Dwayne Ripley
@dwayneripley.bsky.social
Creating and translating learning sciences knowledge. PhD in design for interdisciplinary education. Researches epistemic cognition, educational technology, and design knowledge.
ORCID: 0000-0002-7812-0614
ORCID: 0000-0002-7812-0614
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Google's annual AI survey with Ipsos indicates "learning" is the #1 use of AI, overtaking "entertainment."
But "learning" can mean *anything*. You can learn conspiracies, recipes, videogame cheats, whatever.
This is not "education" as it deliberately blurs it here
blog.google/products-and...
But "learning" can mean *anything*. You can learn conspiracies, recipes, videogame cheats, whatever.
This is not "education" as it deliberately blurs it here
blog.google/products-and...
Learners and educators are AI’s new “super users”
Google’s 2025 Our Life with AI survey found people are using AI tools to learn new things.
blog.google
January 31, 2026 at 11:30 PM
Google's annual AI survey with Ipsos indicates "learning" is the #1 use of AI, overtaking "entertainment."
But "learning" can mean *anything*. You can learn conspiracies, recipes, videogame cheats, whatever.
This is not "education" as it deliberately blurs it here
blog.google/products-and...
But "learning" can mean *anything*. You can learn conspiracies, recipes, videogame cheats, whatever.
This is not "education" as it deliberately blurs it here
blog.google/products-and...
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He may be a "Godfather of AI" but Geoffrey Hinton has no idea about education or teaching and should really quit doing uninformed, straw man-bashing, free marketing for right-wing billionaire- and investor-backed private, anti-DEI, automated schooling outfits www.businessinsider.com/godfather-ai...
January 31, 2026 at 10:32 PM
He may be a "Godfather of AI" but Geoffrey Hinton has no idea about education or teaching and should really quit doing uninformed, straw man-bashing, free marketing for right-wing billionaire- and investor-backed private, anti-DEI, automated schooling outfits www.businessinsider.com/godfather-ai...
Cognitive offloading is the norm for AI users at work, leading to reduced development of expertise,
*EXCEPT* when it is used to build comprehension (by asking follow-up questions, requesting explanations, or posing conceptual questions).
It's a tool. It's how you use it that matters.
*EXCEPT* when it is used to build comprehension (by asking follow-up questions, requesting explanations, or posing conceptual questions).
It's a tool. It's how you use it that matters.
The latest from Anthropic: using Anthropic's products makes you worse at your job
How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
www.anthropic.com
January 31, 2026 at 4:34 AM
Cognitive offloading is the norm for AI users at work, leading to reduced development of expertise,
*EXCEPT* when it is used to build comprehension (by asking follow-up questions, requesting explanations, or posing conceptual questions).
It's a tool. It's how you use it that matters.
*EXCEPT* when it is used to build comprehension (by asking follow-up questions, requesting explanations, or posing conceptual questions).
It's a tool. It's how you use it that matters.
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university (I'll try this again)
-Innovations in learning tech & practice
-learning tech research frontiers
-Systems, change & learning
-dssign for learning
-existential lit
-Innovations in learning tech & practice
-learning tech research frontiers
-Systems, change & learning
-dssign for learning
-existential lit
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university (I had to make this up since it was an integrated curriculum! These were themes...)
🎓 Law & ethics in medicine
🏃Health promotion & knowledge management
🔍 Sociology of medicine
📈 Evidence based medicine
❤️🩹 Occupational medicine
🎓 Law & ethics in medicine
🏃Health promotion & knowledge management
🔍 Sociology of medicine
📈 Evidence based medicine
❤️🩹 Occupational medicine
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university.
❤️ Australian literature (I was the only student in the class!)
❤️ Women in the ancient world
❤️ Formal logic
❤️ Shakespeare
❤️ Feminism and literature
❤️ Australian literature (I was the only student in the class!)
❤️ Women in the ancient world
❤️ Formal logic
❤️ Shakespeare
❤️ Feminism and literature
January 30, 2026 at 11:58 PM
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university (I'll try this again)
-Innovations in learning tech & practice
-learning tech research frontiers
-Systems, change & learning
-dssign for learning
-existential lit
-Innovations in learning tech & practice
-learning tech research frontiers
-Systems, change & learning
-dssign for learning
-existential lit
"When asked about the possibility of the AI model confabulating fake citations, Weil acknowledged that “none of this absolves the scientist of the responsibility to verify that their references are correct.”
They're placing the blame on the user (and subsequently on editors), not on the technology
They're placing the blame on the user (and subsequently on editors), not on the technology
January 29, 2026 at 8:41 PM
"When asked about the possibility of the AI model confabulating fake citations, Weil acknowledged that “none of this absolves the scientist of the responsibility to verify that their references are correct.”
They're placing the blame on the user (and subsequently on editors), not on the technology
They're placing the blame on the user (and subsequently on editors), not on the technology
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“When your ‘bug’ consistently affects anti-Trump content, Epstein references, and anti-ICE videos, you’re looking at either spectacular coincidence or systems that have been designed to flag and suppress specific political content.”
TikTok users “absolutely justified” in fearing MAGA makeover, experts say
TikTok’s tech issues abound as censorship fears drive users to delete app.
arstechnica.com
January 28, 2026 at 6:14 PM
“When your ‘bug’ consistently affects anti-Trump content, Epstein references, and anti-ICE videos, you’re looking at either spectacular coincidence or systems that have been designed to flag and suppress specific political content.”
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I switched to DuckDuckGo recently BECAUSE I can disable the AI slop. I don't want it, never will.
voteyesornoai.com/vote/no
voteyesornoai.com/vote/no
Are you YES AI or NO AI? Vote now.
Did anyone ask you? Now someone is.
VoteYesOrNoAI.com
January 20, 2026 at 9:00 PM
I switched to DuckDuckGo recently BECAUSE I can disable the AI slop. I don't want it, never will.
voteyesornoai.com/vote/no
voteyesornoai.com/vote/no
"We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports."
Junk AI work again overwhelming volunteers.
Junk AI work again overwhelming volunteers.
January 22, 2026 at 11:40 PM
"We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports."
Junk AI work again overwhelming volunteers.
Junk AI work again overwhelming volunteers.
When you use AI to cut corners in academic publishing, you disrespect editors' and reviewers' time and endanger their reputations.
You will be judged and it will be justified.
Your aim should not be to get published. It should be to produce something worthy of publication.
You will be judged and it will be justified.
Your aim should not be to get published. It should be to produce something worthy of publication.
January 18, 2026 at 10:49 PM
When you use AI to cut corners in academic publishing, you disrespect editors' and reviewers' time and endanger their reputations.
You will be judged and it will be justified.
Your aim should not be to get published. It should be to produce something worthy of publication.
You will be judged and it will be justified.
Your aim should not be to get published. It should be to produce something worthy of publication.
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@nteunion.bsky.social
I've been working with technology in HE for more than 40 years & a member of NTEU for 20. This new essay piece by Cory Doctorow is timely, readable and important. I'd recommend drawing it to the attention of every NTEU branch, today.
I've been working with technology in HE for more than 40 years & a member of NTEU for 20. This new essay piece by Cory Doctorow is timely, readable and important. I'd recommend drawing it to the attention of every NTEU branch, today.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
“The AI can’t do your job, but an AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can’t do your job.”
“The AI can’t do your job, but an AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can’t do your job.”
AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow
AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots
www.theguardian.com
January 18, 2026 at 8:29 PM
@nteunion.bsky.social
I've been working with technology in HE for more than 40 years & a member of NTEU for 20. This new essay piece by Cory Doctorow is timely, readable and important. I'd recommend drawing it to the attention of every NTEU branch, today.
I've been working with technology in HE for more than 40 years & a member of NTEU for 20. This new essay piece by Cory Doctorow is timely, readable and important. I'd recommend drawing it to the attention of every NTEU branch, today.
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Last year, we made the decision to step away from X.
The Royal Irish Academy is committed to creating, convening, and sharing knowledge for the public good and as an organisation we value Independence; Integrity; Curiosity; Openness and Rigour.
In our view, X no longer aligns with these values
The Royal Irish Academy is committed to creating, convening, and sharing knowledge for the public good and as an organisation we value Independence; Integrity; Curiosity; Openness and Rigour.
In our view, X no longer aligns with these values
January 17, 2026 at 11:11 AM
Last year, we made the decision to step away from X.
The Royal Irish Academy is committed to creating, convening, and sharing knowledge for the public good and as an organisation we value Independence; Integrity; Curiosity; Openness and Rigour.
In our view, X no longer aligns with these values
The Royal Irish Academy is committed to creating, convening, and sharing knowledge for the public good and as an organisation we value Independence; Integrity; Curiosity; Openness and Rigour.
In our view, X no longer aligns with these values
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DO YOU HAVE ANY TROPHIES OR AWARDS I CAN HAVE?
January 17, 2026 at 1:59 AM
DO YOU HAVE ANY TROPHIES OR AWARDS I CAN HAVE?
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Tomorrow's AI is the worst AI you will ever use.
New report from @mbogen.bsky.social & yours truly, on how the big AI companies are trying to make money and what it means for all of us.
I am more proud of the title than I have any right to be.
I am more proud of the title than I have any right to be.
🚨NEW REPORT from CDT’s @mbogen.bsky.social & @nathaliemarechal.net: Risky Business: Advanced AI Companies’ Race for Revenue. It explores how frontier AI companies’ business models and structures can shape user rights, safety, and the future of AI. cdt.org/insights/ris...
January 17, 2026 at 2:14 AM
Tomorrow's AI is the worst AI you will ever use.
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I just finished a three-year term as an editor at an international relations journal. I began at the start of the LLM era but ended right in the middle of it. Our volume of submissions tripled and our desk reject rate rose to 75%. I have some thoughts.
open.substack.com/pub/hegemon/...
open.substack.com/pub/hegemon/...
The Age of Academic Slop is Upon Us
what happens when AI automates "normal science"?
open.substack.com
January 13, 2026 at 3:38 PM
I just finished a three-year term as an editor at an international relations journal. I began at the start of the LLM era but ended right in the middle of it. Our volume of submissions tripled and our desk reject rate rose to 75%. I have some thoughts.
open.substack.com/pub/hegemon/...
open.substack.com/pub/hegemon/...
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👀From 2024... "If you’re an academic who is still using X, I would gently suggest to you that it is time to let go. The platform will either fold ~ or complete its evolution into the central engine of a politics, that compromises your professional credibility through association."
#X #AcademicSky
#X #AcademicSky
Twitter/X has ceased to be a neutral platform it’s time academics let go - Impact of Social Sciences
Mark Carrigan, argues Twitter/X no longer holds value for academics looking to share and communicate their work to wider publics.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
January 12, 2026 at 4:58 PM
👀From 2024... "If you’re an academic who is still using X, I would gently suggest to you that it is time to let go. The platform will either fold ~ or complete its evolution into the central engine of a politics, that compromises your professional credibility through association."
#X #AcademicSky
#X #AcademicSky
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This is where the AI push into schools feels quite parallel to all other reforms of past decades:
1️⃣ introduce new policy/system/tool without evidence
2️⃣ then claim need for data/evidence to support success
3️⃣ THEN blame teachers/schools if it isn't successful
(#3 is already happening, btw)
1️⃣ introduce new policy/system/tool without evidence
2️⃣ then claim need for data/evidence to support success
3️⃣ THEN blame teachers/schools if it isn't successful
(#3 is already happening, btw)
Drew Bent, the education lead at Anthropic: "'We’re at a point now where we need to make sure that these things are backed by outcomes and figure out what’s working and what’s not working.'"
Convenient that *now* is the time for evidence, once these products are released and pushed into schools.
Convenient that *now* is the time for evidence, once these products are released and pushed into schools.
Tech Giants Are Racing to Embed A.I. in Schools Around the Globe
www.nytimes.com
January 3, 2026 at 6:37 PM
This is where the AI push into schools feels quite parallel to all other reforms of past decades:
1️⃣ introduce new policy/system/tool without evidence
2️⃣ then claim need for data/evidence to support success
3️⃣ THEN blame teachers/schools if it isn't successful
(#3 is already happening, btw)
1️⃣ introduce new policy/system/tool without evidence
2️⃣ then claim need for data/evidence to support success
3️⃣ THEN blame teachers/schools if it isn't successful
(#3 is already happening, btw)
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Epistemological fault lines between human and LLM judgements
- a helpful distinction osf.io/preprints/ps...
- a helpful distinction osf.io/preprints/ps...
January 3, 2026 at 8:59 AM
Epistemological fault lines between human and LLM judgements
- a helpful distinction osf.io/preprints/ps...
- a helpful distinction osf.io/preprints/ps...
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How do systems make meaning – and misrecognise each other?
Join us for 'Autopoietic Ecology in Action' and explore interdisciplinary knowledge ecologies. Open to AE colleagues across Cambridge and beyond
23 Jan, 10:30am - 3pm
Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP
https://bit.ly/4s6TNni
Join us for 'Autopoietic Ecology in Action' and explore interdisciplinary knowledge ecologies. Open to AE colleagues across Cambridge and beyond
23 Jan, 10:30am - 3pm
Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP
https://bit.ly/4s6TNni
December 22, 2025 at 8:51 PM
How do systems make meaning – and misrecognise each other?
Join us for 'Autopoietic Ecology in Action' and explore interdisciplinary knowledge ecologies. Open to AE colleagues across Cambridge and beyond
23 Jan, 10:30am - 3pm
Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP
https://bit.ly/4s6TNni
Join us for 'Autopoietic Ecology in Action' and explore interdisciplinary knowledge ecologies. Open to AE colleagues across Cambridge and beyond
23 Jan, 10:30am - 3pm
Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP
https://bit.ly/4s6TNni
"From climate systems to financial markets... we confront systems whose behaviour is emergent, reflexive, and non-linear. Linear causality fails; prediction collapses; intervention backfires."
Watson, S. & Brezovec, E. (2025). Autopoietic Ecology: Rethinking Systems, Meaning, and Matter.
Watson, S. & Brezovec, E. (2025). Autopoietic Ecology: Rethinking Systems, Meaning, and Matter.
December 22, 2025 at 9:19 PM
"From climate systems to financial markets... we confront systems whose behaviour is emergent, reflexive, and non-linear. Linear causality fails; prediction collapses; intervention backfires."
Watson, S. & Brezovec, E. (2025). Autopoietic Ecology: Rethinking Systems, Meaning, and Matter.
Watson, S. & Brezovec, E. (2025). Autopoietic Ecology: Rethinking Systems, Meaning, and Matter.
Whose labour will be used to root out this garbage? I wonder 😒
Publishers welcome AI for screening papers. They also want to expand volume, weakening the quality and reliability of their product in the process.
Everything Gen AI touches turns to shit.
Publishers welcome AI for screening papers. They also want to expand volume, weakening the quality and reliability of their product in the process.
Everything Gen AI touches turns to shit.
I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
December 21, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Whose labour will be used to root out this garbage? I wonder 😒
Publishers welcome AI for screening papers. They also want to expand volume, weakening the quality and reliability of their product in the process.
Everything Gen AI touches turns to shit.
Publishers welcome AI for screening papers. They also want to expand volume, weakening the quality and reliability of their product in the process.
Everything Gen AI touches turns to shit.
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AI tutors are often held up as an ideal, but prioritizing individualized teaching can detract from the benefits of learning in social environments.
buff.ly/sHsZiV8
buff.ly/sHsZiV8
The ‘one chatbot per child’ model for AI in classrooms conflicts with what research shows: Learning is a social process
AI tutors are often held up as an ideal, but prioritizing individualized teaching can detract from the benefits of learning in social environments.
buff.ly
December 17, 2025 at 11:48 AM
AI tutors are often held up as an ideal, but prioritizing individualized teaching can detract from the benefits of learning in social environments.
buff.ly/sHsZiV8
buff.ly/sHsZiV8