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Sadia Ali
@sadia25.bsky.social
Educator, student, miniaturist, Secular Buddhist, amateur photographer, painter of the whirling dervishes. Not necessarily in that order everyday.
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How a human-centred approach to embedding GenAI ensures the tool enhances human reasoning, rather than replacing it, institution-wide: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/university-blueprint-teaching-genai #HigherEd #AcademicSky #EduSky
A university blueprint for teaching with GenAI
How a human-centred approach to embedding GenAI ensures the tool enhances human reasoning, rather than replacing it, institution-wide
www.timeshighereducation.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Winter graduation 2025
December 2, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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#Neurodivergent students often experience heightened anxiety when #GenAI expectations vary across courses. Here’s how to design more consistent guidance: https://ow.ly/BTvR50XvVhf #HigherEd #AcademicSky #EduSky
Why clear GenAI guidance matters to neurodivergent students. And how to get it right
Neurodivergent students often experience heightened anxiety when GenAI expectations vary across courses. Here’s how to design more consistent guidance
ow.ly
November 22, 2025 at 11:30 AM
SERA 2025 Conference at the University of Aberdeen.
November 23, 2025 at 11:17 PM
The sound of learning in silence: culturally responsive teaching for Chinese students in UK higher education www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Leading Anti-racism at Glasgow City Chambers on October 23, 2025
October 31, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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When delivered with stagecraft, a lecture can spark excitement and foster connection in ways #GenAI never could. Find out the core techniques and how to use them in your own classroom performances: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/lectu...
The lecture is dead – long live the performance
An electrifying lecture can still engage students and bring them together in a way ChatGPT can’t compete with. Discover the key elements of stagecraft and how to apply them to your lecture performance...
www.timeshighereducation.com
August 29, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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Congratulations to our wonderful #CenTCS colleague @alisonmitchelluofg.bsky.social on this very well-deserved recognition of her tireless anti-racist education work. We’re so proud of you 😊 @s4mee.bsky.social @uofgeducation.bsky.social @uofgsocsci.bsky.social
📣 Congratulations to #CenTCS #Fellow @alisonmitchelluofg.bsky.social on winning the award for “Outstanding Contribution to Anti-Racist Practice in Classroom” last night at #SAMEEAwards2025 @s4mee.bsky.social @profaileenk.bsky.social @cbocomms.bsky.social @profbriannakennedy.bsky.social #AntiRacist
Honoured to receive this award on behalf of colleagues I have the privilege of working with and teaching, and those who support, inspire and challenge us in our #AntiRacist work. @drannlopez.bsky.social @khadijamohammed.bsky.social @dennisafrancis.bsky.social and more… Thank you ❤️ @s4mee.bsky.social
August 29, 2025 at 7:55 AM
August 30, 2025 at 12:52 AM
June 25, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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June 24, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Writing day at the House for an Art Lover
June 24, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Congratulations to @uclpress.bsky.social on ten years of open access book publishing. I still think one of the biggest successes of the UK approach to OA has been the resurgence of the subsidised university press landscape.

www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/ju...
UCL Press celebrates 10 years of award-winning open access publishing
This June, UCL Press marks a decade of open access publishing and over 19.5 million global downloads.
www.ucl.ac.uk
June 5, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Could AI ease the burden of reading and rating the thousands of outputs submitted to the UK’s Research Excellence Framework – or would its use undermine the whole point of REF panels? As @jisc.bsky.social consults on that question, four writers offer their views

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Could generative AI improve the REF?
The task of reading and rating the thousands of outputs submitted to the UK’s Research Excellence Framework is notoriously Herculean. Could AI ease the burden – or would its use undermine the whole po...
www.timeshighereducation.com
June 5, 2025 at 8:55 AM
BAAL and CUP seminar on AI in Applied Linguistics and TESOL at the University of Strathclyde.
June 6, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Regaining Paradise
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The danger of a single story | TED
YouTube video by TED
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June 4, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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All student visa interviews have been paused as the White House prepares to begin “expanded social media vetting” and screening for all prospective applicants

#highered #EduSky
Overseas students ‘vulnerable for years’ if social media vetted
Students fearful of taking trips home or travelling to international events in case they are left stranded amid Donald Trump’s latest crackdown
www.timeshighereducation.com
May 30, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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Real profiles in courage here.

Donald Trump's administration is waging war, on numerous fronts, against America's core values of individual liberty, private enterprise, and openness.
Opinion | We’re international students at Harvard. We’re afraid to write this. But we have to speak up.
Three student leaders on Trump’s attempts to throw them out of the country.
wapo.st
May 24, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Took this pic of a poster at UoG’s School of Law.
May 7, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Hi all #SERApeople. Good news alert!

Our call for papers for #seraconf25 is OPEN now✨

Go on, have a look! Come join us at the University of Aberdeen from 19-21 November

www.sera.ac.uk

Please share with your networks!
SERA
www.sera.ac.uk
March 24, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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ECER 2025, Belgrade. Learn about the Keynote Speakers (https://buff.ly/4gfs4uf) and find the Call for Proposals and how to submit to #ECER2025 (https://buff.ly/4gfOHhA). Submission deadline: 31 January
January 13, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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The University of Aberdeen has announced it needs to make further job cuts as it tries to bring its deficit down to £6.5 million. @twilliamsthe.bsky.social reports

#AcademicSky #highered
Aberdeen cuts jobs as it targets ‘more efficient’ course offering
Scottish university looks to save further £5.5 million to bring down its deficit, a year after languages cuts
www.timeshighereducation.com
May 7, 2025 at 11:45 AM