Sadia Ali

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...

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...

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

Writing day at the House for an Art Lover

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.

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...

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...

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

#AcademicSky #EduSky

BAAL and CUP seminar on AI in Applied Linguistics and TESOL at the University of Strathclyde.

YouTube video by TED Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The danger of a single story | TED

Regaining Paradise

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

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

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.

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.

College students want their money back after professor caught using ChatGPT A student at Northeastern University demanded tuition fee refunds after a professor provided AI-generated feedback.

www.newsweek.com/college-ai-s...

Took this pic of a poster at UoG’s School of Law.

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!

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

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

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

Is the tick-box structure of promotion preventing true collaboration? Academics can be so focused on the hoops they have to jump through on the path to success, they forgo opportunities for genuine collaboration. Perhaps it’s time for a shift in mindset, writes Nick Qui...

Are narrow ‘tick-box’ promotion metrics in #highereducation stifling genuine collaboration, skewing academia’s core values and distracting from focusing on the bigger career picture? www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/tickb...
@uofgasbs.bsky.social @timeshighered.bsky.social