When I first tried to generate images of health professionals they all came out male, white, in lab coats with stethoscopes around their necks. 😬 || theeddesigner.com/2024/12/19/t...

Didn't we just say the other day that we think a January premiere for Starfleet Academy is likely?

Boom!

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#StarTrek #AllStarTrek #Starfleet

Between the dog and the robin, trying to clear up the garden, plant the new plants and around 200 spring bulbs is challenging. If I move a pot, the dog must sniff it and boop me, then the robin must inspect for tasty bugs.

Just made the mistake of reading the comments section of a newspaper article 🤔😱🤬🤷‍♀️

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

If anyone wants some numbers on this: a study I led found that ~70% of chemistry YouTube channels are geared towards revision/learning, and that the creators largely do not clearly state their own professional background/qualifications.
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If anyone thinks for a minute that the scale of job losses in HE has been carried out in a way doesn't breach students' legal right to get what they were promised, I have a bridge to sell them

"Four in 10 English universities are now believed to be in financial deficit, according to the Office for Students."
#HigherEd www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A6 I'm going to build in a 'useful thing' on the first slide of each session to remind students of something - a resource, an event - that might help. #LTHEchat

That's what desktop wall paper is for! #LTHEchat

How do we support staff and students in establishing boundaries that are 'just' boundaries and not raising barriers to greater belonging and other factors that positively impact mental wellbeing? #LTHEchat

A5 definitely images from nature if the 'real thing' is not accessible (I'm far too far from the coast here). #LTHEchat

Good point! But let's not replace actual people with AI service management systems...#LTHEchat

Magic fairy dust academic time... #LTHEchat

So much this. So many students apologise for being humans with big messy complex lives and feelings. Full disclosure: I do have one class session that's mostly designed to frustrate students to make a key point around decision making , and I get ranted at by half the room in that #LTHEchat

It always feels more friendly to direct students to named people rather than role email accounts or web-based query submission forms. I get why they increase efficiency but...sigh...there's something other than be said for personal interaction #LTHEchat

Have you seen the one that Mind has? www.mind.org.uk/media/lbahso... We're planning to use it across our school, debating whether to extend to students #LTHEchat

A4 some examples of approaches that others take that work - we all need ideas grounded in evidence. And the awareness that our students are not us and may value different things around work-life balance (Academics aren't exactly great role models for that) #LTHEchat

Thanks! Using class time for formative is great - I've seen too many approaches where things were converted to formative but remain deadlines to be completed in students study time #LTHEchat

A3 we might also consider the idea that 'the staff experience is the student experience' and one key way of embedding mental wellbeing may be to ensure the staff are broadly OK. #LTHEchat

A3 I've tried to look at student workload to move assessments into less busy periods like the first six weeks of semester, tried to offer greater flexibility around deadlines and modes of completing assessment. I guess indirectly those support mental wellbeing #LTHEchat

That's really interesting. Does it reduce the overall number of things to do (formative + summative)? And does the scaffolding offset the higher stakes summative assessment? #LTHEchat

I've been trying to stagger my module intro this year to 'just in time' info rather than the 'front load it all in week 1 and expect them to remember' approach. Contemplating a 'useful thing of the week' to keep it going throughout the module but worried I'm. just repeating stuff. #LTHEchat