MJ
@mikejohnson.bsky.social
Christian, made in Cymru #networkedlearning https://hanfod.NL
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@mikejohnson.bsky.social
· Dec 18
what is a like like?
November 7, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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spread Samir Zitouni’s name far and wide
November 4, 2025 at 11:24 AM
spread Samir Zitouni’s name far and wide
one of the best things about #AllSaintsDay is the complete lack of commercialisation (unless you're in Lourdes or such).
November 1, 2025 at 10:54 AM
one of the best things about #AllSaintsDay is the complete lack of commercialisation (unless you're in Lourdes or such).
(bit early but...) #HappyAllSaintsDay to all who celebrate www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQSL...
For All the Saints
YouTube video by Martijn de Groot
www.youtube.com
October 31, 2025 at 5:49 PM
(bit early but...) #HappyAllSaintsDay to all who celebrate www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQSL...
driving Roath to Dinas Powys 🫨
train - way to go 🏴
train - way to go 🏴
October 24, 2025 at 2:08 PM
driving Roath to Dinas Powys 🫨
train - way to go 🏴
train - way to go 🏴
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Hi Olivia, we usually never publish in anything other than Dutch (well, Flemish, as is mentioned in the comments). But... we did just create an English version of the piece! You can read (and share it) here: apache.be/2025/10/24/b...
Belgian AI scientists resist the use of AI in academia
Several AI scientists have published an open letter calling for a ban on AI use by students.
apache.be
October 24, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Hi Olivia, we usually never publish in anything other than Dutch (well, Flemish, as is mentioned in the comments). But... we did just create an English version of the piece! You can read (and share it) here: apache.be/2025/10/24/b...
jobs search bit of an eyeopener... what does it say about the way we undervalue educational interventions when this job is worth just over living wage educators.wales/job/21382
Youth Tutor (Merthyr Tydfil) | Educators wales
A careers, training and recruitment portal for educators and aspiring educators in Wales.
educators.wales
October 21, 2025 at 9:04 AM
jobs search bit of an eyeopener... what does it say about the way we undervalue educational interventions when this job is worth just over living wage educators.wales/job/21382
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"In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests." www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a... (archive: archive.ph/Y6855)
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
www.project-syndicate.org
October 18, 2025 at 6:30 PM
"In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests." www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a... (archive: archive.ph/Y6855)
October 17, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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🚨⏳ Act now! You have until 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟑, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 to prevent Microsoft from using your LinkedIn data to train AI.
You're opted in automatically, unless you take action and turn it off.
You're opted in automatically, unless you take action and turn it off.
October 17, 2025 at 10:16 AM
🚨⏳ Act now! You have until 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟑, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 to prevent Microsoft from using your LinkedIn data to train AI.
You're opted in automatically, unless you take action and turn it off.
You're opted in automatically, unless you take action and turn it off.
one of those, why is this even news, especially headline news. Unless we are seeing the dawn of an era when items that are blindingly obvious common sense automatically grabs the daily top spot #cardiff
In Washington, D.C., annual vehicle registrations cost 7x more for the heaviest cars than for the lightest ones.
A City Fights Back Against Heavyweight Cars
Oversized pickups and SUVs are exacting a deadly toll on urban streets. Here’s how one US city plans to push back.
www.bloomberg.com
October 16, 2025 at 9:36 PM
one of those, why is this even news, especially headline news. Unless we are seeing the dawn of an era when items that are blindingly obvious common sense automatically grabs the daily top spot #cardiff
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“Some business tycoon in London benefits from the conflict in South Sudan – but again I was the one pushed away, told I don’t belong here, that I’m ruining your country, while your weapons and bombs destroyed my home and my livelihood.”
October 14, 2025 at 10:33 AM
“Some business tycoon in London benefits from the conflict in South Sudan – but again I was the one pushed away, told I don’t belong here, that I’m ruining your country, while your weapons and bombs destroyed my home and my livelihood.”
not just us then... www.theguardian.com/environment/...
October 13, 2025 at 7:50 AM
not just us then... www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‼️NEW: Universities have tried to axe over 15,000 staff this year.
Yet the vice-chancellors responsible are paying themselves more than ever before.
We’re balloting to save higher education.
Our GS @drjogrady.bsky.social broke the story on BBC Today this morning👇
Yet the vice-chancellors responsible are paying themselves more than ever before.
We’re balloting to save higher education.
Our GS @drjogrady.bsky.social broke the story on BBC Today this morning👇
October 10, 2025 at 8:23 AM
‼️NEW: Universities have tried to axe over 15,000 staff this year.
Yet the vice-chancellors responsible are paying themselves more than ever before.
We’re balloting to save higher education.
Our GS @drjogrady.bsky.social broke the story on BBC Today this morning👇
Yet the vice-chancellors responsible are paying themselves more than ever before.
We’re balloting to save higher education.
Our GS @drjogrady.bsky.social broke the story on BBC Today this morning👇
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Can you help us boost this signal? UTS colleagues are doing a governance project to talk back to the consultant led 'reform' of their university.
Please repost!! UTS people please have your say!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Please repost!! UTS people please have your say!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
UTS Governance Project Survey: A Staff-Led Collaborative Project
The UTS Governance Project is an independent, staff-led initiative to strengthen transparency, accountability and participation in how our university is run.
Inspired by the ANU Governance Project, ...
docs.google.com
October 7, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Can you help us boost this signal? UTS colleagues are doing a governance project to talk back to the consultant led 'reform' of their university.
Please repost!! UTS people please have your say!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Please repost!! UTS people please have your say!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Dewch i weld yr arddangosfa - mae'r stori am Ddeiseb Heddwch Menywod Cymru yn un anhygoel BBC Cymru Fyw - Arddangosfa barhaol i ddathlu Deiseb Heddwch Menywod Cymru
www.bbc.com/cymrufyw/ert... a gallwch chwilio'r deiseb ar-lein ar www.llyfrgell.cymru/deisebheddwch #heddwch #hanesmenywod
www.bbc.com/cymrufyw/ert... a gallwch chwilio'r deiseb ar-lein ar www.llyfrgell.cymru/deisebheddwch #heddwch #hanesmenywod
Arddangosfa barhaol i ddathlu Deiseb Heddwch Menywod Cymru
Deiseb a gafodd ei harwyddo gan 400,000 o fenywod o Gymru, yn yr ymdrech i greu byd heb ryfel, yn cael cartref parhaol yn y Llyfrgell Genedlaethol.
www.bbc.com
October 4, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Dewch i weld yr arddangosfa - mae'r stori am Ddeiseb Heddwch Menywod Cymru yn un anhygoel BBC Cymru Fyw - Arddangosfa barhaol i ddathlu Deiseb Heddwch Menywod Cymru
www.bbc.com/cymrufyw/ert... a gallwch chwilio'r deiseb ar-lein ar www.llyfrgell.cymru/deisebheddwch #heddwch #hanesmenywod
www.bbc.com/cymrufyw/ert... a gallwch chwilio'r deiseb ar-lein ar www.llyfrgell.cymru/deisebheddwch #heddwch #hanesmenywod
thanks for highlighting this situation @theguardian.com @madifinlay.bsky.social if only those billions had been ploughed back into science instead of super yaughts #publishorperish #academicpublishing
www.theguardian.com/science/audi...
www.theguardian.com/science/audi...
Fraud, AI slop and huge profits: is science publishing broken? – podcast
Scientists warn academic publishing needs reform in order to retain trust in research system. Ian Sample talks to Madeleine Finlay and Dr Mark Hanson proposes potential solutions
www.theguardian.com
October 2, 2025 at 8:00 AM
thanks for highlighting this situation @theguardian.com @madifinlay.bsky.social if only those billions had been ploughed back into science instead of super yaughts #publishorperish #academicpublishing
www.theguardian.com/science/audi...
www.theguardian.com/science/audi...
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As exercise, you could give them the principles (see section 4 in the paper) and let them think it through.
You may additionally find this blogpost helpful irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2022/12/29/a...
You may additionally find this blogpost helpful irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2022/12/29/a...
Against automated plagiarism
Cite as: van Rooij, I. (2022) Against automated plagiarism. I’ve been asked, in various roles1, to give my opinion on the challenges posed by Large Language Models (LLMs)2, also known as R…
irisvanrooijcogsci.com
September 27, 2025 at 8:05 AM
As exercise, you could give them the principles (see section 4 in the paper) and let them think it through.
You may additionally find this blogpost helpful irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2022/12/29/a...
You may additionally find this blogpost helpful irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2022/12/29/a...
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I should think there’s a good overlap of interests with #NetworkedLearning @nlcc.bsky.social ?
This year, #socmedhe25 will be coming to Lancaster University, on 16th December! The call for papers/session proposals is now open at socmedhe25.wordpress.com/2025/07/16/c... - please submit abstracts by *24th October*
Hope you can join us - see you in December!
Hope you can join us - see you in December!
Call for session proposals
This year, we are delighted to host the 11th international Social Media for Learning in Higher Education conference at Lancaster University, co-chaired by Dr Katy Jordan and Dr Kathy Chandler. The …
socmedhe25.wordpress.com
September 27, 2025 at 10:19 AM
I should think there’s a good overlap of interests with #NetworkedLearning @nlcc.bsky.social ?