Academic developer, #highered researcher, mum, unionist and COVID cautious. Interested in building equitable and ethical digital and #mobilelearning to tackle issues in #sustainability. Let's make #highered a better place. Melbourne, Australia.
Great to hear Rowena Harper exposing the uncomfortable truths about the social, environmental and governance impacts of #genAI in her #HERDSA2025 keynote. How can #highered be proactive and lead in critical education, rather than reactive to corporate interests?
July 8, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Great to hear Rowena Harper exposing the uncomfortable truths about the social, environmental and governance impacts of #genAI in her #HERDSA2025 keynote. How can #highered be proactive and lead in critical education, rather than reactive to corporate interests?
Excuse me, but wtf is this? I don't want 'an AI' anywhere near my stuff and I certainly don't want to listen to an AI-generated podcast about my stuff. Academia dot edu, get your shit together. #genAI#highered#academia
May 29, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Excuse me, but wtf is this? I don't want 'an AI' anywhere near my stuff and I certainly don't want to listen to an AI-generated podcast about my stuff. Academia dot edu, get your shit together. #genAI#highered#academia
"Paired with hype, AI becomes a technological bypass ... [promising] to return the world to a fantasized state of stability and abundance without demanding any form of individual or collective compromise." www.techpolicy.press/future-fatig...
"Paired with hype, AI becomes a technological bypass ... [promising] to return the world to a fantasized state of stability and abundance without demanding any form of individual or collective compromise." www.techpolicy.press/future-fatig...
Faculty, alumni, rabbis outside the Columbia Manhattanville campus this afternoon, condemning the detention of Mahmoud Khalil by ICE , and the University’s response www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGzx...
Faculty, alumni, rabbis outside the Columbia Manhattanville campus this afternoon, condemning the detention of Mahmoud Khalil by ICE , and the University’s response www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGzx...
"All that was left was to strive for normality and wealth, in competition with all the other unwell workers". A favourite line from this excellent book. Highly recommended!
Comrades! Now the audiobook's finally out, I have five codes for free audible copies of *Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism*. If you want one just like and share/quote this post. After 48 hours I'll pick five sharers at random to send the codes to.
March 9, 2025 at 10:59 PM
"All that was left was to strive for normality and wealth, in competition with all the other unwell workers". A favourite line from this excellent book. Highly recommended!
Controversial take alert: the idea that engaging and 'playing' with genAI, but in a scholarly way, will help turn the tide towards ethical use, comes across as both arrogant and naïve. You are still feeding an unregulated, energy-hungry beast. If you have a choice, be critical, but not complicit.
Controversial take alert: the idea that engaging and 'playing' with genAI, but in a scholarly way, will help turn the tide towards ethical use, comes across as both arrogant and naïve. You are still feeding an unregulated, energy-hungry beast. If you have a choice, be critical, but not complicit.
First post and I'll be bringing my whole self here. I'm an ecologist turned academic developer, interested in ethical integrity and sustainability in higher ed, incl raising the profile of teaching and building collaborative digital learning systems for tackling global issues (1/2)
November 16, 2024 at 10:01 PM
First post and I'll be bringing my whole self here. I'm an ecologist turned academic developer, interested in ethical integrity and sustainability in higher ed, incl raising the profile of teaching and building collaborative digital learning systems for tackling global issues (1/2)