Liz Darnell

The @tudublin.bsky.social Women+ in Early Career Research Symposium in celebration of #IWD26 is happening this Friday (March 6th) from 10 AM on the Grangegorman campus. Join us! Register now forms.cloud.microsoft/e/Szp8Kf2cTB #Dublin #TUDublin

Protesting is good and right and proper.

There is a Women+ Early Career Research Symposium happening at @tudublin.bsky.social Grangegorman Campus to celebrate Int'l Women's Day on March 6th. The deadline for submission is next Monday, February 9th! andy1c1h.github.io/womenplus-ec...
#tudublin #ireland #research #symposium

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

I do my academic writing in overleaf and am looking for a good grammar checker that isn't aggressively AI (I just want to know if I missed a comma or messed up their/there/they're, etc - just the basics). Do you have one that you love or at least like? #phdsky #academicwriting #overleaf #phdwrite

We’re watching Trump radicalizing an entire generation in real time

A university is so much more than its bricks and mortar facilities. It is also an eduroam network with intermittent access

spotify wrapped or year 1 of my phd? #phdwrapped #phdsky

how did you know that this is on my list for the end of the year? thank you for compiling!!! 🫡

Nothing but profound appreciation for the blue skies we’ve had the last 24 hours 🙏 #dublin

The most important q: we did ravioli, tortelloni, another stuffed one that I don't remember the name of, tagliatelle, and a penne type one! The stuffing was a ricotta and spinach 🤌🤌🤌 and it was all SO good

I just wrapped up a trip to Bologna for European Conference on AI where I got to present my poster! This weekend was exactly what I needed - talking to other researchers navigating trust in their work + blue skies + a pasta class! #ecai #phdsky

“oh so you think the east wing being demolished is worse than-“ it’s a synecdoche, man. a visual metaphor. there’s a reason the aliens in Independence Day don’t aim a huge laser at SNAP benefits

Right, so listen. If Dolly, ya know, on top of everything else?

I won’t be okay.

Is this #phdlife? Asking for a friend... 2 is nice and 3 is far too much.

I am back from my first #womENcourage conference in Brașov, Romania! 🇷🇴 I am so grateful for the organizers, @acm.org, and the brilliant participants at this conference. It was so great to connect with other women in computing and discuss our research and lives! Looking forward to next year!

Shout out to the American Federation of Musicians

This looks incredible! Can’t wait to get my hands on it 🥳 congratulations!

‘He Gave Me Confidence’: How Charlie Kirk Connected With Young Men With his right-wing group Turning Point USA, Mr. Kirk engaged controversial topics. Some students were inspired. Others found his views appalling.

As a Christian, he did not always feel he could say what he actually thought about the issue.

“It’s kind of scary to say what you believe in, especially in this cancel culture,” said Porter LaFeber, a 22-year-old studying sciences at Utah Valley University who was at an event on Wednesday where Mr. Kirk was killed. “Charlie Kirk seemed like he just went totally above that. He kind of gave a voice to the people that were maybe a little bit scared.” “He gave me the confidence to be able to believe what I believe,” Mr. LaFeber added.

"Charlie Kirk gave me the courage to be more transphobic" is a wild thing to put in a both-sides hagiography
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/u...

Paige Bueckers last night 🔥

Taylor, I have another sports podcast you could go on 👀...

Sam Altman reading a 1979 encyclopedia he found in a coffee shop’s tiny library: “Wow, this magic book knows everything.”

I am recruiting for my first study as part of my PhD research on trust and AI! Please share with anyone that might be interested and reach out if you have questions or are interested!

Sessions are 45-60 mins and happening in-person in Dublin.

#phdsky #dublin #trust #AIresearch

Having to watch another penalty shootout

I think Stephen Graham Jones @sgj.bsky.social excels in this!

Anyways, I have no conclusion, because my brain doesn’t work as fast as Roxane Gay’s does but I’ll be thinking on this for a while.

Which my instinct is that we are more willing to see the humanity of AI systems than women and queer people as we question whether AI systems have freedom of speech, etc

As pregnant people in the US are being killed because of draconian laws and the repeal of Roe v. Wade, because they are not seen as full people independent of their reproductive organs, we are talking about how these AI systems are human-like and we engage with them like friends, partners, coworkers

But it got me thinking because in the realm of my research of AI and trust, there is a lot of discourse on the anthropomorphism of these systems and the idea that people engaging with them as if they are people. (Which is by design).