Justin Canty

Tasmanian parliamentary review defends university's core functions against corporatisation: https://graemeturner.org/2025/01/20/tasmanian-parliamentary-review-defends-universitys-core-functions-against-corporatisation/

‘University appears to prioritise commercial over community interests in its core functions’.
Tasmanian parliamentary report criticises corporatisation in operation and governance of the University of Tasmania.
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#HigherEducation #universities

So @matspike.bsky.social's answer to this question provides the best (short) explanation I have ever seen of what LLMs do and why it makes no sense to use them to explore human understanding of language

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Fully funded #PhD see www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLN059/p... Deadline 28 Feb. Please share.

Data about children is being collected at schools, but teachers can take control - ABC Education Digital data has become integral to schools today. While this data can be used to enhance learning, it also raises concerns over privacy and data misuse in education.

Using #data critically can reduce the risks posed by EdTech platforms. @lucipangrazio.bsky.social writes for ABC Education

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Okay, a quick heads-up because I'm seeing people worrying/panicking about this: the UK press headline about a trans teenager being non-fatally stabbed is about something that originally happened in *February 2024* - it's in the news now because the court case is happening now.

Misinformation isn't random - it's strategic. 🧵

In the first cross-national comparative study, we examine 32M tweets from politicians.

We find that misinformation is not a general condition: it is driven by populist radical right parties.

with @julianachueri.bsky.social
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To an LLM, the only difference between "did" and "did not" is the statistical frequency of the word "not".

*They don't have any knowledge*. Just strings of words.

and we are live with 360mash - find the download link at www.dote.aau.dk/downloads or visit our github repo: github.com/BigSoftVideo...

Excerpt from Monique Wittig's "The Straight Mind," originally delivered as a keynote at a conference on feminist philosophy at Barnard College in April 1979.

I'm returning to Wittig for inspiration on the issue of scientism in the anti-trans movement and wishing that more people read "The Straight Mind" (1979). It's one of those short but remarkably powerful essays that offers insights far beyond its notional subject matter

Prioritise your health - The Research Companion A gentle invitation to check your physical and mental health and prioritise essential appointments, investigations and treatments this year.

Today's #ResearcherRenew task is for anyone who's feeling overwhelmed or overworked and knows their physical health is being neglected. It's a bit more sensitive than previous tasks, so go gently.

#AcademicSky #PhDSky #AcademicChatter #gradschool #HigherEd

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I love one of the reasons Braun & Clarke provided (written as a footnote) as to why they use the term "phase" rather than "step" in their six phase approach to doing reflexive thematic analysis:

"Steps and stairs are also one of the ways our physical environments are made inaccessible for many"

Exclusive: Children targeted in NDIS crackdown Despite claims the government’s reform of the National Disability Insurance Scheme is focused on fraud, a third of the savings will come from pushing children off the scheme.

NDIS and ministers talk big game on fraud & rorting but biggest budget savings booked under new legislation come from kicking (mostly) kids off scheme, cutting plans under cover of 'integrity'. Half a BILLION a year just on eligibility revocations alone. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/health/...

Sex, Gender, and Bodies: Transmisogyny and Garfinkel's Status Degradation Ceremony Hatred and fear of trans people, particularly trans women, are worldwide social phenomena. Transphobic rhetoric rests on essentialist understandings of sex and gender, but ethnomethodology shows how ...

My first paper with my amazing collaborator Dr. Emma Tennent. Come with us and unravel (in frankly masochistic detail) the sequential and categorial reasoning that organises transmisogynistic talk. If you do not have access but would to read it, let me know and I can share a copy. #EMCA 🌈🎓

Woo-hoo back! There's still a heap of freely available stuff on the #DulwichCentre website, including courses. Modestly hoping to add to what's out there in due course 😊

Hope you're safe from the fires - we're seeing footage in Australia eerily similar to bushfires here 😔

What is the Children's Internet? Professor Michael Dezuanni explains for ABC Education www.abc.net.au/education/a-...

You can read about Principles for a Better Children's Internet here: digitalchild.org.au/research/pub...

#medialiteracy @abcnewsbot.bsky.social #childrensinternet

A brilliant augmentation to an already awesome suite of data handling tech tools for #EMCA and related observational methods. Will be keen to see and play when it's released 🤩

You don’t need to approach everything in Hard Mode. There are often useful things you can contribute that are not the best, most complete version of the thing you are working on...#TeamNoBurnout

A black, white and red tino rangatiratanga flag.

What’s black and white and red all over?

Te Whanganui-a-Tara today.

#ToitūTeTiriti ✊🏽

And today, Hana-Rawhiti rose – more than stood – she rose like Nafanua, goddess of war like Hine-nui-te-po, goddess of death like the wahine toa who is exactly like herself She rose from that place full of insects and she tore that white bill – white as the whites of her eyes staring down the hulking enemy on the battlefield She tore that white bill right through the backbone tore it into two and she held it one in each fist like the two flags of war like the twin battle-clubs only the war goddess holds and she shook them in the faces of those enemies with hearts as empty as their faces –

Tusiata on Hana, in which one queen honours another
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Came down for a visit to say loudly what I think as tangata Tiriti.

Simply: Toi tū Te Tiriti

⚫️⚪️🔴

Few more pictures from a truly historic day.

So glad I made the drive down to join the hīkoi. The mood was phenomenal, the movement cannot be stopped.

Toitū te Tiriti

'They dishonour all our ancestors' | E-Tangata “The rights we’re fighting to hold on to were fought for and guaranteed to us by our tīpuna who signed Te Tiriti on our behalf, almost 200 years ago. We know our job is to protect those rights for…

“The rights we’re fighting to hold on to were fought for and guaranteed to us by our tīpuna who signed Te Tiriti on our behalf, almost 200 years ago. We know our job is to protect those rights for our mokopuna, for the next 200 years.” — Herewini Ammunson.

I know so many of my lovely #EMCA colleagues are great and supportive but I'd really love to see more of our bigger names and (though I gate to call them this) "CA spokespeople" do and say more actively and openly to oppose transphobia in our academic community.

Much appreciate the added insights, and disappointment in fairly equal measures :/

Shahan is a PhD student and a teaching assistant in my Calling Bullshit course. He's a great follow if you care about our information ecosystem.

I am blown away by the level of introspection that Shahan exhibits with respect to lecturing in our course. I wish I'd been so thoughtful 30 year ago. 🧵

Building an alternative to academic twitter relies on centring the experiences of lurkers As Twitter, now ‘X’, the preferred social media platform for academics, undergoes a period of change, Gina Sipley argues that part of what made the platform and may make new social media platforms …

🗃️From the archive for all the newcomers to Bluesky: Building an alternative to academic twitter relies on centring the experiences of lurkers

👩‍💻Gina Sipley #AcademicSky wp.me/p4m9em-ctS

Good morning.

Word of the Day is as beautiful as it is underused. ‘Confelicity’ is finding joy in the happiness and success of others.

the hīkoi today was incredible. so grateful. and yes, the vibes were immaculate.

#ToitūTeTiriti #TāmakiMakaurau #Kikorangi