The liberal arts campus is a hallowed space, a citadel of learning where the world's vital debates unfold. If the facilities dept could fix the heat in my office, which is stuck at 90°F, I might actually manage to unlock some of its potential. #elite. #academicsky #academictwitter #academicbanter

Cognitive scientists and AI researchers make a forceful call to reject “uncritical adoption" of AI in academia A new paper calls on academia to repel rampant AI in university departments and classrooms.

Merchant's take on the recent academic plea for more criticality towards bots and text generators as education substitution apps. Why is HE (always) so compliant? bc HE is built on two things: obedience and normativism.

#ai #chatbots #chatgpt #academia #academicbanter #education #highered

Roughly half of my summer wardrobe has consisted of t-shirts and polo shirts acquired from my university for free over the past decade. The uniform of the #elite? #academictwitter #academicsky #academicbanter

My latest article was accepted for publication. Time to celebrate with a trip to the thrift store. #elite #academictwitter #academicsky #academicbanter

Drove 30 minutes out of my way yesterday to avoid paying tolls. I must be part of the #elite. #academicsky #academictwitter #academicbanter

The righteous ire of Ben Williamson | penworks.net Every academic in every discipline should be following Ben Williamson as part of CPD awareness for digital learning, I've followed his work since when...

Reactions to this morning's flurry of fairly pithy posts from Ben Williamson. Ed-tech is a mess, uncritical adoption dating back a long time led to the current situation.

#academia #academicbanter #education #ai #genai #edtech #datasociety

The righteous ire of Ben Williamson | penworks.net

If you’ve ever had second thoughts about doing a #PhD, just imagine being interviewed by Philomena Cunk about the Soviet Onion. Absolutely worth it.

#AcademicSky #AcademicBanter

Caveat Emptor: Higher Education Rankings as Profit Centers · Issue 120 As global higher education rankings thrive as profit centers, ethical concerns and conflicts of interest loom large over their credibility.

Global HE rankings are big business. THE, QS, and Academic Rankings of World Universities offer consulting services, big data analysis, benchmarking, and other services. Conflict of interest and ethics of the system are a problem. #HE #data #academicbanter

https://ihe.bc.edu/pub/6nf0v9ku/release/1

It may be that part of the reason #HE has ran into the arms of #AI so willingly is bc most academics are rather digitally illiterate. Just thinking aloud, its not a scientific fact. But imo its very often true. AI does it for you, you dont have to use any other tech.

#academia #academicbanter

Hello bluesky! I'm an academic physician based in the United Kingdom. Here for the #IDsky and overall #academicbanter I do clinical research on respiratory viruses and their transmission dynamics. Based at #UniversityofLeicester.

I also love to kickbox - 10 bouts so far, aiming for 50 by age 40.