Joanna Tai

@drjot.bsky.social

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Higher education assessment & feedback researcher. Both kinds of doctor. Knitter and baker. Views my own, reposts are not necessarily endorsements.

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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 2d

I cannot evangelize enough for @zotero.org for citation management. It's a game changer. If you're a student, and you're writing a paper right now, and you're NOT using Zotero, I ask you...why? Why are you making things harder than they need to be?

a woman is sitting at a desk with her arms outstretched in front of a map on the wall .

ALT: a woman is sitting at a desk with her arms outstretched in front of a map on the wall .

media.tenor.com

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Dave Bloom @drumkitdave.bsky.social · 3d

The upshot is that we were able to knock results from the journal out of our article search and got the publisher's journals removed from Ulrich's. But this is clearly going to be an eternal game of Whac-a-Mole for librarians (and for patrons who contact us to report this stuff)! 4/4

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Dave Bloom @drumkitdave.bsky.social · 3d

In another, a student found an article that had seemingly AI-generated fake citations using our institutional article search (which searches our subscription stuff, but also beyond). It got picked up via CrossRef. Another sketchy publisher, but this one with enough oomph to be listed in Ulrich's. 3/

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Dave Bloom @drumkitdave.bsky.social · 3d

In one, a researcher told us he'd found himself cited as coauthor on a paper he hadn't written. We found a few years' worth of backlog on the journal's page (hijacked version of a legit journal) was AI-generated abstracts and titles to pad things out for the newer, dubious full-text articles. 2/

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Dave Bloom @drumkitdave.bsky.social · 3d

My colleagues and I (librarians at UW-Madison) just ran a two-hour presentation on the impact of gen AI on predatory publishing for library staff this week! It was directly inspired by a few patron interactions similar to what you're describing. 1/

Reposted by Joanna Tai, Michael Larkin

Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 3d

I mean we are absolutely in a place now where the only solution to this information disorder is for everyone to constantly evaluate the source of information. Never trust a chatbot, but also don't believe a video unless you know and trust where it comes from.

Unfortunately... that's a lot of work.

Reposted by Dorothy Bishop, Martin Tomko, Zen Faulkes , and 5 more Dorothy Bishop, Martin Tomko, Zen Faulkes, Joanna Tai, Greg Linden, Aleksandra Urman, Michael Larkin, Nicole Guenther Discenza

Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 3d

Here's the reality this example illustrates:

It's not even just about people blindly trusting what ChatGPT tells them. LLMs are poisoning the entire information ecosystem. You can't even necessarily trust that the citations in a published paper are real (or a search engine's descriptions of them).

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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 3d

I used this as a framing example in a recent talk I gave about the "librarian's dividend" which is my probably-far-too-positive spin on this absolute garbage fire -- that at least maybe we're forced into more appreciation and value for the people and institutions who help us evaluate information.

Joanna Tai @drjot.bsky.social · 4d

Aargh. It's the first time this year past Jo has dropped the ball on planning ahead for presentations. Got one on Monday but my slides aren't done and it's already almost 5:30 on Friday afternoon 😅

Joanna Tai @drjot.bsky.social · 11d

Me too! Mainly in comment boxes on others' writing 😬

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CRADLE: Assessment. Digital. Learning @cradledeakin.bsky.social · 11d

The reality of uncertainty: Dr Nicole Crawford shares her reflections and key takeaways from our last seminar of 2025, where Prof Margaret Bearman discussed the role that feedback cultures play in improving #feedback.

Read Nicole's thoughts here: blogs.deakin.edu.au/cradle/the-r...

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Meagan Tyler @drmeagantyler.bsky.social · 11d

If you've had any tough days during #AcWriMo, I highly recommend adopting Taika Waititi's expansive classification system for writing. Another handy tip from the academia / writing / research meme stash. #PhDchat #academicsky #academicchatter #highered

Four images of Taika Waititi, each with part of a quote that reads: "Sometimes, writing is opening up your laptop, looking at a blank page on 'final draft' for about 8 hours and then feeling sad and then closing it. And that's still classified as writing."

Reposted by Philip N. Cohen, Joanna Tai, David Spurrett

Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 12d

Nature Sci Rep publishes incoherent AI slop. eLife publishes a paper which the reviewers didn't agree with, making all the comments and responses public with thoughtful commentary. One of these journals got delisted by Web of Science for quality concerns from not doing peer review. Guess which one?

Two posts from Bluesky. The first one shows a figure from a paper published in Nature Scientific Reports full of totally incoherent AI fabricated gibberish words. The other a comment on a recently published paper by eLife discussing the paper and its peer reviews which were published along with the paper.

Erik Angner @erikangner.com · 12d

"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se

Infographic with AI slop published in Nature Scientific Reports

Reposted by Joanna Tai, Maria Berge

Meagan Tyler @drmeagantyler.bsky.social · 12d

This banger from the academia / writing / research meme stash definitely has wider applicability but I do really like using it for coaching, mentoring, and workshop activities when we talk about the importance of saying 'no' to things as researchers. #academicchatter #academicsky #PhDchat

Joanna Tai @drjot.bsky.social · 14d

Congratulations!!!

Reposted by Ingrid Piller, Martin Tomko, Gerald Roche , and 3 more Ingrid Piller, Martin Tomko, Gerald Roche, Joanna Tai, Catherine J. Frieman, François Soyer

ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 14d

🚨 #DECRA #DE26 announcement:

❗️Outcomes announced publicly for Discovery Early Career Researcher Award 2026❗️

See ARC's RMS for list ➡️ https://rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/Download/Report/a3f6be6e-33f7-4fb5-98a6-7526aaa184cf/285

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Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 16d

I reckon that should be banned. It's quite striking how much regulation surrounds authorship conduct (ICJME authorship criteria, can't submit to more than one place at a time, must declare AI etc) but almost none for what the reciprocal conduct of editors should be.

a cartoon character says " whatever i 'll do what i want "

Alt: a cartoon character says " whatever. i 'll do what i want "

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Corey Scholes @lastbarbender.bsky.social · 16d

To go through minor revisions and then have the editor send out to a whole new round of reviewers is the absolute worst

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Cassandra Volpe Horii @cvhorii.bsky.social · 18d

The audience of educational developers at #POD25 cheered at @edufuturist.bsky.social ‘s comment that the only known solution to “the cheating problem” with AI is to “rethink assessment top to bottom.” Apparently, that’s not the usual response. 😂

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ABC News (Unofficial) @abc-news.bsky.social · 18d

Federation University scraps one of Australia's oldest geology courses: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-21/federation-university-scraps-geology-courses/106028558

Federation University scraps one of Australia's oldest geology courses

Geoscience students are left feeling "in the dark" and "ripped off" as Federation University becomes the latest university to ditch its geology specialisation.

www.abc.net.au

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 18d

Quite an opening.

Introduction
In Book X of The Republic, Plato excludes poets on the grounds that mimetic language can distort
judgment and bring society to a collapse. As contemporary social systems increasingly rely on large
language models (LLMs) in operational and decision-making pipelines, we observe a structurally
similar failure mode: poetic formatting can reliably bypass alignment constraints. In this study, 20
manually curated adversarial poems (harmful requests reformulated in poetic form) achieved an
average attack-success rate (ASR) of 62% across 25 frontier closed- and open-weight models, with
some providers exceeding 90%. The evaluated models span across 9 providers: Google, OpenAI,
Anthropic, Deepseek, Qwen, Mistral AI, Meta, xAI, and Moonshot AI (Table 1). All attacks are strictly
single-turn, requiring no iterative adaptation or conversational steering.
Our central hypothesis is that poetic form operates as a general-purpose jailbreak operator

Reposted by Diane Coyle, Meredith Broussard, Luca Rossi , and 12 more Diane Coyle, Meredith Broussard, Luca Rossi, Charles West, Alison Phipps, Elaine Treharne, Melanie C. Green, Janet Murray, Rebecca Tushnet, Margot C. Finn, Anders Sundnes Løvlie, Joanna Tai, Georg Weizsäcker, Kathleen Kennedy, Peter Bergman

Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 18d

Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."

https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1

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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 19d

We are having so many wrong conversations - this is a major one

thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...

We're having the wrong conversation about unemployment

The point.com.au

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Juliet Turner @juliet-turner.bsky.social · 21d

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

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Adolfo Neto @adolfont.github.io · 22d

"Critical washing" is "encouraging AI use while being 'aware of the risks'".

Page 7

A picture of Page 7 of Against the Uncritical Adoption of AI

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Jane Doe 🐸✊🏽❤️ @noticingclimate.bsky.social · 23d

This is the world I want to see for Australian kids, particularly indigenous kids where stats show they have a greater chance of being in prison that being in further education. That's on us, and that needs to change. Let them eat cake.
fyi @robertarnol.bsky.social @big-tony.bsky.social

Fitzroy Crossing community believes Night Space has broken cycle of crime

As Kununurra battles with a surge in youth crime, residents in Fitzroy Crossing are celebrating their success in reducing rates through a community-led initiative.

www.abc.net.au

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Dr Liz Allen @drdemography.com · 23d

More Canberra school to be closed over asbestos fears. But for the life of me I can’t find out which ones! Be better ACT education OMG. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Breaking: ACT to close 69 schools after extra coloured sand products recalled

The ACT will close more schools after additional coloured sand products were recalled by Kmart and Target, while the schools that were shut on Friday will reopen on Monday.

www.abc.net.au

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 23d

Lobster fishery off Bruny Island in TAS closed on eve of the opening of fishing season due to antibiotic use by the salmon farms.
No indication of how long for. Must be a devastating blow for fishermen approaching Xmas.

Crayfish Closure Follows Salmon Antibiotic Deployment - Tasmanian Times

The commercial rock lobster fishery south of the D'Entrecasteaux Channel is now closed effective 15 November 2025

tasmaniantimes.com

Joanna Tai @drjot.bsky.social · 24d

I'm pretty sure most banks here don't issue personal chequebooks any more, and a bank cheque is $15 a pop. Luckily we have functional electronic banking including fee free bill pay options.

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