Dom Pates

@dompates.bsky.social

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Educational Technologist, in HE. Father/husband. Writer. Brightonian/ex-Tokyoite. DJ/podcaster. European. Transitionist. (Occasional) Musician. Not necessarily in that order? https://dompates.medium.com

Radio show poster that is headed with a graphic stating ‘TTNS14 - our 14th birthday’. The bulk of the poster is made up of ‘yearbook’ style images of the DJ line-up, from when they were 14 years old. Live from 17:00 - 03:00 UK time.
Poster for radio show titled ‘Nighthawks at the African Diner’ on The Thursday Night Show (Jun 25th, 22:00, UK time). The poster contains text in a variety of different colours drawn from the Zimbabwean flag, combined with extracts from Edward Hopper’s painting ‘Nighthawks at the Diner’ as bands across the poster and with a photo of a baobab tree in the background.
A succession of thin different coloured stripes. The stripes progress from colder looking blues on the warmer, hotter, darker reds on the right.
An African elephant, head on, standing between two large banks of servers. Text reads ‘The Elephant in the Data Centre’ - a public debate on AI and the Climate Emergency.
AI generated image of me as an old man.
Panorama of sunset over Sussex countryside, up on Southwick Hill.
Poster for radio show titled ‘Nighthawks at the African Diner’ on The Thursday Night Show (May 28th, 23:00, UK time). The poster contains text in a variety of different bright colours, combined with extracts from Edward Hopper’s painting ‘Nighthawks at the Diner’ as bands across the poster and with a photo of a Tanzanian river in the background.
Promotional card for speaker at Jisc’s Connect More 2026 event. Design shows multiple overlapping squares of differing sizes with a black and white picture of a man, faintly smiling. Text reads Speaker: Dominic Pates, Senior Educational Technologist, City St George’s, University of London. Session: Working together for change: co-designing climate curricula. Date: 13 May.
Poster for D1 Radio Hour show, on April 23rd 2026 (22:00-00:00). Main image is of an old circular stone building - Oxford’s Radcliffe Camera - overlaid with abstract shapes and lines. The text reads as follows: The Thursday Night Show presents The D1 Radio Hour with Dreaming Spires (music from Oxford) & Setful of Asha (a tribute to Asha Bhosle).
Poster for D1 Radio Hour set on The Thursday Night Show (April 16th 2026, 23:00 UK time). Main image of a baby’s feet sitting on a father’s lap, while the father’s larger hands hold the baby’s feet.
Book titled ‘From the Pandemic to Utopia: The Future Begins Now’ by Boaventura de Sousa Santos, in the ‘Epistemologies Of The South’ series. Cover includes an abstract image in dark colours that seems to combine a large body of water, a ladder, and a hole in the sky.
Poster for radio show titled ‘Nighthawks at the African Diner’ on The Thursday Night Show (March 5th, 22:00, UK time). The poster contains text in a variety of different bright colours, combined with extracts from Edward Hopper’s painting ‘Nighthawks at the Diner’ as bands across the poster and with a photo of an African river in the background.
Man in overalls works at a trolley next to a roll-up banner with ‘AI powered coffee’ as a headline and a large robot barista vending machine named Starbot.
Black book with white text on a grey carpet. Title is ‘How Music Works’, author is David Byrne, and a white icon of a speaker emitting sound and pointed upwards is between title and author name.
Table with different coloured rows outlining the ALTc Radio 2025 Rewind programme. Link to full listing at end of post.
Poster for radio show titled ‘Nighthawks at the Virtual Diner’ on The Thursday Night Show (Jan 8th, 23:00, UK time). The poster contains text in a variety of different bright colours, combined with extracts from Edward Hopper’s painting ‘Nighthawks at the Diner’ as bands across the poster and with a photo of a Tanzanian red dirt road in the background. Two Senegalese kora players are in the bottom corners.
Two columns in Outlook software. Left hand column lists folders titled Inbox, Drafts, Archive, Sent, Groups, Deleted Items, Junk Email, Clutter, Conversation History, RSS Feeds and Saved. Right hand column shows an illustration of a yacht with the sun behind it. The message below states ‘It’s a wrap! Well done - everything’s now under control’.
Poster for D1 Radio show. Red background with nine white cubes, each with a vintage image on the front. The show is titled ’This Day In Music’.
Poster for radio show titled ‘Nighthawks at the African Diner: III’ on The Thursday Night Show (Nov 27th, 23:00, UK time). The poster contains text in a variety of different bright colours, combined with extracts from Edward Hopper’s painting ‘Nighthawks at the Diner’ as bands across the poster and with a photo of a Tanzanian red dirt road in the background.
Black and white photo of 1950s family gathered around a TV set, looking at a screen with a young Bob Dylan playing a harmonica. Text reads ‘The Thursday Night Show presents D1 Radio with Theme Time Dylan Hour’.
Poster for radio show titled ‘Nighthawks at the Virtual Diner’ on The Thursday Night Show (Oct 30th, 23:00, UK time). The poster contains text in a variety of different bright colours, combined with extracts from Edward Hopper’s painting ‘Nighthawks at the Diner’ as bands across the poster and with a photo of a Tanzanian red dirt road in the background.
ALTc Radio 2025 poster, showing full listings for the radio programme across two days of the conference. Includes two columns of multicoloured 30m blocks, in blue, yellow and grey. The programme is overlaid on a photograph of the cloisters at the University of Glasgow.
Book on a blue fabric surface. The book is called ‘Designing Hope’ by Sarah Housley and features a colourful abstract nature-based image on a white background.
Poster for a D1 Radio Hour set on The Thursday Night show, titled ‘Musical Renewables’ (live on air Oct 2nd 23:00 UK time). Shows a wind turbine by the sea with a sunset sky.
Poster for radio show titled ‘Nighthawks at the Virtual Diner’ on The Thursday Night Show (Sept 18th, 23:00, UK time). The poster contains text in a variety of different bright colours, combined with extracts from Edward Hopper’s painting ‘Nighthawks at the Diner’ as bands across the poster and with a photo of a Tanzanian red dirt road in the background.
Sunset over farmland, shot by drone from high up in the air. Laid out in most of the image are bare fields, and a handful of scrub bush can be made out on the right. In the distance, the sun sets over the horizon.
Poster for radio show titled ‘This Day In Music: Aug 14’ by D1 Radio on The Thursday Night Show (23:00, UK time). The poster contains consists of an orange background and nine lightly-coloured 3D boxes with historical images on the front. The images include an aerial photo of the Falkland Islands, FDR, a beaver in a box dropped from a parachute, and Fidel Castro with a raised fist and Che Guevara next to him.
Poster for a radio show titled ‘Nighthawks at the Bajan Diner’ on The Thursday Night Show (Aug 7th, 23:00 UK time). The poster contains text in the blue and yellow colours of the Barbadian flag, combined with extracts from Edward Hopper’s painting ‘Nighthawks at the Diner’ as bands across the poster.
Angled photograph of faded edition of John Hersey’s 1946 Penguin Books publication ‘Hiroshima’.
Monochrome poster for a ‘D1 Radio Hour’ show, with black and grey text layered over an image of white paper with a large tear in the centre. The show is titled ‘Filling In The Gaps’, the station is The Thursday Night Show.
Front cover of a paper book book titled ‘Wilding’, which features an illustration of a turtle dove sitting in a tree. Above the book are the leaves of a house plant, below it, a wooden table.
Poster for a ‘D1 Radio Hour’ show, depicting an old tree growing over the outside of a fragment of a building, both inside a modern new building. The show is called ‘Going Off The Rails’, and is on July 24th at 20:00 UK time.
Comic-book style poster for The Thursday Night Show’s 13th birthday sets. Features 10 cartoon-like images of each performing DJ (playing ‘the maddest songs in their collections’) set in different coloured panels.
Poster for radio show titled ‘Nighthawks at the Virtual Diner’ on The Thursday Night Show (July 10th, 23:00, UK time). The poster contains text in the black, blue and yellow colours of the Barbadian flag, combined with extracts from Edward Hopper’s painting ‘Nighthawks at the Diner’ as bands across the poster. The poster introduces a show on the forgotten genre of spouge.
Life size animal puppets from The Herds (a giraffe, a kudu and a gorilla) with their puppeteers in from on London’s Tower Bridge.
Banner for a conference talk titled ‘Battling Monsters for Credit: Introducing Interdisciplinary Education for Climate and Sustainability’. Monochrome image of male speaker, title of conference is ‘Paradigm Shift’.
Poster for radio show titled ‘Nighthawks at the Jamaican Diner: Brazilian Reggae’ on The Thursday Night Show (May 29, 23:00, UK time). The poster contains text in the red, gold and green colours of the rasta flag, combined with extracts from Edward Hopper’s painting ‘Nighthawks at the Diner’ as bands across the poster and with aspects of the Brazilian national flag in the background.
Poster for D1 Radio set on The Thursday Night Show (titled ‘This Day in Music: May 22’). Shows a pattern of cubes with photographs and other images on the front side.
Paperback of ‘Imagination - A Manifesto’ by Ruha Benjamin on a navy blue background. Book cover shows a young Black girl with braided hair branching in multiple directions, blossom growing out of it and wearing a necklace that contains butterflies.
Snarled old tree with tangled trunks, covered in moss and lichen.
Poster for radio show titled ‘Nighthawks at the Virtual Diner’ on The Thursday Night Show (Apr 3rd, 23:00, UK time). The poster contains text in the red, gold and green colours of the rasta flag, combined with extracts from Edward Hopper’s painting ‘Nighthawks at the Diner’ as bands across the poster and with a red and green gradient background.
Poster for radio show depicting abstract image of different coloured lines and the title 'Critical studies of Education and Technology'. Lists four speakers and a broadcast day/time of February 21st 13:00 - 16:00 GMT. Associated organisations are University of the Arts London, the Association for Learning Technology and The Thursday Night Show
Digifest exhibition hall, cloaked in blue light with a large red cube suspended from the ceiling emblazoned with the Jisc logo. Attendees mill around.
Poster for radio show titled ‘Nighthawks at the Virtual Diner’ on The Thursday Night Show (Mar 6th, 23:00, UK time). The poster contains text in the red, gold and green colours of the rasta flag, combined with extracts from Edward Hopper’s painting ‘Nighthawks at the Diner’ as bands across the poster and with a black and white bamboo grove background.
Photograph on University of Westminster wall of David Bowie performing during the ‘Serious Moonlight’ tour, flanked with two plaques that recounted the connection between Bowie, the photographer who was a former student and a campus lecture theatre he once performed in.
Poster for radio show depicting abstract image of different coloured lines and the title 'Critical studies of Education and Technology'. Lists four speakers and a broadcast day/time of February 21st 13:00 - 16:00 GMT. Associated organisations are University of the Arts London, the Association for Learning Technology and The Thursday Night Show.
Poster for radio show titled ‘Nighthawks at the Virtual Diner’ on The Thursday Night Show (Jan 16th, 23:00, UK time). The poster contains text in the red, gold and green colours of the rasta flag, combined with extracts from Edward Hopper’s painting ‘Nighthawks at the Diner’ as bands across the poster and with a wooden background.
Poster for a radio show with a background image of a close-up on a rough yellow wall with some large cracks in it. Show title - ‘Filling In The Gaps’. Live on ttns.uk tonight from 22:00.
Photograph of front cover of Jeremy Bailenson’s book ‘Experience On Demand’, featuring a surreal geometric shape in various shades of grey, with part of the book reflected in the front visor of a Pico VR headset on the right side of the image.
Cropped screenshot of my BlueSky header image, showing my followers, those that I’m following and my total number of posts all at 549.
Poster for ‘Nighthawks at the Jamaican Diner’ on The Thursday Night Show (Nov 21st, 23:00, UK time).
Poster for radio show titled ‘Nighthawks at the Virtual Diner’ on The Thursday Night Show (Oct 31st, 23:00, UK time). The poster contains the red, gold and green colours of the rasta flag, combined with extracts from Edward Hopper’s painting ‘Nighthawks at the Diner’ as bands across the poster.
Photograph of large paperback book ‘The Carbon Almanac’ (a book of facts about climate change). Shows front cover of book, which contains two overlapping circles in the centre with the words ‘It’s Not Too Late’ overlaid on the circles. A plain white background.
Poster for radio show featuring photograph of road going through a forest with the sun setting through the trees. The title of the radio show is ‘End Of The Line - Album Closers’.
Man holding outstretched hand in direction of woman as he introduces her. The two people are sat on stools on an otherwise empty stage with a blank grey backdrop, as an audience looks on.
Large black number (512,745) in middle of screenshot on white background.
Flyer for radio show by D1 Radio titled ‘A Tribute to Herbie Flowers, which runs on Sept 12th from 23:00 (UK time). Background photograph of a man with white hair looking downwards in silhouetted profile, playing the neck of a double bass. Flyer text in shades of while and grey.
Circular ceramic plate with four profiteroles, a serving of ice cream and chocolate sauce on top and a silver spoon rested on the front of the plate.