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David Tree

@davetree.bsky.social

Professor, Drosophilist, philosopher, poet, bacon lover, bringer of happiness to millions

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David Tree @davetree.bsky.social · last yr.

This is very good.

Charlie Warzel@cwarzel.bsky.social · last yr.

Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it

David Tree @davetree.bsky.social · last yr.

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Rhodri Marsden@rhodri.biz · last yr.

A refreshing summer cooler recipe, enjoy

David Tree @davetree.bsky.social · last yr.

This is excellent.

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · last yr.

Also talked about The Onion being inefficient on purpose. www.status.news/p/the-onion-...

What has it been like shifting from reporter to media executive, managing a staff instead of filing stories yourself? And do you write any of the jokes at The Onion? Or are you strictly managing the business?

The Onion’s process is deeply, beautifully inefficient. Every day, our writers take 150 headlines into a physical writers room in Chicago and whittle them down to maybe one or two. These people throw away the funniest sentence I will ever write in my life six times by noon every weekday.

The point of taking over this place was to preserve this process, which I learned this week is almost assuredly more rigorous than The New York Times.

That’s why I don’t touch any of it. I just try to get more people to pay attention to the output, and get our work into different mediums and new places. We brought back the paper, reinvested in the Onion News Network, bought a full page ad in The Times for something they were going to write anyway. The role is to make the world-class work they’re already doing seep into everyday American life more frequently, and that’s working.

You actually can do this, you know. You can just try to highlight the beauty of things you like and not try to vampirically extract value at every step.

If people get one thing out of this whole Q&A, I hope it’s that. You do not have to make an A.I. version of your own employees that operate at 1.5x speed but produce purely iterative garbage, especially in media and journalism. People don’t actually want that shit. Make a good, human thing and people will bend over backwards to support you. This is a valid way to run a company.

The Spaceshipper 🚀@thespaceshipper.com · 2y ago

The cool #MayTheFourth thread 😎 Nice, interesting or fun Star Wars stuff posted by probably nice people. Order 1/66

a man in a car with the words this is where the fun begins above him

ALT: a man in a car with the words this is where the fun begins above him

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David Tree @davetree.bsky.social · 2y ago

Here I take a slightly provocative approach to suggest that if an assessment in a degree programme doesn't help a student to improve in their future learning then it's a pointless dead end. Feel free to argue back!

Sandra Sinfield@danceswithcloud.bsky.social · 2y ago

#LoveLD We are delighted to share with you #Take5 #125 from David Tree - aldinhe.ac.uk/take5-125-fr... David uses the Integrated Programme Assessment (IPA) approach, making sure all assignments explicitly linked to the assessments in the previous and subsequent years. #LTHEchat #seda #studychat

David Tree @davetree.bsky.social · 2y ago

@drnickworsfold.bsky.social @joannabagniewska.com interesting approach

Scott Robeson@indianaclimate.bsky.social · 2y ago

Trying to design take-home exam questions that aren't mostly regurgitation or "explain this". Also, I don't think generative AI would know how to handle this prompt. #AcademicSky

Go to the Module that has all of the Climate Diagnostics presentations, choose one (that wasn’t yours!), and briefly summarize the key background information and takeaway messages. Then, create two Powerpoint slides that add content that you thought was missing or would improve the presentation. Paste just those two slides into your exam answer and then briefly discuss them. [5]

David Tree @davetree.bsky.social · 2y ago

I’m an eternally optimistic person who thinks with a bit of effort things will be better in the future than they were in the past but we really have to fight the forces of enshittification of life on a daily basis.

Dr Lee Fallin EdD@leefallin.bsky.social · 2y ago

“enshittification” has just been crowned Macquarie Dictionary’s word of the year, defined as follows: “The gradual deterioration of a service or product brought about by a reduction in the quality of service provided, especially of an online platform, and as a consequence of profit-seeking.”

Katharine Hubbard @katharinehubbard.bsky.social · 2y ago

My time for a starter pack! Putting together a community of #bioscience #educators #biologyeducation #bioscienceeducation - let me know who else should be on here! go.bsky.app/9Zgp5is

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David Tree @davetree.bsky.social · 2y ago

This!

Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · 2y ago

You can't save your university by cutting. That's an illusion. You can only weaken it further. See: the logic of Mr George Osborne, 2010-c.2013. Every redundancy programme in fact takes you closer to the edge. How can there still be people out there who don't realise this?

David Tree @davetree.bsky.social · 2y ago

Truth

Grace Lindsay@neurograce.bsky.social · 2y ago

When I will respond to your email

Histogram peaked at 3 minutes and 2 weeks since sent

Alejandro Montenegro @aemonten.bsky.social · 2y ago

"Unlike most of my scientific colleagues, I was not academically brilliant. I never won scholarships and would probably not have been able to attend Cambridge University if my parents had not been fairly rich" - Frederick Sanger

David Tree @davetree.bsky.social · 2y ago

I couldn’t agree more. Student evaluations of teaching are garbage.

Eiko Fried@eikofried.bsky.social · 2y ago

"Why Student Ratings of Faculty Are Unethical" Food for thought (curious what others think). #AcademicSky link.springer.com/article/10.1...