Kara Ghobhainn Smith
@ghobhainn.bsky.social
Hebridean, Canadian writer and educational researcher 🖋️
🥘'Cooking together is reconciliation; whenever it happens, it has to start somewhere'
🖋️British-Israeli chef Yotam Ottolenghi in the Globe 📰today
🖋️British-Israeli chef Yotam Ottolenghi in the Globe 📰today
December 19, 2025 at 6:36 PM
🥘'Cooking together is reconciliation; whenever it happens, it has to start somewhere'
🖋️British-Israeli chef Yotam Ottolenghi in the Globe 📰today
🖋️British-Israeli chef Yotam Ottolenghi in the Globe 📰today
🤔"Ask yourself, what happens when anyone has the power to create & broadcast material with incredible levels of realism?"
👉Mustafa Suleyman's The Coming Wave (written more than 3 years ago!)
👉Mustafa Suleyman's The Coming Wave (written more than 3 years ago!)
December 17, 2025 at 11:57 AM
🤔"Ask yourself, what happens when anyone has the power to create & broadcast material with incredible levels of realism?"
👉Mustafa Suleyman's The Coming Wave (written more than 3 years ago!)
👉Mustafa Suleyman's The Coming Wave (written more than 3 years ago!)
🎂Happy 250th to the writer who documented women🖋️
December 16, 2025 at 2:30 PM
🎂Happy 250th to the writer who documented women🖋️
16 Dec: Happy 250th Birthday to author JANE AUSTEN - 1st chronicler of women's lives & author of "spongecake" 🎂
"It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do." ~Sense & Sensibility 🖋️
"It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do." ~Sense & Sensibility 🖋️
December 14, 2025 at 9:08 AM
16 Dec: Happy 250th Birthday to author JANE AUSTEN - 1st chronicler of women's lives & author of "spongecake" 🎂
"It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do." ~Sense & Sensibility 🖋️
"It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do." ~Sense & Sensibility 🖋️
🌬️🌧️The world's gone topsy-turvy - only in the Western Isles do you see it raining UP! 😵💫
December 13, 2025 at 2:39 PM
🌬️🌧️The world's gone topsy-turvy - only in the Western Isles do you see it raining UP! 😵💫
👩🔬🇨🇦 “As other countries constrain academic freedoms & undermine cutting-edge research, Canada is investing in & doubling down on science by attracting the top minds from around the world to work alongside exceptional Canadian researchers." 🌐
~Mélanie Joly,
~Mélanie Joly,
December 11, 2025 at 8:28 AM
👩🔬🇨🇦 “As other countries constrain academic freedoms & undermine cutting-edge research, Canada is investing in & doubling down on science by attracting the top minds from around the world to work alongside exceptional Canadian researchers." 🌐
~Mélanie Joly,
~Mélanie Joly,
🇻🇪'Every human being has a right to individual sovereignty.'
2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Maria Corina Machado
2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Maria Corina Machado
December 10, 2025 at 1:09 PM
🇻🇪'Every human being has a right to individual sovereignty.'
2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Maria Corina Machado
2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Maria Corina Machado
🛳Love this method of #representing research from France's FishOWF+ marine science team 👏
www.france-energies-marines.org/wp-content/u...
www.france-energies-marines.org/wp-content/u...
December 8, 2025 at 9:54 AM
🛳Love this method of #representing research from France's FishOWF+ marine science team 👏
www.france-energies-marines.org/wp-content/u...
www.france-energies-marines.org/wp-content/u...
🖋️'The artist's job is not to succumb to despair; but to find an antidote to the emptiness of existence.'
#WoodyAllen for #GertrudeStein
#WoodyAllen for #GertrudeStein
December 5, 2025 at 3:32 PM
🖋️'The artist's job is not to succumb to despair; but to find an antidote to the emptiness of existence.'
#WoodyAllen for #GertrudeStein
#WoodyAllen for #GertrudeStein
👇 AI: Here's where we are now (below). Beyond Siri, Alexa ChatGBT & multistep info tasks - we're now at #Agentic AI, 'agents', e.g. PerplexityComet, that can move your cursor, click decisions, type & complete autonomous tasks. Q: Where will we insert our humanity?
[Image:educator Nick BakerUWindsor]
[Image:educator Nick BakerUWindsor]
December 2, 2025 at 9:32 AM
👇 AI: Here's where we are now (below). Beyond Siri, Alexa ChatGBT & multistep info tasks - we're now at #Agentic AI, 'agents', e.g. PerplexityComet, that can move your cursor, click decisions, type & complete autonomous tasks. Q: Where will we insert our humanity?
[Image:educator Nick BakerUWindsor]
[Image:educator Nick BakerUWindsor]
As governments &. teachers grapple w how to work w agentic AI, here are Nick Baker’s Principles forTrustworthy AI:
1. Keep humans in control.
2. Maintain transparency in agent behaviour.
3. Align agents w human values.
4. Protect privacy across extended interactions.
5. Secure agents’ interactions.
1. Keep humans in control.
2. Maintain transparency in agent behaviour.
3. Align agents w human values.
4. Protect privacy across extended interactions.
5. Secure agents’ interactions.
December 1, 2025 at 9:45 PM
As governments &. teachers grapple w how to work w agentic AI, here are Nick Baker’s Principles forTrustworthy AI:
1. Keep humans in control.
2. Maintain transparency in agent behaviour.
3. Align agents w human values.
4. Protect privacy across extended interactions.
5. Secure agents’ interactions.
1. Keep humans in control.
2. Maintain transparency in agent behaviour.
3. Align agents w human values.
4. Protect privacy across extended interactions.
5. Secure agents’ interactions.
⚕️Some 2024 data from 🇨🇦 this week on MAID (Medical Assistance in Death) e.g., AVG age = 77.9. Cancer was the most frequently cited medical condition, affecting 63% of recipients (mainly lung, colorectal, pancreatic & hematologic).
November 29, 2025 at 8:13 AM
⚕️Some 2024 data from 🇨🇦 this week on MAID (Medical Assistance in Death) e.g., AVG age = 77.9. Cancer was the most frequently cited medical condition, affecting 63% of recipients (mainly lung, colorectal, pancreatic & hematologic).
'No amount of hustle will fix a place that thrives on chaos.
No level of loyalty will shift a culture that protects poor leadership.' 🤔
🖋️LyndaLeads
No level of loyalty will shift a culture that protects poor leadership.' 🤔
🖋️LyndaLeads
November 28, 2025 at 12:12 PM
'No amount of hustle will fix a place that thrives on chaos.
No level of loyalty will shift a culture that protects poor leadership.' 🤔
🖋️LyndaLeads
No level of loyalty will shift a culture that protects poor leadership.' 🤔
🖋️LyndaLeads
In the 1980s and 90s, Microsoft, IBM & Apple's central marketing strategy was 'SELL to schools'; students are naïve 'customers for life'. Is Big AI is using the same strategy 40 years on? 🤔
November 25, 2025 at 7:08 PM
In the 1980s and 90s, Microsoft, IBM & Apple's central marketing strategy was 'SELL to schools'; students are naïve 'customers for life'. Is Big AI is using the same strategy 40 years on? 🤔
🤯 Just watching 'why Rome fell' on BBC's 'Civilisations' - "less and less was going into the public good, and more and more into the coffers of the super rich" 🫰
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
November 25, 2025 at 6:57 PM
🤯 Just watching 'why Rome fell' on BBC's 'Civilisations' - "less and less was going into the public good, and more and more into the coffers of the super rich" 🫰
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
🕵️♀️Now it's time to play: 'Which one of these vapid Christmas movies _wasn't_ written by AI 👾?'
November 25, 2025 at 9:07 AM
🕵️♀️Now it's time to play: 'Which one of these vapid Christmas movies _wasn't_ written by AI 👾?'
From the Guardian🗞️ today: Students at the University of Staffordshire have said they feel 'robbed' after a course turned out to be taught in large part by AI. A recorded meeting shows a student saying, "I do not want to be taught by GPT".
"We could have asked ChatGPT"' #studentsfightback
"We could have asked ChatGPT"' #studentsfightback
November 22, 2025 at 8:56 AM
From the Guardian🗞️ today: Students at the University of Staffordshire have said they feel 'robbed' after a course turned out to be taught in large part by AI. A recorded meeting shows a student saying, "I do not want to be taught by GPT".
"We could have asked ChatGPT"' #studentsfightback
"We could have asked ChatGPT"' #studentsfightback
"AI represents an urgent catalyst for change. It does not just influence how student learning can be assessed, it also influences what is WORTH assessing and, consequently, what and how students learn."
(Lodge et al, TEQSA, 2023, p.2.)
(Lodge et al, TEQSA, 2023, p.2.)
November 19, 2025 at 1:01 PM
"AI represents an urgent catalyst for change. It does not just influence how student learning can be assessed, it also influences what is WORTH assessing and, consequently, what and how students learn."
(Lodge et al, TEQSA, 2023, p.2.)
(Lodge et al, TEQSA, 2023, p.2.)
🎂a very happy 86th birthday to 🇨🇦author, Margaret Atwood 🥂
November 18, 2025 at 11:44 AM
🎂a very happy 86th birthday to 🇨🇦author, Margaret Atwood 🥂
🖋️ Thammavongsa wins the Giller - again - w 'Pick a Colour', about retired boxer Ning who runs a nail salon where all the employees are called 'Susan'. Exploring Ning's keen observations of her privileged clients & the power dynamics of the service economy, true identities & anonymous roles played.
November 18, 2025 at 6:54 AM
🖋️ Thammavongsa wins the Giller - again - w 'Pick a Colour', about retired boxer Ning who runs a nail salon where all the employees are called 'Susan'. Exploring Ning's keen observations of her privileged clients & the power dynamics of the service economy, true identities & anonymous roles played.
'Hunt for the Oldest DNA follows scientist Eske Willerslev's 16yr search for DNA from ancient soil. What the Albert Einstein World Award of Science winner finds in the ground reveals a world from before the ice age. The film delivers the professor's inspiring story of pursuit and science.' 🔎🌏
November 8, 2025 at 12:40 AM
'Hunt for the Oldest DNA follows scientist Eske Willerslev's 16yr search for DNA from ancient soil. What the Albert Einstein World Award of Science winner finds in the ground reveals a world from before the ice age. The film delivers the professor's inspiring story of pursuit and science.' 🔎🌏
"I think the danger is when one place becomes like another & everything becomes yours to possess- rather than admire.
Land has to have a life of its own, which you can desire, but not claim. And if that's the way it is, it often opens the gate, and welcomes you in."
🖋️AngusPeterCampbell
Land has to have a life of its own, which you can desire, but not claim. And if that's the way it is, it often opens the gate, and welcomes you in."
🖋️AngusPeterCampbell
November 4, 2025 at 8:31 AM
"I think the danger is when one place becomes like another & everything becomes yours to possess- rather than admire.
Land has to have a life of its own, which you can desire, but not claim. And if that's the way it is, it often opens the gate, and welcomes you in."
🖋️AngusPeterCampbell
Land has to have a life of its own, which you can desire, but not claim. And if that's the way it is, it often opens the gate, and welcomes you in."
🖋️AngusPeterCampbell
'Masons are careful to test out the scaffolding; secure ladders, tighten joints.
When the job's done - walls of sure and solid stone.
So if, my dear, there sometimes seem to be Old bridges breaking between you and me, never fear. We may let the scaffolds fall. Confident that we have built our wall.'
When the job's done - walls of sure and solid stone.
So if, my dear, there sometimes seem to be Old bridges breaking between you and me, never fear. We may let the scaffolds fall. Confident that we have built our wall.'
October 18, 2025 at 11:03 AM
'Masons are careful to test out the scaffolding; secure ladders, tighten joints.
When the job's done - walls of sure and solid stone.
So if, my dear, there sometimes seem to be Old bridges breaking between you and me, never fear. We may let the scaffolds fall. Confident that we have built our wall.'
When the job's done - walls of sure and solid stone.
So if, my dear, there sometimes seem to be Old bridges breaking between you and me, never fear. We may let the scaffolds fall. Confident that we have built our wall.'
