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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 2mo ago

I wish more people talked about how universities embraced AI and this helped create a perfect storm for supposedly most students now cheating using chatbots. Many ways of undetected cheating have always existed, but were never promoted as ways to study or write. The complicity is flagrant. 1/

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

Why are academics using GenAI to write articles, grade assignments, compose emails and a lot of other tasks that they would/should otherwise be doing themselves? A brief summary of our anonymous survey of over 200 academics' 'grey uses' of GenAI ... researchwhisperer.org/2026/07/21/a...

Academic (mis)uses of GenAI

This second post by Neil Selwyn and his collaborators shares some of the preliminary results from their research survey, which was discussed in an RW post earlier this year ‘Academics’ …

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New post this week: early findings from a study about how academics use GenAI that offers crucial insight into the emotional aspects of engaging with it, by @neilselwyn.bsky.social and colleagues: researchwhisperer.org/2026/07/21/a... #academicsky #highered #genAI

Academic (mis)uses of GenAI

This second post by Neil Selwyn and his collaborators shares some of the preliminary results from their research survey, which was discussed in an RW post earlier this year ‘Academics’ …

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I’ve seen a lot of my colleagues’ interactions with Claude working on research problems & it would be easier for me to accept it as a serious scientific tool if it didn’t end every single response with the LLM equivalent of “you want fries with that?” — constantly trying to goad you into asking more

"But there is no honour for the humanities in regaining their standing through the attention of AI companies, if they engage only on the technology industry’s terms. In that case, they will have become important in exactly the wrong way." www.ft.com/content/bdb3...

Why this philosopher turned down Anthropic

The AI industry is courting the humanities — but it is asking the wrong questions

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"One of Anthropic’s defining pieces of research appears in a paper entitled “On the Biology of a Large Language Model”. This is highly misleading: LLMs do not have any biology at all, because they are not alive. But in reading Anthropic’s paper one is invited quietly to forget this;.."

Very funny to see 'where is Australia's Zohran Mamdani' discussions that don't mention the fundamental fact it is obscenely harder for a brown skinned person to make it to an equivalent leadership position in Australia

A playful strategy for reflecting on data analysis decisions patthomson.net/2026/06/15/h...

have a word or two with your data

When we work with our data we have to decide who and what gets to be in the story. A number goes in the table or it doesn’t. A quote earns half a page, a passing mention, or nothing at all. T…

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Anyone else wonder if the rise of One Nation is due to the social media companies trying to get payback at the Govt after the social media ban on kids by promoting more of PH and One Nation? 🤔

UK folks, let's jump on this AI regulation petition the Society of Authors emailed out! It's an actual parliament one so the government HAS to respond if it reaches the signature threshold. It calls for regulations to make AI developers disclose copyrighted works trained on. Sign & repost!! ❤️

Petition: Protect creators' rights: require AI firms to disclose training data

We ask the Government to introduce a statutory duty requiring AI developers to disclose the copyrighted works used to train generative AI in enough detail for creators to identify use of their work, e...

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Wallowing in post-holiday feasting happiness? Got some time in this weird interstitial space before a new year starts? Add to this Wiki entry on "Research Culture" that @therealrw.bsky.social's @jod999.bsky.social created! Make it better! Read on: researchwhisperer.org/2025/12/09/r...

a man with a beard is looking at a woman with the words maybe we could be better together

ALT: a man with a beard is looking at a woman with the words maybe we could be better together

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"Say ‘no’ to Elsevier. ... Until this dispute is resolved: Do not submit to Elsevier journals. Do not review for Elsevier. Pause your work on Elsevier editorial committees. Boycott Elsevier and all its works and all its empty promises." researchwhisperer.org/2025/11/25/l... #ResearchWhisperer

Librarians versus the world

Photo of London’s National Art Library by Sebastien LE DEROUT on Unsplash Here at the Research Whisperer, we love librarians. They are smart, dedicated people who want to help you with your researc…

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We're running a very short survey to explore why academics are increasingly turning to GenAI to do things that they know/feel they should probably be doing themselves (e.g. write peer reviews, draft papers, data analysis etc.) - please share (or fill in!): redcap.helix.monash.edu/surveys/?s=L...

Problem is: Neither our work culture nor our education culture incentivizes deep learning. Instead, we're incentivized to economize--to learn only what's needed to finish the task or get the answer right on the test. So, people use ChatGPT, even when they know they could learn more by other means.

The Conversation U.S.@us.theconversation.com · 11mo ago

Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other. Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq

I am excited to see serious #QualitativeAnalysis & #QualitativeResearch applied to the senses by #QDA assisted Big congratulations @christinaqdas.bsky.social Daniel Turner @pointered.bsky.social @anujacabraal.bsky.social All the best in #Edinburgh 13+14 Nov 2025 www.linkedin.com/posts/christ...

#qualitative #qualitativeresarch #qda #qualitativeanalysis | Christina Silver, PhD

The workshop I'm running in Edinburgh in a couple weeks with Anuja Cabraal (PhD) and Daniel Turner is all about using human senses to enact #qualitative analysis. If you're interested in how the works...

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Turn off Gemini in Google! It's been turned on by default. Go to your Drive, click the gear icon, click settings, go to "manage apps" and uncheck that nasty "use by default" box. www.zdnet.com/article/how-...

How to turn off Gemini in your Gmail, Docs, Photos, and more - it's easy to opt out

It's a little hidden, but there is a way to remove Gemini from your favorite Google services.

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Ever run researcher development sessions and noted a gender disparity? Our paper on this topic, simmering away since 2024, is out! Our fearless leader + heaviest lifter on this work is undeniably @drmeagantyler.bsky.social. * insert 'We're not worthy' meme * Thanks, @herdjournal.bsky.social! 🫰

Higher Education Research and Development@herdjournal.bsky.social · 12mo ago

In researcher development, are we missing men, fixing women, or creating gender trouble? @drmeagantyler.bsky.social, @tseenster.bsky.social & @danbendrups.bsky.social → doi.org/10.1080/0729... #ResearcherDevelopment #HigherEd #AcademicDevelopment #Gender #GenderInequality #DoctoralEducation

Informative thread.

Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 12mo ago

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms). It’s also concerning. 1/

So, Signal does what we can to provide a service w integrity in the concentrated ecosystem we're working in. We protect your comms w end-to-end encryption, so that we can use AWS and others as a highway across which to send Signal data in ways that don’t let AWS, or anyone else, gain access. 12/

In short, the problem here is not that Signal ‘chose’ to run on AWS. The problem is the concentration of power in the infrastructure space that means there isn’t really another choice: the entire stack, practically speaking, is owned by 3-4 players. 11/

In huge positive news, the Australian government just ruled out handing the work of their country’s creatives to AI companies for free 🙌 They resisted the well-funded tech lobby & shut down proposals to upend copyright law. Other governments should do the same! www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

If you're from a discipline that's unfamiliar with qualitative research, or methods like questionnaires, it may seem easy to use them, but it's not. Working with methodological experts will reduce research waste and mean you actually get useful answers to the things you want to know about.

When thinking about qualitative analysis, many think of coding by hand or software such as NVivo. However, there are many other ways. We're running a workshop working with different analytical tools combining rigour, creativity & fun. More info here: tinyurl.com/bzjpp2mk #QualAnalysis #CRMethods

Bringing Qualitative Analysis to Life: Making the most of your senses

Central Edinburgh | Thursday, 13 November • 10:00 AM

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I'm running an Edinburgh workshop this November on creative qualitative analysis, complete with art trips, chocolate tasting and emoji analysis! Details here: www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/sho... #qualitative #research #Edinburgh #training

Training course: Bringing Qualitative Analysis to Life: Making the most of your senses

Join Anuja Cabraal, Daniel Turner and Christina Silver for two days exploring creative, tactile and reflexive ways of working with qualitative materials. This workshop encourages you to go beyond rea

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With yet another university hosted event closed to 'non academics' (aka those not employed by a university)* I'm just going to leave this piece by @drhelenkara.bsky.social and myself here blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... * yes I know it's utter nonsense and academics/researchers exist outside unis

Institutional affiliation should not be a requirement for doing research - Impact of Social Sciences

Universities espouse a universalist approach to creating research-based knowledge. Helen Kara & Petra Boynton argue, from the outside these claims are hollow.

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Recent post on the blog: Help! I’m an Early Career Researcher and genAI doesn’t know who I am "Discovering that my work was being inaccurately represented by genAI was frustrating and concerning." - Tess Shirefley researchwhisperer.org/2025/05/20/h... #AcademicSky

Help! I’m an Early Career Researcher and genAI doesn’t know who I am

I’ve been a relatively slow-adopter of the genAI movement in academia. For a while now I’ve been under the (misguided?) perception that if I used genAI in any way to conduct my research, I would so…

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Good morning—some Monday morning motivation

However you define political violence, the right is responsible for more of it. The Anti-Defamation League (hardly a left-wing org) found that all “domestic extremist-related killings” in 2022 were done by right-wing extremists, the vast majority (84%) white supremacists. trib.al/SaMpxtS

I​t’s Time to Broaden Our Definition of Political Violence

In conversations about Charlie Kirk’s murder, pundits and politicians are using the term ​in troublingly narrow ways.

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A thread you can direct some action to this Monday morning. The damage the policy has done, and the mindset it encourages, is significant and ongoing. An Arts degree is good for so much more than getting a job (which it also does, contrary to popular mythology).

Michelle Arrow@michellearrow.bsky.social · last yr.

More than 100 high-profile and distinguished Australians -and BA graduates- have signed the @austhistassoc.bsky.social open letter calling for the repeal of Job-Ready Graduates: a policy that punishes humanities students with life-changing debts: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...