# Dominik Lukeš

> Dominik Lukeš is an AI Consultant for Research and Strategy at the University of Oxford, and a researcher, educator, writer and translator.

This site is written for people and agents alike. Every page has a Markdown copy at <page>/index.md, listed below. Sitemap: https://dominiklukes.net/sitemap.xml. Agent skills index: https://dominiklukes.net/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json.

## About

- [Dominik Lukeš](https://dominiklukes.net/index.md): Dominik Lukeš is an AI Consultant for Research and Strategy at the University of Oxford, and a researcher, educator, writer and translator.
- [About](https://dominiklukes.net/about/index.md): Dominik Lukeš is an AI Consultant for Research and Strategy at the University of Oxford, and a researcher, educator, writer and translator.
- [CV](https://dominiklukes.net/cv/index.md): Employment and education of Dominik Lukeš, newest first, compiled from several versions of his CV.
- [Countries I've worked in](https://dominiklukes.net/cv/countries/index.md): The countries Dominik has worked in, on a map, with the CV entries and talks each one comes from.
- [Contact](https://dominiklukes.net/contact/index.md): How to reach Dominik Lukeš: his profiles on Oxford, LinkedIn, GitHub, Google Scholar and elsewhere.

## Make

- [Apps](https://dominiklukes.net/apps/index.md): Desktop and web apps by Dominik Lukeš, with status and platforms.
- [Agents](https://dominiklukes.net/agents/index.md): Agent skills, global agent instructions, Dev Traffic Control and write-ups by Dominik Lukeš on working with coding agents.
- [Agent skills](https://dominiklukes.net/agents/skills/index.md): Catalogue of the public agent skills by Dominik Lukeš for Claude Code, Codex and other agents, with learning paths and install steps.
- [Webs](https://dominiklukes.net/webs/index.md): Sites, blogs and newsletters by Dominik Lukeš, and his profiles elsewhere.
- [TalkWeaver](https://dominiklukes.net/apps/talkweaver/index.md): Outline-first desktop app for writing talks and presenting them as self-contained HTML decks.
- [WriteFlex](https://dominiklukes.net/apps/writeflex/index.md): A Markdown writing app for long pieces, Folios and focused reading, with an AI agent that proposes and you accept.
- [Highlight Scout](https://dominiklukes.net/apps/highlight-scout/index.md): Fast, local search across all your reading highlights: Readwise, Zotero, Kindle and more.
- [Dev Traffic Control](https://dominiklukes.net/apps/dev-traffic-control/index.md): A Mac app for the requests your coding agents send you: checks, design reviews with side-by-side decisions, and more.
- [SlideWell](https://dominiklukes.net/apps/slidewell/index.md): Desktop slide and image archive (the well), companion to TalkWeaver.
- [ReadabilityScout](https://dominiklukes.net/apps/readabilityscout/index.md): Analyse the readability of any text file on your Mac. Eight formulas, grade consensus, sentence-level detail.
- [Photo Diary Triage](https://dominiklukes.net/apps/photo-diary-triage/index.md): Local-first macOS app for triaging photos on an SSD and selectively importing keepers into an archive.
- [TimeFlex](https://dominiklukes.net/apps/timeflex/index.md): Flexible Interval Training: Plan it, time it, log it. Or just time it.
- [LearnWeaver](https://dominiklukes.net/apps/learnweaver/index.md): Create, organise and share beautiful presentations and learning content.
- [TalkWeaver PPT Extractor](https://dominiklukes.net/apps/ppt-extractor/index.md): Recover text, speaker notes, structure and media from PowerPoint files; derive TalkWeaver outlines.
- [Metaphornik](https://dominiklukes.net/apps/metaphornik/index.md): Explore new perspectives through generative metaphors.
- [Model Context Explorer](https://dominiklukes.net/apps/model-context-explorer/index.md): Look under the hood of large language models by seeing what context they receive.
- [Proposition Mapper](https://dominiklukes.net/apps/proposition-mapper/index.md): Turn any text into an interactive concept map.
- [Above The Line](https://dominiklukes.net/apps/above-the-line/index.md): Interlinear translation explorer and reader for students and teachers.
- [How LLMs Work](https://dominiklukes.net/apps/how-llms-work/index.md): Interactive step-by-step visualiser of Karpathy's microgpt — the complete LLM algorithm in 200 lines of Python.
- [Climate Target Explorer](https://dominiklukes.net/apps/climate-target-explorer/index.md): Educational tool to explore collective action climate paradoxes.
- [ZoteroLM](https://dominiklukes.net/apps/zoterolm/index.md): LLM-powered summarization and Q&A for your Zotero library.
- [Zotero Agent Bridge](https://dominiklukes.net/apps/zotero-agent-bridge/index.md): VS Code extension that pulls PDFs and notes from Zotero into a local folder with metadata for agents.
- [Model Vibe Check](https://dominiklukes.net/apps/model-vibe-check/index.md): Qualitative LLM evaluation tool to compare model outputs side-by-side.
- [PPT to Learning](https://dominiklukes.net/apps/ppt-to-learning/index.md): Transform PowerPoint presentations into interactive, semantic web-based learning content.
- [KeyMaster](https://dominiklukes.net/apps/keymaster/index.md): Tool for learning and documenting keyboard shortcuts.
- [MondAI](https://dominiklukes.net/webs/mondai/index.md): A monthly roundup of AI news, with an RSS feed.
- [MetaphorHacker](https://dominiklukes.net/webs/metaphorhacker/index.md): Essays on metaphor, language, and cognition.
- [Researchity.net](https://dominiklukes.net/webs/researchity-net/index.md): Content of the website Researchity.net, kept as a public repository.
- [Czechly](https://dominiklukes.net/webs/czechly/index.md): Czech grammar and culture site, including the Czech Navigator.
- [Edutools.fyi](https://dominiklukes.net/webs/edutools-fyi/index.md): Vibecoding for educators, with the teaching tools.
- [Semantic Machines (Notion)](https://dominiklukes.net/webs/semantic-machines-notion/index.md): Notes and demos exploring conversational and agentic systems.
- [Semantic Machines workshops and activities](https://dominiklukes.net/webs/semantic-machines-workshops-and-activities/index.md): Short activities and workshops from the Semantic Machines series, each built around one idea about how language models work.
- [Schemas & Propositions](https://dominiklukes.net/webs/schemas-and-propositions/index.md): Newsletter on tacit knowledge, language models and applied epistemology.
- [AI in Academic Practice](https://dominiklukes.net/webs/ai-in-academic-practice/index.md): Practical notes on how AI affects academic practice.
- [Hermeneutic Heretic](https://dominiklukes.net/webs/hermeneutic-heretic/index.md): Blog. 210 posts listed on Writing, 2005 to 2008.
- [techczech.net](https://dominiklukes.net/webs/techczech-net/index.md): Blog. 60 posts listed on Writing, 2009 to 2026.
- [Oxford profile](https://dominiklukes.net/webs/oxford-profile/index.md): AI Competency Centre, University of Oxford
- [LinkedIn](https://dominiklukes.net/webs/linkedin/index.md): Roles, projects, publications and updates
- [GitHub @techczech](https://dominiklukes.net/webs/github-techczech/index.md): Code, experiments and project repositories
- [Google Scholar](https://dominiklukes.net/webs/google-scholar/index.md): Citation index and research record
- [Academia.edu](https://dominiklukes.net/webs/academia-edu/index.md): Publications, slides and working papers
- [X @techczech](https://dominiklukes.net/webs/x-techczech/index.md): Short takes, links and live commentary
- [SlideShare](https://dominiklukes.net/webs/slideshare/index.md): Conference talks and presentations
- [academic-pdf-to-mkd](https://dominiklukes.net/agents/skills/academic-pdf-to-mkd/index.md): Converts academic PDFs, including scans, into Markdown with figures, tables and page images as separate files.
- [agent-roles](https://dominiklukes.net/agents/skills/agent-roles/index.md): Orchestrator playbook for Claude Code: which model plans, builds, fixes, reviews and tests, with dated seat choices, cost evidence and paste-in briefs.
- [agents-md-streamline](https://dominiklukes.net/agents/skills/agents-md-streamline/index.md): Writes and tightens AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md files so they tell an agent what to do, not the project's history.
- [ai-model-benchmarks](https://dominiklukes.net/agents/skills/ai-model-benchmarks/index.md): Builds offline comparison charts and tables of AI models from Artificial Analysis, Arena and OpenRouter data.
- [ai-working-style-builder](https://dominiklukes.net/agents/skills/ai-working-style-builder/index.md): Helps you describe how you work so AI tools fit your communication, attention and record-keeping habits.
- [anonymise](https://dominiklukes.net/agents/skills/anonymise/index.md): Finds and redacts personal information in text on your own machine with an open-weight model, with no cloud service.
- [app-design-elements](https://dominiklukes.net/agents/skills/app-design-elements/index.md): The shared elements every desktop app carries: commands, keyboard, menus, Settings and agent access.
- [archive-scout](https://dominiklukes.net/agents/skills/archive-scout/index.md): Searches, quotes and counts words in your own writing and reading highlights with the local scout tool, and writes cited reports with a JSON evidence file.
- [cesky-narodni-korpus-skill](https://dominiklukes.net/agents/skills/cesky-narodni-korpus-skill/index.md): Queries the Czech National Corpus (KonText) for concordances, frequencies and collocations from inside an agent.
- [claim-fact-checker](https://dominiklukes.net/agents/skills/claim-fact-checker/index.md): Checks every factual claim in a report against its sources, one isolated checker per claim, and writes findings and a fix plan.
- [codex-images-workflow](https://dominiklukes.net/agents/skills/codex-images-workflow/index.md): Treats generated images as reproducible files: a written brief first, the image beside it, both versioned.
- [cognitive-walkthrough](https://dominiklukes.net/agents/skills/cognitive-walkthrough/index.md): Runs a cognitive walkthrough on a mockup, screenshot or live page to check how easily a new user can learn it, and writes a learnability report.
- [coordination-hub](https://dominiklukes.net/agents/skills/coordination-hub/index.md): Sets up one hub where every agent session starts, so you never have to remember where your projects are or what state they are in.
- [corpus-tools-skill](https://dominiklukes.net/agents/skills/corpus-tools-skill/index.md): Sets up a local corpus-linguistics toolchain on a Mac (NLTK, spaCy, Stanza, Corpus Workbench, OPUS) with a parallel-concordance tool. Draft.
- [design-first-dev](https://dominiklukes.net/agents/skills/design-first-dev/index.md): Takes an app or feature from user journeys and drawn designs to a locked mockup before any code is written.
- [dev-traffic-control](https://dominiklukes.net/agents/skills/dev-traffic-control/index.md): Lets agents file test requests and reviews in Dev Traffic Control, a desktop review app, and collect the answers.
- [doc-editorial-skill](https://dominiklukes.net/agents/skills/doc-editorial-skill/index.md): Audits, reviews and fact-checks markdown documentation, proposing each change and asking before editing.
- [expository-writing](https://dominiklukes.net/agents/skills/expository-writing/index.md): Keeps an agent's prose literal and specific: every sentence says something checkable.
- [global-agent-instructions](https://dominiklukes.net/agents/skills/global-agent-instructions/index.md): Keeps one global instruction file and installs it into Codex, Claude Code, Gemini CLI, OpenCode and pi.
- [goalify](https://dominiklukes.net/agents/skills/goalify/index.md): Turns a project or product interview into durable goal prompts for OpenAI Codex.
- [image-to-design](https://dominiklukes.net/agents/skills/image-to-design/index.md): Takes a design from a written brief through generated mockups to HTML/CSS, keeping every prompt, image and revision on disk.
- [judgement-vs-code](https://dominiklukes.net/agents/skills/judgement-vs-code/index.md): Helps an agent decide when a task needs reading and judgement rather than string matching.
- [metaphor](https://dominiklukes.net/agents/skills/metaphor/index.md): Helps an agent use and examine metaphors without over-extending them.
- [paper-reviewer-skill](https://dominiklukes.net/agents/skills/paper-reviewer-skill/index.md): Imports a paper from Zotero, extracts its text, figures and tables, and writes structured reviews.
- [project-changelog](https://dominiklukes.net/agents/skills/project-changelog/index.md): Keeps a structured changelog folder in a repository alongside its git history.
- [readability-skill](https://dominiklukes.net/agents/skills/readability-skill/index.md): Helps write more readable text and design more readable slides.
- [research-translation](https://dominiklukes.net/agents/skills/research-translation/index.md): Runs auditable translation and back-translation of participant-facing research documents such as consent forms.
- [single-html-document](https://dominiklukes.net/agents/skills/single-html-document/index.md): Builds self-contained single-file HTML documents (reports, explainers, slide decks, feedback forms) that work offline.
- [sketchengine-skill](https://dominiklukes.net/agents/skills/sketchengine-skill/index.md): Connects an agent to Sketch Engine to run word sketches, word lists and keyword analyses on its corpora.
- [skill-explorer](https://dominiklukes.net/agents/skills/skill-explorer/index.md): Turns a SKILL.md file into an interactive web page showing its structure, code and connections.
- [speech-to-text-skill](https://dominiklukes.net/agents/skills/speech-to-text-skill/index.md): Transcribes audio locally on Apple Silicon (Qwen3-ASR, Parakeet, Whisper) into time-coded transcripts, with optional speaker labels.
- [talkweaver](https://dominiklukes.net/agents/skills/talkweaver/index.md): Lets agents write and revise presentation content for the TalkWeaver app, including converting PowerPoint files and processing recordings.
- [text-as-graph](https://dominiklukes.net/agents/skills/text-as-graph/index.md): Treats documents and courses as connected parts so they can be reused and recombined without copies drifting.
- [text-to-image-skill](https://dominiklukes.net/agents/skills/text-to-image-skill/index.md): Generates and edits images locally on Apple Silicon with open models such as FLUX.2 Klein and Qwen-Image.
- [text-to-speech-skill](https://dominiklukes.net/agents/skills/text-to-speech-skill/index.md): Generates speech locally on Apple Silicon with several open voice models, including voice cloning and Czech.
- [ux-journeys](https://dominiklukes.net/agents/skills/ux-journeys/index.md): Pins down who the user is, what they are trying to do and what they see at each step, before visual design starts.
- [video-analysis](https://dominiklukes.net/agents/skills/video-analysis/index.md): Describes, summarises or answers questions about a video on your own machine with a local model.
- [writeflex](https://dominiklukes.net/agents/skills/writeflex/index.md): Lets agents read, organise and prepare Markdown content for the WriteFlex app.
- [writing-modes](https://dominiklukes.net/agents/skills/writing-modes/index.md): Makes an agent decide who a text is for and in whose name it speaks before it writes, and load only that register's rules.
- [zotero-wrangler](https://dominiklukes.net/agents/skills/zotero-wrangler/index.md): Manages Zotero imports, linked notes, evidence-backed tags and scoped native full-text discovery.
- [academic-paper-review](https://dominiklukes.net/agents/skills/academic-paper-review/index.md): Structured review of academic papers, with templates and scoring rubrics you can adapt.

## Write

- [Writing](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/index.md): Blog posts, essays and journalism by Dominik Lukeš, browsable by type, venue and year.
- [Common misconceptions about Large Language Models and a few literal metaphors](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/what-models-want/index.md): The explainer corrects common misconceptions about language-model architecture, memory, capabilities, training, tool use, and emotional representation.
- [How I (Claude Code) remade this site](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2026-04-19-how-i-claude-code-remade-this-site/index.md): The piece reports how Claude Code rebuilt a dormant WordPress blog as an Astro static site while preserving content, URLs, comments, and operational records.
- [We've been using AI wrong: Agent Skills and the Semantic Powers of LLMs](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/weve-been-using-ai-wrong-skills-and-the-trouble-with-context/index.md): The guide explains how Agent Skills combine language-model judgement with reusable instructions, files, and scripts to support reliable workflows within context and memory limits.
- [How Humans Hallucinate and How We Deal with It](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/how-humans-hallucinate-knowledge-memory-and-certainty/index.md): The essay treats ordinary human errors as hallucinations and explains how metacognition, tools, institutions, and social norms constrain them.
- [Three Years After ChatGPT: From Chatbots to Agents and the Shifting Frontier of Generative AI](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/three-years-after-chatgpt-from-chatbots-agents-shifting-dominik-lukes-3e2se/index.md): Blog post · AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 27 November 2025
- [Symbols and Manipulation](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/symbols-and-manipulation/index.md): The essay argues that human and language-model cognition operates through meaning-rich schemas rather than the formal symbol manipulation performed by computers.
- [Karpathy Thinks in Code](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/karpathy-thinks-in-code/index.md): The essay argues that humans and language models interpret code through schemas while computers execute formal instructions without semantic understanding.
- [50 First Dates and the ChatGPT Memory Problem](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/50-first-dates-and-the-chatgpt-memory-problem/index.md): The essay argues that language-model memory consists of propositional notes that cannot reproduce the tacit schemas formed through experience.
- [Schemas and Propositions: What and where I've been writing and what's next](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2025-08-24-schemas-and-propositions-what-and-where-ive-been-writing-and-whats-ne/index.md): The piece records the blog's semi-retirement and introduces Schemas and Propositions as a new venue for work on language, cognition, and artificial intelligence.
- [Why schemas matter](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/why-schemas-matter/index.md): The explainer uses Winograd-style examples to show that propositions depend on contextual schemas that cannot be exhaustively represented as rules or facts.
- [GPT-5 is here! Long time coming but blazingly fast!](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/gpt-5-here-long-time-coming-blazingly-fast-dominik-lukes-ofwge/index.md): Blog post · AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 9 August 2025
- [What is ChatGPT Agent and what does it tell us about the future of AI?](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/what-chatgpt-agent-does-tell-us-future-ai-dominik-lukes-adewe/index.md): Blog post · AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 18 July 2025
- [Warning! "New paper" does not mean "new research" (plea for reading the methods section of AI papers)](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/warning-new-paper-does-mean-research-plea-reading-methods-lukes-58hte/index.md): Blog post · AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 16 April 2025
- [Embarrassingly out of date and unreliable! Some thoughts on the new Stanford AI Index Report](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/embarrassingly-out-date-unreliable-quick-thoughts-new-dominik-lukes-qwlve/index.md): Blog post · AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 13 April 2025
- [Creation is perception: On the role of skill in the age of AI](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/creation-perception-role-skill-age-ai-dominik-lukes-bryge/index.md): Blog post · AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 12 April 2025
- [AI Fluency as a Job Requirement: Karpathy on Individual Advantage and Shopify's New Mandate](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/ai-fluency-job-requirement-karpathy-individual-advantage-lukes-4xrge/index.md): Blog post · AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 8 April 2025
- [All art is conceptual art: Reflections on the aftershocks of an AI image-generation earthquake](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/all-art-conceptual-reflections-aftershocks-ai-earthquake-lukes-bpcfe/index.md): Blog post · AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 1 April 2025
- ["You're doing AI wrong": Choosing an AI tool is more like hiring an employee than buying software](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/youre-doing-ai-wrong-choosing-tool-more-like-hiring-employee-lukes-c8sme/index.md): Blog post · AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 30 March 2025
- [GPT-4o's native image generation is a true revolution in what is possible with AI and images](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/gpt-4os-native-image-generation-true-revolution-what-possible-lukes-2todc/index.md): Blog post · AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 25 March 2025
- [The Best Programming Language Today is English: How to get Vibe Coding and make software without being a programmer](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/best-programming-language-today-english-how-get-vibe-coding-lukes-suore/index.md): Blog post · AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 23 March 2025
- [How good are AI Deep Research tools? Comparing 5 products](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/how-good-ai-deep-research-tools-comparing-5-products-dominik-lukes-2rioe/index.md): Blog post · AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 9 March 2025
- [What will 2025 be like for AI? 5 Predictions for the Future](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/what-2025-like-ai-5-predictions-future-dominik-lukes-0n0ee/index.md): Blog post · AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 1 January 2025
- [A Year in AI: Doing more with less in 2024](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/year-ai-doing-more-less-2024-dominik-lukes-iqvue/index.md): Blog post · AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 31 December 2024
- [Trend 2: Interface Innovations: (Re)defining the user experience of AI](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/trend-2-interface-innovations-redefining-user-experience-lukes-wuxxe/index.md): Blog post · AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 10 November 2024
- [AI Trend 1: Multimodal Revolution: Generative AI at the birth of a new paradigm of computer interaction](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/ai-trend-1-multimodal-revolution-generative-birth-new-dominik-lukes-dmq2e/index.md): Blog post · AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 3 November 2024
- [State of AI: 5 trends in generative AI that will shape academic practice in 2025](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/state-ai-5-trends-generative-shape-academic-practice-2025-lukes-5d1de/index.md): Blog post · AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 1 November 2024
- [Whisper has ushered in a revolution in speech recognition: Here's a guide to how to use it](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/whisper-has-ushered-revolution-speech-recognition-heres-dominik-lukes-daqge/index.md): Blog post · AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 14 October 2024
- [Conversation is the new reading: Listen to a podcast about your notes or readings with free tools](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/conversation-new-reading-listen-podcast-your-notes-readings-lukes-ndmre/index.md): Blog post · AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 28 September 2024
- [The future of AI in Academic Practice is one million tokens and why it matters](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/future-ai-academic-practice-one-million-tokens-why-matters-lukes-caaef/index.md): Blog post · AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 11 March 2024
- [One year anniversary of ChatGPT this week - where are we, what have we learned?](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/one-year-anniversary-chatgpt-week-where-we-what-have-dominik-lukes-zhhne/index.md): Blog post · AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 27 November 2023
- [How (not) to learn about AI with metaphors: And how to use ChatGPT as a metaphor generation assistant](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/how-learn-ai-metaphors-use-chatgpt-metaphor-generation-dominik-lukes/index.md): Blog post · AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 17 August 2023
- [Have you asked your bot to make you a table? ChatGPT as a cognitive scaffolding engine](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/have-you-asked-your-bot-make-table-chatgpt-cognitive-engine-lukes/index.md): Blog post · AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 8 August 2023
- [Narrative vs Ruminative Sense making: The Mind Red in Tooth and Claw](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2023-08-05-narrative-vs-ruminative-sense-making-the-mind-red-in-tooth-and-claw/index.md): The piece contrasts narrative and ruminative sensemaking and argues that durable learning combines guided sequences with iterative, non-linear exploration.
- [The State of AI for August 2023: 6 trends from the last 3 months and 6 actions you can take today](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/state-ai-august-2023-6-trends-from-last-3-months-actions-lukes/index.md): Blog post · AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 1 August 2023
- [Learn to Be a Prompt Engineer: PREP and other guides to uncovering the secrets to ChatGPT mastery](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/learn-prompt-engineer-prep-other-guides-uncovering-secrets-lukes/index.md): Blog post · AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 2 April 2023
- [More AI news: Incremental but meaningful progress - From models to products](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/more-ai-news-incremental-meaningful-progress-from-models-lukes/index.md): Blog post · AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 27 March 2023
- [Improving academic writing: Four books to read during #AcWriMo](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2022-10-30-improving-academic-writing-four-books-to-read-during-acwrimo/index.md): The piece recommends books and exercises for improving academic writing through habits, sentence craft, social support, emotional awareness, and deliberate practice.
- [Unintentional Pygmalions: 4 questions to ask when checking an artificial entity for sentience and how to think about the answers](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2022-08-09-unintentional-pygmalions-4-questions-to-ask-when-checking-an-artifici/index.md): The piece proposes tests for persistent identity, autonomous intentionality, embodiment, theory of mind, and conversational implicature when assessing claims of machine sentience.
- [Learning is a Journey: Consequences of a metaphor](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2022-06-13-learning-is-a-journey-consequences-of-a-metaphor/index.md): The piece maps maps, itineraries, briefings, and guides onto education to show that learning requires supported travel through a domain rather than preparation alone.
- [3 fundamental problems of translating metaphor (or anything else)](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2022-03-06-3-fundamental-problems-of-translating-metaphor-or-anything-else/index.md): The piece explains how idiomaticity, underdetermination, and textual cohesion make metaphor translation difficult for the same reasons that translation generally is difficult.
- [World as a directly meaningful place: A comment on Ecological Psychology and the richness of human experience](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2021-11-14-world-as-a-directly-meaningful-place-a-comment-on-ecological-psycholo/index.md): The piece argues that ecological psychology must account for learned knowledge, language, social interaction, and deliberate reasoning if it is to explain a directly meaningful human world.
- [History as weather: A fractal theory of history for Ian Morris, Jared Diamond and CGP Grey](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2021-06-03-history-as-weather-a-fractal-theory-of-history-for-ian-morris-jared-d/index.md): The piece compares history with weather to argue that historical models can identify patterns without supporting precise causal explanations or useful long-range predictions.
- [Why I am a feminist: A reading list](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2021-03-08-why-i-am-a-feminist-a-reading-list/index.md): The piece recommends six books that treat feminism as a radical re-examination of gender, language, marriage, love, culture, and social inequality.
- [The nonsense of style: Academic writing should be scrupulous not stylish](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2021-01-17-the-nonsense-of-style-academic-writing-should-be-scrupulous-not-styli/index.md): The piece argues that academic writing should prioritise scrupulous argument, explicit structure, and manageable sentence length over fashionable stylistic advice.
- [Metaphors and freedom: On Tolkien's notion of allegory vs applicability](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2021-01-01-metaphors-and-freedom-on-tolkiens-notion-of-allegory-vs-applicability/index.md): The piece uses Tolkien's distinction between allegory and applicability to argue that readers continually renegotiate metaphors rather than remain confined by authorial intent.
- [No back row, no corridor: Metaphors for online teaching and learning](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2020-06-28-no-back-row-no-corridor-metaphors-for-online-teaching-and-learning/index.md): The piece uses the absence of a back row and corridor to compare the learning opportunities and support deficits of virtual and physical education.
- [Moving Events Online Part 1: Challenges: Why are not more events taking place online?](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2020-04-19-moving-events-online-part-1-challenges-why-are-not-more-events-taking/index.md): The piece identifies practical and social barriers that prevented more events from moving online during the early pandemic.
- [Moving Events Online Part 2: Strategies: What can we learn from successful online events?](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2020-04-19-moving-events-online-part-2-strategies-what-can-we-learn-from-success/index.md): The piece draws practical strategies for online events from examples of successful event design and delivery.
- [Moving Events Online Part 3: Platforms: What technologies and solutions are available?](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2020-04-19-moving-events-online-part-3-platforms-what-technologies-and-solutions/index.md): The piece compares technologies and platforms that can support events delivered online.
- [Moving events online: Platforms, strategies and challenges](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2020-04-19-moving-events-online-platforms-strategies-and-challenges/index.md): The piece summarises the challenges, strategies, and platforms involved in moving events online.
- [It’s not personal, it’s family: Kin, strangers, guests, and the complexity of social obligation](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2020-02-16-its-not-personal-its-family/index.md): The piece expands a proposal for forged families by showing how kinship, hospitality, obligation, and state support interact across different societies.
- [How to actually write a sentence: The building blocks of written language](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2020-02-01-how-to-actually-write-a-sentence-the-building-blocks-of-written-langu/index.md): The piece explains how reflective reading and editing help writers develop sentences that are coherent, cohesive, and appropriate to their genre.
- [Potemkin wisdoms, phronesis and Pixar: How wise sayings protect us from meaning](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2020-01-21-potemkin-wisdoms-phronesis-and-pixar-how-wise-sayings-protect-us-from/index.md): The piece argues that concise principles become empty social signals unless practical wisdom reconnects them to changing behaviour in specific contexts.
- [Predictions for the next decade: Hopes, dreams and reality checks: Part 6 of Tech That Reshaped…](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2020-01-14-predictions-for-the-next-decade-hopes-dreams-and-reality-checks-part-/index.md): The piece evaluates predictions about the 2020s by comparing technological hopes with social constraints and previous experience.
- [Hardware Trends of the 2010s: Part 2 of Tech That Reshaped our Lives in the Last Decade](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2020-01-09-hardware-trends-of-the-2010s-part-2-of-tech-that-reshaped-our-lives-i/index.md): The piece surveys hardware changes in the 2010s and explains how they altered everyday activities and expectations.
- [Media and content consumption trends of the 2010s: Part 4 of Tech That Reshaped our Lives in the…](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2020-01-09-media-and-content-consumption-trends-of-the-2010s-part-4-of-tech-that/index.md): The piece surveys changes in media and content consumption during the 2010s and relates them to changing forms of everyday life.
- [Software Trends of the 2010s: Part 3 of Tech That Reshaped our Lives in the Last Decade](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2020-01-09-software-trends-of-the-2010s-part-3-of-tech-that-reshaped-our-lives-i/index.md): The piece surveys software trends of the 2010s and describes how they changed the ways people perform ordinary tasks.
- [Technology trends that reshaped our lives in the 2010s: 10 years in 10,000 words](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2020-01-09-technology-trends-that-reshaped-our-lives-in-the-2010s-10-years-in-10/index.md): The piece introduces a six-part account of 2010s technology trends by focusing on changes in people's lives rather than on technology alone.
- [The hype bubbles of the 2010s: Part 5 of Tech That Reshaped our Lives in the Last Decade](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2020-01-09-the-hype-bubbles-of-the-2010s-part-5-of-tech-that-reshaped-our-lives-/index.md): The piece examines technology hype bubbles of the 2010s and distinguishes promised transformation from changes that actually occurred.
- [So you think you have a historical analogy? Revisionist history and anthropology reading list](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2019-09-08-so-you-think-you-have-a-historical-analogy-revisionist-history-and-an/index.md): The piece presents a revisionist history and anthropology reading list that challenges Eurocentric, state-centred, and linear accounts of human development.
- [Turing tests in Chinese rooms: What does it mean for AI to outperform humans](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2019-07-23-turing-tests-in-chinese-rooms-what-does-it-mean-for-ai-to-outperform-/index.md): The piece argues that benchmark victories do not establish human-like understanding and proposes prolonged supervised performance as a stronger test of artificial intelligence.
- [Fruit loops and metaphors: Metaphors are not about explaining the abstract through concrete but about the dynamic process of negotiated sensemaking](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2019-07-14-fruit-loops-and-metaphors-metaphors-are-not-about-explaining-the-abst/index.md): The piece argues that metaphor dynamically restructures knowledge through negotiated sensemaking rather than simply explaining abstract ideas with concrete ones.
- [5 books on knowledge and expertise: Reading list for exploring the role of knowledge and deliberate practice in the development of expert performance](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2019-06-30-5-books-on-knowledge-and-expertise-reading-list-for-exploring-the-rol/index.md): The piece recommends five complementary books for understanding expert performance through mental representations, deliberate practice, conceptual blending, social knowledge, and reflection in action.
- [Writing as translation and translation as commitment: Why is (academic) writing so hard?](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2019-06-15-writing-as-translation-and-translation-as-commitment-why-is-academic-/index.md): The piece uses translation and music as partial models for how writing forces implicit thoughts into explicit commitments that require practice to express clearly.
- [5 kinds of understanding and metaphors: Missing pieces in pedagogical taxonomies](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2019-06-14-5-kinds-of-understanding-and-metaphors-missing-pieces-in-pedagogical-/index.md): The piece distinguishes associative, lexical, inferential, instrumental, and creative understanding as overlapping levels that require progressively richer mental representations.
- [Explanation is an event, understanding is a process: How (not) to explain anything with metaphor](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2019-05-29-explanation-is-an-event-understanding-is-a-process-how-not-to-explain/index.md): The piece argues that metaphors support learning only when they function within sustained practice as invitations, instruments, or catalysts rather than isolated explanations.
- [What would make linguistics a better science? Science as a metaphor](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2019-04-28-what-would-make-linguistics-a-better-science-science-as-a-metaphor/index.md): The piece argues that linguistics will improve through a productive interaction between better data and better theory rather than through more rigid definitions alone.
- [Cats and butterflies: 2 misunderstood analogies in scientistic discourse](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2018-11-08-cats-and-butterflies-2-misunderstood-analogies-in-scientistic-discour/index.md): The piece shows how popular retellings of Schrödinger's cat and the butterfly effect turn cautionary scientific analogies into misleading literal claims.
- [3 burning issues in the study of metaphor](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2018-11-07-3-burning-issues-in-the-study-of-metaphor/index.md): The piece identifies unresolved questions about deliberate and automatic metaphor processing, the relation between textual and conceptual metaphor, and variation in figurative understanding.
- [3 “easy” things that are hard for both humans and AI](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2018-10-19-3-easy-things-that-are-hard-for-both-humans-and-ai/index.md): The piece uses time zones, scheduling, and data transfer to show why seemingly simple tasks remain difficult for both people and artificial intelligence.
- [Innovation is bad for business: 3 more ‘I’ words to compare innovation to](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2018-10-16-innovation-is-bad-for-business-3-more-i-words-to-compare-innovation-t/index.md): The piece uses infection, ignorance, and imitation as metaphors to challenge the treatment of innovation as an unqualified organisational good.
- [Does machine learning produce mental representations?](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2018-05-28-does-machine-learning-produce-mental-representations/index.md): The piece argues that machine-learning systems represent problem spaces without possessing the flexible, embodied, and metacognitive mental representations used by humans.
- [Not ships in the night: Metaphor and simile as process](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2018-05-22-not-ships-in-the-night-metaphor-and-simile-as-process/index.md): The piece analyses an extended comparison to show that metaphor and simile operate together within a dynamic process of discourse-based meaning construction.
- [How to read ‘Women, Fire and Dangerous Things’: Guide to essential reading on human cognition](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2018-05-16-how-to-read-women-fire-and-dangerous-things-guide-to-essential-readin/index.md): The piece provides a selective route through Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things that prioritises its account of categories, cognitive models, embodiment, and metaphor.
- [Therapy for Frege: A brief outline of the theory of everything](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2018-05-16-therapy-for-frege-a-brief-outline-of-the-theory-of-everything/index.md): The piece argues that perfect reference is impossible and proposes pragmatic, provisional heuristics for living with the resulting limits on knowledge and rationality.
- [10 ways in which music is like language and 8 (more important) ways in which it is not](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2018-03-19-10-ways-in-which-music-is-like-language-and-8-more-important-ways-in-/index.md): The piece compares music and language to show that their shared structural features do not erase fundamental differences in meaning, acquisition, and dialogue.
- [17 Things Everyone Should Know About Language But Doesn’t Even Know to Ask](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2018-03-11-17-things-everyone-should-know-about-language-but-doesnt-even-know-to/index.md): The piece presents seventeen findings from linguistics that teachers, journalists, policy experts, and grammar commentators should understand about language.
- [Learning vs training in machines and organizations: Production of knowledge vs production of capability](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/learning-vs-training-in-machines-and-organizations-production-of-knowledge-vs-pr/index.md): The essay distinguishes learning as the production of knowledge from training as the production of capability in machines and organisations.
- [Guns, Glory, and Greed: Most wars were not caused by religion (but they weren't prevented by it either)](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/guns-glory-and-greed-most-wars-were-not-caused-by-religion-but-they-werent-preve/index.md): The piece argues that religion rarely causes wars on its own and that military capacity, legitimating glory, and competition for resources provide stronger recurring conditions.
- [Repaved paths and generative metaphors: Expressing human purposes with technology](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2016-06-23-repaved-paths-and-generative-metaphors-expressing-human-purposes-with/index.md): The piece argues that technology expresses human purposes and that generative metaphors can reveal alternative ways to design and use it.
- [If teachers are actors, is instructional design stage directions? Exploration of a metaphor.](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2016-02-16-if-teachers-are-actors-is-instructional-design-stage-directions-explo/index.md): The piece develops a theatre metaphor for relating instructional design, lesson planning, and teachers' classroom performance.
- [Disruption and agency: Inherent freedoms, impatient earthworms and schemas of the ideal society…](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2016-01-26-disruption-and-agency-inherent-freedoms-impatient-earthworms-and-sche/index.md): The piece examines disruption as a contested concept and connects technological change with human agency and social organisation.
- [There are too many words for scavenger in Czech but none of them was good enough for Star Wars…](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2015-12-22-there-are-too-many-words-for-scavenger-in-czech-but-none-of-them-was-/index.md): The piece argues that translation choices reflect differences in meaning and practical constraints rather than gaps in a language's vocabulary.
- [Three abstracts for OER15: Licensing talking points, Models of OER production, and OERs and Accessibility](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2014-12-01-three-abstracts-for-oer15-licensing-talking-points-models-of-oer-prod/index.md): This note presents three conference abstracts on open licensing and accessibility, early licensing decisions in projects, and sustainable models for producing open educational resources.
- [What language looks like: Dictionary and grammar are to language what standing on one foot is to running](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2014-11-05-what-language-looks-like-dictionary-and-grammar-are-to-language-what-/index.md): The piece argues that dictionaries and grammars depict language posed for analysis rather than language operating in social use.
- [Anthropologists' metaphorical shenanigans: Or how (not) to research metaphor](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2014-08-03-anthropologists-metaphorical-shenanigans-or-how-not-to-research-metap/index.md): The piece argues that claims about exceptional metaphor use in Indigenous American languages require comparative evidence rather than cultural stereotypes.
- [What does it mean when words 'really' mean something: Dismiss the Miss](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2014-05-17-what-does-it-mean-when-texts-really-mean-something/index.md): The piece argues that the title Miss has no fixed meaning but remains connected to histories and practices of gender inequality.
- [Announcing Research Zoo - A Habitat for Guerrilla Research](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2014-03-23-announcing-research-zoo-a-habitat-for-guerrilla-research/index.md): This piece introduces Research Zoo as a practical platform that could support guerrilla researchers, practitioner collaboration, shared research design, and funding.
- [What is not a metaphor: Modelling the world through language, thought, science, or action](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2014-03-04-what-is-not-a-metaphor-modelling-the-world-through-language-thought-s/index.md): The piece explains metaphor as conceptual modelling and argues that every interaction with the world applies partial cognitive models.
- [Linguistics according to Fillmore](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2014-02-15-linguistics-according-to-fillmore/index.md): The piece traces Charles Fillmore's contributions to case grammar, frame semantics, construction grammar, and FrameNet.
- [5 things everybody should know about language: Outline of linguistics' contribution to the liberal arts curriculum](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2014-01-01-5-things-everybody-should-know-about-language-outline-of-linguistics-/index.md): The piece proposes five sociolinguistic principles for general education and argues against grammar-centred language teaching.
- [Binders full of women with mighty pens: What is metonymy](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2013-12-14-binders-full-of-women-with-mighty-pens-what-is-metonymy/index.md): The piece explains forms of metonymy and shows how metonymic connections shape imagery, inference, and public discourse.
- [Choosing an online and social presence for your interest group, project, event or organization](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2013-12-05-choosing-an-online-and-social-presence-for-your-interest-group-projec/index.md): The piece explains how groups and projects can combine websites, social networks, video platforms, and mailing lists to maintain an online presence.
- [Three books of the year 2013 and some books of the century 1900-2013](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2013-11-17-three-books-of-the-year-2013-and-some-books-of-the-century-1900-2013/index.md): The piece recommends three books from 2013 and evaluates influential twentieth-century works on language, society, and fiction.
- [Pervasiveness of Obliging Metaphors in Thought and Deed](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2013-10-27-pervasiveness-of-oblidging-metaphors-in-thought-and-deed/index.md): The piece argues that metaphors generate insight only when their partial mappings are not mistaken for complete identities.
- [Storms in all Teacups: The Power and Inequality in the Battle for Science Universality](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2013-09-20-storms-in-all-teacups-the-power-and-inequality-in-the-battle-for-scie/index.md): The piece argues that defenders of science often ridicule low-status targets while excusing equally poor reasoning by prestigious scientists.
- [Sunsets, horizons and the language/mind/culture distinction](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2013-08-24-sunsets-horizons-and-the-languagemindculture-distinction/index.md): The piece argues that language, mind, and culture are overlapping analytical heuristics rather than separate entities with causal priority.
- [How we use metaphors](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2013-04-13-how-we-use-metaphors/index.md): The piece classifies metaphor use by cognitive, social, and textual functions and by degrees of salience and recoverability.
- [Do we need a gaming literacy: Literacy metaphor hack](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2013-04-03-do-we-need-a-gaming-literacy-literacy-metaphor-hack/index.md): The piece tests gaming literacy against reading literacy and argues that gaming may become necessary for cultural participation.
- [Framing and constructions as a bridge between cognition and culture: Two Abstracts for Cognitive Futures](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2013-01-26-framing-constructions-as-a-bridge-between-cognition-and-culture-two-a/index.md): The two conference abstracts propose frames and construction grammar as bridges between cognitive accounts and cultural analysis.
- [Use Google+ Communities to run Google Hangouts with your tutorial groups in a large online course](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2012-12-09-use-google-communities-to-run-google-hangouts-with-your-tutorial-grou/index.md): The piece explains how course participants can use Google Plus Communities, events, and Hangouts to organise small-group video sessions.
- [MOOC-induced educational blindness: Demotivation and confusion as intrinsic properties of schooling](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2012-11-18-mooc-induced-educational-blindness/index.md): This piece argues that confusion, demotivation, weak expert interaction, and attrition are general properties of schooling rather than distinctive failures of MOOCs.
- [The "Profit Motive" delusion and open education #edstartup #opencontent #edchat](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2012-10-14-the-profit-motive-delusion-and-open-education/index.md): This piece rejects profit as a guarantee of educational quality and proposes open content, portable data, open platforms, and relationship-based services as sustainable alternatives.
- [The complexities of simple: What simple language proponents should know about linguistics (updated)](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2012-09-28-the-complexities-of-simple-what-simple-language-proponents-should-kno/index.md): The piece argues that accessible writing requires attention to context, text structure, and language variation beyond mechanical readability rules.
- [Turning Wikipedia into textbooks: Tools, Ideals and Accessibility](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2012-09-22-turning-wikipedia-into-textbooks-tools-ideals-and-accessibility/index.md): The piece explains how to assemble Wikipedia articles into textbooks and compares the workflow, accessibility, and alternatives for collaborative book creation.
- [I don't want to be an education entrepreneur and neither should you: Exploring the limits of metaphors in #EdStartUp](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2012-09-16-i-dont-want-to-be-an-education-entrepreneur-and-neither-should-you-ex/index.md): This piece argues that entrepreneurship is a partial metaphor for educational change whose useful funding and collaboration models do not justify importing startup assumptions wholesale.
- [The Great MOOC Slander? Realities and Narratives of Education and Learning (UPDATED)](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2012-09-15-the-great-mooc-slander-realities-and-narratives-of-education-and-lear/index.md): This piece argues that critics judge MOOCs against an idealised account of higher education and should compare evidence about access, learning, assessment, and teaching across both forms.
- ["Why didn't anyone tell me about this?": What every learning technologist should know about accessible documents](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2012-09-14-why-didnt-anyone-tell-me-about-this-what-every-learning-technologist-/index.md): The talk explains five practical technologies for making educational documents more accessible to people who find reading difficult.
- [Introducing myself to #EdStartUp - How can we find sustainable business/funding models for open education? (update)](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2012-08-27-how-can-we-find-sustainable-business-models-for-open-education/index.md): This video introduction asks how open courses can fund participation, assessment, and recognition without depending on large institutions or proprietary scarcity.
- [Cliches, information and metaphors: Overcoming prejudice with metahor hacking and getting it back again](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2012-08-26-cliches-information-and-metaphors-overcoming-prejudice-with-metahor-h/index.md): The piece argues that people must use conceptual clichés while continually negotiating which ones guide judgement and action.
- [Massive open education mindspace: MOOC hows and whys](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2012-08-24-massive-open-education-mindspace-mooc-hows-and-whys/index.md): This note presents a remixable concept map of MOOC types, pedagogies, platforms, roles, openness, scale, assessment, and accreditation.
- [What's good and what's missing in GoToWebinar and alternative solutions for delivering live online lectures](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2012-08-22-gotowebinar-and-alternative-solutions-fo-delivering-online-lectures/index.md): The piece reviews GoToWebinar's strengths and limitations against alternative platforms for live online lectures.
- [MOOC motivations and magnitudes: Reflections on the MOOC experience vs the MOOC drop out #moocmooc](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2012-08-18-mooc-motivations-and-magnitudes/index.md): This piece argues that MOOC completion rates must be interpreted through scale, participant motivation, investment, and the different consequences of leaving a free course.
- [How to MOOCify your course and why you should do it: Reasons, skills and tools #moocmooc (update)](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2012-08-17-how-to-moocify-your-course/index.md): This guide explains why and how to make a course more MOOC-like through open participation, personal learning networks, simple tools, and digital skills.
- [Zero pedagogy: A hyperbolic case for curation and creation over education in the age of the MOOC (#moocmooc)](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2012-08-15-zero-pedagogy-a-hyperbolic-case-for-curation-and-creation-over-educat/index.md): This piece argues that open access, community support, curation, and creation matter more than imposing a unified pedagogy on motivated learners.
- [Space, The Final Frontier of Online Education or Flipping the School Year #MOOCMOOC](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2012-08-14-space-the-final-frontier-of-online-education-or-flipping-the-school-y/index.md): This video contribution proposes combining online study with concentrated in-person periods by flipping the structure of the school year.
- [What is and what is not a MOOC: A picture of family resemblance (working undefinition) #moocmooc](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2012-08-14-what-is-and-what-is-not-a-mooc-a-picture-of-family-resemblance-workin/index.md): This explainer defines MOOCs through family resemblance by separating required, optional, marginal, and disqualifying features.
- [Pseudo-education as a weapon: Beyond the ridiculous in linguistic prescriptivism](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2012-08-09-pseudo-education-as-a-weapon-beyond-the-ridiculous-in-linguistic-pres/index.md): The piece argues that pseudo-knowledge about grammar turns linguistic prejudice into a tool for judging and excluding people.
- [Debating the MOOC Backlash: Notes from A Primitive Screwhead](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2012-07-29-debating-the-mooc-backlash-notes-from-a-primitive-screwhead/index.md): This piece answers criticisms of MOOCs by comparing them with conventional higher education and emphasising access, openness, peer learning, and institutional change.
- [The Drupal/Wordpress choice: A guide for individuals, small organizations and the Internet](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2012-07-28-drupal-wordpress-choice/index.md): The piece compares Drupal and WordPress and recommends each platform for different organisational needs, technical capacities, and maintenance budgets.
- [Make your own audio book using text to speech - Save your eyes, time](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2012-07-23-make-your-own-audio-book-using-text-to-speech-save-your-eyes-time/index.md): The piece explains how to convert ebook text into MP3 audiobook files with text-to-speech software.
- [Character Assasination through Metaphoric Pomposity: When one metaphor is not enough](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2012-07-22-character-assasination-through-metaphoric-pomposity-when-one-metaphor/index.md): The piece shows how an architectural comparison between Google and Facebook becomes misleading when its mappings and alternatives are examined.
- [Do researchers need Personal Learning Networks? Yes!](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2012-07-21-do-researchers-need-personal-learning-networks-yes/index.md): This piece argues that researchers should make their learning networks more open through blogging and social media so newcomers and practitioners can participate.
- [Word 2013 Preview Accessibility and Usability Review - First Impressions (Update 2 on uninstall)](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2012-07-21-word-2013-preview-accessibility-and-usability-first-impressions/index.md): The piece reviews Word 2013 Preview's accessibility, reading, editing, navigation, PDF, and installation behaviour against Word 2010.
- [Who-knows-what-how stories: The scientific and religious knowledge paradox](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2012-07-20-who-knows-what-how-stories-the-scientific-and-religious-knowledge-par/index.md): The piece argues that scientific and religious knowledge share social practices and narratives despite making different claims about method and utility.
- [An innovator’s dilemmas: On the resistance to technological innovation in education](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2012-05-19-an-innovators-dilemmas-on-the-resistance-to-technological-innovation-/index.md): The piece argues that education policy should account for the labour costs and uncertain outcomes of innovation while funding local experimentation within an equitable central safety net.
- [5 UX Improvements Moodle needs desperately](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2012-04-12-5-ux-improvements-moodle-needs-desperately/index.md): The piece proposes a coordinated redesign of Moodle navigation, dashboards, messaging, calendars, and breadcrumbs around student needs.
- [5 Moodle 2 features that waste admin time](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2012-04-10-5-moodle-2-features-that-waste-admin-time/index.md): The piece identifies Moodle 2 administration workflows that waste time and argues for a coordinated usability redesign.
- [Kickstarting research on development: Right on involvement, wrong on outputs](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2012-04-09-kickstarting-research-on-development-right-on-involvement-wrong-on-ou/index.md): This piece supports public participation in research funding but rejects printed outputs and context-free quantitative claims about development programmes.
- [10 (now 12) Things I learned at the Moodle Moot 2012](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2012-04-08-10-things-i-learned-at-the-moodle-moot-2012/index.md): The piece reports lessons from MoodleMoot 2012 about platform development, course design, conference formats, online presence, and educational tools.
- [4 things you thought you knew about screen readers!](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2012-04-02-pecha-kucha-4-things-you-thought-you-knew-about-screen-readers/index.md): The talk proposal corrects four common misconceptions about designing web content for screen-reader users.
- [Five features of Moodle 2 that take up most of our support time](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2012-04-02-five-features-of-moodle-2-that-take-up-most-of-our-support-time/index.md): The talk proposal identifies five Moodle 2 interface problems that generate support requests and proposes specific remedies.
- [RaAM 9 Abstract: Of Doves and Cocks: Collective Negotiation of a Metaphoric Seduction](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2012-03-31-raam-9-abstract-of-doves-and-cocks-collective-negotiation-of-a-metaph/index.md): The conference abstract proposes that speakers collectively negotiate metaphors while remaining susceptible to their political force.
- [Top 6 Drupal usability problems](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2012-01-28-top-6-drupal-usability-problems/index.md): The piece identifies six recurring Drupal usability problems and argues for an extended core that can improve the product independently of the platform.
- [Putting lectures in their place with cautious optimism](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2012-01-22-putting-lectures-in-their-place-with-cautious-optimism/index.md): The piece argues that lectures remain useful for information and motivation when they support rather than replace active learning.
- [21st Century Educational Voodoo](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2012-01-18-21st-century-educational-voodoo/index.md): The piece argues that calls for a twenty-first-century education system rely on inaccurate histories and predictable economic clichés.
- [Is BETT good for UK education? Towards a more open alternative! #BETT2012 #C84C](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2012-01-15-is-bett-good-for-uk-education-towards-a-more-open-alternative-bett201/index.md): The piece argues that education technology events and public funding should give open-source software, Creative Commons resources, and teacher-led innovation a central role.
- [Moral Compass Metaphor Points to Surprising Places](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2011-11-02-moral-compass-metaphor-points-to-surprising-places/index.md): The piece extends the moral-compass metaphor to show that ethical judgement requires contextual calibration and changing direction.
- [Peer review should be more like Hypothes.is than Hypothes.is should be like peer review!](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2011-11-01-peer-review-should-be-more-like-hypothes-is-than-hypothes-is-should-b/index.md): This piece argues that open, pseudonymous, trackable review could make scholarly trust more accountable and loosen academic publishing's control over knowledge.
- [CiviEvent Wishlist (#CiviCRM)](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2011-09-01-civievent-wishlist-civicrm/index.md): The piece proposes improvements to CiviCRM event administration, registration, payments, admissions, and profile handling.
- [Civi Email Wishlist (#CiviCRM)](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2011-08-31-civi-email-wishlist-civicrm/index.md): The piece proposes improvements to CiviCRM email composition, mass mailing, templates, tracking, and interface workflows.
- [There's more to memory than the brain: Psychologists run clever experiments, make trivial claims, take gullible internet by storm](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2011-07-17-theres-more-to-memory-than-the-brain-psychologists-run-clever-experim/index.md): The piece argues that research on internet-assisted recall concerns familiar transactive memory strategies rather than changes to the brain.
- [The death of a memory: Missing metaphors of remembering and forgetting?](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2011-07-10-the-death-of-a-memory-missing-metaphors-of-remembering-and-forgetting/index.md): The piece uses two sudden losses of familiar access codes to question established models and metaphors of memory.
- [Killer App is a bad metaphor for historical trends, good for pseudoteaching](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2011-06-03-killer-app-is-a-bad-metaphor-for-historical-trends-good-for-pseudotea/index.md): The piece argues that Niall Ferguson's killer-app metaphor misrepresents historical change and supplies superficial context for teaching.
- [Language learning in literature as a source domain for generative metaphors about anything](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2011-06-01-language-learning-in-literature-as-a-source-domain-for-generative-met/index.md): The piece uses literary depictions of language learning to propose a model of expertise that includes strategy, emotion, and social participation.
- [You don't have to be a xenophobe to think Britain being an island matters, but it helps!](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2011-05-21-you-dont-have-to-be-a-xenophobe-to-think-britain-being-an-island-matt/index.md): The piece argues that Britain's island geography is wrongly treated as uniquely relevant to population, housing, and burial policy.
- [The natural logistics of life: The Internet really changes almost nothing](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2011-05-07-the-natural-logistics-of-life-the-internet-really-changes-almost-noth/index.md): The piece argues that the internet accelerates communication but leaves most human institutions and activities constrained by human time and attention.
- [When is subtle manipulation of data a flat out lie? Truth about Chinese prisons (UPDATE)](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2011-05-02-when-is-subtle-manipulation-of-data-a-flat-out-lie-truth-about-chines/index.md): The piece argues that grouping Chinese prison totals with American and Russian figures creates a misleading comparison despite using accurate numbers.
- [links for 2011-04-29](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2011-04-30-links-for-2011-04-29/index.md): The digest links to a comparison of simple online task-list services for students.
- [I object: A male feminist's view on the Duchess of Cambridge's Wedding dress](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2011-04-29-i-object-a-male-feminists-view-on-the-dutches-of-cambridges-wedding-d/index.md): The piece argues that formal wedding dress reproduces unequal gender roles and calls for rituals that represent public equality.
- [Towards a system of uncredentials for uneducation](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2011-04-28-towards-a-system-of-uncredentials-for-uneducation/index.md): This piece proposes a web-of-trust credential system that could certify portfolios and practical competence outside conventional universities.
- [links for 2011-04-23](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2011-04-24-links-for-2011-04-23/index.md): The digest links to a URL shortener that presents linked pages in a more readable format.
- [Poetry without metaphor? Sure but can it darn your socks?](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2011-04-24-poetry-without-metaphor-sure-but-can-it-darn-your-socks/index.md): The piece argues that interpreting imagery in a nearly non-figurative poem requires the same conceptual mapping used for metaphor.
- [Integrating Learning Technology Support into Moodle #mootuk11](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2011-04-20-integrating-learning-technology-support-into-moodle-mootuk11/index.md): The piece presents slides on using cloud-based tools to support Moodle users in a fully online learning environment.
- [links for 2011-04-17](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2011-04-18-links-for-2011-04-17/index.md): The digest links to a presentation about technologies that support students with dyslexia.
- [Religion, if it exists, is negotiation of underdetermined metaphoric cognition (UPDATED)](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2011-04-09-religion-if-it-exists-is-negotiation-of-underdetermined-metaphoric-co/index.md): The piece describes religious thought as social negotiation over schematic and underdetermined conceptual representations.
- [Life expectancy and the length and value of life: On a historical overimagination](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2011-04-05-life-expectancy-and-the-length-and-value-of-life-on-a-historical-over/index.md): The piece explains how life expectancy at birth can misrepresent adult longevity and distort historical narratives.
- [Why don't metaphorical hawks kill metaphorical doves?](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2011-04-03-why-dont-metaphorical-hawks-kill-metaphorical-doves/index.md): The piece asks why political discourse rarely extends the hawk-and-dove metaphor to hawks hunting doves.
- [Is OpenIDEO a good model for a research community?](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2011-03-31-is-openideo-a-good-model-for-a-research-community/index.md): This review assesses OpenIDEO as a model for community-based research while identifying gaps in brainstorming, reputation, user-led questions, tagging, and project branching.
- [Are we the masters of our morality? Yes!](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2011-03-26-are-we-the-masters-of-our-morality-yes/index.md): The piece argues that people interpret moral content selectively, making behavioural effects difficult to predict from exposure alone.
- [Comedian identifies a critical flaw in structuralism: Are distinctive features like leather sleeves](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2011-03-24-comedian-identifies-a-critical-flaw-in-structuralism-are-distinctive-/index.md): The piece uses a comedy routine about leather sleeves to question analyses based on distinctive features.
- [Epistemology as ethics: Decisions and judgments not methods and solutions for evidence-based practice](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2011-03-20-epistemology-as-ethics-decisions-and-judgments-not-methods-and-soluti/index.md): The piece argues that evidence-based practice requires situated ethical judgement rather than reliance on methods as automatic solutions.
- [Do science fiction writers dream of fascist dictatorships?](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2011-03-13-do-science-fiction-writers-dream-of-fascist-dictatorships/index.md): The piece examines how progressive science fiction can reproduce authoritarian fantasies of rational social control.
- [The brain is a bad metaphor for language](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2011-03-11-the-brain-is-a-bad-metaphor-for-language/index.md): The piece argues that neuroscience cannot explain language by assuming direct structural correspondences between brain activity and linguistic phenomena.
- [#mootuk11 session proposal: Integrating Learning Technology Support into Moodle](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2011-03-09-mootuk11-session-proposal-integrating-learning-technology-support-int/index.md): The talk proposal describes a portfolio of tools and workflows for supporting Moodle users in fully online courses.
- [Community research and "knowledge exchange network" for neuroscience](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2011-03-02-community-research-and-knowledge-exchange-network-for-neuroscience/index.md): This piece proposes a neuroscience knowledge-exchange network that gives researchers and practitioners equal roles in discussion, curation, reputation, and small-scale research.
- [links for 2011-02-23](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2011-02-24-links-for-2011-02-23/index.md): The digest links to an open-source question-and-answer community platform.
- [Literally: Triumph of pet peeve over matter](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2011-02-23-literally-triumph-of-pet-peeve-over-matter/index.md): The piece uses corpus evidence to argue that literally functions primarily as an intensifier and secondarily as a disambiguator.
- [Sharing without community is just piling stuff up](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2011-02-21-sharing-without-community-is-just-piling-stuff-up/index.md): This piece argues that educational repositories need trusted communities, social curation, and regular discovery channels to make shared resources useful.
- [The most ridiculous metaphor of education courtesy of an economics professor](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2011-02-20-the-most-ridiculous-metaphor-of-education/index.md): The piece argues that comparing schools with competing restaurants conceals the costs and complexities of educational markets.
- [Get the Data: Community for Quantitative research](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2011-02-15-get-the-data-community-for-quantitative-research/index.md): This note assesses Get The Data as a quantitative research community whose question-and-answer and reputation features could help organise broader research projects.
- [Toward Community-based Research for Education](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2011-02-11-towards-community-based-research-for-education/index.md): This piece proposes community-based educational research in which practitioners and researchers define questions, award small grants, and share situated findings during the work.
- [links for 2010-12-12](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2010-12-13-links-for-2010-12-12/index.md): The digest links to a collection of educational audiobooks, podcasts, videos, and downloads.
- [links for 2010-12-09](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2010-12-10-links-for-2010-12-09/index.md): The digest links to an online collection of reusable icons.
- [How do you find reusable content for teaching](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2010-12-01-how-do-you-find-reusable-content-for-teaching/index.md): The piece explains copyright, fair dealing, Creative Commons licences, and ways to find reusable teaching media.
- [links for 2010-11-26](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2010-11-27-links-for-2010-11-26/index.md): The digest links to a list of freely accessible journals about online learning.
- [links for 2010-09-07](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2010-09-08-links-for-2010-09-07/index.md): The digest links to a social network for educators' professional learning and collaboration.
- [links for 2010-09-05](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2010-09-06-links-for-2010-09-05/index.md): The digest links to interactive phonics activities for literacy teaching and dyslexia support.
- [links for 2010-09-04](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2010-09-05-links-for-2010-09-04/index.md): The digest links to the Public Library of Science as an open-access academic publishing resource.
- [links for 2010-08-28](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2010-08-29-links-for-2010-08-28/index.md): The digest links to a source of royalty-free music for multimedia and podcast production.
- [links for 2010-08-24](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2010-08-25-links-for-2010-08-24/index.md): The digest links to an open platform for creating and sharing digital textbooks.
- [links for 2010-08-23](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2010-08-24-links-for-2010-08-23/index.md): The digest links to an open educational resource repository and an interactive digital textbook platform.
- [Philosophers’ songbook #philbitescomp](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2010-08-17-philosophers-songbook-philbitescomp/index.md): The piece retells a short history of Western philosophy through parodic song fragments.
- [links for 2010-08-05](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2010-08-06-links-for-2010-08-05/index.md): The digest links to a WordPress-based academic social network for collaboration and online learning.
- [Metaphor is my co-pilot: How the literal and metaphorical rely on the same type of knowledge](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2010-08-06-metaphor-is-my-co-pilot-how-the-literal-and-metaphorical-rely-on-the-/index.md): The piece argues that literal and metaphorical utterances both depend on contextual knowledge and mappings between conceptual domains.
- [links for 2010-08-04](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2010-08-05-links-for-2010-08-04/index.md): The digest links to a bookmarklet search engine and a school platform for publishing audio, video, and podcasts.
- [Anthologize: 5 lessons for microfunding of research and development projects](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2010-08-04-anthologize-5-lessons-for-microfunding-of-research-and-development-pr/index.md): This piece uses the Anthologize project to argue that short, inexpensive, public projects can produce useful tools and research through iterative work.
- [The Tortoise and the Hare: Analogy for Academia in the Digital World?](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2010-08-04-the-tortoise-and-the-hare-analogy-for-academia-in-the-digital-world/index.md): The piece uses the tortoise and hare fable to challenge simple contrasts between digital and traditional scholarship.
- [JISC Elevator might bring more responsiveness to research funding](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2010-08-02-jisc-elevator-might-bring-more-responsiveness-to-research-funding/index.md): This piece argues that JISC Elevator should let communities and developers jointly shape small, rapid, and usable research and development bids.
- [Why Chomsky doesn't count as a gifted linguist](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2010-08-01-why-chomsky-doesnt-count-as-a-gifted-linguist/index.md): The piece argues that Chomsky's formal influence did not produce comparable insight into language as a social and functional phenomenon.
- [Why ideas aren't enough to solve the Palestine-Israeli conflict](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2010-07-30-why-ideas-arent-enough-to-solve-the-palestine-israeli-conflict/index.md): The piece argues that reframing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict can expose assumptions but cannot replace political work and material power.
- [Harvard leads the way on building institutional academic communities](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2010-07-29-harvard-leads-the-way-on-building-institutional-academic-communities/index.md): This piece presents Harvard OpenScholar as a model for institutional academic communities and argues that cross-institutional federation should follow.
- [links for 2010-07-25](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2010-07-26-links-for-2010-07-25/index.md): The digest links to a collection of user-interface design patterns.
- [I write like… a new more sophisticated stripper name?](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2010-07-22-i-write-like-a-new-more-sophisticated-stripper-name/index.md): The piece uses inconsistent automated author comparisons to show how people construct identities from arbitrary similarities.
- [links for 2010-07-21](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2010-07-22-links-for-2010-07-21/index.md): The digest links to a location-based mobile game with potential learning uses.
- [links for 2010-07-20](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2010-07-21-links-for-2010-07-20/index.md): The digest links to a collaborative online test-preparation service.
- [What it's not about so much about](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2010-07-21-what-its-not-about-so-much/index.md): The piece shares an XKCD comic about distinctions among analogies, metaphors, and similes.
- [links for 2010-07-19](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2010-07-20-links-for-2010-07-19/index.md): The digest collects mobile portfolio tools, competency-management systems, and e-portfolio interoperability resources.
- [links for 2010-07-18](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2010-07-19-links-for-2010-07-18/index.md): The digest links to a collection of free courses, lectures, videos, and audio materials.
- [Report on Mahara Con UK 2010 (#maharauk10) in 36 Tweets](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2010-07-19-report-on-mahara-con-uk-2010-maharauk10-in-36-tweets/index.md): The piece reports on Mahara UK 2010 through contemporaneous tweets about e-portfolio practice, implementation barriers, and forthcoming platform features.
- [Hacking a metaphor in five steps](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2010-07-18-hacking-a-metaphor-in-five-steps/index.md): The piece presents a five-step method for identifying, testing, and extending metaphorical mappings.
- [links for 2010-07-17](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2010-07-18-links-for-2010-07-17/index.md): The digest collects Mahara, e-portfolio, education, and conference resources associated with Mahara UK 2010.
- [URL Storytelling in the Age of the Semantic Web](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2010-07-18-url-storytelling-in-the-age-of-the-semantic-web/index.md): This note presents a slide deck as an example of a URL that serves both machine-readable and human-readable purposes.
- [What it’s all About](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2010-07-18-what-its-all-about/index.md): The piece defines metaphor hacking as examining and reconstructing the conceptual frames used in thought and language.
- [How researchers use Web 2.0](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2010-07-14-how-researchers-use-web-2-0/index.md): This piece summarises evidence that researchers rarely use Web 2.0 services and argues that institutions should support experimentation without centralising it.
- [No Longer Mad with Desire: Exactly the anDroid I was looking for](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2010-07-13-mad-with-desire-exactly-the-android-i-was-looking-for/index.md): The piece reviews the HTC Desire after one day of use and records methods for migrating messages and contacts from a Nokia phone.
- [Friend or FOAF: The Building Blocks of Content and Identity Federation](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2010-07-12-friend-or-foaf-the-building-blocks-of-content-and-identity-federation/index.md): This explainer surveys the protocols, services, institutions, and implementations that support federated scholarly content and identity.
- [How an unconference schedule is made #thatcamp](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2010-07-12-how-an-nnconference-schedule-is-made-thatcamp/index.md): The piece presents photographs of participants creating the schedule for THATCamp London 2010.
- [links for 2010-07-10](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2010-07-11-links-for-2010-07-10/index.md): The digest links to resources on QR codes, text encoding, federated identity, and dyslexia-friendly typography.
- [links for 2010-07-09](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2010-07-10-links-for-2010-07-09/index.md): The digest collects digital humanities research tools, open scholarship resources, text-to-speech services, and educational media.
- [links for 2010-07-08](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2010-07-09-links-for-2010-07-08/index.md): The digest collects tools and standards for text analysis, federated social networking, data portability, and digital humanities research.
- [links for 2010-07-07](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2010-07-08-links-for-2010-07-07/index.md): The digest collects digital humanities tools, archives, research resources, social platforms, and materials associated with THATCamp London.
- [Toward a Federated Academic Identity](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2010-07-08-federated-academic-identity/index.md): This piece proposes a federated academic identity that joins sign-on, profiles, scholarly outputs, social connections, privacy controls, and professional review across services.
- [Spicy nodes of TechCzech on the Net](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2010-07-07-spicy-nodes-of-techczech-on-the-net/index.md): The piece embeds an interactive SpicyNodes visualisation of the TechCzech site.
- [links for 2010-07-05](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2010-07-06-links-for-2010-07-05/index.md): The digest links to an online dictionary and translation search tool.
- [Notes from session at THATCamp London - 6 July 2010](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2010-07-06-notes-from-session-at-thatcamp-london-6-july-2010/index.md): This note directs readers to a collaborative document from a THATCamp London session on social tools for participatory research.
- [Twitter Posts from THATCamp 2010 discussion group](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2010-07-06-twitter-posts-from-thatcamp-2010-discussion-group/index.md): This digest collects Twitter posts from a THATCamp discussion about social tools, participatory research, and digital humanities infrastructure.
- [Research Swarm - An Interesting Metaphor](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2010-07-05-research-swarm-an-interesting-metaphor/index.md): This note points to a presentation that uses swarm metaphors to describe research practice.
- [Researchity: An Idea for a Research Community](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2010-07-05-researchity/index.md): This piece proposes an online community where practitioners, researchers, and funders jointly formulate questions, conduct research, and share results.
- [Delicious links for 2010-07-03](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2010-07-04-links-for-2010-07-03/index.md): The digest collects resources on accessible technology, educational collaboration, social media, language learning, and open educational resources.
- [Presentation on the internet from 1999](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2010-02-02-presentation-on-the-internet-from-1999/index.md): The piece embeds a 1999 presentation about the internet.
- [BETT2010: What the teachers can do and did](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2010-01-17-bett2010-what-the-teachers-can-do-and-did/index.md): The piece presents a teacher's account of using inexpensive technologies to solve educational problems.
- [Starting the inhouse eGuides training process with a crash course in technobabble](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2009-12-10-starting-the-eguides-training-process-with-a-crash-course-in-technoba/index.md): The piece recommends a slideshow that introduces key Web 2.0 terminology for an in-house training programme.
- [MoodleMoot Lessons Learned](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2009-04-09-moodlemoot-lessons-learned/index.md): The piece records lessons from MoodleMoot UK 2009 about Moodle, open-source learning tools, and networked conference participation.
- [A Mindset, Not A Skillset](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2009-04-01-a-mindset-not-a-skillset/index.md): The piece uses a shared image to present technological competence as a mindset rather than a fixed set of skills.
- [Software vs. Users](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2009-04-01-software-vs-users/index.md): The piece argues that learning technologists should prioritise listening to users because simple software often supports unanticipated uses better than feature-heavy systems.
- [Inevitability of understanding: The folk theory](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2008-06-23-inevitability-of-understanding-the-folk-theory/index.md): The piece argues that political opponents treat language as producing inevitable conclusions and therefore interpret disagreement as incompetence or corruption.
- [Blending and framing by paradox](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2008-06-07-blending-and-framing-by-paradox/index.md): The piece argues that paradoxical aphorisms help groups negotiate competing cognitive models without resolving their contradiction.
- [Unintended consequences of political correctness](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2008-03-22-unintended-consequences-of-political-correctness/index.md): The piece argues that political correctness can entrench new linguistic frames that make affirmative racial identification difficult to discuss.
- [Are US copyright laws unconstitutional: Default states semantics](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2008-02-23-are-us-copyright-unconstitutional-default-states-semantics/index.md): The piece argues that the US Constitution's default meaning of limited copyright conflicts with laws that extend corporate control without promoting progress.
- [Individual perspicacity, collective naïveté](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2008-02-17-individual-perspicacity-collective-navet/index.md): The piece asks why individuals can recognise manipulative political discourse while collective electoral behaviour often remains predictable.
- [Two models of governance: Foundations of policy negotiation](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2008-02-10-two-models-of-governance-foundations-of-policy-negotiation/index.md): The piece identifies central control and local expertise as competing models that structure policy disputes across political positions.
- [Finally! The truth about truth: Folk foundations of scientific reductionism](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2008-02-07-finally-the-truth-about-truth-folk-foundations-of-scientific-reductio/index.md): The piece argues that scientific reductionism reflects a folk theory of truth and proposes level-specific tendencies as an alternative model of knowledge.
- [Brief endorsement](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2008-01-28-brief-endorsement/index.md): The piece endorses Barack Obama's presidential candidacy on the basis of his plans, intelligence, and public communication.
- [Primogeniture: Negotiating the internal 'logic' of social change](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2008-01-18-primogeniture-negotiating-the-internal-logic-of-social-change/index.md): The piece argues that public arguments depend on negotiated categories, frames, and power relations rather than context-free logical validity.
- [The perception problem and the question of rationality in life](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2008-01-08-the-perception-problem-and-the-question-of-rationality-in-life/index.md): The piece questions whether asymmetric perceptions of race and gender are best explained through individual cognition or collective social phenomena.
- [Collective cognition, culture, mind share and patterns of action](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-11-04-collective-cognition-culture-mind-share-and-patterns-of-action/index.md): The piece argues that reducing collective concepts such as culture and popularity to individual minds removes an essential level of description.
- [Negotiating radial categories: Some mothers do have them](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-11-04-negotiating-radial-categories-some-mothers-do-have-them/index.md): The piece uses adoption terminology to illustrate how speakers negotiate the boundaries of the radial category of motherhood.
- [Phallic imagery in English-language comedy and the theory of image schemas](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-11-03-phallic-imagery-in-english-language-comedy-and-the-theory-of-image-sc/index.md): The piece uses phallic jokes to argue that mental images are schematic and can match through evoked situations without exact visual correspondence.
- [More meaningful than what? Populations and truth in social science](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-11-01-more-meaningful-than-what-populations-and-truth-in-social-science/index.md): The piece shows how converting a population-level gender pay gap into an individual unpaid-work scenario changes the claim's meaning and policy implications.
- [Convention over logic: Limits of implicature](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-10-14-convention-over-logic-limits-of-implicature/index.md): The piece uses an anomalous newspaper reference to suspects to show how journalistic convention can override ordinary pragmatic implicature.
- [Indeterminacy in art criticism as frame negotiation](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-10-13-indeterminacy-of-framing-in-art-criticism/index.md): The piece argues that art criticism hides the critic's agency within indeterminate frames and forms part of the artistic process it interprets.
- [Utility of prejudice: Reducing freedom to cognition and vice versa](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-10-10-utility-of-prejudice-reducing-freedom-to-cognition-and-vice-versa/index.md): The piece argues that categorisation enables both ordinary navigation and social prejudice while negotiation permits people to revise its consequences.
- [Perspectives, views and child cognition](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-09-12-perspectives-views-and-child-cognition/index.md): The piece argues that explanations of the September 11 attacks for children should present competing perspectives explicitly instead of using syntactically simplified but conceptually opaque prose.
- [Cognition, information, knowledge and the limits of serial computing](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-09-11-cogntion-information-knowledge-and-the-limits-of-serial-computing/index.md): The piece argues that growing computing power and information volume will not yield human cognition or knowledge without models of embodied and social processes.
- [Poetry in blogs and cognitive persistence](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-09-06-poetry-in-blogs-and-cognitive-persistence/index.md): The piece observes that a final poetic line can retrospectively change the rhythm and meaning of an entire prose post.
- [Changes in word meaning and folk theories of reasonable mappings](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-09-02-changes-in-word-meaning-and-folk-theories-of-reasonable-mappings/index.md): The piece argues that a linguist's account of political word change participates in frame negotiation while drawing authority from expert status.
- [Lol cats and conventionalization of semiotic systems](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-09-02-lol-cats-and-conventionalization-of-semiotic-systems/index.md): The piece uses LOLcats to show how multimodal constructions conventionalise through both emergent patterns and deliberate human codification.
- [Searching for coherence in high-stakes utterances](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-09-01-searching-for-coherence-in-high-stakes-utterances/index.md): The piece explains a pageant contestant's incoherent answer as a failed attempt to integrate stock public frames under pressure rather than evidence of low intelligence.
- [From culture-specific to the universal in the US counter-insurgency manual](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-08-24-from-culture-specific-to-the-universal-in-the-us-counter-insurgency-m/index.md): The piece argues that culture-specific meanings of politeness and professionalism undermine universal instructions in a counterinsurgency manual.
- [Paradox of the evolutionary metaphor in language death](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-08-24-the-paradoxical-evolutionary-scenarios-and-language-death/index.md): The piece argues that evolutionary metaphors for language preservation overstate the universal value of every linguistic and cultural feature.
- [Blurring the lines of folk and expert theory](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-08-23-blurring-the-lines-of-folk-and-expert-theory/index.md): The piece argues that folk and expert theories of clear language occupy a socially determined continuum rather than separate categories.
- [Folk theories of conceptual causality and collective autonomy](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-08-20-folk-theories-of-conceptual-causality/index.md): The piece challenges the news-diet metaphor by showing that audiences exercise political autonomy in ways that simple models of media causation cannot explain.
- [Girl Wars, Boy Wars](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-08-18-girl-wars-boy-wars/index.md): The piece links literary quality to conceptual blending and explains childhood bullying through conformity, authority and group identity.
- [Bill O'Reilly on the 8:05 from Brighton](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-08-13-bill-oreilly-on-the-805-from-brighton/index.md): The piece challenges theories that treat ordinary audiences as cognitively captive to propaganda while exempting trained analysts from the same influence.
- [Networks of trust and the newspaper business](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-08-13-networks-of-trust-and-the-newspaper-business/index.md): The piece argues that newspapers may persist as validators within social networks of trust even after printed news disappears.
- [Bi-furcated narrative frames in public policy debates](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-08-12-bi-furcated-narrative-frames-in-public-policy-debates/index.md): The piece examines liberal and conservative narrative frames as competing but reasonable accounts of authority, freedom and institutional identity.
- [Anecdotes, metaphors and the negotiated truth](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-08-11-anecdotes-metaphors-and-the-negotiated-truth/index.md): The piece argues that journalistic anecdotes acquire truth through negotiated interpretation and that verification checklists cannot remove this dependence.
- [Metaphoric inferencing in action and the negotiation of interpretive privilege](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-08-11-metaphoric-inferencing-in-action-and-the-negotiation-of-interpretive-/index.md): The piece shows how criticism of a bookstore's supplier language unpacks market metaphors and contests their interpretive privilege.
- [Schematic imagery as euphemistic framing in war news reporting](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-08-07-schematic-imagery-as-euphemistic-framing-in-war-news-reporting/index.md): The piece analyses schematic euphemisms in Iraq war reporting and asks how discourse analysis can avoid disguising political participation as objectivity.
- [Media and scenarios of public opinion formation](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-07-25-media-and-scenarios-of-public-opinion-formation/index.md): The piece argues that idealised media narratives cannot by themselves explain changes in public opinion or electoral outcomes.
- [Negotiating image projections: Who has the power?](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-07-23-negotiating-image-projections-who-has-the-power/index.md): The piece examines how gendered political frames constrain Hillary Clinton's public image while remaining partly open to conscious negotiation.
- [Walking robots and local grammars](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-07-14-walking-robots-and-local-grammars/index.md): The piece uses autonomous walking circuits as an analogy for overlapping local language processes that do not require a central grammar module.
- [Atheism as religion and limits of rationality](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-07-13-atheism-as-religion-and-limits-of-rationality/index.md): The piece argues that atheism must treat morality as deliberate choice or rely on secular humanism as an authority comparable to religion.
- [Negotiating scenarios of democracy](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-07-13-negotiating-scenarios-of-democracy/index.md): The piece analyses a story of the president as an employee to show how public narratives negotiate duties between citizens and government.
- [Sources of usage consensus in language change](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-07-12-sources-of-usage-consensus-in-language-change/index.md): The piece asks how internet usage and social reinforcement should inform evidence about consensus in changing spellings and idioms.
- [Collective negotiation of causal relations](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-07-11-collective-negotiation-of-causal-relations/index.md): The piece argues that American opposition to the Iraq war collectively avoids responsibility for the consequences of the invasion.
- [Conservatism as part fo language competence](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-07-11-conservatism-as-part-fo-language-competence/index.md): The piece argues that linguistic competence includes negotiated tension between conservative norms and innovation, including the linguist's political role.
- [Language Log: The Supreme Court Fails Semantics](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-07-08-language-log-the-supreme-court-fails-semantics/index.md): The piece rejects a context-free semantic analysis of a school banner and argues that its anti-establishment meaning arises through shared frames.
- [Professional linguists and folk theory of language](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-07-08-professional-linguists-and-folk-theory-of-language/index.md): The piece challenges assumptions that multilingualism uniformly improves openness, subsequent language learning or social understanding.
- [Opportunism and power of analogical mapping](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-07-02-opportunism-and-power-of-analogical-mapping/index.md): The piece shows that historical analogies depend on opportunistic mappings whose aptness must be negotiated against the record.
- [Wittgenstein and folk theories of language and intelligence](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-07-01-wittgenstein-and-folk-theories-of-language-and-intelligence/index.md): The piece argues that a Wittgenstein quotation reflects folk theories that separate logical intelligence from language's imperfect and deceptive expression.
- [Generative analogies as negotiation devices](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-06-30-generative-analogies-as-negotiation-devices/index.md): The piece uses the phrase liberal fascism to show how generative analogies are judged through negotiated aptness and credibility rather than truth alone.
- [Rejection of metaphor](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-06-17-rejection-of-metaphor/index.md): The piece argues that rejecting an explicit metaphor does not remove the conceptual integration embedded in ordinary narrative description.
- [Havel on intertextuality](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-06-14-havel-on-intertextuality/index.md): The piece uses Václav Havel's description of political language to examine how verbal patterns spread through cognitive, textual and social processes.
- [Science vs. social science of the environment](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-06-14-science-vs-social-science-of-the-environment/index.md): The piece argues that scientific consensus is rhetorical and that science becomes a legitimate political participant when it enters public debate.
- [Mis-entrenchment of codified blendings](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-06-06-mis-entrenchment-of-codified-blendings/index.md): The piece uses a persistent misunderstanding of trophy wife to argue that speakers can privately misconstrue entrenched lexical and grammatical constructions.
- [Hitchens vs Hitchens](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-06-03-hitchens-vs-hitchens-the-daily-mail/index.md): The piece criticises Peter Hitchens's claim that religious faith restrains evil and argues that moral certainty can itself enable harm.
- [Unjustified blending and the threat of terrorism](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-06-03-unjustified-blending-and-the-threat-of-terrorism/index.md): The piece uses a bomb image on a malfunctioning fax to show how context can override intended mappings and create practical taboos.
- [Negotiating 'lie'](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-05-10-negotiating-lie/index.md): The piece shows how public discourse negotiates whether political statements qualify as lies and which responses a lie permits.
- [The analogical instinct](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-05-08-the-analogical-instinct/index.md): The piece uses reactions to a French presidential campaign to illustrate the political impulse to construct analogies across countries and candidates.
- [Metaphor hypostasis as a cohesive device](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-04-27-metaphor-hypostasis-as-a-cohesive-device/index.md): The piece shows how an explicitly named war metaphor organises the imagery and cohesion of an otherwise descriptive political text.
- [Blending a life: Personal narratives of public events](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-04-26-blending-a-life-personal-narratives-of-public-events/index.md): The piece argues that media narratives of public tragedy continue older ritual forms of integrating events into personal and collective experience.
- [Homicide attacks and the restrictions on mapping in blending](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-04-26-homicide-attacks-and-the-restrictions-on-mapping-in-blending/index.md): The piece explains how competing labels for suicide attacks negotiate connotations and restrictions on conceptual mapping.
- [Folk theory of meaning has hypostasis of reference in the Imus controversy](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-04-12-folk-theory-of-meaning-has-hypostasis-of-reference-in-the-imus-contro/index.md): The piece uses the Don Imus controversy to show how folk theories give figurative insults greater force when treated as literal references.
- [Evidencing negotiated frames: The Pelosi debate](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-04-07-evidencing-negotiated-frames-the-pelosi-debate/index.md): The piece uses commentary on Nancy Pelosi's clothing to show how cultural scenarios provide evidence for frame completion and negotiation.
- [Framing the frames: The Gingrich gambit](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-04-04-framing-the-frames-the-gingrich-gambit/index.md): The piece analyses Newt Gingrich's denial of an anti-Spanish remark through the folk frame that bilingual education produces social isolation.
- [Negotiating vocabulary and the logic of analogy](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-03-23-negotiating-vocabulary-and-the-logic-of-analogy/index.md): The piece argues that word meanings and causal analogies are negotiated in discourse rather than supplied as fixed consequences of language.
- [Text worlds, anaphora and syntactic structures as spandrels](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-03-23-text-worlds-anaphora-and-syntactic-structures-as-spandrels/index.md): The piece uses anomalous anaphora to argue that syntax can serve as a logistical vehicle for building and blending text worlds.
- [McJobs, the Dictionary Wars and Folk Theories of Meaning](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-03-22-mcjobs-the-dictionary-wars-and-folk-theories-of-meaning/index.md): The piece contrasts usage-based and reference-based folk theories of dictionary meaning through the dispute over the word McJob.
- [Negotiating metaphoric mappings in advertising](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-03-10-negotiating-metaphoric-mappings-in-advertising/index.md): The piece shows how an Apple Lisa advertisement visually negotiated the mapping between an office desk and a computer desktop.
- [Opportunistic blending, semantic prosody and framing in politics debate](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-03-10-opportunistic-blending-semantic-prosody-and-framing-in-politics/index.md): The piece analyses how political journalism creates, spreads and retrospectively negotiates opportunistic conceptual blends.
- [Sex and race on and beneath the surface of discourse](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-02-16-sex-and-race-on-and-beneath-the-surface-of-discourse/index.md): The piece argues that emphatic slurs do not reliably reveal underlying prejudice and that discourse analysis cannot securely recover an individual text's hidden meaning.
- [From surface to depth and back in discourse: A case of semantic prosody](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-02-13-from-surface-to-depth-and-back-in-discourse-a-case-of-semantic-prosod/index.md): The piece explains how semantic prosody constrained interpretations of Barack Obama's statement that soldiers' lives had been wasted.
- [Discursive diglossia and American racial politics](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-02-04-discursive-diglossia-and-american-racial-politics/index.md): The piece argues that perceptions of articulate Black politicians depend on racialised speech cadences, group membership and unequal social power.
- [Frame negotiation through popular culture frame hypostasis](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-02-04-frame-negotiation-through-popular-culture-frame-hypostasis/index.md): The piece defines frame hypostasis as language that names a cultural figure or scenario to activate and negotiate a broader conceptual frame.
- [Analogy as ritually rhetorical device and 9/11 symbolisms](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-01-29-analogy-as-ritually-rhetorical-device-and-911-symbolisms/index.md): The piece analyses how ritual qualifications and historical analogies preserve the symbolic significance of the September 11 attacks while permitting criticism.
- [Cummulative identity and failed assumptions on multiculturalism](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-01-29-cummulative-identity-and-failed-assumptions-on-multiculturalism/index.md): The piece argues that British multiculturalism failed through symbolic exclusion that channelled young Muslims' political identity into radicalism.
- [What 'Hillary' should have said: Indeterminacy of metaphor integration](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-01-29-what-hillary-should-have-said-indeterminacy-of-metaphor-integration/index.md): The piece explains Hillary Clinton's joke as an underspecified analogy whose possible mappings hardened during subsequent public interpretation.
- [Cognitive foundations of civilizations](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-01-22-cognitive-foundations-of-civilizations/index.md): The piece argues that electronic books will renegotiate civilisation's imagery of books without revolutionising information consumption.
- [Death by analogy](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-01-17-death-by-analogy/index.md): The piece analyses a fatal water-drinking contest as sound-based metonymy and negotiated symbolic action.
- [Frame-relative assessments and globally warming terrorism](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-01-17-frame-relative-assessments-and-globally-warming-terrorism/index.md): The piece explains comparisons between climate change and terrorism through salient danger frames and Stephen Hawking's public authority.
- [Algorithms and everything](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-01-09-algorithms-and-everything/index.md): The piece argues that algorithmic descriptions are useful only at particular scales and must coexist with incompatible perspectives.
- [Sources of credibility and the results of education](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-01-09-sources-of-credibility-and-the-results-of-education/index.md): The piece argues that education chiefly supplies knowledge and membership signals that establish credibility rather than uniformly transforming attitudes or abilities.
- [Images of language and learning in mavenry](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-01-08-images-of-language-and-learning-in-mavenry/index.md): The piece rejects claims of linguistic decline while examining literacy, educational relevance, motivation and the social variability of expression.
- [New Atheism and old religions or the other way around?](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-01-08-new-atheism-and-old-religions-or-the-other-way-around/index.md): The piece argues that organised atheism can reproduce religion's social identity, ritual and moral certainty even without belief in God.
- [Libraries, freedom and the limits of free-market electoral logistics](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-01-04-libraries-freedom-and-the-limits-of-free-market-electoral-logistics/index.md): The piece argues that library collections should reflect public choice without reducing cultural value to circulation figures or elite prestige.
- [Limits of social cognition research as a basis of policy](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-01-04-limits-of-social-cognition-research-as-a-basis-of-policy/index.md): The piece criticises the use of cognitive-bias research to explain hawkish policy as a deterministic folk theory unsupported by political evidence.
- [Logic and conceptual frames](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-01-04-logic-and-conceptual-frames/index.md): The piece uses a Roman sexual double standard to show that logical inference depends on categories selected by conceptual frames.
- [Elites as maintainers of conservative values](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-01-01-elites-as-maintainers-of-conservative-values/index.md): The piece argues that a Radio 4 poll reflects conservative elite nostalgia more than the programme's presumed liberal audience.
- [Marriage and the impact of scholarship on society](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-01-01-marriage-and-the-impact-of-scholarship-on-society/index.md): The piece examines how academic accounts of marriage move between descriptions of social institutions and prescriptions for individual action.
- [New societies and old societies](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2006-12-28-new-societies-and-old-societies/index.md): The piece argues that online collectives reorganise social connections without removing hierarchy, marginality, or human limits on maintaining relationships.
- [Free Market Doctrines: From analogy to ritual](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2006-12-17-free-market-doctrines-from-analogy-to-ritual/index.md): The piece argues that critics of free-market doctrine can reproduce the same ritualised ideological reasoning when they present their own framework as human nature.
- [Left Behind Games: The moral frames of evangelical Christianity](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2006-12-17-left-behind-games-the-moral-frames-of-evangelical-christianity/index.md): The piece shows how Left Behind encodes evangelical moral frames that are intelligible within its community but contradictory outside it.
- [Framing the Civil War](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2006-12-05-on-the-media-transcript-of/index.md): The piece analyses the term civil war as a negotiated frame whose descriptive, political, and scalar meanings cannot be separated.
- [Image schemas blends and new technologies](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2006-12-03-image-schemas-blends-and-new-technologies/index.md): The piece uses changing camera posture to show how new technologies alter visual expectations and habitual behaviour.
- [Images of cummulative causation and a theory of education](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2006-11-29-images-of-cummulative-causation-and-a-theory-of-education/index.md): The piece argues that plausible stories about textbooks and mathematical achievement cannot establish causal explanations for education policy.
- [On making sense of](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2006-11-29-on-making-sense-of/index.md): The piece proposes narrative as a primary means by which people make sense of experience across journalism, drama, and science.
- [Education reform, memory, skill and secondary socialization](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2006-11-04-education-reform-memory-skill-and-secondary-socialization/index.md): The piece argues that education primarily socialises learners into communities and therefore requires both skill-based and memory-based perspectives.
- [Accepted, the review - Images of the educational process in popular culture](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2006-10-31-accepted-the-review-images-of-the-educational-process-in-popular-cult/index.md): The piece reviews Accepted as a comedy that combines progressive educational theories while avoiding the unwanted consequences of genuine student choice.
- [Wikipedia - the Original Encyclopedia](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2006-10-31-wikipedia-the-original-encyclopedia/index.md): The piece compares Wikipedia with the Encyclopédie as collaborative, contested, commercially divergent projects for organising and spreading knowledge.
- [Of dicks and doves: Team America cognitive semireview](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2006-10-29-of-dicks-and-doves/index.md): The piece analyses how Team America's final anatomical analogy can override the film's broader critique of American interventionism.
- [Tom Waits and the surface of text](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2006-10-29-tom-waits-and-the-surface-of-text/index.md): The piece argues that a Tom Waits song gains force by violating stylistic expectations established across his body of work.
- [Trouble in Ambridge: Optical illusions and hypostesized narratives](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2006-10-27-trouble-in-ambridge-optical-illusion-and-hypostesized-narratives/index.md): The piece compares engagement with The Archers to an optical illusion in which listeners switch between an imagined world and awareness of its construction.
- [Revenge of the Nerds (1984) - Review 1](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2006-10-24-revenge-of-the-nerds-1984/index.md): The piece reviews Revenge of the Nerds as a blend of liberation narrative and teenage comedy whose celebrated protagonists commit acts now recognised as sexual abuse.
- [Analogies in public discourse: Negotiation of Frames and Hypostasis of Channels](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2006-10-21-analogies-in-public-discourse-negotiation-of-frames-and-hypostasis-of/index.md): The piece argues that public discussion uses analogies to negotiate conceptual frames and the communicative medium at the same time.
- [Localized textual performance in everyday narrative](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2006-10-21-localized-textual-performance-in-everyday-narrative/index.md): The piece argues that rhythmic delivery and short sentences can intensify an ordinary news report through localised textual performance.
- [YouTube of the 1890s](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2006-10-21-youtube-of-the-1890s/index.md): The piece uses the Electrophone to argue that technological ideas can disappear for decades before infrastructure makes them viable.
- [Psychological violence, cuts, bruises and world peace](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2006-10-20-psychological-violence-cuts-bruises-and-world-peace/index.md): The piece argues that prioritising psychological harm over physical injury reflects a cultural frame that can impede communication across societies.
- [Is mathematics an empirical science?](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2006-10-19-is-mathematics-an-empirical-science/index.md): The piece argues that foundational mathematical rules were partly established by exploring the consequences of alternative assumptions.
- [Local grammars and space exploration](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2006-10-06-local-grammars-and-space-exploration/index.md): The piece argues that familiar but formally irregular expressions can be understood as products of local grammars rather than dismissed as errors.
- [Frame negotiation on the media](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2006-10-03-frame-negotiation-on-the-media/index.md): The piece uses disputes over calling Iraq a civil war to show how media participants negotiate both descriptions and their political consequences.
- [Accuracy of metaphor and debates](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2006-09-16-accuracy-of-metaphor-and-debates/index.md): The piece argues that metaphors can describe complex experiences more accurately than adjectives because readers construct richer mental images from them.
- [Scenarios behind education](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2006-08-24-scenarios-behind-education/index.md): The piece argues that education debates negotiate competing images of schooling while overlooking the logistical burden of reform.
- [Scenarios behind technology and education debate](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2006-08-22-scenarios-behind-technology-and-education-debate/index.md): The piece argues that a story about one student's use of Google Books cannot establish the technology's systemic effect on higher education.
- [Framing in perceptions of news bias](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2006-08-11-framing-in-perceptions-of-news-bias/index.md): The piece argues that partisan frames shape perceptions of news bias and that readers can only challenge them through sustained questioning.
- [Jazz in America/Classical in Europe: Functional equivalence](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2006-08-11-jazz-in-americaclassical-in-europe-functional-equivalence/index.md): The piece proposes that jazz in the United States and classical music in Europe occupy functionally equivalent positions of cultural prestige.
- [Gender models and types of evidence for them](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2006-08-02-gender-models-and-types-of-evidence-for-them/index.md): The piece uses mismatched internet skills and self-assessments to examine how language and research evidence represent gender models.
- [Values and statements about education](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2006-07-24-values-and-statements-about-education/index.md): The piece exposes the market frame that connects national freedom with choice and competition in education policy.
- [Language awareness as part of linguistic competence](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2006-07-09-language-awareness-as-part-of-linguistic-competence/index.md): The piece argues that conscious public discussion of new dictionary entries may be part of linguistic change and linguistic competence.
- [Rationality and immigration](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2006-05-23-rationality-and-immigration/index.md): The piece identifies an appeal to logic in the US language debate as a rhetorical syllogism that equates linguistic uniformity with national unity.
- [Limes Americanum - the symbolic and the practical in US foreign relations](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2006-05-22-limes-americanum-the-symbolic-and-the-practical-in-us-foreign-relatio/index.md): The piece argues that allied countries can treat the United States as an empire through symbolic analogies even when the United States rejects that identity.
- [Linguistic nationalism and the USA](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2006-05-20-linguistic-nationalism-and-the-usa/index.md): The piece argues that debates over declaring English a national language reveal that English-speaking countries are not exempt from linguistic nationalism.
- [Role of examples in social debate and research](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2006-05-17-role-of-examples-in-social-research/index.md): The piece asks whether examples of individual experience can explain social systems or whether those systems require analysis at their own level.
- [Beginning of History](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2006-05-14-beginning-of-history/index.md): The piece argues that liberal democracy and religion become destructive when their ideals are imposed as complete political doctrines.
- [Feminism as Islam](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2006-05-11-feminism-as-islam/index.md): The piece argues that an analogy between feminism and Islam reproduces teleological history and accepts distorted accounts of both movements' visible extremes.
- [Extension of 'diversity' as a conservationist metaphor](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2006-04-27-cbc-radio-quirks-quarks-april-8-2006/index.md): The piece analyses a conservationist account that connects biological, linguistic, and cultural diversity through an alternative narrative of change.
- [Research-generated assonant symmetries, equal gender rights and global sexual satisfaction](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2006-04-27-npr-global-sex-survey-satisfied-in-the-west/index.md): The piece cautions that an apparent association between gender equality and sexual satisfaction may be a research-generated symmetry without explanatory meaning.
- [Feminism and computer gaming](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2006-04-24-feminism-and-computer-gaming/index.md): The piece argues that male identification with Lara Croft complicates accounts of gaming based solely on the male gaze and objectification.
- [Cadences and harmonies of verbal and dramatic narratives](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2006-01-25-cadences-and-harmonies-of-verbal-and-dramatic-narratives/index.md): The piece argues that familiar narrative structures can trigger emotional responses independently of a work's perceived artistic quality.
- [Periodicity of nationalist conservatism: A hypothesis to be tested](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2006-01-25-periodicity-of-nationalist-conservatism-a-hypothesis-to-be-tested/index.md): The piece proposes testing whether public discourse exhibits recurring periods of nationalist social conservatism.
- [Multiple perspectives-models-stories in fiction and science](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2006-01-24-multiple-perspectives-models-stories-in-fiction-and-science/index.md): The piece examines how multiple competing cognitive models operate simultaneously in fictional representation, education debates, and interpretation.
- [Geena Davis and the importance of individual role-model narratives](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2006-01-17-geena-davis-and-the-importance-of-individual-role-model-narratives/index.md): The piece analyses Geena Davis's award speech as a challenge to gender expectations and an example of role-model narratives used to represent social change.
- [Semantic prosody of web design](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2006-01-17-semantic-prosody-of-web-design/index.md): The piece compares the halo effect of first impressions in web design with semantic prosody and other forms of rapidly formed prejudice.
- [Prejudice, shared meanings, local grammars and Google as a resource for research](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2006-01-16-prejudice-shared-meanings-local-grammars-and-google-as-a-resource-for/index.md): The piece uses a Google prejudice map to propose local grammars as tools for mining how people talk about nations.
- [Franklin and the complexities of American national identity](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2006-01-15-franklin-and-the-complexities-of-american-national-identity/index.md): The piece uses portrayals of Benjamin Franklin to argue that American identity follows the same sociocognitive patterns as other national identities.
- [Wired News: Military Women Can Hack It](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2006-01-13-wired-news-military-women-can-hack-it/index.md): The piece argues that policy should not treat women as category instances when research repeatedly overturns assumed physiological differences.
- [Self-organization of iconic linguistic items](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2006-01-10-self-organization-of-iconic-linguistic-items/index.md): The piece uses spelling frequency islands to propose that language patterns combine rules, structural by-products, and stochastic organisation.
- [Nature of the predictions genre](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2006-01-09-nature-of-the-predictions-genre/index.md): The piece distinguishes predictions about individual future events from probabilistic descriptions of past trends and treats prediction claims as integrative narratives.
- [News reporting as a cognitive (speech) act](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2006-01-09-news-reporting-as-a-cognitive-speech-act/index.md): The piece uses a literal news headline to consider whether reporting can function as a cognitive or social act.
- [Public interest, public interestedness and the self-organization of need](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2006-01-09-public-interest-public-interestedness-and-the-self-organization-of-ne/index.md): The piece distinguishes public interest from public attention and describes news selection as a market-based form of collective censorship.
- [Social hypostasis of linguistic items](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2006-01-09-the-gif-pronunciation-page/index.md): The piece treats online pronunciation surveys as evidence that social internet participation can collect useful language data.
- [Transformation of symbols across cultural borders](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2006-01-09-transformation-of-symbols-across-cultural-borders/index.md): The piece argues that communities transform imported symbols such as McDonald's by integrating them into local cultural practices.
- [Urban Legends as examples of folk theories and cognitive models](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2006-01-09-urban-legends-as-examples-of-folk-theories-and-cognitive-models/index.md): The piece argues that urban legends both express and shape the cognitive models people use to interpret events.
- [City as metaphor for visual aspects online design](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2006-01-06-a-list-apart-articles-thinking-outside-the-grid/index.md): The piece uses an urban-planning metaphor to explain how coding methods constrain and enable visual web design.
- [Discover Music through The Music Genome Project by Pandora](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2006-01-06-discover-music-through-the-music-genome-project-by-pandora/index.md): The piece examines Pandora's genome metaphor and compares expert music classification with automated and collective recommendation systems.
- [Florida high court kills school voucher program](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2006-01-06-florida-high-court-kills-school-voucher-program/index.md): The piece argues that school vouchers overextend a market metaphor that cannot represent education's multiple participants, purposes, and social consequences.
- [Are printed books dead? God I hope so!](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2006-01-04-are-printed-books-dead-god-i-hope-so/index.md): The piece argues that mature electronic-paper devices will eventually replace paper for most reading without radically changing literacy or information sharing.
- [Analogies and blends - new category old ideas](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2006-01-01-analogies-new-category-old-ideas/index.md): The piece defines analogies as elaborated metaphors and outlines their cognitive, textual, and interactive functions.
- [Conceptualizing gender differences in behavior](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-12-29-conceptualizing-gender-differences-in-behavior/index.md): The post argues that reporting on gendered internet use assimilates evidence into conventional stereotypes while minimising findings that contradict them.
- [Towards a cognitive morphology of the folktale](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-12-29-towards-a-cognitive-morphology-of-the-folktale/index.md): The post proposes a cognitive revision of Propp's folktale morphology in which narrative elements pair form with meaning and combine through conceptual integration.
- [Complexities of representation of women in traditional narrative](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-12-25-complexities-of-representation-of-women-in-traditional-narrative/index.md): The post argues that traditional narratives combine contradictory images of women and that their social effects cannot be reduced to direct causation.
- [Creation of meaning and music analogies](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-12-25-creation-of-meaning-and-music-analogies/index.md): The post compares meaning-making to continuously adjusting a musical note in order to challenge static and minimal definitions of concepts.
- [New category: Feminism](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-12-25-new-category-feminism/index.md): The post defends feminism as the appropriate name for analysing women's position in society and cognition because the term preserves the movement's critical force.
- [Individuality and culturality of psychotherapeutic needs](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-12-20-individuality-and-culturality-of-psychotherapeutic-needs/index.md): The post argues that imposed psychological debriefing can obstruct culturally situated recovery and examines rebuilding as a metaphor for emotional life.
- [Parents' role in education - framing in practice](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-12-20-parents-role-in-education-framing-in-practice/index.md): The post identifies a radio debate about parental involvement as an example of competing and shifting cognitive models of education.
- [Determinism and evidentiary value of belief based on personal experience](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-12-19-determinism-and-evidentiary-value-of-belief-based-on-personal-experie/index.md): The post argues that personal experience can motivate both scientific and unscientific conclusions, so scientific authority requires more than an idealised method.
- [Expertise and suitability for policy responsibilities](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-12-19-expertise-and-suitability-for-policy-responsibilities/index.md): The post argues that expertise can narrow judgement, while public decision-making still depends on experts selected through political and group identities.
- [New home](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-12-18-new-home/index.md): The post announces that My Week in Thought has moved to the current site.
- [CADAAD - Conference on Discourse Analysis](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-12-15-cadaad-conference-on-discourse-analysis/index.md): The post announces the first CADAAD conference and its call for papers.
- [Consequences of video games - and the cognitive aspects of data interpretation](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-12-14-consequences-of-video-games-and-the-cognitive-aspects-of-data-interpr/index.md): The post argues that claims about video-game effects depend on narrative and cognitive schemas used to interpret evidence about large groups.
- [My Week In Thought and Hermeneutic Suspicion](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-12-14-my-week-in-thought-and-hermeneutic-suspicion/index.md): The post argues that myth-busting and scepticism are themselves narrative forms whose legitimacy must remain open to questioning.
- [There's no Wikipedia entry for 'moral responsibility' | The Register](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-12-12-theres-no-wikipedia-entry-for-moral-responsibility-the-register/index.md): The post defends Wikipedia as a broadly reliable and correctable reference source while arguing that all encyclopaedias require source criticism.
- [Perspective and data in historical analysis](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-12-11-perspective-and-data-in-historical-analysis/index.md): The post examines how the quantity and survival of evidence constrain historical interpretation without preventing extensive scholarship from fragmentary sources.
- [Online scholarship](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-12-10-online-scholarship/index.md): The post argues that rigorous narrative scholarship can appear online and address popular culture without institutional approval of the subject.
- [Complexities of women's rights](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-12-08-complexities-of-womens-rights/index.md): The post presents three conflicting conservative positions on increasing women's parliamentary representation as a persistent conceptual dilemma.
- [Conceptual integration and the creation of news](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-12-08-conceptual-integration-and-the-creation-of-news/index.md): The post explains how news formulas structure mental spaces that are blended with events to produce political reporting and argument.
- [Cultural images of the powerless](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-12-08-cultural-images-of-the-powerless/index.md): The post argues that powerful and subordinate cultures construct reciprocal stereotypes that combine resentment, admiration, condescension, and identification.
- [How we should judge torture - Los Angeles Times](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-12-08-how-we-should-judge-torture-los-angeles-times/index.md): The post argues that fictional narratives can normalise exceptional violence and that legal exceptions for torture would expand the circumstances treated as exceptional.
- [Reliability of common wisdom - models and power](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-12-08-reliability-of-common-wisdom-models-and-power/index.md): The post compares competing schemas for interpreting scientific consensus and dissent, using obesity and climate change as examples.
- [Salient cases and social causality](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-12-08-salient-cases-and-social-causality/index.md): The post compares aggregate and case-based models of media influence and shows how apparently incompatible causal accounts can be reconciled.
- [Navigating the 'human terrain' - Los Angeles Times](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-12-07-navigating-the-human-terrain-los-angeles-times/index.md): The post identifies the idea of human terrain as a conceptual blend connecting military targeting with cultural knowledge.
- [Universal preschool's and cause and effect in education](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-12-07-universal-preschools-and-cause-and-effect-in-education/index.md): The post examines how arguments for universal preschool combine economic returns, individual benefits, and social outcomes within one causal model.
- ['Gay weddings' become law in UK](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-12-05-gay-weddings-become-law-in-uk/index.md): The post argues that civil partnerships reveal the ritual basis of marriage and that changes in heterosexual marriage made same-sex marriage conceptually possible.
- [Anthropology.net | Beyond bones & stones](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-12-05-anthropologynet-beyond-bones-stones/index.md): The post recommends an online anthropology community as a model for a similar resource on metaphor and cognitive linguistics.
- [Kazakhstan and the principles of democracy](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-12-05-kazakhstan-and-the-principles-of-democracy/index.md): The post argues that democratic laws and elections cannot substitute for institutions rooted in civil society.
- [Authors and texts](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-12-04-authors-and-texts/index.md): The post argues that an author's stated intention is only one perspective on a text and does not conclusively determine what the text means or does.
- [Common sense vs.hypocrisy](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-12-04-common-sense-vshypocrisy/index.md): The post uses inconsistent attitudes to execution to argue that human reasoning relies on prototypes and weighted schemas rather than strict logical entailment.
- [Identity and modularity](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-12-04-identity-and-modularity/index.md): The post argues that locating a perceptual illusion in the brain does not establish that identity or higher cognition consists of independent modules.
- [Challenges facing feminism in post-communist Czech Republic](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-12-03-challenges-facing-feminism-in-post-communist-czech-republic/index.md): The post explains how communist legacies and post-communist hostility to feminism have limited recognition and enforcement of gender equality in the Czech Republic.
- [Digitizing literature and styles of reading](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-12-03-digitizing-literature-and-styles-of-reading/index.md): The post argues that digitised excerpts do not destroy literacy because readers use both fragmentary and immersive modes to understand texts.
- [Fiction as a resource for academic inquiry](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-12-03-fiction-as-a-resource-for-academic-inquiry/index.md): The post argues that fiction can supplement academic inquiry by presenting composite experiences and insights that analytic research may not capture.
- [A Man's Right to Choose - A Feminist Issue?](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-12-02-a-mans-right-to-choose-a-feminist-issue/index.md): The post asks whether granting men greater reproductive and parental rights could weaken the gender symbolism that constrains women's choices.
- [Conceptual consequences](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-12-02-conceptual-consequences/index.md): The post uses attitudes to homosexuality to warn against assuming that one conceptual position deterministically produces another.
- [Culture wars and personal identity](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-12-02-culture-wars-and-personal-identity/index.md): The post argues that American culture-war participants experience opposing institutions as threats to the validity of their identities and conceptual frames.
- [Death penalty: Time to rethink? :: The Daily Herald, Provo Utah](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-12-02-death-penalty-time-to-rethink-the-daily-herald-provo-utah/index.md): The post separates symbolic judgements that a criminal deserves death from the irreversible and error-prone act of execution.
- [Why is the 'new' UK drive toward synthetic phonics ridiculous](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-12-01-why-is-the-new-uk-drive-toward-synthetic-phonics-ridiculous/index.md): The post argues that synthetic phonics cannot transform literacy or society because educational interventions operate within complex and recurring institutional patterns.
- [Some remarks on individualism and collectivism](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-11-30-bbc-thought-for-the-day-29-november-2005/index.md): The post contrasts individualist and collectivist accounts of sacrifice and argues that Western reporting interprets collective duty through individual motives.
- [Why school achievement isn't reaching the poor - The Boston Globe](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-11-30-why-school-achievement-isnt-reaching-the-poor-the-boston-globe/index.md): The post argues that isolated school successes do not provide a sufficient causal model for reforming a complex education system.
- [Labor's Lost Story](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-11-29-labors-lost-story/index.md): The post highlights how competing narratives about capitalism and labour shape arguments over job losses and social protection.
- [Terror's stealth weapon: women - Los Angeles Times](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-11-29-terrors-stealth-weapon-women-los-angeles-times/index.md): The post argues that women's participation in terrorism can be absorbed into existing gender hierarchies rather than weakening them.
- [Managing social processes vs. managing the context of social processes](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-11-28-managing-social-processes-vs-managing-the-context-of-social-processes/index.md): The post argues that complex social systems are more amenable to changes in their conditions than to direct control, while still requiring regulation of harmful outcomes.
- [Real literacy?](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-11-28-real-literacy/index.md): The post rejects a single model of real literacy and argues that concerns about digital snippets must account for varied reading and information practices.
- [Speed of technological progress and social effects](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-11-28-speed-of-technological-progress-and-social-effects/index.md): The post argues that rapid increases in computing power do not predict social change because technical capabilities interact unevenly with cognitive and social constraints.
- [There's no 'good' divorce - The Boston Globe](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-11-28-theres-no-good-divorce-the-boston-globe/index.md): The post challenges research that treats all effects of divorce as damage and argues that children normally develop multiple identities across contexts.
- [Models in professional knowledge](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-11-27-models-in-professional-knowledge/index.md): The post asks how professionals construct and reconcile conflicting models derived from aggregate evidence and salient individual cases.
- [Discrepancies in Testing](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-11-26-discrepancies-in-testing/index.md): The post argues that discrepancies between state and federal tests expose the limited relationship between test performance and broader knowledge or ability.
- [Intellectual defense of xenophobia](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-11-26-intellectual-defense-of-xenophobia/index.md): The post argues that xenophobic accounts may describe intercultural conflict more accurately than naive multiculturalism while failing because they treat cultures as static.
- [The American Dream and varieties of national self-esteem](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-11-25-the-american-dream-and-varieties-of-national-self-esteem/index.md): The post argues that admiration and resentment of the United States coexist in foreign perceptions of the American dream.
- [They Held Their Noses, and Ate - New York Times](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-11-24-they-held-their-noses-and-ate-new-york-times/index.md): The post argues that English colonists judged Indigenous food practices through cultural assumptions about proper cultivation and asks how such judgements shaped settlement.
- [On some mental representations of personal identity](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-11-23-some-mental-representations-of-personal-identity/index.md): The post uses a misspelled name to examine how names and other social markers contribute to mental representations of personal identity.
- [Turning academia into a cafeteria - Los Angeles Times](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-11-23-turning-academia-into-a-cafeteria-los-angeles-times/index.md): The post examines how market language about choice enters academic discourse while questioning broad claims about the damage caused by such language.
- [Values, rules, patterns and theories of social causation](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-11-23-bbc-news-politics-a-third-of-pubs-to-open-longer/index.md): The post compares competing causal models of extended pub hours and argues that rule changes may create conditions for cultural values to change.
- [Ad-hoc metaphors as cohesive devices](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-11-22-ad-hoc-metaphors/index.md): The post identifies an extended political analogy as a cohesive frame that holds an argument together.
- [Laws of social and natural sciences](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-11-22-laws-of-social-and-natural-sciences/index.md): The post argues that social regularities can be treated like natural laws whose effects may be mitigated even when their exact outcomes cannot be predicted.
- [Marx's and Darwin's accomplishments: Finding the mechanism of evolution and social change?](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-11-22-marxs-and-darwins-accomplishments-finding-the-mechanism-of-evolution-/index.md): The post considers a cautious analogy between Darwin's mechanism of natural selection and Marx's account of historical development.
- [Possible cognitive and affective implications of the new media paradigm shift](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-11-22-possible-cognitive-and-affective-implications-of-the-new-media-paradi/index.md): The post weighs the access and flexibility provided by digital media against losses in accidental discovery and exposure to varied content.
- [Socio-economic trends in interaction](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-11-22-socio-economic-trends-in-interaction/index.md): The post uses an interactive comparison of Thatcher-era trends to question claims that prosperity reliably trickles down.
- [Thatcher's role for women and the influence of women in politics on women's rights](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-11-22-thatchers-role-for-women-and-the-influence-of-women-in-politics-on-wo/index.md): The post argues that women reaching high political office does not by itself advance women's rights and compares the symbolic roles of several women leaders.
- [Access vs. close-reading journalism as a metaphor for educational standards](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-11-21-access-vs-close-reading-journalism-as-a-metaphor-for-educational-stan/index.md): The post uses the contrast between access journalism and close reading to argue that guided analysis can matter more than expert transmission in education.
- [More on theory and fact (medicine and ritual)](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-11-21-more-on-theory-and-fact/index.md): The post uses conflicting claims about homeopathy to examine how facts are reconciled with scientific and symbolic theories of causation.
- [Oral vs. written tradition and new technologies](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-11-21-oral-vs-written-tradition-and-new-technologies/index.md): The post argues that new media alter the relative dominance and delivery of oral and written storytelling without simply replacing older forms.
- [The Bosnian Example for Iraq](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-11-21-the-bosnian-example-for-iraq/index.md): The post examines Bosnia as an analogy for Iraq and asks how private analogies become established structures for public reasoning.
- [The rituals and mythic nature of democracy and the press](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-11-21-the-rituals-and-mythic-nature-of-democracy/index.md): The post highlights an account of the press as a communal ritual that sustains democratic identity.
- [Some misconceptions by the defenders of the Theory of Evolution](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-11-18-reason-fact-and-fiction-on-evolution-intelligent-designs-five-favorit/index.md): The post distinguishes evolutionary facts from theories of evolutionary mechanisms and proposes a way to discuss intelligent design in science education.
- [Welcome to Dominik's Week in Thought](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-11-17-welcome-to-dominiks-week-in-thought/index.md): The post introduces a blog intended to track thoughts arising from the author's online life.
- [Harry Potter a Mýtus věčného návratu](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/harry-potter-a-mytus-vecneho-navratu/index.md): The piece interprets the Harry Potter stories through recurring mythic structures while explaining their appeal to child and adult readers.
- [Nerušme komunisty: Aneb polemický deník angažovaného emigranta o utopické demokracii](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/nerusme-komunisty-aneb-polemicky-denik-angazovaneho-emigranta-o-utopicke-demokra/index.md): The piece argues that banning communist expression weakens democratic principles and confuses political opposition with criminal prohibition.
- [Kauzy a příčiny: metafory politického chápání](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/kauzy-a-priciny-metafory-politickeho-chapani/index.md): The piece argues that political scandals become intelligible through competing metaphors that select different causes and responsibilities.
- [Purizmus, předsudky a pitominy](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/purizmus-predsudky-a-pitominy/index.md): The piece rejects linguistic purism as a collection of social prejudices that mistakes ordinary language change for decline.
- [Milujte se a nemnožte se](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/milujte-se-a-nemnozte-se/index.md): The piece argues that anxieties about ageing populations and migration depend on political choices about family, labour, and social provision.
- [Americký prezident, císař světa](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/americky-prezident-cisar-sveta/index.md): The piece uses a Washington Post quotation to argue that even liberal American commentary treats the world as a domain of United States responsibility and control.
- [Pravé lži](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/prave-lzi/index.md): The piece argues that broadcasting True Lies without critical context reinforces dehumanising representations of Palestinians and Arabs.
- [Brezinovy hyeny](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/brezinovy-hyeny/index.md): The piece criticises post-September 11 rhetoric that treats dissenting commentary as moral complicity with terrorism.
- [About Schemas and Propositions](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/about-schemas-and-propositions-substack/index.md): The essay introduces a publication about how tacit schemas enable humans and language models to construct and understand propositions.
- [Gangsta teachers need 'spect: Discursive positioning of a pedagogic power play](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/gangsta-teachers-need-spect-discursive-positioning-of-a-pedagogic-power-play/index.md): This essay argues that moralising about accidental phone interruptions reinforces unequal power between lecturers and their audiences.
- [Quick Notes on Measurement](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/quick-notes-on-measurement/index.md): The essay argues that measurement can reduce uncertainty without turning quantified models into the things they represent.

## Research and resources

- [Research](https://dominiklukes.net/research/index.md): Research outputs by Dominik Lukeš, with full text where rights allow.
- [Academic productivity](https://dominiklukes.net/academic-productivity/index.md): Guides and methods for learning, reading and writing as an academic by Dominik Lukeš, starting with the Guide to Deliberate Practice.
- [Resources](https://dominiklukes.net/resources/index.md): Guides, frameworks, handouts and explainers by Dominik Lukeš that anyone can use on their own.
- [Epistemology as ethics in research and policy: Under what terms might case studies yield useful knowledge to policy makers](https://dominiklukes.net/research/elliott-lukes-epistemology/index.md): Journal article by John Elliott and Dominik Lukeš, in the Journal of Philosophy of Education (2008).
- [Review of Verena Haser, Metaphor, Metonymy and Experientialist Philosophy: Challenging Cognitive Semantics](https://dominiklukes.net/research/haser-review/index.md): Review by Dominik Lukeš, in Cognitive Linguistics (2008).
- [Drupal for Academics and Educators](https://dominiklukes.net/research/drupal-academics/index.md): Talk with slides by Dominik Lukeš, in DrupalCon Barcelona 2007 (2007).
- [Cognitive Linguistics in Critical Discourse Analysis: Application and Theory](https://dominiklukes.net/research/cogling-cda/index.md): Book (edited) by Christopher Hart and Dominik Lukeš, in Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2007).
- [Ženy, oheň a nebezpečné věci: Co kategorie vypovídají o naší mysli](https://dominiklukes.net/research/lakoff-translation/index.md): Translation by George Lakoff; translated by Dominik Lukeš, in Czech translation of Women, Fire and Dangerous Things (2006).
- [Doslov: O knize, jejím autorovi a kognitivní lingvistice](https://dominiklukes.net/research/lakoff-afterword/index.md): Chapter or afterword by Dominik Lukeš, in Afterword to Ženy, oheň a nebezpečné věci (2006).
- [James Phelan and Peter J. Rabinowitz (Eds): A Companion to Narrative Theory (review)](https://dominiklukes.net/research/phelan-review/index.md): Review by Dominik Lukeš, in Cambridge Journal of Education (2006).
- [Terry Locke: Critical Discourse Analysis (review)](https://dominiklukes.net/research/locke-review/index.md): Review by Dominik Lukeš, in Cambridge Journal of Education (2006).
- [K využití některých diagnostických metod v jazykovém vyučování](https://dominiklukes.net/research/cizi-jazyky/index.md): Journal article by Dominik Lukeš, in the Cizí jazyky (Foreign Languages) (2002).
- [English–Czech parallel corpus for the comparative study of cohesion](https://dominiklukes.net/research/cohesion-corpus/index.md): Dataset by Dominik Lukeš, in GitHub: techczech/enczcohesioncorpus (2002).
- [Leading Personalisation](https://dominiklukes.net/research/leading-personalisation/index.md): Report by Dominik Lukeš, Fintan Donohue and Peter Mayhew-Smith, in Centre for Excellence in Leadership (2008).
- [What does it mean when texts ‘really’ mean something?: Types of evidence for conceptual patterns in discourse](https://dominiklukes.net/research/types-of-evidence/index.md): Talk with slides by Dominik Lukeš, in Cognitive Linguistics in Critical Discourse Analysis (2007).
- [Towards a classification of metaphor use in text: Issues in conceptual discourse analysis of a domain-specific corpus](https://dominiklukes.net/research/classification-metaphor/index.md): Talk with slides by Dominik Lukeš, in Corpus-based metaphor-classification record (2005).
- [Markets, Local knowledge and Centralized Justice: Frame Negotiation in Educational Policy Discourse](https://dominiklukes.net/research/markets-frame/index.md): Talk with slides by Dominik Lukeš, in Language, Culture and Mind, Odense, Denmark (2008).
- [Discourse-level constructions and frame analysis of policy discourse: Case of evaluation of university teaching](https://dominiklukes.net/research/discourse-constructions/index.md): Talk with slides by Dominik Lukeš, in New Directions in Cognitive Linguistics (2007).
- [Frame negotiation: From discourse strategies to conceptual structures](https://dominiklukes.net/research/frame-negotiation/index.md): Paper by Dominik Lukeš, in International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Krakow (2007).
- [Hypostasis, schema negotiation and other dynamic phenomena in the “inventory of linguistic units”](https://dominiklukes.net/research/hypostasis/index.md): Paper by Dominik Lukeš, in New Directions in Cognitive Linguistics (2007).
- [Cognitive grammar beyond the sentence: English and Czech discourse connectives in conceptual contrast](https://dominiklukes.net/research/cg-beyond-sentence/index.md): Talk with slides by Dominik Lukeš, in New Directions in Cognitive Linguistics (2005).
- [Metaphors in Education](https://dominiklukes.net/research/metaphors-education/index.md): Talk with slides by Dominik Lukeš, in Metaphor @ UEA, University of East Anglia, Norwich (2005).
- [From Cognitive to Pedagogic Grammar and Back: Linguists vs. Folk Models of Language and Learning](https://dominiklukes.net/research/cognitive-pedagogic/index.md): Talk with slides by Dominik Lukeš, in Gram-to-Mind, Bordeaux (2005).
- [Image Schemas in Second Language Learning and Instruction: A Case for a Multidisciplinary Approach](https://dominiklukes.net/research/image-schemas/index.md): Talk with slides by Dominik Lukeš, in Image Schemas and Linguistic Relativity, Language Culture and Mind, Portsmouth (2004).
- [CALL On the Line: Beyond the Potential of the Internet: A Case of Inflective Czech](https://dominiklukes.net/research/call-czech/index.md): Paper by Dominik Lukeš, in Teaching Slavonic Languages Ab-Initio, Glasgow (2000).
- [Unification Categorial Grammar as a Type of Notation for Computer Analysis of Ancient Egyptian](https://dominiklukes.net/research/ucg-egyptian/index.md): Paper by Dominik Lukeš, in Use of Computers in Historical and Comparative Linguistics (1993).
- [Kognitivní dimenze diskurzu: Konstrukční gramatiky a pojmová integrace](https://dominiklukes.net/research/kognitivni-dimenze/index.md): Talk with slides by Dominik Lukeš (2007).
- [The marketplace in education: The multiplicity of metaphor in discourse](https://dominiklukes.net/research/marketplace-education/index.md): Talk with slides by Dominik Lukeš, in University of Sheffield (2007).
- [Metaphors of causality and containment: A cognitive challenge to the social sciences](https://dominiklukes.net/research/causality-containment/index.md): Talk with slides by Dominik Lukeš, in University of East Anglia, Norwich (2005).
- [Language and Knowledge: Against Modularity as a Viable Theory of Language and Mind](https://dominiklukes.net/research/language-knowledge/index.md): Talk with slides by Dominik Lukeš, in School of Philosophy, University of East Anglia, Norwich (2005).
- [Who's in charge?: Text, cognition, socialization and the freedom of spirit](https://dominiklukes.net/research/whos-in-charge/index.md): Talk with slides by Dominik Lukeš, in CADAAD'08, Hertfordshire, UK (2008).
- [Afterword to Pavoučí dům (Spider House) by Paul Bowles, translated by Zdeněk Janík](https://dominiklukes.net/research/bowles-afterword/index.md): Chapter or afterword by Dominik Lukeš, in Volvox Globator, Praha (1994).
- [Terminologie a platonický svět gramatických idejí](https://dominiklukes.net/research/terminologie/index.md): Paper by Dominik Lukeš, in Gramatická terminologie ve vyučování (Grammatical terminology and education), Prague (2001).
- [7 Common Myths About Language and Learning](https://dominiklukes.net/research/seven-myths/index.md): Talk with slides by Dominik Lukeš (2009).
- [Cognitive Linguistics in Critical Discourse Analysis — introduction](https://dominiklukes.net/research/cognitive-linguistics-in-critical-discourse-analysis/index.md): Chapter or afterword by Dominik Lukeš and Christopher Hart, in Cognitive Linguistics in Critical Discourse Analysis, pp. ix–xiii (2007).
- [Dyslexia Friendly Reader: Prototype, Designs, and Exploratory Study](https://dominiklukes.net/research/dyslexia-friendly-reader-prototype-designs-and/index.md): Paper by Dominik Lukeš, in IISA 2015 proceedings (2015).
- [Dyslexia Friendly Reader — Prototype and Designs — IISA presentation](https://dominiklukes.net/research/dyslexia-friendly-reader-prototype-and-designs/index.md): Talk with slides by Dominik Lukeš, in IISA presentation (2015).
- [Creating Bridges: The Role of Exploratory Design Research in an Intelligent Tutoring System Project](https://dominiklukes.net/research/creating-bridges-the-role-of-exploratory/index.md): Journal article by Dominik Lukeš, in the Interacting with Computers (2016).
- [Towards a Classification of Metaphor Use](https://dominiklukes.net/research/towards-a-classification-of-metaphor-use/index.md): Paper by Dominik Lukeš, in Proceedings of the Third Interdisciplinary Workshop on Corpus-Based Approaches to Figurative Language (2005).
- [Building a Phonics Engine for Automated Text Guidance](https://dominiklukes.net/research/building-a-phonics-engine-for-automated/index.md): Paper by Dominik Lukeš, in IISA 2015 proceedings (2015).
- [Bring Your Own Policy: Why Accessibility Standards Need to Be Contextually Sensitive](https://dominiklukes.net/research/bring-your-own-policy-why-accessibility/index.md): Journal article by Dominik Lukeš, in the Ariadne 71 (2013).
- [Speech Recognition a Decade Later](https://dominiklukes.net/research/speech-recognition-a-decade-later/index.md): Journal article by Dominik Lukeš, in the Dyslexia Review 21(3), pp. 20–21 (2010).
- [‘Does He Take Sugar?’: The Risks of Standardising Easy-to-Read Language](https://dominiklukes.net/research/does-he-take-sugar-the-risks/index.md): Journal article by Dominik Lukeš, in the Ariadne 70 (2012).
- [Thinking, Talking and Writing Computer Programmes about Personalisation at City College Norwich](https://dominiklukes.net/research/thinking-talking-and-writing-computer-programmes/index.md): Report by Dominik Lukeš, in City College Norwich (2009).
- [What Should Literacy Teachers Know about Language and Linguistics?](https://dominiklukes.net/research/what-should-literacy-teachers-know-about/index.md): Journal article by Dominik Lukeš, in the Dyslexia Review 22(1) (2011).
- [Online Corpora for Literacy Teachers — Part I](https://dominiklukes.net/research/online-corpora-for-literacy-teachers-part/index.md): Journal article by Dominik Lukeš, in the Dyslexia Review 23(2), pp. 23–25 (2012).
- [Online Corpora for Literacy Teachers — Part II](https://dominiklukes.net/research/online-corpora-for-literacy-teachers-part-2/index.md): Journal article by Dominik Lukeš, in the Dyslexia Review 23(3), pp. 19–21 (2012).
- [Jazyk, svoboda a řeč jazykovědné moci](https://dominiklukes.net/research/jazyk-svoboda-a-rec-jazykovedne-moci/index.md): Chapter or afterword by Dominik Lukeš, in Petru Fideliovi (Triáda) (2018).
- [Towards a Digital Reading Lab: Discovering and Learning New Affordances](https://dominiklukes.net/research/towards-a-digital-reading-lab-discovering/index.md): Paper by Dominik Lukeš, in Becoming Well Read (2021).
- [Conceptualizing the ‘Shape' of the Lesson: The Logistics of Learning](https://dominiklukes.net/research/conceptualizing-the-shape-of-the-lesson/index.md): Paper by Dominik Lukeš, in ELTA Conference, Elbasan, Albania (2004).
- [Open Source Community Models for Supporting Educational Practice](https://dominiklukes.net/research/open-source-community-models-for-supporting/index.md): Paper by Dominik Lukeš, in FE in HE, JISC Symposium, City College, Norwich (2008).
- [Epistemology of Educational Case Study](https://dominiklukes.net/research/epistemology-of-educational-case-study/index.md): Paper by Dominik Lukeš, in British Educational Research Association Conference, Institute of Education, London (2007).
- [Izomorfie jako heuristicko-filozofický problém](https://dominiklukes.net/research/izomorfie-jako-heuristicko-filozoficky-problem/index.md): Paper by Dominik Lukeš, in Kognive (2006).
- [Organizing Reading Tasks in Large Multilevel Classes Within a Strict Curriculum and With Limited Resources](https://dominiklukes.net/research/organizing-reading-tasks-in-large-multilevel/index.md): Paper by Dominik Lukeš, in 2nd ELTA Conference, Durrës, Albania (2006).
- [Drupal Goes to College: Designing a Drupal Website for a University Department](https://dominiklukes.net/research/drupal-goes-to-college-designing-a/index.md): Paper by Dominik Lukeš, in Drupalcon'06, Brussels (2006).
- [Building Language Learning Communities Online](https://dominiklukes.net/research/building-language-learning-communities-online/index.md): Paper by Dominik Lukeš, in Barcamp Brussels, Brussels (2006).
- [Čeština na internetu: Více než možnosti, které čekají](https://dominiklukes.net/research/cestina-na-internetu-vice-nez-moznosti/index.md): Paper by Dominik Lukeš, in Setkání s češtinou (Meeting with Czech), Prague (2001).
- [Discourse Analysis: Bluffer’s guide to why and how (not) to analyze discourse](https://dominiklukes.net/research/discourse-analysis-bluffer-s-guide-to/index.md): Paper by Dominik Lukeš (2007).
- [Limits of enlightenment rationality in the face of cultural relativism Biological universals, symbolic particulars and political discourse](https://dominiklukes.net/research/limits-of-enlightenment-rationality-in-the/index.md): Paper by Dominik Lukeš, in University of East Anglia, Norwich (2007).
- [Čeština bez vidu (angličtina bez časů)](https://dominiklukes.net/research/cestina-bez-vidu-anglictina-bez-casu/index.md): Paper by Dominik Lukeš, in Prague (2007).
- [People & Computers: Views from History](https://dominiklukes.net/research/people-and-computers/index.md): Exploring historical views of computing through AI-curated archives.
- [Guide to Deliberate Practice as a Universal Learning Method](https://dominiklukes.net/resources/deliberate-practice/index.md): Interactive manual for learning any skill using deliberate practice principles.
- [Academic Reading Framework](https://dominiklukes.net/resources/academic-reading/index.md): Framework for improving academic reading productivity.
- [Foundations of Readability](https://dominiklukes.net/resources/readability-foundations/index.md): Guide to creating accessible, easy-to-process documents and presentations.
- [Principles of Readability](https://dominiklukes.net/resources/readability-principles/index.md): Clear-writing principles, examples and checklists.
- [Building Your Language Muscle](https://dominiklukes.net/resources/language-muscle/index.md): Interactive guide and AI-powered toolkit for deliberate language practice.
- [Edutools: Explaining Concepts with Apps](https://dominiklukes.net/resources/edutools/index.md): Guide to vibecoding for educators: build apps to explain difficult concepts.
- [Skills Learning Companion](https://dominiklukes.net/resources/skills-companion/index.md): Interactive companion to the Schemas & Propositions post on LLM skills.
- [Practical AI](https://dominiklukes.net/resources/practical-ai/index.md): Pragmatic guides for day-to-day AI in research, writing and teaching.
- [AI Trends & Frontier Capabilities](https://dominiklukes.net/resources/ai-trends/index.md): Living notebook of frontier-model capabilities, tools and workflows.
- [Czech Language Navigator](https://dominiklukes.net/resources/czech-navigator/index.md): Curated resources and pathways for learning Czech.

## Speak, teach and advise

- [Speaking](https://dominiklukes.net/speaking/index.md): Talks, webinars, workshops and podcasts by Dominik Lukeš, with dates, venues, recordings and slides.
- [Teaching](https://dominiklukes.net/teaching/index.md): Courses, workshops and hands-on activities on AI, learning technology and language teaching by Dominik Lukeš.
- [Exploring the relationship of AI and human intelligence](https://dominiklukes.net/teaching/ai-history-workshops/index.md): Dominik taught a four-part lecture-discussion strand during AI Exploration Week at Oxford: from historical roots to the agentic present. The sessions move from reasoning and computing, through Large L
- [Consulting](https://dominiklukes.net/consulting/index.md): What Dominik Lukeš offers organisations on AI in education and research, with a selected workshop for Ministry of Justice staff.
- [AI Thought Exchange, October meeting](https://dominiklukes.net/speaking/ai-thought-exchange-october-2026/index.md): Dominik opens the October meeting of the AI Thought Exchange with a short review of what happened in AI over the summer, followed by discussion with educators from the UK and Australia. His slot starts at 09:10 BST. The AI Thought Exchange is an international discussion group on AI in education.
- [The future of data in the age of AI Agents: New opportunities for old methods in data management and collection](https://dominiklukes.net/speaking/oxford-data-meetup-november-2026/index.md): We are at an inflection point in what transformation we can expect in the age of AI. Agentic AI systems are now capable and reliable in way that allows us to delegate meaningful work to them. In the second half of 2026 we now have access to AI agents that can not just reliably work with files on computers but also use existing tools across a data processing workflow that have only been available to very few. This creates new opportunities for working with large amounts of data, from organising and maintaining collections to carrying out analysis. It also makes best reproducibility practices much more within reach for busy researchers. AI agents powered by more capable models can also expand the range of possibilities as to what data we can aspire to collect and open up new methodological opportunities. This talk will outline key new tools and practice and illustrate their possible impact through several case studies.
- [What's new in AI this month?](https://dominiklukes.net/speaking/mondai-roundup-live/index.md): A monthly roundup of AI news, with an RSS feed.
- [From Oracle to Tool User: Amplifying research processes with AI agents](https://dominiklukes.net/speaking/oracle-to-tool-user/index.md): Researchers get more from AI when they move from asking a chatbot for answers to using desktop agents that work with their files and tools. The lecture shows how agents can work with archives, organise data, write and adapt analysis code, improve literature searches and make research more reproducible.
- [Four Years After ChatGPT](https://dominiklukes.net/speaking/four-years-after-chatgpt/index.md): Dominik's annual retrospective webinar for the University of Oxford AI Competency Centre.
- [York Festival of AI: nine sessions](https://dominiklukes.net/speaking/york-festival-of-ai-nine-sessions-2026/index.md): Talk · York Festival of AI · 20–22 July 2026
- [Teaching During the Cognitive Revolution](https://dominiklukes.net/speaking/teaching-during-the-cognitive-revolution-2026/index.md): The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) has completely upset not only what we can expect of a computer but also how we view the role of technology in the process of learning. Now we have machines that can help at all stages of the learning process - they can not only help us manage cognitive load but also completely remove it. This talk will explore the roles AI can play in the learning process both from the perspective of the learner and the educator. It will explore the role of the LLM-powered tool not only as a productivity assistant, peer reviewer, or tutor but also as a toolmaker.
- [AI as Tool Maker and Tool User for Less Commonly Taught Languages](https://dominiklukes.net/speaking/ai-as-tool-maker-and-tool-user-for-less-commonly-taught-lang-2026/index.md): Talk · LLC workshop · 18 June 2026
- [AI and Expertise](https://dominiklukes.net/speaking/ai-and-expertise-2026/index.md): Talk · FEDA Education Gala · 14 June 2026
- [Language without structure? How can LLMs speak all the languages without knowing any of the rules?](https://dominiklukes.net/speaking/language-without-structure-how-can-llms-speak-all-the-langua-2026/index.md): Talk · Wolfson College, OxfordXML seminar "Human Language Meets AI" · 30 April 2026
- [Panel at the OECD](https://dominiklukes.net/speaking/panel-at-the-oecd-2026/index.md): Talk · OECD · 6 March 2026
- [Wednesday Research Series](https://dominiklukes.net/speaking/wednesday-research-series-2026/index.md): Talk · Osgoode Hall Law School, York University · 25 February 2026
- [Seminar on AI and programming at the Mathematical Institute](https://dominiklukes.net/speaking/seminar-on-ai-and-programming-at-the-mathematical-institute-2026/index.md): Talk · Mathematical Institute · 20 February 2026
- [Panel on AI in education at Rhodes House](https://dominiklukes.net/speaking/panel-on-ai-in-education-at-rhodes-house-2026/index.md): Talk · Rhodes House · 4 February 2026
- [Vibecoding as pedagogy: Transforming learning and teaching through making tools](https://dominiklukes.net/speaking/vibecoding-as-pedagogy/index.md): The question of AI in education is often reduced to debating about the impact of ChatGPT on the integrity of assessment. But AI in 2026 is not just ChatGPT and not just about what answers can be produced by a Large Language Model. One of the leading trends is the rise of agentic AI systems that can not only write snippets of code but build entire software systems or websites. This new approach to AI-assisted software development is often referred to as 'vibecoding' and it is this style of coding that is the focus of this talk. The webinar will outline the state of the art and its implications, looking at the key tools and the best ways for educators to approach getting to know them in order to integrate them into their work.
- [Teaching during the Cognitive Revolution: What will learning and teaching look like in the age of AI?](https://dominiklukes.net/speaking/teaching-cognitive-revolution/index.md): The emergence of Large Language Models has disrupted expectations of computing and technology's role in learning. This session explores how AI can support learners and educators at every stage, from managing cognitive load to serving as productivity assistants, peer reviewers, tutors, and toolmakers.
- [Vibecoding for Language Teachers: Making apps for language learning with AI](https://dominiklukes.net/speaking/vibecoding-language-teachers/index.md): This hands-on workshop introduces language teachers to AI-assisted coding ('vibecoding') as a powerful new avenue for creating language learning applications. Using Gemini and Google AI Studio, the session demonstrates how educators can design, prototype, and deploy simple apps without prior programming expertise. Beyond technical skills, the workshop invites critical reflection on the pedagogical possibilities enabled by AI-assisted app creation.
- [Three Years After ChatGPT: From chatbots to agents and other trends on the frontier of generative AI](https://dominiklukes.net/speaking/three-years-after-chatgpt/index.md): Three years after the public launch of ChatGPT, the chatbot paradigm has undergone a transformation. The main mode of interacting with Large Language Models is no longer just a chat. This session steps back from day-to-day trends to look at how the landscape has shifted since 2022 and what the current frontier in what 'AI can do' and what 'we can do with AI' looks like.
- [How LLMs Understand Text: Context and Meaning in the AI Age](https://dominiklukes.net/speaking/llms-understand-text/index.md): Large Language Models represent an entirely new paradigm of semantic information processing. They are the first time a computer can process the meaning of text without mark-up. Their ability to 'understand' text is at the same time familiarly human and completely alien. This talk outlines how Large Language Models 'read' and 'understand' text, and how they generate their response, contrasting with how humans perform the same tasks.
- [Vibecoding for Educators: How I built 30 educational apps in 30 days](https://dominiklukes.net/speaking/vibecoding-for-educators-how-i-built-30-educational-apps-in-2025/index.md): Talk · Cambridge Generative AI in Education Conference, Hilton Cambridge City Centre · 27 October 2025
- [OPP Summer Lecture](https://dominiklukes.net/speaking/opp-summer-lecture-2025/index.md): Talk · July 2025
- [Session at OER25](https://dominiklukes.net/speaking/session-at-oer25-2025/index.md): Talk · OER25 · 23 June 2025
- [Talk on AI at OxLearn](https://dominiklukes.net/speaking/talk-on-ai-at-oxlearn-2025/index.md): Talk · OxLearn · 25 February 2025
- [Leading on AI in Education: Bridging the Leadership Knowledge Gap](https://dominiklukes.net/speaking/leading-on-ai-in-education-bridging-the-leadership-knowledge-2025/index.md): This workshop will guide senior leaders in education through the essential steps of understanding the landscape of generative AI to enable better decision-making. Participants will explore the strategic implications of AI, address the current knowledge gaps, and develop continuous learning strategies to stay ahead in a rapidly evolving landscape.
- [Two years after ChatGPT](https://dominiklukes.net/speaking/two-years-after-chatgpt-2025/index.md): Talk · Bett 2025, ExCeL London · 24 January 2025
- [The future of tech is human: Redefining the role of educators in the wake of Industry 5.0](https://dominiklukes.net/speaking/the-future-of-tech-is-human-redefining-the-role-of-educators-2025/index.md): Talk · Bett 2025, Innovation Theatre · 24 January 2025
- [Two Years After ChatGPT: Reflections on The State and Future Directions of Generative AI](https://dominiklukes.net/speaking/two-years-after-chatgpt/index.md): On the two-year anniversary of the release of ChatGPT, this webinar reflects on the journey to today and the current state of generative AI with a focus on what has changed compared to our expectations in 2022, what has stayed the same and what we can see coming on the horizon.
- [What have Large Language Models actually learned about language](https://dominiklukes.net/speaking/what-have-large-language-models-actually-learned-about-langu-2024/index.md): This talk will explore what exactly large language models (LLMs) have learned about languages, and why it matters. It will attempt an outline of an answer to how these models understand the structure of language, and how this compares to how humans think about language. To answer the question, it will look at how LLMs perform across a range of different languages, even those with smaller digital footprints, and what this implies about how they represent language. It will contrast the results from this investigation with the latest findings from the field of "mechanistic interpretability." These findings offer insights into the inner workings of LLMs, offering clues about the fundamental differences between how we understand language and how language is represented inside the models. Finally, it will suggest a need a new approach to LLM research that brings together a richer understanding of language and a systematic investigation into how LLMs perform across a variety of languages.
- [Magical Meaning Machines](https://dominiklukes.net/speaking/magical-meaning-machines-2024/index.md): This practical workshop will explore the opportunities for new kinds of digital scholarship in the humanities and social sciences presented by Large Language Models. It will present Large Language Models as a new kind of machine for processing semantic information in text with a completely new kind of capabilities and also new kinds of limitations. It will then explore what new opportunities these new machines present for digital scholarship based on practical examples. These opportunities lie not only in using Large Language Models as tools to assist with text data but also as a new kind of object to study. The workshop is focused on enabling scholars in the humanities to get started with using Large Language Models in their work - no prior experience or knowledge is required. It will combine brief explanations and case studies with hands-on activities.
- [Workshop at Learning Impact Europe 2024](https://dominiklukes.net/speaking/workshop-at-learning-impact-europe-2024-2024/index.md): Talk · 1EdTech Learning Impact Europe 2024, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya · 9 October 2024
- [Semantic Machines](https://dominiklukes.net/speaking/semantic-machines-2024/index.md): The major breakthrough of generative AI and specifically Large Language Models is the ability to work with unstructured documents with no semantic mark up. Combined with broad cross linguistic capabilities, this has great potential for digital humanities across many disciplines. This paper will explore the capabilities and limitations for Large Language Models when it comes to dealing with unstructured text, the key tools available to students and researchers as well as prospects of future developments.
- [Talk and panel on AI at Tsinghua University](https://dominiklukes.net/speaking/talk-and-panel-on-ai-at-tsinghua-university-2024/index.md): Talk · Tsinghua University · 20 March 2024
- [EdTech in Universities](https://dominiklukes.net/speaking/edtech-in-universities-2024/index.md): Talk · Bett 2024, UAE Pavilion · 25 January 2024
- [Building with AI in education: How to make your own AI apps using large language models](https://dominiklukes.net/speaking/building-with-ai-in-education-how-to-make-your-own-ai-apps-u-2024/index.md): Find out how tools built on large language models work and how you can make one for yourself or your students with or without code. Chatbots are not the only way we can use Large Language Models to help us. There are now many possibilities for educators to create useful tools for themselves and their students. Even for those who do not want to build their own tools, it is useful to develop some understanding how these tools are made. This session will break down the anatomy of an AI-based tool and explain how they are different from a chatbot, what role large language models play in how these apps work and what else their makers need to take into account.
- [Will AI Change Education? Dominik Lukes from Oxford University | Innovantage Podcast](https://dominiklukes.net/speaking/innovantage-podcast-ai-education/index.md): A deep dive into the fascinating world of artificial intelligence, specifically focusing on its integration and impact on the education sector. We explore the significant roles of generative AI, including various tools and systems, aiming to demystify this transformative technology.
- [Invited talk at the European Educational Publishers Group conference](https://dominiklukes.net/speaking/invited-talk-at-the-european-educational-publishers-group-co-2023/index.md): Talk · European Educational Publishers Group conference · June 2023
- [How to Teach and Learn with ChatGPT: AI and new horizons for assistive technologies](https://dominiklukes.net/speaking/how-to-teach-and-learn-with-chatgpt-ai-and-new-horizons-for-2023/index.md): Talk · Bett 2023, ExCeL London · 31 March 2023
- [ChatGPT is a Weird Linguist: What Should Language Teachers Know?](https://dominiklukes.net/speaking/chatgpt-weird-linguist/index.md): In this specialized talk for language professionals, LLMs are described as 'superpolyglots' but 'weird linguists.' While models like GPT-4 can translate between languages with high fluency, their acquisition method (reading the entire internet) is fundamentally different from human acquisition (embodied social interaction).
- [Hybrid Teaching: Hidden Skills and Knowledge Gaps](https://dominiklukes.net/speaking/hybrid-teaching-hidden-skills-and-knowledge-gaps-2022/index.md): Talk · Online conference organised by Nottingham University · January 2022
- [Learning innovation showcase: Workshop on new technologies to support reading productivity](https://dominiklukes.net/speaking/learning-innovation-showcase-workshop-on-new-technologies-to-2021/index.md): Talk · Becoming Well Read, online conference organized by Keele University · March 2021
- [12 Questions About Instructional Videos](https://dominiklukes.net/speaking/12-questions-about-instructional-videos-2020/index.md): Talk · Media and Learning Conference · June 2020
- [What do we know about effective educational videos: Insights from theory and practice](https://dominiklukes.net/speaking/what-do-we-know-about-effective-educational-videos-insights-2020/index.md): Webinar · iSpring webinar · February 2020
- [Using online corpus for literacy teachers](https://dominiklukes.net/speaking/using-online-corpus-for-literacy-teachers-2016/index.md): Talk · BDA International Conference · March 2016
- [Czech without aspect: Marrying functional schemas with functional representations](https://dominiklukes.net/speaking/czech-without-aspect-marrying-functional-schemas-with-functi-2015/index.md): Talk · Slavic Cognitive Linguistics · December 2015
- [Have the licensing talk early to maximise impact](https://dominiklukes.net/speaking/have-the-licensing-talk-early-to-maximise-impact-2015/index.md): Talk · OER 2015 · April 2015
- [Reading on e-readers, tablets and phones: Hardware and software for inclusive literacy](https://dominiklukes.net/speaking/reading-on-e-readers-tablets-and-phones-hardware-and-softwar-2014/index.md): Talk · EICE Manchester · February 2014
- [Frames, scripts, scenarios, models, spaces and other animals](https://dominiklukes.net/speaking/frames-scripts-scenarios-models-spaces-and-other-animals-2013/index.md): Talk · Cognitive Futures · April 2013
- [What every Learning Technologist should know about accessible documents](https://dominiklukes.net/speaking/what-every-learning-technologist-should-know-about-accessibl-2012/index.md): Talk · ALT Conference Manchester · September 2012
- [Helping Moodle users with print disabilities](https://dominiklukes.net/speaking/helping-moodle-users-with-print-disabilities-2012/index.md): Talk · MoodleMoot · April 2012
- [CiviCRM: The Community Advantage](https://dominiklukes.net/speaking/civicrm-the-community-advantage-2011/index.md): Talk · CiviCRM Conference · September 2011
- [Open Source Curriculum and a Community-Based Accreditation Scheme for Drupal](https://dominiklukes.net/speaking/open-source-curriculum-and-a-community-based-accreditation-s-2011/index.md): Talk · DrupalCon · August 2011
- [Dyslexia Symposium](https://dominiklukes.net/speaking/dyslexia-symposium-2010/index.md): Organised · November 2010
- [Who's in charge?: Text, cognition, socialization and the freedom of spirit](https://dominiklukes.net/speaking/who-s-in-charge-text-cognition-socialization-and-the-freedom-2008/index.md): Talk · CADAAD'08 · July 2008
- [Markets, Local knowledge and Centralized Justice: Frame Negotiation in Educational Policy Discourse](https://dominiklukes.net/speaking/markets-local-knowledge-and-centralized-justice-frame-negoti-2008/index.md): Talk · Language, Culture, and Mind · July 2008
- [Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines: CADAAD 2008](https://dominiklukes.net/speaking/critical-approaches-to-discourse-analysis-across-disciplines-2008/index.md): Organised · University of Hertfordshire · 10–12 June 2008
- [Open Source Community Models for Supporting Educational Practice](https://dominiklukes.net/speaking/open-source-community-models-for-supporting-educational-prac-2008/index.md): Talk · JISC/HEA workshop · May 2008
- [Epistemology of the Educational Case Study](https://dominiklukes.net/speaking/epistemology-of-the-educational-case-study-2007/index.md): Talk · British Educational Research Association Conference · September 2007
- [Drupal for Academics and Educators](https://dominiklukes.net/speaking/drupal-for-academics-and-educators-2007/index.md): Talk · Drupalcon07 · September 2007
- [Discourse-level constructions and frame analysis of policy discourse: Case of evaluation of university teaching](https://dominiklukes.net/speaking/discourse-level-constructions-and-frame-analysis-of-policy-d-2007/index.md): Talk · ICLC 10, International Cognitive Linguistics Conference · August 2007
- [The Market Metaphor in Education](https://dominiklukes.net/speaking/the-market-metaphor-in-education-2007/index.md): Talk · University of Sheffield · May 2007
- [Drupal Goes to College: Designing a Drupal Website for a University Department](https://dominiklukes.net/speaking/drupal-goes-to-college-designing-a-drupal-website-for-a-univ-2006/index.md): Talk · Drupalcon'06 · September 2006
- [AI for Research(ers): Principles, Context, and Tools](https://dominiklukes.net/teaching/ai-for-research-ers-principles-context-and-tools/index.md): A hands-on workshop designed to move researchers from basic principles to practical application of Large Language Models. This session covers the cognitive baseline of LLMs, the nuances of context management, and the creation of custom research tools.
- [Building a Simple App](https://dominiklukes.net/teaching/building-a-simple-app/index.md): Define the tool.
- [Cognitive Baseline: Calibrating your Mental Model](https://dominiklukes.net/teaching/cognitive-baseline-calibrating-your-mental-model/index.md): Test the model's ability to generate text and then critique its own output.
- [Comparing Model Knowledge](https://dominiklukes.net/teaching/comparing-model-knowledge/index.md): Test Gemini tiers.
- [Context & Retrieval: Handling Information](https://dominiklukes.net/teaching/context-retrieval-handling-information/index.md): Test retrieval accuracy with a large document.
- [Data Analysis with Code Execution](https://dominiklukes.net/teaching/data-analysis-with-code-execution/index.md): Create a dataset.
- [Deep Research: Comparing 5 Leading Tools](https://dominiklukes.net/teaching/deep-research-comparing-5-leading-tools/index.md): Understanding the shift from conversational AI to agentic research.
- [Developing a vocabulary for thinking about AI](https://dominiklukes.net/teaching/developing-a-vocabulary-for-thinking-about-ai/index.md): Foundational Concepts LLM (Large Language Model) Outputs of Neural Networks trained on extremely large amounts of data to understand and generate human-like text.
- [Exploring image and multimedia generation](https://dominiklukes.net/teaching/exploring-image-and-multimedia-generation/index.md): The Challenge Most LLMs do not generate images directly; they call other models.
- [Exploring Model Performance with MPI Explorer](https://dominiklukes.net/teaching/exploring-model-performance-with-mpi-explorer/index.md): Access the MPI Explorer tool.
- [Exploring Small/Local Models](https://dominiklukes.net/teaching/exploring-small-local-models/index.md): Open comparison interface.
- [Literature Search Comparison](https://dominiklukes.net/teaching/literature-search-comparison/index.md): Select a query.
- [Long Context Window](https://dominiklukes.net/teaching/long-context-window/index.md): Fill the context window.
- [Multimodal Conversation](https://dominiklukes.net/teaching/multimodal-conversation/index.md): Provide visual context.
- [Reflections on academic writing in the age of LLMs](https://dominiklukes.net/teaching/reflections-on-academic-writing-in-the-age-of-llms/index.md): Why we need reflection To stop assuming answers are obvious and investigate gaps in knowledge regarding AI in academia.
- [Search Grounding](https://dominiklukes.net/teaching/search-grounding/index.md): Test cutoff date.
- [Specialized Research Tools](https://dominiklukes.net/teaching/specialized-research-tools/index.md): Use a specialized tool.
- [Testing Reasoning Capabilities](https://dominiklukes.net/teaching/testing-reasoning-capabilities/index.md): Prepare a complex query.
- [Testing the Semantic Baseline](https://dominiklukes.net/teaching/testing-the-semantic-baseline/index.md): We will be using Google AI Studio
- [Tool Use: Counting & Math](https://dominiklukes.net/teaching/tool-use-counting-math/index.md): Demonstrate the limitation.
- [Visualizing Context](https://dominiklukes.net/teaching/visualizing-context/index.md): Access the visualization tool.

## Optional

- [Search](https://dominiklukes.net/search/index.md): Search everything on dominiklukes.net: writing, talks, research, apps, guides, agent skills and teaching, each with its own page.
- [PF Archive](https://dominiklukes.net/pf/index.md): The PF archive: the New Year wishes (Pour Féliciter) from Dominik Lukeš, one page for each year from 2001 to 2026.
- [PF 2001](https://dominiklukes.net/pf/2001/index.md): PF 2001: First wishes from www.bohemica.com and www.dominiklukes.net
- [PF 2002 (English)](https://dominiklukes.net/pf/2002/en/index.md): PF 2002: Christmas wishes
- [PF 2002 (Czech)](https://dominiklukes.net/pf/2002/cz/index.md): PF 2002: Vánoční přání
- [PF 2003 (English)](https://dominiklukes.net/pf/2003/en/index.md): PF 2003: New Year wishes
- [PF 2003 (Czech)](https://dominiklukes.net/pf/2003/cz/index.md): PF 2003: Novoroční přání
- [PF 2004](https://dominiklukes.net/pf/2004/index.md): PF 2004: New Year wishes
- [PF 2005 (English)](https://dominiklukes.net/pf/2005/en/index.md): PF 2005: Saint Dominic of Savio
- [PF 2005 (Czech)](https://dominiklukes.net/pf/2005/cz/index.md): PF 2005: Svatý Dominik Savio
- [PF 2006](https://dominiklukes.net/pf/2006/index.md): PF 2006: New Year wishes
- [PF 2007](https://dominiklukes.net/pf/2007/index.md): PF 2007: String by string, web by web - A merry 2007!
- [PF 2008](https://dominiklukes.net/pf/2008/index.md): PF 2008: New Year collage
- [PF 2009](https://dominiklukes.net/pf/2009/index.md): PF 2009: From 2008 to 2009
- [PF 2010](https://dominiklukes.net/pf/2010/index.md): PF 2010: Photo walk
- [PF 2011](https://dominiklukes.net/pf/2011/index.md): PF 2011: New Year wishes
- [PF 2012](https://dominiklukes.net/pf/2012/index.md): PF 2012: Text-only wishes
- [PF 2013](https://dominiklukes.net/pf/2013/index.md): PF 2013: Photo book wishes
- [PF 2014](https://dominiklukes.net/pf/2014/index.md): PF 2014: Simple Christmas and a Hopeful New Year
- [PF 2015](https://dominiklukes.net/pf/2015/index.md): PF 2015: New Year wishes
- [PF 2016](https://dominiklukes.net/pf/2016/index.md): PF 2016: Sailing into happiness
- [PF 2017](https://dominiklukes.net/pf/2017/index.md): PF 2017: New Year wishes
- [PF 2018](https://dominiklukes.net/pf/2018/index.md): PF 2018: Wishes of balance
- [PF 2019](https://dominiklukes.net/pf/2019/index.md): PF 2019: Wishes of balance
- [PF 2020](https://dominiklukes.net/pf/2020/index.md): PF 2020: First days of New Years
- [PF 2021](https://dominiklukes.net/pf/2021/index.md): PF 2021: Boldly into the New Year
- [PF 2022](https://dominiklukes.net/pf/2022/index.md): PF 2022: Simple wishes
- [PF 2023](https://dominiklukes.net/pf/2023/index.md): PF 2023: Simple wishes
- [PF 2024](https://dominiklukes.net/pf/2024/index.md): PF 2024: Simple wishes
- [PF 2025](https://dominiklukes.net/pf/2025/index.md): PF 2025: Simple wishes
- [PF 2026](https://dominiklukes.net/pf/2026/index.md): PF 2026: Simple wishes
- [Supporting Teachers to Support Students: Misaligned Incentives](https://dominiklukes.net/speaking/supporting-teachers-to-support-students-misaligned-incentive-2022/index.md): Talk · Media&Learning Conference 2022 · 2022
- [Speech Recognition: Art of the Possible](https://dominiklukes.net/speaking/speech-recognition-art-of-the-possible-2022/index.md): Organised · Digifest 2022 · 2022
- [Innovations in Reading and Writing](https://dominiklukes.net/speaking/innovations-in-reading-and-writing-2021/index.md): Talk · ALT 2021, online conference · 2021
- [What we can learn from user experience design to make learning technology more inclusive](https://dominiklukes.net/speaking/what-we-can-learn-from-user-experience-design-to-make-learni-2020/index.md): Talk · ALT Online Summer Summit 2020 · 2020
- [What do we mean by 'pedagogy' in 'pedagogy first'](https://dominiklukes.net/speaking/what-do-we-mean-by-pedagogy-in-pedagogy-first-2019/index.md): Talk · ALT Winter Conference 2019 · 2019
- [Use of Videos in MOOCs](https://dominiklukes.net/speaking/use-of-videos-in-moocs-2019/index.md): Talk · Media&Learning Conference 2019 · 2019
- [Use of Video in Higher Education: Theory and Practice](https://dominiklukes.net/speaking/use-of-video-in-higher-education-theory-and-practice-2019/index.md): Organised · 2019
- [The Rise of Video in Higher Education and Corporate Training](https://dominiklukes.net/speaking/the-rise-of-video-in-higher-education-and-corporate-training-2019/index.md): Talk · Devlearn 2019 · 2019
- [How YouTube revolutionised learning](https://dominiklukes.net/speaking/how-youtube-revolutionised-learning-2019/index.md): Talk · Digifest 2019 · 2019
- [Oxford HIVE and Webinars](https://dominiklukes.net/speaking/oxford-hive-and-webinars-2018/index.md): Talk · ALT Conference 2018 · 2018
- [Literacy and Technology, Special Session](https://dominiklukes.net/speaking/literacy-and-technology-special-session-2015/index.md): Organised · IISA 2015 · 2015