Jamie Gilmour
@jamiegilmour.bsky.social
Greater Manchester resident, planetary scientist, European, Dysgwr Cymraeg.
"Use caution" means be careful, but "Use alarm" doesn't mean be alarmed.
November 24, 2025 at 8:21 AM
"Use caution" means be careful, but "Use alarm" doesn't mean be alarmed.
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Elon Musk is Stevenage
November 20, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Elon Musk is Stevenage
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Why do fascists dream of electric people?
October 25, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Why do fascists dream of electric people?
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Caerffili this morning…
a man with a beard is holding a stick and a sword and says you shall not pass .
ALT: a man with a beard is holding a stick and a sword and says you shall not pass .
media.tenor.com
October 24, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Caerffili this morning…
AI slop - "the human centipede of content". There's an image that will stick with me.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
Robin Williams’ daughter Zelda hits out at AI-generated videos of her dead father: ‘stop doing this to him’
Film-maker tells the public to stop sending her videos, saying: ‘You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings’
www.theguardian.com
October 7, 2025 at 7:02 AM
AI slop - "the human centipede of content". There's an image that will stick with me.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
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Say it often, say it loud:
"Overall, research has not supported the common-sense presumption that digital approaches to schooling are better than non-digital alternatives. At the broadest level, widespread computer use in education has been found to be associated with lower student achievement."
"Overall, research has not supported the common-sense presumption that digital approaches to schooling are better than non-digital alternatives. At the broadest level, widespread computer use in education has been found to be associated with lower student achievement."
Fit for Purpose? How Today’s Commercial Digital Platforms Subvert Key Goals of Public Education
Digital educational platforms have become ubiquitous in American classrooms, with tools like Google Workspace for Education, Kahoot!, Zearn, Khan Academy, and many others now structuring curriculum, i...
nepc.colorado.edu
September 29, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Say it often, say it loud:
"Overall, research has not supported the common-sense presumption that digital approaches to schooling are better than non-digital alternatives. At the broadest level, widespread computer use in education has been found to be associated with lower student achievement."
"Overall, research has not supported the common-sense presumption that digital approaches to schooling are better than non-digital alternatives. At the broadest level, widespread computer use in education has been found to be associated with lower student achievement."
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I am delighted to announce that my new paper with @darrenmacey.bsky.social is now published, entitled 'All sizzle, no steak: AI tools are not able to act as credible knowledge brokers by summarising evidence in mathematics education'
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June 9, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I am delighted to announce that my new paper with @darrenmacey.bsky.social is now published, entitled 'All sizzle, no steak: AI tools are not able to act as credible knowledge brokers by summarising evidence in mathematics education'
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For me, the bigger problem is that assessment focussed pedagogy has created a system where AI could do the marking. "Tell me whether this answer uses the following phrases...".
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Teachers can use AI to save time on marking, new guidance says
For the first time teachers in England are receiving guidelines on how they should and shouldn't use AI.
www.bbc.co.uk
June 10, 2025 at 7:05 AM
For me, the bigger problem is that assessment focussed pedagogy has created a system where AI could do the marking. "Tell me whether this answer uses the following phrases...".
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Progress: if your car has keyless entry, you're advised to buy a Faraday pouch and a steering wheel lock with a key.
May 21, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Progress: if your car has keyless entry, you're advised to buy a Faraday pouch and a steering wheel lock with a key.
It strikes me increasingly often that lots of problems in Higher Education come from the tacit idea that we are teaching people how to pass the assessment.
May 21, 2025 at 9:46 AM
It strikes me increasingly often that lots of problems in Higher Education come from the tacit idea that we are teaching people how to pass the assessment.
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My latest piece goes out either Monday or Tuesday next week, it's called "The Era of the Business Idiot." I believe our society is in the thrall of middle management, and it's turned our economy into a series of symbolic gestures between people that don't really know what's going on.
Wheresyoured.at
Wheresyoured.at
May 16, 2025 at 2:15 AM
My latest piece goes out either Monday or Tuesday next week, it's called "The Era of the Business Idiot." I believe our society is in the thrall of middle management, and it's turned our economy into a series of symbolic gestures between people that don't really know what's going on.
Wheresyoured.at
Wheresyoured.at
Who thinks it's a good idea to have forms that you can't read to the end of before you start completing them? (I'm looking at you, the designers and users of Microsoft Forms)
February 27, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Who thinks it's a good idea to have forms that you can't read to the end of before you start completing them? (I'm looking at you, the designers and users of Microsoft Forms)
The urge to micromanage is strong at all levels in UK academia.
I thought that performance review via the REF was the price we paid for QR funding. Ex ante *plus* ex post evaluation seems like a lot www.timeshighereducation.com/news/univers...
February 18, 2025 at 9:41 AM
The urge to micromanage is strong at all levels in UK academia.
"Mainlined into veins" like a noxious substance people become addicted to causing personal and societal harm; is that the image they were going for? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘Mainlined into UK’s veins’: Labour announces huge public rollout of AI
Plans to make UK world leader in AI sector include opening access to NHS and other public data
www.theguardian.com
January 13, 2025 at 8:40 AM
"Mainlined into veins" like a noxious substance people become addicted to causing personal and societal harm; is that the image they were going for? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
I'm pleased to see that a number of UK Unis have stopped using those "are they in the top 5, 10, 20, 50%" for various vague qualities in requests for graduate student references.
January 11, 2025 at 10:01 AM
I'm pleased to see that a number of UK Unis have stopped using those "are they in the top 5, 10, 20, 50%" for various vague qualities in requests for graduate student references.
Is "agility" always a good thing in an organisation, or is there sometimes a benefit to a more "lumbering" approach.
January 10, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Is "agility" always a good thing in an organisation, or is there sometimes a benefit to a more "lumbering" approach.
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why are these evaluations used in hiring, promotion or tenure files?
They have no statistical value as assessments and they are actively discriminatory against anyone not a cis able-bodied white man.
How many more papers like this do we need to stop using them?
They have no statistical value as assessments and they are actively discriminatory against anyone not a cis able-bodied white man.
How many more papers like this do we need to stop using them?
"even when controlling for specific components of the same evaluation surveys, students tend to give lower overall ratings to female instructors...RateMyProfessors’s overall quality ratings have a greater influence on course enrollment than official evaluations" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Gender Gap in Teaching Evaluations and its Effect on Course Enrollments
The disparity in teaching evaluations between male and female instructors is well documented. This paper demonstrates that, even when controlling for …
www.sciencedirect.com
December 27, 2024 at 12:28 PM
why are these evaluations used in hiring, promotion or tenure files?
They have no statistical value as assessments and they are actively discriminatory against anyone not a cis able-bodied white man.
How many more papers like this do we need to stop using them?
They have no statistical value as assessments and they are actively discriminatory against anyone not a cis able-bodied white man.
How many more papers like this do we need to stop using them?
@michaelgoodier.bsky.social. Nice article. It would be interesting to add stats about the percentage of Northern trains that run at lower capacity than timetabled. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
Train passengers in Britain still facing record number of cancellations
Figure reached 4% in 12 months to 9 November, analysis shows, double the rate recorded in 2015
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2024 at 12:31 AM
@michaelgoodier.bsky.social. Nice article. It would be interesting to add stats about the percentage of Northern trains that run at lower capacity than timetabled. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
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You should donate to Wikipedia. It may eventually be the only way news gets out.
https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-takes-aim-wikipedia-fund-raising-editing-political-woke-2005742
https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-takes-aim-wikipedia-fund-raising-editing-political-woke-2005742
Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia
The billionaire has become one of the most prominent supporters of President-elect Donald Trump.
www.newsweek.com
December 25, 2024 at 11:33 AM
You should donate to Wikipedia. It may eventually be the only way news gets out.
https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-takes-aim-wikipedia-fund-raising-editing-political-woke-2005742
https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-takes-aim-wikipedia-fund-raising-editing-political-woke-2005742
After three years of Latin at school I still have to rely on Google to produce "tenens margaritas arcte".
December 22, 2024 at 2:00 PM
After three years of Latin at school I still have to rely on Google to produce "tenens margaritas arcte".
Or, turn them off. "AI-powered notification summaries ... help reduce the interruptions caused by ongoing notifications" www.bbc.com/news/article...
BBC complains to Apple over misleading shooting headline
Apple's new artificial intelligence features falsely made it seem the BBC reported Luigi Mangione had shot himself.
www.bbc.com
December 14, 2024 at 12:04 AM
Or, turn them off. "AI-powered notification summaries ... help reduce the interruptions caused by ongoing notifications" www.bbc.com/news/article...
Two warning signs of assessment centred pedagogy: It's tacitly assumed that feedback only occurs in response to an assessment; the purpose of feedback is seen as helping people do better in the next assessment.
December 13, 2024 at 9:30 AM
Two warning signs of assessment centred pedagogy: It's tacitly assumed that feedback only occurs in response to an assessment; the purpose of feedback is seen as helping people do better in the next assessment.
I think the issue with outcomes based learning in HE is that it becomes assessment focussed learning. "Will this be on the test" becomes the central question of education.
December 9, 2024 at 9:34 AM
I think the issue with outcomes based learning in HE is that it becomes assessment focussed learning. "Will this be on the test" becomes the central question of education.