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I’ve been using Copilot AI for a while for minor tasks but recently it’s been giving me false information like credibly sounding books that don’t exist. Takes longer to check accuracy than do the graft myself.

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Grim reading on national reading scores for the United States - ‘Nearly 5 years after schools closed, the nation gets a new report card’ via NPR “Just 30% of (8th grade) students performing at or above NAEP's proficient standard.” www.npr.org/2025/01/29/n....

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Testing Chinese AI large language model DeepSeek on human rights issues www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3605...

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This is great work and aligns with something I have been saying for a while... humans enjoy working hard toward goals. It gives us a sense of purpose. I think the current emphasis on quick and easy solutions is making people feel lost (with impacts on mental health), including many college students.

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Europe made more electricity from sunshine than coal last year in what analysts called a “milestone” for the clean energy transition. 👍 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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To anyone feeling off today, and I know plenty who will, it won’t fix things but you might feel a bit better after reading about Moomins. www.moomin.com/en/blog/moom...

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If US annexes Greenland will they be cleaning up their mess? Thanks to Politico news site for linking to the article. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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www.sciencenews.org/article/iron...

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This is, or should be, a big deal -- Ann Telnaes, an absolute legend, quitting WaPo due to censorship of a cartoon criticizing billionaires anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

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Annual summer challenge complete!

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To be clear - Horizon Europe is a programme which gives our researchers opportunities to be funded by the EU to collaborate with European researchers, but because of the differences in funding between NZ and Europe our people need top-ups to meet all their costs (1/2)

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An example of problems of AI "borrowing" from academic work going beyond non-attribution to creating a new conceptual reality.

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Who'd have thought ruthless austerity would be bad for the economy? Nice work, Mr Luxon.

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Does Whamageddon count when Last Christmas is sung by someone who is not Wham?

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We're hiring an Assistant Professor in the field of #UrbanSociology, who can demonstrate expertise in the social and spatial life of the city, and how planning and/or design impacts urban life. Applications close Sunday 19th January 2025 (23.59 UK time).

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I am very happy that this book is finally out! So many great stories and insights into what it means to "lead rurally" in many contexts. Sharing Leadership Stories in Rural Education: Leading Rurally across Australia and the United States #RuralEd link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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The Royal Society Te Apārangi has sent an open letter to the Prime Minister about the importance of social sciences and humanities, following changes to the Marsden Fund terms that explicitly exclude research areas in the social sciences and humanities: www.royalsociety.org.nz/news/open-le...

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Fabric designs from Footprints Studio lead designer Joyce Clissold. At Len Lye Centre, New Plymouth

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there is no empirical relationship between a teacher's accent and their ability to teach. but there is a long-standing ideological relationship which frames non-dominant and non-standardised accents as signs of imagined pedagogical illegitimacy. @bjse.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Apparently these days a PhD and HE/research experience in education can get you £300 per MA supervision as a self-employed contractor. Includes supervision hours, induction, feedback & review of ethics and draft writing, first marking plus second marking another master’s dissertation. #edusky

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A very rowdy crowd in my neighbourhood.

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Promotion criteria should be adapted to help more female leaders advance in academia, #THEinnovation conference has heard #EduSky #HigherEd

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Vacancy for a researcher working with @alinecourtois.bsky.social @sazanajayadeva.bsky.social and me on a new project on the 'Virtual Mobilities of International Students'. Based at @uniofbath.bsky.social Deadline for applications: 5 Jan 2025 Please repost - thanks! www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...

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We don't have an elf on the shelf but we do have a

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"Women full professors are 19% more likely than men at the same career stage to leave academia, as compared with 6% for women assistant professors and 10% for associates."

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We are delighted to announce a call for papers for a forthcoming special issue on ESR @europeansocreview.bsky.social Education and Social Mobility: Celebrating Richard Breen’s Contribution to Sociology Deadline for submission: 15 of June 2025 More details on the call 👇

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More humanities not less?

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Teacher shortages are rising—nearly 47% of students face them globally. The OECD’s Education Policy Outlook 2024 offers strategies to attract, retain, and develop teachers, building equitable and resilient systems. Read more: www.oecd.org/en/publicati... #EduSky

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Quality Public Education Coalition’s response to the Marsden funding cuts aecnz.substack.com/p/skewing-ma...

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Assad's government has fallen, so what comes next is a popular topic in news media today. Academics get called in for their expert opinion. Yet social science research is far better at understanding the past or the present than predicting the future.

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Post doctoral fellow qualitative sociological research | UNSW #Edujobs #EduSky www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/40...

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Kiwi TV from 1979 on children’s reading ‘Helping You to Help Your Child’ I wonder If any copies still exist. #nz #nzedchat

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Call for submissions now open for our free online conference taking place on March 4, 2025. Please help us circulate. Submissions due 18 January 2025!

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New article by Michalinos Zembylas ‘The ambivalence of wokeness: implications for teaching social justice education: Critical Studies in Education: Vol 0, No 0’ www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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On THE Campus: Women in academia are promoted at far lower rates than their male peers and are under-represented in senior positions. To fix this, universities will need to embrace systemic change, says Rachael Jefferson @charlessturtuni.bsky.social #AcademicSky #EduSky

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A science mega-programme is taking shape in the EU: what it means for researchers

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