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Guy Curtis
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Assoc Prof in psychology at the University of Western Australia (UWA) #academicintegrity enthusiast, Co-Editor of Higher Education Research and Development.

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Guy Curtis @guycurtis10.bsky.social · 1d
I published research years ago in a fairly new journal, it was not even Q4 because it was not ranked. It was a great fit for my research. I was criticised by someone reviewing my department for not publishing enough in higher-ranked journals. Over the years, the journal has grown and is now Q1. 🤷‍♂️

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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 4d
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.

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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 5d
I've said it before and I will say it again many times, people using "AI" to design and deliver 'teaching' to students, to mark their work, and in this case to (!) generate literal voice overs are risking their jobs, and frankly they *should* be at risk if they do this sort of thing:
‘We could have asked ChatGPT’: students fight back over course taught by AI
Staffordshire students say signs material was AI-generated included suspicious file names and rogue voiceover accent
www.theguardian.com

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Josh McCrain @joshmccrain.bsky.social · 7d
new paper by Sean Westwood:

With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research

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Guy Curtis @guycurtis10.bsky.social · Oct 14
The exulansis is real.

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Guy Curtis @guycurtis10.bsky.social · Sep 25
Making it a requirement for PhD students to publish in order to graduate, as happens in many places in the world, is a terrible idea. Even when the motivation are pure, the time delays and arbitrary decisions in some reviews etc. are no way to evaluate educational learning outcomes.

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Jason M. Lodge @jasonmlodge.bsky.social · Sep 24
TEQSA just published 'Enacting assessment reform in a time of artificial intelligence'

We describe three pathways to assessment reform:

- taking a program-wide approach
- assuring learning in every unit/subject
- implementing a combination of these approaches

www.teqsa.gov.au/guides-resou...
www.teqsa.gov.au

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Guy Curtis @guycurtis10.bsky.social · Sep 20
New Chapter with
@cathellis13.bsky.social
: Degrees of deniability: contract cheating and the value chain of corruption in higher education—experiences from Australia doi.org/10.4337/9781...
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The new Handbook on Corruption in Higher Education is open access...go take a look.
www.elgaronline.com

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Guy Curtis @guycurtis10.bsky.social · Sep 20
Hoping this link works doi.org/10.4337/9781...
doi.org

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Guy Curtis @guycurtis10.bsky.social · Sep 20
New Chapter with
@cathellis13.bsky.social
: Degrees of deniability: contract cheating and the value chain of corruption in higher education—experiences from Australia
www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap-o...
The new Handbook on Corruption in Higher Education is open access...go take a look.
www.elgaronline.com

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Guy Curtis @guycurtis10.bsky.social · Sep 19
Full article: A multi-layered evaluation of university-wide education interventions to improve student engagement and retention www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A multi-layered evaluation of university-wide education interventions to improve student engagement and retention
The strategic benefit of student retention is financial for institutions, economic for states and personal for individual students. Nonetheless, enacting and evaluating effective innovations to imp...
www.tandfonline.com

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · Sep 17
If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
The new TOC from academia dot edu. By creating an Account with Academia.edu, you grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent for Academia.edu to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness, city, institutional affiliations, citations, mentions, publications, and areas of interest) in any manner, including for the purpose of advertising, selling, or soliciting the use or purchase of Academia.edu's Services.

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Rachel Forsyth @rmforsyth.bsky.social · Aug 26
I've been reading The Opposite of Cheating: Teaching for Integrity in the Age of AI by Gallant, T. B., & Rettinger, D. A. (2025). I love the premise of this book which contains many generalisable ideas. Maybe it tries to do too much, but if you only read one book on integrity, this could be it!
Reading: The Opposite of Cheating by Bertram Gallant and Rettinger
Gallant, T. B., & Rettinger, D. A. (2025). The Opposite of Cheating: Teaching for Integrity in the Age of AI (Vol. 4). University of Oklahoma Press. This book, written by two experts in academic integrity, tries to move the conversation about GenAI and assessment away from detecting academic misconduct and towards good course design to reduce opportunities for cheating. The book acknowledges the responsibility usually placed on individual teachers to reduce, identify and act on student breaches of accepted academic integrity and tries to offer positive and practical solutions.
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Guy Curtis @guycurtis10.bsky.social · Aug 26
I agree with this, don't weight Lane 2 assessments more than Lane 1 *or* make Lane 1 hurdle tasks. But, beyond this, my advice is that if there is a genuine educational reason to limit AI use in take-home type assessments, add as much security as you can rather than throwing away needed tasks.

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Guy Curtis @guycurtis10.bsky.social · Jul 31
How AI is cheapening tertiary education at Sydney University

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Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social · Nov 16
It's interesting how this is not that different, ideologically at least, to those critical psychiatrists in the UK who are anti-meds and suggest prescribing going for walks instead.
futurism.com/neoscope/rfk...
RFK Jr. Says He’ll Send People Taking Adderall to Labor Camps
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants to strip people of their tech gadgets and send them to government-funded "wellness farms" to grow organic food.
futurism.com

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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · Jan 25
#NIH accounts for 47 billion = 25% of US federal research funding, essential for their world-leading position in bio-medical research.

Trump just shut it down.

No foreign adversary in their wildest wet dream could achieve such a devastating act of traitorous sabotage with a stroke of a pen.
carlbergstrom.com Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Jan 22
Communications shutdown. Travel ban. Canceled study sections. Now a hiring freeze?

Shutting down the NIH indefinitely without stated cause is literally an act of sabotage.

Left: yesterday. Right: today.
Jan 21 2025: 27 job openings listed at NIH. Jan 22 2025: There are no postings at this time.

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Guy Curtis @guycurtis10.bsky.social · Mar 19
Full article: The two-lane road to hell is paved with good intentions: why an all-or-none approach to generative AI, integrity, and assessment is insupportable www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The two-lane road to hell is paved with good intentions: why an all-or-none approach to generative AI, integrity, and assessment is insupportable
A ‘two-lane’ (All-or-None) approach to the use of generative artificial intelligence (genAI) is the idea that there should be two categories of assessments in higher education: Lane 1/None: where t...
www.tandfonline.com

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Jun 11
A-1 opsec there Tulsi.
Gabbard Admits to Asking AI What to Classify in JFK Files
Gabbard revealed that she fed tens of thousands of documents about the JFK assassination into an AI program for review.
www.thedailybeast.com

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Assoc Prof Amanda White OAM @amandalovestoaudit.bsky.social · Jul 8
@guycurtis10.bsky.social at #herdsa2025 sharing 20 yr longitudinal study on prevalence of #plagiarism in Australian HE.
Most forms of plagiarism are trending downward, student understanding of what is plagiarism is up and they know it is serious. Aligned with ⬆️ mandatory education and training.

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Guy Curtis @guycurtis10.bsky.social · Jun 28
CDC vaccine report cites study that does not exist, says scientist listed as author

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Guy Curtis @guycurtis10.bsky.social · Jun 16
Mike Perkins invokes the Swiss Cheese model when discussing programmatic assessment at #ECEAI25

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · Jun 12
Protip for prospective grad students. Please don't do this:

Applicant: Here's my CV. I think I'd be a great fit with your group.

Me: But your experience and interests are in a completely different field.

Applicant: Thanks for your prompt reply. Can you recommend another prof?

#AcademicSky 🧪

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Guy Curtis @guycurtis10.bsky.social · Jun 11
And researchers and educators are worried about the security of, perhaps, putting a paper or assignment into ChatGPT 😲

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Guy Curtis @guycurtis10.bsky.social · Jun 4
A company lost value for using actual human intelligence 🤦‍♂️

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Guy Curtis @guycurtis10.bsky.social · Jun 4
Bahahahahaha!!!

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Guy Curtis @guycurtis10.bsky.social · Jun 4
Interesting. I find tools like Cadmus and Inktrail don’t feel that way to me. They let students write things over time and as a marker I look only after the assignment is submitted at the process of how it was done.

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Guy Curtis @guycurtis10.bsky.social · Jun 4
I find it amazing that some people say “this is terrible, students are being put under surveillance and won’t work like they usually do”, and the same people have as their solution in-class tests and exams….where students are put under surveillance and don’t work like they usually do 🤦‍♂️ 2/2

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Guy Curtis @guycurtis10.bsky.social · Jun 4
I’ve recently seen people criticise software that allows educators to see the process of students’ writing. I think such programs are great for providing enriched feedback and have the incidental benefit of enhancing assessment security. 1/2

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Guy Curtis @guycurtis10.bsky.social · Apr 6
I think many women are good at working out which men pose a danger to them.