@drjohnodonoghue
Science Educator, Researcher & Author at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) | RSC Education Coordinator | Do you like movies and TV AND science? Try my book https://books.rsc.org/books/monograph/2272/Onscreen-ChemistryThe-Portrayal-of-Chemical | Views my own
Delighted to recieve funding from the @researchireland.ie Discover programme. We have set ourselves a major challenge to see if we can co-create, deliver and evaluate a new inquiry based intervention to help engage everyone in the scientific process #InformalEd #IrishResearch #ChemSky #irishSky
The image shows a large tree with exposed roots in a lush green forest. The Royal Society of Chemistry logo is at the top left. Text reads: "The RSC is attending London Book Fair. Visit us at stand 7D81.
The Royal Society of Chemistry is at #LBF
We’ll be showcasing our latest books and connecting with the publishing community.
📍 Come visit us at stand 7D81 #ChemSky
Looking forward to chatting with everyone at my @niscifest.bsky.social talk on Friday in @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social The @rsc.org have kindly provided a 30% discount for all attendees for my book! So if you don’t have a copy, come along!
#Booksky #ChemSky
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Excellent 👌 if you ever feel disheartened by arguing with idiots, know that someone else at the table (or social media feed) will hopefully appreciate you
Looking forward to this day next week for my return to #Belfast for the 2026 NI #ScienceFestival. Come and join me for an interactive talk about chemistry in the movies and TV, open to all ages with plenty of video clips #ChemSky #Chemistry #Science #BookSky nisciencefestival.com/event/onscre...
A rabbit in overalls and a goat in pants are sitting on the ground drawing pictures. The rabbit is saying “ART POSES A THREAT TO CORPORATOLRATIC SYSTEMS BECAUSE A PURPOSE OF ART IS TO REMIND THE INDIVIDUAL OF THEIR INHERENT AUTONOMY.”, the goat adds “THEIR HUMANITY.”
Make Art (1/4)
Looking forward to the day when a banner pops up before you open a social media app and again every 30mins while you use it
WARNING:
Social media seriously harms you and others around you
Come on EU! Do it
As a native of Kerry.. I’ve some questions…
There is an abundance of wind on the Irish electricity system this morning and the network operator is imploring me to use energy. Wouldn't it be nice if it was cheaper?
My column today is an "explainer" on dynamic tariffs, which are coming this summer.
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And mini-disk players… wait… was I accidentally alternative? Retrospectively cool 👌
Bring back bebo
In fairness, at least he left his work at the office 😉 and didn’t invade every other facet of life!
Clippy is back… and has expanded across everything. Well done tech bro’s
And the following week (20th Feb), why not see chemistry jump off the page (and screen) and into conversation with @drjohnodonoghue.bsky.social from @tcddublin.bsky.social and @rsc.org Hosted in the David Keir Building, you can book for Onscreen Chemistry here: nisciencefestival.com/event/onscre...
We’re hiring!
Come join us to setup, lead and evaluate a new Education and Public Engagement (EPE) project. We want someone who will make this project their own and we will provide them with all the guidance they need #ChemSky #educationsky #researchsky
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I’m a mini-disk player… a niche hybrid technology in a world of MP3 Players… so niche.. it will be cool again one day 🤣
Fantastic, necessary and timely - well done all
I agree, the more AI content I see from someone, the less I want to engage with them… if social media doesn’t adapt to encourage authentic human content, it’s going to lose all relevancy … which will have widespread consequences for digital advertising & promotion
Don't think I've spoken to a single artist who didn't struggle this Christmas, and I spoke to a lot, so even if it's not my work I'd really encourage people to try to support a local artist that you like instead of big corporations - every single sale makes a real, tangible difference to their life.
Collage of prints from my site #SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland
One of the handwritten gift notes that I can include for free with all orders, if desired.
First year selling my art at Christmas without the Other site, where most of my sales came from, as well as losing US orders to new tariffs, so it'll be a tough one - I put huge work into every order, so even if you can't buy, shares help get them in front of eyes. GRMA! www.ciaraioch.com/artprints
Christmas cards
Once again struggling to part ways with the lovely packaging from @ciaraioch.bsky.social! It always comes so beautifully packaged ☺️ #Christmas #IrishArtist #supportirish
„CSU—US’s largest public uni system—went all-in with a $17mill partnership with OpenAI. . .CSU unveiled its grand technological gesture just as it proposed slashing $375mill from its budget. While admin cut ribbons on AI, they were cutting faculty positions, academic programs, student services.“
Photograph of a display of prints, surrounded by Christmas decorations and fairy lights, against a white fluffy background #SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland #Art #Christmas #ArtistsOnBluesky #BuyLocal #ShopIrish
Cartoon of a little rook building a snowman in the shape of a crow, and a photograph of the same image as Christmas cards against a red brick background - there's one free with every order.
📌 ciaraioch.com is now taking Christmas orders for prints, cards, and vouchers - each archival-quality print on heavy art paper is made in Ireland, ships internationally in eco-friendly packaging with discount tracked postage, and comes with a FREE card and treats for every customer 🎁 #SpéirGorm
Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues.
Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).
Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.
Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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new paper by Sean Westwood:
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
“Universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically.”
Link to original article form Richie Kirwin www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
But I must thank Joe Wicks because this is going to make a great case study for discussion with our PhD students in @tcddublin.bsky.social for my Science Communication module!
Screenshot of Joe Wicks documentary
Good article from Richie Kirwan about the Joe Wicks health/protein bar documentary which had plenty of ridiculous dark lab imagery & scaremongering. I also witnessed someone tell a stranger on the #London tube this week that they should check the ingredients of a bar they were eating #SciComm #Food
Infographic on the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar M. Yaghi for the development of metal-organic frameworks. The infographic explains that metal-organic frameworks are molecular sponges built up from metal ions and organic compounds that act as linkers. Small molecules such as gases can move into and out of cavities in these frameworks. The graphic highlights some of the MOFs the laureates have developed and concludes by looking at possible future uses of MOFs, including gas storage and extracting water from air.
The 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry was awarded today for the development of metal-organic frameworks, molecular sponges with applications in gas storage, water purification and more: www.compoundchem.com/2025/10/08/2...
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