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Hey, guys, when the librarians get pissed about the destruction of books, it’s time to put those listening ears on. Because we are very comfortable with the idea that books are tools that can be retired. What’s happening right now is not that.

What does effective searching and vetting of sources look like in the modern information landscape? Welp, Allen and colleagues have theorized this by integrating models of epistemic cognition, metacognition, algorithmic awareness, and justice . Could it be more timely?!? doi.org/10.1080/0046...

Oh damn it is way worse. Turnitin was trying to make instructors *personally liable* for mistakes made by its faulty AI detector. The entire FAQ is eye-popping. If you're a journalist, download a copy and consider writing about academic surveillance software.. view-su2.highspot.com/viewer/40018...

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Anyone have a copy of Turnitin's proposed EULA changes that reportedly allowed them to train AI models on student data?

When Shel Silverstein predicted AI

Really pleased to see this new book on Feedback Practices at Work is now published - what's more it's open access. Many congrats to Liz Molloy & Dave Boud for making this possible. www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...

Feedback Practices at Work | Maximising Student Learning on Placements

Bringing together the work of experts from diverse disciplinary backgrounds, this book provides the evidence and guidance required to improve feedback practices

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Remember that meta-study of ChatGPT effects on learning that got retracted by SpringerNature recently? Here's a new paper showing why it and others like it can't be trusted due to serious issues with the underlying literature. Bluntly put, they're meta-reviews of junk science doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

What matters most for childhood brain organization? We analyzed 649 variables. The answer: Socioeconomics (SES); with brain patterns pointing at sleep & stress as drivers. Even brain-IQ associations were better explained by SES. In Science today: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Got a little angry at the end of my latest blog post. Software ate the world, and then finance ate the software industry, and now here we are. davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/new-post-6...

If human editors can’t control who reviews science, it’s no longer peer review — it’s a rubber-stamp machine designed for volume and profit, not quality. I have no intention of attaching my name to it. So I’m out.

A court in Munich declared that Google is liable for their "AI summaries" and all its hallucinations. This brings "AI" slop in line with all other products: "AI" is basically the only product where a provider can deliver unchecked garbage and put all liability on the consumer.

Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers

A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previous limited liability protections for search engine operators don't apply to AI overviews. In this case, Google's AI had falsely linked two publishers to fraud and made claims that didn't appear in any of the linked sources. The ruling could set a precedent for AI-generated content liability worldwide.

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If I hear one more university leader say they're making "tough decisions" about redundancies or worsening our employment conditions, I will scream. They are not making tough choices, they're making the easiest decisions in the world. Tough decisions would be fighting the inevitability of job losses

Since Google revealed its plans for an AI search overhaul, visits to our "No AI" search page have tripled…and they’re still rising! Want to make it your default on Chrome or Firefox? Grab our No-AI extensions and banish AI-assisted answers, chat, and AI images. (1/3)

AI is being built into hiring, housing, medicine, courts, classrooms-the institutions social science has spent more than a century studying. Social science didn't invent AI, but the social worlds AI is trained on, sold into, and reshaping-those are ours. The future of AI is a social science problem.

If big tech and edtech firms are treating schools as public testbeds and trial sites for their AI technologies, then are they going to make the data available for independent analysis? Because there are real risks here of marking their own homework.

This website visualizes social media as a room with 100 people 3 people are producing most toxic content Most people assume 43 are producing toxic content, because these 3 are hyperactive and amplified by engagement based algorithms. The other 97 quiet voices disappear thenoisyroom.com

What I wish for everybody to remember when Canvas comes back online: The reason OUR data can be held for ransom is because Instructure, their owners (KKR private equity & Dragoneer venture capital), & our own employers (see ASU Atomic) monetize it. It's Canvas that hacked education & stole our IP.

Once you've discovered the features of AI, it's time to put the technology to work and transfer your skills across domains. #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEducation #AIEdu #AIInEd #AIInEdu

IYKYK Part 4: From Knowing to Doing

So far in this series I've argued that GenAI has a discoverability problem, shared some examples that broke my own mental model, and explored how access and equity shape who gets to discover what. In this post I'll talk about what happens after discovery, because knowing that a capability exists and being able to use it are very different things...

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Student Success | Teaching AI by Doing, Not Studying A new library-based initiative at the University of Virginia embeds hands-on AI learning and workforce skills across disciplines. https://bit.ly/4tMR7f5 #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

Notion has 100 million users. For academic research, it's the wrong choice. Here's why Obsidian wins — and when Notion actually makes sense.

Notion vs Obsidian: What's the Best Note-Taking Tool for Research? - The Effortless Academic

Literature Review, AI Tools in academia, efficient note taking based on Zettelkasten

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Science for the win!

Ars Technica@arstechnica.com · 4mo ago

OK this piece by @reckless.bsky.social about why AI is unpopular among most people (anyone who's not inflicted with "software brain") is just solid gold from start to finish

The Verge@theverge.com · 4mo ago

THE PEOPLE DO NOT YEARN FOR AUTOMATION

This week patter has been reading about knowledge production as place making patthomson.net/2026/04/20/p...

placemaking and the academic writer

I’ve just read a paper about epistemic placemaking. Epistemic placemaking is equipping and arranging places for knowledge work. The paper suggests that students might actively co-design t…

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"The dumbest person you know is being told 'you are absolutely right' by an AI right now."

An important paper.

Kate Starbird@katestarbird.bsky.social · 5mo ago

This study shows that disinformation spreads, not as “false facts”, but as narratives. Compare that to how mis- and disinformation are often operationalized in the big-N quantitative and experimental research in the Nature/Science journals — that’s a major weakness in the field.

Frank Lloyd Wright exalted the individual and made ordinary life beautiful. But his life was marked by scandal and grief. An Essay by Andrew Deming

Frank Lloyd Wright as a mirror of the American condition | Aeon Essays

Frank Lloyd Wright exalted the individual and made ordinary life beautiful. But his life was marked by scandal and grief

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Ok, so I knew it would be an anger-inducing and triggering watch, but OMG. Bravo ABC Four Corners, and the brave souls that spoke out on the show. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

Campus Chaos

Four Corners is the home of Australian investigative journalism.

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"Consultancies have been accused of infiltrating universities, wasting scarce public funds on questionable advice about cutting courses and jobs, and undermining the sector's principles of public good." - www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03... thx @onslies.bsky.social for the link!

As universities cut courses, spending on consultants and contractors nears $2b

Consultancies have been accused of infiltrating universities and wasting scarce public funds on questionable advice about cutting courses and jobs.

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Tiny toot on the horn blogs.deakin.edu.au/cradle/three...

CRADLE Blog: Three new CRADLE Fellowships for 2026!

We are pleased to announce that three CRADLE Fellowships have been awarded for 2026. Congratulations and welcome to Associate Professor Katrina Clifford, Dr Colin Simpson and Associate Professor Ma…

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