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Derek Larson, Ph.D. 🇨🇦
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Collection Manager and Researcher at the Royal BC Museum. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Ph.D. studying lizards, dinosaur teeth, and fossil turtles. MtG, TTRPG, and boardgame enthusiast. He/him
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Couldn't agree more with the concluding quote from Jesse Hagopian:

"That work — the real work of teaching and learning — cannot be automated."
September 29, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Particularly taken by this quote...

"By normalizing the use of AI products in academia, universities contravene codes of conduct and contradict their own missions and betray their core values, harming science and society in the process"
September 29, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Paleontologist here. We do in fact do this. Sorry. Hope this helps. 🤓
November 8, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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"If discovery tools return hallucinated results, the credibility of the library itself could be undermined. Students may come to see the library’s systems as just another unreliable search engine."

BINGO
November 7, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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BROKE US.
November 6, 2025 at 3:32 AM