Mirena
@marvelezza.bsky.social
Teacher (academic writing and research skills), AI skeptic, nature and art lover
https://marvellezza.blogspot.com/?m=1
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Ethical AI sounds exactly like humane murder (of the flesh you eat almost daily). It's an oxymoron however big tech marketers and AIEd evangelists are trying to present it.
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February 4, 2026 at 8:41 AM
Ethical AI sounds exactly like humane murder (of the flesh you eat almost daily). It's an oxymoron however big tech marketers and AIEd evangelists are trying to present it.
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Don’t forget to join us tomorrow, Wednesday 8-9pm GMT, for #LTHEchat, which will explore “how can we empower students to be part of a larger university ‘Learning Community?” with @cardiffrutherford.bsky.social
Read the blog post at: lthechat.com/2026/01/30/l...
Read the blog post at: lthechat.com/2026/01/30/l...
LTHEchat 352: How can we empower students to be part of a larger university ‘Learning Community’?
Join us on Bluesky for #LTHEchat on Wednesday 4th February at 8pm GMT with guest Prof Stephen Rutherford to discuss how can we empower students to be part of a larger university ‘Learning Community…
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February 3, 2026 at 3:24 PM
Don’t forget to join us tomorrow, Wednesday 8-9pm GMT, for #LTHEchat, which will explore “how can we empower students to be part of a larger university ‘Learning Community?” with @cardiffrutherford.bsky.social
Read the blog post at: lthechat.com/2026/01/30/l...
Read the blog post at: lthechat.com/2026/01/30/l...
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Join us on Bluesky for #LTHEchat on Wednesday 4th February at 8pm GMT with guest @cardiffrutherford.bsky.social to discuss how can we empower students to be part of a larger university ‘Learning Community’?
LTHEchat 352: How can we empower students to be part of a larger university ‘Learning Community’?
Join us on Bluesky for #LTHEchat on Wednesday 4th February at 8pm GMT with guest Prof Stephen Rutherford to discuss how can we empower students to be part of a larger university ‘Learning Community’? Humans are social animals; we build communities. Universities are themselves built of numerous intersecting communities, each with their own core identities – students, professional services, educators, ‘teaching and research-focused’, ‘teaching and scholarship-focused’, etc (Henkel, 2000).
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January 30, 2026 at 2:17 PM
Join us on Bluesky for #LTHEchat on Wednesday 4th February at 8pm GMT with guest @cardiffrutherford.bsky.social to discuss how can we empower students to be part of a larger university ‘Learning Community’?
A woman with small breasts can breastfeed without any problems. The size of the breasts does not matter for the successful outcome of the task.
Breasts with implants, on the other hand, have not been shown to improve breastfeeding. They only boost appearance for purposes unrelated to nurturing.
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Breasts with implants, on the other hand, have not been shown to improve breastfeeding. They only boost appearance for purposes unrelated to nurturing.
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January 22, 2026 at 5:54 AM
A woman with small breasts can breastfeed without any problems. The size of the breasts does not matter for the successful outcome of the task.
Breasts with implants, on the other hand, have not been shown to improve breastfeeding. They only boost appearance for purposes unrelated to nurturing.
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Breasts with implants, on the other hand, have not been shown to improve breastfeeding. They only boost appearance for purposes unrelated to nurturing.
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This week we will feature @hopkinsdavid.bsky.social exploring
Redundancy, Resilience, and Finding What’s Next
#LTHEchat
Redundancy, Resilience, and Finding What’s Next
#LTHEchat
LTHEchat 349: Redundancy, Resilience, and Finding What’s Next
There’s no nice way to talk about redundancy. It doesn’t arrive as a single moment, even when there is a single date attached to it. It arrives in phases: uncertainty, waiting, the conversation itself, the aftermath. For some, it’s sudden. For others, it’s drawn out and quietly exhausting. Either way, it has a way of cutting through confidence, identity, and momentum, particularly in a sector many of us entered because we believed in it.
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January 12, 2026 at 1:17 PM
This week we will feature @hopkinsdavid.bsky.social exploring
Redundancy, Resilience, and Finding What’s Next
#LTHEchat
Redundancy, Resilience, and Finding What’s Next
#LTHEchat
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Discover ways to be involved in your Association for Learning Development in Higher Education, disseminate research & keep up-to-date with LD news https://aldinhe.ac.uk/join-aldinhe-community/ways-to-get-involved-in-aldinhe #LoveLD
January 9, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Discover ways to be involved in your Association for Learning Development in Higher Education, disseminate research & keep up-to-date with LD news https://aldinhe.ac.uk/join-aldinhe-community/ways-to-get-involved-in-aldinhe #LoveLD
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I ended up drafting an email that didn't really lean on research specific to grade school education, but expressed my concerns in the most basic terms.
I removed the personal details and have shared it as a template here for folks who might find it useful:
bit.ly/TeacherEmail...
I removed the personal details and have shared it as a template here for folks who might find it useful:
bit.ly/TeacherEmail...
![Dear [TEACHER],
I want to make sure we're on the same page for the rest of the year, because I was surprised and disappointed to hear that you uploaded student projects to ChatGPT.
We have always found [SCHOOL] to be a place that encourages students to express themselves creatively, to be responsible and aware of how their actions affect others, and to be intellectually honest – doing their own work, rather than copying from others.
I know ChatGPT has been heavily marketed as an educational tool, but everything about it is the opposite of those values. AI tools are built by training models on stolen work. They have huge and terrible environmental costs, because their data centers generate enormous amounts of pollution and are cooled with drinking water. They're also incredibly dangerous: tools like ChatGPT have taught children how to start fires and even encouraged them to commit suicide.
And in a classroom setting, it teaches students that a machine can express their ideas better than they can. I told [ CHILD ] I was interested in seeing what they had to draw, and my heart sank when they told me "but I can't draw that pretty." Children deserve to draw what they imagine.
These environmental, ethical, and pedagogical concerns are why I don't want [ CHILD ] to use AI tools (or for you to use them on their behalf). For the same reasons, I respectfully ask that you stop using them in your classroom.
If you do plan to use AI this year, please send home a permission slip requesting consent. There are important privacy concerns when you upload student work into a for-profit service like ChatGPT.
Thank you,
[ PARENT ]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:c2xl6zaxo623jzbjb43urymd/bafkreiesldew7oebm4hg2gymd4cftvwmrpbdw6m7eil2buiphw7db4ror4@jpeg)
December 2, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I ended up drafting an email that didn't really lean on research specific to grade school education, but expressed my concerns in the most basic terms.
I removed the personal details and have shared it as a template here for folks who might find it useful:
bit.ly/TeacherEmail...
I removed the personal details and have shared it as a template here for folks who might find it useful:
bit.ly/TeacherEmail...
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anyone on here have expertise in yemeni poetry?
would be grateful for feedback on what i think is a quick question of terminology!!
TIA! 🙏
would be grateful for feedback on what i think is a quick question of terminology!!
TIA! 🙏
January 5, 2026 at 9:41 PM
anyone on here have expertise in yemeni poetry?
would be grateful for feedback on what i think is a quick question of terminology!!
TIA! 🙏
would be grateful for feedback on what i think is a quick question of terminology!!
TIA! 🙏
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“The goal of academic training is not to solve problems as efficiently and quickly as possible, but to develop skills for identifying and dealing with novel problems, which have never been solved before.”
Open letter, consider signing 🖊️ if you haven’t yet 🙏 openletter.earth/open-letter-...
Open letter, consider signing 🖊️ if you haven’t yet 🙏 openletter.earth/open-letter-...
Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia
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December 10, 2025 at 11:10 PM
“The goal of academic training is not to solve problems as efficiently and quickly as possible, but to develop skills for identifying and dealing with novel problems, which have never been solved before.”
Open letter, consider signing 🖊️ if you haven’t yet 🙏 openletter.earth/open-letter-...
Open letter, consider signing 🖊️ if you haven’t yet 🙏 openletter.earth/open-letter-...
It seems to me all these platforms are data harvesting spaces and we are just talking into a void. The very concept of sharing your thoughts publicly online is weird to me. You are talking to an imaginary audience who may or may not be there - a consecutive ad hoc audience
December 11, 2025 at 10:20 PM
It seems to me all these platforms are data harvesting spaces and we are just talking into a void. The very concept of sharing your thoughts publicly online is weird to me. You are talking to an imaginary audience who may or may not be there - a consecutive ad hoc audience
Indeed, cliquing is an important career advancement mechanism in academia, I established. Whilst ambition, hardworking and qualifications are highly valued, who you are socialising with, having lunch or seeing out of work matters most.
December 8, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Indeed, cliquing is an important career advancement mechanism in academia, I established. Whilst ambition, hardworking and qualifications are highly valued, who you are socialising with, having lunch or seeing out of work matters most.
I find this disturbing but the snowball has started down the hill now and there is no coming back!
#academicresearch
#academicresearch
Let me tell you a story. Perhaps you can guess where this is going... though it does have a bit of a twist.
I was poking around Google Scholar for publications about the relationship between chatbots and wellness. Oh how useful: a systematic literature review! Let's dig into the findings. 🧵
I was poking around Google Scholar for publications about the relationship between chatbots and wellness. Oh how useful: a systematic literature review! Let's dig into the findings. 🧵
December 6, 2025 at 7:05 AM
I find this disturbing but the snowball has started down the hill now and there is no coming back!
#academicresearch
#academicresearch
I don't want to be "the human in the loop"
I am out of the loop and will let others loop endlessly into algorithmic frenzy in search of their truth
#NoAI
I am out of the loop and will let others loop endlessly into algorithmic frenzy in search of their truth
#NoAI
December 2, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I don't want to be "the human in the loop"
I am out of the loop and will let others loop endlessly into algorithmic frenzy in search of their truth
#NoAI
I am out of the loop and will let others loop endlessly into algorithmic frenzy in search of their truth
#NoAI
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I belive education is about *people*.
In my latest newsletter I argue that we should be intentional in nurturing human interaction in education and resist the false promise of convenience exerted by the sadly ubiquitous GenAI.
educationalist.substack.com/p/hello-worl...
In my latest newsletter I argue that we should be intentional in nurturing human interaction in education and resist the false promise of convenience exerted by the sadly ubiquitous GenAI.
educationalist.substack.com/p/hello-worl...
"Hello, World!"... revisited
The Educationalist. By Alexandra Mihai
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December 2, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I belive education is about *people*.
In my latest newsletter I argue that we should be intentional in nurturing human interaction in education and resist the false promise of convenience exerted by the sadly ubiquitous GenAI.
educationalist.substack.com/p/hello-worl...
In my latest newsletter I argue that we should be intentional in nurturing human interaction in education and resist the false promise of convenience exerted by the sadly ubiquitous GenAI.
educationalist.substack.com/p/hello-worl...
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Looking forward to reading Rich Bales questions about evidencing effective and inclusive practice!
#lthechat
#lthechat
oin us for this week’s #LTHEchat which will explore AdvanceHE fellowship: what are the benefits for different educator roles and how can we evidence our practice? with @richbale.bsky.social on Wednesday, 8-9pm GMT. Read the blog post at: lthechat.com/2025/11/14/l...
LTHEChat 344: AdvanceHE fellowship: what are the benefits for different educator roles and how can we evidence our practice?
Join us on Bluesky with guest Rich Bale (@richbale.bsky.social) on Wednesday, 19th November 2025 at 20:00 GMT The Professional Standards Framework (PSF) and gaining professional recognition through…
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November 18, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Looking forward to reading Rich Bales questions about evidencing effective and inclusive practice!
#lthechat
#lthechat
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Maybe it's minor, maybe it's not, but there are social media posts about my scholarship that are clearly using AI-generated summaries, which COMPLETELY MISREPRESENT WHAT I HAVE WRITTEN. And because they're being shared on social media, those misrepresentations are getting magnified.
November 15, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Maybe it's minor, maybe it's not, but there are social media posts about my scholarship that are clearly using AI-generated summaries, which COMPLETELY MISREPRESENT WHAT I HAVE WRITTEN. And because they're being shared on social media, those misrepresentations are getting magnified.
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Today for the blog: If EdTech is the hero, is the teacher the villain?
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In EdTech's Hero's Journey, Is the Teacher the Villain? — Civics of Technology
Civics of Technology Announcements Next Tech Talk (NOTE THE NEW TIME): We will now be alternating our meeting time for our Tech Talks so that we can connect with different people in our community. ...
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November 2, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Today for the blog: If EdTech is the hero, is the teacher the villain?
www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/edtechs...
www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/edtechs...
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I'm delighted to share that a new, open-access 37-chapter book, titled "The Palgrave Handbook of Decolonising the Educational and Language Sciences", has been published. A chapter I co-authored in #decoloniality can be found here:
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
November 2, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I'm delighted to share that a new, open-access 37-chapter book, titled "The Palgrave Handbook of Decolonising the Educational and Language Sciences", has been published. A chapter I co-authored in #decoloniality can be found here:
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
While I assume it is possible for groups of crows to damage facilities, I doubt they are aggressive to people. My experience is they are rather cautious in the presence of humans and stay away (based on my encounters with them in Kelvingrove park, which shares grounds with Glasgow uni campus)
2- Glasgow University's fight against aggressive crows on campus
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2556355...
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2556355...
The avian nuisances causing havoc on Glasgow University's campus
The birds have been spotted on the university’s Hillhead campus, pecking at floodlights and freshly mowed grass.
www.heraldscotland.com
October 27, 2025 at 7:07 PM
While I assume it is possible for groups of crows to damage facilities, I doubt they are aggressive to people. My experience is they are rather cautious in the presence of humans and stay away (based on my encounters with them in Kelvingrove park, which shares grounds with Glasgow uni campus)
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#LoveLD - love #LTHEchat - this Wednesday, 8-9 in Blue Sky: lthechat.com/2025/10/24/l... Follow the hashtag - join the conversation - all welcome.
LTHE Chat 341: Superpowers for Level 7 Learning
Join us on Bluesky with guest Professor David T Evans @david-t-evans.bsky.social on Wednesday 29th October 2025 at 20:00 GMT Superpowers? I understand not everyone in…
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October 27, 2025 at 8:09 AM
#LoveLD - love #LTHEchat - this Wednesday, 8-9 in Blue Sky: lthechat.com/2025/10/24/l... Follow the hashtag - join the conversation - all welcome.
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I've updated my document that tackles four of the common arguments used to encourage teachers to use AI.
I hope this will be helpful to those educators wanting to push back on AI mania.
I hope this will be helpful to those educators wanting to push back on AI mania.
Resisting School AI Mania Help Sheet
Help Sheet: Resisting AI Mania in Schools K-12 educators are under increasing pressure to use—and have students use—a wide range of AI tools. (The term “AI” is used loosely here, just as it is by man...
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October 14, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I've updated my document that tackles four of the common arguments used to encourage teachers to use AI.
I hope this will be helpful to those educators wanting to push back on AI mania.
I hope this will be helpful to those educators wanting to push back on AI mania.
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Using the Six Thinking Hats is my favourite way of helping student to see a situation from different perspectives. theeddesigner.com/2024/09/05/d... #EduSky #AcademicSky #EdChat
October 8, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Using the Six Thinking Hats is my favourite way of helping student to see a situation from different perspectives. theeddesigner.com/2024/09/05/d... #EduSky #AcademicSky #EdChat
October 4, 2025 at 12:34 AM