'when AI generates summaries, students bypass the cognitive engagement required to actively interpret academic work. It is precisely this engagement – the effort to comprehend, synthesise and relate ideas – that catalyses learning.' 1/3

AI risks undermining the heart of higher education

If students don’t make the effort to comprehend, synthesise and relate ideas for themselves, they will miss out on meaningful academic growth, says Zahid Naz

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🚨 We've had 300+ signatures in under 24 hours — incredible. 🙌Let’s try to get to 600 by tomorrow. Every signature helps build pressure for parliamentary scrutiny and media coverage. Please sign + RT if you can + send to channels this oldie doesn't understand. Thank you so, so much💥

Dr Jay Watts@shrinkatlarge.bsky.social · last yr.

We’ve over 100 signatures in the first few hours of our healthcare providers’ letter against disability cuts — including doctors, psychologists, nurses, social workers, paramedics, OTs, carers & disabled claimants. Professionals, please sign its evidenced! tinyurl.com/4vav3vnv #WelfareNotWarfare 1/2

Is there any survey platforms besides Qualtrics that have the following qualities? ✅ Easy to use; doesn't require much programming skills ✅ Accommodate multiple users ✅ Cheaper than Qualtrics 😅 Please RT for reach. I am asking for alternatives that are more friendly to low/middle income countries.

Excuse me for focusing on mental health claimants for a moment but 23% of PIP recipients with psychotic disorders as primary condition would lose eligibility if the evil 4+ rule goes through. This is incredibly dangerous. Another important FOI, this time from Benefits & Work.

I wrote this 12 years ago about the absurdity of the government *deliberately* seeking to reduce UK exports and growth. After Brexit and Trump, it makes even less sense. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The UK should be open for business to foreign students | Jonathan Portes

Jonathan Portes: If education exports are worth £15bn to the economy, why is the government trying to shut the doors on overseas students?

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🚨🚨 This is beyond-wit non-sensical horseshit from this Lab official proposing some conspiracy-like idea on the meaning of a #customsunion. Another reminder why Labour has a very long way to travel on their thinking on #brexit which is getting increasingly disattached from their electorate.👇

Duncan Robinson@duncanrobinson.bsky.social · last yr.

Absolutely batshit quote in @patrickmaguire.bsky.social must-read column on Labour’s thinking about The Current Events

One week to go until our Spring Concert! Tickets available on our website (linked in bio) 💐 🎶 ☀️

A point not made enough: the UK runs a trade goods deficit with the US so shouldn’t be paying any tariffs at all based on the White House formula (10% is not a “win”).

Psychology and education-minded people in the UK! We're hiring a Research Fellow to join my team at the NIoT. Looking for PhD grads with strong quant skills 📈, and an appetite for doing research with real impact for schools, teachers, and children 📚🧑🏽‍🏫. Deadline April 20. niot.org.uk/careers/rese...

Research Fellow, National Institute of Teaching

In this role you will work in the NIoT’s research team making a tangible and immediate impact on teaching practices.

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One of the biggest problems with this AI bullshit when it comes to education is how it makes people think the final output is the only thing that matters when in reality the actual work you input of reading, thinking, synthesizing ideas & writing the paper/taking the test is how you actually learn.

Fancy getting a new efficient, heating system for free? We're looking for homeowners with electric heating and smart meters to join our research project (note we are looking for quite a select target group - so please pass on to anyone you think might fit the bill/benefit).

The Living Lab

The Living Lab is a network of volunteers from all around the UK, who help researchers understand how real people use energy in real-life settings.

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It is time to abandon student evaluations of teaching Comment by Gordon Hodson (@gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social) Web: go.nature.com/4jfAzXo PDF: rdcu.be/ef9y5

Trump's 3/27 executive order targets the Smithsonian for advancing "the view that race is not a biological reality but a social construct." Trump argues that the exhibit's statement, below, is unscientific. He's wrong. As a biology professor and population geneticist, I agree with every word of it.

LAST CALL FOR #REMEMBEREDMUMS Please could I have any late mothers in by 8 pm tonight (Saturday 29th), so I can finalise the list and get it printed out for first thing tomorrow, cheers. DMs open until 8 pm. x

Ian Martin@ianmartin.bsky.social · 2y ago

Mothering Sunday next week. I'll be reading out the names of our #RememberedMums in church on the morning of Sunday March 30th. If you'd like to add your late mother's name, let me know. It can be oddly comforting to know her name will be typed out and said aloud once again. Reposts welcome. ❤️ 👑

Excellent critique of childhood development interventions: "The privileged of Global North & South can find solace in the idea they have little responsibility for inequality. If bad childcare & poor brain development are major contributing factors to poverty, then it's parents’ job to overcome it"

The problem with parenting interventions in the Global South | Aeon Essays

Early childhood development interventions in the Global South is a huge industry built on highly questionable assumptions

aeon.co

Let’s just remind ourselves of the alternative trade deals the UK is signing up to… 0.08% growth by 2038 from the CPTPP trade deal. Against a 4% long term loss from Brexit. We need to stop pretending this isn’t ruinous stupidity.

'Moomins' creator Tove Jansson illustrated both the Swedish and Finnish editions of J. R. R. Tolkien's classic book 'The Hobbit' in the 1960s #womensart

The @jrct.bsky.social - a relatively radical York based grant making foundation - is looking for new trustees micro.green-park.co.uk/jrct-trustees/

Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust

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Support a local choral society! Tickets available for our Spring Concert - www.eghamchoral.org/tickets/ Raising money for rare disease charity actionforat.org Action for A-T

🚨🚨Again, easy to forget in current turbulent times but #brexit is still a devastating shitshow with nearly pitless misery. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Brexit has created a ‘mind blowing’ 2billion extra pieces paperwork

Liberal Democrats call on Sir Keir Starmer to negotiate a bespoke UK-EU customs union to free businesses from excessive red tape

independent.co.uk

www.gov.uk/government/c... The consultation on the Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper is open until 30th June. Now is the time to have your say and stand up for those who need support the most! 👇 #DisabilityRights #BenefitsJustice #StandUpForJustice

Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper

This consultation seeks views on the approaches government should consider around reform of the health and disability benefits system and employment support.

gov.uk

We are once more again seeing the distortion created by who has access to media. Numerous columns from or about people earning "only" £150k on the horror of private school VAT but barely anything from the hundreds of thousands at risk from genuine deprivation via PIP changes.

Mike Brewer@mikebrewerecon.bsky.social · 2y ago

Genuinely confused why everyone (i.e. some people in Westminster bubble) is aghast at the idea of a freeze to PIP rates but fairly chill at the idea of preventing c600,000 people being entitled to PIP in the first place, which will save far more money (i.e. be a larger cut to household incomes).

*Please repost* Are you a parent of a child aged between 13-24 years? Are you concerned about young people’s social media usage? We are looking for young people aged 13-24 years to take part in a new project to help understand how we can support their mental health whilst online. Read more ⬇️

🚨🚨 Brave contender for speech of the year. Every word of it rings true to me. Claude Malhuret is a proper role model for European politicians in these chaotic and existential times for Europe. Take 8 minutes of your time and listen carefully. It is worth it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIK9...

Speech againt Trump, by french senator, Claude Malhuret. ( English subtitles )

YouTube video by Alain Cazes

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Opportunity cost aside, what would such a study look like? If observational, what would it add to Denmark's study of *every child born in the entire country from 1999-2010*, which found slightly more autism in non-MMR recipients? If randomized, how long would kids be randomized to no vaccine(s)?

Measles, Mumps, Rubella Vaccination and Autism: A Nationwide Cohort Study: Annals of Internal Medicine: Vol 170, No 8

Background: The hypothesized link between the measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism continues to cause concern and challenge vaccine uptake. Objective: To evaluate whether the MMR vaccine i...

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Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2y ago

The CDC is reportedly planning a large study into potential connections between vaccines and autism, "despite extensive scientific research that has disproven or failed to find evidence of such links"

THREAD The Wonderful World of Wikipedia (WWW) If you are of a certain age, Wikipedia has been a constant in your life. It was not always so. Here is a pre-history, a history and potential future of the world's great shared book that we all read and write. Also why is it called "Wikipedia"? 1/30

ProPublica looked into science grants that Ted Cruz's team flagged as "radical" and "neo-Marxist" and, uh. This would be good comedy if it didn't matter so much www.propublica.org/article/ted-...

i've written a blog post about why I think we should reject generative AI in the university: languagemechanics.neocities.org/no-gen-ai

Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈@ninamarkl.bsky.social · 2y ago

apropos of recent posts, I was invited to give a talk to my faculty about "social impacts of AI" on Monday and I have decided to stop being coy about it

He did not bend his neck

Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her)@moudhy.bsky.social · 2y ago

“Do not bend your neck for that which cuts necks.” A Sumerian proverb, as relevant today as it was thousands of years ago.

Measuring cardiac interoceptive accuracy is hard in adults, let alone in infants! Such fun turning my brain to this alongside the wonderful Rosie Donaghy, Matteo Lisi and Jeanne Shinskey. Our musings on possible ways forward now accepted in psychophysiology: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

(PDF) Measuring cardiac interoceptive accuracy in infancy: lessons from the adult literature

PDF | Models of interoception, the processing of internal bodily signals, highlight infancy as a key period for interoceptive learning. Given the... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ...

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