Dr Madeleine Pownall
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Dr Madeleine Pownall
@maddipow.bsky.social
Associate Professor. Keen bean. Writer. Pedagogy, psychology, reflexivity, open science, iced lattes. ABSENT MINDS coming May 2026📘. She/her 🌻
Oh I LOVE the sound of this. Such important work
October 28, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Reposted by Dr Madeleine Pownall
Asking researchers to be mindful of their citational practices isn't a threat to academic freedom, and it isn't censorship. It's good academic practice
October 24, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Thank you for writing/leading such an important paper. It’s inspired so much of my thinking
October 18, 2025 at 7:09 AM
I’m riled up in defence of humanness in Higher Education and there’s more I want to say but hold that thought and I’ll be back with a proper written commentary about this soon
October 18, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Inspired a lot by @ginnybraun.bsky.social, I also talked about how AI can be depriving us of learning, connection, and even (dare I say) joy. For example, what do we miss if we outsource our assessment & feedback of student work to AI? What are we depriving ourselves of? What a waste and a shame
October 18, 2025 at 3:00 AM
We also talked about how we have a duty to resist where we can and need to. There was a conversation in the Q&A about “well that’s life, universities are dehumanising, everything is metricised, what can you do” and I think we can do a lot. If we can reform science (a bit) we can reform education too
October 18, 2025 at 2:57 AM
We spoke about how humanising pedagogies (like psychological literacy) that prompt students to “bring themselves” to their learning, rather than sanitising and commodifying education through AI, can be a way to resist dehumanising systems in Higher Education
October 18, 2025 at 2:52 AM