Well the food may not be safe to eat and the whole world might be on fire but at least they’re scraping all the physical books they can find for clean pre-ai language and destroying them in the process now
Who would have thought that I'd manage to dodge the Twitter craze & (de)generation X, but that frantically trying to escape the zombie apocalypse of AI-generated posts on LinkedIn would turn me into a first-time Bluesky user at the ripe age of 34 🧟♀️🤸♀️ #academicsky #episky #phdsky #academicchatter
Not a grade inflation supporter at all, but capping As would trigger a domino effect that'd discourage some students from pursuing a degree altogether (since quality of pre-uni education is very neighbour-dependent in the US). This is a systemic issue in need of an equitable reform. #academicsky
Opinion | I Teach at an Elite College and I Inflate Grades. Help Me.
Easy A’s are an easy out.
nytimes.com
First they came for the humanities, and now they're claiming lives in STEM, too. It’s 'Fatima's next job could be in cyber' all over again, with not even a suggestion of a new direction. What's more myopic than depriving the next generation of any space for creative insight? #AcademicChatter #STEM
There will be no more games like Minecraft without maths
Cuts to UK higher education courses are a danger to our tech industries
giftarticle.ft.com
You know you belong in academia when you have to reread an award email twice, looking for the "we regret to inform you", and when you can't find it, you shrug, credit the whole thing to luck and go back to editing your manuscript ✨ #AcademicSky #EpiSky #PhDLife