Politicians doing stupid things in a vain hope to raise fertility, chapter #65,924

Look, I'm far from being your average AI fanboy, and in many fields, I believe it has a negative (not to say destructive) effect. but in academic writing - and specifically grant writing - it enables you to dedicate your time to writing real science while doing the time-consuming heaps of […]

'research data will be saved confidentially on a limited access, password-protected web folder' (i. e. We'll drop it in a shared folder on Google drive)

Did I just accidentally share the exam questions on Zoom with the entire class? stay tuned as we watch the recording to find out!

Students be like: 'in the last decade, X has happened (Smith, 1998>

Marian Baird: we know for a while now that people want more children than they actually have - and that in most countries, the ideal number is above replacement rate

The demographic crisis is not because people don't want children, it because the economic system we live in won't let them have them

Billionaires will go on and on about welfare expenditure and then spend in 11 minutes in space the lifetime welfare benefits of 1,000 people. #taxtherich #katyperry #blueorigin

Zen and the art of knowing the nationality of whoever set the day's schedule by what hour dinner is (it's 19:30 today - definitely the Spanish guy.)

I'm as critical of academia as the next guy over, but then someone pays me to travel half a continent to talk about super-nerdy stuff with other nerds, and it's totally worth it

Fictional papers in students assignment papers are the new norm in the AI era, but a paper inventing a paper and putting me as the author deserves some kind of a reward

Every Israeli Ministry of Welfare expertise document follows the same structure, except community social work - which needs a 10-page justification of its existence, whereas all other fields (mental health, children, elderly, etc) simply present their work.

There's a bunch of findings I've been mulling over forever, feeling that I have nothing interesting to say about them.
This morning I've almost reached a conclusion that I should just abandon it all and move on when BAM I finally understood what they were trying to tell me all along and […]

Just ran into yet another 'there are too many old people in the world and we can't support them' piece, so it's time for a reminder that we have enough resources to support a growing elderly population. We have the material resources* to provide them with proper housing, food, medical care etc […]

Social work becomes oppressive by focusing on issues of control that seek to justify bureaucratic aims rather than enhancing human well-being. (Lenna Domminelli)
#socialwork #antiopressivesocialwork #domminelli