Dom Pates
@dompates.bsky.social
Educational Technologist, in HE. Father/husband. Writer. Brightonian/ex-Tokyoite. DJ/podcaster. European. Transitionist. (Occasional) Musician. Not necessarily in that order?
Tonight on The Thursday Night Show, the Nighthawks make our third outing at the African Diner for our series that explores the music of the continent. Join Dom and John at the virtual diner counter from 23:00 (UK time) for more samples of Africa’s finest.
November 27, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Tonight on The Thursday Night Show, the Nighthawks make our third outing at the African Diner for our series that explores the music of the continent. Join Dom and John at the virtual diner counter from 23:00 (UK time) for more samples of Africa’s finest.
Tomorrow night, Bob Dylan plays my hometown. I’m not going, but I am doing a radio show in 30 mins time that’ll be a tribute to Dylan. The man who taught me how to write song lyrics.
Live on ttns.uk at 23:00 (UK time). See you in the chatroom.
Live on ttns.uk at 23:00 (UK time). See you in the chatroom.
November 6, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Tomorrow night, Bob Dylan plays my hometown. I’m not going, but I am doing a radio show in 30 mins time that’ll be a tribute to Dylan. The man who taught me how to write song lyrics.
Live on ttns.uk at 23:00 (UK time). See you in the chatroom.
Live on ttns.uk at 23:00 (UK time). See you in the chatroom.
The Nighthawks head back to the African Diner tonight for Part II of our starting sampler of some of Africa’s finest tunes.
Join Dom and John at the virtual diner counter on TTNS.uk tonight, from 23:00 (UK time) and we’ll see you on the chatroom.
Join Dom and John at the virtual diner counter on TTNS.uk tonight, from 23:00 (UK time) and we’ll see you on the chatroom.
October 30, 2025 at 9:48 PM
The Nighthawks head back to the African Diner tonight for Part II of our starting sampler of some of Africa’s finest tunes.
Join Dom and John at the virtual diner counter on TTNS.uk tonight, from 23:00 (UK time) and we’ll see you on the chatroom.
Join Dom and John at the virtual diner counter on TTNS.uk tonight, from 23:00 (UK time) and we’ll see you on the chatroom.
What does learning technology sound like?
For the 3rd year running, TTNS is partnering with ALT to bring you #ALTcRadio - live on site from Glasgow and online, with 48hrs of #EdTech radio.
Hear exclusive shows, live streamed keynotes, archive rewinds and regular TTNS DJs.
#altc #ALTc25
For the 3rd year running, TTNS is partnering with ALT to bring you #ALTcRadio - live on site from Glasgow and online, with 48hrs of #EdTech radio.
Hear exclusive shows, live streamed keynotes, archive rewinds and regular TTNS DJs.
#altc #ALTc25
October 22, 2025 at 12:42 PM
What does learning technology sound like?
For the 3rd year running, TTNS is partnering with ALT to bring you #ALTcRadio - live on site from Glasgow and online, with 48hrs of #EdTech radio.
Hear exclusive shows, live streamed keynotes, archive rewinds and regular TTNS DJs.
#altc #ALTc25
For the 3rd year running, TTNS is partnering with ALT to bring you #ALTcRadio - live on site from Glasgow and online, with 48hrs of #EdTech radio.
Hear exclusive shows, live streamed keynotes, archive rewinds and regular TTNS DJs.
#altc #ALTc25
Just finished this fabulous book, ‘Designing Hope’ by @sarahhousley.bsky.social, looking through the lenses of four emerging futures. Read it in just a few days - it felt like a neat summary of many of the things I’ve been reading over the past few years in the search for ways out of the polycrisis.
October 11, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Just finished this fabulous book, ‘Designing Hope’ by @sarahhousley.bsky.social, looking through the lenses of four emerging futures. Read it in just a few days - it felt like a neat summary of many of the things I’ve been reading over the past few years in the search for ways out of the polycrisis.
An hour of music radio all about #RenewableEnergies, you say? Of course you want to tune in!
D1 Radio Hour tonight, live on ttns.uk at 23:00 (UK time) with a set entirely dedicated to solar, wind, waves (oh yes, and batteries).
Join us in the chatroom if you can.
#transitionism
D1 Radio Hour tonight, live on ttns.uk at 23:00 (UK time) with a set entirely dedicated to solar, wind, waves (oh yes, and batteries).
Join us in the chatroom if you can.
#transitionism
October 2, 2025 at 6:11 PM
An hour of music radio all about #RenewableEnergies, you say? Of course you want to tune in!
D1 Radio Hour tonight, live on ttns.uk at 23:00 (UK time) with a set entirely dedicated to solar, wind, waves (oh yes, and batteries).
Join us in the chatroom if you can.
#transitionism
D1 Radio Hour tonight, live on ttns.uk at 23:00 (UK time) with a set entirely dedicated to solar, wind, waves (oh yes, and batteries).
Join us in the chatroom if you can.
#transitionism
Tonight on The Thursday Night Show, the Nighthawks make their first step into the African Diner for a series that explores the music of the continent.
Join Dom and John at the virtual diner counter on Sep 18, from 23:00 (UK time) for samples of Africa’s finest musical cuts.
Join Dom and John at the virtual diner counter on Sep 18, from 23:00 (UK time) for samples of Africa’s finest musical cuts.
September 18, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Tonight on The Thursday Night Show, the Nighthawks make their first step into the African Diner for a series that explores the music of the continent.
Join Dom and John at the virtual diner counter on Sep 18, from 23:00 (UK time) for samples of Africa’s finest musical cuts.
Join Dom and John at the virtual diner counter on Sep 18, from 23:00 (UK time) for samples of Africa’s finest musical cuts.
Took the #drone out today and got 20m of flight time, capturing the sun setting over the South Downs. Beginning to develop more confidence in my abilities to navigate and fly the thing by now, its 5th proper flight. It’s interesting how much our countryside becomes ‘managed farmland’ from up there.
August 25, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Took the #drone out today and got 20m of flight time, capturing the sun setting over the South Downs. Beginning to develop more confidence in my abilities to navigate and fly the thing by now, its 5th proper flight. It’s interesting how much our countryside becomes ‘managed farmland’ from up there.
A little history tonight on The Thursday Night Show, as I take a look at Aug 14th in music. Join me on ttns.uk in the chatroom from 23:00 (UK time) for a highly eclectic music of tunes from several continents and decades.
August 14, 2025 at 7:36 PM
A little history tonight on The Thursday Night Show, as I take a look at Aug 14th in music. Join me on ttns.uk in the chatroom from 23:00 (UK time) for a highly eclectic music of tunes from several continents and decades.
Tonight, the Nighthawks take our final excursion to the Caribbean with a second dive into spouge - Barbados’s forgotten cousin to reggae. Featuring special guest Nicholas Brancker, dialling in from Bridgetown.
Live on ttns.uk from 23:00 (UK time).
Come and join us in the chatroom.
Live on ttns.uk from 23:00 (UK time).
Come and join us in the chatroom.
August 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Tonight, the Nighthawks take our final excursion to the Caribbean with a second dive into spouge - Barbados’s forgotten cousin to reggae. Featuring special guest Nicholas Brancker, dialling in from Bridgetown.
Live on ttns.uk from 23:00 (UK time).
Come and join us in the chatroom.
Live on ttns.uk from 23:00 (UK time).
Come and join us in the chatroom.
Have held on to this faded 1946 edition of ‘Hiroshima’ by John Hersey of The New Yorker for years without reading it. Tonight, the 80th anniversary of the world’s first atomic bombing, I read it in full, in one sitting - the book a retelling of the stories of 6 survivors. What utter hell it all was.
August 6, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Have held on to this faded 1946 edition of ‘Hiroshima’ by John Hersey of The New Yorker for years without reading it. Tonight, the 80th anniversary of the world’s first atomic bombing, I read it in full, in one sitting - the book a retelling of the stories of 6 survivors. What utter hell it all was.
Might be my third week in a row on the radio, which is not common these days.
Tonight (23:00 UK time), I will be doing my second ‘Filling In The Gaps’ set, where I will be playing tracks that I missed out on at the time from the first two decades of the 21st Century. Join me in the chat at ttns.uk
Tonight (23:00 UK time), I will be doing my second ‘Filling In The Gaps’ set, where I will be playing tracks that I missed out on at the time from the first two decades of the 21st Century. Join me in the chat at ttns.uk
July 31, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Might be my third week in a row on the radio, which is not common these days.
Tonight (23:00 UK time), I will be doing my second ‘Filling In The Gaps’ set, where I will be playing tracks that I missed out on at the time from the first two decades of the 21st Century. Join me in the chat at ttns.uk
Tonight (23:00 UK time), I will be doing my second ‘Filling In The Gaps’ set, where I will be playing tracks that I missed out on at the time from the first two decades of the 21st Century. Join me in the chat at ttns.uk
Finished reading Isabella Tree’s ‘Wilding’ yesterday, a remarkable book about one of Britain’s biggest experiments with #rewilding, at the #Knepp estate in Sussex. Fascinating as the tales of rewilding were, there was also so much rich information about nature to learn about from this book too.
July 26, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Finished reading Isabella Tree’s ‘Wilding’ yesterday, a remarkable book about one of Britain’s biggest experiments with #rewilding, at the #Knepp estate in Sussex. Fascinating as the tales of rewilding were, there was also so much rich information about nature to learn about from this book too.
For The Thursday Night Show’s 13th birthday tonight, I shall be joining in the celebrations with playing some of the oddest cuts from the deepest recesses of my collection. Expect off-the-wall Beatles, unusual mashups and even a bit of swearing! ttns.uk from the earlier time of 20:00 (UK time).
July 24, 2025 at 4:26 PM
For The Thursday Night Show’s 13th birthday tonight, I shall be joining in the celebrations with playing some of the oddest cuts from the deepest recesses of my collection. Expect off-the-wall Beatles, unusual mashups and even a bit of swearing! ttns.uk from the earlier time of 20:00 (UK time).
Tonight, TTNS is officially a teenager! Join us from 17:00 UK time for a cluster of DJs going purposefully weird in the music we’ll be playing. Find us in the chatroom on ttns.uk and help us celebrate our 13th birthday. I’m on at 20:00. #InternetRadio
July 24, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Tonight, TTNS is officially a teenager! Join us from 17:00 UK time for a cluster of DJs going purposefully weird in the music we’ll be playing. Find us in the chatroom on ttns.uk and help us celebrate our 13th birthday. I’m on at 20:00. #InternetRadio
Tonight on ttns.uk at 23:00 UK time, my fellow Nighthawk and I will be delving into the almost forgotten genre of spouge, which emerged out of Barbados at a similar time to reggae’s emergence in Jamaica. We might even be featuring some special guests too. Join us at the diner counter, won’t you?
July 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Tonight on ttns.uk at 23:00 UK time, my fellow Nighthawk and I will be delving into the almost forgotten genre of spouge, which emerged out of Barbados at a similar time to reggae’s emergence in Jamaica. We might even be featuring some special guests too. Join us at the diner counter, won’t you?
A powerful start to the day as I bore witness to a small group of animal puppets and their human puppeteers from #TheHerds as they visited London.
Their journey runs from the Congo Basin to the Arctic Circle.
Met the creator too and thanked him for his vision.
#ThinkBig
www.theherds.org
Their journey runs from the Congo Basin to the Arctic Circle.
Met the creator too and thanked him for his vision.
#ThinkBig
www.theherds.org
June 27, 2025 at 6:42 PM
A powerful start to the day as I bore witness to a small group of animal puppets and their human puppeteers from #TheHerds as they visited London.
Their journey runs from the Congo Basin to the Arctic Circle.
Met the creator too and thanked him for his vision.
#ThinkBig
www.theherds.org
Their journey runs from the Congo Basin to the Arctic Circle.
Met the creator too and thanked him for his vision.
#ThinkBig
www.theherds.org
Will have to up my game here. Talking at one of my fave conferences, our annual #HCID event, on ‘Battling Monsters for Credit’ (June 24th). Part of an event on the role of design in paradigm shifts, mine’s about interdisciplinary climate education.
hcidopenday.co.uk
#HCID2025 #ParadigmShift
hcidopenday.co.uk
#HCID2025 #ParadigmShift
June 10, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Will have to up my game here. Talking at one of my fave conferences, our annual #HCID event, on ‘Battling Monsters for Credit’ (June 24th). Part of an event on the role of design in paradigm shifts, mine’s about interdisciplinary climate education.
hcidopenday.co.uk
#HCID2025 #ParadigmShift
hcidopenday.co.uk
#HCID2025 #ParadigmShift
Back on the radio in 30 mins.
Tonight, the Nighthawks take you on an exploration into Brazilian reggae. It’ll be an education for me as much as a delight to play tonight’s selections. Join John and myself at the diner counter on ttns.uk from 23:00 (BST).
#InternetRadio
Tonight, the Nighthawks take you on an exploration into Brazilian reggae. It’ll be an education for me as much as a delight to play tonight’s selections. Join John and myself at the diner counter on ttns.uk from 23:00 (BST).
#InternetRadio
May 29, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Back on the radio in 30 mins.
Tonight, the Nighthawks take you on an exploration into Brazilian reggae. It’ll be an education for me as much as a delight to play tonight’s selections. Join John and myself at the diner counter on ttns.uk from 23:00 (BST).
#InternetRadio
Tonight, the Nighthawks take you on an exploration into Brazilian reggae. It’ll be an education for me as much as a delight to play tonight’s selections. Join John and myself at the diner counter on ttns.uk from 23:00 (BST).
#InternetRadio
First Thursday Night I’ve not been on a train back from London in ages, so a bit fresher for TTNS for once. And am live at 23:00 (BST) with a set drawing on today - May 22 - as the theme. Come for the surprises, and stumble across a little history along the way. See you on the chatroom.
ttns.uk
ttns.uk
May 22, 2025 at 9:11 PM
First Thursday Night I’ve not been on a train back from London in ages, so a bit fresher for TTNS for once. And am live at 23:00 (BST) with a set drawing on today - May 22 - as the theme. Come for the surprises, and stumble across a little history along the way. See you on the chatroom.
ttns.uk
ttns.uk
Just finished a pretty remarkable book - ‘Imagination: A Manifesto’ by @ruha9.bsky.social.
I have a strong feeling that some of the ideas in this will find its way into my future work, hopefully to support others to open their imaginations.
Thanks to @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social for the pointer…
I have a strong feeling that some of the ideas in this will find its way into my future work, hopefully to support others to open their imaginations.
Thanks to @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social for the pointer…
May 5, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Just finished a pretty remarkable book - ‘Imagination: A Manifesto’ by @ruha9.bsky.social.
I have a strong feeling that some of the ideas in this will find its way into my future work, hopefully to support others to open their imaginations.
Thanks to @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social for the pointer…
I have a strong feeling that some of the ideas in this will find its way into my future work, hopefully to support others to open their imaginations.
Thanks to @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social for the pointer…
Spent y’day on an 8-mile hike around #Knepp estate, one of Britain’s best known examples of #rewilding. Saw the white storks, the deer, & the weather was glorious. As I roamed the place, I was struck by nature’s relationship with time - both fast enough to show abundance & slow enough to show ages.
April 8, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Spent y’day on an 8-mile hike around #Knepp estate, one of Britain’s best known examples of #rewilding. Saw the white storks, the deer, & the weather was glorious. As I roamed the place, I was struck by nature’s relationship with time - both fast enough to show abundance & slow enough to show ages.
Tonight on The Thursday Night Show, the Nighthawks’ Jamaican journey goes all in on Lovers Rock. Join Dom and John at the virtual diner counter on Apr 3, from 23:00 (UK time) and bring a little love. www.ttns.uk
April 3, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Tonight on The Thursday Night Show, the Nighthawks’ Jamaican journey goes all in on Lovers Rock. Join Dom and John at the virtual diner counter on Apr 3, from 23:00 (UK time) and bring a little love. www.ttns.uk
Live at 13:00-16:00 (UK time) today, an #ALTcRadio Rewind of last month’s #CSET25 event, originally broadcast from University of the Arts London. Features talks from Lawrie Phipps, Wesley Goatley and Dave White, along with tunes from yours truly. See you in the chatroom. ttns.uk #EdTech
March 28, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Live at 13:00-16:00 (UK time) today, an #ALTcRadio Rewind of last month’s #CSET25 event, originally broadcast from University of the Arts London. Features talks from Lawrie Phipps, Wesley Goatley and Dave White, along with tunes from yours truly. See you in the chatroom. ttns.uk #EdTech
What a week! VIP treatment from Jisc as a Community Champion Pioneer at Digifest, sliding back into teaching on my climate change module in the middle, and a day at RIDE2025 at the end. 16 trains in total and *so* many good people + ideas 😊 A weekend first, to decompress and then process…
March 15, 2025 at 11:52 AM
What a week! VIP treatment from Jisc as a Community Champion Pioneer at Digifest, sliding back into teaching on my climate change module in the middle, and a day at RIDE2025 at the end. 16 trains in total and *so* many good people + ideas 😊 A weekend first, to decompress and then process…