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Stacey Henderson

@staceyhenderson.bsky.social

Associate Professor in Law, Flinders University. International law. She/her.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet@levostregc.bsky.social · 2w ago

Righte now the greatest danger to the future of universityes ys universityes. Remembir the missioun, remembir the studentes, remembir those who have come bifor and will arryve aftir, remembir teachinge and learninge and dialogue. A universitye ys much more than a corporation wearinge a mortarboard.

Dr Abeba Birhane@abeba.blacksky.app · last mo.

"Our role as academics is to protect this one institution. This is why we receive tax money; why we're basically civil servants. The role of the university is even lost on many, so bears repeating: produce knowledge and educate at the highest level. AI destroys both at their core"

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · last mo.

If useful, here's my attempt to process my feelings about how I feel sadly kinda — or rather very — sick from all this AI fascist nonsense as an academic. 😶‍🌫️ I'd be pleased if even one person finds something useful because there's something to be said for processing this all together, so, um, enjoy?

Chaucer Doth Tweet@levostregc.bsky.social · last mo.

Chatgpt ys the opposite of educacioun. It ys rustinge and dulling our skilles, draininge the knowledge from ower heades lyke sap from trees, makinge us clayme pieces of writinge as our owne when thei are the plagiarism spoor of a nastye heart-free machyne.

Luke Moffett@lukemoffett.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Use of incendiary weapons to target military objectives in civilian populated areas is prohibited given their indiscriminate effects and causing unnecessary suffering even if Israeli hasn't signed up to CCW Protocol III

Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social · 6mo ago

New from Bellingcat - New photos released by the Israeli Air Force show a bomb not previously seen in Israeli service. Analysis suggests it’s a 2,000-lb class bomb fitted with a JDAM guidance kit, with markings indicating a possible incendiary component. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...

Dr Tamsin Phillipa Paige@pagingdrpaige.bsky.social · 6mo ago

No Senator Wong the legality isn't a matter for the US and Israel to determine, it is the responsibility of the international community to speak up when blatant disregard for international law takes place. So it is absolutely a question for Australia to be addressing unless you support aggression

Guardian Australia@australia.theguardian.com · 6mo ago

Wong says legality of strikes on Iran ‘a matter for Israel and US’ as Australia sends crisis consular teams to Middle East

Dr Abeba Birhane@abeba.blacksky.app · 6mo ago

i’m tired of every paper (even critical ones) on societal impact of AI starting by both-siding the “benefits” and risks/harms of AI in academia, i would like us to arrive at a collective reckoning that we don’t need to play both sides. it's totally legit to clearly state just the harms. period

Dr Tamsin Phillipa Paige@pagingdrpaige.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Ben Saul and Don Rothwell said it better than I could. I'll also note that in my experience, Don Rothwell (who was a supervisor on my MPhil) is a very cautious speaker so for him to be so emphatic speaks volumes

Senthorun S. Raj@senthorun.bsky.social · 6mo ago

“When countries like Australia roll over and support this kind of illegal aggression, that’s the worst thing, in terms of contributing to the erosion of international law.” We need more countries (like Australia) to oppose illegal foreign wars. And solidarity with Iranians fighting for their lives.

Adil Haque@adhaque.bsky.social · 6mo ago

"Whatever happens, though, one thing is clear – that this use of force by the US and Israel is manifestly illegal. It is as plain a violation of the prohibition on the use of force in Article 2(4) of the UN Charter as one could possibly have." @ejiltalk.bsky.social www.ejiltalk.org/the-american...

The American-Israeli Strikes on Iran are (Again) Manifestly Illegal

After weeks of threats, the United States, joined by Israel, has launched military strikes against Iran. It remains to be seen whether these strikes will be fairly limited, or are the opening of an ex...

ejiltalk.org

Markus W. Gehring@mwgehring.bsky.social · 6mo ago

You guessed it but the US attack on Iran is manifestly illegal in international law. Thank you Prof Milanovic for such clear analysis in the @ejiltalk.bsky.social blog. www.ejiltalk.org/the-american...

The American-Israeli Strikes on Iran are (Again) Manifestly Illegal

After weeks of threats, the United States, joined by Israel, has launched military strikes against Iran. It remains to be seen whether these strikes will be fairly limited, or are the opening of an ex...

ejiltalk.org

Senthorun S. Raj@senthorun.bsky.social · 9mo ago

“Calculators expanded reasoning; the printing press spread knowledge. ChatGPT, by contrast, doesn’t extend cognition—it automates it, turning thinking itself into a service. Rather than democratizing learning, it privatizes the act of thinking under corporate control.” AI corrupts our learning.

AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself

Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

currentaffairs.org

BSD@davidhsiegel.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I'll say it again -- I'm on my firm's AI committee: every canned demo has had brutal, malpractice-level errors, and every live trial has required more time and care to vet the output than to just do it, like working with an unteachably incompetent associate you'd need to sit down for a Hard Talk.

Greg Jericho@grogsgamut.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Loving that AI productivity boost! "the more artificial intelligence is used within a law firm, the more lawyers are needed to vet the technology’s outputs." www.afr.com/companies/pr...

Iris van Rooij 💭@irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 10mo ago

“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”

AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education

Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.

project-syndicate.org

amy brown@amybrown.xyz · last yr.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.
Tim Stephens@proftimstephens.bsky.social · last yr.

“Figures from a classified Israeli military intelligence database indicate five out of six Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza have been civilians, an extreme rate of slaughter rarely matched in recent decades of warfare.” www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Revealed: Israeli military’s own data indicates civilian death rate of 83% in Gaza war

Figures from classified IDF database listed 8,900 named fighters as dead or probably dead in May, as overall death toll reached 53,000

theguardian.com