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Şule Aksoy, PhD
@kemencevisule.bsky.social
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loves science, teaching, ice cream, and Istanbul music

assistant professor of science education at SUNY Brockport
previously CUNY Graduate Center, SyracuseU & UniBogazici
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olivia.science
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues. Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA). Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe. Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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lukewaltzer.bsky.social
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What distinguishes this from previous ed tech hype cycles is that social buy-in is broad and deep, and it’s hard to see systematic and informed resistance emerging from anywhere but the academy
mattseybold.bsky.social Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · Aug 1
Over-leveraged kleptocrats are extracting value by exploiting & exacerbating the political instability & corruption.

They are using the allure of technological disruption as cover for what is simply raiding of public goods.

It is perfectly rationale & informed to want nothing to do with them.
August 1, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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gctlc.bsky.social
TLC staff and fellows have run over one hundred workshops that are now openly licensed, reusable, and remixable. Visit our Workshops Archive at cuny.is/tlc-workshops.
Workshop Archive
A Project of the Teaching & Learning Center at CUNY's Graduate Center
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May 20, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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gctlc.bsky.social
Join us for the TLC &FI Showcase and Block Party!
🗓️ May 9 | 🕒 3–5 PM | 📍 Room 3317
Explore projects, connect with our community, and celebrate with pizza, music, and good vibes! 🍕🎶
RSVP: cuny.is/tlc-fi
TLC + Futures Initiative Showcase and Block Party
Come to the Teaching and Learning Center and Futures Initiative Showcase and Block Party on May 9th , 3-5 PM, Room 3317. Schedule: TLC Projects 3-4PM Futures Initiative Projects 4-5PM Party 5 pm ...
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April 25, 2025 at 8:26 PM
kemencevisule.bsky.social
Read my colleague Jenna's blog post about social movement pedagogies: vp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2025/04/07/p...

"Social movement pedagogy reminds us that the purpose of education should be centered on freedom and liberation. What is the purpose of education for you?"

@gctlc.bsky.social
Pedagogical Lessons from Social Movements
by Jenna Queenan How do we make our classroom content and pedagogies relevant to our students’ lives and the world we live in? A variety of terms have been used in an attempt to answer this questio…
vp.commons.gc.cuny.edu
April 8, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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gctlc.bsky.social
Join the @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social Teaching and Learning Center as a TLC Fellow! Support instructors through workshops, consultations & teaching resources.

💰 $30K | 📍 In-person | 🎓 GC doctoral students (years 2-7)

📅 Deadline: April 7, 2025
🔗 More info: tlc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2025/03/03/c...
Call for TLC Fellowship Applications, 2025-2026
Announcing: TLC Fellowship Call, 2025-2026
tlc.commons.gc.cuny.edu
March 3, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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gctlc.bsky.social
On February 12, we'll host a panel discussion on "Abolition Pedagogies," featuring RaShelle Peck, Farima Pour-Khorshid, Conor (Coco) Tomas Reed, Calvin Smiley and Dave Stovall.

5-6:30pm, on Zoom.

Read more and register here:

tlc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2025/01/29/t...
Flyer for a panel on Abolition Pedagogies. It reads: Abolition Pedagogies. DISMANTLING CARCERAL LOGICS & PRACTICES WED. 5-6:30 PM FEB. 12 ON ZOOM. PANEL DISCUSSION HOSTED BY: TEACHING & LEARNING CENTER CUNY GRADUATE CENTER FEATURING: RASHELLE PECK FARIMA POUR-KHORSHID CONOR (COCO) TOMAS REED CALVIN SMILEY DAVE STOVALL REGISTER HERE: cuny.is/ ab-ped
January 30, 2025 at 4:55 PM
kemencevisule.bsky.social
I just read the reviews of my (accepted) #NARST25 proposal. The 1st review is very different from the last two. If I were the 1st reviewer, I would reject my proposal. The other 2 gave glowing reviews. Reviewing/reading reviews will always feel strange to me. We need to find better ways to do this.
November 18, 2024 at 5:46 PM