Reintroducing student number redistribution is an easy fix that would actually stabilise the sector without even having to pump a load of money into it.
All unis are spending SO MUCH MONEY & RESOURCES on recruiting & advertising rather than teaching & research. Plug that leak. Stop that volatility.
It’s giving snake oil salesmen, honestly…
I just LOVE finding out my bus is diverted around my stop by waiting around for 25 mins. Particularly when I have a meeting. No info on app, site, or socials. Or on the stop itself!
They’ll spend on this, but God forbid we ask for decent quality paper/pens/whiteboard markers/teaching materials/teaching room furniture/etc - can’t spend too much cash, apparently!
The mind, it boggles.
Rizzo as Paul?
I found crossing the ‘could be your parent and it not be an after school special’ rubicon weirded me out. And that was about 5 years ago now…
Yeah, I didn’t need to know that, man…
I’m the same age as many of their parents, or near enough. Truly disconcerting.
I just said ‘2005 was a different world’ in my first year seminar today, and wow, my back, my knees, my fine lines, and my grey hairs all felt that at once.
Religious scholars who study apocalyptic thought, Christian nationalism, conspiracy theories, and politics, are out here. We have been ringing the siren for decades.
Universities are closing religious studies, many scholars who are experts in this are unemployed (including me).
This is not just cursed, its monstrous. The digital resurrection of a historian who died in January of this year, all so Grammarly can get some more clicks and engagement from students and/or scholars and/or others.
It feels so wrong on so many levels, these ghosts enslaved to AI forever
Today I have so much to do, but I am running on 5 hours of sleep and all I really want to do is find some sheet music for ‘Little Girl Gone’ by Chinchilla, transpose it for alto flute, and play it for roughly 4 hours straight.
So it’s that sort of day.
And if you think this is only the case at RGs, well…
Job losses at UK research-intensive universities double in two years.
Exclusive: Scale of redundancies branded a “disaster”.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
Important findings here (and sadly no surprise to disabled people or those of us who do casework).
Good to see a mention too of UCU’s event accessibility checklist. Our reasonable adjustment passport has also been helpful for members.
More UCU’s resources at www.ucu.org.uk/article/1203...
Remember folks, the AI is not *actually* doing this; it is querying its training-data for statistically-likely things to appear to do under the given conditions, and replicating the highest-probability outcome.
yes. the point of reading as an academic is to tickle your own interpretive apparatus, not to extract a boiled-down version that might not highlight the things you find important, noteworthy, or generative--that can't be anticipated in advance
TIL 👇🤯
"as little as 0%" absolutely sounds like something an LLM would have written lol
If you haven’t left this binfire already - do.
While this might apply to STEM (I doubt it does) for the humanities I'm gonna tap the sign:
How we say things is a huge, and irreplaceable, part of what we are saying.
“Is there a technology the left is excited about?”
Yeah man, it’s called anything that can be useful and make my bills go down instead of a thing that can’t do anything without my help and doubles my electricity bill
This is the part I never get.
Even if it does something perfectly for you - you still need to know it?
I'd rather learn something as I do it, than study something made for me?
(And it doesn't do it perfectly...)
I am tempted to swap to exams (which I believe test nothing, so that’s HOW ANNOYED I am) and vivas. Even for first years. I’m tired of marking AI crap.
Profs, Grammarly is NOT the benign writing assistant you may have thought it is, but a powerful cheating machine that includes tools explicitly designed to help students hide the cheating done with it...
Okay. I'm interested in what a class action lawsuit from the faculty and staff could look like. I:
- rebuilt FOUR entire courses from scratch
- no training in digital pedagogy was provided
- webcams or tech to teach with not provided
- no pay for extra hours provided
- no other options provided
Students had it tough during the worst of covid. But their education continued and they were able to get their degrees, despite a global pandemic and dysfunctional government. Like 1000s of colleagues, I worked way over the odds, while dealing with domestic pressures. This action feels very cruel.
(Last bit obvs directed at exec, not you!! Bless you for helping out!)
This is pretty much what happened. We were just expected to know what to do. We had endless sessions with the handful who happened to be ‘techy’ but in the early days it was very much ‘do the same thing, online’. Sure, Jan.