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This article on Minimum Viable Ethnography by Erica Hall is such a treasure. She explains how simple revelatory ethnographic research can be. I highly recommend you give her approach a try. Read Erika’s Article: https://medium.com/mule-design/minimum-viable-ethnography-a047e9358df0

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Senior researchers, what are you doing tomorrow? Helping DECRA applicants navigate their referee reports, that's what you're doing tomorrow. Book in some quality time with them now. Normally reports drop around ~11am AEST.

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One of the things we ask prospective PhD students to do is check out some of our recent work, so they can get an idea of what ideas we're running with at the moment, and what perspective we're taking on them. A lot of our work is open access, and/or there are recorded presos on YouTube.

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This article is going to turn me into the Joker. Literary style is not a puzzle you solve to get a little information treat 😩😩😩

submitted 4 days ago • 212 comments

@teganlittle.bsky.social Awesome presentation by @teganlittle.bsky.social on our aims and expectations for developing peer-feedback skills in students.

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Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.

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Maintaining a dead woman's body for 5 months then delivering a one pound highly premature baby from her corpse is a cruel medical experiment. If ever you wonder why there are high levels of medical mistrust in the Black community, remember this story. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

submitted 7 days ago • 28 comments

Today's complaint about the AI in education discourse: Too much of it is framed around a future that is going to happen to us, as opposed to seeing the future as something we may have some agency to shape. I reject the deterministic view of AI, particularly genAI. It's a tool, not our master.

submitted 7 days ago • 11 comments

Truly wild to realise that I was reading CMM for the majority of the time it existed (completed my PhD in 2015 so don't think it was on my radar before then!)

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Bangor university gives its vice chancellor a 13% pay rise then cuts dozens of jobs. Handing out massive pay rises while frontline staff face the sack is indefensible. @bangorucu.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Can you publish a meta-analysis without commenting on included study quality? 🤔 I'm so confused.

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setting aside many other things, WIKIPEDIA IS ALREADY A GIANT FREE SUMMARY MACHINE. WIKIPEDIA NEEDS THIS TECHNOLOGY LESS THAN ANYONE ON EARTH

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i think the thing people don't really understand is that it's not search which has gone to shit, not entirely. it's the internet.

submitted 13 days ago • 20 comments

JFC THIS IS APPALLING www.choice.com.au/health-and-b...

submitted 14 days ago • 14 comments

Always love Zoom webinars where chat is disabled, so there is a legitimate use for an alternate backchannel.

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ah yes, that is what I meant

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In Geelong today for the launch of the Deakin 2025 mentoring program. I was a 2023 participant and it's amazing to see how much it's grown - we can no longer fit in Downtown 😂

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Even the buses want to be trams these days... The rest of the message says something about the number of rhinos a bus is equivalent to.

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I love that Vilnius University sells temporary tattoos of items from its library

submitted 15 days ago • 8 comments

Excited that my paper with @xolotl.org arguing for the term "AI mirages" instead of "AI hallucinations" has been downloaded over 700 times from @ssrn.bsky.social!

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Managed to say no to two things today! Of course I had to still spend time thinking about appropriate others who could do the task better, but even saying no because I'm not the best fit is progress, right?

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Even if you use an LLM for retrieval-augmented generation, IT’S STILL AN LLM and is still designed to produce LINGUISTICALLY correct responses not FACTUALLY correct ones. That’s why Lexis and Westlaw AI still hallucinate. You’re better off with good ol’ Boolean searches.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Systemic discrimination is so hard to fight already, but it’s even harder to fight when “the computer says so”

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

Arrived just in time for the long weekend, which is forecast to be wet and cold. Cheers 🎓 @jodimca.bsky.social

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

Meanwhile, in "AI can be your therapist" news...

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Alas I won't be there at #aheconference25 but keep an eye out for other #CRADLE crew! Phill, Dave, Jack, Thomas, Juuso, students @teganlittle.bsky.social & Chad, and fellow Maria going to represent.

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Hey, every single blog and newsletter - if you set a popup to appear 20 secs after I start reading your post asking me to like/follow/subscribe, I will close it with annoyance at being interrupted I don't know if I like you or your work yet. Wait 10+ secs after I get to the end and I probably will

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Getting stuck while we're writing is a feature, not a bug. It's the point of the exercise. It's what happens when we are trying to express something we have not expressed before. That friction forces us to make the tools we need to understand and express it. Getting stuck is how we make meaning.

submitted 28 days ago • 22 comments

‘Synthetic data’ in a nutshell

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Certain speakers of English don't pronounce 'white' as WITE but as HWITE. You'll hear this in parts of Ireland, Scotland and the southeastern US. This pronunciation is a relic of an older stage of English, when it even had HL, HN and HR. Click my video to hear how these sounds developed:

submitted 28 days ago • 16 comments

Is ARC breaching its own legislation right now? ARC Act says grant outcomes have to be announced within 21 days of Board approval👇 Outcomes for Linkage Projects & Laureate Fellowships were anticipated weeks ago. If ARC Board approved before anticipated dates, they should've been announced by now.

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Great to see national broadcaster carry a story with "very strongly recommend everyone get their yearly flu vaccine and JN1 COVID booster" ...but the reality-borne our by pathetic rates of uptake-is a confused mess of recommendations making it unclear if it's important to get a COVID-19 vaccine

submitted 27 days ago • 7 comments

It is a moral failing of "technical" fields that we continually produce graduates who think they don't need to write or think critically

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