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Joanna Tai

@drjot.bsky.social

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Higher education assessment & feedback researcher. Both kinds of doctor. Knitter and baker. Views my own, reposts are not necessarily endorsements.

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Joanna Tai @drjot.bsky.social · 8h

Two of the students I supervised returned to our doctoral group to talk about life post PhD last week (their suggestion!) and they're all doing cool things that interest them. The job market is as always a challenge, though it's got a lot worse.

Joanna Tai @drjot.bsky.social · 8h

And yes, obviously still in academia. Very lucky that things worked out so far.

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Joanna Tai @drjot.bsky.social · 8h

The department I did my PhD in doesn't exist anymore but I do occasionally do things with its successor, am on a project with my main supervisor (we work at different institutions now) & do professional society things with my 2nd supervisor.

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 10h

Now generative AI is producing new bias challenges. One is the underrepresentation of children with additional needs, which "may result in technologies that misunderstand, overlook or pathologise neurodivergent and disabled learners"
schoolsweek.co.uk/ai-bias-pose...

How AI bias could undermine inclusive education

The promise of personalised learning masks very real risks that demand careful attention from educators and policymakers

schoolsweek.co.uk

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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 11h

No, you don't work harder than a Middle Ages Peasant, and you sure as fuck are nowhere near as hardworking as the women in the Middle Ages peasantry.

acoup.blog/2025/10/10/c...

Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IVe: The No-Rest Of It

This is the fifth dish of the fourth course of our series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc, IVd) looking at the lives of pre-modern peasant farmers, who made up a majority of all of the humans who…

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 19h

Here's a rule of thumb: If "AI" seems like a good solution, you are probably both misjudging what the "AI" can do and misframing the problem.

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Comment by Tom Diettrich on a linkedin post reading:

"You can't "test-in quality" in engineering; you can't "review-in quality" in research. We need incentives for people to do better research. Our system today assumes that 75% of submitted papers are low quality, and it is probably right (I'll bet it is higher). If this were a manufacturing organization, an 75% defect rate would result in bankruptcy.

Imagine a world in which you could have an AI system check the correctness/quality of your paper. If your paper passed that bar, then it could be published (say, on arXiv). Subsequent human review could assess its importance to the field.

In such a system, authors would be incentivized to satisfy the AI system. This will lead to searching for exploits in the AI system. A possible solution is to select the AI evaluator at random from a large pool and limit the number of permitted submissions. I imagine our colleagues in mechanism design can improve on this idea."

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Joanna Tai @drjot.bsky.social · 1d

It's just a transport pass in your google wallet. But yes you have to put money on it first to use it.

Joanna Tai @drjot.bsky.social · 2d

Well, you could have tapped your phone if you had an Android device 🤷🏻‍♀️

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NTEU @nteunion.bsky.social · 2d

Are you a university staff member? Tired? Stressed? Overworked? It will only take 5-6 mins to help independent researchers shine a light on the state of wellbeing in our universities. Results will be published and responses anonymous. Please help by adding your voice: nteu.info/census

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decryption @decryption.bsky.social · 3d

wikipedia has a good page with information on how they detect signs of AI writing

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

Wikipedia:Signs of AI writing - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 3d

Each day the upper management of different unis seemingly find new ways to disappoint those of us working at universities. I love what I do, it breaks my heart what's been allowed to happen to unis in recent decades. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10... Robodebt for university academic integrity? WT!

University caught out using AI to wrongly accuse students of cheating with AI

An Australian university has accused thousands of its students of cheating with artificial intelligence. The problem? Many have done nothing wrong.

www.abc.net.au

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Sarah Schwartz @sarahschwartz.bsky.social · 4d

A letter to those who taught me my Jewishness, and who now sit on the other side of a deep chasm.

When you first heard me speak against this genocide, you heard my words as betrayal. But they were meant as love

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

When you first heard me speak against this genocide, you heard my words as betrayal. But they were meant as love | Sarah Schwartz

Not speaking would go against everything I was taught to honour: the righteous among the nations – those who refused to be bystanders to injustice

www.theguardian.com

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Joanna Tai @drjot.bsky.social · 4d

Too lazy to use a mixing bowl for tomorrow night's pizza dough, did it directly in a 1.5L plastic container. What could go wrong?

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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 5d

An oatmeal-filled jaffle made by a Melbourne food stylist and flavoured with Bundaberg Rum and bananas wins over the competition's judges in Scotland.

Australian wins with a jaffle at World Porridge Making Championship

An oatmeal-filled jaffle made by a Melbourne food stylist and flavoured with Bundaberg Rum and bananas wins over the competition's judges in Scotland.

www.abc.net.au

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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 5d

The disrespect to Sarah Krasnostein & Chloe Hooper! Literary version of Daily Mail celeb culture. 'Helen flaunted her semi-colons during Brunswick fashion week'. (Alt faulty: Guardian headline says 'Mushroom murders inspire new book by Helen Garner'.) www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

Erin Patterson mushroom murders inspire new book by Helen Garner

Co-written with Chloe Hooper and Sarah Krasnostein, The Mushroom Tapes is inspired by their experience attending the headline-grabbing trial earlier this year

www.theguardian.com

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 5d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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Dr Ingrid M @ingridm.bsky.social · 6d

Breach? Sounds like people gave their data to the government on a promise of disaster support, the government gave their data and our money to a contractor on a promise of service provision, and the contractor gave their data to a tech business on a promise of slop.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Major data breach as up to 3,000 flood victims' details loaded to ChatGPT

The NSW Reconstruction Authority says the breach occurred in March and involved the personal data of applicants to the Northern Rivers Resilient Homes Program.

www.abc.net.au

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Laura Harding @lhsyd.bsky.social · 7d

“The rent is favourable compared to Scape properties nearby, he says, but warned any new housing should not be run by a private provider…noting the building was intensely hot in summer, some kitchen appliances did not work, and the water temperature in the showers was temperamental.”

‘Can’t afford Sydney’: The uni with a problem (and a plan that might fix it)

Sydney University ranks worst in NSW for student experience. Can this plan fix it?

www.smh.com.au

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mr dog @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social · 8d

Another cartoon where I complain about technology? Yes please! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Dear computer boffins please stop trying to fix problems I don’t have | First Dog on the Moon

I don’t want AI in anything and certainly not everything please stop asking

www.theguardian.com

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Joanna Tai @drjot.bsky.social · 12d

... But now I know the bar is low for how long it takes. The bus driver is incredibly patient.

Joanna Tai @drjot.bsky.social · 12d

Bus is 10 mins late because an old man on a mobility scooter 1. Struggled to get up the ramp and onto the bus then 2. Struggled to manoeuvre the scooter into the designated bay.

It's got to be a combination of design problems - I also experienced them with getting my pram on board some buses...

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kfriel @kfriel.bsky.social · 12d

Why not just link to the blog post?

officialdavidcross.com/blogs/press/...

My Thoughts on the Riyadh Comedy Festival

I’ve been asked for my opinion on the Riyadh Comedy Festival and rather than answer the same question 23 times, I’ll just put this out here. Oh, and I should preface this with the fact that I was not ...

officialdavidcross.com

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Joanna Tai @drjot.bsky.social · 12d

Can't say I'm gatecrashing when @timbocop.bsky.social invited us all, but nice to be at the Monash learning and teaching conference, with our former DVCA Liz Johnson doing the keynote!

Liz Johnson at the lectern starting her keynote. View from the back of the auditorium

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Stu West @stuwest.com · 17d

Imagine the laughs you’ll have watching [checks notes] Jimmy Carr co-headlining with [checks notes] Louis CK at the [checks notes] Riyadh Comedy Festival

Website screenshot showing Jimmy Carr co-headlining with Louis CK at the Riyadh Comedy Festival

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Jason M. Lodge @jasonmlodge.bsky.social · 18d

TEQSA just published 'Enacting assessment reform in a time of artificial intelligence'

We describe three pathways to assessment reform:

- taking a program-wide approach
- assuring learning in every unit/subject
- implementing a combination of these approaches

www.teqsa.gov.au/guides-resou...

www.teqsa.gov.au

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ACOG @acog.org · 19d

ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. https://bit.ly/47Wxc59

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 19d

BEWARE: Surveys that allow anyone to "opt in" are vulnerable to those who create many accounts (using VPN to bypass IP limits) & use automated tools to generate bogus responses (such as saying "yes" to question about being licensed to operate nuclear submarines).
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 19d

“That’s a whole different kettle of fish” in other languages...

5. This is flour from another sack (Spanish)
4. That’s another pair of sleeves (French)
3. These are another pair of wellies (Polish)
2. That’s a cousin from a different auntie (Malay)
1. This is a different dish of cabbage (Hungarian)

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 20d

Like, the result of integrating the answer-shaped object machine is functionally indistinguishable from the university just burning down in a tragic Notre Dame accident.

Except, the longer it takes the AI bubble to pop the less anyone will want to rebuild it.

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Prof Mike Yearworth @mikeyearworth.bsky.social · 20d

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."

www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws

In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

www.computerworld.com

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