Ana Pinto

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.

This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

Synthesizing scientific literature with retrieval-augmented language models - Nature A specialized, open-source, retrieval-augmented language model is introduced for answering scientific queries and synthesizing literature, the responses of which are shown to be preferred by human eva...

New OpenScholar LLM outperforms on lit reviews

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Their Professors Caught Them Cheating. They Used A.I. to Apologize.

NYTimes Article: “Two professors at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign said they grew suspicious after receiving identical apologies from dozens of students they had accused of academic dishonesty.” #AcademicSky #EduSky

WTF is this? I did not write or submit this paper. Are journals now run entirely by AIs who hallucinate entire publications?

Knowledge Of Pregnant Women About The Benefits Of Pregnancy Books In Ottawa | International Journal of Health Engineering and Technology share.google/ArcgxhUDfSY9...

Have I mentioned my book!? It tries to inspire action by arguing we already sort-of know what needs to be done about the world's biggest problems – and have a pretty good idea of what a solution looks like. Also, economics is not what you think! www.amazon.com/How-Economic...

Monadic panpsychism - Synthese One of the main obstacles for panpsychism, the view that consciousness is fundamental and ubiquitous, is the difficulty of explaining how simple subjects could combine to form complex subjects. Known ...

We're all fundamental. Here's my weird take on #panpsychism. Open-access article! 🙂 #philsky

Chaos is coming for scholarly publishing - Research Professional News Buckling of commercial models alongside maturing of community-led efforts promises major shifts, says Caroline Edwards

" 60 per cent of UK university libraries are considering dropping their big deals with the five major academic publisher"
Many call for diamond open access. A new organisation with many partners, @ojcollective.bsky.social , is launching in January.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...

The radical democratic imperative in educational policy research A reflection on the discussion points of the ECER symposium on educational policy research, and implications for educational policy and curriculum.

𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗕𝗹𝗼𝗴: Democracy depends on conflict as well as consensus. Reflecting on an ECER symposium, Thomas Delahunty calls for policy research that values disagreement as a democratic strength. #ECER2025 #EduSci

How many classes today were canceled because a whole suite of EdTech services are built atop AWS?

You know what platform never crashes?

How do we learn*? If you like to watch a video, watch the video. If you like to read, here’s the same information**: 1. Learning is a change to your long-term memory (LTM)1. This is key, and this is how learni…

Admin/Teacher friends: great 5 minute video about how humans learn!

itsalearningcurve.education/how-do-we-le...

#Edusky #teachlearnsky #cogscisci

Carl Bergstrom, laptop in lap, gesturing to Konrad Kording

René Vidal talking with Carl Bergstrom

Conference attendees gather for a group portrait on the steps of Philadelphia's Second Bank of the United States

Carl Bergstrom speaking at the C4R meeting

It was to see some many friends in Philadelphia for the @comm4rigor.bsky.social meeting a couple of weeks ago. Together we are developing free online materials for researchers interested in doing rigorous science.

The first units are coming soon at c4r.io.

Photos: Eric Sucar

The great university shake-up: four charts show how global higher education is changing More students than ever are studying across international borders, but where and what they learn is shifting.

The great university shake-up: four charts show how global higher education is changing
#academicSky

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Trump administration to add $100,000 fee for H-1B visas The Trump administration is targeting a visa widely used by tech companies and other employers to hire foreign workers.

Of all the stupid things that this regime has done, this is right up near the top. Postdoctoral researchers come to the US on H-1B visas. This will further destroy the US science enterprise. Stupid stupid stupid.

Tertiary attainment at record high but growth slowing, finds OECD UK’s high attainment and completion rates tempered by rising costs and inequalities, according to latest Education at a Glance report

The UK’s high attainment and completion rates are tempered by rising costs and inequalities, according to the latest Education at a Glance report from the OECD. @tashmosheim.bsky.social reports
#academicsky #edusky

US Reading decline is dramatic over the last 20 years, but no decline among teens...because they never read much in the first place, a point I've been harping on for years, as people often focus on social media & teens re: ⬇️ in reading.

Petition by UC Faculty Association for the UCs stand up to Trump govt demands. UCs are a gem, and contribute so much to CA and USA. We need to protect them from gov't takeover/meddling (I cant believe that is an accurate statement!)All can sign! sites.google.com/view/ucstand... #EduSky #AcademicSky

WHOLE BOOKS! I pop into this wonderful podcast episode from @douglemov.bsky.social via @knowledgematrs.bsky.social on the value of reading whole books knowledgematterscampaign.org/post/ep-4-li...

AI in the Writing Process: A Problem of Purpose When we value the product of writing more than the process, we’re bound to see students using GenAI to skip to the end. So, what are we going to do about it? #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEducation #AIEdu #AIInEd #AIInEdu #Writing #AIWriting

AI in the Writing Process: A Problem of Purpose

When we value the product of writing more than the process, we’re bound to see students using GenAI to skip to the end. So, what are we going to do about it? #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEducation #AIEdu #AIInEd #AIInEdu #Writing #AIWriting

At risk of being a broken-ass record about this:

If you don't like writing -- and these "mechanics" are an invaluable AND ENJOYABLE piece of the process for those of us who do -- then maybe just like don't be a writer?

Wow, after reading this, I’m very interested in Mary Midgley! Well worth the read! #philosophy #philsky #academicsky #ethics

When Science Is Local, Silence Is Global In recent years, the international scientific community has mobilized swiftly to defend academic freedom when it is under threat in wealthy nations. During the Trump administration, when American c…

This is an important read:

‘When Science Is Local, Silence Is Global’

sciencewatchdog.id/2025/05/29/w...

“These imbalances are not merely symbolic—they determine what counts as global knowledge, which research gets visibility, and whose crises are deemed worthy of global scientific mobilization.”

Who are learning designers in post-pandemic Australasian universities? Australasian learning designers have been instrumental in supporting learning, teaching and the digital transformation of universities for over 50 years. Still, little is known about these chameleo...

Delighted that our paper "Who are learning designers in post-pandemic Australasian universities?" is published in HERD. Great to collaborate with Lye Ee (Rebecca) Ng & @mmhinze.bsky.social on this article.

Thanks to LDs who participated in this research.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Enjoyed writing this piece for national media in Ireland on EdTech in schools.

In a nutshell:

The harms of datafication and platformisation of schools are not abstract because sooner or later your school is going to be hacked and your child's data put up for sale on the dark web...

Fascinating #LongRead on the future of human labour in a world of increasingly productive #AI. One early nugget that kinda shocked me is that we have apparently spent most than 10x the total cost of the Manhattan Project on #GenerativeAI (or possibly AI more broadly).

#LTHEchat 327 Quo vadis teaching, learning and assessment in Higher Education? Led by Emeriti Professor Sally Brown @profsallybrown.bsky.social and Emeritus Professor Phil Race @philrace.bsky.social We published the first edition of The Lecturer’s Toolkit with Routledge 1998 …

Join us for this week’s #LTHEchat which explores where teaching, learning and assessment in HE has been and is going with @profsallybrown.bsky.social and @philrace.bsky.social on Wednesday April 30th 8-9pm BST.

Read the blog post at:

Hard hitting thoughts from scholar and advocate @gemmalucysmart.bsky.social on problems with travelling to US conferences, particularly for those working on some the most important topics today #diversity #equity #inclusion #sts #hps #philsci #histsci 🧪

Overjoyed & beyond excited to share our new @jldhe.bsky.social Special Issue: Liberating Learning 🎉

Congrats to Martin Compton, Rebecca Lindner & team.

Hope, empathy & joy in #HigherEd Just what we need right now.

#UKHE #LTHEchat #AcademicSky #loveLD

journal.aldinhe.ac.uk/index.php/jl...

Be careful with who you share information with and your plans. Some people will actively try to harm you and your career behind your back. I wish philosophy had a venue to warn others of some really bad people. #philsky #philtech

New #OnWisdom Ep - The Potency and Potential of Social Networks (w @nachristakis.bsky.social ) now live! Nicholas joins Charles & me to discuss the hidden power of social networks and its effects on our health, decisions, and even our wisdom. Plus, human-AI systems! onwisdompodcast.fireside.fm/64