Kate FitzGerald

Psst: the Irish love a conspiracy theory - ABC listen The Irish have high trust in government, and, also, a surprisingly widespread belief in conspiracy theories. What explains the Irish appetite for conspiracies, and how can damaging beliefs be slowed d...

An interesting episode with a crossover of my interests! 🧐 🇮🇪

Thanks @cazuarina.bsky.social for the link.

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So glad to see this article finally out! I loved working with this team and it was a great opportunity to develop qualitative methods for generative AI research. I feel this is an important contribution that we are currently expanding on in a multilingual context, so stay tuned! ✍️ 🖥️

Called out 😂😭

A great read 🇮🇪

This is a MUST-READ affidavit.

This eyewitness to Alex Pretti’s murder — who is too scared to even go home because she doesn’t trust federal agents — directly refutes what the feds are saying happened today:

And to clarify - these aren’t even protestors; they are observers and bystanders.

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It’s incredible that Alex Pretti apparently served as an ICU nurse. His death is tragic

But if they’re not employed, not white, not male, have drug offences, have been previously incarcerated, have mental health problems, etc etc… this does not undermine their victimhood & right to life

We’ve placed the available videos of the shooting of Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis today into the same synchronised timeline and are continuing to analyse further.

Media & Democrats should be ashamed for not specifically calling what the administration is doing as fascism at every single opportunity. The lack of ability to muster more than a verbal slap on the wrist and leaving citizens to protest and die in the streets is abhorrent.

More active language would be stating what actually happened: a man was executed in the street by a nascent Gestapo.

I don’t care that this post will disqualify me from ever getting a United States visa. I’m appalled and sick with worry about family in the US.

Watching Iga Swiatek and Eva Lys battle it out on the third day of the tennis season; women’s tennis is in such a good place right now 💪

Tattoo haver here; people might move away from searching for tattoo artists once they found one they like, and also most tattoo artists are on Instagram rather than a website as it allows for a portfolio + to change studios easily! $0.02c. Also - millennial Harry Potter tattoo regret?

Might have to pay for API access for that one, Tim 😅

So good to get a dataset of that size!

Grok is spreading misinformation about the Bondi Beach shooting Grok has repeatedly misidentified video of the Bondi Beach shooting and the hero who disarmed a gunman.

Of course it f&&king is. Please don't use GenAI for news. Please don't use Grok for anything.

Grok is spreading misinformation about the Bondi Beach shooting www.theverge.com/news/844443/...

Quelle surprise! Great to have evidence-based research to demonstrate this bias.

Well done @carlylubicz.bsky.social, @cazuarina.bsky.social and @riedlinm.bsky.social!

Good chat between @phzerosounds.bsky.social and @antmandan.bsky.social today - a quick lightning talk on the pod about the social media ban, the shortcomings, and what we might see in the future.

Three presentations over the three days of #AANZCA2025, and I was really proud to share some theoretical work in progress from my PhD thesis. Thank you to my @qutdmrc.bsky.social colleagues for coming along to watch and support!

Making it into the @snurb.info live blog was the highlight of my week!

But seriously, #AANZCA2025 was fantastic and sincere thanks to the organisers for making it a genuinely hybrid conference that allows for folks with disabilities to attend - I appreciate the opportunity to share my work! 🎉

Thank you for sharing, Kateryna!

A new article by me in @theconversation.com about forthcoming research with fab colleagues @snurb.info, @riedlinm.bsky.social, @phzerosounds.bsky.social, @timothyjgraham.bsky.social, and @antmandan.bsky.social. Looking forward to presenting this at the #AANZCA2025 conference this week! 🎉

Academic hot take: getting stood up for a research interview is significantly worse than getting stood up on a date 😭

Excellent new paper from an excellent colleague! Anybody looking at user practices online should engage with this paper and model. Well done @kkasianenko.bsky.social!

It's the last day of October and the last day of the One Foot Forward challenge! I met my distance goal, but would love any last minute donations to help further my fundraising goal! Thanks in advance everyone.

This is a cause super close to me and my family, and I would appreciate any donations, even a dollar can help!

I’m aiming to raise $1000 over the next month - this will help with services like training teachers in mental wellbeing and advancing clinical trials for depression treatment.

Support my 40km challenge for mental health research! Together, we can help create better mental health for all.

Hi all, in October I am participating in the One Foot Forward initiative by the Black Dog Institute, to raise money to support Australians impacted by mental illness.

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Charlie Kirk's martyrdom in the US is to be expected. Here, it's baffling

Australian media and politicians have taken a huge interest in an overseas figure the vast majority of their constituents would have never heard of prior to September 10, @theshufflediary.bsky.social writes.

It was great to listen to @essideh.com discuss his new book, The Discursive-Digital Link this week! 📖 📚 🎉

You guys