Strong data privacy protections are critical to protecting communities from ICE. The MA Senate passed a data privacy bill in the fall. The House needs to take action. #mapoli

With a storage capacity of 36 petabytes, a DNA-based cassette tape can hold every song every recorded, and it could be on the market within five years

Latest issue of the Journal of ICT Standardization #standards journals.riverpublishers.com/index.php/JI...

WTF is this? I did not write or submit this paper. Are journals now run entirely by AIs who hallucinate entire publications? Knowledge Of Pregnant Women About The Benefits Of Pregnancy Books In Ottawa | International Journal of Health Engineering and Technology share.google/ArcgxhUDfSY9...

Denmark eyes new law to protect citizens from AI deepfakes Denmark plans to give citizens copyright over their likeness to ban and force removal of nonconsensual deepfakes (images, video or voice), targeting rising AI-generated abuse and misinformation.

In a world where artificial intelligence can replicate a person’s voice or face in seconds, Denmark is stepping forward with a groundbreaking proposal: a copyright law that grants every citizen ownership of their own likeness. If passed, this law would mean no one — not even AI companies — could...

NEW EDITION! The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 54(2) 2025, ajie.atsis.uq.edu.au/ajie/issue/v... Eds: Bronwyn Fredericks & Martin Nakata , Mg Ed: Katelyn Barney. Thank you authors & reviewers. NB: It’s online & open access. #Education #EducationForAll #EducationMatters

Yes, there’s always a “however” in public policy development… because there also needs to be an ongoing conversation. “Oversimplified” is not what the legislation is in Australia

The World Bank’s Open Data portal is becoming Data360 with integrated datasets and new analytics features. Learn More: https://data360.worldbank.org/en/about #Data #SDGs

Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it

Policymakers must recognize the open source AI ecosystem is where influence is being negotiated: not just which models exist, but which are used; not just who can train a trillion-parameter network, but who can make it deployable, modifiable, and relevant, say Lucie-Aimée Kaffee and Shayne Longpre.

World Bank’s Digital Progress & Trends 2025 report: AI impact in low- and middle-income countries depends less on frontier models and more on strong digital foundations, data, skills, and institutions. Important for those working with #AI and the #SDGs. https://ow.ly/RPf550XIxax

Australia must urgently establish even more diversified trading and security arrangements so as to be less reliant on, and exposed to, the US, writes John Hewson. satpa.pe/Gd6Ulam

'The winning content? Hyperlocal news, breaking news (as it happens), scoops, notable first-person narratives, and investigative journalism. AI can’t or won’t summarize this information because it’s too recent or too unique.' buff.ly/Q2CXrYg

Fortunate to have just been at Sera Jey Monastery in South India to celebrate my friend Lobsang being awarded a Geshe Lharampa degree after 25 years of highly focused study. #buddhism #tibet

"Unbound From Mechanical Solutions: Multidimensional Critical Thinking in #Qualitative Research" - The integrity of our outcomes & our ethical commitments to participants are built from a multifaceted immersion that is unbound from a mechanical process. bit.ly/MCThinking

Hmmm, something here seems premature. Yes, trying to learn has agency … but search also shortchanges thinking that questions. Dialog with AI can change that. This article kind of dumbs down things to a binary for another cheap headline

Studying philosophy does make people better thinkers, according to new research on more than 600,000 college grads Philosophy majors rank higher than all other majors on verbal and logical reasoning. theconversation.com/studying-phi... #philosophy #skills #thinking #PhilosophySky #philsky

“if our celebrated “free press” was, in fact, as free it claims. If it really served as a watchdog on power. If it really held the feet of the political class to the fire. If it really served as a 4th Estate. Then the politicians would have no place to hide. #Genocide #Auspol

“The free, open access communications paradigm we have did not arrive like magic. It was the product of a fair amount of political wrangling” - that's why we must continue our fight for the web. 🙏 @washingtonpost.com for reviewing 'This Is for Everyone' www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

Pleased to see our paper now published journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/TL... #SoTL #AcademicSky #AIED

Such a rich legacy … & something to consider in the adoption of AI … “We are the most intellectual species to walk the planet, but we’re not intelligent. If you’re intelligent you don’t destroy your only home.” #aied #academicSky

ANU interim vice chancellor today announced no more forced redundancies under the Renew ANU program. Cuts are ongoing, but forced redundancies are off the table. It’s been a hard slog. Harms are ongoing. There’s still more work to do. I’m so proud of my colleagues, ANU community.

Universities may face extra £25,000 bill for TEF. Office for Students estimates cost of potential government funding withdrawal amid Teaching Excellence Framework shake-up. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

Open science is more than just datasets. It's also opening access to scientific facilities and pipelines. OpenScope allows researchers from around the world to pitch experiments to be run – at not cost to them – in the Allen Brain Observatory. #OpenScienceWeek 🧠📈 youtu.be/13r9n0pSDLc?...

“Why” is powerful because it can carry ambiguous semantics. It’s a trigger for both reflection & dialogue … & a segue to explanation rather than description. The “search paradigm” was was not capable of handling it before GenAI

“ We need new open protocols and apps — a pro-democratic layer that empowers users and combats disinformation. Not only that, but to attract users, the new layer has to be much better …” #standards

Neuroscientists around the world use Brain Map to accelerate their research. 🧠📈 Explore the massive, free library of datasets, protocols, computational tools, and more at portal.brain-map.org #OpenScienceWeek

Australia opens consultation on Horizon Europe association. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-aust...

Yes!! www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Next week is #OpenScienceWeek! Here's how you can celebrate wherever you are. 🧵

We are glad to announce the publication of the 'Towards a Micro-credential Framework for the Commonwealth' report which includes the 'Commonwealth Micro-credential Framework for Lifelong Learning' - hdl.handle.net/11599/5742 #microcredentials

#aied #academicsky www.uil.unesco.org/en/articles/...

"#Qualitative Research: Prioritizing Participant’s Individuality" - Researchers owe it to their participants & to the quality of their research outcomes to consider each participant as a unique individual w/ distinctive contributions to make to the study tinyurl.com/388yjbp3

The Question is … Are you thinking? What’s left of your mind? When you surrender all that’s inner to the artificial … machine kind? Is there a question That you can ask Just now, just you? A question that is questioning such a simple task? The question is ... Will you be wise?

March for Palestine rally over Brisbane's Victoria Bridge is absolutely huge. Thank you to all Australians in Brisbane & around the country marching today against Israel’s genocide. Anyone not standing with Palestine at this point in time is clearly on the fringe. #FreePalestine

#EduSky #AcademicSky www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

Interesting insights from a prominent thought leader in the application of digital technologies in education punyamishra.com/2025/08/17/a...

everyday … another Darwin sunset

Once … there was another time,

#SDG4 #ICT4D Open call for good practices #UNESCO www.unesco.org/sdg4educatio...

"It's astonishing" - animal in India sings when sun is precisely 3.8° below horizon every dawn. Cicadas in southern India start their dawn chorus with remarkable accuracy, timing their song to a precise level of light during the pre-dawn hours. 🧪🪲 www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts...

And while all eyes are on Gaza, another horror - killing, displacement, sexual violence and famine in what some are calling the worst humanitarian crisis right now - is taking place in Sudan The Most Nihilistic Conflict on Earth -by @anneapplebaum #Sudan www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...