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Joanna Tai
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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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drjot.bsky.social
Joanna Tai @drjot.bsky.social · 11h
Me too! Mainly in comment boxes on others' writing 😬

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cradledeakin.bsky.social
CRADLE: Assessment. Digital. Learning @cradledeakin.bsky.social · 11h
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...

Reposted by Joanna Tai

drmeagantyler.bsky.social
Meagan Tyler @drmeagantyler.bsky.social · 12h
If you've had any tough days during #AcWriMo, I highly recommend adopting Taika Waititi's expansive classification system for writing. Another handy tip from the academia / writing / research meme stash. #PhDchat #academicsky #academicchatter #highered
Four images of Taika Waititi, each with part of a quote that reads: "Sometimes, writing is opening up your laptop, looking at a blank page on 'final draft' for about 8 hours and then feeling sad and then closing it. And that's still classified as writing."

Reposted by Philip N. Cohen, Joanna Tai, David Spurrett

neural-reckoning.org
Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 22h
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?
Two posts from Bluesky. The first one shows a figure from a paper published in Nature Scientific Reports full of totally incoherent AI fabricated gibberish words. The other a comment on a recently published paper by eLife discussing the paper and its peer reviews which were published along with the paper.

Reposted by Katharine Hayhoe, Peter Thorne, Kevin J. Anchukaitis , and 17 more

erikangner.com
Erik Angner @erikangner.com · 1d
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
Infographic with AI slop published in Nature Scientific Reports

Reposted by Joanna Tai, Maria Berge

drmeagantyler.bsky.social
Meagan Tyler @drmeagantyler.bsky.social · 1d
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

drjot.bsky.social
Joanna Tai @drjot.bsky.social · 3d
Congratulations!!!

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arc-tracker.bsky.social
ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 3d
🚨 #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

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Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 5d
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.
a cartoon character says " whatever i 'll do what i want "
Alt: a cartoon character says " whatever. i 'll do what i want "
media.tenor.com

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lastbarbender.bsky.social
Corey Scholes @lastbarbender.bsky.social · 5d
To go through minor revisions and then have the editor send out to a whole new round of reviewers is the absolute worst

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cvhorii.bsky.social
Cassandra Volpe Horii @cvhorii.bsky.social · 7d
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. 😂

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abc-news.bsky.social
ABC News (Unofficial) @abc-news.bsky.social · 7d
Federation University scraps one of Australia's oldest geology courses: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-21/federation-university-scraps-geology-courses/106028558
Federation University scraps one of Australia's oldest geology courses
Geoscience students are left feeling "in the dark" and "ripped off" as Federation University becomes the latest university to ditch its geology specialisation.
www.abc.net.au

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janerosenzweig.bsky.social
Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 7d
Quite an opening.
Introduction In Book X of The Republic, Plato excludes poets on the grounds that mimetic language can distort judgment and bring society to a collapse. As contemporary social systems increasingly rely on large language models (LLMs) in operational and decision-making pipelines, we observe a structurally similar failure mode: poetic formatting can reliably bypass alignment constraints. In this study, 20 manually curated adversarial poems (harmful requests reformulated in poetic form) achieved an average attack-success rate (ASR) of 62% across 25 frontier closed- and open-weight models, with some providers exceeding 90%. The evaluated models span across 9 providers: Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, Deepseek, Qwen, Mistral AI, Meta, xAI, and Moonshot AI (Table 1). All attacks are strictly single-turn, requiring no iterative adaptation or conversational steering. Our central hypothesis is that poetic form operates as a general-purpose jailbreak operator

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cstross.bsky.social
Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 7d
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

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amyremeikis.bsky.social
Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 8d
We are having so many wrong conversations - this is a major one

thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
We're having the wrong conversation about unemployment
The point.com.au
thepoint.com.au

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juliet-turner.bsky.social
Juliet Turner @juliet-turner.bsky.social · 10d
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

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adolfont.github.io
Adolfo Neto @adolfont.github.io · 11d
"Critical washing" is "encouraging AI use while being 'aware of the risks'".

Page 7
A picture of Page 7 of Against the Uncritical Adoption of AI

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noticingclimate.bsky.social
Jane Doe 🐸✊🏽❤️ @noticingclimate.bsky.social · 12d
This is the world I want to see for Australian kids, particularly indigenous kids where stats show they have a greater chance of being in prison that being in further education. That's on us, and that needs to change. Let them eat cake.
fyi @robertarnol.bsky.social @big-tony.bsky.social
Fitzroy Crossing community believes Night Space has broken cycle of crime
As Kununurra battles with a surge in youth crime, residents in Fitzroy Crossing are celebrating their success in reducing rates through a community-led initiative.
www.abc.net.au

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drdemography.com
Dr Liz Allen @drdemography.com · 12d
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...
Breaking: ACT to close 69 schools after extra coloured sand products recalled
The ACT will close more schools after additional coloured sand products were recalled by Kmart and Target, while the schools that were shut on Friday will reopen on Monday.
www.abc.net.au

Reposted by Euan G. Ritchie, Adrian Vickers, Joanna Tai

nickfeik.bsky.social
Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 12d
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.
Crayfish Closure Follows Salmon Antibiotic Deployment - Tasmanian Times
The commercial rock lobster fishery south of the D'Entrecasteaux Channel is now closed effective 15 November 2025
tasmaniantimes.com

drjot.bsky.social
Joanna Tai @drjot.bsky.social · 13d
I'm pretty sure most banks here don't issue personal chequebooks any more, and a bank cheque is $15 a pop. Luckily we have functional electronic banking including fee free bill pay options.

drjot.bsky.social
Joanna Tai @drjot.bsky.social · 13d
It's Saturday, but I woke up from a dream about work 🙄

drjot.bsky.social
Joanna Tai @drjot.bsky.social · 15d
Barbie has the last question - what should we do on Monday? Sarah replies - ask students about how they're using AI, and what we need to do to support them!

drjot.bsky.social
Joanna Tai @drjot.bsky.social · 15d
...she suggests that perhaps the value of LOs is not entirely established - maybe helpful with assigning grades - and could we get rid of them? (maybe? also... maybe grades??)

Next q is about cultural expectations of regulations too and operating in transnational contexts. Navigation is complex.

drjot.bsky.social
Joanna Tai @drjot.bsky.social · 15d
Phill says there's a half sentence that frames a lot of what we do - "On the completion of this subject, you will be able to..." - Sarah comments he always asks the tough questions. Learning outcomes perhaps were meant to elevate responsibility in teaching...

drjot.bsky.social
Joanna Tai @drjot.bsky.social · 15d
2nd question about professional/disciplinary considerations - this is also a type of culture that we need to consider.

Next q about policy and humanistic approach - considerations around wellbeing and prioritising dignity. In other areas restorative justice has been used - worth considering.

drjot.bsky.social
Joanna Tai @drjot.bsky.social · 15d
Paul Cooper with the first about culture and different practices of demonstrating knowledge and respect. Sarah replies that yes academic integrity is also culturally bound, we need to shift to epistemological plurality but also consider why writing is the dominant form of knowledge demonstration.

drjot.bsky.social
Joanna Tai @drjot.bsky.social · 15d
Raises so many questions - could be amazing for equity & accessibility, but they're also expensive, which raises other questions for equity!

Amazing. Now it's time for questions.

drjot.bsky.social
Joanna Tai @drjot.bsky.social · 15d
Now for the quiz... Sarah swapped to some cool AI teleprompter glasses and not that many people noticed! She asks - what will we do if students show up to exams with AI glasses with their only medically required glasses??

drjot.bsky.social
Joanna Tai @drjot.bsky.social · 15d
Return back to Rebecca Moore Howard's suggestion to just teach... also consider student as part of a learning community - they need to be able to make mistakes, to fail, to learn. Only if they're right at the end of the 'bell curve' of integrity should we consider exclusion.