, if you haven't bought The Edge of Space Time, you obviously should remedy that immediately. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817...

“I’m from the United States, which is probably the most corrupt country in the world. We call it lobbying,” Democratic candidate Amanda Janoo youtu.be/dgumvzfI-H0?...

Anthropic is out with new nonsense about Claude (or the collection of models called Claude) deserving moral consideration and/or be able to feel distress, so my inbox is filling up with journos asking me to comment. I've also got a day job, so here is a brief set of public comments on this: >>

For those who are unable to attend, you can find a version of Olivia’s talk here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi85...

I've seen the future and it's bleak. Coming to an inbox near you soon too I imagine. I don't use LLMs for anything I do and never will but it's depressing that I wrote something that no one ever read before it was rejected. 🧪 #academicsky

Join us starting on 12 October for our upcoming open course (with digital badge), Using OER and OEP: opencourses.ie/opencourse/o... The course is open to all and was developed by the loveliest group of open educators in Irish HE 😀 @catherinecronin.bsky.social @eam0.bsky.social

Nick Beckstead, noted longtermist and "effective altruist,” just comes out and says it: "But it now seems more plausible to me that saving a life in a rich country is substantially more important than saving a life in a poor country, other things being equal."

My book Radical Infrastructure came out last week! It goes deep into the political and economic roots of technological infrastructure to explain hype around various technical projects, and counters it with cases of people pushing back. Download OA: www.ucpress.edu/books/radica...

Today, Amy Allen and David Hicks share "technocurious" approaches to investigating AI in the History classroom. Oh, and they have written a book as well! www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/from-te...

I will go back to drive thru before I hire a bot to edit the bot slop so it sounds like what bot thinks a human sounds.

Can we fly all them Irish flags at half mast for a while? Because if you only support half the people in Ireland then you're only half Irish. Manosphere in the GAA? Níl. #SpéirGhorm

so long as governments, policy makers, and regulatory bodies continue to treat tech companies/products and their underlying anti-democratic and fascist ideologies as something separable, things will continue to get worse for fundamental rights and democracy

Humiliating and abusing students is not learning. It's sadism.

Ta-da! science.

"Switzerland's Federal Government is Replacing Microsoft on 3,000 Computers. This is the pilot phase, with 3,000 workstations moving away from Microsoft 365. The federal administration has over 54,000 computers." itsfoss.com/news/switzer...

Postmortem sperm retrieval has become Israeli state policy, with a quarter of all male soldiers killed since October 7 undergoing the procedure. But by creating a pressure valve for grieving families, it only perpetuates war. Nathalie Rozanes reports. www.972mag.com/israel-postm...

@brennacgray.bsky.social A great read thanks for sharing 😥 Universities at their worst instrumenalise academics, become breeding grounds for narcisism. Something useful i took from this piece is how it deconstructs "the university" by saying: Which univeristy do you mean? Which professoriate?

"we work to represent the "ground truth" as accurately and neutrally as we can" well, nothing says accurate and neutral as renaming lake ontario to lake america

I've added a link to the English translation. How race-scientists weild systematic doubt and participatory scrutiny in order to recast themselves as arbiters of truth. The 3 year hunt for Jason Arday wasn't only about his destruction. The ultimate trophy is epistemic dominance.

ICE just arrested a 5-year-old on his way to a soccer game in Austin. His name is Liam, just like the little boy from Minnesota. He should be in kindergarten this week. Instead he's in a trailer prison in the desert. Release Liam. Release these kids. Close the Dilley children’s prison.

Are you annoyed with the anthropomorphizing language being used in the "AI" discourse, but not sure how to talk about this stuff without it? @nannainie.bsky.social and I have got you covered: buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...

If you were wondering what happened to white US-Israeli professor Dan Ariely who was exposed as a fraud for faking experimental data, had his research retracted and was named 636 times in the Epstein files. Still works at Duke.