Congrats to my sister Karen Collins for this glowing review of her podcast ;-)

👀🎉 Pinch us, we’re up against New Scientist and The Economist as finalists for @asbw’s SCIENCE PODCAST OF THE YEAR!! 🎧🥳 (To celebrate: Season four of Small Screen Science is coming soon!) #scicomm #podcast Karen Collins Emma Brisdion

And another one.... Boots

Excited to have universal buy-in from all siblings across both sides of the family for this year's Xmas presents. Rules are: £3.50 limit per person, must be edible and must be random. Should be a lot better on both the environment and everyone's pocket!

Wow cool.... maybe if we had more than 2 EV charging points on jubilee campus we could be no. 1 or 2? ....pretty please!!! ;-)

What's happening with #RightToRepair legislation? 🇪🇺 Plenty in Europe, progress on batteries, smartphones and tablets 🇺🇸 First law approved in New York 🇬🇧 No progress in UK Here is full summary and what we expect coming next: therestartproject.org/news/whats-nex…

Very much looking forward to presenting our paper - Revisiting the Digital Plumber: Modifying the Installation Process of an Established Commercial IoT Alarm System ECSCW conference #ECSCW2023 😶 stuart reeves 😶 Joel Fischer - rdcu.be/c6Txz

We are very pleased to be running a repair focused workshop at UbiComp this year. If you have an interest in exploring the Technical, Social, and Legal aspects of IoT repairability we'd love to hear from you! ubifix2023.wp.horizon.ac.uk

Submissions for UbiFix 2023 UbiComp are now open - new.precisionconference.com/submissions - Submit a 3 page position paper to our workshop for publication in the ACM DL or complete a short form on our website if you'd like to attend -ubifix2023.wp.horizon.ac.uk #UbiComp2023 #ReducingEwaste

Excited the @ESPRC #FixingtheFuture team is at UbiComp in Oct to discuss the challenges & opportunities of #RighttoRepair #IoT. Join the #ubifix convos & get your subs in: ubifix2023.wp.horizon.ac.uk Neelima Sunil Teresa Castle-Green Dr Lachlan D. Urquhart @[email protected] @ProfTriviality ImaginationLancaster The Repair Shop 2049

Dr Lachlan D. Urquhart @[email protected] Michael Stead @ProfTriviality @drdrmc melissa terras Susan Lechelt Teresa Castle-Green Damla Kilic Pekaslan Horizon Horizon CDT ImaginationLancaster

Amazing panel that raised so many important questions for CSCW moving forwards. Very thought provoking and engaging! #ECSCW2023

Our UbiComp workshop (Ubifix 2023) around technology sustainability and inclusion is now open to ALL. Please do join us to co-create some interesting discussions and future directions UbiComp Dr Lachlan D. Urquhart @[email protected] Michael Stead bsky: @designresearch.works @ProfTriviality Teresa Castle-Green

Job klaxon 📢 Come join me @ProfTriviality & team on the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Fixing the Future project. Senior RA #design from Sept 2023 ImaginationLancaster LICA Lancaster University Help us design the The Repair Shop 2049 with Tom Macpherson-Pope @TheMakingRooms Full details - hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r…

It was a great day, lots of interest in the game. Thanks everyone 😀

And here are the eight FameLab East Midlands superstars 🙌🏻👏🏻 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Join our Creating Sustainable Internet of Things Futures workshop Association for Computing Machinery DIS24 in Copenhagen July 2nd @VIOLETSrFL0WERS ImaginationLancaster Dr Lachlan D. Urquhart @[email protected] Susan Lechelt The University of Edinburgh Dimitri Darzentas Edinburgh Napier University Teresa Castle-Green Neelima Sunil Horizon blogs.ed.ac.uk/fixing_the_fut…

Call for Participation for Association for Computing Machinery NordiCHI '24 workshop - Greetings from Silicon Heaven: Postcards from the IoT Afterlife will explore IoT sustainability via the lives, deaths & afterlives of electronic objects 🤖💀🌿Info+sign up at lnkd.in/eVqYxdaY DL - 20.08.24

After all these years it still winds me up when websites tell me my name is not valid. How about we start being more honest with error messages. Is it the name on my government issued passport that's not valid or is it that your system's a bit shit?