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Steph Allen
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saraheaton.bsky.social
#AcademicIntegrity must evolve beyond compliance-based models toward inclusive approaches that honour neurodiversity as human variation that enriches academic communities.

#Neurodiversity and academic integrity: Toward epistemic plurality in a #postplagiarism era
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Neurodiversity and academic integrity: toward epistemic plurality in a postplagiarism era
Academic misconduct policies can disadvantage neurodivergent students through ableist assessment design, surveillance technologies, and pedagogies of forced disclosure. In this narrative review, th...
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November 17, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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hystericalblkns.bsky.social
If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
The new TOC from academia dot edu. By creating an Account with Academia.edu, you grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent for Academia.edu to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness, city, institutional affiliations, citations, mentions, publications, and areas of interest) in any manner, including for the purpose of advertising, selling, or soliciting the use or purchase of Academia.edu's Services.
September 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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bournemouthucu.bsky.social
This us. Staff experience is student experience. Cuts are a choice.

#ucu #strike #savejobs #tradeunion #picket #highereducation #studentlife #unilife #university
June 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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bournemouthucu.bsky.social
English summer picket
#bournemouthuni #stopthecuts #saveourjobs #protectouruni @ucu.org.uk @bournemouthecho.bsky.social @bournemouthuni.bsky.social
June 12, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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drtabaker.bsky.social
☔️ Solidarity rain or shine! @bournemouthucu.bsky.social
June 12, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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drjennya.bsky.social
No compulsory redundancies! Humanities teach humanity! Out on the picket line with 90 other staff @bournemouthucu.bsky.social in the sun yesterday 🌞 #UKHigherEducation crisis
June 12, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Welcome to your life…
March 24, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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benpatrickwill.bsky.social
The promise of AI in education is it will save educators time. That's rubbish. It's sapping all our time already in working groups, committees, workshops, and marking anxiety. It's the most time-sapping, exhausting and frankly boring thing I've ever encountered in HE - and it's in my research area.
March 21, 2025 at 11:51 PM
stephat.bsky.social
Thursday 6th March 2025 3 – 4pm GMT

AI detectors: At best, buying us a little time to get our act together?

Register now!
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March 5, 2025 at 5:47 PM
stephat.bsky.social
Welcome back to Dr Guy Curtis! Register here: lnkd.in/ev9WhWXx

According to SciVal, cheating and plagiarism are among the top 5% of all research topics listed in Scopus by current “prominence”.

Join us to find out more!
February 10, 2025 at 8:01 PM
stephat.bsky.social
This won the Internet yesterday. IMHO.
February 3, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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jacoates.bsky.social
Love this & highly jealous I didn't write it!

This fig in particular highlights things I've been saying & trying ot push organisations into combatting - Research culture & the many issues are directly tied to traditional publishing.

Publishing is the lynchpin in improving research culture
January 17, 2025 at 11:40 AM
stephat.bsky.social
As educators anticipate the end of the academic year, consider those facing assessments over winter break. This concise history of grading may interest you and go some way to explain the interest in AI www.researchgate.net/publication/...
December 15, 2024 at 5:29 PM
stephat.bsky.social
Scholarship scams 😬

Another gem from @saraheaton.bsky.social worth knowing about.
December 11, 2024 at 8:41 PM
stephat.bsky.social
Efforts to bring third space work to the attention of staff in HE who struggle to identify what Learning Developers do, this excellent article in today's WONKHE, well, you read it!

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Learning development should be at the heart of conversations about academic support
Ed Bickle, Ian Johnson and Steven White argue that learning development holds the key to the conversations the sector is having about academic support Ed Bickle, Ian Johnson and Steven White argue tha...
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December 6, 2024 at 10:19 AM
stephat.bsky.social
*Starts searching for the UK version*
clairefield.bsky.social Claire Field @clairefield.bsky.social · Dec 4
The @nteunion.bsky.social recently shared details on Australian university vice chancellor salaries. Here’s my analysis of how their salaries compare with undergraduate student satisfaction levels

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Chart showing vice chancellor annual salaries on one axis and on the other undergraduate student satisfaction rates for each Australian publicly-funded university. There is no relationship between the two data points - some of the universities with the lowest annual salaries have the highest levels of satisfaction and vice versa
December 4, 2024 at 8:29 AM
stephat.bsky.social
Good news for academics!
bsky.app Bluesky @bsky.app · Dec 3
Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪
altmetric.com Altmetric @altmetric.com · Dec 3
There are already many articles for which there is more attention on Bluesky than on other comparable micro-blogging sites, meaning the academic community and the general public have clearly adopted Bluesky as one of its core places to disseminate and discuss new research.

A Place of Joy.
December 4, 2024 at 8:10 AM
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saraheaton.bsky.social
The latest IJEI article is out: ’We’ share but ‘They’ cheat: student qualitative perspectives on cheating in higher education by Rowena Harper and Felicity Prentice #AcademicIntegrity
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‘We’ share but ‘They’ cheat: student qualitative perspectives on cheating in higher education - International Journal for Educational Integrity
This paper addresses the marked absence of student voices in contemporary research on academic integrity, and in doing so challenges a number of persistent ideas about cheating in higher education. We...
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December 3, 2024 at 1:59 PM
stephat.bsky.social
Yay - I'm hosting Mike Perkins and Jasper Roe as they explain how the AIAS works in educational settings and how you can apply it to your practice.
🔗 Register Here: bit.ly/3ZfDg3P or follow the QR code.
Friday 29th November 2024 10 am – 11 am UK GMT
Join us! Reserve your spot now!
From GenAI Panic to Progress: The AI Assessment Scale (AIAS)
As AI transforms education, the AI Assessment Scale (AIAS) offers a framework for ethical AI use in assessments, enhancing integrity.
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November 22, 2024 at 2:11 PM
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November 20, 2024 at 8:03 AM
stephat.bsky.social
Nights drawing in early means these two Wise Ones are going to 🛏️ earlier and earlier - 6pm duvet seems a good plan. 😍 #cats
Two cats laying on a pink duvet looking at the camera.
November 16, 2024 at 5:52 PM
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hintondm.bsky.social
#MustRead for those teaching on #PCAP / #PGCHE or interested in #Feedback literacy

‘You should not be that good in week three:’ what can Strictly Come Dancing tell us about feedback and performativity in UK education policy?

Caroline Elbra-Ramsay

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‘You should not be that good in week three:’ what can Strictly Come Dancing tell us about feedback and performativity in UK education policy? Caroline Elbra-Ramsayhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-7281-0166 Abstract The past decades have seen a plethora of TV reality talent shows emerge. The viewing population likes nothing more than seeing a ‘class’ of bakers, sewers, potters or dancers develop their skills and face the scrutiny of judges before being whittled down to a winner. The popularity of these shows says something about the national psyche but, aside from the entertainment value, may also carry conceptions of teaching, learning, assessment and feedback…
October 23, 2024 at 2:30 PM
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markrubin.bsky.social
New paper on "the practices of wage theft that often surround academic promotions, and specifically, the common requirement that someone must already be working at the level for which they are hoping to be promoted"

BSky author @troyheff.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1080/0729...

#AcademicSky #HigherEd
Higher education has a strong relationship with wage theft, which has been examined throughout years of research, reports, and government enquiries. This paper examines the practices of wage theft that often surround academic promotions, and specifically, the common requirement that someone must already be working at the level for which they are hoping to be promoted. The work uses Australia’s higher education sector as an example, as Australia’s employment and promotion conditions are similar in many aspects to other higher education sectors. The paper provides an analysis of the promotion expectations to which academics are subjected to understand what tasks academics are expected to complete, and for how long, without being paid, before they can apply for promotion. The paper demonstrates to academics, policymakers, and unions, yet another exploitative practice that must be monitored and removed from the modern university as the sector looks to engage more equitable practices.
October 18, 2024 at 6:55 PM
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saraheaton.bsky.social
Once a year I write an editorial for IJEI. Here’s this year’s editorial. #AcademicIntegrity #ArtificialIntelligence

Future-proofing integrity in the age of artificial intelligence and neurotechnology: prioritizing human rights, dignity, and equity
doi.org/10.1007/s409...
Future-proofing integrity in the age of artificial intelligence and neurotechnology: prioritizing human rights, dignity, and equity - International Journal for Educational Integrity
This article I argue for the prioritisation of human rights when developing and implementing misconduct policies. Existing approaches may be perpetuate inequities, particularly for individuals from ma...
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November 12, 2024 at 5:00 AM
stephat.bsky.social
Latest paper by @cathellis13.bsky.social and KaneMurdoch - the pyramid sets out the need for HEI to invest more in #AcademicIntegrity and apply downward pressure to improve student learning, teaching and course quality, motivation, and ethical approaches to study and beyond.
November 11, 2024 at 12:03 PM