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Kane Murdoch

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Higher ed misconduct investigator/ consequence courier. Former professor of cunning at Oxford University Academic integrity "thinkey and talkey man." Otherwise, dog father, record spinner, urban hillbilly. Views my own. https://www.guerillawarfare.net/

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Kane Murdoch @ccguerilla.bsky.social · Nov 11

Created an #Academicintegrity starter pack. If I've missed anyone or you'd like to be added, do holler.

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Kane Murdoch @ccguerilla.bsky.social · 15h

Freedom of speech is great hey?

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 20h

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

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standing up for what's right," student Editors-ln-Chief
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The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper.

As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.

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Judith Beyer @judithbeyer.bsky.social · 2d

#ContraAI 🤖 "The decision to equate human thought with complex machine slotting ... presupposes that human expression is only and without exception the automation of grammar, that words always and without exception determine ... when they will appear."
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What Machines Don't Know

Imagining Language Without Imagination It's important to acknowledge that Large Language Models are complex. There's an oversimplified binary in online chatter between the dismissive characterizatio...

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Kane Murdoch @ccguerilla.bsky.social · 1d

Going to this place is on the list.

Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 1d

Another shot of the famous Midnight Oil House near Burra.

Kane Murdoch @ccguerilla.bsky.social · 1d

Thankyou Claire! Safe travels to you!

Kane Murdoch @ccguerilla.bsky.social · 1d

I live to give (rhetorical punches to the face)

Kane Murdoch @ccguerilla.bsky.social · 1d

New post: "Broad, sweeping statements."

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Broad, sweeping statements

Evening all, As readers may be aware, broad, sweeping statements are a favourite rhetorical device of this blog. I'm often right, but also happy to adjust or resile my position if I'm not. The particu...

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Kelly Webb-Davies @kelwebbdavies.bsky.social · 3d

Excellent and comprehensive! I’m going to insist all educators read this.

Associate Professor Mark A. Bassett @drmarkbassett.bsky.social · 3d

Our new paper ‘Heads we win, tails you lose: AI detectors in education’ is soaring to 1,000 views in the first 48 hours.

#ai #AIinEducation #EdTech #ArtificialIntelligence #HigherEd #TeachingAndLearning #AcademicIntegrity #AIethics #Assessment #aidetectors #aidetection

doi.org/10.35542/osf...

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Kane Murdoch @ccguerilla.bsky.social · 3d

And my point is that when we have plenty of evidence that something is wrong, being misguided isn't good enough. Basically, "being misguided" becomes a cop out for "I want to do what I want without challenge."

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Kane Murdoch @ccguerilla.bsky.social · 3d

If they refuse to listen I'm under no obligation to be kind. To the contrary, I want to rhetorically poleaxe them.

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Kane Murdoch @ccguerilla.bsky.social · 4d

Any effective checks on avoidance of learning. Academics imagine they can fix this alone. They're wrong. They've been wrong for 20 years, since contract cheating arose. Academics want easy answers which don't force them to change, and I won't be providing them.

Kane Murdoch @ccguerilla.bsky.social · 4d

Reliance on AI detection, despite its manifest failings, will fuel illiteracy. Will fuel a less educated society. Will fuel ignorance, because AI detection has already failed, for the reasons put forward in the paper. It fails at what it attempts to do. Which indicates rampant usage of AI without...

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Kane Murdoch @ccguerilla.bsky.social · 4d

I don't accept that. They should understand in depth what they're doing, otherwise what they're doing is at risk of damaging society. Hard no. Educators routinely reject things they don't like, so why aren't they as critical on this issue?

Kane Murdoch @ccguerilla.bsky.social · 4d

Sadly it's behind a paywall :(
I'm just as concerned about literacy as anyone else, but it's clear that I disagree about the remedy.

Kane Murdoch @ccguerilla.bsky.social · 4d

Three cueing?

Kane Murdoch @ccguerilla.bsky.social · 4d

I would suggest that knowingan action (using AI detectors) will result in unjustified and indefensible harm to other people (students), and doing it anyway because one is "misguided" is not a defensible position.

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Kane Murdoch @ccguerilla.bsky.social · 4d

For those who support the use of AI detectors, by all means feel free to attempt a response. But please don't say "I care about my students" or I care about academic integrity" because neither of those things can be true if you believe in the efficacy of detectors. Shocking,I know, but there you are

Associate Professor Mark A. Bassett @drmarkbassett.bsky.social · 4d

The preprint of 𝙃𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙨 𝙬𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙣, 𝙩𝙖𝙞𝙡𝙨 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙡𝙤𝙨𝙚: 𝘼𝙄 𝙙𝙚𝙩𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙚𝙙𝙪𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 is now available on EdArXiv.

The paper presents a definitive academic critique of AI detectors.

doi.org/10.35542/osf...

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Kane Murdoch @ccguerilla.bsky.social · 11d

Further adventures. No, I wasn't driving the car with Wally, I was waiting for my wife to come out of a shop.

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 12d

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...

Data protection (UK GDPR)
Obtain confirmation that Anthology will continue to meet its UK GDPR Article 28 obligations as your data processor throughout the process.
Get clarification of sub processor stability (no changes planned; if changes are anticipated, please provide advance notice and details).
Confirm that no organisational changes arising from the restructuring will alter how your personal data is accessed, processed, or transferred; if any changes are envisaged, please outline controls, locations, and safeguards.

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Kane Murdoch @ccguerilla.bsky.social · 11d

Hamish has leapt into the long weekend with gusto

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benjamin @benjamino.bsky.social · 16d

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

Freya Leach’s Sky News Australia program axed after airing anti-Islam guest wearing shirt covered in bacon

Freya Fires Up night show cancelled but presenter to remain as co-host of a different program

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Dr Ingrid M @ingridm.bsky.social · 18d

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.

University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk · 26d

NEW: Oxford will be the first UK university to give all staff and students free ChatGPT Edu access, from this academic year.

ChatGPT Edu is built for education, with enhanced privacy and security.

Graphic from the University of Oxford, featuring an image of a glowing, digital brain with the text: 'Generative AI at Oxford'. Highlights that ChatGPT Edu is now available to all staff and students. Includes a link for more information: ox.ac.uk/gen-ai

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The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 18d

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

Exclusive: University sought secret KPMG staff spreadsheet

The University of Technology Sydney denied the existence of a KPMG spreadsheet ranking the research performance of academics, in breach of its EBA, until it was forced to release it.

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Kane Murdoch @ccguerilla.bsky.social · 18d

It's really sad. Although I do remember one crop with a little wonky one who couldn't walk right, but that one fought through to adulthood ahead of all its siblings

Kane Murdoch @ccguerilla.bsky.social · 18d

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)

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Kane Murdoch @ccguerilla.bsky.social · 23d

Not wrong. The flavours are increasingly similar

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