Aargh. It's the first time this year past Jo has dropped the ball on planning ahead for presentations. Got one on Monday but my slides aren't done and it's already almost 5:30 on Friday afternoon 😅

Honestly, the great thing about AI is it’s going to free up so much spare time for us to be misinformed and out of work.

I have done so much writing this year. So. Much. #academicsky #resdevmemes #acwri

The reality of uncertainty: Dr Nicole Crawford shares her reflections and key takeaways from our last seminar of 2025, where Prof Margaret Bearman discussed the role that feedback cultures play in improving #feedback. Read Nicole's thoughts here: blogs.deakin.edu.au/cradle/the-r...

Nature Sci Rep publishes incoherent AI slop. eLife publishes a paper which the reviewers didn't agree with, making all the comments and responses public with thoughtful commentary. One of these journals got delisted by Web of Science for quality concerns from not doing peer review. Guess which one?

This banger from the academia / writing / research meme stash definitely has wider applicability but I do really like using it for coaching, mentoring, and workshop activities when we talk about the importance of saying 'no' to things as researchers. #academicchatter #academicsky #PhDchat

🚨 #DECRA #DE26 announcement: ❗️Outcomes announced publicly for Discovery Early Career Researcher Award 2026❗️ See ARC's RMS for list ➡️ https://rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/Download/Report/a3f6be6e-33f7-4fb5-98a6-7526aaa184cf/285 /bot

We are having so many wrong conversations - this is a major one thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...

I reckon that should be banned. It's quite striking how much regulation surrounds authorship conduct (ICJME authorship criteria, can't submit to more than one place at a time, must declare AI etc) but almost none for what the reciprocal conduct of editors should be.

To go through minor revisions and then have the editor send out to a whole new round of reviewers is the absolute worst

There are those of us who have been saying that the best preparation for "prompt engineering" is likely to learn how to read, write, and think and, well, here you go.

Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..." https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1

The audience of educational developers at #POD25 cheered at @edufuturist.bsky.social ‘s comment that the only known solution to “the cheating problem” with AI is to “rethink assessment top to bottom.” Apparently, that’s not the usual response. 😂

More Australian university shitfuckery.

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

"Critical washing" is "encouraging AI use while being 'aware of the risks'". Page 7

More Canberra school to be closed over asbestos fears. But for the life of me I can’t find out which ones! Be better ACT education OMG. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Lobster fishery off Bruny Island in TAS closed on eve of the opening of fishing season due to antibiotic use by the salmon farms. No indication of how long for. Must be a devastating blow for fishermen approaching Xmas.

THIS is how youth crime should be tackled. Kids don't need curfews, youth detention, tougher sentences, withdrawal of pill testing etc. They need a safe night-time place where they can get a meal- possibly their only meal all day- with support and conversation and good near-peer role models.

It's Saturday, but I woke up from a dream about work 🙄

Is anyone even on Bluesky? Worth blooting Sarah's keynote for the Deakin Teaching & Learning Conference? #DeakinTLC

But they’re too young for social media…make it make sense www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

We're looking for a Lecturer in Technology Enhanced Learning to contribute to our PhD in E-Research and TEL for 12 months. Please share: hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Never read him. Never wrote about him. "Murakami, conversely, has faced accusations of emotional detachment and circular storytelling. Yet, writer Rebecca Solnit defends his approach...." Did AI write this? pakobserver.net/lawrence-and...

In particular Aneesh Bhoopathy, from the design coop Forge, who designed the identity. A brilliant reminder to *employ human creatives!* www.curbed.com/article/zohr...

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

QUEEN

If you're in Melbourne tonight, come along, it's going to be a lot of fun! Please spread the word! Tickets: www.eventfinda.com.au/2025/the-pee... Use code REVIEWER2 for 50% off the ticket price.

Before COVID that figure was more like 6-8. People need to slow down, submit less crap, contribute to peer review. If you don’t there should be stigma and censure. The system is broken but so are the hard-working volunteers who are papering over its cracks.

Just attended an editorial board meeting today where we discussed about our responsibilities towards the field in terms of assuring quality through mentoring/education and supporting under-represented groups to publish...

So I'll have 100+ papers to desk review tmrw 😔 It's not all AI, though publisher says that's a likely contributor. But I don't fully understand what else is driving this crazy increase - or what to do before journals collapse under the strain

Logged in to ScholarOne for the journal I co-edit and jfc we had as many submissions in 2 weeks as we used to receive in 6 months 😱 Just so you understand why journal desk rejects these days give no feedback - we just can't at this wild volume. Is it the same for other journals and editors?

New preprint alert! 🚨 “Let Them Eat Large Language Models: Artificial Intelligence and Austerity in the Neoliberal University”

The CEO said the following at the ACSD event in Canberra (paraphrasing): New schemes are with the minister to be progressed to completion hence they cannot promise a timeline. ARC expects a transition period of up to 3 years. Current Schemes will likely be phased out gradually?!.

Note that the success rate above (47.3%) is for the full applications only. The real success rate for #DP26 is 12.9% because 4063 EOIs were submitted. Of those, 1127 were shortlisted & invited to submit full apps. 1111 ended up being submitted.

🚨 #DiscoveryProjects #DP26 announcement: ❗️Outcomes announced publicly for Discovery Projects 2026❗️ See ARC's RMS for list ➡️ rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/D... /bot

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🎓 Join CRADLE for their final seminar of 2025! Explore insights from a five-year study on feedback cultures in surgical and intensive care training — uncovering strategies to enhance feedback even in challenging contexts. 🗓️ Tuesday 11 November 2025 More info: bit.ly/4qurYEo @cradledeakin.bsky.social

Wow. Blast from the past. Ashlyn Horton talking about voluntary student unionism and how in 2005 the legislation passed. Things have been pretty shite from student service support perspective since then.

Pretty effin cool. Keynote from Richard Ryan, of SDT fame, at the National Symposium on Student Experience & Wellbeing in Higher & Education!

#jobfairy the short deadline suggests they may have someone in mind for this role already, but icymi Univ. of Auckland seeks a historian of Aotearoa New Zealand for a permanent position: deadline 31 Oct. 🗃️ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPD267/l...

The illusion of reasoning does not need any further empirical investigation. If you are interested in what happens when people are exposed to LLMs positioned as agents, then the study needs to look at what happens when people are exposed to LLMs positioned as agents. >>

Seeing Murtagh's General Practice on a colleague's bookshelf today definitely gave me pause. RIP John Murtagh, you made an immense impact. 🙏 #MedSky

Vale Professor Murtagh

This woman is in a nursing program & the entire textbook for her anatomy class is wrong because it was written by a professor who used chatgpt to generate the images & possibly the text. She complained to the prof, then the university— they’ve done NOTHING about it. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTM5T3CxW/

South Korea pushed AI hard in schools. The national program was aborted within months, following massive pushback from students, parents and teachers, after a fortune had already been spent by both the government and education publishers restofworld.org/2025/south-k...

"living through the greatest software quality crisis in computing history. A Calculator leaks 32GB of RAM. AI assistants delete production databases. Companies spend $364b to avoid fixing fundamental problems.This isn't sustainable.Physics doesn't negotiate" techtrenches.substack.com/p/the-great-...

Enough. Awesome to see this billboard up in Vancouver. Was really incredible to work with the people at @visionzerovancouver.ca to bring this to life.

This is an excellent précis about the controversy over Google’s ‘AI overviews’ and how Cloudflare has done some back end work to level the playing field for news organizations. A must read this morning.

Blargh. The hayfever is strong today.