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Ivo Wolsing

@ivowolsing.bsky.social

Dr | Lecturer in Medieval history @ Utrecht University | Medieval history and literature | Classical reception | East, West, and everything in between

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Ivo Wolsing@ivowolsing.bsky.social · 2w ago

Anyone else having trouble accessing online databases since last week? Seems quite a few (eg. Telma) are offline today. (Note to self: copy all relevant data into your own database while researching in the future.)

Ivo Wolsing@ivowolsing.bsky.social · 2w ago

Well this is a first: got an automated email from an academic publisher thanking me for requesting an inspection copy of a new publication. I've never heard of this publication, let alone requested a copy and I don't know who did.

Marzena Karpinska@markar.bsky.social · last mo.

Can you tell whether the #ideas in a piece of writing came from a human or an AI? As AI writing becomes common, policies on AI use focus on who came up with the ideas in the text rather than who wrote it. AI detectors answer the latter, not the former. We release #IdeaLens, a detector of AI ideas.

First page of a research paper: IDEALENS: DETECTING AI IDEAS IN LONG-FORM WRITING
Ivo Wolsing@ivowolsing.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This is really worrying: the PISA scores on high school student performance are in. Notice the steep decline across disciplines between 2018 and 2025. In the Netherlands, 40% of 15-year olds apparently can't read well enough to function in society. 40%! (Source: nos.nl/l/2630148)

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Ivo Wolsing@ivowolsing.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This is really worrying: the PISA scores on high school student performance are in. Notice the steep decline across disciplines between 2018 and 2025. In the Netherlands, 40% of 15-year olds apparently can't read well enough to function in society. 40%! (Source: nos.nl/l/2630148)

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Ivo Wolsing@ivowolsing.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Oh the joys of grading a crusades-related exam question: the amount of implicit prejudice that appears from the way answers are formulated! It seems we still have a long way to go (which is fine - they're still learning!)

Ivo Wolsing@ivowolsing.bsky.social · 9mo ago

This👇. When grading this week, I found myself wondering more than once whether the student was using AI or not, which kinda kills the joy of grading well-written papers

Rutger K. 🟥@anotheraspirin.bsky.social · 9mo ago

The thing I hate the absolute most about the proliferation of GenAI in "writing" is that I'm now being trained to become suspicious when I read a student paper that is Actually Good, instead of just celebrating its quality and congratulating the student on a Job Well Done.