The situation with Blackboard - now its owner is bankrupt and it's coming under new private equity ownership and control - is serious enough the UK agency for HE tech is advising all affected universities to seek assurances regarding data security inspiringlearning.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2025/10/s...

Hamish has leapt into the long weekend with gusto

If I was a legal academic I would lack the self-restraint to resist my next employment law exam featuring a Freya fired over a bacon-related workplace misdemeanour

ChatGPT Edu is built for conning education executives into subsidising and edu-washing planet-burning slop machines via non-consensual access to young people’s creativity AND DATA while attacking their ability to learn. At a university.

Exclusive: After months of denial, the University of Technology Sydney has been forced to hand over a “master excel spreadsheet ... of academic staff members that are not meeting research expectations” created by KPMG as part of a $100 million restructure. satpa.pe/cHksxbz

A new season of ducklings. Fare well little duckies (I'm always very sad when I see the number decline as they get lost, picked off by predators, or otherwise don't get to adulthood)

Wally's agility training is coming along nicely.

D really is the answer

The people who *make this tech* can't get it to work in a simple demo, and their magical thinking about it has convinced them that they didn't need to do the most basic level of preparation for their demonstration. So it is, in fact, an excellent demonstration of what genAI will do for society.

Sign the petition to sanction Israel now: www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2025/09/peti...

NEW on Wonkhe: Institutions are wary of speaking about Israel's actions in Gaza, but that silence has consequences, argues Aneeza Pervez buff.ly/pwD0yGn

Everything is bad, but books are good. Get a book. Read the book. Cherish the book. Finish the book. Tell your friends about the book, and leave a review of the book. Hold the book close. Listen to what it tells you. Do as it commands. Place it on the dread altar and let it guide your every choice.

This technology is so clearly designed to profit off cheating and struggling students--its insidious. And yet universities keep announcing how they're allowing this company into its midst, to exploit and incapacitate our students even more

I keep asking myself, if convenors are throwing in AI, as in "teaching students how to use it", what are they throwing out of their courses, and why?

Opinion: “As the scope of work expands and the stress of compliance rises, burnout is common. Many universities report high staff turnover, loss of corporate knowledge and underinvestment in training.” ✍️ Ross McLennan #highered #EduSky

Bell's departure is overdue, but this crisis is not all her fault. ‘Regulators have failed to hold universities or university councils accountable.’ - Jack Thrower australiainstitute.org.au/post/bells-d...

Agreed.

"The thing about dedicating your life to making the world a crueller, stupider, more violent place is that you might just get what you wanted."

"The trouble is thinking about universities through the lens of the balance sheet has left those in charge unable to advocate for the institutions they oversee, the staff who work there, and the students they educate in terms of their contribution to society in all of its aspects."

true story

We did something. If you're thinking AI detection is like plagiarism think again.

New post: "Stop buying magic beans, Jack." www.guerillawarfare.net/post/stop-bu...

New post: Academic words are a sick fetish. www.guerillawarfare.net/post/academi...

New post: Academic words are a sick fetish. www.guerillawarfare.net/post/academi...

Long time, no post: www.guerillawarfare.net/post/falsework

Australia’s universities have lived in perpetual crisis for so long (way before the COVID pandemic) that we’re now in terminal decline.

Let's try this headline a few different ways - "Universities have failed to protect misogynist academics, report finds" "Universities have failed to protect racist academics, report finds" "Universities have failed to protect homophobic academics, report finds" www.theguardian.com/education/20...

🚨Calling all HE professional services staff 📣 Have your say and shape what it means to be a HE professional: bit.ly/45zPyHO Whether you work in student support, HR, estates, IT, marketing, finance or anywhere in between, this is your chance to make sure your voice is heard. 🎓🗣️ #AHEP2025 #HE

Three times now I've had reviewer comments back that are SO clearly AI-generated it hurts my heart. Please don't do this. Editors, please don't do this. Can we all just please not do this

This is a must-read. Csaba Szabó, the author of Unreliable, was approached by a paper mill, and he decided to conduct a sting operation. He documented how paper mills operate. forbetterscience.com/2025/05/19/a...

That's an embarrassment. Whoever planned and wrote that should probably have some shame.

my phone keeps messaging me like "how about you delete some of these pictures of your dogs so we can install this new AI assistant update?" well how about you fuck off into the sea

i am not trolling when i say this, and i don’t think it’s controversial to believe: ceo is probably the most ai-replaceable job, given human CEO’s track records as of late along with how expensive they are.

If you’re an academic, you may not be aware how Ghislaine Maxwell’s dad ruined science… especially publishing in academia. youtu.be/JnmFTvlrsOo?...

Cash-strapped ANU splurged ~$200K for leadership to attend an exclusive conference for global elite? These people asked hardworking staff to take a pay cut. I think we can all see where the inefficiencies lie. Ego and self interest above the institution. www.afr.com/policy/healt...

Nicely said. It's beyond weird, it's horrible.

If it's wrong to attempt to bankrupt Open Ai by sending it insane prompts, I don't want to be right.

My wife is currently obsessed with Shoebill storks. Fair enough.

You’re reborn as a cartoon character. Who are you?

Your laptop stickers are a window into the soul, discuss.

Kinda wild that so many Very Serious People take the need to build data centers for AI as a given when the main use case for AI so far seems to be degrading people’s ability to read, write, think critically and connect to other human beings

Arguably (for me) the worst thing about this place is how many educators are totally on board with AI. I feel like people have suffered a mixed form of brain damage and relevance deprivation syndrome. Take a look at yourselves.

Intellectually easier to use "bad person" cognitive shortcuts than to do a systematic root cause analysis. But, comes a point when the "this isn't working" light slowly comes on.

"Study help and homework" I would bet they're using it to avoid learning. For the sake of the argument, let's not say cheating. They're avoiding learning.

I love my job as the guy who adds a fake “keep me signed in” checkbox to every website that does nothing

In 1996, my college roommate made so much money from writing papers for fellow students. She was a fine art major so didn't have many of her own papers to write, but the whole thing seemed exhausting to me.

Having a LLM or another person writing your papers feels like a victory but it is just your own defeat, you felled by your own contempt for your future and anyone who believes in you.

This will sound weird but love yourself enough to write your own term papers.