No longer on X. Lecturer @strathcis University of Strathclyde. Human Computer Interaction. Information Behaviour. Own opinions. @emmanicol@mastodon.scot
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The BRAID artist commission call is now live! Artists will receive a £10,000 budget to develop their work & will be showcased during the Edinburgh Art Festival 2025.
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Dear U.K. retailers, going on and on about Black Friday but not actually stating the date is really crap marketing in a country where it’s not part of our tradition.
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Update: confirmed Apple quietly introduced code that reboots iPhones after not being interacted with after a period of time. That's what is locking out cops 404media.co/apple-quietly-in…
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OpenAI's AI-powered transcription tool Whisper is prone to hallucinating, but that hasn't stopped its incorporation into a variety of industries, including healthcare: ow.ly/Ug7n50U1Hu3
#AI #AIethics #healthcare
At Strathclyde Postgraduate Open Day. Come and talk to us about our lovely MSc programmes! @StrathCIS @StrathScience
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🎓Uni of Strathclyde's CIS Dept. is offering up to 6 funded PhD studentships for UK students, covering tuition, stipend, & travel. Partial funding available for international applicants. Apply if your research aligns with #StrathCyber! 🔗More info: bit.ly/40yUMBc #PhD
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Public toilets are a basic accessibility need and their wholesale closure to save a few quid should be treated as a national disgrace as big as if they'd gone round ripping out wheelchair ramps
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"(teacht) ar ais ar nós na drochaimsire" means that someone or something is back like the bad weather.
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Reviewer 1: Interesting analysis
Reviewer 3: Solid work
Reviewer 2:
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Never trust that anything that’s digitised or available online will be available forever. Digitisation is not preservation, and tech companies aren’t archivists or librarians. The presence of hard copy in a physical collection is the only guarantee of long-term survival
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Yet another article based on the premise that the only options are "fail to address AI" and "replace all the things with AI".
The mature and growing literature on option 3, "call out most AI as dismal planet-burning crapola", surely deserves a look-in. timeshighereducation.com/blo…
ALT Anthony Finkelstein reckons: "Using AI to deliver scaled pedagogy is HE’s only available play"
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Members of the UK's Society of Authors voted overwhelmingly to pass a resolution rejecting AI companies' claim they can train on ©️ work without a license. It passed 97% to 3%.
Don't let AI companies tell you it's just big rights holders who object to unlicensed training. The creators themselves strongly object.
I favour genteel reminders.
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Over the summer, I went to the very North of the Isle of Lewis on a field trip to map the geology there with a close friend of mine. The google street view car went past. We had a geological hammer. The following masterpiece, now on google street view, was the result
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#Folklorist Margaret Fay Shaw captured these #Halloween guisers , the Currie family, of North Glendale @isleofsouthuist 1931. Read more of #Hebridean Halloween at nts.org.uk/stories/a-hebride…