@cushinga

Associate Prof, UCD School of Info & Comm Studies. Personal info mgmt, maintaining behavior, digital curation education & research. Opinions my own.

 Dublin, Ireland
people.ucd.ie/amber.cushing/professional
Joined January 2008
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We have a vacancy for a Documentation Officer in the IFI Archive @IFI_Dub please share ifi.ie/about/jobs/

Work at IFI

Working at the IFI means being part of Ireland's most important cultural film institution. We're looking for passionate, creative individuals who share…

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I've been sitting on this secret for a long time, but I can finally announce that my book Reeling in the Queers: Tales of Ireland's LGBTQ Past will be released this June, right in time for Pride season with the lovely folks at @NewIslandBooks newisland.ie/blog/2024/2/14/…
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I enjoyed speaking to Ab about this topic. Results here: thestar.com/business/the-hid…

The hidden environmental cost of your overflowing email inbox

When consumers think about ways to reduce their carbon footprint, lowering their car usage, eating fewer animal products and reducing their waste likely come to mind.

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I'm happy to share I've been promoted to Associate Professor @UCD_iSchool.
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Good morning all!! Happy World Digital Preservation Day 2023!! A great day to celebrate our concerted effort towards open, sustainable, #digitalpreservation! #WDPD2023 #digipres
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We’re recruiting a new colleague to join us as Assist Prof of #HCI @UCD_iSchool. This permanent position provides the opportunity to shape and expand upon both our MSc in HCI Programme and a research agenda spanning healthtech, conv. agents, ethics & more! universityvacancies.com/univ…
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🆕Another Job! Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Information & Communication Studies within UCD iSchool, perm ℹ️Apply: ucd.ie/ics/vacancies/staffva… 🗓️6 Nov The School is hiring a number of new academic posts at an exciting time in the School's development Pls share! #InfoCommJobs
New Job: Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Information & Communication Studies within UCD iSchool

ALT New Job: Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Information & Communication Studies within UCD iSchool

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Power cut in Donabate AGAIN. That’s 10+ times this year. Can you please get it together @ESBNetworks?
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I'm happy to share my new article is available open access in @JASIST where I apply EoC to PIM: asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.… @UCD_iSchool

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology | Wiley Online Library

This paper explores the use of Fisher and Tronto's four phases of ethics of care (caring about, taking care of, caregiving, and care receiving) to three personal information management (PIM) framew...

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🌬️🫴 Let it go: “We are attached to our belongings because we identify with them." - Assistant Professor Amber Cushing, UCD School of Information and Communication Studies 🗣️: @AmberCushing10 | @UCD_iSchool | | @ucdsocscilaw | @UCDDigital | @MJ_Coren washingtonpost.com/climate-e…

Advice | The Swedes know the secret to happiness: You are not your stuff

Swedish death cleaning can help us rethink our relationship to stuff — and our environmental impact

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Registration for our next #webinar on the 19th July, 'How Do Users Discover Digital Curation Tools?' with @cushinga, is now open to the community! Register your place today! openpreservation.org/events/… #digipres
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Irish colleagues: Please considering signing this letter to Minister Harris regarding funding equity and other priorities in the Research and Innovation Bill 2023 (due for the Dáil summer session) (not drafted by me!). chng.it/yJjMnqLthp

Sign the Petition

Research and Innovation Bill 2023: Open Letter to Minister Simon Harris

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Join us in @UCDLibrary as Data Manager, temporary – 2.5 years contract, closing date 2nd May 2023 #lisjobsIE ucd.ie/workatucd/jobs/
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We host a Ukrainian refugee & I have spent hrs over a month helping her-no one, including the @HSELive assigned gp have room for her. I’ve rung 5 gps. Urgent care will not write a referral she needs. Ringing hse depts sends me in circles. No space for the vulnerable?@ICGPnews
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So glad to be among the finalists with @cushinga for the Lee Dirks Award at the #iConf23! 🤩 @iconf @UCD_iSchool ischools.org/awards
The abstract of our full paper "That's not Damning with Faint Praise": Understanding the Adoption of Artificial Intelligence for Digital Preservation Tasks

ALT The abstract of our full paper "That's not Damning with Faint Praise": Understanding the Adoption of Artificial Intelligence for Digital Preservation Tasks

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Come work with as a member of the @ml_labs_irl PhD funded cohort. I'm hosting a project on AI and cultural heritage volunteering with @suz_research. Applications due 12 February. ml-labs.ie/apply/

Apply Now For Scholarships In Machine Learning | ML-Labs

Now accepting applications for scholarships in Technical Machine Learning in Ireland, through our online application form.

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We are seeking more good people! Please see our website (jobs in the footer) for 3 open positions: Digital Preservation Specialist and Maintainers for the @accesstomemory and @archivematica projects artefactual.com/artefactual-… #digipres #archives #developer #foss
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Happy to share I've received a Teaching Excellence award from @ucdsocscilaw. Such an honour to be a second time awardee! @UCD_iSchool
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Hear that noise? Glass ceiling of Irish academia cracked a bit. I was promoted to Full Prof, which makes me the first woman of color to become a Full Prof in Ireland. Relieved. Grateful for my colleagues and students. Thumb in the eye to the racists and sexists. #AcademicTwitter
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Happy to share that my article with @semanticnoodles is avail online in JDoc. We asked those working in #digipres their thoughts about using AI in their work. Lots of help (thanks!) w/ data collection here-names in the acknowledgements. doi.org/10.1108/JD-08-2022-0… @UCD_iSchool
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