The ADAPT Centre

#IWD2026: Meet Dr Esther Murphy, School of Engineering @tcddublin.bsky.social

Esther is the founder of #DigiAcademy Technology, an initiative transforming digital inclusion for people with intellectual disabilities: www.adaptcentre.ie?post_type=ne...
#GivetoGain @researchireland.ie

#IWD2026: Meet Dr Sheila Castilho, DCU!

Her research focuses on #MT, #AI, and multilingual communication, exploring how language technologies can improve cross-lingual access to knowledge while promoting responsible AI use: www.adaptcentre.ie/news-and-eve...
#GivetoGain @researchireland.ie

#IWD2026: Meet Dr Mani Dhingra, @ucddublin.bsky.social & Smart City Digital Twin Lead! She credits mentors & colleagues who helped turn her research into practical solutions for sustainable and resilient urban futures:
www.adaptcentre.ie/news-and-eve...
#GiveToGain @researchireland.ie

€6m in @researchireland.ie Discover funding will support 32 STEM engagement projects.

#CyberCitizens, led by @ucddublin.bsky.social w/ ADAPT at @tcddublin.bsky.social, will help people tackle challenges around GenAI, disinformation, privacy & digital safety
www.adaptcentre.ie/news-and-eve...

What Irish politician Thomas Gould’s accent going viral in Jamaica reveals about colonial history In the late 1600s, hundreds of Irish people were transported to Jamaica as labourers.

🚨New Article🚨

VOICES PI @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social has published a fascinating article exploring the complicated and lasting colonial connections between Ireland and Jamaica.

Find the article here: theconversation.com/what-irish-p...

Happy International Women's Day! 💜 For #IWD2026, ADAPT is marking the theme #GiveToGain by sharing the work of some of our fantastic researchers throughout the week - keep an eye out!
@researchireland.ie

Happy International Women’s Day from @voicestcd.bsky.social! Check out latest blog on the technology to recover lives of women from Irish history ☘️ who were hiding in plain sight 🕵️ blog includes demo of tech 🖥️ @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social @tlrhub.bsky.social @adaptcentre.bsky.social

Knowledge sharing in action! 🧠 Today at @kinitsk.bsky.social, we are hosting a Research Development Training led by experts from the @adaptcentre.bsky.social 🌍

Supporting these activities is key to our mission: helping KInIT grow into a recognized European Centre of Excellence. 🚀

#lorAI #EUFunded

Yesterday, 100 of Ireland’s top teenage problem solvers gathered in DCU for the hugely successful national final of the ADAPT All Ireland Linguistics Olympiad (#AILO): www.adaptcentre.ie/news-and-eve...
@researchireland.ie

#ADAPTRadio: The Age-Friendly AI initiative is tackling privacy, scams, and complex tech through co-created literacy programs.

Listen to Paula Kelly & Michael Core
@wearetudublin.bsky.social on empowering older adults to take control of #AI:
www.adaptcentre.ie/news-and-eve...
@researchireland.ie

A great insight into the project on recovering VOICES of women - from Ireland’s “dung queen” to the alleged 118 yr old Mrs Valentine 💌 @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social @voicestcd.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social @adaptcentre.bsky.social @nlireland.bsky.social @tcdlibrary.bsky.social @tlrhub.bsky.social

As Director of @aial.ie at ADAPT & @tcddublin.bsky.social, Abeba and her team have since produced influential research on #surveillance practices, secured #EU funding to develop audit frameworks, and contributed to both national and #global #AI policy discussions. More about the lab here: aial.ie

Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social @aial.ie, ADAPT & @tcddublin.bsky.social, features in @researchireland.ie's inaugural strategy: Curiosity, Capability, Competitiveness – Charting Ireland’s Research and Innovation Future 2026–2030.

📌 Read the strategy here: www.researchireland.ie/news/researc...

Clodagh Finn: The dung queen of Ireland — and other Irish women alive in the time of Hamnet Voices is using AI and Knowledge Graph technologies to bring together myriad sources so historians and computer scientists can recover the lives of ordinary Irish early modern women

From ‘the dung queen of Ireland’ to Jessie Buckley: @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social recently discussed with Clodagh Finn the importance of sharing early modern women’s stories, advances in AI tools, and how VOICES is leading the charge on both fronts.
A special thank you to Clodagh for the article!

#ADAPTRadio: The Age-Friendly AI initiative is tackling privacy, scams, and complex tech through co-created literacy programs.

Listen to Paula Kelly & Michael Core @wearetudublin.bsky.social on empowering older adults to take control of #AI:
www.adaptcentre.ie/news-and-eve...
@researchireland.ie

🏅@tcddublin.bsky.social and @adaptcentre.bsky.social researchers have won the @researchireland.ie Maritime Situational Awareness Challenge with Sea-Scan, a system to detect vessels and support Ireland's maritime security. Co-led by our own Dr John Kennedy.
Full story: www.tcd.ie/news_events/...

Cover of the Research Ireland Strategy, showing an aerial photograph of Ireland, with the Research Ireland and Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science logos; and the text: Curiosity, Capability, Competitiveness - Charting Ireland's Research and Innovation Future

Research Ireland's new Strategy: Curiosity, Capability, Competitiveness – Charting Ireland’s Research and Innovation Future, aims to build a research and innovation system that delivers prosperity for the people of Ireland. Read the full Strategy: www.researchireland.ie/strategy/

#ResearchIreland

Research Ireland’s new five-year strategy targets talent, economy, society Research Ireland has unveiled its inaugural strategy for development of the country’s research and innovation landscape over the next five years, ‘Curiosity, Capability, Competitiveness – Charting Ireland’s Research and Innovation Future 2026–2030’, to create “prosperity for the people of Ireland” through stronger enterprise performance and enhanced national competitiveness.

Research Ireland’s new five-year strategy targets talent, the economy and society.

Tomorrow we join AI2 in exploring a practical roadmap on future-skilling the Irish workforce. More info below >>

Researchers from @tcddublin.bsky.social & the ADAPT @researchireland.ie Centre won the Maritime Situational Awareness Challenge after creating an #AI-enhanced, #vessel #detection system that will strengthen Ireland’s #naval security. Learn more: www.adaptcentre.ie/news-and-eve...

Coming up this Thursday >>

☀️ #StandICT Open Call 2 is now open🔓
⏰ You have time to submit until 17 April 26
🎯 Priority topics for Open Call 2
1) #ArtificialIntelligence with contributions in particular to @cen-cenelec.bsky.social #JTC21
2) EC Standardisation Request on high-risk #AI systems
Apply: standict.eu/open-call/op...

We're hiring image, Join Our Team

🚨We're hiring! The Research Ireland Centre ADAPT at Trinity College Dublin is hiring a Post-Doctoral Researcher in NLP for Historical Texts and Knowledge Graphs with Prof John Kelleher on the VOICEs project.
💡Find out more here www.adaptcentre.ie/careers/ @researchireland.ie

How do we build a workforce that is confident, creative & ready to work with #AI, not compete with it?

Join us 26th Feb at the TCD Innovation Hub from 2-4pm where we explore a practical roadmap on future-skilling the Irish workforce.

Register interest here: www.eventbrite.com/e/empowering...

#KISTI hosted researchers from Ireland as part of efforts to expand international collaboration.

Prof. Cathal Gurrin & Alice Dajung Jung, DCU & ADAPT, visited headquarters to explore possibilities for cooperation across various fields of science and technology:
www.adaptcentre.ie/news-and-eve...

The lorAI Project has 6 strategic objectives to strengthen research in Slovakia. First up: increasing R&I capacities and attracting top talent back home. 🧠📈

👉 See the post - bit.ly/4rrSQVZ

#lorAI #lorAIproject @kinitsk.bsky.social @adaptcentre.bsky.social @dfki.bsky.social #certh

Upcoming workshop in collaboration with Oide Creativity: #AI Literacy in #Education - Balancing the Opportunities and Mitigating the Risks
Open to all #secondaryschool #teachers
🗓 Saturday 7th March
⏰ 10:00am – 12:30pm
Learn more & register: www.creativity.oide.ie
@researchireland.ie

ADAPT’s #DiscussAI has been shortlisted for the Education Awards 2026 (Best Outreach – Community & Public Engagement): www.adaptcentre.ie/news-and-eve...
@researchireland.ie @dublincityuni.bsky.social

Reads: Most importantly, there is no AI without massive financial and ideological backing. It is therefore pointless to discuss its techniques or capabilities without asking who controls it, who benefits from it, who builds and deploys it, and what it is doing in the world. As Stafford Beer (2002) argued, the purpose of a system is what it does.

Reads: Though less explicit than Thiel’s call to replace politics with technology, major tech firms have effectively privatised core digital public goods. Platforms like Facebook, Google Search, and OpenAI’s ChatGPT operate at infrastructural scale in Ireland, shaping information, communication, and access to knowledge. Yet their algorithms remain opaque, their governance remains private, with minimal democratic accountability to the public who depend on them; effectively ceding aspects of democratic process to commercial interests. The monopolization of digital spaces has turned democracy into something the highest bidder can buy and is degrading the digital public goods themselves. As the AI industry, social media and search platforms grow more extractive and less trustworthy, they erode the foundations of democratic life: trust, dialogue, and accountability, blurring the line between truth and falsehood. An example is the deepfake video falsely showing President Catherine Connolly withdrawing from the presidential race last October, which amassed over 160,0001 Facebook views before being removed. GenAI’s non-deterministic, stochastic architecture produces plausible output without regard for accuracy or truth. This makes generative AI a societal disaster and a major threat to truth, democratic processes, information ecosystems, knowledge production, and the social fabric

Reads: For truth, democracy, and the rule of law to endure in the AI era, we need to cultivate an ecosystem of transparency and accountability. Yet governance by algorithms inherently places our digital public squares and democratic processes in the hands of those building these systems in line with their political and profit-seeking agendas. Without real mechanisms in place, talk of transparency and accountability are empty gestures. An internal Meta memo outlining plans to launch facial recognition in smart glasses “during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns”5 illustrates how those advocating for accountability are under-resourced, retaliated against, and targeted. Large tech and AI companies, despite selling promises of innovation and societal benefit, monetize and undermine the very society they claim to serve. What is needed is not just regulation, but active enforcement. Given the track record of tech giants, stricter regulation and enforcement is not “anti–freedom of speech” or anti-competitiveness. It is one of the clearest ways governments can show they serve the public interest. After all, innovation that disregards truth and democratic processes risks undermining democracy itself.

I appeared as an expert witness before the Joint Committee on AI at the Houses of Oireachtas (parliament of Ireland) to discuss "AI: truth and democracy" this morning. You can read my opening statement here: www.oireachtas.ie/en/publicati...

A belated Valentine's from VOICES ❤️

A Mrs Kinborow Valentine reportedly lived until she was 118 years of age! Her Funeral Entry is recorded in NLI GO MS 76 f. 108v, along with a coat of arms inscribed with small hearts.