Alan ‘Dread Pirate’ Hook

The largely retired account of an “Aspiring Generalist” - Teaching and Researching at @ulsteruni preferring to post to [email protected] at the moment

[Alan ‘Dread Pirate’ Hook @alan_hook]

I did an interview about my #speculativedesign project Equine Eyes last year for an upcoming documentary. Here are some exerts https://t.co/SKMUpbyCYg

[SHDC Research @SHDCresearch]

Final free tickets available for @alan_hook talk about Interspecies Kinship - See Like a Horse on Wednesday 04 Dec ➡️ free tickets https://t.co/wwNfSlD0hh

[Alan ‘Dread Pirate’ Hook @alan_hook]

@nicwhitton @katiepiatt @AlexM11 @RosieJHJones @playbrarian @drjjlean @JameseCharnock @GiskinDay @SussexUni @NorthumbriaUni Legends one and all, congratulations - it’s one of my favourite news letters

[Alan ‘Dread Pirate’ Hook @alan_hook]

@kevinudlmerry @AdvanceHE @hack_kay Taking a break, zooming out, applying my skills to different sectoral challenges all helped my head clear a bit post pandemic. I didn’t realise how tired I was. I’m alway ALL IN or not in at all which makes HE difficult sometimes.

[Alan ‘Dread Pirate’ Hook @alan_hook]

@tyndyll Media softens you to capitalist exploitation… get Michael Moore on it! Bring ACME down!

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This piece was prototyped as part of my PT PhD in Speculative Design with @ProfTriviality at @ImaginationLanc and its final form was developed in collaboration with @tyndyll - funded by @UlsterUni IAA funding with @Justin_D_Magee and @maria_prince1.

[Alan ‘Dread Pirate’ Hook @alan_hook]

Equine Eyes (2024) - after a complete ground up rebuild the finished headset which explores speculative methods for inter-species kinship is showing between March-August in the Centre for Design Innovation in Belgium. SUPERPOWER DESIGN exhibition opens tomorrow 25/08.

[Alan ‘Dread Pirate’ Hook @alan_hook]

@Charlesknight We used to have a thing where if you could show up with a job offer from somewhere (usually outside academia) that matched the salary of SL (pre-92) then The Dean could automatically promote you in the next round snuck into the pile with the other applications

[Alan ‘Dread Pirate’ Hook @alan_hook]

@LeonaONeill1 Adobe Audition for pre-process > Adobe Podcast for clean up > Adobe Audition to add little noise back in.

[Alan ‘Dread Pirate’ Hook @alan_hook]

@Charlesknight When you hassle academics it’s just spam too… I try and do twice as many as I ask for, but it’s a very weird economic model any which way you cut it.

[Diego @dmarcos]

This is how execs should sell VR headsets.

[Alan ‘Dread Pirate’ Hook @alan_hook]

@Vic_McC I presume that I can read this out to students though so it explains why I’m acting so weird. I’m trying to calculate what happens if they’re filling in the survey and they come close to me… to I have to keep a 2m distance?

[Alan ‘Dread Pirate’ Hook @alan_hook]

Nation Student Survey - Help us collect data from students on the thing that you do, but you are not allowed to tell students how the data is used after it’s collected or what implications it might have 🧐 but part of what we do is build data literacy and critical citizenship…😬

[Leona O'Neill @LeonaONeill1]

Great work here from our @UlsterUni MA Journalism star @Journo_BenA on how the pay disparity is impacting student teachers hoping to stay in NI

[Jennifer O'Meara @J_O_Meara]

Please check out (and share!) our CfP for the conference 'Screen Studies in the Age of Extended Reality & Synthetic Media', with a keynote by Prof. Jenna Ng. Supported by @IrishResearch, it will take place in the @TLRHub on June 4th-5th. Full details: https://t.co/LkXXgVvW9Y

[Alan ‘Dread Pirate’ Hook @alan_hook]

@dannybirchall Oh, that sounds great! (And if I have space would love to join). I’d send it out on something like the MeCSSA JISC listserve. You’d hit almost all Media, Communication and Cultural Studies academics, Researchers and PhDs then

[Alan ‘Dread Pirate’ Hook @alan_hook]

@tyndyll @BaseArcade I did Saturday. Great wee spot

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@dannybirchall A sad story

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@Vugar_Ibrahimov Chat gpt

[Alan ‘Dread Pirate’ Hook @alan_hook]

@Charlesknight I’ve heard fantastic things about Dr Wright, but “Ultrawife” is a solid flex