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David Lundie
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Professor of Education, University of Glasgow Dumfries campus. Deputy Editor, British Journal of Religious Education. ESRC Teaching for Digital Citizenship. Templeton Bridging Culture Gaps through Empathy. #TeamRE #UofG #philosophy
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rosedwards.bsky.social
Teaching social research methods? Lots of free to access ideas for generating those lightbulb moments from @ncrm.ac.uk
Sparking ‘Aha’ Moments: A Resource for Teaching Research Methods
NCRM delivers research methods training, produces learning resources, conducts research and supports methodological innovation
www.ncrm.ac.uk
November 1, 2025 at 7:23 PM
lundieeducation.bsky.social
Someone is seriously trying to create an AI-generated encyclopedia. A comprehensive repository of non-knowledge. williampedia.com
Williampedia - The Free Encyclopedia
The free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.
williampedia.com
November 1, 2025 at 6:54 PM
lundieeducation.bsky.social
"work-conditioned housing". Seriously? It's literally just "workhouse" interspersed with some 21st century admin-speak

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...
In Utah, Trump’s Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape
www.nytimes.com
October 31, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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huwcdavies.bsky.social
Wikipedia says Shaheen is an academic. BBCQT implies you can’t trust what she says b/c she’s an ‘activist’. Someone who Wikipedia calls ‘a former academic’ who now campaigns for Reform & wants to be its first Home Secretary is an ‘academic & author’ who you can trust. Maybe they use Grokipedia now.
October 30, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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napce.bsky.social
#TheLatest

"Digital Safety for Kids: What Parents Should Know About Screen Time, Device Permissions & Parental Controls" from UK Education Blog

Read it here: https://education.clickdo.co.uk/parental-guide-to-digital-safety-for-kids/

#NAPCE #PastoralCare #Education #Schools
October 30, 2025 at 11:19 AM
lundieeducation.bsky.social
I think we under-estimate the role poorly designed targets in schooling plays in creating this situation. Governments chasing literacy and numeracy test scores that secure corporate investment create conditions that squeeze out the space for young people to develop a love of reading and learning
sketchesbyboze.bsky.social Boze the Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 18d
I think we under-estimate how many people are miserable because they have no enthusiasms, no hobbies, because they gave up reading and quit learning when school ended. It's shocking how much studying a beloved subject elevates your mood. It will transform your life.
October 27, 2025 at 9:17 AM
lundieeducation.bsky.social
"In Edinburgh and Glasgow the sun does not rise until around 09:45 BST in the second half of December.

It would leave Scottish commuters and schoolchildren making their winter morning journeys in darkness"

Why not just change school & work times?

www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...
When do the clocks go back in 2025?
Most of us will get an extra hour in bed during the last weekend of October but the nights will be noticeably darker too, as Ben Rich explains.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 24, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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irisvanrooij.bsky.social
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Exactly. And this is so self-evident, and follows from first principles, that I do not understand why people so easily believe otherwise

See also: irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...
AI slop and the destruction of knowledge
Cite as: van Rooij, I. (2025) AI slop and the destruction of knowledge. This week I was looking for info on what cognitive scientists mean when they speak of ‘domain-general’ cognition. I was curio…
irisvanrooijcogsci.com
October 11, 2025 at 8:01 AM
lundieeducation.bsky.social
How to burst the AI bubble? Wrong answers only.
A: insist on pronouncing AI "Ayyy" like Ali G. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
October 11, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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irisvanrooij.bsky.social
NEW paper! 💭🖥️

“Combining Psychology with Artificial Intelligence: What could possibly go wrong?”

— Brief review paper by @olivia.science & myself, highlighting traps to avoid when combining Psych with AI, and why this is so important. Check out our proposed way forward! 🌟💡

osf.io/preprints/ps...
Table 1 Typology of traps, how they can be avoided, and what goes wrong if not avoided. Note that all traps in a sense constitute category errors (Ryle & Tanney, 2009) and the success-to-truth inference (Guest & Martin, 2023) is an important driver in most, if not all, of the traps.
May 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
lundieeducation.bsky.social
Wonder if students could set up a server farm and mine bitcoin on one of these contracts?

Reading students claim 'unlimited' energy bills cost £2k more - BBC News www.bbc.com/news/article...
Reading students claim 'unlimited' energy bills cost £2k more
The University of Reading says students maybe unaware how much extra they pay for unlimited energy
www.bbc.com
October 2, 2025 at 12:31 PM
lundieeducation.bsky.social
Great to be here at @uniwestminster.bsky.social for Miyoung Ahn's book launch. Looking forward to working with her on a 4 nations ESRC research proposal looking at student belonging at @uofgdumfries.bsky.social among others.
October 1, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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iandunt.bsky.social
As a society, our financial system around information is insane. It is the kind of system you would create if you wanted everyone to go insane.
scientificdiscovery.dev Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · Sep 28
In general I think it's hard to combat scientific misinformation when some of the best research is locked behind an academic paywall, while lots of nonsense gets published free for everyone to read in predatory journals.
September 29, 2025 at 7:20 AM
lundieeducation.bsky.social
Long train journey to Disneyland Paris. Son: "I'm bored." Me, seizing the opportunity to add extra embarrassment to the tedious dad joke while in France: "bonjour, bored, je m'appelle papa!"
September 28, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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emma-briant.co.uk
There's a reason this generation of kids are worried, building 'resilience' isn't pointless, but you need to give them a future they don't need to worry about.
rollingstone.com Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · Sep 28
How a high-schooler's private battle with debilitating panic attacks became Project GenZen — a public push to bring tools for resilience to an entire generation.

🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
September 28, 2025 at 2:47 PM
lundieeducation.bsky.social
Remember in the 90s when anti-government protesters brought entire cities to a standstill protesting against unjust government and law enforcement actions...
ushistoryscene.com/article/the-...
www.britannica.com/event/Los-An...
a woman in a clown costume is standing in a crowd
ALT: a woman in a clown costume is standing in a crowd
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September 27, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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culhamstgabriel.bsky.social
🌟 Don't forget to sign-up to our next In Conversation event!
Featuring some of our brilliant grantees, this isn't one to miss!
Thursday 25th September at 4.30pm as part of Grants Focus Week!
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#TeamRE #TeachRE
September 16, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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timcarvell.bsky.social
A thought I keep returning to — and that’s underscored by today’s news — is that a legacy publication or a deep-pocketed investor could hire an astonishing array of talent right now and make the best newspaper in America overnight.
timcarvell.bsky.social Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · Sep 16
Well, this is fucked up and depressing.
iancasselberry.blog Ian Casselberry @iancasselberry.blog · Sep 16
Rolling Stone fired Alan Sepinwall, Status’ Oliver Darcy reports. That’s probably the end of my subscription.
September 16, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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ed3d.net
The thing that is hard to communicate is that that specific flavor of “brainrotted 4chan slug with incoherent beliefs” is also downstream of the right wing politics factories dumping glowing nuclear sludge into the river

there’s a reason nihilism has risen and it wears Rush Limbaugh’s face
September 12, 2025 at 2:34 PM
lundieeducation.bsky.social
"I'll protect Christians. No, I'm going to shake things up with this weird guy who does straight arm salutes. No, I'm going to back the establishment. No, I'm going to use the army. No, I'm not sick, look, distractions." It's like Trump is speed-running Franco's 40 year reign in the first 10 months!
September 11, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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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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samfr.bsky.social
Suspect lots of people here don't realise how big a deal Kirk was on TikTok in the UK. Twins have seen loads of videos about him (mostly him being "owned" by progressive students). Lots of chat about it already on their WhatsApps. Much more so than anything in UK politics.
September 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
lundieeducation.bsky.social
I suppose the VP thinks shootings of right wing influencers are just a "fact of life". I'm sure Charlie Kirk would have been the first to tell us this is the price Americans pay for freedom. I'm not going to say that though-every shooting is a tragedy. Every. Single. One. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
WATCH: Vance says school shootings are 'the reality we live in' at campaign rally in Phoenix
“If these psychos are going to go after our kids we’ve got to be prepared for it,” Sen. JD Vance said Thursday.
www.pbs.org
September 10, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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abeba.bsky.social
'Personalised tutoring' amounts to codifying and automating historical norms, societal stereotypes & harmful trends found in training data
Problem solving skills development in the context of practical problem-solving tasks (Bastani et al., 2025). In addition, given the reliance on historical data underlying generative AI models, they have a tendency to encode perpetual inequity in the classroom, particularly towards the historically marginalized. A recent survey, for example, found that ‘LGBTQ+ students and students that have been disciplined in the past year’ experience far more negative effects from activity monitoring compared to their peers (CDT, 2025). In fact, instead of creating an environment for learning, AI systems used for student assessment and e-proctoring have consistently automated poor pedagogical practices, creating unworkable roadblocks, especially for students at the margins (Holtermann, 2025a; Mintz et al., 2023). These themes closely align with independent audits of LLMs that have identified recurring patterns: generative AI tends to encode and exacerbate societal stereotypes, racism and otherwise discriminatory and marginalizing norms and practices (Kotek et al., 2023; Hofmann et al., 2024). There is no reason to believe that generative AI used to assess students assignments or develop ‘personalized’ tutoring can be void of these harmful and
September 7, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
Sen. Bennet to RFK Jr.: “This is not a podcast; this is the American people’s health at issue here.”
September 4, 2025 at 2:59 PM