I think we can agree that AI detectors are out. But universities are ignoring the fact that faculty cannot really out-design assessments to meet the challenges of this moment. We need sustained institutional support to be the best teachers we can be, and we aren't getting it.

Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 4h ago

AI Detectors Are Out, New Assessments Are In A growing number of universities have prohibited AI detectors, arguing they are ‘unreliable’ indicators of cheating. But where does that leave faculty, who know all too well that cheating is rampant in the age of AI? https://bit.ly/4wGitF7 #EDUSky

I'm not a fan of google's AI but i learned from @faineg.bsky.social that flock cameras contain a bunch of copper and at least a couple of grams of gold, so i guess in this case only it's right to trust the ai

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4h ago

“Search ‘how much gold does a Flock camera have’ and Google’s AI Overview doesn’t even push back a little bit. Instead, it flatly asserts that a ‘Flock safety camera contains about 1 to 5 grams of gold used in its internal circuit boards and wiring.’”

this is also what your emails mostly look like when you do museum collections research

oblivion.txt@oblivion-txt.bsky.social · 5h ago

You do not have all the materials you were told to collect.

Maybe it's because I'm not US trained or employed, maybe it's that I'm in the wrong bit of the humanities, but I've published several academic books and only learned the was such a thing as a developmental editor this year. No judgement, just flagging that stuff that might seem universal isn't

Rebecca Colesworthy@rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 3d ago

reading the bookforum review of Middlemen and I expect that the scholarly publishing equivalent of the agent is the freelance developmental editor. if conglomeration drove the rise of the agent, austerity drove the rise of the latter—the editor who actually edits, helps w/ the proposal, etc.

📢PROJECT UPDATE📢 You may have seen the news that the University of Exeter, home of the wills project, has placed 500 academics at risk of redundancy. The project leader Prof. Jane Whittle & project co-investigator Dr Laura Sangha are both at risk, alongside almost all of the History department. 1/

Culture ship name generator....

Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman)@drspacejunk.bsky.social · 7h ago

Cool terms and/or writing prompts from the latest issue of Advances in Space Research: - clock offset products - vertical total electron - shocklet formation - unscented transform - intention recognition - missed thrust events - error fusion - gravity offloading 🧪 🔭 @cospar.bsky.social

surely the first miles Franklin winner from Queanbeyan. Huge congrats Omar

Novel taking on controversial palm oil industry wins $60,000 literary prize

Malaysian Australian author Omar Musa has taken out the Miles Franklin Literary Award with his second novel, Fierceland, set between Malaysian Borneo and Sydney.

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UK might not have any universities in 10 years time, but on the bright side the National Trust will have some gorgeous new ruins.

The Flinders University Archaeology Seminar Series will continue tomorrow at 3pm (ACST) with "Saints and Sceachs: A multi-method approach to exploring the cultural significance of trees through time in the Midlands of Ireland", presented by Grace Dennis-Toone teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi... /em

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Medicine. Medicine has grown by leaps and bounds. You cannot introduce vaccines that crater cancer rates, cure AIDS, and cure sickle cell, and then tell me things have only gotten worse. Also: Food. To a HUGE degree. I eat what I once considered rare treats every day, now.

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 16h ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

Students, I like semi-colons. I like em-dashes. I like all sorts of punctuation. But if you're going to use 'fancy' punctuation in assignments, learn how to use it properly. Otherwise, just stick to commas* and full-stops. *Make sure you learn a few things about using commas too.

“The Great Synagogue was built in the early 1600s in Renaissance-Baroque style. It became the center of Jewish life in Vilnius… It was ransacked and torched by the Nazis in World War II; in 1955-57 the postwar Soviet regime tore down the ruins”

Lithuania: This summer's excavations at the site of the destroyed Great Synagogue of Vilna fully exposed the huge Bimah and yielded other exciting discoveries - Jewish Heritage Europe

Archaeological excavations conducted over the past month at the site of the destroyed Great Synagogue of Vilna (Vilnius)  have fully exposed the huge central Bimah of the synagogue, decorated with a c...

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Love a sassy footnote (from Cunnington 1929 "Woodhenge", p184) (The joke here is that ogs crawford is the editor of @antiquity.ac.uk being referred to here as disagreeing with ogs crawford the author of Wessex from the Air)

Is it the cutest arrowhead I’ve ever found? Yes! Is it light, lethal and still sharp af? Also yes! Such skilled technique and artistry to make this charming killer from a single flake of volcanic stone 😍 Recovered in Tl'kemtsin / Lytton, Nlaka'pamux territory.

this can mean so many things and every one of them is bad

Jeremy Hot Wheels@kateneely.bsky.social · 20h ago

the gut-wrenching dread when you realize the American audiobook narrator is about to do An Accent

Alternatively... two of these jammed closed so they won't separate and there's a grad student with a swag, a flashlight and a thermos of coffee living in the lowest level and crawling out to get showers and meet their advisor.

alix e. harrow@alixeharrow.bsky.social · 19h ago

i don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys

i don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys

Most historical sources have never been digitized, and aren’t even accessible to AI! You still have to physically go look at them, which obviously baffles both AI boosters and university administrators slashing faculty research and travel funding.

I am not that old. In the early years of my career before i comprehensively put my foot down i would regularly find books in my work mailbox with notes from male colleagues instructing me to copy this chapter or that for them

Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman)@drspacejunk.bsky.social · 20h ago

Because admin staff were mostly women, female academics were considered equivalent. There to perform service, not to undertake intellectual work. Of course it was more complex than this, but that's the broad picture. #AcademicSky

Very first sentence is about the knapped artefacts First Nations people here made with ballast stones. Def of interest to archs!

The English Historical Review@enghistrev.bsky.social · 2d ago

New article! Matthew Evenden @arts.ubc.ca on 'Deptford Stones: London, the River Thames and the Circulation of Ballast in the Age of Sail, c.1750–c.1850' academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)

None of this is ever attempted to be understood by anti trans campaigners, or most sport federations btw. The IOC actually did work to understand this but let federations take their own tailor made approach and they just used it to politically harm trans athletes ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Sydney Bauer@sydney-bauer.com · 20h ago

When trans people bristled at policies that required time to be on hormones before being able to join elite competition it was because: -time on HRT was arbitrary -testosterone level achieved was arbitrary -maintaining testosterone levels continually is arbitrary -no one else had these restrictions

Whoever pioneered the way people market books by just a list of tropes, I should be allowed to hunt them for sport.

I used to install safety cameras, the only tech in them is a cup and a piece of string - no metal at all. There is, however, a very annoyed redback spider from Australia. We're not sure why it had to be a redback, we tried funnel webs and hunstman spiders, but only the redback worked.

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · yesterday

I have it on good authority that traffic safety cameras only contain angry bees and stale Nature Valley bars - don’t waste your time

“Here’s a radical thought: what if migration is only a problem to those who want it to be? What if we started seeing the mass movement of people less as an existential threat and more as a simple inevitability of human existence?”

Ceuta was a carnival of anti-migrant content for hateful opportunists on the right – and a lesson for the left | Jonathan Liew

It was framed as a perfect storm because nativists dearly wanted it to be. Looking on, progressives failed to meet the moment too, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

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Can confirm (it's OA)

Negotiating Migrations

As a species, we have always been mobile and migration was a habitual feature of prehistoric life. This open-access volume uses archaeological case studies main…

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Katelyn Burns@katelynburns.com · yesterday

For millennia migration was just a standard thing for humans.

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Cate Denial@cjdenial.bsky.social · yesterday

This is your annual reminder that if you inadvertently write on a whiteboard with a Sharpie, you can trace over that with a whiteboard pen and then the whole thing will come off.

Paleogenomes reveal 12 cave lion genomes spanning >100,000 years show distinct evolutionary lineages from modern lions, with unique variants and ancient gene flow. PMID:42235515, Cell 2026, @Cell https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(26)00524-6 #Medsky #Pharmsky #RNA #ASHG #ESHG 🧪

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Neon Genesis Ewangelion@ewacat.bsky.social · yesterday

More from OGS Crawford. This time, it's limericks rather than doggerel. The subject? Being editor of the journal @antiquity.ac.uk The staff of this journal (Antiquity) are accused of all kinds of iniquity but they hereby declare that the editor's chair is the seat of all moral obliquity (1/2)