Dr Emma Muhlack
@dremmamuhlack.bsky.social
#Teaching specialist, School of Public Health, University of Adelaide, Australia. DEI in teaching. #AuDHD, #Queer, #PublicHealth, #Sociology, #Ethics. Semi-pro musician. These immaculate vibes are my own, not my employer's.
ORCID: 0000-0002-4089-399
ORCID: 0000-0002-4089-399
Bad: on hold with our learning platform support team.
Good: they've changed the hold music! The audio doesn't clip any more, and it's electronica without sounding like gym music or a corporate flythrough video. I even heard flange on the lead into the break!
Good: they've changed the hold music! The audio doesn't clip any more, and it's electronica without sounding like gym music or a corporate flythrough video. I even heard flange on the lead into the break!
October 9, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Bad: on hold with our learning platform support team.
Good: they've changed the hold music! The audio doesn't clip any more, and it's electronica without sounding like gym music or a corporate flythrough video. I even heard flange on the lead into the break!
Good: they've changed the hold music! The audio doesn't clip any more, and it's electronica without sounding like gym music or a corporate flythrough video. I even heard flange on the lead into the break!
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why not opt-in? just ask permission first
if this is truly a positive feature then surely copyright holders will be happy to participate and have their work included if asked
just ask permission first
if this is truly a positive feature then surely copyright holders will be happy to participate and have their work included if asked
just ask permission first
Exclusive: OpenAI is planning to release a new version of its Sora video generator, which creates videos featuring copyrighted material unless copyright holders opt out of having their work appear.
OpenAI’s New Sora Video Generator to Require Copyright Holders to Opt Out
Executives at the startup notified talent agencies and studios over the last week.
on.wsj.com
September 29, 2025 at 10:54 PM
why not opt-in? just ask permission first
if this is truly a positive feature then surely copyright holders will be happy to participate and have their work included if asked
just ask permission first
if this is truly a positive feature then surely copyright holders will be happy to participate and have their work included if asked
just ask permission first
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“Writing is a technology that helps us understand our own ideas better. Where people are involved in thinking and invention — including at universities — it needs to be taught in that spirit.” #AcademicSky
What are the key purposes of human writing? How we name AI-generated text confuses things
As another school year returns, large language models (LLMs) present difficult questions around learning, thinking, plagiarism and authorship for educators.
phys.org
September 4, 2025 at 9:14 PM
“Writing is a technology that helps us understand our own ideas better. Where people are involved in thinking and invention — including at universities — it needs to be taught in that spirit.” #AcademicSky
From the article:
"As the statistician and political scientist Andrew Gelman wrote, “It is by writing that I... state my assumptions, work out their implications, and confront the places where these implications do not comport with reality or with my current understanding of the world.” "
"As the statistician and political scientist Andrew Gelman wrote, “It is by writing that I... state my assumptions, work out their implications, and confront the places where these implications do not comport with reality or with my current understanding of the world.” "
Opinion: Failure to explain how AI-aided academic writing is a form of plagiarism leaves graduate students horribly compromised, says E.M. Wolkovich
#academicsky #edusky #AI
#academicsky #edusky #AI
PhD students are let down by sector’s silence on ChatGPT misuse
Failure to explain how AI-aided academic writing is a form of plagiarism leaves graduate students horribly compromised, says E.M. Wolkovich
www.timeshighereducation.com
August 27, 2025 at 5:59 AM
From the article:
"As the statistician and political scientist Andrew Gelman wrote, “It is by writing that I... state my assumptions, work out their implications, and confront the places where these implications do not comport with reality or with my current understanding of the world.” "
"As the statistician and political scientist Andrew Gelman wrote, “It is by writing that I... state my assumptions, work out their implications, and confront the places where these implications do not comport with reality or with my current understanding of the world.” "
So the consultation draft for Australia's National Health and Medical Research strategy has been released. Apparently I am at terrible person because I saw this and thought "what, are they commissioning Gorman to make labcoats?" #health #australia
August 27, 2025 at 4:43 AM
So the consultation draft for Australia's National Health and Medical Research strategy has been released. Apparently I am at terrible person because I saw this and thought "what, are they commissioning Gorman to make labcoats?" #health #australia
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Are you neurodivergent & have done, or considered, a PhD? We’re researching how doctoral study works (or doesn’t) for neurodivergent people. Take our 30min survey & help make academia more inclusive forms.office.com/e/ft9jyWsPUW
Questions? Email [email protected]
#PhD #Neurodivergent
Questions? Email [email protected]
#PhD #Neurodivergent
July 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Are you neurodivergent & have done, or considered, a PhD? We’re researching how doctoral study works (or doesn’t) for neurodivergent people. Take our 30min survey & help make academia more inclusive forms.office.com/e/ft9jyWsPUW
Questions? Email [email protected]
#PhD #Neurodivergent
Questions? Email [email protected]
#PhD #Neurodivergent
This resonates on so very many levels. Academia in Australia is reaching (yet another?) crisis point, and I don't know how many we have left in us. #AcademicSky #HigherEducation #Australia
Many of you in #AcademicBsky in the northern hemisphere might not know the dire state of Australian academia. This essay by Andrew Dean is a fair snapshot of the state of the sector.
Thinking today especially of academics in some Aus unis facing mass job cuts ~ 3,000 jobs on the chopping block now.
Thinking today especially of academics in some Aus unis facing mass job cuts ~ 3,000 jobs on the chopping block now.
Dropping out, burning out, tuning out • Andrew Dean
Nobody’s happy about the state of Australian universities, but a seasoned academic has some remedies
insidestory.org.au
August 14, 2025 at 2:45 AM
This resonates on so very many levels. Academia in Australia is reaching (yet another?) crisis point, and I don't know how many we have left in us. #AcademicSky #HigherEducation #Australia
Need to generate random numbers for the purposes of data sampling so I've cracked out the mini polyhedral dice I keep at my desk for #TTRPG emergencies.
I swear it's for academic rigor, and not because my mini dice don't get enough love...
#AcademicSky
I swear it's for academic rigor, and not because my mini dice don't get enough love...
#AcademicSky
August 11, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Need to generate random numbers for the purposes of data sampling so I've cracked out the mini polyhedral dice I keep at my desk for #TTRPG emergencies.
I swear it's for academic rigor, and not because my mini dice don't get enough love...
#AcademicSky
I swear it's for academic rigor, and not because my mini dice don't get enough love...
#AcademicSky
Hey @sydney.edu.au - Palestinians are starving in a systematic genocide being carried out by the state of Israel. Your pulling this flag down is very clearly partisan and also very clearly not a good look.
This morning when I checked the headlines, I discovered that USyd was carrying out shenanigans.
If you work for USyd, maybe now would be a great time to hang a flag out your office window... they can't remove them all!
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
If you work for USyd, maybe now would be a great time to hang a flag out your office window... they can't remove them all!
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
University of Sydney removes Palestinian flag from academic’s window after accusing him of breaching policy
Dr David Brophy claims new flag policy introduced in June was ‘precisely in response to people like me hanging Palestinian flags’
www.theguardian.com
August 7, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Hey @sydney.edu.au - Palestinians are starving in a systematic genocide being carried out by the state of Israel. Your pulling this flag down is very clearly partisan and also very clearly not a good look.
This morning when I checked the headlines, I discovered that USyd was carrying out shenanigans.
If you work for USyd, maybe now would be a great time to hang a flag out your office window... they can't remove them all!
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
If you work for USyd, maybe now would be a great time to hang a flag out your office window... they can't remove them all!
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
University of Sydney removes Palestinian flag from academic’s window after accusing him of breaching policy
Dr David Brophy claims new flag policy introduced in June was ‘precisely in response to people like me hanging Palestinian flags’
www.theguardian.com
August 7, 2025 at 12:25 AM
This morning when I checked the headlines, I discovered that USyd was carrying out shenanigans.
If you work for USyd, maybe now would be a great time to hang a flag out your office window... they can't remove them all!
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
If you work for USyd, maybe now would be a great time to hang a flag out your office window... they can't remove them all!
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
I don't... but that's because I don't have exams in my courses. I do, however, often leave marking to the absolute last minute (stares at the papers I should have marked last week).
Daughter, slightly outraged: I hope *MY* teacher doesn’t prepare their exam questions the night before! 😬 #academicchatter
June 30, 2025 at 4:01 AM
I don't... but that's because I don't have exams in my courses. I do, however, often leave marking to the absolute last minute (stares at the papers I should have marked last week).
It's now the first week of the exam period, and I'm doing all those little tidy-up jobs that seem to proliferate at this time of semester. On the one hand, ugh micro-jobs. On the other hand, I get to spend an afternoon futzing about with a spreadsheet which is super fun. #AcademicSky
June 23, 2025 at 2:26 AM
It's now the first week of the exam period, and I'm doing all those little tidy-up jobs that seem to proliferate at this time of semester. On the one hand, ugh micro-jobs. On the other hand, I get to spend an afternoon futzing about with a spreadsheet which is super fun. #AcademicSky
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"More than 500 people have died from Covid so far this year, and we could see many more by the time winter is finished," Professor Paul Griffin said
Reported deaths so far this year:
🔹2025 - COVID: 514
🔹2025 - Influenza: 124
🔹2025 - RSV: 14
Data source: www.abs.gov.au/statistics/h...
Reported deaths so far this year:
🔹2025 - COVID: 514
🔹2025 - Influenza: 124
🔹2025 - RSV: 14
Data source: www.abs.gov.au/statistics/h...
June 13, 2025 at 12:41 AM
"More than 500 people have died from Covid so far this year, and we could see many more by the time winter is finished," Professor Paul Griffin said
Reported deaths so far this year:
🔹2025 - COVID: 514
🔹2025 - Influenza: 124
🔹2025 - RSV: 14
Data source: www.abs.gov.au/statistics/h...
Reported deaths so far this year:
🔹2025 - COVID: 514
🔹2025 - Influenza: 124
🔹2025 - RSV: 14
Data source: www.abs.gov.au/statistics/h...
Pretending to be a functional human in the last two weeks of the semester.
Musicians spend a lot of time with music to become artists. Athletes spend hours toning and honing their bodies. Painters, sculptors, designers, illustrators, authors, bakers, carpenters, equestrians, comedians...they master their craft and art by the hours spent on it.
What have I mastered?
What have I mastered?
May 30, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Pretending to be a functional human in the last two weeks of the semester.
Meeting with a potential honours student in an hour or so, and I've been meditating on my supervision practices and how I decide whether or not to take on a student. #AcademicSky; what do you look for in a potential student, whether undergraduate, honours, or higher degree research?
May 26, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Meeting with a potential honours student in an hour or so, and I've been meditating on my supervision practices and how I decide whether or not to take on a student. #AcademicSky; what do you look for in a potential student, whether undergraduate, honours, or higher degree research?
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Maybe it's called a corpse flower because that's a dead ballerina stuffed in a bucket.
May 23, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Maybe it's called a corpse flower because that's a dead ballerina stuffed in a bucket.
Make an observation about your pantry that also sounds like the title of a novel:
"A proliferation of breadcrumbs"
"A proliferation of breadcrumbs"
make an observation about your pantry that also sounds like the title of a novel:
THE POTATOES HAVE EYES
THE POTATOES HAVE EYES
make an observation about your pantry that also sounds like the title of a novel:
THE MACARONI PROBLEM
THE MACARONI PROBLEM
May 18, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Make an observation about your pantry that also sounds like the title of a novel:
"A proliferation of breadcrumbs"
"A proliferation of breadcrumbs"
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Please enjoy these shelter pups reacting to getting a kiss. Some are bashful, some have butterflies, and all deserve approximately 10 million more. 14/10 for all
May 14, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Please enjoy these shelter pups reacting to getting a kiss. Some are bashful, some have butterflies, and all deserve approximately 10 million more. 14/10 for all
If you can't concede at this point that there's genocide happening in Gaza, you're either wilfuly ignorant or you're the sort of person I never want to find myself alone with.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
Israel concedes error in video claiming to show Hamas tunnels under hospital
The Israeli military says a video it released that claimed to show Hamas-built tunnels underneath a southern Gaza hospital actually show different buildings.
www.abc.net.au
May 16, 2025 at 12:56 AM
If you can't concede at this point that there's genocide happening in Gaza, you're either wilfuly ignorant or you're the sort of person I never want to find myself alone with.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
Off to teach my first years that health is more than hospitals and people in white coats! Health is architecture and urban planning and industrial design and economics and education and engineering and, and, and... #PublicHealth #AcademicSky
May 15, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Off to teach my first years that health is more than hospitals and people in white coats! Health is architecture and urban planning and industrial design and economics and education and engineering and, and, and... #PublicHealth #AcademicSky
As someone who was *this close* to majoring in Classics as an undergradate, I may have to get into this.
Today I learned "Mentor" was the name of a person in the Odyssey (the "older trusted advisor of Telemachus"). There is no verb "to ment". So "mentees" should apparently instead be referred to as "Telemachi". If you're looking for a pedantic, pretentious hill to die on, I don't think you'll beat this
May 15, 2025 at 4:58 AM
As someone who was *this close* to majoring in Classics as an undergradate, I may have to get into this.
What a world we live in, where will leave my house at 3:30am on Sunday morning for a 4:30am #Eurovision Watch Party.
We might even be in for a chance at the win this year.
We might even be in for a chance at the win this year.
Associate members can participate by invitation. Kazakhstan and Australia are two relatively recent examples. junioreurovision.tv/story/kazakh...
Kazakhstan selects: It's Karakat Bashanova!
The public of Kazakhstan has voted! On 26 September, the final of the Kazakh national selection took place with 12 participants singing for their opportunity to represent their country in Warsaw 2020....
junioreurovision.tv
May 15, 2025 at 4:30 AM
What a world we live in, where will leave my house at 3:30am on Sunday morning for a 4:30am #Eurovision Watch Party.
We might even be in for a chance at the win this year.
We might even be in for a chance at the win this year.
So, my PhD student I talked about last week at graduations?
Well, she was featured on the university's social media stories and she had just the LOVELIEST thing to say about me.
Well, she was featured on the university's social media stories and she had just the LOVELIEST thing to say about me.
May 14, 2025 at 12:38 AM
So, my PhD student I talked about last week at graduations?
Well, she was featured on the university's social media stories and she had just the LOVELIEST thing to say about me.
Well, she was featured on the university's social media stories and she had just the LOVELIEST thing to say about me.
Earlier today I showed photos from my masters graduation to my workshop facilitators (one of whom is my PhD student) and I was reminded that I am constitutionally incapable of not doing silly things for photos. Proof attached, from each of my four graduations.
May 9, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Earlier today I showed photos from my masters graduation to my workshop facilitators (one of whom is my PhD student) and I was reminded that I am constitutionally incapable of not doing silly things for photos. Proof attached, from each of my four graduations.