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Joanna Tai

Joanna Tai

@drjot.bsky.social

1.1K followers 560 following 780 posts

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

Education 72%

Public Health 14%

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 3d

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...

Lawrence and Haruki Embodiment and reflection - Pakistan Observer

IN the vast landscape of world literature, a few writers have explored the depths of human experience as vividly as D.H. Lawrence and Haruki

pakobserver.net

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 5d

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...

Zohran Mamdani’s Campaign Logo Looked Nothing Like a Campaign Logo

The bodega-influenced visual language of an outsider campaign.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

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."

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Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 6d

Today, Ms.Rachel accepted Glamour Magazine ‘Women of The Year’ by wearing a custom dress with drawings from children from Gaza.

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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 10d

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.

Joanna Tai @drjot.bsky.social · 11d

Oooh. I like this, public list (but only if you have a current academic appointment) and it won't let you submit again until you do two reviews 😂

Joanna Tai @drjot.bsky.social · 11d

Ahaha a social credit model for publishing? I can see that going well 😂 but also there's a sense (or used to be?) you had to get a paper accepted first before being allowed to peer review. In my deputy/associate ed roles I am thankfully mostly protected from slop...

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Ben Harris-Roxas @benhr.bsky.social · 11d

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.

Joanna Tai @drjot.bsky.social · 11d

So, it's one of those difficult problems to solve. Where do we focus our attentions? How long do we trial various initiatives before we determine if they help? At what scale does mentorship work? How can we succession plan if there are fewer people with work capacity?

Joanna Tai @drjot.bsky.social · 11d

But sectoral shifts (demanding more from academics, with less time available; publish or perish mentality; AI supposedly helping us to do more; job cuts; pathways for ECRs drying up) all impact on our interrelated functions...

Joanna Tai @drjot.bsky.social · 11d

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...

Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 11d

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?

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 11d

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

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 11d

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?

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Gerald Roche @geraldroche.bsky.social · 14d

lips

A cartoon-style midsagittal diagram of the oral cavity and its features drawn by CoPilot. The label lips is pointing to the nose.

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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 14d

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.

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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 14d

🚨 #DiscoveryProjects #DP26 announcement:

❗️Outcomes announced publicly for Discovery Projects 2026❗️

See ARC's RMS for list ➡️ rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/D...

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EARLI @earlioffice.bsky.social · 14d

🎓 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

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Martha Lincoln @heavyredaction.bsky.social · 16d

New preprint alert! 🚨

“Let Them Eat Large Language Models: Artificial Intelligence and Austerity in the Neoliberal University”

Let Them Eat Large Language Models: Artificial Intelligence and Austerity in the Neoliberal University

Martha Kenney and Martha Lincoln

Abstract
This article examines the expansion of generative artificial intelligence (genAI) into higher education. We argue that genAI’s incursion into university systems represents an effort by Silicon Valley to capture lucrative new markets for their products, as well as enhanced credibility by association. Drawing on our experience as faculty in the California State University (CSU) system—the first university system to contract with OpenAI to provide ChatGPT Edu system-wide—we assess the rhetoric that justifies and legitimizes genAI contracts in higher education. We suggest that the uncritical adoption of genAI in higher education poses problems for labor conditions, the integrity of intellectual property, and student learning on campuses, particularly under the conditions of austerity that are commonly found in public universities.

Joanna Tai @drjot.bsky.social · 18d

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.

The panel. Ashlyn Horton, president of national student union discussing voluntary student unionism

Joanna Tai @drjot.bsky.social · 18d

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

Richard Ryan on a podium at the front of a narrow long room

Slide outlining SDT and mini /spin off theories

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The Tattooed Professor @schwessinger.bsky.social · 18d

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?!.

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 18d

#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...

Lecturer in Aotearoa New Zealand History at University of Auckland, New Zealand

Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 21d

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.

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Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 21d

Seeing Murtagh's General Practice on a colleague's bookshelf today definitely gave me pause.

RIP John Murtagh, you made an immense impact. 🙏
#MedSky

Murtagh's iconic red and blue general practice textbook amidst other books on a shelf.

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Gales of November ReMar-mbered @histoftech.bsky.social · 23d

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/

PROFESSORS RESPONSE @lia #anatomy #ai #fyp #chatgpt #anatomyandphysiology

TikTok video by lia

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 24d

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...

AI-powered textbooks fail to make the grade in South Korea

South Korea’s AI learning program was rolled back after just four months following a backlash from teachers, students, and parents, underlining the challenges in embedding the technology in education.

restofworld.org

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David @daverino.bsky.social · 25d

"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-...

The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe

The Apple Calculator leaked 32GB of RAM.

techtrenches.substack.com

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 25d

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.

an outdoor blllboard There will never be a bell loud enough, a helmet strong enough, or clothing bright enough to make up for poor infrastructure. Picture of child biking in a painted bike lane

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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 25d

Inside the web infrastructure revolt over Google’s AI Overviews

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince is making sweeping changes to force Google’s hand.

arstechnica.com

Joanna Tai @drjot.bsky.social · 25d

Blargh. The hayfever is strong today.