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ICYMI: This weekend, we published the @wired.com guide to digital opsec for teens (tho it applies to pretty much everyone!) We hope you and the kids in your life will read it and stay safe out there. No paywall! @lhn.bsky.social and JP Aumasson report: www.wired.com/story/digita...
The WIRED Guide to Digital Opsec for Teens
Practicing good “operations security” is essential to staying safe online. Here's a complete guide for teenagers (and anyone else) who wants to button up their digital lives.
www.wired.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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AI companies, funders, and government are all intertwined in one big heaping trillion dollar blob. Here's what it means. www.wired.com/story/ai-ind...
There Is Only One AI Company. Welcome to the Blob
As Nvidia, OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft forge partnerships and deals, the AI industry is looking more like one interconnected machine. What does that mean for all of us?
www.wired.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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This was a really fun story to write www.wired.com/story/google... also shoutout to Girls on the Run, which is an amazing organization!

@wired.com
www.gotroregon.org
Instead of an AI Health Coach, You Could Just Have Friends
I used the public preview of Fitbit’s new AI Health Coach and became both faster and noticeably weirder.
www.wired.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Welcome to the wild world of Chinese kids' smartwatches, where they socialize, date, shop, give out likes, buy likes, build bots for likes, and enter high society when they get over 800,000 likes.

Absolutely eye-opening. It's great to have Stephanie report this story in this week's Made in China.
November 21, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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📢 Call for Papers – HCC17: Combined Intelligence: Human–AI Systems in Everyday Contexts
📅 7–9 Sept 2026 | 📍 TU Wien, Vienna
Submit by 30 Jan 2026 🔗 ifiptc9.net/hcc17-2026
Conference 2026 – IFIP TC9 ICT AND SOCIETY
ifiptc9.net
November 11, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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👀ICYMI: "while most students intellectually recognise that AI dependency might reduce their critical thinking, they still develop patterns of excessive reliance."

#HigherEducation #EdTech #AcademicSky
Are we teaching students AI competence or dependence? - Impact of Social Sciences
Can you universities overcome the mismatch between current teaching and learning practices, their evaluation and the ubiquitous use of AI?
blogs.lse.ac.uk
October 24, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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"Relying on LLMs for literature summaries without independent verification could lead to the unknowing citation and perpetuation of false information."

#AcWri #SciComm
ChatGPT is blind to bad science - Impact of Social Sciences
A new study finds ChatGPT fails to take into account retraction notices across a wide range of research.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
October 26, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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On-Demand Learning in a Changing World: Philosophical, Technological, and Practical Perspectives on Workforce and Vocational Education #Springer #OpenAccess Closing date for submissions of proposals is 29 October 2025.

iasle.net/call-for-cha...
CALL FOR CHAPTERS – International Association of Smart Learning Environments
iasle.net
October 27, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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💥New: Who should control open access, the markets or the commons?

✍️ @thomasgraves.bsky.social reviews Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons (@uofmpress.bsky.social) by @samuelmoore.org

#OpenAccess #OAWeek25 #ScholComms
Who should control open access, the markets or the commons? - Impact of Social Sciences
Publishing Beyond examines the ills of a marketised system of academic publishingand outlines how commons-based approaches could be an alternative.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
October 24, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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Once in a while, LLMs turn evil—and no one quite knows why.
Why AI Breaks Bad
Once in a while, LLMs turn evil—and no one quite knows why.
wrd.cm
October 27, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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AI is changing what careers are possible for students interested in STEM subjects. WIRED spoke with five aspiring scientists to find out how they’re preparing for the future.
Are Kids Still Looking for Careers in Tech?
AI is changing what careers are possible for students interested in STEM subjects. WIRED spoke with five aspiring scientists to find out how they’re preparing for the future.
wrd.cm
October 27, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Recently published:

Boock chapter with @keithturvey.bsky.social andSerdar Abaci:

AI solutionism and the techno/human-centric remediation of agency in higher education

link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
AI Solutionism and the Techno/Human-Centric Remediation of Agency in Higher Education
In this chapter we critically examine the potential impact of new AI structures on higher education enabled by platformisation. Various actors become intermediaries with variable agency over internal ...
link.springer.com
October 16, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Another good example of the misguided convergence of human and AI mediated pedagogy that we have recently published about here bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
October 16, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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By Mark Carrigan from *Checks notes* 2023....

#AcWri #AcademicPublishing
October 16, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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Call for Chapters - "On-Demand Learning in a Changing World: Philosophical, Technological, and Practical Perspectives on Workforce and Vocational Education". Submissions close on 22 October 2025 - #openaccess #Springer iasle.net/call-for-cha...
CALL FOR CHAPTERS – International Association of Smart Learning Environments
iasle.net
October 13, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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30 years after Beijing Declaration, girls’ education has advanced, but the progress is incomplete.
133M girls remain #OutOfSchool. Women hold only 30% of higher-education leadership roles.
➡️ Explore the new #WorldEducationBlog: bit.ly/4n7MzvB
#HerEducationOurFuture
October 13, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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TC 11: Security and Privacy Protection in Information Processing Systems serves as a forum for security and privacy protection experts and others professionally active in the field.
Watch the video on TC 11 to gain more perspective on the TC and its work: www.youtube.com/watch?v=w99k...
Home
www.ifiptc11.org
October 14, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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An absolutely terrifying SCOOP from @mattburgess1.bsky.social and @agreenberg.bsky.social revealing that everything from inflight browsing data to military communications are being beamed unencrypted from satellites all the time

www.wired.com/story/satell...
Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data
With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...
www.wired.com
October 14, 2025 at 9:23 AM
The WCCE2026 has opened a Call for papers
wcce2026.org The conference will take place in South Africa.
WCCE 2026 | Empowering Education in a Connected World
wcce2026.org
October 5, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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👀 ICYMI: "While 92% of undergraduate students are using Generative AI, only 36% said they had been offered support by their university"

#AcademicSky #HigherEducation
A new academic year has begun, but UK universities are still struggling to respond to AI - Impact of Social Sciences
Mark Carrigan argues university staff are still struggling to develop coherent, contextual and disciplinary responses to AI’s impact on teaching and learning.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
October 5, 2025 at 9:30 AM
IFIP Working group 3.4 is planning to launch a new project
www.ifip-tc3.org/working-grou... on investigating the interaction and impact of Generative AI on human skills.
GAIHS Generative AI and Human Skills
Human skills in the Gen AI Environment IFIP TC3 WG3.4 is formulating a global research project on investigating the interaction and impact of Generative AI on human skills. The advances in AI have led...
www.ifip-tc3.org
September 28, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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26 September marks the first Luxembourgish Language Day.
#GEMReport data for #Luxembourg shows students who speak the language of instruction at home perform better in upper secondary education than their peers.
👉 bit.ly/4ngGqxS

#WIDE #SDG4 #EuropeanDayofLanguages
September 26, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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👀 ICYMI: "At the heart of a satisfactory conversation, the philosopher Paul Grice, specifies four maxims; Quantity~ Quality ~ Relevance [&] Manner: avoid obscurity, ambiguity, and verbosity ~ it is not unreasonable to assume that it should follow them"

#ChatGPT #AcademicSky
ChatGPT doesn’t think like a human, so why does it speak like one? - Impact of Social Sciences
Large language models like ChatGPT adopt aspects of human speech to give the impression of human intelligence. George Gaskell highlights the limits of ChatGPT’s conversational ethics, common sense…
blogs.lse.ac.uk
September 26, 2025 at 4:21 PM